అవిశ్వాసము || Unbelief || Zac Poonen Telugu Christian Messages
Channel: Raja Devathala
Date: 2017-07-04

We shall continue looking at those seriously evil things that are destroying our inner life, which, sometimes, we may not even be aware of. The word of God is like an x-ray machine or a scanning machine that shows us what our inside is really like.

Let us turn today to Mark 4:37 where we read, once when Jesus was travelling in a boat across the lake with His disciples, there was fierce gale of storm and the waves breaking into the boat. The boat was filling up and they were going to sink. The disciples were scared while Jesus was asleep in the boat. They woke Him up and Jesus rebuked the wind and the wind became still. They were afraid that they would perish. They asked Him, "Teacher don't you care that we are perishing." And He said to them, "Why are you so timid? How is it that you have no faith" (Mk. 4:40)? Whenever we look at Jesus rebuking His disciples, we find Him reserving His strongest rebukes for one sin and that was unbelief.

We have been looking at sins which Jesus hated the most; sins which are not considered sins by most people in the world - Hypocrisy, pride, selfishness, hatred, and to the list we can add unbelief. Now unbelief is definitely not considered a sin by anybody in the world. The sad thing is, I think, 99% of believers, born again believers, also do not consider unbelief as a sin. They think it as a weakness. 'Yeah, I don't have enough faith, brother.' It is like saying, 'Well, I am not able to lift so many kilos of weight. I am weak. My right hand is weak.' Now if it were a weakness, it is not serious. No, it is serious because it is a sin. Jesus rebuked it as a sin. In fact, it is such a serious sin that in the book of Hebrews we are given a warning: "Take care brethren, lest there should be in anyone of you (in you believers), there can be an evil unbelieving heart" (Heb. 3:12). It is clear that the reference is to believers.

What is an unbelieving heart called? An EVIL unbelieving heart! Now for an adulteress heart, we can understand, it being called an evil adulteress heart. Jesus spoke about an evil and adulteress generation in Matthew 16. A murderer's heart, we can say, as an evil murderer's heart. Maybe even a selfish heart, we could be a little more sensitive, and say that a selfish heart is also an evil heart or a proud heart is an evil heart. Maybe, if we have that much light, we can say a hypocritical heart is also an evil heart. Again, if we have greater light, a heart full of hatred can also be said as an evil heart. But how many people, who have light on all these sins, would also say that an unbelieving heart is an evil heart? But that is exactly what it says here in Hebrews 3:12. In fact, it can make you fall away from the living God altogether.

That is how serious it is. An unbelieving heart can make you fall away from the living God. And so, we see this is another sin that we need to take seriously. Seven times Jesus rebuked His disciples for unbelief, including even after His resurrection. He was rebuking them only for unbelief. It is not that they had conquered their other sins in their life. I am sure they were defeated by hundreds of sins. All those disciples were still seeking who was to be the greatest among them and many, many such things. But Jesus rebuked them only for unbelief.
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