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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 22<\/sup> And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.\u00a0 23<\/sup> For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.\u00a0 24<\/sup> Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them<\/i>, and ye shall have them<\/i>.\u00a0 25<\/sup> And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Mark 11:22-25)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On Tuesday morning of passion week, Peter was surprised that the fig tree that Jesus cursed the day before was so soon withered.\u00a0 The surprise answer that Jesus gave was, \u201cHave faith in God.\u201d\u00a0 Whether the fig tree represented Israel or was simply a lesson in faith for the disciples, both were lacking in the trust which can come only from God the Giver of all things.\u00a0 Faith is the thing that takes us through those times when we don\u2019t understand what is going on or why this is happening to us.<\/p>\n

Spurgeon once wrote,<\/p>\n

I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had turned out to be my best days.\u00a0 And when God has seemed most cruel to me, he has then been most kind.\u00a0 If there is anything in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else, it is for pain and affliction.\u00a0 I am sure that in these things the richest, tenderest love has been manifested to me.\u00a0 Our Father\u2019s wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us\u00a0 the richest freight of the bullion of his grace.\u00a0 Love letters from heaven are often sent in black-edged envelopes.\u00a0 The cloud that is black with horror is big with mercy.\u00a0 Fear not the storm.\u00a0 It brings healing in its wings, and when Jesus is with you in the vessel, the tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven.1<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Too often faith today has become a human attribute to our own ability.\u00a0 We say, \u201cI have faith that I can do it,\u201d or \u201cI have faith in my team,\u201d or some such motivation that evidently means, \u201cIf I can just drum up enough faith or believe enough, I can make this happen.\u201d\u00a0 If the thing turns out well we think our faith worked.\u00a0 If it turns out bad then we write it off to not performing the faith formula the way we should have, or maybe that others did not join in faith with me.<\/p>\n

How different this is from the faith that the Bible describes!\u00a0 \u201cThe faith\u201d in Scripture refers to the body of doctrine we believe, or in fact, the Scriptures themselves.\u00a0 To \u201cwalk by faith\u201d means that we live in the light of God\u2019s sovereign control over all that happens.\u00a0 To \u201chave faith\u201d means that God is able to do over and above what we could even know.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 response to the disciples, \u201cHave faith in God,\u201d was a way of saying, \u201cDon\u2019t lose your solid trust in God\u2019s omnipotent power.\u00a0 He will never leave you nor forsake you.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Mark writes the next three verses (23-25), he records three ways in which doubters must have this kind of faith in God, not the human kind of faith that centers in human ability, but the divine-directed kind of faith that trusts God as a heavenly Father.<\/p>\n

Faith in the Word<\/span><\/p>\n

Verse 23 is one of the most interesting verses on faith in the Bible.\u00a0 Most think that we cannot take the verse literally.\u00a0 After all, no one has ever cast a whole mountain in the sea simply by faith as if it were some kind of inward force.\u00a0 So almost all commentators take this to be figurative of some kind of obstacle in our lives that we must have faith to overcome.\u00a0 Even premillennialists who believe that there is a literal kingdom coming with literal cataclysmic events, would rather take this as a figure of speech.<\/p>\n

John Broadus wrote, \u201cThe example is evidently presented not as a thing likely or proper to be actually done, but as an extreme case of a conceivable miracle.\u201d2<\/sup>\u00a0 John Walvoord wrote, \u201cIn other words, they should not marvel, but believe and pray.\u201d3<\/sup>\u00a0 E. Schuyler English wrote, \u201cThe case of the mountain\u2019s moving is illustrative.\u201d4<\/sup> And H.A. Ironside wrote, \u201cDoubtless, behind the natural figure our Lord had in mind mountains of difficulty, such as Zerubbabel faced in Palestine.\u201d5<\/sup>\u00a0 Since, as Dr. Ironside reminds us, these kinds of things sometimes are figures of speech, this could be the meaning here by our Lord.<\/p>\n

But what if the Lord was referring to something that will literally happen in the future?\u00a0 H.B. Swete suggested this:<\/p>\n

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The twelve were crossing the Mt. of Olives; below them, between the mountains of Judea and the mountains of Moab, lay the hollow of the Dead Sea.\u00a0 \u2018Faith, cooperating with the Divine Will, could fill yonder bason with the mass of limestone beneath their feet.\u2019 . . . . Of the Mt. of Olives Zechariah had foretold that when the feet of the Lord stood upon it, the mountains should cleave asunder and the two masses be removed to the north and south.\u00a0 Standing on Olivet, the Lord may have had this prophecy in His thoughts.6<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Could not the Lord have been reminding the disciples of a great prophetic event that will certainly take place when He sets up the kingdom in Israel and reigns for a thousand years?\u00a0 Isaiah prophesied that \u201cEvery valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:\u00a0 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together\u201d (Isa. 4:4-5).\u00a0 Ezekiel gives vivid details of this leveling of the mountains of Israel for 50 miles square so that the millennial temple can be built in the center (Ezek. 45:1-2).\u00a0 Isaiah also speaks of the \u201cmountain of the LORD\u2019S house\u201d which will be established \u201cin the top of the mountains\u201d (Isa. 2:2-3).<\/p>\n

Israel did not receive her Messiah by faith and forfeited the right to see the mountains leveled and the kingdom temple built.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t have taken gigantic faith, only \u201cfaith as a grain of mustard seed\u201d (Matt. 17:20).\u00a0 The disciples should not, and indeed will not, miss this opportunity to see prophecy being fulfilled.<\/p>\n

How does this help us \u201chave faith in God?\u201d\u00a0 It helps because our faith in God is faith in His Word.\u00a0 This is true whether it is faith in what has already happened or what is going to happen.\u00a0 We have faith that the most fantastic accounts of Scripture are actually true.\u00a0 \u201cThrough faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God\u201d (Heb. 11:4).\u00a0 By faith we also have no problem believing in a universal flood or a tower of Babel or a Red Sea event.\u00a0 If we look to the future we have no problem believing in a rapture of all living saints, or of a great tribulation, or of a New Jerusalem.\u00a0 As believers we have no problem believing in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Faith is the \u201csubstance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen\u201d (Heb. 11:1).<\/p>\n

Faith in Prayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Verse 24 is difficult to understand as well.\u00a0 \u201cWhat things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.\u201d\u00a0 We should understand that the word \u201cdesire\u201d is the normal word \u201cask.\u201d\u00a0 That is, we should not be as the \u201cname it, claim it\u201d crowd who think that they have a way to trick God into giving them whatever they desire.\u00a0 If they \u201cname it\u201d in the right formula, God is obligated to do it, He has no choice.\u00a0 But surely this is not what Jesus meant here.<\/p>\n

Jesus will later say (during the passion week), \u201cAnd whatsoever ye shall ask in my name<\/i>, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it\u201d (John 14:13-14).\u00a0 Even the Lord put a caveat on our requests.\u00a0 We must ask in His name.\u00a0 And what does that mean?\u00a0 Does it mean that if we say those words at the end of each prayer, now <\/i>God is obligated?\u00a0 No, asking in His name means that we understand that our prayers are only possible in the first place because of Jesus\u2019 sacrifice for us.\u00a0 Only in this way is \u201cthe Father glorified in the Son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our New Testament understanding of Jesus\u2019 intercession is further made clear in John\u2019s first epistle.\u00a0 \u201cAnd whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight\u201d (1 John 3:22).\u00a0 Here is another caveat to our prayers.\u00a0 We must be ones who keep His commandments.\u00a0 We cannot be lawless and think that our prayers avail with Him.\u00a0 \u201cThe effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much\u201d (James 5:16).\u00a0 In addition, John adds, \u201cAnd this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him\u201d (1 John 5:14-15).\u00a0 Our prayers also must be according to His will or they will be answered in a different way than we think.<\/p>\n

God is a good parent concerning what His children ask.\u00a0 If our child asks for a fish we don\u2019t give him a serpent.\u00a0 \u201cIf ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?\u201d (Matt. 7:7-11).\u00a0 Paul revealed that we don\u2019t know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Holy Spirit interprets our prayers before the Father and then He answers our prayers according to the Spirit\u2019s interpretation.\u00a0 Only in this way do \u201call things work together for good\u201d (Rom. 8:26-28) for the believer.<\/p>\n

My wife was in the toy department of a store with our grandson.\u00a0 He saw something he wanted and asked grandma for it.\u00a0 She quickly took her cell phone and checked the same item on Amazon and saw she could get it cheaper.\u00a0 She said to him, \u201cno, not now.\u201d\u00a0 He was disappointed and thought that his request was flatly denied.\u00a0 He did not realize that he would get what he requested later, and at a better price. Sometimes God is only asking us to wait.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes God must say \u201cno\u201d and we won\u2019t get what we wanted because we asked for something that would harm us.\u00a0 Sometimes He gives us our requests quickly.\u00a0 But faith in prayer is the maturity to understand that God always answers and that He always answers in the best way.\u00a0 If we understand that, we always have what we asked for.<\/p>\n

Faith in Forgiveness<\/span><\/p>\n

A third way for the disciples to have faith in God was to understand the nature of forgiveness.\u00a0 \u201cAnd when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus said this kind of thing often, \u201cSo likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses\u201d (Matt. 18:35).\u00a0 Does this mean that our forgiveness from God is wholly dependent upon our action of forgiving others?\u00a0 Is this a kind of works salvation where we will have our sins forgiven if we do the work of forgiving?<\/p>\n

We also know that our New Testament teaches us that our sins are forgiven forever, past, present, and future.\u00a0 \u201cThe blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth [present tense] us from all sin\u201d (1 John 1:7).\u00a0 \u201cMy little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.\u00a0 And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins\u201d (1 John 2:1-2).\u00a0 \u201cWherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them\u201d (Heb. 7:25).\u00a0 Verses could be multiplied but we know that our forgiveness does not depend on anything we do but only on what Jesus has already done for us.<\/p>\n

Before we knew Christ as Savior we were not forgiven ourselves and we didn\u2019t know how to forgive others.\u00a0 At best our attempts at forgiveness amounted to, \u201cI can proudly say that I won\u2019t hold that against you.\u201d\u00a0 Our acts of forgiveness were prideful and works oriented.\u00a0 We were like the Pharisee who, \u201cstood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.\u00a0 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.\u00a0 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner\u201d (Luke 18:11-13).<\/p>\n

The publican\u2019s request of \u201cbe merciful\u201d is literally to \u201cbe propitious.\u201d\u00a0 He was an Old Testament saint bringing his sacrifice to the temple and asking God to BE propitious.\u00a0 That is why John, in contrast, said that Jesus IS the propitiation for our sins!\u00a0 Praise God that He is always cleansing us from all sins.\u00a0 Paul said it this way, \u201cAnd be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ\u2019s sake hath forgiven you\u201d (Eph. 4:32).\u00a0 Again, our New Testament theology enlightens our minds as to faith in relation to forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Jesus gave the parable of a man who had been forgiven ten thousand talents, or millions of dollars.\u00a0 The same man went out and would not forgive a man who only owed him a hundred pence, or a few dollars (Matt. 18:21-35).\u00a0 Forgiveness can only be based upon experience.\u00a0 We forgive because we have been forgiven.\u00a0 As believers, when we forgive anyone a trespass against us, we are in essence saying, \u201cChrist has forgiven me all my sin, a world of iniquity, an immeasurable debt.\u00a0 The forgiveness of all our sins, yours and mine, is altogether in Christ alone and through Him alone.\u00a0 How can I not do toward you what God has done toward me.\u201d<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t expect the world to understand forgiveness.\u00a0 Jesus could say, \u201cFather, forgive them; for they know not what they do\u201d (Luke 23:34).\u00a0 This is what enabled Stephen when he was being stoned to also say, \u201cLord, lay not this sin to their charge\u201d (Acts 7:60).\u00a0 This has been the martyr\u2019s prayer for two thousand years, even in the face of the most terrible persecution.\u00a0 This is to have faith in forgiveness.<\/p>\n

And So . . .<\/b><\/p>\n

Have faith in God, Jesus said.\u00a0 Not a self-righteous force that we conjure up from our own strength, but a knowledge we have through the revelation of God by His Son and His Word.\u00a0 We can have faith in what He has said, past or future.\u00a0 We can have faith in what He will do as He answers our prayers according to His will.\u00a0 We can have faith that He has forgiven our sins and will forgive anyone else who comes to Him through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Taken from a mural at the Spurgeon Library at the Midwestern Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO. The quotation is only dated June 26, 1881.<\/li>\n
  2. John A. Broadus, \u201cCommentary on Matthew,\u201d An American Commentary on the New Testament<\/i> (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Soc., 1886) 435.<\/li>\n
  3. John Walvoord, Thy Kingdom Come<\/i> (Chicago: Moody Press, 1974) 159.<\/li>\n
  4. E. Schuyler English, Studies in the Gospel According to Mark<\/i> (New York: Our Hope, 1943) 381.<\/li>\n
  5. H.A. Ironside, Mark<\/i> (Neptune: Loizeaux Brothers, 1948) 174.<\/li>\n
  6. Henry Barclay Swete, Commentry on Mark<\/i> (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1977) 259-260.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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