Faith--A Cornerstone Spiritual Growth
What is Faith?
| Misconceptions >>>>> | >>>>>>>> | -Not intellectual and emotional self-control |
| Faith, belief, and trust | Proverbs 30:5 | Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. |
| Psalms 36:7 | How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. | |
| Psalms 56:4 | In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. | |
| Romans 8:31 | What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? | |
| The three words are often synonymously | Hebrews 11:1 | Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. |
| John 3:16 | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. | |
| 1 Timothy 4:10 | For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. | |
| Faith God Wants | Hebrews 11:39 | And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: |
| II Cor 11:13 | For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. | |
| Hebrews 11:6 | But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. | |
| Romans 1:5 | By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: | |
| Romans 5:1 | Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: | |
| James 2:21-23 | 002:021 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered
Isaac his son upon the altar?
002:022 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 002:023 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. |
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| I Peter 1:9 | Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. | |
| I John 2: 3-5 | 002:003 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
002:004 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 002:005 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. |