 We're recording this. OK. Welcome back to our second lecture. We see one-on-one faith. On the second lecture today, we can get started. So what we completed in the previous answers, you're fine. You're good. All right. What we completed in the previous lecture, lesson number six is the steps of the faith of Abraham. So we just went through that. So this is how Abraham exercised faith here. Now we're going to move into our next lesson, lesson number seven. We share the notes. We're going to talk a little bit about faith, hope, and love. And the interaction between faith, hope, and love. All three are important. As current days, the 13th chapter, the 13th verses, now the main faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of faith is love. I'll just start. But the three things that now remain, it means that we are to walk in as believers, faith, hope, and love. So I just want to talk a few things here, different parts and insights on this. So faith, when you first look at faith and hope, and we've emphasized a little bit of this in the previous lecture, faith and hope are interrelations. They're connected. They're important. Hope is where it starts. And we have to have hope first, because faith is the substance of faith. Hope is hope. So the hope is expectation, a desire to have something. Expectation. So the hope is important. We have to be hopeful. We have to have hope. And hope is an expectation and is in the future. I hope I will get it. I hope to become, I hope to be there. I hope, see, it's something to get expecting out in the future in our lives, so on. But faith is what brings that hope from a place of expectation into a place of possession. Unless you have it, it brings it into your experience. But hope is important, because we start out with hope. We start out having hope. So for example, if there's a person who's sick, someone will say to you, I can't be done when he's there. The person must have hope that I'm going to get better. And then they accept faith to bring their hope into their experience. So hope is important. You shouldn't give up. If you lose hope, then faith might be exercise. You don't have hope and faith cannot be exercise, because faith is the substance of things. Hope is important. So hope and faith, they go together. They're important. Now, some things about hope. We see in scripture, Hebrew 6, verse 19, if you talk about it in Hebrew 6, verse 19, this was actually brings out two important things about hope. Hebrew 6, verse 19. It says here, Hebrew 6, verse 19, this hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the presence behind the wave, where the foreman has entered as Jesus. So telling us two things about hope. This hope is an anchor of the soul. So hope is very important. It's like an anchor. It stabilizes, keeps us stable. Anchor, so the picture is of the anchor used in a ship, by a ship, in the middle of the stormy sea. So when there's a storm at sea, when they really drop anchor, so they drop this heavy thing that goes down in the bed of the ocean. And then it stabilizes the ship, the middle of the storm, until the storm comes out, and they lift anchor and they keep moving. So hope is like that. It's an anchor. It stabilizes us. So hope is an anchor for that. So a minor, most stabilizes. But also tell us this one more thing in Hebrew 6, verse 19. It says, this hope enters the presence behind the wave. That means our hope connects us to Jesus. The presence behind the wave, that is Jesus. It's not about Jesus. The one who has gone into the heavens. So our hope actually anchors us in the Lord, in Jesus Christ. So hope is important. Anchors us, but it also anchors us in the personal place, in Jesus. So hope is important. Now remember, we mentioned earlier in the previous lecture, I'm going to repeat this from Genesis 15, that it's important to paint a picture of hope in our mind based on the promise of hope. So we learned from Genesis 15 how Abraham was getting doubtful whether God meant a child from his own body. So he's asking God, Lord, is it somebody else who's born in her house? And God tells Abraham, no, no, no. Someone was born of you. That's what I meant. And then God told Abraham to come out of this tent and look up at the night sky. And to say, that's how many of your descendants will be. And so that picture stayed in Abraham's mind, which enabled him to continue to be hopeful and continue to believe in God. So based on that, we just are drawing a simple reduction of insight that we need to keep a picture of hope in our minds, keep a picture of the promise of God from Spirit and in your mind. And that can help you keep your hope, the liar, due to the state of hope. So hope is a hope. And then when we have hope, then faith comes in. And your hope makes faith a liar. Faith comes in. Faith brings that, which we hope for, into our possessed figure, the substance of things also. On a slightly different note, I'll take a few moments. Let's talk about faith versus feelings. Second Corinthians 5 verse 7 says, we walk by faith and not by faith. Second Corinthians 5 verse 7. That means our walk of faith, it's not dictated, it's not determined by our physical senses, by our sight. We walk by faith, not by sight. So that's how we walk as believers. That means my faith is more important than us. It overrides my physical senses. So my physical senses may say things, tell me things about facts. This is what's happening to us all. But my faith is superior to that. It's overrides you with that. I'm not denying the fact, so I'm recognizing the evidence. That's the fact. But like Abraham, he saw Abraham. He considered not his own body. So he walked by faith and not by sight. He's not denying the fact that he was 100 years old, Sarah was 90, not the next one, that's a fact. Oh, Sarah and Grant, we put the facts. Those are what our senses are telling us. But there's something beyond faith. And our faith knocks us into thought, it is promise. And my faith is we are able to walk above our feelings. An example of this is in John chapter 20 verses 24 to 29. John could make a minor jump with tea. Very polygrain. And I'll just narrate this for us. This is after Christ's resurrection. And what is interesting is that the disciples of Jesus at one point after the resurrection were actually unbelieving. I mean, they didn't really believe like did Jesus really rise to the dead? Because they saw him crucified. They saw how he was named. They saw him die on the cross. And they saw they know that his body had been buried in the tomb of Joseph of Mark with him. They knew that. So maybe the minds of many of the disciples' story is over. This is over. This is the end. They were not believing until you know, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. That's the reaction, something. And one by one, the news are coming. Mary said, I saw Jesus feet when John made the tomb his empty. But the others are like, are you sure? You better not, you know, are you sure? Are you sure? They're still not. It's taking time with them to accept, even for the disciples. And one of them, Thomas, is there. My eyes won't tell me stories until I see him, until I put my hands. Thomas is becoming very, very angry. He guys can't tell me. Until I see him, until I put my hand in his, you know, his wounds, I won't believe it. So Thomas is basing his face on what he can, but he wouldn't see and touch and feel. He's basing his face on. So we call that kind of thing as, you know, natural faith or sense knowledge faith. Faith that is based on feelings, on what you do. For example, this is a chair right here. We have no problems coming in, you know, anybody sitting on the chair. Why? You know, you don't expect the chair to suddenly go down to the ground. Why? Because sense knowledge means, you know in your mind, this chair is strong enough to carry my weight, so I can just sit comfortably. And that is natural faith. It's based on some understanding, some logic, some fact. This chair is strong enough to carry my weight, so I will just sit on it and I won't visit it. Now that is not final faith. That is natural faith. Anybody has that? Any questions you have? That's true. Now we call it sense knowledge faith based on practical faith. It's faith based on our senses, what we see, what we feel, what we know. Now Thomas is putting himself in that category. I will have faith, but this kind of faith, natural faith, sense knowledge faith, I have to see, I have to touch, only then I will believe. Now we know what happens. We just gave to Thomas, touched also a lot, I'm sorry. And then Jesus at that time, he says, Thomas you have believed because you have seen. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed. So this is a different kind of faith. It is believing even when you have not seen. That means you're believing independent of your senses. You haven't seen, but you should believe. That's the kind, that's Bible faith. That's the kind of faith Jesus has blessed. Blessed are those who have not seen but have. That is the kind of faith where he says, he walked up by faith, not by seeing. And that's Bible faith. That is not natural faith. That's believing God because what he has told me, believing God for the good he is. That means through his faith into his word, God cannot deny him. His promises are sure. He will keep his commandments. But that's believing God. Not because of your senses, but because of who God is. So faith and feelings. A little bit of comment on that. That we have to learn to walk by faith independently. Now, sometimes your feelings may be really your faith. They, you know, feel, that's nice, it's OK. And there will be times when your feelings are opposite to your faith or they don't support your faith. I feel you remember Jesus said, blessed are those who have not seen yet have, believe. They walk by faith, not by it. So sometimes my senses may be opposite to my faith, but I still walk by it. That's Bible faith. Another thing we can talk about is also faith was his doubt. We have mentioned this before. But the point I want to just emphasize about our differentiate is doubt in our mind versus doubt in our hearts. Mark 11, 20 speed, Mark 11 versus 22, 23, Jesus said, have faith in God. And then he said, first thing, whoever says to this mountain be moved, be cast to the sea, and there's no doubt in his heart. I believe the most thing he says will be done. He will not whatever he said. So where must I not doubt? Don't doubt in your heart. That's where actual believing takes pleasure. So he says, don't doubt in your heart. No. There can be doubts in our minds. Because our mind, which is that part of what connects to the natural world, is very logical. It goes by logic. It goes by feelings. It goes by the natural senses. And so many can come. Mind will say, hey, how is it going to happen? Oh, it doesn't look like it. Oh, look at the circumstances. Look at the circumstances. Let's have a mind that works. And it connects us to the natural world. So obviously, it's thinking along those lines. But having doubts in your mind is not the same thing as having doubts in your heart. Or let me put it like this. Maybe there are doubts in your mind, but you can still believe in your heart. There may be doubts in your mind. But you can still believe in your heart. Because your mind is working like that. That's the way the mind works. It looks at the circumstances, looks at the situation. And at the mind is thinking, how is this going to happen? You know, it's processing, natural information. So don't confuse the thoughts of your mind as though it was delving up. Your heart can still be sentient in the world. And through God, it's also in your mind you really don't have the answer. In your mind, you really don't have. You haven't figured it out in your mind. It's OK. There are many things we can't figure out in our minds. We will not be able to describe how great God is. All of us, our minds are small. I don't understand it. But I can believe it in God's heart. I can believe that God's great God is mighty, powerful. I can believe it. So understand this very simple thing, very important. You can have faith in your heart. He can understand it. If there are doubts in your mind, is it clear? Is it OK? Yeah, the argument so far, right? So don't confuse that. Just because you have some doubts in your mind, OK, I don't have the answers to those questions. But I still believe in God. I believe because of the word of God, because of God's, because we are spoken to by the Spirit, so I can believe. And that's how I'm just making a side note here. And that's how the gifts of the Holy Spirit also operate. So let me tell you, OK, here's the word. Step out of the word of God. Step out of the prophecy. So many times, your mind is going to be saying, hey, you're really crazy. How can you say that? How can you say that? But in your heart, you know you work from God. God is spoken to. Your mind is questioning. How would you know that? Is that right? Is that right? You're going to make a fool of yourself. OK, but in your heart, you know, I've heard from God, God is spoken to. You go with what's your heart. So you step out of the word of God. You speak that word of prophecy. You believe this is a gift. So really, even the flowing of the gift of the Holy Spirit is a step of faith, even though many times your mind is questioning. But you know, God is spoken to. And you can release that word of God with the gift of the Spirit for two minutes. OK? We'll talk about that in these supernatural arguments. Now, continuing on the same thing, faith, hope, and love, we know that the Bible teaches us that the greatest is love. The greatest is love. Love must be kept as the most important. And look at Galatians 5 verses, Galatians 5 verses. Galatians 5 verse 6 says, Galatians, faith works by love. Galatians 5 verse 6. A lot of part of that verse, it says, what really matters is faith working through. How does faith work? It works through love. So love is very important in the Bible. It says faith, hope, and love. We saw faith and hope, both are important. Now we talk about faith and love. Faith works through love. So it means if I don't have love, faith won't work. You don't have love? Faith won't work. Because faith works through from the first thing. I must seek to have it in my heart, is I must seek to love the Bible, love the book, walk in the love. Because faith works through. So if I want to measure the people, I must first love what they have, from passion to love them, faith comes in, to work to serve the people. So I understand the importance now. Faith works through love. So love is important. If there's no love, faith won't work. So that's why in 1st Corinthians chapter 13, there are also four, and this is actually the champion in the historical battle, the gift of the Holy Spirit, chapter 13, 14. And in chapter 13, it's emphasizing the love. The whole context there is some of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, chapter 12 of the Revelation. While he's talking about it, he says, look, if I claim to have faith, I could move on. This is 1 Corinthians 13. And verse 2, the second half of verse 2, says, though I have all faith, I could move on. But have not love. I am, I can say I have all faith. Great faith. But if I don't have love, I'm not loving the people who is in a bond with me. I can't produce nothing. I'm unproductive, my faith is unproductive, useless. So 1st, love them, walk away. Then faith comes in, we move, they are reportable. They will come in. And so love motivates faith. So then love motivates faith. I certainly got my own life, but it's not for people around me. I certainly got my own faith, but all my work calls us to do it. Remember, it's love that must motivate our faith. Love motivates our faith. It moves us into action. That's the emphasis that it was put in supplication. So there's another explanation here on what the love of God is, skipping that. Now let's go to 1 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 5. 1 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 5. You see another combination of our energy that I presented here. In 1 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 5, it's also called that. It says, the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith. So notice, he's talking about several different things. He's saying love, pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith. We need to maintain all of these things together. So while our focus in this course is on faith, there are all these other things that are important. Love, pure heart, good conscience, or a clear conscience. And sincere faith must be sincere. I'm not doing it. I'm not trying to believe not the wrong things, wrong reasons, wrong motivations. And sincere faith comes from pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith. OK. So those are a few side comments here. We're going to go into chapter 8. I'll just start with the start of chapter 8. We can see things. We can't. Now what we want to do in chapter 8 is give an overview of how faith is, or the role that faith plays in the life of the believer, different areas. And some of us are very familiar, so I'm not going to spend it necessarily explaining everything. I'm not spending too much time explaining it, but just for completeness sake, we'll itemize these things and listen to these things up to us. So chapter 8, the believer's walk of faith. We all know that we are saved by faith through, it means salvation has been extended to us by God's grace, but we receive it by faith. So our side, faith in God, God's side, by grace, it gives us the free gift of salvation. It's OK. We know the scripture, Ephesians 8 and 9. We are saved by grace through faith. Second link in the life of the believer, everything must be done in faith. Whatever your problem is, whatever your problem is, do it by faith. So we live by faith. It means that it all matters. In your heart, or in our hearts, but it's faith in God. I believe, for example, when you're going to eat your food, God, I'm actually blessed. It's blessed for my part. We're going out. God, I thank you. You protect me. You keep me safe. So everything, every aspect of life, we are living by faith in God. So we walk by faith. We live by faith. And we are trusting God, as God has spoken to us, in every aspect of our lives. We live by faith. And the Bible tells us whatever is not of faith is sin. I think about that. And also, in Romans 15, it's talking about food you eat. And he's saying, OK, if you eat, you eat it in faith. For whatever is not of faith is, if you're not really talking about faith, not doing this is a sin. Because it puts us in a place of distrust or unbelief in God. So everything we do, we do by faith. Now let me look at point number three here. What role does faith play in the life of the believer? Number three. Faith is key to receiving from God. I'm going to spend some time on this. Faith is key to receiving from God. You see, the problem with many of us is that when it comes to receiving from God, we think, well, if God wants me to have it, I'll have it. Or we just give it to him. But the Bible is telling us something different. The Bible is saying, I need to actually have faith in God in order to receive. And we see that in James chapter 1 verses 5 to 7. So look at it very carefully. Verse 5, if any of you lack of this, let him ask of God, who gives to all, literally, without throats, and it would have given to the other. God, let him ask in faith with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a babeless, independent horse by the wind. Well, let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. I look at those verses very carefully. What does he start talking about? If any of you lack what? So he says, if you lack, we see. But what does he end up talking about? Anything. So these verses are telling us not only how to receive this stuff, but it's telling us this is the same thing you do if you want to receive anything from God. Same thing. So the next thing is he says, think about God. What about God? He says, God is a giving God. God is a giving God. He gives and he gives to all. How many people? He gives to all. And how does he give? He gives liberally or generously. And without throats, that means he doesn't scold you. Why are you coming after me? Without throats. So the second thing is he says, he's telling us about God. He says, see, God is not a stingy God. No. God is a God who gives. He's a generous God. And he gives to all. So nobody can say, oh, God gives only to so and so. It doesn't give me. He gives to all. And he gives liberally, generously, liberally. He's very lavish, liberally, and giving. And he gives without scolding. So the problem is not with God. If I don't receive, the problem is not with God. I understand. If any of you lack something, you're going to God. God is a good God. He's a generous God. He's fair to everybody. He's generous to everybody. He doesn't scold you. So no problem on his face. He's ready to give. Verse, let the empty ask in. So that is the condition. Let them ask in. Say, there is no problem with God. No blame on God. Oh, God didn't want me to have it. No. No, he's a generous God. He's a generous God. He's a liberally. So don't put the blame on God. The criteria here is, or the requirement of it is, let them ask in without any doubt. So that's what we are saying in the life of the believer. Faith is the key to the seeding front. And not only vista, because he says, if you lack wisdom, but then he says, you want to receive anything from the Lord. Anything from the Lord. This is how we do it. Anything, ask in faith with no doubt. How do I know I'm doubting or what is this? Go doubting. Of course, the big doubts, he says, is like the wave of the seed. This side, next, that side. This side, that side. Wave of the seed, prevalent in thoughts. One time he says, yes, yes, yes, one time he says, no, no, no, no. All you see is oscillating a mass illusion of one entity or the other. That's the person who doubts. He doubts, has driven the dependent cause. And if I am like that, then he says, look, I will not receive anything. So our failure to receive from God is not God's. Our failure to receive from God is not that God didn't want me to have it. Sometimes we pray, we don't receive it, and then say, maybe God didn't want me to have it. That's the usual conclusion or usual comment. We hear when we don't receive something. Maybe it was not God's will. Maybe God didn't want you to have it, but James is not telling that to us. He is saying, God used all liberty. The doubt of God is different. The problem with the reason why we didn't receive is because we were tossing people out from the field like this, play the wind, and we're not receiving it. Now, I do understand the importance of the will of God. We were talking about it in the number prayer. There is this asking God's will. But when we know the word of God, that is the will of God. So if there is the word of God, God is promising in his word, you're asking a line to his word, then you're asking a line to his will. His God's word is God's will. You're asking a line to God's will, God's will is expressed in the poor God's nature. So we shouldn't point that out. Let me pause. Do you have any questions? Let me check the chat. All right, let me look at it. Okay, there's a question from Deepika. How do we differentiate if the doubt is in the mind or hearts? Okay. So Deepika's question is, how can we, we did mention a little earlier, that we could have doubts in our mind, questions in our mind, or we could believe in our hearts. So the question is, Deepika's question is, how do we differentiate if the doubt is in the mind or the heart? I think one thing, at least what I do, is we know our heart. We know what we believe, right? So Romans 10, chapter 10, verse 9 and 10. With the heart, man believes. With the heart, man believes. So in your heart, there is still that conviction of God, his word, his promise. So if that conviction is still there, then you know that you're believing in your heart, even though in your mind, there are those doubts and there are those twists. So is there that conviction in your heart? Is there that assurance in your heart? Is the heart settled in the word of God? So that's one way of determining and knowing that, I still believe in my heart, even though in my mind, I don't know that I have those doubts that come into my mind as restless or distraught by those doubts. But in my heart, I have the confidence, I have the assurance and the instinct. Another important thing is Jesus taught us in Matthew 12, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So I intentionally speak what I believe in my heart, the reinforces the belief in my heart. And my words are then telling me, this is what's in my mind, I believe God, I believe his word, even though there may be questions and doubts in my mind. So I hope those two things would help there. Another question there from Christian. Our mind always tries to find logic in everything which makes us question of faith. How to overcome that? Now, Christian, there is nothing wrong when you're using a mind, what gave a mind to us. Yes, a mind is like that. We process information, we look at things. That's a mind that connects us to our natural world. Now, what I want to point out, and you learn about this in your second year, in the course of these supernatural, how we learn about, and also we learn, you have my good post on, you know, wholeness and think these come in the second year. Now, you will learn about the renewed minds. So we all have our minds, but the Bible talks about the natural minds and the renewed minds. What is the renewed mind? The renewed mind is a mind that has been strange to think in line with the ways and thoughts of God, instead of the ways and thoughts of man. So that means I'm able to switch between two levels in my mind. I'm able to walk with my natural mind, which I need to do when I face natural things, but I'm also able to switch into the renewed mind. We read about it in Romans 12, which is when Isaiah 5-8 was 8 and 9, where I'm able to switch into the renewed mind level where I'm thinking according to the ways and thoughts of God. It's my same mind, but I've trained my mind to be a renewed mind. So that instead of thinking in the natural mind, I can think according to the renewed mind. So all of you are listening that I was working on that. I was looking at the computer and talking. You're listening, you're going on, right? I'm answering that question. I'm talking all of the same. So we've learned about this the second year. We have our natural minds, but we have God is calling us to walk with the renewed, Romans 12, don't be conformed to this world and be transformed by the renewed way of God. So as a believer, I'm actually supposed to be having a living by a renewed mind. My mind was renewed. What is the renewed mind? It's the mind that is able to walk according to the ways and thoughts of God. So again, example. And you learn about this case to supernatural ministry class. Jesus calls the disciples and says, let's give them something to eat. The renewed mind says, Lord, 5,000 people, which bakery will give us bread for 5,000 people? That is natural mind. Then another disciple, natural mind. Lord, how much money we will need to go by? So one disciple is calculating which bakery. Another disciple is calculating how much money. That is the natural mind. But one disciple says, Lord, I have 5,000 fish. Let us, so he brings 5,000 fish, put in the hands of Jesus. Jesus says, tell them all to be seated. They're going to have lunch. 5,000 fish, 5,000 people. But the renewed mind sees a miracle. The natural mind is picking how much money? The natural mind is thinking which bakery? The renewed mind is saying, God can multiply, God knows that. So they make them all sit down. And then the 5,000 fish, people are fed. So that's the renewed mind. The difference between the natural mind and the renewed mind. And as I leave this, we must train ourselves to think with the renewed mind. Let's think in light of the amazing possible problem. So I hope that answers your question a little bit, Krisha. We will talk more about it in the second year. There will be two courses that cover the renewed mind. Right, anything else? Any other questions from here? Okay, so we continue this next week. We're just talking about faith in the life of the believer in the different areas of where we need to have faith. And one of the emphasis is we need to pray to receive from God, to receive what God is giving to us. We need faith to receive. We'll talk a little bit more about how it takes us faith to receive from God. We'll talk about it in a different lesson. I will just give it a little bit more. Okay, so let's close the trap. If there are no more questions in the chat. No more questions. Okay, that's right. You usually call the person sitting here to come and pray. Okay, all right. Pray and asbestos. Let's stand in front of the cameras to put this together. Okay, pray. Thank you Jesus for this day, Lord. As we have learned today, how to read, update and how to use our faith and to put trust in me. I pray you have a certain commitment to your lives and that with this kind of story now, we're used to being afraid of having God. You have a sort of very long, deep meaning of how to put faith in you. All right. So I couldn't hear you at all. Okay, thank you everyone. I'll see you again next week. Thanks. I'm a bit worried before we get to the next question. God bless. Bye now. Bye everyone. Thank you. Stop.