"And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."
In the first part of this lesson, Jesus scolds His Apostles for their lack of faith because they had failed to cleanse the child of his demon.
Jesus then went on to say, "If ye have faith AS a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
Take note, Jesus did not say, if you have faith the SIZE of a mustard seed, He said if you have the faith AS, or OF a grain of mustard seed.
I did for years, and there are many who do still, wrongfully believe Jesus was saying that we can accomplish anything with just a tiny bit of faith. That is absolutely untrue, and is the WRONG lesson to take away from this statement.
The mustard seed has absolutely nothing to do with its destiny, therefore, the faith of a grain of mustard seed is the ultimate faith. In order for us to move a mountain, or accomplish anything by faith, that faith must indeed be absolute and infinite just AS the faith of the mustard seed.
We must exercise that same absolute faith before our sins will be eternally remitted! We must abandon all responsibility for any part in our salvation, and absolutely believe that the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the ONLY thing that saves us.
We can not place any tiny part of our faith in some "good" works we might eventually do, or on a water immersion (baptism). We must be ABSOLUTELY reliant on what Jesus did as He crucified as a sacrificed for our sins. Jesus paid the ENTIRE price, if we BELIEVE in Him, there is NOTHING left to owed.
So, YES! If we have the faith AS a grain of mustard seed, and command a mountain to move, it will move!
We should all pray that God will grant us that faith, and then we should exercise it.~
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