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Introduction
What does your faith look like?
If you could take your faith, cut it in a way that you could see a cross section of it, what would it look like?
\What does your faith look like?
If you could take your faith, cut it in a way that you could see a cross section of it, what would it look like?
Would it be thin?
Would it be fatty?
Would it be muscular?
What makes up your faith?
Faith is important.
It is mentioned in the Bible over 300 times.
It has been said that faith is action based on certainty without physical evidence.
The power of our faith rests in the object of our faith, not the faith itself.
You and I gather in this place each week to hopefully express and grow our faith.
Just like love, faith
When it comes to faith in our God, we must first believe that God exists, believe that He cares for you and me, and believe that His love is real!
I want to help you grow in your faith through a series of messages from one chapter in the Bible, .
We are going to look at faith and see how many before us have lived by faith.
Hebrews 11:1-2
Understanding Faith
A dictionary will define faith as the “confident belief in truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.”
The first thing we must do in understanding faith, has already been stated: The power of our faith rests in the object of our faith, not the faith itself.
The object of our faith is God and the assurance that God is really there.
We go through life with moments of spiritual ecstasy and sometimes spiritual drought.
It’s a journey, some of the roads are tough, some are easier.
Our journey of faith is ultimately a journey that propels us to place our confidence less and less in things of this world and calls us to place our hopes on heaven.
In other words, we have a great desire to place our hope in Something far greater than ourselves.
Every struggle we face should remind us of our great need in God.
We are called to believe in God and that He cares enough for us to make sure that can find peace and happiness.
So how do you develop an understanding of faith?
I would invite you to do a word study through scripture on the word faith.
Use that concordance in your bible and cross reference faith.
2 Chronicles
Habakkuk
Over the next few weeks, I want to help you understand faith more as we look at this great chapter and go through the Hall of Faith and see how the ancients, as our text today calls them, lived out their faith.
In looking at , we see a couple of words that help us gain understanding about faith: sure and certain.
Are you sure about God and His great love for you?
and, are you certain that what He says is true and that you can rely on it.
Bible faith is not blind optimism or a hope-so mentality.
Bible faith is confident obedience to God’s word in spite of circumstances and consequences.
Bible faith is the response of man to what God has said.
As you are developing an understanding, a comprehension of faith, I want to encourage you to be teachable.
I want you to go deeper than just saying, “I have faith because I was raised that way, or I have always believed.”
I want to encourage you to know that you know and know why you know!
So if you can develop an understanding of your faith, I guarantee that you also realize that bible faith is undeniable faith.
Undeniable Faith
Tony Evans says that “faith is acting like God is telling the truth.”
What a beautiful statement!
When you realize that bible faith is an undeniable faith, we have the inward conviction that God has promised us and He will keep His word.
Undeniable faith is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Throughout the Bible we find evidences of undeniable faith.
Many are listed in this chapter that we will be studying in the weeks to come.
If it were possible to contradict or declare our faith untrue, can you imagine what life would be like?
We would be hopeless, we would be unsure of everything, and completely miserable.
Charles Spurgeon said, “Without faith we are without Christ and consequently without a Savior.
It would be infinitely better to be without eyes, without hearing, without wealth, without bread, without garments, without a home rather than to be without the faith that brings everything the soul requires.
Without faith we are spiritually naked, poor, miserable, lost, condemned and without a hope of escape.”
Without an undeniable faith, you and I are without hope, for a true hope can only only spring out of true faith.
But, if we make our faith undeniable, we can be assured that can have Christ, we can have a Savior, we can have hope!
With this hope we can be assured and given purpose that God :
Ephesians 3:14-
We can have an understanding of faith.
We can have an undeniable faith, and finally, we can have an undeterred faith.
Undeterred Faith
Again, Tony Evans stated: “Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe.
Faith is about believing the One you believe in is believable.”
If you faith is undeterred, then you can not prevent it, you can’t stop it.
Jesus said that you don’t have to even have to have much of it!
His disciples were perplexed that they could not drive out a demon.
Just a little undeterred faith can do amazing things in your life and in the lives of those around you!
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An undeterred faith produces righteousness.
Romans 3:
Romans 4:3-
Undeterred faith will give you a blessing!
Throughout the Gospels, we see that Jesus loved and always responded to anyone that had faith.
He loved it.
He loved it when those placed their full faith in Him and His Father.
Matthew 15:21-
Mark 5:21-
An undeterred faith will also be a faith that cannot be contained.
You will want to share it and it will want to come out of you!
So if you have an understanding of faith, a faith that is undeniable, and a faith that is undeterred, you will also be like the ancients, the ones who have gone before us.
Faith is not just a belief system.
It is putting into action that which you believe and that which you believe in.
Your faith should be a call to action:
James 2:1
Your assignment this week is this:
Ask the Lord to show you in His word more about faith.
Ask Him to help you understand it better.
Ask Him to show you that it is undeniable and undeterred.
Then ask Him to show you what you need to do as a result of such a faith.
What about you?
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