CASTING MOUNTAINS (6 OF 10)
Scripture: Mark 11:20-24
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Casting Mountains (6 of 10)
Series: Biblical Promises
Stephen Whitney
Mark 11:20-24
On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history. Their motorized vehicle deified the law of gravity and flew for 59 seconds and a distance of 852 feet through the air. The idea wasn't new. Years before the Wright brothers got off the ground at Kitty Hawk, mathematicians and scientists proved flight was possible.
But many people who read the facts couldn't believe that flying would ever become a reality. The Wright brothers believed the facts and they built the first flying machine. When their vehicle flew they demonstrated that you have to believe the facts and act on them to be successful.
Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Augustine - ''Faith is to believe what you do not see.''
Faith is believing God exists and he will do what he says because he is all-powerful and sovereign over the world which he created. Faith is not an emotional feeling we have at a moment it time, rather it is a settled conviction something is true.
Background :12-14 The following day - Monday after the triumphal entry on Sunday. Bethany - was a town about 3 miles away on the Mount of Olives.
:13 The fig tree had leaves because it was early April, but it did not have figs because the first ones did not ripen until May. They were eaten right off the tree and were very soft and puffy and sweet.
:14 Jesus hated hypocrisy and he constantly condemned a profession of faith in God that was not demonstrated by deeds.
R.C. Sproul - ''Jesus pronounces judgment, as is his calling. The specific judgment is against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. Just as the tree has the look of life, in having leaves, but has no fruit, so the Pharisees have a form of godliness but not its power.''
Leith Anderson - ''Few of the disciples caught the meaning - long-term judgment on the superficiality of religion among the nation.''
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Series: Biblical Promises
Stephen Whitney
Mark 11:20-24
On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history. Their motorized vehicle deified the law of gravity and flew for 59 seconds and a distance of 852 feet through the air. The idea wasn't new. Years before the Wright brothers got off the ground at Kitty Hawk, mathematicians and scientists proved flight was possible.
But many people who read the facts couldn't believe that flying would ever become a reality. The Wright brothers believed the facts and they built the first flying machine. When their vehicle flew they demonstrated that you have to believe the facts and act on them to be successful.
Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Augustine - ''Faith is to believe what you do not see.''
Faith is believing God exists and he will do what he says because he is all-powerful and sovereign over the world which he created. Faith is not an emotional feeling we have at a moment it time, rather it is a settled conviction something is true.
Background :12-14 The following day - Monday after the triumphal entry on Sunday. Bethany - was a town about 3 miles away on the Mount of Olives.
:13 The fig tree had leaves because it was early April, but it did not have figs because the first ones did not ripen until May. They were eaten right off the tree and were very soft and puffy and sweet.
:14 Jesus hated hypocrisy and he constantly condemned a profession of faith in God that was not demonstrated by deeds.
R.C. Sproul - ''Jesus pronounces judgment, as is his calling. The specific judgment is against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. Just as the tree has the look of life, in having leaves, but has no fruit, so the Pharisees have a form of godliness but not its power.''
Leith Anderson - ''Few of the disciples caught the meaning - long-term judgment on the superficiality of religion among the nation.''
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