"It doesn't take faith to follow rules." - JB
Episode Summary:
What is faith? What does it look like to operate in faith as a Christian? Today JB talks on the subject of faith and walking in the Lord using His guidance He gives us in the bible and by remembering that only through God's grace can we be saved!
In today's episode:
- Our confidence as Christians and believers should be in hope, and in what Jesus did for us.
- The first step to salvation is faith.
- What is the gospel.
- Believing in things that are "too good to be true".
- God has already won the victory for us, we just have to believe in him to receive it.
- Our God is the only living God.
- God's new covenant, brought to us after his resurrection.
- There is only ONE way to heaven and that is through Jesus.
- God rewards those who seek him.
- You cannot please God without faith.
- Heroes of faith.
- Living for God and fulfilling the purpose He has for you on Earth.
- The deceitfulness of sin.
- The Holy Spirit is our guide.
Weekly Scripture(s):
- Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- Hebrews 11:6-8 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. (7) By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. (8) By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
- Hebrews 11:13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.
- 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
- Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- John 12:47-49 If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. (48) There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. (49) For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.
- Hebrews 10:26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left.
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