Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 9, 2024 There’s one thing I notice that people allow condemnation to cheat them out of the blessings of the Lord. Well, lots of times, they’ll say, I should have done this, maybe I hurt somebody’s feelings, or maybe I shouldn’t have done that. Did you know that mustard seed faith will pull you out of that condemnation? Do not let anyone, anything, not even the devil, condemn you. Romans 8: 1 – 2: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” If you have true salvation, it is already preset that you are no longer under condemnation. For the “law” of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, that is, the Lord Jesus Himself, the Almighty God, has made you free from the “law” of sin and death. Matthew 18: 20: “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” It means, anytime two or three people gather together in the name of the Lord Jesus, He is there with them. He does not miss church services. There is no other God besides Him (Isaiah 9: 6). He can operate the gifts of the Spirit that He has given to us, at any time, when we gather for church services, for He is the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit will help you get closer to the Lord, but they can also bring judgment (Acts 5: 1 – 11). Matthew 17: 20: “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.” At first, there’s nothing. When you look at a little grain, a little mustard seed, it’s not spectacular at all. Why, it doesn’t look like anything can happen. It’s so little you can hardly even see it. Yet, it’s a little seed, but it grows. It is persistent faith. It is positive faith, nothing negative about it. It is sustaining faith. This is a particular kind that operates into the gift of faith, breaking off into the gifts of miracles, the gift of faith, and the gift of healing. The best way to describe this little mustard seed, it is tough faith. Tough, can’t knock it down, can’t beat it out of the way, can’t knock it out. Now, Jesus said, if you have this persistent, positive, sustaining, tough, powerful, faith, strong, and stay right with it, it will grow into a large type tree, and you can begin to speak even before it gets into a tree form. You can begin to speak miracles, you can have miracles just after it begins to move in there, begins to grow. His name, saith the Lord, is victory in me. What is it? Even our faith is the victory over the things of the world. Each of you has the seed of miracles in you. You become a Christian, you believe in God, in your heart with salvation, the seed begins to operate. Even John said you cannot list all that Jesus did. It said you couldn’t hold it, no matter what you did, such fantastic miracles. Some of them were so spectacular, they are probably not listed, your faith may not be able to rise to it. We do not know why all of them were not listed, probably room. But, nevertheless, He did say the works I do, that’s listed here, the works I do, shall you do. All that die in the Lord, I believe, within them, there’s the anointing of that type of faith of mustard seed. Inside of them is that little light of faith when they died, faith in God, the anointing was right there. And when He talks, the deep calls the deep, out of that faith, comes to meet Him, Amen. And we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds and we will go. “The Scriptures say, Paradise, a place of many mansions! And it is prepared by the hands of the Lord Jesus himself!” “So we see in another section of Paradise is a beautiful Holy city! – One can hardly describe the magnificent splendor within its walls of living glory. Colorful beyond our imagination! Sparkling and glowing place prepared of God’s wisdom! – You know at last the people of God will feel right at home!” We are grateful to our Lord Jesus, our eternal God and Savior, for all that He has done for us. You will be blessed. Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 9, 2024 We listened to a sermon titled “Overpowering Faith”, CD # 1055 (Part One), preached by Brother Neal Frisby In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: In Matthew 17: 20, Jesus said that if you have, as a grain, He said a grain, of mustard seed, you could stand up before this mountain, not even have to pray, but say unto this mountain, and command it, and it’ll explode out of your way. The power of the Lord, and He begin to bring it, symbolize it, of course, it will move a mountain out of the way for you, and He’ll do it in the last days. The mount of Olives, and so forth, down there, Zechariah brings it all that out. But a mountain of sickness and troubles and problems, He said, I’ll move them on back for you. People try so hard for faith, they lose their faith because of failure. Faith is simple, it is very powerful. He said if you have faith just as a grain, you can have whatsoever you saith. You can speak the word only, finally. It will grow with such great power. Now, many people believe that this is fantastic, that it may well be impossible. No, there is nothing impossible with God. But it is true, as a grain. At first, it is so little. He’s describing this faith that grows. At first, there’s nothing. When you look at a little grain, a little mustard seed, it’s not spectacular at all. Why, it doesn’t look like anything can happen. It’s so little you can hardly even see it, looking through a microscope, very small seed, so it doesn't look spectacular. Yet, it’s a little seed, but it grows. It is persistent faith. It is positive faith, nothing negative about it. It is sustaining faith. This is a particular kind that operates into the gift of faith, breaking off into the gifts of miracles, the gift of faith, and the gift of healing, but it is the faith for the church too. All things are possible to the individual, also, without a gift, that sits in the audience. The centurion had that kind of faith. He didn’t have a gift, but he sure had a gift in how to bring out what faith was. You say this, and that, and they do it for me. You speak the word only, it will be done, Lord. You don’t even have to go my house, where the man is dying, just speak the word only. Persistent, positive, sustaining. It is bully-like faith against the devil. Mustard seed faith: It overcomes all opposition against whatever you are believing for. It will overcome anything that gets in your way. Any kind of criticism, any kind of opposition in any way. Persecution, no matter what it is, it will overcome it. The best way to describe this little mustard seed, it is tough faith. Tough, can’t knock it down, can’t beat it out of the way, can’t knock it out. It’s tough. That little seed has to come out of the ground. He had to fight his way out of the ground. When you put it in there, you dig it right back up, at first, there’s no change, but that’s not faith to do that, though. Never try to dig up your faith, if you could. You really don’t see no change in there at first, when you put it in the ground. But little by little now, just like your prayers reaching on out, this is teaching you to have faith, and the anointing begins to come. It's like sunshine and the rain, and like the good ground, that little seed, all of a sudden, and just a little bit, coupled with prayer, like rain, there is an atom change. The structure of it, the molecules begin to change. The energy of it begins to break forth, it’s tough, it’s going to come on up on the hard ground. It can grow in the hard ground, where nothing can grow, and it will come on up out of there. Did you know when your faith, and you move, and you begin to believe, and act on the power of God, you begin to expect, there is a breakup, like an energy around you, of God’s power. There becomes a change around you, just like that little seed. That little seed begins to change, and as it change, the structures changes of it, there’s energy around it, it fixes to do something, and as your faith reaches out, the structure of God’s power, electric-like, will begin to change around you, and it will begin to change, and you will be in the energy of the Holy Spirit. And the energy of that power begins to drive out any devil, any kind of sickness, now, she’ll begin to come out of there. See, it’s going out like that, that’s why God’s power begins to set up with it. You don’t move, He don’t move, until that structure of your faith begins to move Him there. So, it’s tough faith. It will survive, it will overcome, it will survive over the elements, the heat, the rain, the wind, and all of it. It is tough. It comes on through, though. And then it becomes almost like a tree. It’s called, like, a little plant. Yet, it grows like a tree. Now, Jesus said, if you have this persistent, positive, sustaining, tough, powerful, faith, strong, and stay right with it, it will grow into a large type tree, and you can begin to speak even before it gets into a tree form. You can begin to speak miracles, you can have miracles just after it begins to move in there, begins to grow. You can begin even before it’s full-fledged, and say unto this mountain be thou removed, and it shall be removed. No matter what opposition is in your way, no matter what mountain is in your way, that is the mustard seed faith. It will move in and do the impossible. But remember, at first, you cannot notice it. It’s so small a seed, but it is tough. It’s atomic structure like, as it grows. It just splits God’s power. It’s really powerful in there. Mustard seed faith regards God’s word against all of its senses. It regards God’s word over any senses that it has itself. The promises of God are beyond the natural senses. In other words, only the faith works, and it works with God. I believe that when the revival becomes stronger, and greater, and powerful upon the earth, two things would have taken place. The faith that God gives will come. But there will be a great confession and repenting. The sinners will confess and they will repent from a heartfelt repentance, not just some, one day, and gone the next, something like that, heartfelt. And the Christians will confess also. They will confess of their shortcomings where they have failed to operate all of God’s word and all of God’s promises. When those two things happen, you are headed for mustard seed faith, indeed spectacular. And you say, you mean, Christians need to confess, sure they do. They are not backslidden around the world, and if some have done something wrong, repent, we have an advocate, the Lord Jesus Christ. There’s one thing I notice that people allow condemnation to cheat them out of the blessings of the Lord. Because sometimes they are depressed, sometimes Satan oppresses and depresses them, until they say, well, what’s the use. And then, they condemn themselves. Well, lots of times, they’ll say, I should have done this, maybe I hurt somebody’s feelings, or maybe I shouldn’t have done that. Did you know that mustard seed faith will pull you out of that condemnation? It will pull it out. It’s condemnation that keeps a great multitude from being healed by God, push it on out. That’s what faith is all about. Your mustard seed faith will pull you out of the debris. Each individual in here has faith, but sometimes, you are oppressed, sometimes depressed, sometimes you think, you know, well, I don’t know whether that’s right or wrong, and Satan begin to work on you. Then you wonder, have you done enough for God, have you prayed enough, did you say the right things to somebody, have you read your Bible enough. Pretty soon, Satan has got that little mole hill, as big as a mountain that Jesus said will blow out of the way. Faith will move a mountain, even if it’s a mountain. It don’t have to be small, no matter how large, get it out of the way. Now, each individual has that faith, and that faith will blow back, reaching out by faith, any kind of condemnation, it will take it out. Many times, people say things to some people they shouldn’t. That’s one of the condemnations. I could go on, there must be a thousand ways that Satan can come around to you. But the Bible teaches you it’s not going to be easy. You are not going to be always on a mountain top. There’ll be the valleys that you go through in order to build that tough faith. You hold on and that mustard seed keeps pushing. It’s not out yet. It keeps pushing. It breaks that ground out of there. And after it gets out of there, then the opposition comes, birds come, everything in the world comes swooping down on him, and he fights its way out of there. The heat, the weather, the droughts, but it comes on, he fights its way through there and he’s tough and he’ll come out of there. And great exploits can take place. That little mustard seed comes out of there, he overcomes. His name, saith the Lord, is victory in me. What is it? Even our faith is the victory over the things of the world. When he comes out, his name is Victory, sounds like the Lord. In the name of the Lord Jesus; his name is Victory. He’s accomplished, he has won, saith the Lord. He has run the race. And Paul said, run the race to win. Don’t run it to lose. Run that race to win now. Get that energy, allow that structure to begin to change. Your faith will begin to change the elements of God right around you, the power of the Lord. One time, Jesus come by the fig tree. And the disciples, He was teaching faith, and He cursed a fig tree, bear no fruit from hereafter. And at first, they didn’t see anything wrong, but, when they come back by that, at the moment He spoke, it went dead at the roots. When they come by, it was withered away and dry. Faith to dry up, and faith to bring forth. All that die in the Lord, I believe, within them, there’s the anointing of that type of faith of mustard seed, that the Lord, in the age we are living in, there’ll be people alive that see the Lord coming, I believe, in our generation, with all of my heart. Others that have went on and died in the Lord, they will have this anointing that God gives me, that you feel, that does these miracles, will soak into your bodies and heart, if you’ll allow it to. The seed of faith in that anointing, and the people that died, I believe, die in the faith. Inside of them is that little light of faith when they died, faith in God, the anointing was right there. And when He talks, the deep calls the deep, out of that faith, comes to meet Him, Amen. And we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds and we will go. Elisha, not Elijah, he was translated to show us that God will take us by translation. And the others that died, He showed in Elisha that was left, died, but the other one was translated, that is a type of the Elect. Elisha died, was thrown in a sepulcher, in a grave. And there was a war with the Moabites. And the armies were after them, the enemy, and a man was killed. Somehow, an earthquake or something had opened the grave of Elisha, the prophet, who had a double portion of power that was dropped on him, the mantle of the Lord dropped on him when Elijah was translated. And Elisha was in the grave. And Elisha was already buried and only his bones were left there. His soul was done gone to God, we know that, but his bones were laying there. And they come running by there, and when they did, the man was dead, so, they just throwed him in on the bones because the enemy was right behind them. They didn’t have time to bury him. And they throwed the dead man. The Bible says, the Holy Scriptures talking, no mistake about it, no mistaking the revelation, no mistaking the language, nothing, it happened. He throwed him in there. When he fell on the bones, it said it resurrected him back to life. He returned back to life, and crawled out of there, and said, Hey, I’m alive. Now, see those bones, see that faith, that mustard seed faith in him growing like that in great power. And when God calls, those bones will meet his spirit and they’ll come together again. So, those that die in the Lord, it’s why I teach, I know exactly what the Lord told me one time. It’s why I teach that faith so strong. You’ve got to have it in you. And that translation comes, believe me, this earth, and gravity, will not hold them. They’ll be translated. So, we find out, by Elisha going in the grave shows that seed of faith in him, of anointing, that yet work a miracle while he was gone. And then we see Elijah the prophet translated by the faith too. Put the two together, and you have what’s going to happen at the end of the age when they that die in the Lord meet us in the air that don’t die, and are forever with the Lord in the translation. Christians, acting on the promises, at first, you may not understand about how faith works, but you begin to act, you begin to believe. Now remember, it’s positive, it is persistent, it is tough, it will stand, something will begin to happen. This energy of God around you will change, and the very power of God that’s been right there all of the time, you’ll begin to move Him for you. It is an energy. When that little seed’s in the ground, the atom structure begins to change, and the molecules, it begins to explode, burst, all round there. Jesus likens it that way, if you have faith as a little grain, and allow it to grow. But He said faith as a little grain, just a grain, you can move a mountain if you know which way to put it. And the church at the end of the age will have this faith built in them, so they’ll meet the Lord. We have, acting upon God’s promises, that the mustard seed faith, it goes into, and grows into, commanding faith. It’ll go into commanding faith. Miracles will happen, and that seed of faith will blow back anything that’s blocking your faith or your miracle. Each of you has the seed of miracles in you. You become a Christian, you believe in God, in your heart with salvation, the seed begins to operate. That seed of miracles, there’s no telling how many miracles that one can have in his lifetime if he learns to water and take care and bring out that little grain of mustard seed faith. Mustard seed faith does not listen to its natural senses or circumstances, but it regards only the word of God. There is mustard seed faith. And the centurion had it. And I think the time he got to Jesus, it was a large tree. Just speak it only. The power will move for my servant’s at, and you don’t even have to be there. And they brought to Him those to be healed of their diseases, and they were vexed with all types of mental spirits, all type of depression, all type of possession, all type of spirits, all type of lunatics, and crazy, not just the normal, just the kind of small, minor, mental anxiety, but He healed them. Where they didn’t know who they were or where they were coming and going. He’ll move that mountain of insanity, He’ll move that mountain of leprosy, mountain of cancer, it don’t make any difference. And He healed them of all type of diseases, and the whole multitude sought to touch Him for there went virtue, there’s the anointing I’m talking about. For there went virtue out of Him. It was glistering, the energy of God was rotating all around Him, and pulsating, and He healed them all, every one of them. That is getting faith where it belongs, and He healed them all. All type that I just read, because their faith had risen to such great heights, that all He had to do, when the centurion, them, came, speak the word only, and they said, look at that. Whatsoever he saith shall come to pass, Jesus said, and be healed. You can have whatsoever you saith. You are dealing with that mustard seed faith and how powerful it is. And they sought Him, and great multitudes came unto Him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, these are other types, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them (Matthew 15: 30). Great multitudes followed Him, Matthew 19: 2, and He healed them. Now, his faith, little by little, and great power. He’s the One that taught the mustard seed. How it begins to change under the ground, and come out of there, break forth with great power. And Jesus’ faith and power and miracles become so spectacular to raising of the dead, to creating things that weren’t there, until public opinion, finally through the Pharisees and the sinners of that time, turned against Him. But He came to be crucified. He wasn’t popular at the end of His ministry. And you say why not? Because He had worked so many miracles, that’s the Lord. It got to a place that the Bible said, one time it said, even His own brethren believed not on Him. And yet, those that had faith, the multitudes, they’d seen incredible things. Even John said you cannot list all that Jesus did. It said you couldn’t hold it, no matter what you did, such fantastic miracles. But He gave enough of them in this Bible that you are, to at least, able to believe for that. Some of them were so spectacular, they are probably not listed, your faith may not be able to rise to it. We do not know why all of them were not listed, probably room. But, nevertheless, He did say the works I do, that’s listed here, the works I do, shall you do. There was works that go into raising of the dead, to healing the lunatic, people of mental diseases. Building your faith: Whatsoever ye ask in my name, I will do it. He that asketh, definitely, receiveth, believe it, that’s Matthew 7: 8. Ask anything in my name, and I will do it, John 14: 13 – 14. All things ye ask, believing, ye shall receive. If two agree, it shall be done. As we abide in Jesus together, it will be done. Nothing shall be impossible, Matthew 17: 20. As we act together, all things shall be possible, as we move in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus gives us power over all the power of the enemy. All power is given to me in heaven and earth, and I give them unto you. These signs shall follow them that act, them that believe. Great is our Lord, His understanding is infinite. He understands, in other words, your problem before you got it, your sickness before you got it. He understands what it is. He knows all about what’s going to become of it. He knows all about what you don’t understand, so don’t sell the Lord short here tonight. Yes, He understands that sickness. He understands that trouble. He understands everything about the human body and the mind, that you will need. He is infinite. In the beginning of this sermon tonight, on confession, also that we were talking about condemnation. How that Satan can use that, sometimes, it may be severe type, sometimes, just minor, but He’ll use in all type, but your faith, being persistent, your faith, by being positive, your faith, by opening your heart and beginning to expect, you’ll have a miracle. God will give you a miracle. And Jesus said, He saw their faith. Now, He could see a substance. Also, He saw them acting. He saw their faith. And He said, fear not, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you. He says your sins are forgiven too because your act of faith, I just remind you, they are all gone. See, your faith will break you out of anything. Faith, by accepting it done, like the centurion, just speak the word only, and it shall be done. I will bless thee, I will not fail thee, I will heal thee, I will guard thee, and those who hearken shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil. I will instruct, and I will work miracles, no matter what they are, the mustard seed faith, the persistent faith. If you have faith, Jesus said, under divine authority, if you have faith, as a grain, a grain of that, you can say unto this tree or mountain, whatever it is, be thou removed, it shall be done.

I started the sermon: There’s one thing I notice that people allow condemnation to cheat them out of the blessings of the Lord. Well, lots of times, they’ll say, I should have done this, maybe I hurt somebody’s feelings, or maybe I shouldn’t have done that. Did you know that mustard seed faith will pull you out of that condemnation? Do not let anyone, anything, not even the devil, condemn you. Romans 8: 1 – 2: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” If you have true salvation, it is already preset that you are no longer under condemnation. For the “law” of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, that is, the Lord Jesus Himself, the Almighty God, has made you free from the “law” of sin and death. Matthew 18: 20: “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” It means, anytime two or three people gather together in the name of the Lord Jesus, He is there with them. He does not miss church services. There is no other God besides Him (Isaiah 9: 6). He can operate the gifts of the Spirit that He has given to us, at any time, when we gather for church services, for He is the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit will help you get closer to the Lord, but they can also bring judgment (Acts 5: 1 – 11). Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Acts 4: 33 – 35: “And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.” Acts 5: 1 – 11: “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.” Matthew 17: 20: “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.” At first, there’s nothing. When you look at a little grain, a little mustard seed, it’s not spectacular at all. Why, it doesn’t look like anything can happen. It’s so little you can hardly even see it. Yet, it’s a little seed, but it grows. It is persistent faith. It is positive faith, nothing negative about it. It is sustaining faith. This is a particular kind that operates into the gift of faith, breaking off into the gifts of miracles, the gift of faith, and the gift of healing. The best way to describe this little mustard seed, it is tough faith. Tough, can’t knock it down, can’t beat it out of the way, can’t knock it out. Now, Jesus said, if you have this persistent, positive, sustaining, tough, powerful, faith, strong, and stay right with it, it will grow into a large type tree, and you can begin to speak even before it gets into a tree form. You can begin to speak miracles, you can have miracles just after it begins to move in there, begins to grow. His name, saith the Lord, is victory in me. What is it? Even our faith is the victory over the things of the world. Each of you has the seed of miracles in you. You become a Christian, you believe in God, in your heart with salvation, the seed begins to operate. Even John said you cannot list all that Jesus did. It said you couldn’t hold it, no matter what you did, such fantastic miracles. Some of them were so spectacular, they are probably not listed, your faith may not be able to rise to it. We do not know why all of them were not listed, probably room. But, nevertheless, He did say the works I do, that’s listed here, the works I do, shall you do. All that die in the Lord, I believe, within them, there’s the anointing of that type of faith of mustard seed. Inside of them is that little light of faith when they died, faith in God, the anointing was right there. And when He talks, the deep calls the deep, out of that faith, comes to meet Him, Amen. And we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds and we will go. I read from Special Writing # 136: PARADISE – GOD’S WISDOM “Let us discuss the different sections of Paradise. For there are many mysteries and secrets concerning the place of the saints! . . . We know the apostle Paul was caught up into the third heaven; and he saw the most amazing things in this section of Paradise! And he was actually forbidden to tell all he had seen! – It was so marvelous, evidently the Lord did not want Satan or the world to know anything about this particular area! The Scriptures say, Paradise, a place of many mansions! And it is prepared by the hands of the Lord Jesus himself!” “The obedient to enter the gates of the city of Paradise!” (Rev. 22: 14) “So we see in another section of Paradise is a beautiful Holy city! – One can hardly describe the magnificent splendor within its walls of living glory. Colorful beyond our imagination! Sparkling and glowing place prepared of God’s wisdom! – You know at last the people of God will feel right at home!”

We are grateful to our Lord Jesus, our eternal God and Savior, for all that He has done for us.

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