Join Charles Capps as he unravels the profound impact of words in shaping faith and its manifestations in life. This episode covers the power of confession, the dangers of negative speech, and the principle that aligns our actions with divine truth. Drawing from the book of James and other scriptures, Capps underscores the necessity of being doers of the Word, ensuring that belief is matched by action for a fortified spiritual journey.
We’re glad you could join us today for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. This program is dedicated to teach you how to put the Word of God to work so that it will make a positive difference in the everyday circumstances of your life. And now, here’s Charles Capps.
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Now we’re going to talk about doing the sayings of Jesus. I want us to go to Luke, the sixth chapter. And let’s read… Again, some foundation scriptures here. Luke chapter 6, verse 46. Jesus is speaking. And he says, Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house, digged deep, laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose and stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded on a rock. But he that heareth and doeth not is like a man that without foundation built his house upon the earth against which the stream did beat vehemently. Immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great. Now, what you see here is the Lord Jesus Christ’s illustration of an individual, two individuals. Now, you know he’s not talking about a housing project. You know how Jesus talked? He used the natural things of earth that you could understand to reveal spiritual truths and understanding of how the kingdom of God worked. He said the man dig deep and he laid the foundation. Now, one of the fellows was building his house or his life without digging deep. He’s probably one of the guys that was saying, oh, come on, I’ve already got the roof on my house and you’re still digging the foundation. But the guy is still digging. He wants to know why he’s doing these things. See, it makes a difference when you know why you do something. Now, you don’t always have to know why, but it makes a difference when you do know why. That you’re doing certain things. See, the problem is with a lot of people concerning the message of faith and confessing the Word of God is that they want to build a third story on a vacant lot. Just think about it a minute. You’ve got to start at the bottom. You can’t build a third story. Until you get the first story and the second story built. He digged deep and he laid the foundation. Now, the foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus. Notice, both of these individuals came to Jesus, heard his sayings. Both of them did the same thing. Now, we could even call this, you know, you could call it about anything you wanted to, I suppose. We could call it how to succeed when others failed. Because you remember the Bible says Jesus was a prophet. He prophesies here, if you don’t do my sayings, if you don’t come to me, hear my sayings and do them, you’re going to fail in life. Now that’s important that we understand that he is telling you this so you won’t fail in life. So that your house won’t be swept down the stream in the floods of life. How many of you know that the streams of life and the troubles and the problems of life are going to come? There’s no doubt about that. I mean, you live in a world where you have problems and troubles. Now, just because you got turned on to faith or born again doesn’t mean your trouble just dissolved and disappeared. See, sometimes people get the idea that if you get saved, everything will be fine. Or if you get turned on to faith. But if you read in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, it talked about Cain and Abel. See, Abel, through faith, offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Well, his faith got him killed. He did it by faith, didn’t he? So it brought some problems on. If you don’t know how to handle the situations that come to you in life, then you’re going to fail. Just because you know a few things about the Word, see, we need to know the whole Word of God. And we need to know how to use the things that we learn about faith concerning the practical things of life. Now, the Word of God tells us in Hebrews, I believe it’s the fourth chapter, verse 12, said, The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, to the dividing us under the soul and spirit, joints to the marrow, as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. God’s Word is quick, alive, it is more powerful than any two-edged sword. Now the two-edged sword that he’s referring to is the tongue. It is more powerful than anyone’s tongue. It is more powerful than all the negative things that people speak against you. But if we don’t understand the fact that people, especially Christian people, are the most dangerous people in the world with their tongue. You know why? Because if they believe what they’re saying, if they develop themselves to believe what they’re saying will come to pass, and they go to speaking negative things, well, you just watch. That old boy’s going to lose everything he invests in that. I just know, I know he’s going to lose. You watch and see. Now, if he gets 50 people to agreeing with him, brother, you are in trouble. Unless you know how to use God’s Word to put down the negative things of life. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. Now, I know because I got in a situation like that one time. And I didn’t know it until after that I’d lost everything I put in the deal. Then my friends told me, well, I told so-and-so, you watch and see, he’ll lose every dime he puts in that. But see, I didn’t know to use the word of God to combat that and stop that. God’s word is more powerful than what they spoke. Now see, they didn’t realize what they were doing. They didn’t know they were putting a curse on me. Now that’s the way witchcraft works. We need to realize something that we are being used at times of the devil by speaking negative things against people. Have you ever heard somebody say, well, yeah, they’ll get saved and never revival. But you watch, they’ll go right back into sin. Now you become a partner of them going back into sin. You’re putting a curse on them. Wasn’t that what the Bible said about Jesus when he spoke negative things to the fig tree? Said he put a curse on, he cursed it. We need to realize that there is blessing and there is cursing. You see, that’s what happened to Adam in the garden when he ate. He and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of blessing and calamity. He already had the knowledge of blessing. He learned how to produce calamity by the words of his mouth. But the thing that Satan failed to tell him is that the day you eat of the fruit, it’ll poison your tongue and then you won’t be able to control the tongue. It’ll be set on fire of hell. Now certainly God didn’t set it on fire of hell. See, James says it’s set on fire of hell. Well, you can’t tame the tongue with the natural means, but thank God the Holy Ghost can. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. So if you speak God’s Word concerning the situations, the circumstances of life, then God’s Word will overrule that. Your words will draw the spirit life from the word of God and cause the manifestation of the thing you’re speaking. Somebody says, you watch and see, he’s going to fail. But if I’m confessing, thank God, whatever I do will prosper. No weapon formed against me will prosper. I’m like a tree planted by the rivers of water. I’m delivered from the evils of this present world. Thank God I’m confessing the word of God. Whatever I do will prosper. Now, that’s God’s Word. I have given, it’s given unto me. Now, I can take God’s Word, see, by being a doer of the Word of God, not just a hearer. I can put to naught the things that are spoken against me. Now, you notice here, in this situation, he digged deep, he laid the foundation. The foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus. Now, turn with me to James, the second chapter. James, the brother of Jesus… gained great insight into these things because he spent so much time with Jesus. He learned some things. If we would zero in, actually it’s the first chapter of James, James chapter 1. Let’s begin with verse 21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, superfluity of naughtiness, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. The engrafted word, word that becomes a part of you. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. In other words, if you’re hearers only, you’re deceiving your own self. You’ve got to be doers of the word. Now, wasn’t that what Jesus was saying there when he said, Come to me, hear my sayings, and do them? Be a doer of the words of Jesus. Do you remember in John, I believe it’s the second chapter, where Jesus was at the marriage of Cain of Galilee, They needed wine. They were out of wine. And the mother of Jesus said, whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Now, if you want a miracle, that’s the way to get it. Whatever Jesus saith unto you, do it. The problem is sometimes we just make up our own rules as we go. Well, now, here’s the way I believe it. I had an individual say that to me one time. Well now, Brother Capps, here’s the way I believe it. I said, yes, but here’s what the Word says. Well, I know that’s what the Word says, but here’s the way I believe it. Well now, if your believing don’t line up with the Word of God, guess who’s going to have to change? God changeth not. So if you’re incompatible with God or His Word, you’re going to have to do the changing. He’s not going to change. He changeth not. Can you see that? Now here in James, the first chapter, he said, Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, because if you’re hearers only, you’ll deceive your own self. Down to verse 24. For he beholdeth himself, goeth his way, straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was, but whosoever looketh into the perfect law of liberty, continueth therein, he being not a forgetful here, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deeds. If any man among you seemeth to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is in vain. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today as we’ve been talking about doing the sayings of Jesus. Now, all of this week we have a CD offer number 7403. That’s CD offer number 7403. It’s entitled, Doing the Sayings of Jesus. It’s four CDs for $29 plus $5 postage and handling, a total of $34. In this series, we deal extensively of how to put the principles of God in operation in your life, in your everyday life. In the parable that Jesus talked about in the sixth chapter of Luke, He says, Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you who he is like. Now, he’s talking about three things here. First, you come to Jesus, you hear what he said, and you do them. Now, he said, If you do that, you’re like a man that built his house. He digged deep, and he laid the foundation on the rock. When the stream beat vehemently against it, it could not shake it. Now, he didn’t say it didn’t shake it. He said it couldn’t shake it. It’s impossible to, because he laid the foundation on the rock. Now, what is the foundation here? The foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus, and the Word of God, or Christ Jesus, is the rock. So he laid the foundation on the rock. In other words, everything that the man did was based on the authority of the Word of God. But then he tells about a man that came to him and heard his sayings and didn’t do them. And when the stream beat vehemently upon him, immediately his house fell, and the ruin of that house was great. Now, you know he’s not talking about a housing project here. He’s talking about individual lives. And he’s telling you there’s three simple things that you do, that if you do them, you’ll not fail in life. Come to Jesus, hear His saying, then start doing what Jesus said. Now, this series will actually carry you into an area where you can see how to operate in the principles of God. That is offer number 7403 for a total of $34. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. 1-877-396-9400. Until tomorrow, this is Charles Capps reminding you that the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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