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“WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD.”
MUSTARD SEED
AND
FAITHSlide2
LUKE 18: 4-8
And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”Slide3
GOD IS MORE MERCIFUL THAN THE UNJUST JUDGE!!!Slide4
PROBLEM OF HAVING NO FAITH!!!
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith
from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live
by faith.”
1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon
the faith
and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons
.Slide5
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 10:38-39 And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.Slide6
I PETER 1: 6-7
6.In
all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Slide7
CONTEND FOR THE FAITH!!!
Jude 1:3
NIV Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people
.
Contend
epagónizomai
►
I contend earnestly
for-
/
epí
, "focused
on
"
and
"a contest, competition") – properly, to
contend
(literally, "
struggle upon, appropriately
"), i.e. with skill and commitment in opposing whatever is not of faith (God's
persuasion
).Slide8
OUR STATE OF AFFAIRS– PEW RESEARCH
But perhaps the most striking divide – and the driving force behind the overall drop in belief – is generational. As younger Americans enter adulthood, they are far less likely to be sure about God’s existence than are their elders. While 70% of those ages 65 and older express an absolutely certain belief in God or a universal spirit, only about half of adults under 30 feel the same way (51%).Slide9
Matthew
17:19-20 NIV19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a
mustard
seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”Slide10
FAITH CHAPTER –HEBREWS 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRaiUrP_Rl0Slide11
FAITH DEFINED- Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Faith
N
otice that Hebrews 11:1
shows
that "faith" normally means "
reliance”/
"trust."
Here
"Faith is the substance (
or
"the guaranty") of things hoped for, the evidence (or "convincing proof") of things not seen."
This passage
shows
that the
faith
illustrated by
Abraham, Moses, Rahab, was simply reliance upon a God known to be trustworthy. Such reliance enabled the believer to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.