SPEAKING OF OUR FAITH
ROMANS 1:8
I. A CERTAIN FAITH
A. There is A False or Invalid Faith
1. Faith Based On Feelings
2. Faith Based on an Event
3. Faith Based on Belief
James 2:19 (KJV)
4. Faith Based on Religion
Micah 6:6-8 (KJV)
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD,
and bow myself before the high God? shall
I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves of a year old? 7 Will the
LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of
oil? shall I give my firstborn for my
transgression, the fruit of my body for
the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed
thee, O man, what is good; and what doth
the LORD require of thee, but to do
justly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?
B. True Faith
1. Based on the Finished Work of Christ
Acts 4:12 (KJV)
Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men,whereby
we must be saved.
1 Timothy 2:3-5 (KJV)
For this is good and acceptable in
the sight of God our Saviour; Who
will have all men to be saved, and to
come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus;
2. Born in the Heart of God, not Man
John 6:44 (KJV)
No man can come to me, except the
Father which hath sent me draw him:
II. CONTAGIOUS FAITH V. 17
A. Praised By Men
B. Produces Other “Faith Men”
II. CHANGING FAITH V. 17
A. Changes a Man’s Life
2 Corinthians 5:16-(KJV)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.
B. Constrains a Man’s Actions
James 2:18 (KJV)
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I
have works: shew me thy faith without thy
works, and I will shew thee my faith by my
works.
James 2:20 (KJV)
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith
without works is dead?
IV. A CHALLENGINGING FAITH 12
A. Reveals God’s Power
V. Conquering Faith
A. Essential Element in Life
B. Essential Element in Warfare
2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)
Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ;
