And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
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Thirdly, he says, be believing. Look at verses five and six. And the apostle said to the Lord, increase our faith. And the Lord said, if you have had a faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you. A lot of people think that the key to effective faith is having a lot of it. But you know what the key is to effective praying? It's not the quantity of faith. It's the object of your faith. You know, Jesus said, it doesn't matter how much faith you have. You can have faith so small, it's like one of the tiniest seeds in nature, the mustard seed. But if you have just a tiny sliver of faith, and it's placed in the right thing, the will of God, you can move mountains. You can uproot trees. be believing in these last days, Jesus says. Fourth, be obedient. Now these verses, they're very unusual. …
And here I am at the New Birth Baptist Church testifying this morning that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to the mountains in your life be removed and they will vanish out of your sight and the doctor said he will be a vegetable for the rest of his life here I am in the language of my old deacons clothed and in my right mind with a reasonable portion of my health and strength testifying if you trust and never doubt he will surely bring you out. Buy it and sell it not. When you treasure the truth, buy it with kingdom currency, but sell it not. Another way of saying that is don't be a sellout. when it comes to truth don't be a sellout when it comes to the things of God when it comes to the church when it comes to the Bible when it comes to the ways of Christ don't sell out I was sitting outside my garage and some Jehovah's Witnesses came by and No. …
… And Jesus responds with what? He says, if you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea. Jesus is basically saying, you don't need more. You just need to simply use what you have. This is all for all of us. Wait, I want more. I want a larger something. Why? Because then it would solve my problems and I could do more. And Jesus is saying, you don't actually need more. You just need to use what you have. Why? Because you have everything you need. Second reading today, St. Paul writing to Timothy. What's he say? He says, fan into flame the gift of God that you've been given when I laid hands on you. It says, fantasy of the flame, the gift you already have. How many of us, how many of us don't realize we've already been given our inheritance? We've already, we've already been given that gift. Here is Paul to Timothy saying, you've been given everything you need to be a saint. …
… that you're offering to us? And Jesus replies, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you. Now, what's he saying here, everybody? Faith is this humble trust in the power of God. Hey, forgive your worst enemy. Well, I can't do that on my own. Like, I can just muster the psychological strength to do it. But, listen, the tiniest bit of trust, of humble trust, little seed, little mustard seed, That's all you need to unleash all the power in the world. Because faith is an openness to God, God who makes the universe. So the tiniest little, look, crack in the carapace, the shell of your own egotism, the tiniest little crack in that will let in enormous amounts of light. Shift the metaphor will unleash enormous amounts of energy. The just person will live by faith, right, right. That's what makes your life wonderful and rich, worth living. …