FAITH

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FAITH

• Hebrews 111-3

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Faith feyth. n.

• Confidence or trust in a person or thing faith
  in anothers ability
• Belief that is not based on proof He had faith
  that the hypothesis would be substantiated by
  fact.
• a system of religious belief the Christian
  faith the Jewish faith.

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Our worlds understanding of faith

• Faith as fact

Sometimes people think that faith is knowing
something is true beyond any doubt whatsoever,
and so they try to prove faith through empirical
evidence but thats the wrong approach.
(Lynn Anderson, Case for Faith)
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Our worlds understanding of faith

• 2. Faith as a blind leap

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to
evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because
of, the lack of evidence. (Richard Dawkins)
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I believe I can fly by R. Kelly

• I used to think that I could not go onAnd life
  was nothing but an awful songBut now I know the
  meaning of true loveI'm leaning on the
  everlasting armsIf I can see it, then I can do
  itIf I just believe it, there's nothing to itI
  believe I can flyI believe I can touch the skyI
  think about it every night and daySpread my
  wings and fly awayI believe I can soarI see me
  running through that open doorI believe I can
  flyI believe I can flyI believe I can fly

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Hebrews 111-3

• Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and
  certain of what we do not see. This is what the
  ancients were commended for. By faith we
  understand that the universe was formed at Gods
  command, so that what is seen was not made out of
  what was visible.

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Biblical Definition of FAITH (n.)

• (v.1) Now faith is being sure of what we hope
  for and certain of what we do not see.

True Faith rests upon an absolute trusting
relationship with God.
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Faith Story Wonderland
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Lessons in the life of the faithful

• (v.2) This is what the ancients were commended
  for.

A look into the life of Abraham
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Abraham (8-19)

• 8By 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. 9By faith he made his home in the
  promised land like a stranger in a foreign
  country he lived in tents, as did Isaac and
  Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same
  promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city
  with foundations, whose architect and builder is
  God.
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Abraham (8-19)

• 11By faith Abraham, even though he was past
  ageand Sarah herself was barrenwas enabled to
  become a father because he considered him
  faithful who had made the promise. 12And so from
  this one man, and he as good as dead, came
  descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky
  and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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Abraham (8-19)

•  13All 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. And they admitted that they were
  aliens and strangers on earth. 14People who say
  such things show that they are looking for a
  country of their own. 15If they had been thinking
  of the country they had left, they would have had
  opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were
  longing for a better countrya heavenly one.
  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their
  God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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Abraham (8-19)

•  17By faith Abraham, when God tested him,
  offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received
  the promises was about to sacrifice his one and
  only son, 18even though God had said to him, "It
  is through Isaac that your offspring will be
  reckoned." 19Abraham reasoned that God could
  raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did
  receive Isaac back from death.

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Modern day Abrahams
True faith requires a person to respond to the
call of God in their lives.
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Faith and Gods work

• (v.3) By faith we understand that the universe
  was formed at Gods command, so that what is seen
  was not made out of what was visible.

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Faith feyth. v.

• Faith is a living thing, mighty in working,
  valiant and strong, ever doing, ever fruitful so
  that it is impossible that he who is endued
  therewith should not work always good works
  without ceasing for such is his nature.
  Martin Luther

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not
accompanied by action, is dead. (James 217)
True faith is a living faith that requires us to
live out the relationship we have with God.
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Called to a faithful life

• For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faithand this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God not by works, so that no one can
  boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared
  in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 28-10)

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• Where in your life do you need to say to God
  Here I am?