Your Faith

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. 

Today you are reading the second of two messages by Brother Dave Hickman. I’ve known Dave since 1978. We were together in music ministry for several years in the 80’s. I’ve known Dave for a long time. God has given him many gifts; He’s given him many songs by His Spirit, and He’s given him a lot of understanding in the Word of God. Dave graduated from Christ For The Nations Institute in the 70’s, and he’s been serving the Lord ever since. The first message was The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth, which we published two weeks ago. Today’s message by Dave is Your Faith. Brother Dave:

Jesus Christ and Him crucified! And He’ll send you forth out into the world, every day; every week, and you can be used of Him to bring glory and honor to the name of Jesus; to please the Father. Hallelujah!, And what pleases Him? Without faith it’s impossible to please Him: your faith!, your faith pleases Him! Thank God. And we’ll talk about your faith next. Amen.

The Law was added that sin might abound. What’s sin? Sin is the transgression of the Law. The Law was added because of sin as a school master to bring us unto Christ. So, what does the Law say? The Law has an office, and it has two things to speak to you:  One thing it says is, You’re a sinner. The other is, Once to die, then the Judgment. It says, Death is your condemnation. That’s all the Law has to say. That’s it’s only office. The Law can’t help you be righteous; it cannot help you be holy. The only thing that can help you is the Throne of Grace. It says, Come boldly to the Throne of Grace that you might find mercy and grace to help in time of need. The only thing that can help you is grace, and grace, if you’ll look at Eph 2:8, is defined. God defined grace clearly. It says it’s the gift of God. Amen. It’s not of yourself; it’s the gift of God; it’s not of works. So that is the very definition of grace: the gift of God. You know, it talks about the Gospel of the grace of God. Amen. It says, For God so loved that He gave… You know, the Gospel is a love gift; Christ is a love gift. The Son of God loved us and gave Himself for us: a love gift. See, it says, God is love. Amen. That’s what God wants us to think of Him: that He’s love! Amen. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. According to your faith, your faith, be it done unto you. Amen. God responds to faith; He responds to your faith. Without faith it’s impossible to please Him. Faith pleases God. Faith glorifies God. You think if it pleases Him, do you think it’s going to glorify Him? Absolutely it will glorify Him when you believe Him. It says, With the heart man believes unto righteousness; with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. See, faith, out of the abundance of a heart of faith the mouth speaks; confesses Christ: Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He was crucified for our sins, Amen. That’s the Gospel, and God, by the power of the Holy Spirit raised Him from the dead!, giving us the gift of His righteousness; justifying the whole world, praise God! Amen. The whole world was condemned to death in Adam; the whole world was justified in Christ. How? When you receive it by faith! It’s the gift of God, the gift of God, with His out-stretched and open hands to all the world! It has to be received by faith, being mixed with faith in them that hear it. You mix it in your heart, and you keep it in your heart! You don’t let it go! You grab hold; you lay hold! Amen. Faith lays hold on eternal life: it’s in Jesus. He that has the Son has life; he that has not the Son does not have life. See, it glorifies God when you lay hold on eternal life. If you sin, you come to that Throne of Grace and receive mercy. And what is that? That’s faith, coming for that mercy, Amen. And your sins are cleansed when you confess your sins. He’s faithful and just: you come to that Throne of Grace; you confess your sins; He’s faithful and just to forgive you of those sins, and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Amen. That’s a promise of God! Don’t destroy your own heart by not believing that promise! Don’t keep your sins by not believing that promise, through unbelief; not coming to Him; being afraid to come to Him for whatever reason: for fear of death all their life subject to bondage. Don’t allow that bondage to keep you from coming to Him. Come boldly to the Throne of Grace!, and find grace and mercy to help you in the time of need. When is the time of need? Always!, it’s always the time of need! Amen. Stay needy!, and you’ll keep getting His grace; you’ll live in His grace. Amen, thank you Jesus! So faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Jesus said, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Continue in that Word. Hang on to that Word. Lay hold on eternal life; continue in it, and you will live it! Amen. I found of my children walking in truth: that truth will be made manifest out of your mouth and out of your heart, and in your ways, and in your walk, Amen. You’ll be walking in it. The world can see it! They’ll see that you're in Christ; you’ll be manifesting the life of Christ, and they’ll see it! And they will fear, or they will hate you, like they hated Him. Jesus said, They hated Me before they hated you. When you have that truth and that life, and you have that light of the glorious Gospel shining in your heart, and your eyes and your face has it on it, the world can see you, and they fear you, but they will hate you and persecute you as they can. So what do you do? Keep on loving that truth; keep on coming to Jesus. Amen. Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your heart, Amen. 

Song: In Heavenly places: you know He’s seated us with Him, far above this world. Abide in Him, seated in Heaven, not on this Earth, but in Heaven, far above this world, in Heavenly places, in Heavenly places, seated us with Him, in Heavenly places, far above this world, in Heavenly places, far above this world, Oh, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. 

Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord that we are risen with you. Amen. We are risen with you. Amen. Our old man was crucified with you. God included us in the death of His Son. We were there, Hallelujah!, amen, by the grace of God. He included us in the death of His Son. In His crucifixion our old man was crucified with Him. We died with Him, Hallelujah! We were buried with Him, down into the water, and we are risen with Him!, up out of the water, Amen. Even as God, by the power of the Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead, He raised us with Him! And He’s seated us with Him in Heavenly places, far above every principality; every power; every name that is named, not only in this world, but the world to come, Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! Amen, and seated us with Him in Heavenly places in Christ. And that’s where we’re seated now, and our angels, it says, always look on the face of the Father. Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! Amen. And we are His anointed. Hallelujah! There’s only one anointing it says. Hallelujah! Endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There’s one Body; there’s one Spirit; there’s one hope of your calling; there’s one anointing; there’s one Spirit; there’s one anointing: it’s the Holy Spirit. That’s the only anointing in the Church. Praise God! If you’re anointed, it’s with the Holy Spirit, praise God! Hallelujah! And we’re seated with Him in Heavenly places, far above this world. Thank You Jesus! And that’s the entire Body of Christ. And we’re members of that Body, in particular. Amen. So come in faith, nothing doubting and put your hope in Him. It says, our faith and our hope is in God. Amen. Your faith!, your hope is in God! Praise God! Thank You Jesus! Our faith and our hope is in God our Savior, thank You Jesus, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.