Faith is a Fact V

“Like Precious Faith”

II Peter 1:1-11

“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ………”

By adding to your Faith until you reach the sum (end) of your Faith.  “Now of these things of which we have spoken, this is the sum.  We have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.” (Heb.8:1)

We keep maturing until we reach the sum which is a Man in the Throne with a Ministry Energized by a nature of Love, The nature of God. 

The nature of God is within us in the Kingdom of God.  The ministry of the Kingdom and the power of Christ will be realized and the flow from us when the church stops committing the abomination of condemnation!  The church is a garden enclosed, a spring shut up, and a fountain that is sealed.  A blow is going to release a flow.  The north wind (conviction of the Holy Spirit as in John 16:8-11) is going to cause us to stop condemning our own flesh – our brother in Christ, but especially ourselves!  We only condemn others because condemnation is our own eye. (Matt. 7: 1-5).  To condemn the just is to condemn anyone (especially ourselves) who is justified by Faith.  “And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.”(Acts 13:39)

(Romans 5:1)  “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

(Proverbs 17:15)  “He that justifies the wicked and he that condemns the just, even they both are an abomination to the Lord.”

The Characteristics of Faith are the same as the Characteristics of the Kingdom of
God.

1. The Kingdom is a present reality for us…Now.. For us today.
2. The Kingdom is not fleshly.  We in this Kingdom are not moved by what we see or hear in the realm of circumstances.
3. The Kingdom comes not with observation (Luke 17:20).  It cannot be watched with the natural eyes. 
4. The Kingdom of God takes priority.
5. The Kingdom is a gift; that is; it is ministered to us abundantly through the mercy, love, and grace of God.
6. The kingdom is marked by violence.  Although the grace of God offers the Kingdom to us, we must conquer with a violent faith and confession.  We must seize the mountain.
7. The Kingdom involves persecution, tribulation and affliction.  The half-hearted will not fight the good fight of faith.  This walk is for over comers who are victorious in Jesus.
8. This Kingdom is stable and cannot be moved.  Everything else but this Kingdom is falling now.
9. This Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and without limitation.
10. This Kingdom is to be taken to the whole earth. 

Thus we can see that these are special days.  We have been brought into the Kingdom for such a time as this.  The world system, especially the religious word system is cracking at the seams.  The Voice (Word) of the Lord is shaking heaven and earth.  Only that which is part of this unshakeable Kingdom cannot and will not be moved.  The Kingdom is going to stand.  The next world government is the Kingdom of God.  Like Noah of old, there will be a people who will inherit the earth…a people who will remain after the days of shaking.  We, like Noah, will be left to inherit the earth. 

Christ in us is to be released through the spoken Word. (Eph. 4:29-32).  God is going to have a community of prophets to stand in the earth and proclaim His word.  This many-member voice is going to shake Heaven and earth Hebrews 12: 26-29).  When the Lord speaks, we can rest in the performance of what He has said.

The principle of Faith is confessing from a believing heart from which Faith has been deposited.  We live on the level of our confession.

We have much confidence in the Lord and do not confess unbelief.  Little faith in the Father means much faith in our Mammon of self-sufficiency

We get rid of the mammon of self-sufficiency and exchange it for the sufficiency of the Lord. 

Our Faith righteousness rests upon Jesus’ fulfillment of the Law.  Here is no room for boasting.  Only as we walk as we have received does our faith become life.  We are truly an expression of Him on earth with Like Precious Faith.

Carolyn Sissom, Pastor

Eastgate Ministries, Inc.

(With excerpts from Sermon on the Mount by Kelly Varner)