The Nothings of Provision: Part Four by Dr. Rod Mattoon

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In part four of “The Nothings of Provisions” we examine The Provision of God for Those Who Were Instructed to Take Nothing While Serving Him. * Luke 9:3- And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. We focus on the matter of faith in God and explain what faith is all about. Here are four of the eight insights that we shared. * Faith is not a shelter against any difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions and complications. During an especially trying time in the work of the China Inland Mission, Hudson Taylor wrote to his wife, "We have twenty-five cents—and all the promises of God! His faith was in God. * Faith is the capacity to trust in the Lord while not being able to make sense out of everything in your life. Some things won't make sense, but faith enables us to wait until the fog and confusion clear. Like an arid sponge soaks up water, faith draws the poison from every grief. It takes the sting out of every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain. * Faith is also the conviction that God does not and will not ever tell any lie to us. He is the epitome of truth. The character of God is the foundation of our faith. His word to us is enduring and eternal because they are true. * Faith is our acceptance of God's acceptance of us. In fact, no faith is genuine faith which believes that something extra needs to be added to the death of Jesus to make us acceptable to God. I like what Corrie ten Boom said, "Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible." Spurgeon put it this way, "Faith and obedience are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God, trusts God, and he that trusts God, obeys God." How are you doing on your test in the area of your trust in God? This 31-minute message was preached on Sunday night, February 6, 2020 at Lincoln Land Baptist Church.