Faith is not something “to have.” It is something to act

on.

Making Faith Real

Keys to Spiritual Growth

Making Faith Real

Keys to Spiritual Growth

Making Faith Real.

1. Faith is How We Connect With God.

Romans 4:5 However to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited to him as righteousness.

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2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.

Heb. 11:6 …and without faith it is impossible to please God for anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently seek him.

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2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.

John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever does not obey the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.

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2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.

Phil. 2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

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2. Faith is Trust to the Extent that We Obey.

Gal. 5:6 For in Christ neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

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3. Faith is How We Get Through Daily Life.

2 Cor. 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

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3. Faith is How We Get Through Daily Life.

Gal. 2:20 …The life I live in the body I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

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4. Our Faith is Not in Faith.

1 Cor. 2:4-5 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on man’s wisdom but on God’s power.

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5. Faith is Trust to the Extent I Act.

James 2:17 In the same way, faith by itself if it is not accompanied by action, is dead!

James 2:18 You show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.

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5. Faith is Trust to the Extent I Act.

1 Tim. 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially for his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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6. Faith is the Test for What is Pleasing to God.

Romans 14:23 The man who has doubt is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; everything that does not come from faith is sin.

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7. Faith Has a Battle to It.

2 Tim. 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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8. Faith Enables You to Resist Satan’s Attacks.

Eph. 6:16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

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9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.

• Eager for money

1 Tim. 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

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9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.

• Conscience

1 Tim. 1:19 …fight the good faith, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith.

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9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.

• Spiritual Laziness

Heb. 6:12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what is promised.

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9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.

• Wavering

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess,

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9. Don’t Damage Your Faith.

• Wavering

2 Cor. 13:5 Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Test yourselves.