Title: The Essence of Faith - Rev.
Contents
1. Faith refers to the relationship between person and person.
2. Faith is a gift in that it has its origin in God, but it is also a responsibility because it is an enduring relationship between man and the living God.
3. Faith Depends on Revelation, Not Transcendence
4. Faith is the result of God's plan and will.
Faith demands the harmony of wisdom, justice, and righteousness.
5. Faith looks to God who promises and to Christ who bore the cross.
6. Man was created in the image of God.
7. The forbidden law of the tree of good and evil shows the duty of man.
8. Faith is an instrument of sanctification.
9. God is not something to be groped for.
10. Faith is not a battle of blind faith or hotness, it is about a person you can trust and has an orientation towards your personality.
12. Faith grows over time--faith is a lifelong process.
13. Salvation has the duality of human responsibility in response to God's grace.
14. Faith orients toward Christ as a person who imitates the person of Christ.
15. Faith brings change in existence.
16 God's God-likeness is revealed through the cross of Christ.
17. Faith is not preoccupied with the benefits obtained through the cross, but is revealed through love for neighbor.
18. Faith without love is empty, since love is an essence, not an action.
19. Faith is about life, not craftsmanship.
20. Faith is like a treasure in an earthen vessel.
21. Faith is knowing God personally.
22. Faith manifests itself in all areas of life.
23. Faith can manifest itself in ethical and moral forms.
24. The law confirms the place of man.
25. Faith is obedience and dependence.
26. Faith Is Not Transcendentalism
27. Faith Recognizes that God is Sovereign in All Realms
28. Salvation includes sanctification.
29. Salvation has already been, is being, and will be.
30. Faith is revealed in the little things.
31. The primary work of the Holy Spirit is to teach Christ.
32. Filling with the Holy Spirit does not mean instantaneous self-fulfillment
33. Faith does not presuppose the absence of doubt (for stronger conviction).
34. Faith does not presuppose the absence of despair (practice)
35. Patience is necessary because of the gap between God's promises and reality
36. The only way to reach full faith is through the Word and prayer
37. The Word is to submit my will to God's will
38. Prayer is the desire to live according to God's will.