Finding Faith

Luke 18:8b ...Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Where is Faith Found?

Luke 17:5–6 ESV

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

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3 Points 123 and 3 corresponding sub points ABC

1. Faith is Found in Tests

James 1:1–3 NIV

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:4–8 NIV

Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

A. Faith is Found in Tests but Forged in Perseverance

2. Faith is Found in Tenacity

Definition Tenacity

Tenacity: the quality or fact of being very determined;

Tenacity: the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence

Luke 18:1–5 ESV

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’ ”

Luke 18:6–8 ESV

And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

B. Faith is Found in Tenacity but Fostered with Persistence

3. Faith is Found in Testimony

1 John 5:9–11 NIV

We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Revelation 12:10–11 NIV

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

C. Faith is Found in our Testimony and Fixed in Perpetuity

Definition Fixed

Fixed:

fastened securely in position

Fixed: predetermined and not subject to or able to be changed

Definition Perpetuity

Perpetuity: the state or quality of lasting forever

Confession

I am a part of God’s Family and I declare Faith will be Found in me.