Who hasn’t caused someone to sin? Who hasn’t said and done things that have caused others to be hurt, fell alienated, angry, hateful, and unforgiving? The disciples were worried about this and quite rightly. Firstly, Jesus warns that anyone who causes another person to sin would be better off if a huge rock were tied around his neck and thrown overboard somewhere in the deepest part of sea. In the previous verses Jesus had been talking about the effect that sin has on our lives. The disciples were facing their own mountains that needed moving. Resources to inspire you - and your congregation! I want you to know that I am grateful that Sermon Writer is a link in God’s network providing me the information I need when I need it. The Bible tells me to be a willing servant and to give no thought to what I will say because the Holy Spirit will provide a message for me. Were those 24 people super heroes of faith and so moved the mountain?Ī SUBSCRIBER SAYS: “As a lay leader, I never know when I will be asked to speak. Was it their ‘mountain moving faith’ or the length of time they spent in prayer that in the end gave them what they were seeking? But is that right? Is that a correct conclusion? In other words, through faith we can move mountains. When you first hear this story it’s easy to say that this is exactly what Jesus was talking about when he said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you” (v. We need to do this now to allow it to settle properly.” The little church was dedicated the next Sunday as originally planned (Source unknown).
FAITH OF A MUSTARD SEED FREE
Would you be willing to sell us a chunk of that rocky hill behind the church? We’ll pay you for the dirt we remove and pave all the exposed area free of charge. We need some fill – in fact, heaps of fill. The next morning as the pastor was working in his study there came a loud knock at his door and a rough looking construction foreman entered.
“God has never let us down before, and I believe he will be faithful this time too.” “We’ll open next Sunday as scheduled,” he assured everyone. At ten o’clock the pastor said the final “Amen”.
Undaunted, the pastor announced the next Sunday morning that he would meet that evening with all members who had “mountain moving faith.” They would hold a prayer session asking God to remove the mountain from the back yard and to somehow provide enough money to have it paved before the scheduled opening dedication service.Īt the appointed time, 24 of the congregation’s 300 members assembled for prayer.
In order to build more parking spaces, they would have to move that rocky hill. Unfortunately, the new building had used every square centimetre except for a rather steep hill behind the church. Ten days before the new church was to open, the local building inspector informed the pastor that unless the number of parking spaces doubled, they would not be able to use the new church. Sermon Luke 17:5-6 Faith the Size of a Mustard SeedĪ small congregation built a new church on a piece of land left to them by a church member.
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