How does Mark 11:24 work?

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know1

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The Lord is addressing his apostles. I therefore believe it is intended for those who have given up everything to follow Christ to be His disciple, to whom it applies; as well as moving mountains in the previous verse.

Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
No, it is not to those who give everything up to follow Jesus.
It is to those who have the faith of God or who have faith in God. Vs 22.
Jesus is simply telling Peter and those listening HOW he killed the fig tree.
If you look at what you quoted in vs 23 and compare that to what Jesus did with the tree, you might some striking similarities.
Vs 23 is what Jesus used to kill the tree. He did not ask God the Father to do anything.
He TOLD the tree what it was going to do, and it did it. He spoke to the tree like He said to do with the mountain.
If you don't doubt what you say shall come to pass, you will have whatsoever you say.
That is a spiritual law, forever established in heaven, because Jesus spoke or voiced it, and now it is written.
It will work for "whosoever" has faith in God or the faith of God.
But it will NOT work for those who are doubters, who call themselves believers, or those who fail to forgive others who offended them. As it is written in verses 25 and 26.
 

louis

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No, it is not to those who give everything up to follow Jesus.
It is to those who have the faith of God or who have faith in God. Vs 22.
Jesus is simply telling Peter and those listening HOW he killed the fig tree.
If you look at what you quoted in vs 23 and compare that to what Jesus did with the tree, you might some striking similarities.
Vs 23 is what Jesus used to kill the tree. He did not ask God the Father to do anything.
He TOLD the tree what it was going to do, and it did it. He spoke to the tree like He said to do with the mountain.
If you don't doubt what you say shall come to pass, you will have whatsoever you say.
That is a spiritual law, forever established in heaven, because Jesus spoke or voiced it, and now it is written.
It will work for "whosoever" has faith in God or the faith of God.
But it will NOT work for those who are doubters, who call themselves believers, or those who fail to forgive others who offended them. As it is written in verses 25 and 26.
You are correct that it is about those who have the faith of God, but who among us on this forum has the faith to tell a mountain to throw itself in the ocean and it does it?
I'm fairly certain no one today has the Lords faith.
Disciples, who leave everything and are singularly minded (not double minded like we are today, putting faith in God and Mammon), would therefore be those verses 23 & 24 applies to.
 

know1

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You are correct that it is about those who have the faith of God, but who among us on this forum has the faith to tell a mountain to throw itself in the ocean and it does it?
I'm fairly certain no one today has the Lords faith.
Disciples, who leave everything and are singularly minded (not double minded like we are today, putting faith in God and Mammon), would therefore be those verses 23 & 24 applies to.
I agree that Jesus is the only one who had that kind of faith, but it doesn't have to be a literal mountain, as Jesus also demonstrated on the fig tree.
I have commanded many things to be gone in the name of Jesus, and they did, even as it written. But I had faith for them to be gone. The things I didn't have faith for but still commanded them to leave, didn't.
That's the way it works.