WHAT IS DOUBTS?
John 20:24-29
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Doubt is the doorway to unbelief…
- Uncertain — mistrust — apprehensive — suspicion.
- Regard as unlikely
- Lack of confidence and conviction.
- Blocks faith
- Faith –
- Heb 11:1 - Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
- Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof
Why Do We Doubt?
WHY DO WE HAVE DOUBTS?
· SIN: Your disobedience raises questions about your relationship with God.
· IGNORANCE: If you don’t know God’s direction, you may question if you’re on the correct path.
· HERESY: If you think you can’t sin, you deny the experience of Paul. “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice” (Rom. 7:19, NKJV).
· NOT SAVED: If you are not God’s child, you will doubt if He is your Father.
· CONCLUSION: Because your sin nature is not eradicated, then you will always have doubts until you get to heaven.
7 Steps to Overcoming Doubts
1) Acknowledge that you’re a doubter
2) Trust and Rely on God. If you believe that Jesus came to die for our sins, then you have to be all in with your faith.
3) Check your heart – meditate to figure out why you’re having doubts.
4) Renew your mind - When doubt starts to creep in your thought, speak the word to chase it away. Romans 12:2
5) Put the word into action
6) Feed your faith - Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. Romans 10:17
7) Resist the devil – “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”James 4:7
Final Word:
James 1:2-8 - 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
Doubt does not come from God; it comes from satan’s evil deceptions. It’s a tool satan uses to eat away at our faith. Just like temptations, we have to fight doubt with the word. We can’t win if we just sit back and allow doubt to dominate our thoughts. Below are 3 things to keep in mind as we fight the good fight that allows our faith to be strengthened:
- You have to believe that we can win the fight!
- You have to keep our guards up!
- You have to keep on fighting until you have complete victory.
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