Message Notes

Checking of The True State of our faith

1. A sudden tempest

a) Jesus asleep

b) The disciples awake and fearful

2. The need to check faith

a) Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?                      (Matthew 8:26)

b) Why are you fearful? How is it you have no faith?      (Mark 4:40)

c) Where is your faith?                                                                (Luke 8:25)

3. The faith that the Lord Jesus expected from His disciples

a) Not unreasonable

b) Fair and correct

4. The means of faith

a) Faith through following the Lord Jesus

b) Faith through listening to His teaching

c) Faith through seeing how He ministered

5. What are some of the things that hinder the development of faith?

a) Fear and what it signifies

“Why are you fearful…?”   Matthew 8:26

 b) Lack of deep knowledge

“Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!” Luke 8:25

c) The lessons taught

d) They had not been fully comprehended

e) They had not been internalised

f) The word of the Lord had not borne the fruit of faith