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  OBEDIENCE IN SMALL THINGS LEADS TO BIG VICTORIES
  by Anton Bosch
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Summary: This sermon delves into Hebrews 11, focusing on the faith of
Moses, Rahab, and the Israelites. It emphasizes the importance of faith,
obedience, and the impact of personal faith on others. The narrative
highlights how simple acts of faith, like applying the blood on the
doorpost or hanging a red rope, lead to salvation and victory. The
sermon underscores the need to trust God, obey His word, and the
responsibility of believers to influence their families through their
faith.

Topics: "Faith and Obedience", "Influence of Personal Faith"
Scripture References: Hebrews 11:24, Hebrews 11:29, Hebrews 11:30, Hebrews 11:31, James 2:26, Romans 3:23, Romans 3:24, Romans 10:17, Joshua 1:9

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This sermon delves into Hebrews 11, focusing on the faith of Moses,
Rahab, and the Israelites. It emphasizes the importance of faith,
obedience, and the impact of personal faith on others. The narrative
highlights how simple acts of faith, like applying the blood on the
doorpost or hanging a red rope, lead to salvation and victory. The
sermon underscores the need to trust God, obey His word, and the
responsibility of believers to influence their families through their
faith.

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Here we were, and we'll go through 34. Hebrews 11, reading from verse 24
through 34. By faith, Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming
the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for
he looked to the reward.

By faith, he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he
endured as seeing him who is invisible. By faith, he kept the Passover
and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should
touch them. By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land,
whereas the Egyptians attempting to do so were drowned.

By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for
seven days. By faith, the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did
not believe when she had received the spies with peace. And what more
shall I say? For the time shall fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and
Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, who through
faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped
the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of
the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

So we're in verse 28. We spoke about Moses, and it continues to speak
about Moses, and then transitions to the people of Israel. And so in
verse 28 it says, by faith he—notice that he kept the Passover.

Obviously all of Israel kept the Passover, but Moses was the one—and
we'll see that in a few moments when they cross the Red Sea—it is Moses'
faith that encouraged the rest of them to believe. So our personal faith
impacts on others. So you remember what happened is that the Lord had
performed nine miracles to prove himself to Israel, and then the tenth
one was the most powerful of them all.

And in that one God said that whoever applies the blood—so they were to
kill a lamb, they were to take the blood with hyssop, and they were to
apply it to the lintel and to the doorposts of their houses. And the
houses that had the blood applied, the eldest would be spared. The
houses that did not have the blood, the eldest would die.

So if the father was the firstborn in his family, he would die, and then
the firstborn of his family would die. The angel of death passing
through did not discriminate between whether you were Jew or Egyptian.
The only thing was whether there was blood applied to the doorpost.

If there was a Jewish family who did not apply the blood, they would
suffer. If there was an Egyptian family who happened to apply the blood,
they would be spared. And so it wasn't a racial thing.

It wasn't a thing as to whether you were Jewish or whether you were
Egyptian. It was only whether you had the blood applied. And we're going
to see the same thing in a moment with Rahab, if we get that far this
morning.

And so, of course, we know that this is a picture of the blood of the
Lord Jesus, that the only thing that saves us is his blood. It doesn't
matter whether we are Jewish or Gentile. It doesn't matter what
ethnicity we're of.

It doesn't matter what education level we have. It doesn't matter
whether we're male or female. It doesn't matter how old or young we are.

If the blood is applied to our lives, then our sins are washed away, and
we pass from death to life. In other words, the angel of death who
killed the firstborn was symbolic of eternal death. And so, because we
have all sinned and come short of the glory of God, we are all subject
to eternal death—not just physical death, but spiritual death in the
sense of eternal damnation.

But if we have the blood applied, if we have come to the Lord Jesus and
been washed in his blood, we are saved. And, you know, we speak, well,
you know, you say you're saved. What are you saved from? Well, we're
saved from sin, and we're saved from the consequences of sin, which is
hell.

And so, because we have the blood applied, we're saved. God is only
interested in one thing, and that is whether we've been washed in the
blood. He's not interested in anything else.

And unfortunately, there are many people who have all sorts of things
that they claim which would protect them, you know, whether being
religious, or being of this church, or that church, or this religion, or
that religion, or whether, you know, having been baptized. It doesn't
matter if you've not been washed in the blood of Christ. If the blood of
Christ has not been applied to your life, you will die.

But if you've had the blood applied, you will be saved. Now, I want you
to see also that one of the important things here was, obviously, is the
issue of faith. And what he was asking them to do was strange.

No one had done this before. This was not part of their ritual or their
tradition that they'd done before. God was asking them to do something
which was extraordinary.

And yet, at the same time, it wasn't a big deal, in the sense that he
wasn't asking them to go and climb some high mountain, and go and meet
with a guru up there, or, you know, go on their knees to to Mecca, or
any of these things. He was asking them to do a very simple thing, and
that was to kill an animal, take the blood, apply it to the door, and
that was it. It would be easy to look at that and say, well, it's no big
deal.

I don't have to do this, or I can do it some other way. No, you just had
to do what God told you to do, and it was a simple thing he was asking
you to do. If there was no faith, if you did not believe God, well, then
you would not do it.

If you believed God, you would do it. It was as simple as that. And the
way of salvation today is just as easy and just as simple, that whoever
comes to Him, whoever believes on Him, will not perish, but have
everlasting life.

It's not difficult. It's not hard. He's not asking you to be religious.

He's not asking you to sell your house and give your money to the poor.
He's not asking you anything except to believe on the Lord Jesus, and to
trust Him for the cleansing that comes through the blood of Christ.
That's all.

It's a simple thing, and yet many will not do it. In fact, the majority
of people in the world will not do it, because they do not believe God.
They do not believe His Word.

The Bible doesn't tell us, but as I said in the introduction, that I do
believe that there were Israelites who died that night, who simply said,
no, we don't believe this. This is stupid. And, you know, applying the
blood is a stupid thing.

And besides which, who says everyone's going to die? Who says the oldest
in each family is going to die? And so not doing that would have
resulted in tragedy for that family. And so there are really two things
that they had to believe. The first was that there was a judgment on
those who did not have the blood applied.

And secondly, that you needed the blood. And those are the two things.
Those are just the two things that we need to believe today.

The first is that there is a judgment. In fact, the reality is, and the
sad thing is, that there are many churches who are no longer preaching
that there is an eternal damnation, that there is a hell, and that there
is punishment. This has become very popular in many, many churches
today.

And if there is then no judgment, well then what need do I have for the
blood? If you have a terminal disease, and the doctor says, well, you
know, here's the cure. Well, if you don't believe you've got the
disease, what's the point of taking the cure? But if you believe that
what you have is terminal, and there is a cure, well then obviously
you're going to take the cure. And so it's a simple thing.

And yet many do not believe. And so, folk, I think that one of the
points that I see as we go right through Hebrews 11 is just the
simplicity of the things that God asks them and us to do. He didn't ask
any of these men to do something profound.

He asked them to do simple things, and sometimes things that didn't make
a lot of sense, but just to trust him and to obey him in the things that
he asked them to do. And so by faith he kept the Passover. And of
course, the end of the rest of the story, the Passover, of course, was
that that lamb that they killed, they had to eat that, and they had to
eat it in a particular way, and that would become the beginning of the
celebration that they would keep every year, and they still continue to
do that.

Jewish people continue to do that today as they remember the day that
God brought them out of Egypt. That night God delivered them. Pharaoh
said, get out of here, and they began to move.

And as they came out of Egypt, they came to the Red Sea. That was the
first obstacle, and behind them was Pharaoh and his army, 600 chariots,
and all of his horsemen, and all of his soldiers following after Israel.
And so they come to the Red Sea, and of course they find themselves, as
we would say today, between a rock and a hard place.

Front of them is the Red Sea, behind them is the Egyptian army. And
Hebrews 11.29 says that by faith they passed through the Red Sea as by
dry land, whereas the Egyptians attempting to do so were drowned. Now we
remember what happened is that the people then begin to complain.

Now again, this is the thing that really stands out for me. You remember
that in the previous verse it says by faith he kept the Passover, and
yet he represents the nation. It wasn't that Moses did so and then he
sort of stood proxy for the rest of the nation.

Each one had to do it, but Moses set the example. Now verse 29 says that
by faith they passed through the Red Sea. The reality is that they did
not believe that God would deliver them at the Red Sea.

It was Moses who believed, and I'm going to show you that in a moment.
And so by faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land. And so
as Moses held out his rod, the waters part, and a wind dries up the rest
of it, and they pass through as on dry land.

And remember that up to this point already God had been leading them
with a pillar of cloud, or the cloud and the pillar of fire. And so as
he leads them, the pillar of fire leads them, and they move through
during the night. And the pillar of fire leads them through the night as
they go through the Red Sea, and the cloud comes and positions itself.

Now normally the two would trade places, so it would be the fire during
the night and the cloud during the day. But now the fire is in front of
them, leading them and giving them light, and the cloud moves to become
a smokescreen behind them, and the Egyptians can't see them. And the
Egyptians are following behind them, and as they get out to the other
side, the Egyptian army is in the middle of the sea, and the waters
close, and the army is drowned.

And so not only does God provide the way of escape for them, but he
deals with the enemy forever, permanently. The army is now totally
destroyed. Now let's look at the scriptures in Exodus chapter 14.

I'm going to read five verses from there. Verse 11 says, So as they came
to the Red Sea, they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in
Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? They were being
sarcastic, of course. Why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out
of Egypt? In other words, you just brought us here to die.

Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone,
that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to
serve the Egyptians than we should die in the wilderness. Now remember
what the verse says. By faith they crossed through the Red Sea.

And yet, is this faith? No, this is not faith. This is worse than
unbelief. They're not just trusting God.

They're saying God has ulterior motives. God and Moses want to destroy
us. And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid.

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will accomplish
for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again
no more forever. And of course, that's exactly what happened.

The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. Now I think
the lesson that I read in this is simply that there are times when our
faith needs to uphold those who are weak in faith. There may be those in
our families.

There may be those in the church who, maybe for a time, go through a
period of doubt, or a period of unbelief, or a period of not trusting
the Lord, of fear, of discouragement. And it is necessary for the rest
of us to uphold them during that time, to encourage them exactly as
Moses said. Moses says, Hang on, you've got to get your perspective
right here.

It's not the Egyptians and the Red Sea that are the factors here. It's
God who is the factor. It is God who is the one that matters.

The Egyptians matter nothing, and the Red Sea is nothing. It is God who
will bring us through. And so he reminds them of God, and of God's
goodness, and of God's faithfulness.

And of course, remember, we spoke about that before, that this is how
faith comes. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Faith comes by
hearing, to be exact, and hearing by the Word of God.

And so we are encouraged to believe when we hear the Word of God. That's
why it's important for us to be in church. It's not so that the preacher
can have somebody to preach to.

It's so that we can be reminded of the Word of God, that we may be
encouraged to believe, that our faith may be strengthened as we are
reminded of God's goodness and God's faithfulness. And so Moses reminds
them of who God is, and as a result, they believe. Can you imagine what
would have happened if Moses said, Well, you know, here's 600,000 men,
plus women and children, in excess of three million people, and not one
of them believed? All of them say, We're in trouble here.

Well, maybe they're right. Can you imagine what would happen if Moses
listened to the people? And yet Moses says, No, I'm listening to God.
And folks, it's easy for us to become discouraged.

It's easy for us to come to a place of unbelief, because we listen to
those who are around us. We need to hear from God. What the people said,
and remember, this is the first time, but not the last time, that this
thing would happen, where all 600,000 would be wrong.

Remember, a few years later, actually a few months later, they come to
the Promised Land, and exactly the same thing happens. Two men believe
God, Joshua and Caleb. The rest of them, 599,998, do not believe.

And yet Joshua and Caleb are not dissuaded by the unbelief of the
majority. And folks, the majority of Christians today do not believe God
or his word. The majority of theologians no longer believe that God's
word is true and inspired.

Don't listen to the majority. Listen to God. Hear his word.

Trust in him. We cannot trust in men, because men are fickle. Men are
weak.

Men fail. But God is true. Remember, in Romans, Paul says, Let God be
true, and every man a liar.

When men contradict God, God remains true. When science contradicts God,
God remains true. When nations and politicians contradict God, God
remains true.

And all that these people had to do was simply to believe God. They
didn't have to build boats. They didn't have to build a bridge.

They just had to believe God. And folks, that's all he's asking of us
this morning. He's not asking you to do anything powerful or great or
miraculous.

He's simply asking you to trust him. And isn't that what we've seen all
along? Isn't that what Abraham did? Isn't that what Moses did? They just
trusted God. And they did what God told them.

And as they obeyed God, God took care of the rest. Can you imagine what
would have happened if they said, No, we're not going to trust God? Even
though Moses says God is reliable, we're not going to trust God. Well,
they would have died at the hands of the Egyptians.

But God had a better plan for them. Now, in verse 30, so we're back in
Hebrews 11, My face, the walls of Jericho fell down after they were
encircled for seven days. So this is 40 years later.

And the first generation, remember, didn't enter into the land because
they didn't believe. Hebrews chapter 3 and 4 tells us, because of
unbelief, they didn't enter in. A whole new generation had now been
born.

Moses had died. But Joshua and Caleb are the only ones of that
generation that are still alive. And they're leading the charge as they
go into the land.

And so they come to the first fortified city, the city of Jericho. It
has walls, and it is fortified. And they say, Well, now what? And of
course, you remember what happened.

I'm sure we all know what happened. In case you don't remember, let me
remind you. So the Lord says to Moses, sorry, to Joshua, the people need
to walk around the city for seven days.

For the first six days, they were to walk around the city once, in a
particular order, with the priest blowing the horn, and with the ark of
the covenant, and with the people following. And the people were to be
absolutely silent. But the priest would sound the shofar, the ram's
horns, and they were just to do this once, walk around the city, go and
camp for the rest of the day.

Next day, same story. And so they did this for six days. On the seventh
day, they had to go around the city seven times.

And on the seventh time, now remember, the people had to be silent all
along. But on the seventh time, when they blew the horns, the ram's
horns, the people were to shout. And they shouted, and some earthquake
happened, or whatever happened, but God caused the walls to collapse.

The walls collapsed, and it's interesting, in the New King James, it
says the walls fell down flat. I think it's a very good description of
what happened. And of course, they go in.

At this point, they encircle the city, they go in, and God gives them a
great victory on that day. Again, God asked them to do something simple.
Maybe it sounded a little crazy.

Probably did sound crazy. I mean, you know, how do—we need dynamite, or
we need battering rams, or we need to build a ramp up against the wall.
We need to do something so we can take the city.

And God says, no, just walk around it once a day, seven times, on the
seventh day. And you know, what God asks us, again, to do is simple.
Now, before you think, well, you know, maybe God's going to speak to me,
and he's going to tell me to go and do something crazy.

No, God doesn't ask us to do crazy things. He just asks us to be
obedient. And I don't believe that in our context that God is going to
ask you that somehow you're going to hear a voice, and you're going to
have to go and stand on your head on Hollywood Way for three hours.

That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about God's
Word. And in it, he gives us plain and simple instructions.

And some of those instructions seem to be a little weird, particularly
when it comes to how we live our lives, how we raise our children, how
to get saved, how husbands and wives relate, how we deal with our
finances. Oh, no, but, you know, there's better ways to do this. We, you
know, no, God gives us some instructions, and they're very simple.

And when we follow his instructions, victory comes. And when we don't
follow his instructions, disaster happens. And, folk, the majority of
Christians in the world today, hear me, have lives that are in total
chaos.

And they live lives of total defeat, because they will not obey the
simple instructions of God's Word. And it applies to every area of our
lives. But when we do what God tells us, even though it doesn't make
sense, God's blessing ensues, and God gives the victory.

Forget about what the world has to say about raising your kids. Forget
about what the world has to say about how husbands and wives ought to
relate. Just do it God's way, and you'll know God's blessing.

And yet, folk, the problem is that so few will just obey God. And why
will we not obey God? Because we don't believe him. God's not asking you
to go and stand on your head on Hollywood Way, or outside the airport,
or whatever.

He's simply asking you to live your life according to the Scriptures.
Walk the way I'm telling you to walk. Be silent when you need to be
silent.

Speak when you need to speak. Simple things. And if we will trust God,
and if we will believe him, he will take care of the rest.

And so let me encourage you this morning. Obey God. I don't know that
there's any of us who obey God a hundred percent.

For all of us, there are areas that we feel we have to take care of
this. And we wonder why things don't work out. But if we just do what
God tells us, simple step by step, everything works out, and victory
comes.

May I challenge you this morning. You know the areas in your life that
you're being disobedient in. Just do what God tells you, and you'll be
surprised what God can do.

All right, now as all of this goes on, there's the story of Rahab. And
so in verse 31, by faith the hollered Rahab did not perish with those
who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. So
again, let me remind you what happened.

Remember they sent in spies, 12 spies initially. Two of them, Joshua and
Caleb, came back with a positive report. They said, yep, there are
giants and fortified cities, but God's with us.

The other 10 said, no, there's giants and fortified cities, we're done
for. And as a result, the people believed the evil report. They wander
in the wilderness for 40 years, that generation dies, this is now 40
years later, they're about to go in again.

New generation. They send in two spies this time. The spies go in, and
they go to Jericho, which is the first city, and they get into the city,
and the inhabitants, or the men of the city, hear that the spies are
there.

They figured there were two strangers here, and they're probably here
for no good reason, and they begin to look for them. The two spies then
go to Rahab's house. Rahab was a prostitute.

Again, modern theologians try and change this and say, well, you know,
she was an innkeeper. No, she wasn't an innkeeper, she was a whore, to
put it bluntly. She was a prostitute.

You say, well, why is this a big deal? Because this prostitute becomes
the ancestor of David the king, and of Jesus Christ. Why? Because she
believed God. Because she believed God.

And so, they come to her house, and I have no doubt that God directed
them to this brothel, and she takes them, and she hides them on the roof
of the house, and remember, her house is on the city wall. Remember,
these walls were huge. Some of these cities, they could ride chariots on
the top of the wall, and she lives in the city, in the wall.

Her house is right up there on the top of the wall. She puts them up on
the roof, and she's drying flax, which they use for garments, and she
hides them under the flax. The men of the city come, and they say, we
heard these guys are here, and she says, no, they're not here, and I'm
not going to comment on the fact that she was lying.

That's a whole other story, but they're not here. They've just left.
They went out that way, and the men, of course, go out after them, and
she comes up to them, and she says, okay, you know, they're after you.

They're on to you, and she lets down a rope down the wall, and they
escape, but before they escape, she comes to them, and she says, promise
me that when you come, and when Israel takes us, you will spare me and
my family. Now, you remember, we made reference to this at the beginning
of Hebrews 11. Let me remind you again.

Israel did not believe that God would give them the land, and that's why
they perish in the wilderness, and yet here's this woman who is a
Gentile prostitute, and she believed God. She believed the testimony,
and I didn't bring the scriptures, but she says, when you first began to
leave Egypt, we heard about you, and we heard what your God did to the
kings along the way, Sihon and Og, two kings that they confronted, and
when you began to march towards us, we were afraid, and we were ready to
run, and so while Israel did not believe, Rahab did believe, and so when
God said to Israel, go into the land, there were actually three who
believed God, Joshua, Caleb, and Rahab. Can you imagine that? She had
not eaten the manna.

She had not seen the pillar of fire. She had not drunk of the water that
came out of the rock. She had not seen any of the manifestations of God.

She had not passed through the Red Sea. She had simply heard the
testimony, and she says, I believe this God, and no wonder God saves
her, and not only does he save her, but she becomes one of the greatest
ancestors in the lineage of the Lord Jesus and in the history of Israel,
and the same way as it didn't matter whether you were Egyptian or
Jewish, but if you obeyed God and applied the blood, it didn't matter
who she was. She was a Gentile to begin with, and she was a woman of ill
repute secondly.

The spies told her, when we come, that rope, and it happened to be a red
rope that you let us down by, you need to hang that rope out the window,
because that will be a sign that this house is to be spared, and as the
walls fall down, all of the wall falls down except that section where
she lives. Why? Because of the red rope. Now, it wasn't the rope that
saved her.

The rope was simply a sign of her obedience, the same way as if Israel,
if a Jew didn't put the blood on the doorposts, they would die, but if
they did and they simply obeyed God and said, I'm going to apply the
blood, they were spared, and in the same way, all she had to do was
believe God and do the simple thing of hanging the rope, and the red
rope is interesting that it was that the scripture specifies that it
wasn't a brown rope, which is what you would expect a rope to be, but it
was a red one. Again, to me, a picture of the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and she is spared. God is asking us to do simple things, nothing
difficult, but if we believe, we'll obey him, and we'll obey him in the
minute little details, whether you march once every for six days and
seven times on the seventh day, not seven times on every day and then
once on the seventh day, whether you hang the red rope or another rope.

These are simple things that are in themselves, don't save us. Of
course, those are not the things that save us. It wasn't the blood that
saved them on the doorpost.

It wasn't the rope that saved her. They were symbols. They were
indicators of their faith, and as John Ray is taking us through the book
of James, we see how the James says that faith without works is dead.

Faith must produce action, and in their case, the action was to put the
blood on the doorpost, was to hang the red rope out the window. That was
the work that needed to be done. God took care of the rest.

So what is it that God's asking you to do? Just do it. Was there risk
attached to her hanging the rope out the window? I'm pretty sure there
was. I'm pretty sure that though the people in the city had heard that
the spies had been there, because they came to the house, they said, but
they're here.

They knew that she had deceived them, and so they were looking at her
with suspicion. Anything that she did would have been a problem. Here
she says, no, I'm going to obey God.

And again, we see another thing which I want to share with you by
closing, because not only is she saved, but everyone that she had
brought into the house, her family, were also saved. Now we're not
saying that your family are saved because of you. We understand each one
of us must come to faith for ourselves.

Each one of us must believe for ourselves. But how you conduct yourself
when you walk in faith and in obedience, it gives an opportunity to your
family to be saved. If she went to her brothers and she said, God's
going to destroy the city, but if you come into my house, you'll be
saved.

Now, can you imagine that kind of message? I don't think that would go
down very well. Who do you think you are? You're not exactly the picture
of morality. So how do we believe you? But they believed her testimony,
and they came and they sat in that house.

And because of that, they were saved. And folks, we have a
responsibility to bear a testimony of faith to our families, to those
around us, that they may also come into the place of safety, and that
they too might be saved. And I just find it interesting that because of
Moses' faith, Israel believes and are saved.

And even if you go back, you remember Noah. Noah is saved, and his sons
and their daughters and their wives, and his wife are saved. But the
scripture doesn't say they believed.

But it seems that because Moses believed, they believed God. Can you
imagine, sorry, Noah. Can you imagine if Noah didn't believe God? He
would have condemned his family.

Now again, they had to come into the ark in the same way as these people
had to come into Rahab's house to be saved. Noah's family had to come
into the ark to be saved. So they believe his message.

But folks, we have a responsibility. You say, well, it doesn't matter if
I don't believe. It doesn't matter if I don't obey and build the ark, or
hang the rope out the window, or put the blood on the doorpost.

It doesn't matter if I don't live my life the way that God wants me to
live. It does matter, because by it, you can either save or condemn your
family. And I think that this is the message that I see in these
examples.

And so it's not just a matter of whether you believe or don't believe
this morning. It's the impact your faith or lack of faith will have on
those around you. Father, we pray that you'd help us.

Lord, you're not asking us to do difficult things. You're asking us
simply to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, to surrender our lives to
him. You're simply asking us to live our lives according to your word,
to order our families, our finances, our jobs, our bodies, according to
your word.

Lord, help us to be people of faith who believe you, and who do what you
tell us to do, that we might know your blessing. Lord, that as a church,
we may know your blessing, because we're obeying you, and we're doing
things the way you want us to do them. Forgive us, Lord, for our
unbelief and for our disobedience.

Lord, we don't want to be like Israel, who did not enter because of
unbelief, and who were destroyed in the wilderness. Lord, we want to
enter into the fullness of your blessing. We want to know the miracles
that you can perform.

We want to know your deliverance. We want to know your salvation. So
Lord, we pray that you'd help us in our unbelief, that we may simply
believe you, trust you, and obey your word.

We ask this in Jesus' name. I pray, Lord, for each one who is here this
morning, each one who's watching online. I pray, Lord, that we may not
go away and just forget your word, but Lord, that we may be doers of
your word, the same way as Moses and Rahab, Joshua were doers of your
word.

We ask this in Jesus' name. Go with us now. Keep us and protect us.

Bring us together again safely on Sunday. I pray.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/NS23e7f1lMA.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/anton-bosch/obedience-in-small-things-leads-to-big-victories/
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