10:17), and knowing that his word grows to fruitfulness in the soil of an “honest and good heart,” this is how and where we need to plant it we need to take God’s word to heart through hearing it: Seeing that faith comes by hearing God’s word (Rom. But Jesus said “when it is sown, it grows up.” So how do we sow it, and how does it grow up? This is how our faith begins it feels tiny and inconsequential compared with what’s around it, let alone when compared to a mountain. When a mustard seed is sown, it is small and insignificant compared with its imposing surroundings. (Mark 4:30–32 NKJV) Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? (31) It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth (32) but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.” This is what Jesus said about a mustard seed: The noteworthy thing about seeds is that through their DNA, they contain an inner image of the fruitful tree they can become. He chose a small seed to illustrate that you don’t need a huge amount to get under way, but that you do have to have it “as” a seed. Jesus said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed.” He didn’t say, “faith the size of a mustard seed”-even though its minute size is significant. He said it can literally move a mountain … if … In truth, Jesus used the mustard seed to illustrate the size and type of faith you need to get started in even the most imposing, and seemingly impossible, situations. No matter how much or how dark our unbelief, and no matter how much it blocks us from walking in all the inheritance Jesus released for us it has no power to prevent even the most miniscule amount of faith from growing to kingdom proportions. This is why Jesus focuses on faith when dealing with the huge obstacle of unbelief. But simply by turning on a light-even the smallest light-the darkness has to yield it has absolutely no power to stop light.
No matter how dark it is, and no matter how combatively you attack the darkness you will never extract it, scare it, shake it, or drive it out. This is similar to saying the problem is darkness the solution is light. Instead, he taught them about faith: “If you have faith as a mustard seed …”
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But he did not focus on telling them to get rid of unbelief, or on how to take control over it. Jesus clearly identified unbelief as a problem for his apprentices when they tried to exorcise this demon. (19) Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” (20) So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:18–20 NKJV) And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him and the child was cured from that very hour.
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