God gives his children faith in the new birth, but we have to be diligent to add to our faith and grow in discipleship. We add to our faith virtue, patience, and other spiritual disciplines to arrive at the pinnacle of charity to make our calling and election sure to ourselves and others.
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In following the example of the heroes of faith in Heb. 11, we see that our faith should be edified by looking unto their examples. The faith that we have been given by the Lord is our foundation that provides us stability in our lives. Our faith also give us inspiration to have encouragement, strength, and energy to run with patience the race of faith that is set before us.
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Unfortunately, at times in our lives our faith might not be worked out like it should be. We might exhibit no faith or dead faith. It’s possible our faith can err, be shipwrecked, and even overthrown. However, even if we make those mistakes and don’t work out our faith like we ought to, nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure and nothing can separate us from the love of our God.
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We consider the distinction between what God sanctifies and then our admonition to sanctify ourselves and our lives in service to the Lord. God’s children have been set apart for a holy use, and they can never lose their state of being sanctified in an eternal sense in Christ. Then, because we have already been set apart in Christ, we ought to live a life that is set apart from the world.
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In the struggle of faith for God’s children, we oftentimes struggle with little faith, just like Jesus’ disciples in their lives. Doubt can grow and creep up and diminish our faith to where it might end up much smaller than it should be. I hope we can grow to push through little faith and our faith to grow stronger and stronger in service to the Lord.
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Everyone loves a rags to riches story. We consider some real life stories of great wealth that came to people unexpectedly. However, the greater lesson is the rags to riches story of God’s untold riches graciously bestowed unto his people. God has freely given an amazing inheritance which we did not deserve, or even know about for a long period of time.
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As we begin to study the varying expressions of faith in the lives of God’s people, we look at the two accounts in scripture of great faith, and learn common characteristics of each. What are the attributes of great faith that we can attempt to exhibit in our lives to live boldly in trusting God?
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As we look at some examples of pits that were dug in fear instead of trusting God, we see that pits dug in fear for the wrong reasons will always inevitably be filled with sin, if not in our lives, it may not be filled with sin until generations later. Let us be purposeful to not be reactionary and not let fear dictate our actions instead of faith, and not dig pits in fear that can be a danger us and others to fall into.
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While Romans 10 is commonly used as an invitation for people to believe to be born again, a close examination of the text shows the intended audience are children of God who already have the word of faith in their heart. Rather than believing to be saved to heaven, the already born again children of God are called to confess publicly the testimony of the word of faith already in their heart.
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The strength of God’s love is so powerful that there is no possibility that anyone can be separated from the love of God. There is just as much possibility as God ceasing to love one of his beloved as God ceasing to love himself and ceasing to love the Son, Jesus Christ. There is nothing that can separate us from God’s eternal, everlasting love!
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