THE GREAT SPIRITUAL FORCES IN THE WORLD: 11/11/2015

THE GREAT SPIRITUAL FORCES IN THE WORLD

 
The greatest forces in the world are not material but spiritual.
 
The things that dominate men are not riches and wealth, but they are spiritual forces that drive men after these things.
 
 
 
Ø There Are Two Destructive Forces In The World.
 
Ø There Are Two Major Constructive Forces In The World.
 
Ø Two Of These Forces Emanate From God; Two From The Enemy.
 
These great spiritual forces are dominating the human race now.
 
There are three Wills at work in the world…
Ø God's Will
Ø Man's Will
Ø Satan' Will
 
Two forces head up in God
Two head up in Satan.
 
 
Ø The Two Constructive Forces Are Love And Faith.
 
Ø The Two Destructive Forces Are Hate And Unbelief.
 
There never was such a need for clear, intelligent teaching on love and faith as there is today.
 
Men must be taught to believe if they are going to win.
 
Hate and unbelief have caused all the insurrections in morals, in finances, economics, and nations down through the ages.
 
Few people know the destructive power of unbelief or the constructive, creative power of faith.
 
Hate and unbelief come from the same source.
 
Love and faith are of God. God has been the constructive Force in all the ages.
 
Hate and unbelief never produced a great soul, a great nation, or a great enterprise.
 
They destroy every nation where they have gained the ascendancy. They are the enemy of prosperity and peace.
 
Satan is the author of hatred. He operates in the realm of unbelief.
 
He is the author, the source of poverty, sickness, broken homes and hatred that dominate the human race.
 
John 10:10
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
 
 
It is most important that we recognize the place that Jesus gave to faith in His three years of public ministry.
 
 
Matthew 17:20
 20 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, 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. Nothing will be impossible for you."
 
 
Mark 10:27
 27 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; 
all things are possible with God."
 
Mark 9:23
"Everything is possible for him who believes."
 
 
 
Faith unites man with Omnipotence (Almighty Power of God). Jesus said: "I am the vine; you are the branches."
 
Jesus was God's faith manifested.
 
 
 
 1 John 4:7-8 
(Is the definition of the source of faith, love.)
 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
 
 
This is the definition of real Christianity, of the New Creation. Everyone that is Born Again is born of the love of God and knows God.
 
He that loves not knows not God.
 
Love gives birth to Faith.
Here is the statement of faith: "For God is love."
 
Christianity is defined as a love life, a life dominated and ruled by love. The kind of love mentioned here is the new kind of love that Jesus brought to the world. There are two kinds of love in the world.
 
The Greek words for them are Phileo and Agapa.
 
Phileo is human love, the best thing that natural man has outside of Christ. Without Christ it is weak and frail and will fail.
 
The other kind of love, Agapa, is the Nature of God manifested in the New Creation.
The new kind of Love that Jesus brought would be the solution of the family problem and of the home problem; it gives real faith in the family. The great fact is that God Himself is Love. This makes Him the real Faith God.