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Continue to Reflect and apply
This series has been great thus far.
Yes we have had a couple of things that may hard to hear, but true like when we talk about sin and repentance.
Today we will focus on faith.
Other subjects we have covered.
On the Bible - authenticity, infallibility, and authority
On God- the creator of all things
On Jesus - The only Begotten Son who provided the way for our sins to be forgiven
On Holy Spirit - the means in which our sins are washed away when we are baptized and we then receive the gift of the Holy Spirit when born again.
On the Gospel- The power of God to save
On baptism - The place and means of our salvation
On the church - the church defined, biblically speaking
If you missed any of these messages you can find them on our Facebook or Faithlife pages.
Our focal scripture for this series has been and still is:
By now you should have these verses memorized and not even have to think about this, but we do want to consider them, ponder them, reflect on them as we look at them and other scriptures, this morning with focus being faith.
Faith (1Cor13:13; 1The1:3)
A link between faith, hope and love joins with other passages
Work of Faith, Labor of love, and steadfastness of hope.
All take effort don’t they?
But all are worthy of careful reflection and consideration
This morning like I mentioned we are going to focus on faith.
I. Faith Defined
Faith is essential to being a Christian in in pleasing God isn’t it?
So, how is it defined?
Let’s look together.
In general according to Eastman’s Bible Dictionary
“Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true.”
“Its primary idea is trust.”
Now adding to that Zondervan Bible Encyclopedia says
Greek word (Pistis) - “can refer to trusting or being worth trusting.
Now lets look at what the Bible says in a few translations (Heb11:1)
Faith is assurance, it is reality of the thing hoped for, it is conviction, it is proof, it is evidence of things not seen.
So in the general sense faith is the conviction, the trust in someone or something.
Now there is Faith in God.
Faith in God has conviction with reward (Heb11:6, 3-5)
It requires belief and reward to the one who seeks Him!
But let me expand on that verse to keep in context
Without this type of faith, it is impossible to please Him
Then there is faith in Jesus (Jn14:1, 8:24, 11:27, 10:10, 1:29; 8:12; 14:6)
This too has conviction and trust in who Jesus is
You must believe He is the Christ or you will die in your sins
It involves conviction and trust in what Jesus did for us
and how about
He gives us life, life abundantly and takes away our sins
It involves conviction and trust in what Jesus said:
No one who follows Jesus will walk in the darkness of this world but will have the Light of life!
And to have the light of life you must
Know that you can only come through Him.
So you must come through Him to the Father to have your sins forgiven or you will die in your sins.
Faith like this is developed for it is not an emotional faith.
Your faith may have some emotions but is not built on emotions, it is built on the truth, the evidence
II.
Faith Developed
Through God’s word faith is developed (Rom10:17)
God’s word is designed to create faith (Jn20:30-31; 1Jn5:13)
God’s written word is there to help create faith in Jesus
And then in the Epistles
The word gives evidence intended to produce and create faith and to help develop it in you.
Faith is developed through obedience too (2The1:8; 1Pt4:17; Mk1:15; Jn7:17)
First by obeying the gospel
add to that
1 Peter 4:17 (NASB95)
17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
If you don’t repent, believe and obey the gospel judgment is in store
But Jesus also said
IF you do His will, you will know the truth and the origin of the word
As you hear, as you obey your conviction and trust grows.
Developed, obedient faith leads to salvation and the start of a new life (Col1:11-14)
Developed, obedient faith’s aim should be the fullness of your faith in God (Rom4:20; 1The1:5)
We grow strong in faith when we are obedient and allow our faith to be developed
Obedient faith, that obeyed the Gospel came with power and full conviction (1The1:3)
Full conviction and trust leads to action
Remember we started today with faith, hope and love, and this is it in action.
This confidence, this trust leads to more confidence in your place in Christ (1The4:14)
and if that doesn’t do much for you, it should be you hope in your faith and your confidence and trust in God and in Jesus.
Another way to grow our faith is through fellowship, it is also a way to protect our faith from diminishing
Grow and protect your faith (Heb3:12-14)
Protect, grow your faith by encouraging one another (1The5:11)
Active, trusting, obedient faith that is being developed is demonstrated
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Demonstrated Faith
Obedient faith is demonstrated.
It is demonstrated in our works as compared to dead works (Jm2:17, 20, 26).
But in the middle of this passage there is this faith that produces works (Jm2:18)
We need to be careful to protect our faith for it can be destroyed if not used, it is easy to slip back into the world.
So remember
Scriptures to remember, ponder about protecting, knowing your faith (Rom10:17; Hos4:6: Jm2:17, 26, 19)
Faith comes by hearing (Rom10:17)
People are destroyed by lack of knowledge (Hos4:6)
Faith without works is dead (Jam2:17, 26)
Don’t have trembling faith like the demons (Jam2:19)
Stay in fellowship with each other in faith (Heb3:12-14)
keep fanning the flames of your faith, fan your friends and families flames too.
With the Word of God implanted in the people of God, empowered by the Spirit of God like like Timothy was reminded.
Fight the good fight of faith (1Tim6:12)
we can fight the good fight of faith!
And we do it together.
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So where is your faith, how is your faith, is your faith obedient to the gospel?
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