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Scripture Reading
What is faith?
Christianity is full of words and phrases that we use consitently.
I feel led, I feel called
The Spirit is moving
that is complete grace
give it up to the Lord
But there are also words that are both biblical and essential to Christianity.
Righteousness
Sin
Justification
Grace
Faith
Propitiation
Perhaps the most essential of those words to us is Faith.
What comes to mind when you hear the word faith?
How would you define faith?
Amazingly we see a clear definition of faith in
Instead, faith is a settled confidence that something in the future—something that is not yet seen but has been promised by God—will actually come to pass because God will bring it about.
“In other words, faith is a staking of our hearts and minds on a reality that is beyond us, both in time and comprehension.
It is ahead of us (“hoped for”) and above us (“not seen”)
Instead, faith is a settled confidence that something in the future—something that is not yet seen but has been promised by God—will actually come to pass because God will bring it about.
Instead, faith is a settled confidence that something in the future—something that is not yet seen but has been promised by God—will actually come to pass because God will bring it about.
Faith is not a blind trust in the face of contrary evidence, not a “leap in the dark”, instead biblical faith is a confident trust in the eternal God who is all-powerful, infinitely wise, eternally trustworthy.
The author of Hebrews gives examples of what this faith looks like when lived out.
True faith cannot exist as only thoughts or feelings.
Instead, it affects all of life, giving birth to works of obedience and endurance.
The author of Hebrews gives examples of what this faith looks like when lived out.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable offering.
and he was commended as righteous
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death
By faith Enoch pleased God.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God” why? “for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
The only way we can pursue God is to believe in Him, and look at this promise.
God rewards those who seek him.
By faith Noah constructed an ark to save his household
Noah listened and believed in the word of the Lord warning of the coming destruction and the way of salvation.
Noah was obedient to God through faith, and God saved him and his family.
By faith Abraham obeyed God and went to the place of promise
By faith Sarah believed God and had a child
Since she believed in God’s promise, she was given a son even when she was too old to have children
Commended by faith not by works
Looking at these men and women from the Old Testament we see how each one was commended by God.
They were seen as righteous, but the source of their righteousness was not from their actions.
It was
How do we gain faith?
Our faith is not unfounded.
We don’t say have faith in nothing, but God himself.
The question is how do we gain faith?
“There is a permanent relationship between faith and the Word.
He could not separate one from the other any more than we could separate the rays from the sun from which they come.
… The same Word is the basis whereby faith is supported and sustained; if it turns away from the Word, it falls.
Therefore, take away the Word and no faith will then remain.”
Calvin, Institutes, 3.2.6
Think of the Sun.
The Sun gives off light, and by that light we see and are warmed by its rays.
In the same way, God gives us His word that opens our eyes to the truth of who He is, and through that truth (the Word of God), we believe.
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