Our Faith Grows

Sunday 15/06/2025.| SCCC Deeper.

1. Our Faith Grows, Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

· Being rooted and grounded in Christ

· This leads to being strengthened and established in our faith.

· And overflowing with thankfulness

· This is a process of growth and strength that deepens our relationship with Christ.

· When we read the Bible, it’s all about going deeper, and that’s because scripture says Ephesians 4:14-15 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming. / Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

· There is growth in a physical sense – we grow, trees grow, gardens grow.

There is another growth to those that are Christians – its spiritual, this growth is a constant one with Jesus at its centre. This is taking us closer to Jesus

1. Our Faith Grows

· The most exciting thing about our spiritual growth is that we do it with God, ordained by Him, we are helped by Him, and we have the Holy Spirit who never leaves us and will never forsake us.

Our growth is God’s priority, to think that God has forgotten us or just doesn’t know that we are around, is a thought that we need to relinquish, and discard. When things are quite and calm, God’s at work, when things are out of our control “seemingly”, God’s at work.

God’s heart beat is that we draw close to Him..

· Daniel in the Lion’s den… out of control… the lions mouths are kept shut… calm.

· MSA cast into the fiery furnace… out of control “seemingly” then they are not touched by the fire, the smoke, and Jesus is in there with them… calm.

· The disciples having the last supper… calm relaxed, Jesus breaking bread, talking about a new covenant. Then the crucifixion, everything seems out of control.

· Paul the apostle, on the road to Damascus, calm focused... then a blinding light, voice from heaven Saul Saul, why do you persecute Me?, he is instantly… out of control.

· When we find ourselves in the fire or the calm it’s not for us to fix the problem it’s for us to learn, what’s the lesson here for me from the Lord.

In John 20 :24-29, is such a encouraging scriptures. Because Jesus is at the centre of Thomas’s out of control moment. And we get a look into what Jesus says

John 20:25 …the disciples saying to Thomas - we have seen the Lord…!

Thomas says: from his out-of-control world

Unless I see….I will not believe.

Vs 26.Jesus meets them all again and says Peace to you! Then turns and comes straight to Thomas.

(vs 27) Reach your finger here and look at my hands here and put it into my side..

God sees what we need, the disciples, needed the assurance of His resurrection. And yet Thomas response was one of doubt, Jesus knew he needed Assurance.

Vs 29. Do not be unbelieving but believing.

(vs29) is talking directly to us…

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

· Believing is true seeing.

· 2 Cor 5; 7 We walk by faith and not by sight… this is a positional scripture, we’re alive, we are not sitting, we’re moving, we are walking forward, we are making progress.

(vs 31) …but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that in believing you may have life in His name.