Sermon Tone Analysis

Our Fathers

Faith of our Fathers!

Living Still!

What it is faith?

Usually we quote

But sometimes it seems a bit vague to understand this verse.

Can you tell me what it means?

I think give a more plain definition of faith:

Heb

Faith is first to believe that God is real.

That He is love.

That God is everything that the Scriptures say that He is.

“He is” what?

He is God; there is none else beside Him.

He is God in heaven and in earth.

He is present with us.

Deut

He is the faithful God which keeps His promises and mercy with them that love Him and His commandments.

He is YOUR God.

deut

He is your life.

deut 30 20

He is good.

1 chron 16 14

He is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Job

He is the saving strength of His anointed.

He is our help and our shield.

Ps

He is a great King over all the earth.

He is my defence.

Ps

He is gracious, full of compassion, and righteous.

Ps 1

He is altogether lovely.

He is brought to as a lamb to the slaughter.

isa 53

He is able to abase those that walk in pride.

Dan

He is like a refiners fire and like fullers’ soap.

He is risen.

Matt

He is the Son of God

He is Lord of all.

He is our peace.

Eph

He is the mediator of a better covenant.

He is faith that promised.

He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

He is precious.

1 pet

He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He is the propitiation (atonement) for our sins.

He is pure.

He is righteous.

1 jn

He is Lord of lords, and King of kings.

To believe that “He is” means to understand that I surrender my life, my every concern, perplexity to Him; to believe the “ He is” means to learn to trust and confide in Him.

Psalm 34

29

To believe that “He is” means that you have a moral responsibility to God and to those whom He has created, especially your neighbour who also has been created in the image of God!

You no longer live to yourself, but now you have the responsibility and privilege to live for God and your fellow man.

2 cor 5 14-

Unfortunately it is possible for us to fall away and lose our experience, even if we have tasted that the Lord is good!

4-

Why it is impossible for these men to receive repentance again is most likely because they have sinned against the Holy Ghost.

Paul is talking to the Hebrews who were being persecuted by the Judaeo countrymen and who outrightly denied the deity of Christ and Him being the Messiah, and who also vindicated His murderers as having Him crucified as the worst of criminals.

Those Jews who tasted the Lord was good, whose hearts burned within them when they heard the word of God preached with power, and felt the influence of the mighty working of the Holy Spirit on their hearts, when, after all this they intentionally reject the gospel and declare now that all the work of heaven they felt in their hearts was not actually from heaven, but actually from Satan, hence why it is impossible fro them to be renewed again unto repentance.

He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

After realising who “He is”, faith then will work and be exercised in Him.

We must believe that God is faithful to His word and that He will perform that which He has spoken when we meet the conditions of obedience and submission.

Who does He reward?

“them that diligently seek Him”.

Who are they that diligently seek Him?

These are persons who after beholding God and being convinced of His love, they strive to know Him more, and not just know more about Him, but to know Him more in the sense of being conformed to His character.

If we only behold that God is just, then it may lead us to be just in our lives, but what about love and mercy?

To behold God is not just to read or learn more about Him in church, but you read and go to church, and pray in order to find out more about Him.

And as you find out more about Him, your own character will expand and grow because you see more of God’s perfection.

ps 119

This is what I believe was the faith of our fathers:

An example of this is Moses

That God existed, He was real, and that He was personal and present in their lives.

Not only that God was real and present, but they saw that He was truth and mercy in One.

They saw that God is love, and that He demonstrated this love “in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

They also saw that He had a truth that was eternal and unchangeable, and believed that it was the God-given right of every man to know just what he knew about God and the plan of salvation.

They saw that God was always faithful to His promises, and by this they had an unbreakable confidence if they would be faithful to the end of their lives, they would receive the inheritance of the saints and live eternally with their Lord and Master Jesus Christ.

In view of the prize of a crown of righteousness, they gave themselves fully to seek God and to know more perfectly His will and truth for them so that they might conform their lives to it, knowing that the joy of this experience outweighed all the hardships that life brings.

What enables this faith to endure for centuries, even millennia?

The Amplified Bible puts it like this:

For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

AMP

Love is enduring.

It endures everything.

Love will endure pain, suffering, discomfort.

Love will endure time, and distance.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything.

It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.

Phillips New Testament Translation

Love will drive a person to their limits, and then keep going.

It knows no limit.

You see, when we talk about the faith of our fathers that is living still, it is because it is activated, and energized by love.

Not just any love, but the love in is agape love.