Sermon
A People of Great Faith | Matthew 17:14-20
Treeline Church
Speaker: David Livingston
October 11, 2023 · 38 min
Summary
Jesus teaches that the disciples' failure to cast out a demon stems not from weakness but from misplaced confidence in their own abilities rather than dependence on God's power. True faith—even mustard-seed-small—requires abandoning self-sufficiency and trusting entirely in God to accomplish the impossible.
Highlights
God uses men or women who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
When God's people choose a life of self-sufficiency instead of dependent faith, not only do they fail to live up to the calling on their lives, but actually they are unable and ineffective at rescuing those trapped in the darkness around them.
What if the thing that separates us from those great men and women who laid hold of the promises of God and changed the world wasn't strength but actually weakness?