Life of faith

Life seen as travelling with God

Walking with God

Genesis 17:1 LEB

When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, “I am El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless

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Journeying from the old to the new

Isaiah 43:19 LEB

Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

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God’s guidance along the way

Exodus 13:21 LEB

And Yahweh was going before them by day in a column of cloud to lead them on the way and by night in a column of fire to give light to them to go by day and 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 LEB

Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, 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 LEB

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

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All other routes end in death

Proverbs 14:12 LEB

There is a way that seems upright to a man, but its end is the way of death.

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Those who travel God’s way are blessed

Proverbs 4:18 LEB

But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day is full.

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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 LEB

“Enter through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it, because narrow is the gate and constricted is the road that leads to life, and there are few who find it!

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Entrance is by faith

Hebrews 11:8–10 LEB

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise. For he was expecting the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

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