Oct - 6-2019 | Pastor Nathan Elms
Question: What did God get out of his relationship with Adam and Eve?
Companionship. I deeply believe that it is a love story.
What is God looking for now?
1.) Realize that you are already a person of faith
What does it mean to be a person of faith?
Everyone, no matter what your spiritual and religious convictions are, they have faith in something. You see, faith is a natural faculty that all of us use at one level or another. Our English word faith comes from the Latin word fides, which means to trust or to rely upon something or someone?
And every single person is doing that every single day, whether it’s trusting your own feelings or taking your friend’s word for it or relying on your car to get you from point A to point B—in a hundred different ways, we’re all using this natural faculty of faith.
2.) Embrace Both Clarity and Mystery
There are revealed things and concealed things.
3.) Put God’s Word Into Practice
The majority of us have the Lord in our lives, but are we taking him at his Word? Where do you need to throw out the net? Where do you need to trust him even when it doesn’t make sense? As Jesus said in John 13, do you know these things? Blessed are you if you do them. That’s where the joy will be found when we put God’s Word into practice.
What is God looking for?
Luke 18:8 (NKJV)
I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
