09/30/18 THE WAY OF FAITH
BLESSED SERVICE AND I PICKED UP A CLOSING PASSAGE FOR A MESSAGE I WAS WORKING ON.
Pastor Clint (Free Grace Wesleyan Church, Harkers Island) preached another great message tonight, in barn burner fashion. I get encouraged, enlightened and edified. One of the points he made tonight finished a thought I had considered a couple of times this weekend.
THE PLACE OF FAITH IN THE BELIEVER'S LIFE.
(I readily had my first two points, but had not taken time to form the third point, but Pastor Clint mentioned something that have me my third point.
MY MESSAGE...
THE PLACE OF FAITH IN THE BELIEVER'S LIFE.
PREMISE: Faith is Essential to Being a Christian.
Galatians 3:26
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
I. The Christian Life Begins Through Faith.
Ephesians 2:8-10
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
II.The Christian Life Continues Through Faith.
Romans 1:16-17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
2 Corinthians 5:7
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Galatians 3:11
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10:38-39
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
III. We Finish Our Journey by Holding to Faith.
(speaking of the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11),
Hebrews 11:13-16
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
