21 Sep I walk by Faith, not by Sight

Walking By Faith Overview

In this fifth installment of the ‘Help God, I Want to Change’ series, Pastor explores how walking by faith means entering into God’s rest to bring eternity into our time-bound existence. The message emphasizes that humans were created from the earth (adamah) with the capacity to sow and reap, but after the fall, we became bound by time’s corruption and stress. Unlike animals who merely exist, humans have eternity in their hearts and can choose to walk circumspectly—seeing as God sees with eternal perspective. The key is learning to redeem time by accepting God’s word and acting on it, not just speaking it. Through faith, we can transcend the toil and sweat that came with Adam’s curse, entering into God’s sabbath rest that transforms our daily experience from stress to peace, bringing heaven’s reality into earthly circumstances.

Walking By Faith Outline

• 0:00 – Series Introduction: Help God, I Want to Change: Recap of the five-part series on transformation and entering God’s rest
• 3:45 – Eternity vs. Time: Walking Circumspectly: Understanding God’s eternal perspective versus our time-bound limitations
• 8:20 – Created from Adamah: The Sowing and Reaping Principle: How humans were made from soil to receive seeds and produce harvests
• 15:30 – Faith Requires Action, Not Just Words: Why true faith involves both confessing and demonstrating our beliefs
• 22:15 – The Corruption of Time After the Fall: How sin bound humanity to stress, toil, and temporal limitations
• 28:40 – Choosing Life Through God’s Word: Everyone can choose blessing or cursing, life or death through their response to God
• 35:10 – Entering God’s Sabbath Rest: Moving beyond sweat and toil into divine empowerment and peace

Scripture References

Ephesians 5:15-16, Ezekiel 1:15-18, Hebrews 10:23, Hebrews 3-4, Deuteronomy 30:19, John 10:10, Genesis 3:17-19, Exodus 20:8, Psalm 90:12

Key Takeaways

• We were created as ‘ground’ that produces harvests from whatever seeds we sow through our words, actions, and emotions.
• Walking circumspectly means seeing from God’s eternal perspective rather than being limited by temporal circumstances.
• True faith requires both confession and action—we must demonstrate what we believe, not just speak it.
• Every person has a choice between life and death, blessing and cursing, regardless of their past or family history.
• God wants to deliver us from the curse of toil and stress by bringing His rest into our daily experience.
• We are called to redeem time by bringing heaven’s reality into earthly situations through faith-based living.
• Entering God’s rest is not about a specific day but a lifestyle of trusting God’s empowerment over human effort.

Walking By Faith Notes

Pastor begins this powerful message by establishing the context of his ongoing series on transformation, emphasizing that humanity was uniquely created from adamah—soil—which gives us the capacity to receive spiritual seeds and produce corresponding harvests. This fundamental truth means that everything we say, do, and emotionally express becomes seed that will inevitably produce fruit in our lives, whether positive or negative. The distinction between humans and animals is crucial here: animals were spoken into existence, but humans were hand-crafted by God, giving us the unique ability to walk by faith through both speaking and acting.The concept of walking circumspectly, drawn from Ephesians 5, connects to Ezekiel’s vision of wheels within wheels having eyes all around. This represents God’s eternal perspective—He sees everything simultaneously across all time because He exists in the eternal ‘now.’ When we walk circumspectly, we begin to see situations from heaven’s viewpoint rather than being trapped by temporal limitations or generational curses from our past.After humanity’s fall, corruption became bound within time, creating the cycle of evening and morning that represents the ongoing struggle between darkness and light in our earthly experience. However, God’s seventh day of rest never ended with ‘evening and morning,’ indicating that His rest remains available to us. The curse in Genesis wasn’t God punishing Adam, but rather God explaining the natural consequences of the seeds Adam had sown—life would now involve toil, sweat, and struggle.The message emphasizes that while we must work diligently in this world, God doesn’t want us limited to human effort alone. Through entering His rest, we can experience divine empowerment that transcends the stress and strain of purely earthly endeavors. This rest isn’t about a specific day of the week but represents a lifestyle of trusting God’s power to work through our faithful obedience. When we combine diligent work with faith-based rest in God’s promises, we bring eternity into time, allowing heaven’s reality to transform our earthly circumstances and communities.

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