FAITH MOVES MOUNTAIN (4)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Faith moves mountain
a) All Christians go through times of shaking, when the Lord causes us to refocus on Him, to become more dependent upon Him. These are times that are faith is refined into pure gold. The things that are shaken are physical; the things that will remain are spiritual. It is time to focus on things that we cannot see with our physical eyes, but only with the spiritual eyes of our heart.
(Hebrews 11:3 NIV)
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. (Hebrews 11:1 NKJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
b) In the book of Daniel there is another example of Christ and His Kingdom symbolized by a mountain. Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is recorded in Daniel chapter two. It tells of four great kingdoms on the earth and then a final kingdom that destroys all the other kingdoms, which is the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom without end.
(Daniel 2:35-36 NKJV)
“Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. “This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. …(Dan 2:44-45) “And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. “Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
c) In the passage above it is obvious that the stone cut out of the mountain without hands that grows into a mountain that fills the whole earth is referring to Christ and His Kingdom. Several times in the Bible Jesus is symbolized by the term Rock, or Stone. In the above passage Jesus is the stone, God the Father is the Mountain, which Jesus came out of. Christ Kingdom then grows into a Mountain that fills the whole earth.
d) Christ is expanding His Kingdom on earth through His body, the church. We are part of the Kingdom, the kingdom is in us, and we are in the Kingdom, (Luke 17:21). When the Gospel message of Jesus Christ is received and believed by a person they are added to the Kingdom. Everywhere that we take the Gospel we are advancing the Kingdom of God until it covers the whole earth.
(Matthew 24:14 NKJV)
“And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
e) Another place where “mountain” symbolizes the expanding kingdom is in...
(Isaiah 2:2 NKJV)
... shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established And it on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
The End ...
1. Faith moves mountain a) All Christians go through times of shaking, when the Lord causes us to refocus on Him, to become more dependent upon Him. These are times that are faith is refined into pure gold. The things that are shaken are physical; the things that will remain are spiritual. It is time to focus on things that we cannot see with our physical eyes, but only with the spiritual eyes of our heart.
(Hebrews 11:3 NIV)
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. (Hebrews 11:1 NKJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
b) In the book of Daniel there is another example of Christ and His Kingdom symbolized by a mountain. Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is recorded in Daniel chapter two. It tells of four great kingdoms on the earth and then a final kingdom that destroys all the other kingdoms, which is the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom without end.
(Daniel 2:35-36 NKJV)
“Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. “This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. …(Dan 2:44-45) “And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. “Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
c) In the passage above it is obvious that the stone cut out of the mountain without hands that grows into a mountain that fills the whole earth is referring to Christ and His Kingdom. Several times in the Bible Jesus is symbolized by the term Rock, or Stone. In the above passage Jesus is the stone, God the Father is the Mountain, which Jesus came out of. Christ Kingdom then grows into a Mountain that fills the whole earth.
d) Christ is expanding His Kingdom on earth through His body, the church. We are part of the Kingdom, the kingdom is in us, and we are in the Kingdom, (Luke 17:21). When the Gospel message of Jesus Christ is received and believed by a person they are added to the Kingdom. Everywhere that we take the Gospel we are advancing the Kingdom of God until it covers the whole earth.
(Matthew 24:14 NKJV)
“And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
e) Another place where “mountain” symbolizes the expanding kingdom is in...
(Isaiah 2:2 NKJV)
... shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established And it on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
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