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Faith in the Reformation
That you are sitting in your chair is a fact.
That I am standing here talking is also a fact
But it’s only faith that makes me believe anyone is listening.
Faith in the Reformation
The issue of Salvation by Faith alone may have been the most important of the 5 points in the reformation 500 years ago.
The teaching of the day was that you had do some things in addition to having faith in order to be saved.
Maybe it was baptism, or maybe it was confession, or maybe it was performing certain tasks.
Faith + ___________ = Salvation
(what was being corrected by the reformers)
If being saved includes some work that you have to do, then you are at some level saving yourself.
And at another level, you have to always wonder if you’ve done enough to save yourself.
Salvation
What we believe is that Faith Alone in Jesus Christ = Salvation.
Faith Is:
If faith in Jesus is what you need, then we need to figure out what faith is.
That’s what the sermon is really going to focus on.
We are going to look through a photo album of pictures of faith that we find in the Scriptures.
Then, we are going to look at how it all works together for a person to be saved.
Faith is: Believing
There is this amazing story at the end of the Gospel of John concerning one of Jesus’ disciples.
Jesus was crucified on Friday.
If you were one of his disciples, could you imagine the depths of despair and hopelessness that your soul would traverse.
Thomas knew that Jesus had died.
That is what he believed, because that is what he knew.
(It’s also what was the truth)
Jesus was raised to life on Sunday Morning, (the third Day)
That evening, Jesus appeared to the disciples in a closed room.
It was an incredible time, as Jesus entered the room without using the locked door.
It was a time of great rejoicing for everyone, everyone but Thomas.
Because he wasn’t there when Jesus had appeared.
The other disciples kept calling Thomas, “We have seen the Lord!”
But what did Thomas say?
If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!” ()
That’s not faith, because its not believing.
You can’t have faith in something or someone that you don’t believe.
8 Days later, the disciples are inside with the doors locked again, and this time Thomas is with them.
(Aren’t you glad that they let him stick around, even with his lack of faith)
Jesus appears again, and we find his words to Thomas in
John 20:27
Thomas responded to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
What’s he saying?
I believe in you.
You are the Son of God.
You are the Ruler of All.
You are my Lord.
You are My God.
Jesus says to Thomas, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed.
Those who believe without seeing are blessed.
Faith in Jesus is Believing in Jesus.
Those who have faith in Jesus Christ can say with Thomas, “My Lord and My God”, and they know it to be true.
Jesus says to Thomas, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed.
Those who believe without seeing are blessed.
Jesus says to Thomas, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed.
Those who believe without seeing are blessed.
Faith is: Obedience
Next Story, from .
Jesus, Peter, James and John were returning to the rest of the disciples.
They had just been up on a mountain, and had heard the voice of God saying about Jesus, “This is My beloved Son; listen to Him”.
When they get to the other disciples, they find a large crowd around them, and there is some sort of a commotion going on.
There were scribes, (who were trained teachers of the jewish law), having some sort of a dispute with those disciples.
When the crowd saw that Jesus was coming, they were amazed and ran to greet him.
Jesus wanted to know what the argument was about.
The answer came from a distressed parent in the crowd.
Here is what he had to say.
Mark 9:
This father came looking for help.
Can you imagine having a child, and watching him being tormented in such a terrible way.
What lengths do you suppose that this fellow would go to to find help.
I wonder how long his son had been in torment for?
I wonder what it had done to his families faith in God.
But here the dad was, asking the disciples for help, and they had been unable to do anything.
Now, he was explaining the situation to Jesus.
Jesus makes a comment about the unbelief of that generation of people, and then says, “Bring him to Me.”
When they brought the mans son to Jesus, the demon inside of him immediately threw the boy into a convulsion.
He fell to the ground and rolled around.
There was foam coming out of his mouth.
Jesus asks, “How long has this been happening?”
It turns out that the family had lived with this situation from the boys childhood.
The demon had many times tried to destroy him by throwing him into fire or water.
Wow, I feel for that family.
That would have been so painful.
The father asks Jesus for help.
He says, “If you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
And then Jesus makes a great statement about faith.
You might want to take note of it.
Do any of you know what the man replied?
He says, I do believe!
Help my unbelief.”
A crowd is rapidly forming, as you might imagine with the spectacle that is playing out.
Jesus rebukes the unclean spirit saying, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”
Then it came out shrieking and convulsing him violently.
The body became still like a corpse, and many in the crowd wondered if he had survived the experience.
But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
Faith is Trusting.
Faith is: Obedience
Abraham wasn’t always called Abraham, that’s not what his parents named him when he was born.
He was born, Abram, his dad’s name was Terah.
And he was born in a place called Ur, in the land of the Chaldean people.
Abram married Sarai, and the whole family was on their way to the land of Canaan together.
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