A FAITHLESS OR FAITHFUL GENERATION?

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 It is not enough to know something, it has to be BELIEVED.
First, you do need the knowledge but secondly you need to put the knowledge to practice.  When we act upon something, we believe it.  This is why everyone who came to Yeshua were healed.  They came to Yeshua TO be healed.  In Yeshua`s home town he could do no great miracles because the people did not believe in Him.  Why would you ever go to a Doctor if you did not believe he could help you.  The people in Yeshua`s hometown did not come to Him to be healed therefore He could do nothing great there.  Unbelief is one of those things in the end that will cause people to miss out on Salvation.  It is also something(a Spirit) that will be thrown into the pit  when Yeshua comes to make ALL things new. 

Look at the story from Mark 9.
 Yeshua  Heals a Boy with an Unclean Spirit
¹⁴ And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. ¹⁵ And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. ¹⁶ And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” ¹⁷ And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. ¹⁸ And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” ¹⁹ And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” ²⁰ And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. ²² And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” ²³ And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” ²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” ²⁵ And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” ²⁶ And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” ²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. ²⁸ And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” ²⁹ And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
^{Yeshua is calling the disciples a faithless generation because they were unable to get rid of this demon.  Now remember, this was before Yeshua died, so they were not regenerated yet.   The reason to bring this up is-today we are regenerated-if Yeshua is calling them a faithless generation-what would Yeshua be calling us today?  Do we even care as believers?  Are we faithful or faithless?  Yeshua said these signs shall follow those who believe.....And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;  they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."Mark 16:17-18}