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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
30534
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The
Faith of the Son of God
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Message transcribed and
edited from audio tape #185
Preached September 21, 1986
By Brother Ben Howard
Dawsonville, GA
Let’s turn in the Word of God to the Book of
Galatians, and I would like to speak about, “The
Faith of the Son of God;” the faith of the Son of
God as opposed to our faith. There is a mental
faith and there is a revelational faith. A mental
faith is when we can see what the scripture says and
believe it from a mental standpoint, but when it
becomes a revelation to us it makes it real. We can
believe what the Bible says, “By His stripes you
were healed,” but until it becomes a revelational
faith to us it doesn’t take place; but when it does,
healing always follows. Do you believe it?
I’m seeing God do something for the Church, and
I’m just so thrilled (the joy of the Holy Ghost)
that it’s hard for me to slow down. My cup is
running over, and I’m not complaining about it
either; I like it! So I want to minister on “The
Faith of the Son of God.” I want to show you what
He puts in our hearts; and then it becomes our
faith. The same faith that has been tried, He said
that He would give unto us, gold tried in the fire.
As He gives unto us that gold that’s tried in the
fire, then we let it grow in our lives. Along with
the faith, comes His own life, His own thinking, His
own mind. When we begin to really see in the Word
of God what God is doing, it just thrills our
hearts.
I preached a message the other night on the
foundation, the true foundation. When we get on
that, we can have faith; because whatever we
believe, we can read it right here from the Book.
That’s what is important; to find what we believe in
the Book, because that’s what Jesus did when He
preached the Word of God and He went about. Many
such things that He did, the Bible says, “This He
did that it might be fulfilled which was written.”
In other words, whatever He was doing, He was
finding it right in the scriptures. Just walking
step by step with the scriptures; whatever was
supposed to take place, He seen it happening right
there in His life. I believe that is what the
Church is seeing; what the Bible says is taking
place, we see it happening—one mind, one accord.
Let’s just bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly
Father, we just thank you for this opportunity to
come and stand for your Word, Lord, and stand for
you. We pray that you will have your blessed way.
Of every one that came this way, let there not be a
one leave that hasn’t had all their expectations
met, and may we leave as the saying of the Queen of
the South said when she came to see Solomon, “The
half has not yet been told.” Oh, God, I feel your
Holy Ghost, Lord. God, I feel your Word. I feel
your presence. I feel your faith, Lord. In Jesus
Christ’s name anoint us, Lord, and strengthen us
with that bread from heaven. May your Word go
forth, and may it accomplish that that Thou hast
ordained for us; and we’ll be careful to praise you,
in Jesus’ name. Amen.
There are a couple of verses in Galatians,
chapter 2, that I want to read, but I want to get my
text from verse 20. In verse 20, it reads like this
with Paul writing to the Galatian Church, he said,
“I am crucified with Christ: (and that’s one of the
things you must do in order to have the faith of the
Son of God) nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live
in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Amen. Now
I want you to notice, “the life that I now live I
live by the faith of the Son of God.”
Now when we look back in the Word of God we see
great men of faith. From time to time, great men
have wrought great things of God by faith in God.
We see Moses down in Egypt, and the great things he
did for God. But, we can also see where Moses
failed, and where it wouldn’t do to live by Moses’
faith. We see Adam in the garden, a great man that
believed God, but we find where it wouldn’t do to
live by Adam’s faith. We find David in the Word of
God, a man after God’s own heart that had great
faith, but we see that it wouldn’t do to live by
David’s faith.
Now what I am talking about is very special,
because God wants to do something for the Church
here at the end time. He wants to give us
something. He wants to baptize us into a
fellowship, into His body. We’re filled with the
Holy Ghost, but we want to also be in the body of
Christ. We have the life of Christ, but we want to
be in the body, and that comes by the works of
Christ, by the faith of Christ, and having the
things of Christ in us.
I preached a message once where I took the text
and I said, “Your Light.” The Bible says, “Jesus
Christ is the light of the world.” But when He
comes in you, you become a light. You have a light;
and then, that light that you have, you can
manipulate it and control it to a point. How many
of you know that? That’s very important. I want
you to see that we do not impersonate the Lord Jesus
Christ, we participate with Him, and there is a big
difference. We are participating with the Lord
Jesus Christ tonight.
Now Paul talked here about living by the faith of
the Son of God. How do we get this faith? It’s
not just reading it in the Word of God, believing
what it says, not all together; because Paul did
that by knowing the writings of the Old Testament
(keeping the law), yet, when the Lord Jesus Christ
came to him there he said, “Who art thou, Lord?”
And he had to go down in the desert and stay about
three years to get the revelation straight.
God is doing something for a Church, and when He
comes in, He brings this faith into us; not our
faith, not the faith of the apostles, prior to being
born again. Because the apostles, Paul writing here,
he said that he lived by the faith of Jesus, the Son
of God. So the apostles had to live by the same
kind of faith we live by. It’s a revelational faith
from God that’ll strike true to the Word of God
every time. Paul said, “If a trumpet gives an
uncertain sound who can prepare for battle?” (Who
will know to prepare?) But there’s a trumpet
sounding in this hour, and this Bible is the music
sheet. It strikes every note just exactly true to
this; and those that are blowing the trumpet must be
in the same Spirit with those that wrote the Word of
God, the music sheet.
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