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FAITH THAT IS LIVING

Faith is the assurance in our heart that what God promises will surely come to pass. It is the evidence or proofs of things not seen in our world. According to II Corinthians 4: 18:"We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Simply speaking, faith is respecting what God says, and expecting it to happen. It is being responsive to the divine revelation of God.

Faith is an action word. I must do something in obedience to what God reveals. In salvation we must believe in our heart that God has raised Him from the dead. Therefore, we will confess Him with our mouth as Lord. (Romans 10:9-10)

Where do we get faith?  "So then faith comes through hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17). The Holy Spirit makes the words of God alive. Jesus said in John 6:63: "....the words that I speak unto you are spirit and they are life."

Through the Word of God we get a knowledge of God and we are inspired to do the will of God. It becomes a living Word from a living God. Therefore, Satan focus on disconnecting us from the Bible in order that we become disconnected from God. Therefore, the Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible!

It is our faith that releases the power of God. In John 4 :46-54, a weathy religious ruler came begging to Jesus in Cana that He would come to Capernaum and heal his son, who was dying. Jesus spoke the Word, "Go your way; your son lives." So the man believed the word that Jesus spoketo him, and he went his way. The next day this ruler got home and learned that his son was healed the precise moment that Jesus told him to go his way that his lives.

The biggest question is: When was the son healed? Every time that I ask that question I find that the majority of people will answer the moment that Jesus spoke the Word. I don't believe that! I believe that he was healed when".....he went his way." His faith manifested itself in action: He went his way.His faith released the power of God.

It is also true that the object of our faith must be faithful and true.  Someone that we can trust!


 In the Old Testament God gives an illustration regarding putting our faith in the Cross and what was accomplished at Calvary that is found in Number 21:1-9. The Israelites were murmuring and complaining in addition to challenging His authority. Therefore, He sent snakes into their midst, who were biting them and they asked Moses to pray to God for which He did and the Lord told Moses to make a bronze serpent and place it on a pole and everyone who looked at that bronze serpent in faith would be healed of their snake bite. That sounds illogical and unrealistic. The miracle took place because they believed what God told them to do. Faith respect what God says and expects Him to do what He says. Faith focus on the object of your faith. In their case they focus on the bronze serpent that represent judgment (John 3:14). Likewise, we must focus on Jesus Christ as th object of our faith.


Finally, it is important to realize that without faith it is impossible to please Him. In Hebrews 11:6: ".....we must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those that diigently seek Him.

We miss out when we seek Him for the rewards. If we diligently seek Him then we will receive His blessings.




















Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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