Speaking Of Our Faith

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;