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BELIEVING IN FAITH
Hebrews 11:1
I. Misconceptions about faith.
A. Only applies to religious stuff.
1) Something you feel, like a
ghost.
B. Irrational leap in dark.
1) Intelligent people don't go in
for it.
II. Importance of faith.
A. Everyday experience.
1) Even atheistic scientists
exhibit faith in something.
a) Big bang requires
faith. Heb
11:3
2) It is being able to deduce
what we can't see. Heb 11:1
B. Main theme in Bible, especially
New Testament (& Jesus).
1) Faith and belief go together
(same root word).
2) Faith is required to
experience God. Heb 11:6
a) Believe that he exists.
b) Believe that he is good -
he rewards us.
III. What
Christian faith is all about.
A. Christian faith is based on facts,
not emotions.
1) Much "faith" today
is merely a "psychological pushup."
a) Self-centered.
b) "Believe in
yourself."
c) "Faith in having
faith" Dwight Eisenhower.
2) Who or what you believe in is
critical.
a) Many believed (still do) due to
miracles. John 2:23; 4:53
1> But miracle-seekers
may never find faith. John 4:48
b) Main fact is that Jesus is
who he says he is.
B. Christianity is reasonable.
1) Lew Wallace was a brilliant
Civil War general who saved
Washington from capture by
the Confederates.
The most famous atheist of the
time, Robert Ingersol,
challenged
him to write a book discrediting Christianity.
Wallace took him up on it.
But by the time he finished
his research he had believed in
Christ and wrote "Ben Hur" instead.
2) A more recent example is Josh
McDowell.
He was a law student who set
out to disprove the Bible, but
he
ended up one of its most vigorous defenders.
He has written books, lectured
on university campuses, and
debated
all would-be challengers around the world.
C. Faith must go beyond fact to
commitment.
1) Even demons believe. Jam 2:19
a) "Easy-believism."
2) Faith is the attitude where a
person abandons all reliance
on their
own effort to obtain salvation.
a) Faith is the only way to
receive salvation.
b) Justification by faith
alone. Gal 2:16
1> Only Jesus can save
us. Acts 4:12
D. Eternal issues are decided here
and now. Jn
3:18,36 cf. 5:24
IV. God will not force us to believe.
A. Even Thomas doubted; pagans
certainly will.
The story is told of a farmer in a
Midwestern state who had a
strong
dislike for "religious" things.
As he plowed his field on Sunday
morning, he would shake his fist
at the
church people who passed by on their way to worship.
October came and the farmer had
his finest crop ever - the best
in the
entire county.
When the harvest was complete, he placed
an advertisement in the
newspaper
which belittled the Christians for their faith in God.
Near the end of his diatribe he
wrote,
"Faith in God must not mean
much if someone like me can prosper."
The response from the Christians
in the community was quiet and
polite.
In the next edition of the town
paper, a small ad appeared.
It read simply,
"God doesn't always settle
His accounts in October."
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