Why Faith?

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Why Faith?

• QUESTIONS FOR SEEKERS

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• But as for you, O man of God, flee these things.
  Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
  steadfastness, gentleness. (1 Timothy 611 ESV)

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Why is faith so important?

• Because God does not desire empty actions
• And you shall love the Lord your God with all
  your heart and with all your soul and with all
  your mind and with all your strength.
  (Mark 1230 ESV)

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• And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God
  require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to
  walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the
  LORD your God with all your heart and with all
  your soul, (Deuteronomy 1012 ESV)
• And if you will indeed obey my commandments that
  I command you today, to love the LORD your God,
  and to serve him with all your heart and with all
  your soul, (Deuteronomy 1113 ESV)

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• you shall not listen to the words of that
  prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD
  your God is testing you, to know whether you love
  the LORD your God with all your heart and with
  all your soul. (Deuteronomy 133 ESV)
• And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart
  and the heart of your offspring, so that you will
  love the LORD your God with all your heart and
  with all your soul, that you may live.
  (Deuteronomy 306 ESV)

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• The aim of our charge is love that issues from a
  pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere
  faith. (1 Timothy 15 ESV)
• But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve
  by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray
  from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  (2 Corinthians 113
  ESV)

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Why is faith so important?

• Because God does not desire empty actions
• Because works by themselves are empty

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• For since the law has but a shadow of the good
  things to come instead of the true form of these
  realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices
  that are continually offered every year, make
  perfect those who draw near. But in these
  sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every
  year. (Hebrews 101-3 ESV)

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• then he added, Behold, I have come to do your
  will. He does away with the first in order to
  establish the second. And by that will we have
  been sanctified through the offering of the body
  of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 109-10
  ESV)

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• For by works of the law no human being will be
  justified in his sight, since through the law
  comes knowledge of sin. (Romans 320 ESV)
• For we hold that one is justified by faith apart
  from works of the law. (Romans 328 ESV)

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• And to the angel of the church in Sardis write
  The words of him who has the seven spirits of
  God and the seven stars. I know your works. You
  have the reputation of being alive, but you are
  dead. (Revelation 31 ESV)

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• I know your works, your toil and your patient
  endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who
  are evil, but have tested those who call
  themselves apostles and are not, and found them
  to be false. I know you are enduring patiently
  and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have
  not grown weary. But I have this against you,
  that you have abandoned the love you had at
  first. Remember therefore from where you have
  fallen repent, and do the works you did at
  first. If not, I will come to you and remove your
  lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
  (Revelation 22-5 ESV)

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Why is faith so important?

• Because God does not desire empty actions
• Because works by themselves are empty
• Because faith is the motivator for obedience

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• By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable
  sacrifice than Cain, through which he was
  commended as righteous, God commending him by
  accepting his gifts. And through his faith,
  though he died, he still speaks. (Hebrews 114
  ESV)
• So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through
  the word of Christ. (Romans 1017 ESV)

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• By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning
  events as yet unseen, in reverent fear(FAITH)
  constructed an ark for the saving of his
  household. By this he condemned the world and
  became an heir of the righteousness that comes by
  faith. (Hebrews 117 ESV)

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• By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go
  out to a place that he was to receive as an
  inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where
  he was going. By faith he went to live in the
  land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in
  tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the
  same promise. (Hebrews 118-9
  ESV)

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Why is faith so important?

• Because God does not desire empty actions
• Because works by themselves are empty
• Because faith is the motivator for obedience
• Because true faith is based in Gods word

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• There is a way that seems right to a man, but its
  end is the way to death. (Proverbs 1412 ESV)
  blind faith
• So also faith by itself, if it does not have
  works, is dead. (James 217 ESV) dead faith

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• and my speech and my message were not in
  plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration
  of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith
  might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the
  power of God. (1
  Corinthians 24-5 ESV) deluded faith
• I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in
  himself, that it is not in man who walks to
  direct his steps. (Jeremiah 1023 ESV) deceived
  faith

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• But someone will say, You have faith and I have
  works. Show me your faith apart from your works,
  and I will show you my faith by my works. (James
  218 ESV)
• Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that
  faith apart from works is useless?
  (James 220 ESV)

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Why is faith so important?

• Because God does not desire empty actions
• Because works by themselves are empty
• Because faith is the motivator for obedience
• Because true faith is based in Gods word
• For everyone who has been born of God overcomes
  the world. And this is the victory that has
  overcome the worldour faith. (1 John 54
  ESV)