Kindle Notes & Highlights
A. Faith is God’s chosen channel of God’s saving grace.
God creates faith within us, enabling us to believe His Word and to rely upon Him as our Savior.
B. Faith is the first step in pleasing God.
Faith is not like money; we do not hoard it up and present it to God in order to please Him.
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 (Hebrews 11:6).
C. Faith is the only way we gain access to God’s holy presence.
Sin separates; blood makes a fresh wa...
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D. Faith is our means of becoming stabilized in the truth.
E. Our confession of faith regarding Christ qualifies us for other experiences.
2. What Areas of Man’s Life Are Affected by Faith?
Just as in repentance, all four basic areas of life are touched: mind, emotion, will,
and s...
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Genuine persuasion creates right thinking about God, right feeling, definite decisions, and spiritual commitment. Faith activates the whole man.
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A. Mind.
Faith is more than intellectual assent; it is commitment with knowledge to obey ...
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The mind must be informed of the truth.
B. Emotion.
Heart response is absolutely essential, for everything else flows out from the heart.
Wow!
C. Will.
It is the will that sets us into motion.
Christ requires obedience and this is impossible apart from the determination of the will.
D. Spirit.
Faith makes us receptive to God. He can enter into us and change us.
3. Is Faith Contrary to Knowledge?
Faith is based upon a higher knowledge, the knowledge which comes only from God.
Faith gives us spiritual understanding of all that is real.
A. Faith is not Gnosticism.
B. Faith is not Pragmatism.
C. Faith is not Existentialism.
alone; it embraces and reacts to objective reality—a God who is there and whose words are truth.
Faith is valid not because it is self-authenticating through personal awareness, but because God’s record concerning His Son
is rel...
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4. What Is Faith’s Strongest Guarantee?
Faith is guaranteed by the nature of God himself.
In order to make His promises and His gospel secure, He backed them...
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He swore this oath by none other than himself, the greatest of all. He has put His o...
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5. How Does John Relate Faith to Fact? (1 John 5)
A. Faith produces right conduct (vv. 1-5).
We experience a genuine spiritual birth and become new people.
B. Faith creates experiences which are credentials to believers (vv. 6-8).
The strongest credential for a believer is his own changed life.
We experience the reality of the gospel in three distinct ways: the blood of cleansing and forgiveness, the waters of baptism, an...
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C. Faith creates an internal witnes...
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D. Faith is the proof of the confidence we exhibit (vv. 13-21).
We believe our prayers are answered because God is there to hear them and to act upon our petitions when we pray in accord with His purposes.
Our reliance is not upon our prayers but upon Someone outside ourselves.
1. Does Keeping the Law Make Men Righteous?
A. If we break any of the law, we have broken the whole law.
B. The law was given to cause us to see our own inability and need of a Savior.
C. Man possesses nothing good within himself.
