Mark 11:23’s “Whosoever”
“Have the faith of God. Amen. I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he says comes to pass; he shall have it.” (RV paraphrased)
In recent years, many ministers have wandered away from the clear light of Bible faith and have blindly walked into the dry places of pop psychology and metaphysics. This drift is exhibited in the present exposition of Mark 11:23. In failing to properly exegete Jesus’s discourse on faith, they have equated His “whosoever” to Daniel Webster’s. They preach that anyone, be it Christian, Muslim, atheist, or even Aryan Nation member, can cause things to come to pass by the mere act of speaking words over a situation. In consequence, one of Jesus’s most important teachings about the workings of God’s kingdom is reduced to humanistic positivism and word-power shenanigans. In Mark 11:23, Jesus’s “whosoever” was limited just to those who possess God’s faith. It is just those “whosoevers” who possess the faith and have no doubt that what they say will come to pass actually have those things come to pass.