By JOHN McKAY, Pastor
Scripture Reading: Romans 10:17
Some think faith is a "blind leap in the dark" or believing
something
that is irrational. While Christians must admit that there
are many
things in faith and in science that can't be proven, the
foundation of
our faith is firm. It is based upon the written revelation
of the
Almighty God Who cannot lie.
Please notice that far from being a leap in the dark, our
faith
originates as the work of God. "This is the work of God,
that ye
BELIEVE on Him Whom He hath sent" (John 6:29). Our faith is
"the faith
of the operation of God" (Colossians 2:12). Human faith that
originates
in humans and terminates in human ideas of God the Father
and the Son,
will prove itself to be "vain" faith. Read I Corinthians
15:1-4.
Perhaps more enslaving---although with the same outcome---is
the
satanic and demonic faith that brings another Jesus, another
gospel,
false apostles, angels of light, and ministers of
righteousness to
modern religious movements (II Corinthians 11:1-15). Many of
these
people have faith in faith itself and promote the kind of
unhealthy
super naturalism from below that produces signs and miracles
which are
inferior imitations of those produced for Israel's benefit
by the
Lord's true representatives (Acts 4:13-16, I Corinthians
13:8-10 and
14:22).
Our faith is not in faith. Our faith comes from the Lord and
rests
solidly upon the foundation of the Holy Bible. " .. .faith
cometh by
hearing and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17).
The beginning of our faith and the finishing of our faith
has the Word
of God as its foundation and the Lord Jesus as its worthy
and glorious
Crown.
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