THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD
Gal2:16-21
The F . O . T . S . O . G .
Many claim that they are believers. “ Just believe in anything. It’s fine”
The Faith of the Son of God is different. “ We also believe in Jesus Christ”
Even the Devil and his demons believe in the Son of God. Mattew8: 29/ what have we to do with thee Jesus Thou Son of God? Did you come to torment us before the time? Demons believe and confess. James 2:19/ you believe in God, …so the demons too… One day EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW & EVERY TOUNGE SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. But this is not the Faith of the Son of God!
1-THE “ F.O.T.S.O.G.”, SEEKS JUSTIFICATION V.16
Because all are sinners and short of the glory of God, therefore we need to be saved. This is the goal of our faith! According to 1Peter 1: 9
God has prepared a Day of Judgment; He has prepared a lake of fire, for the Devil and his angels, because of their transgressions.
And because God loves man, and does not want to lose him, he has provided for him a salvation. Salvation from eternal death, salvation from sins, the cause of death; because the wage of sin is death!
Now God is a just God and He cannot forgive sin without the price to be paid, which is DEATH . Who can redeem man, and die in exchange? God is just and merciful. He will not let anyone who is innocent perish to save man. That is why He himself descended, and robed himself with flesh and bone, taking the picture of man, so to replace man, and die in his place.
HE DIED ON THE CROSS-. The holy replacing the sinner, but all sinners that receives Him. All this to justify them that believe in the Merciful God.
This is why He was bruised and forsaken, so that we would not be eternally forsaken. This is why there is no other name under the heavens among men in whom we should be saved, (except the name of JESUS). Acts 4:12.
This is why there is no more condemnation on those who are in Christ Jesus Romans8: 1, those who received him, because only they believed, that He died for them. THIS IS THE “ F.O.T.S.O.G.”
2-THE “F.O.T.S.O.G.” LIVES A CONTINUOUS REPENTANCE.17, 18 v
Repentance is not something we do before we come to God. Repentance is the way we come to God.
We cannot come to God, and still holding our sins. Our sins that caused the death of the Son of God, and costing the precious blood of the Redeemer. Those sins that caused the death of Jesus should be forsaken, should be DESTROYED! After you have built an idea, upon another, and an action upon another action, and a reaction upon another. Now you have a strong building, an enormous edification, and a mature character. But sinful! You are asked to destroy it once and for all.
Time passes, and we grow in Christ, from babes to elder babes. And circumstances change, days are harder, and trials may be increasing or becoming less. Then we try to change attitudes, and bring from those bricks some few ones to rebuild what has been destroyed. WATCH IT! Why the trouble? God will not permit that you rebuild the entire house you once destroyed! He will destroy it Himself. That is why many of you are passing in afflictions, and many are sick and some are dyeing. Why troubling your self.
We repent once and for all, and then we keep ourselves in a state of repentance!
We that died to sin how can we live in it anylonger?
“Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead …, we too maylive a new life”. Romans 6:2-4
This is why……….
3-THE “F.O.T.S.O.G.” LIVES UNITED WITH CHRIST. V.19,20
Being CRUCIFIED with CHRIST, is fearful and rejected . Unless you are sure Christ resurrected from the dead. This is Faith, the f.o.t.s.o.g.!!!
We believe He is resurrected, and therefore we dare to be united with Him on the Cross by FAITH we die! I have been crucified with Christ, says Paul, that I might no longer live, but Christ ( the resurrected), lives in me.
The F.O. T. S. O. G. is based on believing that the one who died for our sins was raised from the dead, and that He lives forever. By the Spirit which raised Jesus, we will be regenerated, and thus live a new life! A life united with the Living God.
Because I live you also will live. John14:19
We are united with Him in one body, by one Spirit. By His Triumph, we are victorious. Victorious over sin, over trials, over afflictions over tribulations, over all the powers and principalities that dwell in heavenly places. We are victorious in Christ Jesus our Lord. If Jesus is Lord, then He is in us and we in Him as the Father is in Him and He in the Father.
THIS IS DEDICATION, THIS IS SANCTIFICATION.
This is living in His will, living for the one who loved us and surrendered himself for us!
4-THE“F.O.T.S.O.G“ DOES NOT DEPEND ANYMORE ON THE LAW .v.21
Fore the law was given by Moses, ( unto justification), but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ John1:17
• This does not mean I live free without law, without discipline.
• This does not mean I disregard the law of God.
• This does not mean,” NEVER MIND” if I disobey the law.
But this means I will live in a Spiritual discipline because I am Spiritual.
This means, I will obey the Word of God, and observe His commandments, because He is my Father.
THIS MEANS I WILL BE DOING MANY THINGS , THE LAW DEMANDS, BUT NOT TO RECEIVE JUSTIFICATION, BUT RATHER IN LOVE TO THE ONE WHO REDEEMED ME.
I do what I do knowing that this will not justify me, but baring in mind that I have been freely forgiven, and my Redeemer deserves to be obeyed.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. Romans8:2,3
This is the Faith of the Son of God, this is the faith once delivered to the saints. Jude 3
Have you received this FAITH, or yet?
If you have don’t forget the price is the Blood of Jesus.
If you haven’t yet, then seek now ! The Lord has been waiting for you, long time ago. And He is willing to give you this precious Faith of His Son.
