Mix The Word With Faith

Hebrews 3:19, 4:2
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
 
Here in Hebrews, we learn that the children of Israel did not enter into God’s promise for them because of unbelief. God told the children of Israel He had given this land to them. God did not deny the fact that there were giants in the land, but that He would drive them out before them. The children of Israel did not see themselves the way God did. They said they were like grasshoppers in the sight of the enemy. They lost sight of how big their God is, and what He had said was already theirs. This caused them to not obey what God had told them to do to go in a possess what was theirs.
 
In chapter 4 verse 2 we learn that the Word they heard from God did not profit them because they did not mix what they heard with faith. This resulted in unbelief. So how do we mix the Word we hear about what Jesus has done for us known as the gospel (good news) with faith? We take what we hear proclaimed to us, the promises we have in Christ, and we then start agreeing with God. To agree with God means we simply say what God has said.

When you look at the promises we have in Christ that are a part of His finished work, those promises scripture teaches us are already ours, even if we don’t yet see it in the natural. Just as the promise land God said was already theirs, not going to be one day. Scripture teaches us in 2 Corinthians 1:20 that all of God’s promises in Christ are yes, to which we must give our amen, which means so be it. So we take what we have heard Jesus has provided for us and we mix faith with it by now agreeing with God’s Word, declaring it as already ours. When we do, we in agreeing with God will see His Word come to pass.
 
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