Hands of revelation

Mark 6:1-6
John 1:6-18
Romans 8:18-25
Isaiah 53:1-2,10-12
Luke 24:27-35

1. To reveal something is to point it out and demonstrate it. it was already there... you're just revealing it.
2. Our hands have the ability to transmit intellect or understanding.
     -consecration
     -sacrifice
     -healing
     -resurrection
     -correction/smiting
     -blessing
     -anointing of the Holy Ghost, hand of God
3. We can sit on our hands because we are trying to save ourselves and promote ourselves (and that leads to anger and abuse of our neighbor). Lift Jesus and reveal him.

*Altar call:
-your hands were specially designed to reveal God to this world that doesn't recognize him.
-They might say they do... but they don't recognize God.
-Think of somebody you know that doesn't recognize God (like you do). And extend yourself. Reach out to them in skill and sacrifice, and when they say ah... now I see... don't abuse them for it, they will reveal it in turn.

Faith Tried In God's Mouth

Matthew 8:5-12
Hebrew's 11:4-6
Psalms 51:15-19
Genesis 4:3-8
1. Faith toward God is so fundamental to what's going on with us that if we don't understand it, we are seriously stunted.
2.When your in the mouth of God, you're getting shifted around a bit
          -God has a very discerning pallet
          -sacrifice has to be by faith
          -God knows what pleases him
          -Lack of growth on our faith doesn't please God
3. We are so quick to misdirect our faith that we will put on our lucky socks
4. Altar call: we need to grow in our faith. Those things that disturb us, should either not do that, or we need movement on a plan to solve it.

The Fulfilment of Law of Faith

Luke 24:44-53
Romans 3:27-31
Luke 4:20-23

-Faith by itself is not an action but a confidence, therefore for faith to even have a law implies some action (or restraint from action).
-Some people you can do wonders for, but they will not accept your faith because they treasure their own. Physician heal thyself.
-We need to always check with God and not turn our faith into our deeds
-The destination of the Christian faith is so great that we need to stay tuned to get it because it is too great to reveal to us who are holding on to competing faiths
-We get a little from God, and we are to take that little and grow it, not destroy it. But when we think we have much and yet be afraid we're going to lose it.
-The methodist seeks for a method but is the faith in the method rather than the method giver

1. Certain things in our life require a fulfillment process and while we wait we work to believe further
          -Perfection being the fulfillment
2. We need God to help us understand what we already thought we knew and bring it together.
          -It's not only scripture, but its real life events and experiences
          -God starts in smallness but expects us to treat small right
3. Our faith can become tied up in ritual and Jesus was getting ready to leave his disciples. The disciples then had to turn the direction God pointed them in
         -The methodist can turn all their faith toward the method and miss the revision (bike revelation)
4. Alter call: some of us have given up on an experience we don't understand. But God intended it to work with your faith and bring it and your faith to perfection/fulfillment.
          -Peter wept bitterly