Life of faith

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The way by which believers journey through this world and into the life to come. Jesus Christ himself is the way to life.

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Life seen as travelling with God

Walking with God

Genesis 17:1 ESV
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
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Journeying from the old to the new

Isaiah 43:19 ESV
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
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God’s guidance along the way

Exodus 13:21 ESV
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
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God’s ways

Walking in God’s way

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God teaches believers his way

Isaiah 48:17 ESV
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
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Characteristics of the way of life include holiness, obedience, trust, humility, joy and peace:

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Sinners refuse to follow God’s way

Isaiah 53:6 ESV
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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All other routes end in death

Proverbs 14:12 ESV
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
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Those who travel God’s way are blessed

Proverbs 4:18 ESV
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
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Jesus Christ is the way to life

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“the Way” was an early designation of Christianity, suggestive of the content of the church’s message that Jesus Christ is the way to life:

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Entrance to the way to life

Entrance is restricted

Matthew 7:13–14 ESV
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
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Entrance is by faith

Hebrews 11:8–10 ESV
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
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