FOUNDATION STATEMENT: 1 John 5:4 – Faith is the victory that will overcome the world’s system and any situation or circumstance in the world. Faith is the tool that believers use to override natural and produce a result that the world can’t produce.   Use your victory – faith – that comes from God to overcome anytime, all the time, every time

 

I.  As believers we need to be living in the world, but above the system that the world operates on and faith will allow us to do that

A. Faith is the victory the overpowers the world’s system and enables the believer to get a result that the world can’t get

1.  Faith allows the believer to override (overpower) natural law

a. EXAMPLE: Natural law says you can’t live debt-free if you’re salary is $40,000 dollars a year.  Natural law says you can’t be healed if the doctors don’t have a cure. 

b. Where the world says you can’t faith will overpower that

2.  Faith is the victory and you can’t win apart from faith

a. You can’t separate faith from the victory anymore than you can separate the wet from the water.   

B.  “For whatsoever is born of God overpowers the world’s system” – As believers we should be getting a result that the world can’t get

1.  We should be healed when they’re sick, prosperous when they are broke, winning when they’re losing and living when they are dying

2.  We aren’t limited to have what the world says that we can have

C. Faith will enable us to overcome in a situation or circumstance that the world can’t overcome and it will enable us to get a result that the world can’t get.

1.  Faith enables you to operate on a higher system of operation that the world can’t operate and that higher system will produce a result that world can’t produce

2.  EXAMPLE: In a situation where somebody who is not living by faith would die of sickness, faith will allow you to overcome the sickness and walk in healing.  In a situation where somebody who is not living by faith would live in debt and in lack, faith will allow you to overcome the debt and lack and be abundantly supplied.  In a situation where somebody who is not living by faith would be defeated, faith will allow you to overcome and walk in victory. 

D. People who don’t live by faith are under the bondage of the world’s system and they are limited to what natural law says they can have

1.  Faith is the avenue through which natural law can be overridden, but without faith you’re going to get the same result that the world’s been getting

2.  Christians who don’t live by faith are a dangerous thing in the world

II. A person who lives by faith can prosper, succeed, and be victorious in a time where the world can’t prosper, can’t succeed, and cannot be victorious

A. Jeremiah 17:7-8 – Natural law says that this tree shouldn’t be able to produce fruit, but it’s producing fruit anyway by faith

1.  This tree is operating on a level where it is unaffected by the circumstances around it

2.  This tree is not being overcome by its circumstances, but it is overcoming it’s circumstances

3.  People who live by faith stick out like a sore thumb because everybody else around them will be walking in defeat, poverty, and sickness, but the person who lives by faith will be operating in victory, prosperity, and health under the same conditions

a. Psalm 91:5-11

B.  The person of faith should overcome the world, live above the situations in the world, and be unaffected by circumstances of the world

1.  It doesn’t matter what it looks like around you right now, you can bear the fruit of God’s word in the middle of that if you’ll live by faith

C. The person of faith can get a result at a time that when natural law says they shouldn’t be able to get that result because a person of faith overcomes the world’s system

1.  EXAMPLE: It doesn’t matter how much you owe, you can bear the fruit of debt freedom right in the middle of that.  It doesn’t matter what you’re salary is right now you can be a millionaire right in the middle of that.  It doesn’t matter what sickness is attacking your body you can be healed in the middle of that. 

2.  EXAMPLE: In your situation people who don’t live by faith would die, but you live, in your situation people who don’t live by faith would be in debt, but you are free from debt, in your situation people who don’t live by faith would be middle class, but you’re a millionaire

III.Faith is the difference maker.  It’s the difference in winning and losing, sickness and health, poverty and prosperity, and living and dying. 

A. Luke 6:46-49 – Faith: The difference maker

1.  The same storm came and hit both of these guys houses, but one house stood and one house fell

a. They guy who lived by faith was able to rise above the storm and get a result that the guy who didn’t live by faith couldn’t get

b. In the same situation, in the same world, one gets healed and one dies of sickness, one prospers and one lives in poverty, one has abundance and one lives in lack, one wins and one loses, one lives and one dies and the difference is always faith.

2.  It’s not the circumstances outside that’s stopping you it’s the faith in your heart

a. Numbers 13, Hebrews 3:19 – The children of Israel the giants and the walls were keeping them out of the promise land, but it was their unbelief

b. It’s not that the problem is too big, but that your faith it too small

c. EXAMPLE: It’s not the sickness on your body that’s keeping you sick. It’s not your salary that’s keeping your broke. It’s not the lack of money that’s keeping you in debt.  Because faith is the victory that overcomes the world and anything in it.

B.  1 Samuel 17: 24 – David was able to get a result that not one man in the whole army of Israel wasn’t able to get

1.  David was not more qualified than them in the natural.  David didn’t have some weapon that they didn’t have.  David wasn’t stronger than them in the natural. David didn’t have some promise from God that they didn’t have. 

2.  The thing enabled David to get a result that they couldn’t get was he believed God and God’s promise and they didn’t: Faith made the difference

a. They couldn’t do what David could do because they didn’t believe

3.  Faith took David to a higher level and enabled to get a result the world around him couldn’t get

a. Faith caused David to live and win, when according to the circumstances he should have lost and died. 

C. Abraham produced a child when natural law says you can’t produce a child (Romans 4:16-21)

1.  His body was dead as was Sarah’s womb; natural law says you can’t have a child

2.  People of faith never consider natural law, because they are possessed by the promise

D. Natural law says when you get thrown into the fire you burn up and die, but these three guys overrode that by faith (Daniel 3)

1.  Faith was talking – They didn’t say God might

E.  When faith is withdrawn natural laws ceases to be overridden, and the result of the world begins to be produced (Matthew 14:24)

IV.Your life is not the way that it is because of the circumstances outside, your life is the way it is because of your faith or lack there of in your heart

A. Mark 9:23 – Faith or the lack thereof is the force that qualifies a thing as possible or impossible

1.  If you can believe, faith will make the “impossible” possible

a. What you can or cannot do right now is not based on your ability as a person, it’s based on your ability to believe

2.  This scripture didn’t say if the circumstances were right, it said if you can believe because the circumstances can be wrong, but if you can believe faith will make them right

B.  Proverbs 4:23 – The issues of your life are coming from your heart

1.  They are coming from the inside out

C. EXAMPLE:

1.  It’s not that the amount of money is too big, but that your faith is too small

2.  It’s not that the sickness is too great, but that our faith is too small

3.  It’s not that the problem is too big, but that your faith is too small