In our faith by Richard Roberts
“They said, Isn’t this Joseph’s boy? Isn’t this Mary’s son? Isn’t this James” brother? Isn’t this the illegitimate one? Isn’t this the one who really no one knows who his father is?”
And they became indignant and angry and upset, and it wasn’t long until they really wanted to throw him off the cliff. But He turned and walked through them, and the Bible says “he went his way.”
Imagine the Son of God coming to your home with healing, and you saying, “No, I have been a “cafeteriaized? Christian. I’ll pass on that entree and I’ll wait till somebody else comes to town.”
I remember hearing Brother Kenneth Copeland tell the story about one night a woman… he went to lay hands on a woman who had a goiter, and she said, “Oh, no, no, Brother Copeland. Don’t pray for me. I’m saving that one for Oral Roberts.” …LAUGHTER…
Imagine having the Anointed One in your home and rejecting Him. The headline right here in my Bible says, ”Jesus Rejected at Nazareth.” They missed their hour of visitation. Don’t miss what you came for.
Everyone who has spoken has brought it out. Don’t miss what God has for you. How many times have we quoted that Scripture so far since this morning? “The violent take it by force.” Don’t miss what you came for.
Now that means there’s got to be a tenacity in our faith, there’s got to be a tenacity that causes our faith to become action. And that’s what real faith is, for faith is what you hold on to until you receive what you’re believing for. But you’ve got to take a step and do something, like the little woman…if you read on in Luke a few chapters, you’ll find the woman who reached out to the crowd and touched the border of His garment. She heard about a Jesus who could heal her.
She’d been to the doctors, they’d done all they could do. She’d spent all of her living and was not any better, but rather, the Bible says, grew worse. But she heard about him and said, “If I can only get my hands on His clothing, if I can touch that border, that prayer shawl with the tassels,? representative of the Word of God, “if I could just get my hands on it, I know I would be healed.”