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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
The pilgrimage of the Christian life is a pilgrimage of faith. It begins when God creates faith in our hearts. In the first stage of our Christian experience, we embrace Christ and trust Him for our redemption, but the whole pilgrimage of the Christian is rooted and grounded in thatconfidence, that trust. The whole process is defined by living in faith
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
Like Abraham, we are pilgrims and sojourners in this world, searching for that heavenly country, the city whose designer and builder is God. We have not seen this city, but we know it exists, and the evidence for it is the trust that we have in the One who promises to bring it to pass.
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
if you want to find out what a person really believes, you should analyze his checkbook. As Jesus said, "Where your treasure is, there will your heartbe also" {Luke 12:34}. So if you want to know where your heart is, check out your treasure. Do we invest in the kingdom of God or our own kingdoms?
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
Abel is commended here in Hebrews 11 not because he gave an animal but because he offered his sacrifice by faith.
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
We trust God's Word to understand that the world in which we live was designed, framed, and created by the Word of God, so that the things that are seen were not made of things that were {or are} visible. We cannot find anything in the universe today that has, in itself, sufficient power to account for its existence. In fact, the more we analyze it, the more finite and contingent it manifests itself to be.
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
If the church is ever to be the church triumphant, she must first be the church militant. She must be willing to enter into a spiritual war, one that could cost us our very lives.
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it."
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
if you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science."
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be. By the same token, if I am negligent in reading the Scriptures, I open myself to ideas pouring into my head from the secular world, which may lessen the ardor of my faith.
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
without faith we are not acceptable to God, but God makes us acceptable to Him through the gift of faith, leading to our justification.
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
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R.C. Sproul _ What Is Faith?
ohn Wesley, the founder of Methodism, testified that his conversion experience occurred after he was already an ordained clergyman. He was at a meeting in Aldersgate Street in London, listening to a sermon from the book of Romans, and as he heard the words of Scripture-words he had heard many times before-he suddenly felt his heart "strangely warmed.
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