What is New Testament Faith?
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Robert Gwin
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Faith is defined in the Bible as The assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities although not beheld. Hebrews 11:1
Behold
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New Testament faith, is "Faith comes by hearing the Gospel"
The Gospel is the "Preaching of the Cross"..... = that Jesus, sent from Heaven, Virgin born, died on the Cross for the sin of the world, and everyone who believes this "Gospel" has given God their Faith in Christ.
"Faith, is counted as Righteousness, and we are Justified by Faith, without works or deeds of the Law".
"Jesus is the one time ETERNAL Sacrifice for sin"
"God hath Made JESUS .... to be sin.....for us".
The GRACE of God, is The Cross of Christ.
"The LAW came by Moses....but GRACE and TRUTH, came by Jesus The Christ".
Jesus said....>"all that BELIEVE IN ME.....I GIVE unto YOU...... Eternal LIFE< and you shall never go to Hell (Perish)"""
The Gospel is the "Preaching of the Cross"..... = that Jesus, sent from Heaven, Virgin born, died on the Cross for the sin of the world, and everyone who believes this "Gospel" has given God their Faith in Christ.
"Faith, is counted as Righteousness, and we are Justified by Faith, without works or deeds of the Law".
"Jesus is the one time ETERNAL Sacrifice for sin"
"God hath Made JESUS .... to be sin.....for us".
The GRACE of God, is The Cross of Christ.
"The LAW came by Moses....but GRACE and TRUTH, came by Jesus The Christ".
Jesus said....>"all that BELIEVE IN ME.....I GIVE unto YOU...... Eternal LIFE< and you shall never go to Hell (Perish)"""
I have always found that description rather vague. It doesn't make a distinction between a human faith and the faith OF Christ. Although it is the higher faith being described.
Having said that... Faith is..."The substance of things hoped for"...
That is the reality of the kingdom walk made manifest in those who enter into Christ.
"The evidence of things not seen"...
Not seen with natural faculties but with spiritual faculties. The eternal light of God's glory can be "seen" in the Spirit by grace through faith. Otherwise, how would we know we are bearing God's armour of light? Religious speculation?
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Eternally Grateful
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actually the thing hoped for is eternal life. Which God, who can not lie. promised before time began
I understand why you think it is vague, because your faith is in your works. Not in the work of Christ. So faith is vague to you because it is not placed in something that is trustworthy.
Michiah-Imla
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New Testament faith remains a revolutionary concept for most believers. Most have come to faith ...or the faith... based on the level of religious belief. However we come to faith, I find that people are reluctant...even militantly resistant, to any further growth or understanding at any depth beyond what they have first come into.
How then can people any longer go from faith to faith? It's the sign of the times. And these are times of widespread unbelief. Jesus did say that when He returns would He find any FAITH on the earth.
It is the faith OF Christ we are lacking. There is a LOT of belief. A lot of religious posturing. But there is very little capacity among modern believers, it seems, for something fully outside a limited human experience.
With such a lack in the churches, the devil need not fear there will be any outbreak of miraculous power that starts a new kingdom revolution in the world, any time soon. It seems we have advanced very far technologically, at the expense of a child-like faith...let alone the kind of faith that moves mountains.
How then can people any longer go from faith to faith? It's the sign of the times. And these are times of widespread unbelief. Jesus did say that when He returns would He find any FAITH on the earth.
It is the faith OF Christ we are lacking. There is a LOT of belief. A lot of religious posturing. But there is very little capacity among modern believers, it seems, for something fully outside a limited human experience.
With such a lack in the churches, the devil need not fear there will be any outbreak of miraculous power that starts a new kingdom revolution in the world, any time soon. It seems we have advanced very far technologically, at the expense of a child-like faith...let alone the kind of faith that moves mountains.
David in NJ
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Let us SEE the definition of this "love" as given to us from the FATHER:
"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends." - John 15:11-13
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Yes, a true New Testament faith will result in a true walk in the Spirit which will result in true spiritual fruit.
Much love!
Eternally Grateful
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We are to have the faith of Abraham. You act as if it is a new type of faith it is not.
maybe you do not see growth in others and yourselves. Because you yourself lack faith
mailmandan
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In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul is stressing that love is the greater quality of the three because God is love and it outlasts them all. Long after the "evidence of things not seen" are now seen (Hebrews 11:1) once we are in the presence of the Lord and we are no longer looking for the "blessed hope" - (expectation of what is sure) and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13) because He has appeared and believers will be with Him forever, love will still be the principle that governs all that God and his saints are and do throughout eternity in the new heaven and new earth.
Paul is not teaching that we are saved by faith "plus acts of love/works." All genuine BELIEVERS love Christ. Why? Because we have received the love of God in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (Romans 5:5) when we believed the gospel. (Ephesians 1:13). We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:7-8)
Those with genuine faith have love and faith works through love. (Galatians 5:6) If we have faith, then we have hope. Faith is the substance of things hoped for.. (Hebrews 11:1) Paul is simply using hyperbole in 1 Corinthians 13 to stress the importance of love and is not teaching salvation by faith and works, as some may suppose.
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David in NJ
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David in NJ
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Your Post is ALL TRUTH Brother - Thank You
My first thoughts were to post exact same scriptures as you did.
Instead, i went right to the Heart of God with His most direct assignment given by our LORD:
"This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends."
By doing this, as i had hoped, you came in and shared the furtherance of the Message and Commandments we are to follow.
Robert Gwin
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As you can see by the differences in teachings that we all believe is correct, you can't. The only time we can be sure we are teaching truth is when we quote the Bible, and even that is subject to errors of the version we choose to quote.
God reveals His truths progressively Pro 4:18; Dan 12:4. Most of us believe that we are in the last days of this world, therefore Isa 2:2,3 is well established and His people are identified, but we have to determine who they are and go with them Zech 8:23
What I see is that people...especially believers...tend to be petty and tribal whereas we should be the most understanding, patient and considerate people on the planet. Those who only see the distinctions between themselves and others I see as religious bigots. They have fallen for the partisan self-interest of the outer man. And these will virtue signal how righteous they are to anyone who will listen...or even not listen. These are going directly against Christ even as they claim Him as their saviour.
God is an eternal Genius. But we refuse His ways in favour of our own judgments.
God is selfless...and no one seems to be paying attention to that. He is not a respecter of persons.
I'll give one example.
Jesus said to love our enemies. He came from heaven to teach us His ways. But almost no one ever listens to Him.
An example of an ACTUAL follower of Christ is a Hindu man named Gandhi. Another example is Nelson Mandela.
These men learned to suffer for the salvation of others. They learned how to be selfless...as Jesus was selfless.
Did they treat Jesus as a religious icon??? Not necessarily..instead they set out to obey Him and please God in the process.
So many will point to Christ as they do their own abominations. God will surely reject them. He will say...go away lawless ones...I never knew you. And that will be the fate of SO MANY modern believers...entire generations of rich Westerners who claim to love Jesus but do the exact opposite of everything He said.
Do His words abide in us? Are we motivated to suffer rather than to defend ourselves? Are we more like sheep, or like dogs that bark out our opinions and shout down those whom we disagree with?
We like to see Jesus in a religious way rather than a practical way. The people who pointed to the cross in the wilderness for their salvation... still perished there...they did NOT enter into the promised land. They were saved but for a time.
We will see the same thing happen on judgment day. There should be no surprise at this...yet so many will weep and be angry...from the frustration of selfishness.
Are there any wise here at all?
ChristisGod
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ChristisGod
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Why do you in all your threads make yourself the wise one and everyone else the ignorant ones ?
You must admit this is the pattern as you have the higher walk and the rest are in the lower walk. This come out in every thread . You are built up while the rest are torn down .
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Rom_4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Rom_4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
Rom_4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Rom_5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom_10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Rom_10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Rom_14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Rom_14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
1Co_2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co_15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1Co_16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
2Co_8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
2Co_13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Gal_1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
Gal_2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Gal_2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Gal_3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Gal_3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Gal_3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Gal_3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal_5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Eph_1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Eph_3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Eph_3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph_4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Php_1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Php_3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Col_1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
Col_1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Col_2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
Col_2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Col_2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
1Th_1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1Th_1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
1Th_3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
1Th_3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
1Th_3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
1Th_3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
2Th_1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
1Ti_1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Ti_1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1Ti_1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti_2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
1Ti_2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1Ti_3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Ti_3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti_4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti_4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
1Ti_4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2Ti_1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2Ti_1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti_3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Tit_1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Tit_2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Tit_3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.
Phm_1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
Heb_4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb_10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb_10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Heb_11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb_11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Jas_1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas_2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Where Epi is erring.
Rom_4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
Rom_4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Rom_5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom_10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Rom_10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Rom_14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Rom_14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
1Co_2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co_15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1Co_16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
2Co_8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
2Co_13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Gal_1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
Gal_2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Gal_2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Gal_3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Gal_3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Gal_3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Gal_3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal_5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Eph_1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Eph_3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Eph_3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph_4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Php_1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Php_3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Col_1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
Col_1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Col_2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
Col_2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Col_2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
1Th_1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1Th_1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
1Th_3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
1Th_3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
1Th_3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
1Th_3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
2Th_1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
1Ti_1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Ti_1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1Ti_1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti_2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
1Ti_2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1Ti_3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Ti_3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti_4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti_4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
1Ti_4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2Ti_1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2Ti_1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti_3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Tit_1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Tit_2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Tit_3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.
Phm_1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
Heb_4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb_10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb_10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Heb_11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb_11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Jas_1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas_2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Where Epi is erring.
David in NJ
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Rom_5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
by Whom (IAM the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End)
we (for God so loved the world)
have access (the veil was torn Top to Bottom)
by faith (not by works)
into (I go to prepare a Place for you that where IAM you may be also)
His Grace (the law came thru Moses but Grace and Truth comes thru Jesus Christ)
Let me know if you can figure out the color code.........
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Through faith in Jesus Christ (dia pisteōs ̣Iēsoǔ Christou). Intermediate agency (dia) is faith and objective genitive, “in Jesus Christ,” not subjective “of Jesus Christ,” in spite of Haussleiter’s contention for that idea. The objective nature of faith in Christ is shown in Gal_2:16 by the addition eis Christon Iēsoun episteusamen (we believed in Christ), by tēs eis Christon pisteōs humōn (of your faith in Christ) in Col_2:5, by en pistei tēi en Christōi Iēsou (in faith that in Christ Jesus) in 1Ti_3:13, as well as here by the added words “unto all them that believe” (eis pantas tous pisteuontas) in Jesus, Paul means.
Robertson.
But Epi made a statement I cannot agree with-we must all "Experience" something-and-"It will take a looong time BEFORE understanding, IF ever "
Also, the faith of Abraham was not "different" than our faith eis/en- Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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