![]() ![]() Pastor Aries went on to second verse where Jesus spoke of the mustard seed faith. Pastor Aries urged the congregation that instead of asking for more faith, they need to get rid of their unbelief and be steadfast in their faith. No amount of evidence will be enough to convince unbelief. “The proof of His love for you was by dying on the cross for all men.” “God does His miracles because He loves you, not to prove His love for you!” Pastor Aries pointed out. Pastor Aries shared that if Christians live with that attitude, they will not only face unbelief but they will expect God to perform miracles just to prove His love for them-in the same way Jesus’ brothers did in John 7:1-5. When they find themselves in terrible situations, they wonder if God really loves them. They have trouble believing that God can do a miracle for them. The main problem the disciples faced was their unbelief. “Your negative feelings are only a contributing factor, not the deciding factor to your faith,” he said.īelievers must learn to trust in God even when they do not feel good about it. Pastor Aries went on to encourage the church to have faith despite how they felt about a situation. “The mustard seed faith that Jesus was referring to is to believe even when you don’t feel or see evidence in front of you,” explained the preacher. ![]() The disciples’ faith was little because they needed evidence to have confidence and to trust God. Jesus was challenging His disciples if they would always need Him to be physically present in order to have faith. Matthew 17:17 reads, “J esus replied, ‘How long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.'” The disciples could not fulfil that simply because they have always relied on Jesus to do the believing. Returning to the verse, Pastor Aries explained that the “mustard seed faith”, or the lowest level of faith anyone can have, is to simply believe. Using an analogy of earning one dollar a month as the minimum measure of success, Pastor Aries shared that maybe the only reason why some might find it hard to earn a dollar a month was because they are given that dollar every month and hence have no motivation to even earn a single dollar. So which one is it that we need to have: A greater faith, or one as small as a mustard seed? “Because on the one hand, Jesus told the disciples that the reason that they could not cast out the spirit from the boy was that they had so little faith.” In the same breath, Jesus told them that as long as they had faith as small as a mustard seed, they could move mountains. “This verse is a paradox,” noted Pastor Aries. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. ![]() It reads, “He replied, “Because you have so little faith. City Harvest Church’s executive pastor, Aries Zulkarnain delivered a word on the weekend of Jan 18 and 19 on what Jesus really meant when he spoke about having faith the size of a mustard seed.Ĭhristians often go to Matthew 17:20 when they speak about faith, yet the verse seems to contradict itself. Aries Zulkarnian unpacked this seeming paradox during last weekend’s service.Īt the beginning of the year, many believers find themselves asking God to “increase their faith” for the new year, so that they can experience greater things in their lives. Jesus once chided his disciples about having so little faith, in the next breath saying that mustard seed-sized faith is enough to move mountains. ![]()
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