The Importance of Correct Exegesis – Dr. Mike Spaulding

22 And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. 24 Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. Mark11:22-24

Pretty clear, right? Whatever we ask for in prayer, if we just believe, it will be given to us. What people think is impossible, picking up a mountain and casting it into the sea or literally, whoever speaks to a mountain, “be thrown into the sea,” if he believes, it will happen. In other words, nothing is impossible with faith.

Friends that is not what Jesus is saying at all. Your faith, great or small, in abundance or lacking, is often not the point.

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