6.14.2009
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Faith is not something “to have.” It is something to act
on.
Making Faith Real
Keys to Spiritual Growth
Making Faith Real
Keys to Spiritual Growth
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Making Faith Real.
1. Faith is How We Connect With God.
Romans 4:5 However to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited to him as righteousness.
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Making Faith Real.
2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.
Heb. 11:6 …and without faith it is impossible to please God for anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently seek him.
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Making Faith Real.
2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever does not obey the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.
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Making Faith Real.
2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.
Phil. 2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
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Making Faith Real.
2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.
Gal. 5:6 For in Christ neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
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Making Faith Real.
3. Faith is How We Get Through Daily Life.
2 Cor. 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
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Making Faith Real.
3. Faith is How We Get Through Daily Life.
Gal. 2:20 …The life I live in the body I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Making Faith Real.
4. Our Faith is Not in Faith.
1 Cor. 2:4-5 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on man’s wisdom but on God’s power.
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Making Faith Real.
5. Faith is Trust to the Extent I Act.
James 2:17 In the same way, faith by itself if it is not accompanied by action, is dead!
James 2:18 You show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
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Making Faith Real.
5. Faith is Trust to the Extent I Act.
1 Tim. 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially for his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Making Faith Real.
6. Faith is the Test for What is Pleasing to God.
Romans 14:23 The man who has doubt is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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Making Faith Real.
7. Faith Has a Battle to It.
2 Tim. 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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Making Faith Real.
8. Faith Enables You to Resist Satan’s Attacks.
Eph. 6:16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
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Making Faith Real.
9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.
• Eager for money
1 Tim. 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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Making Faith Real.
9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.
• Conscience
1 Tim. 1:19 …fight the good faith, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith.
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Making Faith Real.
9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.
• Spiritual Laziness
Heb. 6:12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what is promised.
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Making Faith Real.
9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.
• Wavering
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess,
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Making Faith Real.
9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.
• Wavering
2 Cor. 13:5 Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Test yourselves.
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