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FAITH

Hebrews 11      Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

• By faith men of old gained God’s approval through faith we understand the worlds were created
• By the words of God, and
• By faith that things we see are was not made out of things that already were, or are visible, but were in reality created by Father God.
• By faith Abel offered a sacrifice to God,
• By faith Enock was taken up by God so he did not see death.

Without faith it is impossible to please God he who comes to God must believe He is, and that He is a rewarded of those who seek Him. By faith Noah built the Ark, On God’s word. By faith Abraham, when called by God, he went, not knowing where he was going. By faith Sarah received the ability to conceive, for she considered God faithful when He promised, having faith in God to do what He said He would do.

“I go to prepare a place for you” Having faith that we will get to that place is essential, for if we truly have faith it is there, we will head for it even now. Faith keeps us from turning back, back to the old life, our old ways. Faith is our strength to keep looking to God to provide for us. ((With a lack of Faith we feel we have to do it ourselves))

    If we live in faith we will live in a better place; Totally trusting God and not ourselves or man, And God will not be ashamed to be called our God; for He has prepared a place for us!

    Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, all lived with faith in God, and accomplished many great things through God. They were disliked and miss treated by the world and thought of as less than. Men who the word of God says

            “men of whom the world was not worthy”.       -Oh to be such a man-

All having gained approval from God through their faith in God, did not receive what was promised.

    Because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

    Since we have so many examples of faith and we have the promises from God.

    We need to put aside everything that would cause us to stumble, to doubt the word of God and sin that we allow to so easily entangle us.

    Let us run the race that the Lord has set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus who is the author and perfecter of our faith.

    Jesus was faithful to the Father unto death on the cross and likewise we should be faithful to Christ, unto death.

For it is written

“My Son, Do not regard lightly the disciplines of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son who He receives.”

It is for discipline that you endure;

God deals with you as with a son: for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? So no matter how hard you may think you have it consider it all joy and keep your faith in God. All else is futile. He who doubts is condemned if he partakes, because his partaking is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Jesus said “Truly I say to you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall do the things I do.”

A double minded man is unstable, in all his ways. Consider it all joy. When you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, That you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts, is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. Let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, Being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Faith is the beginning, and will carry you home in the end, but if you doubt don’t expect anything from the Lord.

Faith:

That God is God,

• He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end,
• He is the creator of the heavens and the earth,
• That He created the universe,
• He created the soul and only
• He can save or destroy it.
• He created man and gave him breath,
• and He can take it away.

Only He knows the day and the hour of His return. That He sat all things in motion.

He as Jesus came to this earth was born of a virgin, died on a cross, and rose againg in three days victorious over death, hell and the grave. Faith in Him, for only He, can save the soul. And only He can totally provide for me.

Tomorrow Day 5;      How to live, as told to us by Lord Jesus