Living the Impossible Life

Gus Meyer preaches a great message on faith, belief, and living a life where God makes the impossible possible. Gus shares encouraging testimonies of praying in faith and shares how we can see the impossible happen by having faith in God! May this stir you to keep believing for what only He can do. 

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I really do love the Lord Jesus Christ. Sophie and I met the Lord and um uh I did I did it first in 1999. I went to New Zealand and on a trip and um got born again. Uh Sophie and I were Catholics, uh born in uh in the Catholic Church. Well my my my family are all still Catholics, strong Catholics. And they say that for a Catholic boy to become a born-again Christian, I didn't hear this later, but they said you're one of the hardest to convert. Um but I walked into a church, uh, the church is was called Bay Christian Fellowship, but now it's called City Impact. And in uh, but this was in the early days, but uh they only had 400 people there. And um Catholic boy walked in, and the first thing that hit me was man, everyone's happy, everyone's happy, and this place is noisy, and then but what really hit me that day was um was the kids, the youth. And I remember as clear as it was, uh I was sitting in in the in a row somewhere, and the guy in front of me, uh teenager, had green dyed hair, was wearing a Scottish kilt in a vest, and he had a Bible, and the Bible was just highlighted everywhere. And I've never seen, Catholic boy, I've never seen a Bible, firstly, only the priest had the Bible, I couldn't have my own one, and then um, and uh, and that just blew me away. But I really got hit by the presence of the Lord on that trip, got radically changed, and then I came home and I said to Sophie, Sophie says, What happened to you? You're changed. True story, and I said, Well, you need this too. And um, I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to do, so so I maxed out our credit cards, bought another ticket, took it back to the same church because I thought it only happens there. I could have, I could have saved a lot of money if I knew that the Holy Spirit worked in other churches too. But I thought he only worked in that church. And we went there, and then Sophie was sitting there, and I said, Um, I didn't know what to do. I just said, Lord, you know, what happened to me happens to Sophie. And Sophie was going, No, no, no, no, I'm a Catholic, I'm a Catholic, I'm not doing this. And she her testimony, she sat on her hands. And I said, Your hands are gonna go up because of what happened to me. And she and she said, she said, actually, I'm sitting on my hands. So she sat on her hands. I'm showing your testimony, so she sat on her hands, and when um uh Pete Mortlock uh gave the call for everyone, and she she said, Okay, I guess raise your hands, hold a call like this, and she said, Um, okay, okay, for those people, raise their hands, uh, come down the front. Are you young lady? And it was Sophie, Sophie's the only one. It was just her out of 400 people, she's the only one, and she is to this day, she has no idea how her hands got up there because she was sitting on them. So God really uh got her good, took her down there, humbled her, and um right down the front, and uh she became a born-again Christian. We were so we were so fresh, man. We were fresh off the plane, Christians, man, fresh off the boat. It was really good. And then we came back and I'll tell you more about it some other time, but we joined uh Pastor Bobby's church at the AOG Foundation, good foundation for eight years, and now we've been with celebration, I think 18 years or more than that. Um, yeah, Kevin was there in those early days, and and Charles and that it was really, I call them the cowboy days. They were really, really good because when Murray started the church, because you guys now when you start cell group, you get cuddled, you get caressed, you get come on, you can start it, you can do it, you can do it, go start it. This is us starting cell group, you start on Tuesday. Literally, you start you starting your cell group on Tuesday at your house. So um, yes, Sophie's uh cell group went for about uh six weeks with nobody. She just she was just hurt by herself, and I remember I'll go past our prayer shop, and Sophie was just in there by herself just praying. Started with nobody. Man, I still got nobody. But anyway, those are those early days, but I really I really love the faithfulness of the Lord. Hey, I was we were really blessed last week by Tiade's uh testimony. If you weren't here, Tiada gave a uh beautiful testimony. She testified that she had um uh a problem with her shoulder, but she testified two things. Uh thank you, Tiada, I honor you. But what she testified was she had unbelief that God could do it, and then she continued to have niggles of unbelief, but she overcame it. And I thought that was a great, that was a great message. And looking back on my 18 years, uh, sorry, 20, 26, 25 years with the Lord, I can say that Sophie and I we've pretty much lived the impossible life. And it's and if you're new in the Lord, you're just starting that journey, and sometimes you like Tiadi, you have that little bit of unbelief, that little bit of doubt. But in this morning's uh sharing, I want to um give you some tips. I really believe the Holy Spirit wants to help us in the area of faith, building our faith, building our belief. He wants to, like in Tiari's uh life, he wants to uh silence their voice of unbelief. He wants to increase our faith. In Matthew 19, 26, uh Matthew chapter 19, verse 26, it says, But Jesus looked at them and said to them, with men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. It's hard for you to grasp this, but the longer you live in the Lord, the longer you give your problems or your um your impossibilities to the Lord, and they become possible. And like what happened with Tiadeh, when the impossible becomes possible, it builds faith. And this is what I want to share with you though. I want to share with us all how to live the impossible life. Today there's a lot of talk about AI, and I'm not gonna talk about AI too much, but what everyone's saying is that AI is the is the future, AI is the way to um to make the uh impossible possible so smart, so clever, so fast. But I want to say that there's two letters in the in the word faith. Comes after F and before T. AI. And I want to tell you that there's another intelligence, it's an anointed intelligence, it's smarter than AI. AI is clever, but in my Bible in Genesis 1.3, God said, Let there be light, and there was light. I challenge AI to do that. I challenge AI to create a universe. I create I challenge AI to create a child, fearfully and wonderfully made, knitted in the womb of its mother. So what I want to say is that I'm not saying I'm not against AI at all. I love it. It's a tool though. But we look to God, that anointed the anointed intelligence. So I'm gonna use a term that we've been using at um on men's night, and I've kind of picked it up, and I I really like it. We've got this new term on the men's gathering night. We're gonna unpack. We're gonna unpack the scripture. Sophie and I started this year, and we do it most years. We start with a personal 21-day fast, a full fast. Uh Sophie fasts food, and I fast um Netflix. Pretty, pretty equal. We have a full fast, 21 days. But what I want to say, and we bring our prayer request to God for the year, but one of our prayers this year, and we know it completely, that early this year, Sophie and I we were praying that our three daughters would fall pregnant this year. Our three daughters, we have two natural daughters and a um uh daughter-in-law, and Sophie was born over there for Janine. Atlas was born three weeks later for Joanna, and Kurt and Erica's baby is due is due on the 28th of October. Thank you. But what made this impossible prayer possible? Okay, let me put it this way that we didn't share it with the kids straight after. Okay, now go get pregnant. No, we didn't do anything like that, but it was in our heart to have three more grandchildren, but we prayed for our daughters, Lord, your word, we trust your word, and our prayers were you knit them in the womb. Father God, you do we we we had prayers, it's an impossible prayer. Three daughters, and then it happened. But I want us I I want to share with you what does it take? What does it take to make this seemingly impossible possible? And if we go back to Matthew, it says, but Jesus looked at them and said, Well, man, this is this is impossible. When we look at it with our own eyes, it is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. And whatever wherever you are right now, right now at the moment, and if there's something that seems impossible, I think this is the message for you. But it doesn't matter if you're a new Christian or you've been around for a while, we all have we all have these moments. I've got a whole lot of pieces of paper with stuff on it, and um I've been praying that the Lord would turn it into a message. So we just go through each each each piece of paper. I'll miss some and I'll read some and then we'll we'll get into the word a little bit. But first thing I first question I want to ask is what is faith? What is faith? Faith is where you believe something without evidence, faith is where you believe something without evidence. We have to look at Hebrews 11 verse 1. It's gonna come up on screen there. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. You haven't seen it yet, but you have faith. Sophie and I, we hadn't seen our three daughters pregnant. We hadn't seen it yet, but we had faith. God, you're gonna knit those babies in the womb. We had faith in that situation, but there's been many, many, many, many situations where we've gone to the Lord with impossibilities and He's made them possible. I could I could share a few. But now, verse 11, that's right. Sorry, chapter 11, it's evidence of things seen. For by the elders obtained good testimony, and in verse 3, it says, By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, that the things visible which are seen are not made of the things visible. And we'll we'll talk about that. We'll just leave it there for a moment. But the first one says that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence is not seen. So the first thing, if you have faith, you don't have the evidence. Okay, so we'll just we'll just rest that there and we we we might come back to that again later. Actually, we will. But what we have to look at now, I just want to look at verse three. If I could read that for a bit, and then we're gonna go back to verse one. Verse three says, By faith we understand that the worlds, can everyone say worlds? When you say worlds with an S on, it means more than one, it means at least two. Okay, that S wasn't a typo. Ah, it's supposed to be world. We just leave it in. No, this is the inspired word of God. If it says worlds, it means it's worlds, more than two. So by faith, the worlds were framed by the word of God. So, first there's two worlds. Okay, now in Hebrews 1, it says that faith is a substance of a thing that is seen or the unseen. So I want to tell you that there's two worlds. There's the seen world, the world that we can see, and there is the unseen world, the world that we can't see. I've got a I've got a um a quote here from Smith Wigglesworth, um and he says this. What does he say? Ah, it's on the page I'm flipping past. He said, Smith Wigglesworth in his teaching, he said he stressed through faith we understand that everything visible comes from the invisible word of God, or the invisible world of God. One world things are impossible, and one world things are possible. So when we're praying in faith, we are actually, with the word of God, which frames both worlds, we are actually transcending into the other world, into the unseen world, which then in turn has a reaction from God and his heavenly angels, which will impact the seen world. And this is faith, this is what this is how prayers get answered. So the first revelation is you have to understand there's two worlds there's a seen world and there's the unseen world. But the interesting thing now, if we go back and read verse 11, now faith is the substance of everything hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So we don't see it yet, but I want to tell you that there's something happening somewhere in the unseen world, both created by God. So in the world we see, we always see evidence of the unseen world, the unseen God. And it's quite often like people say when they give their heart to the Lord, and this is a common thing, everything looks more beautiful. I have more love for people. Because what's happened now is that you're we call it the veil has fallen, like that song, the veil has fallen on your heart, and now we're we're we're I wouldn't say transition, but we have access to the unseen world, and this is the key to making the impossible possible, is to have access to the unseen world, and it's not in a spooky way, not in a Hollywood way, but once you have faith, once you have faith, it says you have ev you have evidence of what's happening in the unseen world, and it's an amazing thing. So, what it if if something's happening, pray in faith. But faith transcends, faith is powerful, and I'm not gonna explain why the devil wants to attack our faith, and the way he attacks faith is quite specific. He uses unbelief because unbelief reduces faith or stops faith, but we're gonna have a good lesson from someone who went right through that, right through it. So the world we see is evidence of the unseen world, and we talk about that. Does that make sense to you guys? Yeah, I picked that up when he said that there's worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of the things which are visible. Verse three so that the things which we see, they're not made of the things visible, but they're made from the unseen. Faith is when we have we don't need to see it, but we know that it's happening in the unseen, that it is gonna manifest into the seen. The Holy Spirit just works in both, the seen and the unseen. Man, and I think, yeah, so we'll move on. We'll move on. I want to talk about belief, and there's a really, really good scripture which just kind of hits the mark on belief. It's John 20, 24 and 29. John 20, and we're gonna talk, we're gonna look at Thomas. Yeah, Thomas, man. Sorry, it's not you guys. I'm allergic to something. Microphones, I think. Okay, so let's start. Let's look at Thomas. Uh 20, 24. I'm gonna read it, you can follow me. This is a real good one. Now, Thomas called the twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So he wasn't there. The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. So Thomas wasn't there when he saw the, he didn't see all the activity with with God and Jesus. So he said to them, this is Thomas speaking, unless I see his hands, the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails and put my hand into the side, I will what? I will not believe. He didn't have faith, but he needed to see to believe. But that's okay because the other guys they saw it and they believed too. So they were there, they had the evidence, they had the evidence. And after eight days, his disciples were again inside and Thomas with them. Jesus came to the door, shutting the door, and stood in the midst and said, Peace to you. Then he said to Thomas, so he called out Thomas, reach your finger here and look at my hands, and reach your hand here and put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving, oh, but believing. Straight out of the mouth of Jesus. Don't be unbelieving, but be believing. But you're gonna I I want to say this it wasn't a rebuke. And we can look at, I can, I can tell you how I know it wasn't a rebuke because he wasn't telling Thomas off. He just said, Thomas, don't be unbelieving, be believing. I'll show you what you need to believe. And that's the point. If you're in unbelief right now, it is okay. It is okay to go to Jesus and say, Show me, show me. Because what Jesus wants to do, he wants to move you from your unbelief to belief. But what I'm gonna talk about later on is that we can't go back. It's okay to move from unbelief to belief, because that's what Jesus wants to do. That's what he did with Thomas. He said, Do not be unbelieving, but believing. And then Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God. And Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, evidence, you believe. So he said, Because you've seen me, you believe. But he said, Blessed are those that have not seen, yet have believed. And what do we learn in Hebrews 11? That's faith. That's faith. Jesus is describing the faithful. He said, Blessed are those who have not seen, but they believe. Blessed are those who have faith, because they haven't seen, but they believe. Blessed are those. So what he's what he's saying is that it's okay to move from a position of unbelief to a position of faith, to a position of belief to a position of faith. But as Christians, we shouldn't be moving back to unbelief. How do you do that? Because you've had the evidence, you've seen it. And that's that's a demonic area, but we'll we'll talk about that later. But Thomas, I really enjoyed that because he was direct with Thomas, but he wasn't rebuking him. He was encouraging him. Thomas, don't don't, don't bring unbelief, be a believer. But what you need to see, I'm happy to show you. You weren't there, you missed out. What you need to confirm it, I'm happy to show you. It happened to Gideon as well. Gideon was was was called into battle, and he wasn't too sure. But his Gideon's approach is more for confirmation of the word. He wasn't an unbeliever and he wasn't a man without faith. But I won't go into there. That'll be a sidetrack if we get into Gideon and the fleece. But you can read that in Judges 6. So Thomas. And I I like that with Thomas, how he goes back to and he talks about um faithful people. He describes this as faith. I just want to talk a little bit about how Satan will attack your belief. Because uh Tiadi was saying that she still had nigglings of unbelief. Was this true, Lord? Is this really happened? I'm not um picking on that because we will have uh on Tiata, we will have that that situation. But what I want to say is that the devil will always try and take you back into unbelief. He always trying, even the most faithful, he'll use you. And if you don't believe me, uh I believe that Eve was quite a faithful woman. She'd seen God. I think they walked in the cool of the day with God, she met him, so she saw God. Oh yeah, God is real. I have complete faith in him. But then the devil came along and said, Is this what God said? Seated down. He wanted to, he couldn't attack her faith, but he could mess with her unbelief, her belief. And I want to tell you that there's uh there's a there's there's uh an assignment, firstly, to keep the whole world in unbelief, the antichrist spirit, God's not real. We we we want to understand that, but there's an assignment on us as Christians to drag us back into unbelief, to drag us back. And um, and uh um Jonathan spoke about it on Sunday. He talked about the seducing spirit of the world. And I believe there's a seducing spirit that wants to seduce us back into the past, wants to seduce our mind back into the old days, want to seduce us back into the darkness, to question God, challenge our belief, and mess with our faith. Because once once your faith is is out of whack, how can you live the impossible life? Because Matthew 19 says that God is the God of impossible, or the God of possible, rather. I just want to look at um Matthew 17, verse 20. Another famous scripture. This is the mustard seed one. We all know it, we all know about the mustard seed that how much faith do you need to say to that mountain, be moved? And it's a mustard seed. And we know that a mustard seed, I think it's smaller than a thing of pepper, it's really tiny. But in Matthew 17, so Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief, so what happened was that the disciples were casting out demons, and and uh Jesus had just cast out demons, and they said, Can we do that? Yes, go ahead and do it. And then they went and did it and didn't work. And they came back and they said, Jesus, we tried casting out demons, but it's not working. And he said, Because of your unbelief, you cannot move in the unseen with unbelief. They did not have the power of God, they did not have the anointing to cast out those demons, and Jesus said, Oh, it wasn't because of you, didn't say one, two, three. Oh, you're supposed to do this, oh, you know that there's five of you supposed to get to go together, and and one is supposed to be carrying a cross and some some oil and garlic. I don't know. He didn't say that, he said, because of your unbelief. Oh, so I want to tell you, oh, unbelief, man. The the the the the devil wants to take us that way. For sure, because for surely I say to you, if you have faith, the opposite of unbelief, he says, because of your unbelief, the da-da-da, but if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you say to that mountain, by mountain we mean that impossible thing. Don't go pray for uh Reimaru. The top of Raymaru is already gone. It's black rock now, so someone did that. That's another story. Um don't pray for Kurangi and all those mountains. We like them. Tourism, we're mad with you. What happened on Sunday? Well, the guys came out and they we got a new island over there. I don't know. But you know what I mean? What he's not talking about the mountain, it's the mountain in your life. Go back to Matthew 19. What's impossible? What's impossible to you? That mountain, it's possible with God, it's possible with God. How do three daughters get quick get pregnant? It's possible with God. So, grandparents, if you want two, if you want more grandkids, just pray. Pray. I can just see our our um our daughters. Stop praying, Mom and Dad. Stop praying. That's enough. Maybe I don't know, but I just want to say that because it must seed, you'll say to the mountain, move from here and I'll move to there. But if Satan can shake your belief in God, down comes your faith too. And that's his goal. That's his goal. That's what he wants to do with Eve. If I shake your belief, I can shake your faith. And if I can shake your faith, you can't have access to the unseen world. And if you can't have access to the unseen world, then you're gonna live in a whole life of impossible things. Impossible things. But God says, I am the God who makes the impossible possible. So many things, so many. I might share some more. Time is ticking away, but I might share some more testament. Impossible things that happened in Sophie and I's life. I'm in um the the job, I'm in two jobs at the moment that my C V doesn't match. I only went to Tedoro College, sixth form. That was it. It's impossible. I sit at my desk, I said, This is impossible, Lord. They say that you sometimes uh the devil will hit you with imposter syndrome, imposter, imposter something, and I I have that. What am I doing here, Lord? Either you got a big sense of humor, but what I want to say is impossible. Uh as you know, I'm the CEO of big companies here, and also um uh four years on the board of directors of a bank. It's nutty, man. It's nutty, but but God He does the impossible. Oh, he does the possible anyway. Let's move on, eh? So we've we've covered the mustard seed. Now I just want to, oh these little these little pieces of paper are good, they're like little preaching messages. The power, I want to talk about the power of combined faith. This is a good one. And um um Zach was talking about prayer. So these prayer meetings, okay, and and Zach hit the nail on the head. What we're doing is that we're interacting with the unseen world, we're coming with faith. So Sophie and I, little faith, mustardseed faith, we were able, um, God answered our prayers with three uh grandchildren in that particular instance. What more when 30 people come here, 30 plus? Um, let's say one, two, three, maybe four times a week, and pray half an hour. What say they do that for 18 years? Combine faith. Now, this is interesting. So the Bible says where two or three come together, my name, the eye shall be in the midst of them. But I want to say, um, faith on your own, excellent. Husband and wife faith, that's a new level. Um, combine corporate faith, we can change the island. We can change the government, we can make changes. Prayer meetings, prayer meetings isn't something we do before coffee, although it's something we do before coffee, but it means something in the spirit. It's faith is the substance of the evidence of what's not seen. You want to see hear the things that we're praying for. We're not praying just stuff for us, we're praying for the islands, we're praying for Pakistan, we're praying for leadership. It's amazing. So combine faith. Uh, just a short testimony. Uh, Joanna, our our eldest daughter, after her pregnancy, um everything went well, but then she messaged us and said that she's still, excuse me, she's still bleeding. And uh she actually lost quite a lot of blood also, and an unusual amount of blood, and the bleeding hadn't stopped yet. And so they live up north um somewhere by Kite Um up north, by Fong A Re somewhere. I think she was on, and um they had the ambulance ready. Uh they said they're gonna wait one hour, hour and a half, one hour, they're gonna one hour, and then they were gonna prep her to go down to Walkworth. Oh, she's in Walkworth. But anyway, she was she was that they had the ambulance ready, said we if the bleeding doesn't stop, we're gonna put you in the ambulance and we're gonna shoot down to closer to Auckland or another hospital. And uh so we put the message out there on the church prayer group, the prayer team. And uh we just we just said that Drana needs prayers right now. And Sophie and I went straight into our prayer uh the place that we pray, and I looked on the um on the prayer list, and 22 people were put thumbs up. So my figuring is that 22 people were praying for our daughter. And when Sophie and I were praying, we put it, we were praying every half hour. No, we weren't praying every half hour, but we were we were asking every half hour, Lord. In this in the 30 minutes, we want the bleeding to stop. The next 30 minutes, Lord, we want the um uh the the medical team to come in and give it their okay. And the next 30 minutes we wanted to recover, and we were praying like that. We were actually breaking it down to 30, what we wanted to happen, and but we had 22 people praying their prayers for drowna, and by her testimony, not ours, she said in half an hour the bleeding stopped. In half an hour, she got cleared from the doctor, and in half an hour they said she doesn't have to go. But I'm not saying Sophie no was something special, I'm saying combined prayer, and I think the 22 people who who who liked it maybe more were praying with us, but that's faith. And what happened was that we corporately went into the unseen, we challenged the unseen, two areas, we rebuked the bleeding, but we prayed for healing, went unseen, and then from the unseen, because it says in chapter 3 verses in Hebrews that God's word frames both worlds, he's the God of both worlds, and the and then we saw the evidence of the hand of God, the the impossible, so you might say, Well, that's could happen, but you tell me every 30 minutes exactly as we prayed it, down to that, and my daughter uh Joanna she said that she knew that it was the hand of God, and I and I and I and I and I I love that, but I just want to say that the power of combined faith in the body, we're two or three, it's amazing, and there's millions and millions and millions, if not billions, of Christians praying. Man, it's good to be on the winning team, eh? That was a good one, the seen unseen, and that I mean what happened there, the the combined um in the body of Christ. Um just to go over our what we're doing on Wednesday with the men, and I'll get the men to finish the sentence. Faith without works is faith without works is dead. So just imagine if Sophie and I just had the faith and we got the message that uh Drian is um needs us, and we just said, Oh yep, that's nice, we'll just um continue what we're doing, whatever we're doing, and didn't do anything. But we knew what we had to do as parents, but we knew we needed the team. We needed the team, man. We needed bigger, we needed our other brothers and sisters in the Lord to join in and our faith. And main, did that mustard seed go? Praise God, eh? But I know there's not there's testimony and testimony, testimony all around the church of people being healed and and things it's not just not just ours, but uh I just love that. I'm not gonna talk about uh Gideon, first Peter chapter one, verse seven. That the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold. Who your faith is more precious than gold. I should have brought gold when it was $300 an ounce. Now it's $3,000 an ounce. But you know what I mean? It's more precious than gold. What it's saying is that your faith is more precious than gold. Gold is the measure of wealth for which world? The seen world. Oh man, he's doing good. He's got some gold, he's doing okay. I'm nothing wrong with gold, but I want to say gold is the currency in the measurement of wealth in the seeing world. But Peter says that your faith is actually more precious than that, and you know why? Because it's measured by the unseen world, it's measured by Jesus Christ, it's measured by a God that can do impossible things, it's measured by a God that says, Let there be light, and there was light. So once you understand, now you understand why Satan wants to attack your faith. It's precious, it's from God, He doesn't have any. Oh man, let's keep going. Your faith is more precious than gold that perishes, okay, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen, but you love. There it is, right there. Faith in Jesus Christ, whom you haven't seen but love. Thomas hadn't seen Jesus, but Jesus proved himself to him and he loved him. Thomas went on to to Thomas went on to uh be a great evangelist. He went on to do missions in India and build churches on India. He was martyred in 77 AD. Marty. He went on to be a warrior for God, Thomas. They say that he's buried in India. There's a church uh or place where you can visit, which is supposed to be the burial place of Thomas. But I want to say is that Thomas went on to do great things, he was an unbeliever. God showed him the way, and he ran with it. And that's how that's that's what we have to do. But anyway, the glory and the revelation of Christ, who having not seen you love. Though now you do not see him, yet believing you rejoice with joy, inexpressible, and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls, amen. The salvation of your souls. You love we love it, we love a God that we haven't seen, but there's evidence of him everywhere. Faith is the substance of their love, the substance of the unseen. But it says here that we love believing in God, we love him. Inexpressible, and inexpressible, sorry, joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving to the end of your faith. Faith is so important. Faith is so important. Your faith is more precious than gold. True faith is praise and honor, the revelation of Jesus Christ, who we haven't seen. And faith proves your love for God. God wants us all to live that and live the life of possible. I don't even know what I called it. Living the impossible life. That's what God wants us to do, is live the impossible life. It's there, it's there. Don't don't be robbed by unbelief. That's a work of the enemy. Returning to unbelief requires repentance. So for you mature Christians, if you've returned to unbelief, it's okay, it's not a rebuke, a rebuke, but you have to repent of that. Father God, I repent of returning to unbelief. I know it's hurt you, but just help me. I want to be a believer again. Just pray those prayers because you you you can't go back. You there's it's actually impossible. How can you see something and unsee it and then not believe it? It doesn't make sense. It's like that scripture we were talking about in James, like um the man who sees his face and then walks away from the mirror and can't remember who he is. It's absurd. You can't go back to a position of unbelief once you once you once you've seen something, you believe it. Hop on a plane, I don't believe that thing will fly. Oh, it does fly. Oh, that's good. You know, and then you go back to the plane, I'm not gonna hop on that plane again. It doesn't fly, but you're just in it five minutes ago. Nothing makes sense. But I'm saying as a Christian, repentance. The only way to get off that um that unbelief place is to repent.

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