Responsibility To Our Faith FOR WE WALK BY

Responsibility To Our Faith FOR WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT. ~II CORIN. 5: 7

Responsibility To Our Faith Where is your faith? What do you have faith in? Should your faith be only relevant to your circumstance?

Responsibility To Our Faith is believing what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is we get to see what we believe. The highest form of faith; is the Christian responsibility which requires complete surrender and unwavering trust. It takes greater faith to pursue and complete the will of God than to calm the seas or raise the dead.

Responsibility To Our Faith Can God trust you with trouble? When God does something we don’t understand do you tend to give up? Is your Faith Circumstantial

Responsibility To Our Faith It took greater faith for Jesus to say “not my will but your will be done” in the Garden, or “unto your hands I commit my spirit” on the Cross, than it did for Him to call Lazarus out of the grave. Many believers, great leaders, prophets and apostles have worked wondrous miracles, but few have faithfully pursued and completed the will of God.

Responsibility To Our Faith Do you believe God only when the circumstances are favorable, or do you believe no matter what the circumstances may be?

Responsibility To Our Faith Circumstantial Faith- Will lead us to an up and down walk with God. Our faith becomes relevant based on what we go through. Circumstantial faith soon becomes ungrateful and forgetful; it becomes impatient and presumptuous; it becomes misdirected and misguided; and it eventually will unwisely test the limits of God’s grace. This type of faith is one that rarely pleases God.

Responsibility To Our Faith Ps. 106: 12 -15 (TLB) 12 Then at last his people believed him. Then they finally sang his praise. 13 Yet how quickly they forgot again! They wouldn’t wait for him to act 14 but demanded better food, testing God’s patience to the breaking point. 15 So he gave them their demands but sent them leanness in their souls.

Responsibility To Our Faith Then believed they His words…, is the key phrase in this scripture. When they believed is critical to what followed. Yes, they believed and even took a “praise break” – but “soon forgot His works”, “waited not for His counsel”, lusted exceedingly in the wilderness”, ‘and tempted God in the desert”. Notice all of their destructive behaviors and decisions were a result of when they activated their faith in prior situations.

Responsibility To Our Faith They endured only when the circumstances were favorable; they were largely governed by the things that appealed to their senses, instead of resting in the invisible and eternal God. They did not believe till after they saw--when they saw Him work, then they believed. They really doubted God when they came to the Red Sea; but when God opened the way and led them across and they saw Pharaoh and his host drowned--"then they believed. " Like us at times this was a circumstantial faith

Responsibility To Our Faith Be Faithful-Heb. 3: 7 -14 (TLB) 7 And since Christ is so much superior, the Holy Spirit warns us to listen to him, to be careful to hear his voice today and not let our hearts become set against him, as the people of Israel did. 8. They steeled themselves against his love and complained against him in the desert while he was testing them.

Responsibility To Our Faith Be Faithful-Heb. 3: 9 -10 (TLB) 9. But God was patient with them forty years, though they tried his patience sorely; he kept right on doing his mighty miracles for them to see. 10 “But, ” God says, “I was very angry with them (grieved), for their hearts were always looking somewhere else instead of up to me, and they never found the paths I wanted them to follow. ”

Responsibility To Our Faith Be Faithful-Heb. 3: 11 -12 (TLB) 11 Then God, full of this anger against them, bound himself with an oath that he would never let them come to His place of rest. 12 Beware then of your own hearts, dear brothers (and sisters), lest you find that they, too, are evil and unbelieving and are leading you away from the living God.

Responsibility To Our Faith Be Faithful-Heb. 3: 13 -14 (TLB) 13 Speak to each other (exhort one another) about these things every day while there is still time so that none of you will become hardened against God, being blinded by the glamor of sin. 14 For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as we did when we first became Christians, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

Responsibility To Our Faith Four Different Types of Faith. Jesus told us to “Have faith in God” in Mark 11: 22 1. Saving Faith “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ” (Ephesians 2: 8). God’s gift is salvation through faith. It is us taking responsibility in forsaking our beliefs, religion, works, baptism, morals, good deeds. If I offered you a gift then asked you to pay for it or work for it, it wouldn’t be a gift! “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ” (Romans 6: 23).

Responsibility To Our Faith Four Different Types of Faith. 2. THE Faith “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, ” (Jude 1: 21). This refers to the whole spiritual realm of Christianity. We often say “the Christian Faith. ” This refers to our doctrine: our beliefs and our behavior.

Responsibility To Our Faith Four Different Types of Faith 3. Living Faith Four times the Bible says, “The just shall live by faith. ” When you were saved, it was not the end of faith. It began your journey of faith! It is a living faith. Having confidence, dependence on another person’s strengths, abilities, and decisions. We all have living faith – and we demonstrate it by flying in an airplane, driving a car, sitting in a chair or simply walking into a building. Every day we put our lives into the hands of a mechanic, doctor, engineer, or pilot. We also need to put our faith in God. Take Him at His Word.

Responsibility To Our Faith Four Different Types of Faith 4. Personal Faith “Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. ” (Romans 14: 22 a). This faith is the type that God leads individuals into. For example: taking the responsibility to listen to certain types of music, watching certain type of movies, reading certain types of books, forgive others and not hold grudges, not to gossip, start rumors or cause division in the Body of Christ.

Responsibility To Our Faith Four Different Types of Faith 4. Personal Faith But here’s the key: Romans 14: 22 b, “Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. ” Personal faith is not liberty to sin or participate in evil. Take responsibility and be sure your personal faith will not cause someone else to fall! Maybe God knows you can handle something that someone else cannot.