Faith's Textbook
Faith comes by hearing the message...
We know where to go to find faith. It's not as if we live in a generation where the word of the Lord cannot be found. It's the world's best seller!
Even in the days of Jesus, learned men in his community had access to scriptures that pointed cearly to Him as the long-aaited Messiah. But possession of those scriptures was not enough. Reading them was no guarantee of eternal life. It was applying those words by faith that made a difference.
The faith offered was a gift, paralleled by the words - one without the other is of no use - it either leads to a loveless legalism or credulous antinomianism. Either way, it falls short. But in partnership, fiath brings the word to life and applies it to our circumstances, lifting us above the mundane and bringing us into the presence of the Almighty.
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We know where to go to find faith. It's not as if we live in a generation where the word of the Lord cannot be found. It's the world's best seller!
Even in the days of Jesus, learned men in his community had access to scriptures that pointed cearly to Him as the long-aaited Messiah. But possession of those scriptures was not enough. Reading them was no guarantee of eternal life. It was applying those words by faith that made a difference.
The faith offered was a gift, paralleled by the words - one without the other is of no use - it either leads to a loveless legalism or credulous antinomianism. Either way, it falls short. But in partnership, fiath brings the word to life and applies it to our circumstances, lifting us above the mundane and bringing us into the presence of the Almighty.
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