Title: What is Faith? (Heb 11:1-2)
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<Introduction>
“I believe in Mr. Kim, I also believe in Miss Park.” As they confess their faith to each other, men and women who did not know each other meet and form a family.
Then, although months or years have passed, they break up, declaring the destruction of their faith, saying, "I can't believe you at all, I can't believe you either."
It is clear that all the problems of human affairs in this world are matters of faith. All human relationships are promise and contract relationships, and these relationships are all trust relationships.
Let us consider the relationship between “the Trinity of God and man” at a higher level.
"Do you believe in God?"
"I want to believe in God"
"I believe in God"
All of this refers to the relationship of faith between man and the “Trinity of God”.
Main subject:
1. What is faith?
You need to know what a belief is, so you can have a more correct faith, a sure faith, and
You can live a different life of faith.
Use of the word "faith" in the New Testament
* Verb (movement): pistuo: 248 times
* Noun (name): pistis: 244 times
* Adjective (embellishment seed): pistos (pistos): used 66 times in total: 588 times
1) Faith is acknowledging God’s Word, the Bible, without doubt and relying on it.
will do
The verb to believe means: "to depend on, to entrust, to intend, to entrust".
Therefore, “I believe in Jesus” means first Jesus, the words of Jesus.
Listening, understanding, acknowledging His Word as it is, and relying on His Word
to be.
2) Faith entrusts my soul to Jesus, which is most important to me.
3) Faith is entrusting my physical life to Jesus.
4) Faith is trusting Jesus with everything that belongs to you.
Home, children, business, education, health, future...
- We use the phrase "a person of good faith", who believes in what kind of person
Is this a good person? The answer is simple, "The concentration of the will to the words of Jesus is deep.
is a person"
“Faith is a personal irony towards Jesus in the words of Jesus.
It's such an entrustment, it's utter desperation." I'm entrusting the whole thing.
5) Faith is the substance of spiritual hope (Hebrews 11:1a)
- Spiritual hope of saints
* Desire to meet Jesus
* Hope to enter Heaven
* Hope for the return of Jesus
* Hope of the Rapture
* Hope of Resurrection
* Hope of the reign of Jesus Christ in the Millennial Kingdom
* Hope for a new heaven and a new earth
* Desire to become a person of strong faith
* Hope to live for the glory of the Lord
Now these are not mine, but by faith they actually become mine. It is about surviving and enjoying the glorious spiritual treasures of the future in the present. It is to make a wish a true hope.
6) Faith is the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1b)
We have eyes, but there are things we cannot see. They are objects of the spirit world. But these can be seen as solid evidence through the eye of faith.
* God
* Demons and demons (power of evil spirits)
* heaven
* soul
* hell
* The reign of Jesus Christ
* Angel
* eternal life
Just because these things are invisible doesn't mean they don't exist. Seen through faith, it is real. (Those who do not have the eye of faith deny this).
7) Faith is the power to save souls (Acts 16:31, John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9)
There is no salvation except through faith in Christ. There is no eternal life except through faith. It is salvation, eternal life, and heaven through faith in Christ.
8) Faith is the power of victory over the world (1 John 5:4-5)
Faith is God's ability to overcome the trials of the world, the sins of the world, the problems of the world, and the temptations that the world gives to believers.
9) Faith is the power of the righteous (Romans 1:17)
The strength of the righteous, or saints, to live is faith in Jesus, not the worldly things, that is, the glory of the part, the power of the world, and the power of my flesh.
10) Faith is the power that gives answers to prayers (James 1:6-8)
Only prayer with faith that relies on the words of Jesus is true prayer. The answer of Jesus is given to true prayer.
11) Faith is the power to cast out all fear (Mark 5:36)
Those who "believe" in the words of our Jesus are those who have no fear, because faith casts out fear. no fear of the present and the future
12) Faith is the power to please God (Hebrews 11:6)
The purpose of a saint's life in this world is to please God. However, it is impossible to please God without faith. God is most pleased when a believer has faith and acts by faith.
2. Misconceptions about faith
1) Belief is belief
2) Thinking of faith as an accessory of life
Believe me because I need it in my social life, a part of life, the way of life
Guess, think of it as a way. Believe it because it is useful for living in this world.
Example: If you have faith, your family will be at peace, because it is good for your children's education, because it is good for your mental health.
3) Thinking of faith as a tool of health, material, and worldly success
<Conclusion>
1. Those who have faith have a peaceful and happy soul.
What can I exchange for peace and happiness in my soul? what to give and take
end?
2. People who have faith are the richest and happiest people