PINE GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
Welcome to Sunday School
December 7, 2025
"When Your Faith Falls Short"
Matthew 17:14-20
The Point:
A faith that looks to Jesus
is a powerful faith.
Matthew 17:14-16
14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed; for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Matthew 17:17-18
17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me
18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew 17:19-20
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief; for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
We live high-capacity lives, with low-capacity funds and dwindling time. Everywhere we turn we find overextended, underfunded people with limited margins, few guardrails, and contracted capabilities
Culture thrives on scarcity of time, money and ability But when confronted with the needs of a lost, weary world, you'll never find those excuses in the red-letter verses of your Bible. Jesus is truly an all-sufficient Savior who supplies everything we need. And He longs to show us how to escape the bounds of scarcity. We can learn His way and discover that little really does become much.
The disciples privately asked for an explanation of their failure Jesus attributed this failure to their miniscule faith. Jesus used the proverbial smallness of the mustard seed to make His point dramatically, but He balanced His point dramatically, but He balanced His rebuke with a measure of optimism by promising that even just a little more faith than they had could move mountains.
When our faith falls short, we must run to the One who strengthens our faith. He overcomes every shortfall and challenges us to bring everything to Him, even when it's a mess. He specializes in messes and impossibilities.
Throughout our brief lives, Jesus compels us to trust Him and have faith, even when life gets intense When our faith fails, we lose our perspective of the larger story He is writing through our lives. Perhaps the greatest gift we could give Jesus is resilient faith even when we have little else to give.
A little faith goes a long way!!!
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