The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
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If you haven't, this is what it says. The apostles said to the Lord, increase our faith. That's enough. Amen. Praise God for his holy word. You may be seated. You may be seated in the presence of our good and gracious God. the apostles said to the Lord, increase our faith. That's what I want to talk about tonight. For the time that this hour is shared together tonight, I want to talk from the subject, increase our faith. truth be told every one of us in church tonight needs to make the same request of the Lord that the apostles made that day all of us need the Lord to increase our faith no matter your church position or your church tradition all of us need the Lord to increase our faith. It doesn't matter that you've been saved for an extended period of time or you just walked in here yesterday and found out that there was a man named Jesus. All of us need the Lord to increase our faith. …
"The Apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith." Luke 17:5. THE Apostles said this. I have sometimes thought that Paul's speech at Lystra, when he forbade the multitude to worship him and told the people that he was a man of like passions with themselves, has need to be repeated in the ears of many modern Christians, for there is a tendency in the Christian Church to set up the Apostles and other eminent saints upon a platform high above the level of ordinary humanity! I do not say to worship them, but rather to hold them in extraordinary esteem than to regard them as models for imitation. Brothers and Sisters, our Lord Jesus Christ would have us to know that we have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities. He would have us be certain that He, Himself, was tempted in all points like as we are. With equal certainty would He have us to know that the chosen twelve, the leaders of His host, who went forth from Him, were men of like passions with ourselves. We are not to look upon them as though they were unapproachable heroes, a sort of Divine character, or as though they were free from our infirmities and our troubles. They were as we are—and if they excelled us it was by Divine strength, alone, by strength which we also may receive—by Grace which is as free to us as it was to them. If they were here, they would still have to struggle with unbelief and, conscious of their unbelief, would say again, "Lord, increase our faith." …
We too, have enjoyed a clear Revelation. We have heard the Gospel more plainly than the Israelites ever did. This blessed Book has more light in it than Moses could impart and the preaching of the Gospel, where it is done affectionately and earnestly, and by the help of the Spirit of God, is a greater means of Grace to the soul than all the sacred rites of the tabernacle! Shall it be with us as with them? "They could not enter in because of unbelief"—shall we labor under the same disability? Sharers in solemn feasts and yet their carcasses fell in the wilderness! Partakers of countless blessings, favored with the Light of God and yet shut out from Jehovah's rest because they believed not! Will this also be our portion? Remember, also, that they were a people with whom God had great patience. Has it ever struck you—the great patience which must have been exercised in 40 years of provocation? I put it to any man here who has a good temper and is very calm and cool and singularly forgiving—how long could you stand provocation? Brother, if they did always provoke you intentionally, willfully and repeatedly, how long could you bear it? Ah, you could not be provoked one-half as long as you think you could, without, at least, coming to blows. When Jesus said to His disciples that if a brother should trespass against them seven times in a day, and seven times a day should turn and say, "I repent," they should forgive him—the very next thing we read is that the Apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith," as much as to say, "Flesh and blood can never attain to that, Lord! You must increase our faith if we are to do that." But forty years 'provocation—what do you think that can do? Some men bear provocation well because they cannot return it, on the principle mentioned in Cowper's ballad— …