Finding FaithSession 1 – Faith Saves

Using the Dictionary

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Your Text

From the Natural Noun to Spiritual Noun

Glory

God’s Character

Mercy and Truth

Majestic beauty

and splendor

Using the Bible

Using the Dictionary

Your Text

Your Text

From the Natural Noun to Spiritual Noun

Faith

The Purpose

Of our

Series

ConfidentBelief orTrust in

Something

Using the Bible

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1The Basics of Faith – Faith Saves

The Mind of Faith – Faith Perfects

The Refining of Faith – Faith in Suffering

The Victory of Faith – Faith in Suffering

5The Fathers of Faith – Faith in Action

6The King of Faith – Faith by Example

Faith – the Saving Connection

Luke 18:42Receive your

sightYour faith has

Saved you

Luke 18:42Receive your

sightYour faith has

Saved you

1 Pet 1:9The end of your faitheven the salvation of

your souls

1 Pet 1:9The end of your faitheven the salvation of

your souls

1 Pet 1:5Kept by the power of God

through faith unto salvation

1 Pet 1:5Kept by the power of God

through faith unto salvation

2 Tim 3:15Wise unto

salvation throughfaith

2 Tim 3:15Wise unto

salvation throughfaith

Luke 7:50Your faith has saved you

Luke 7:50Your faith has saved you

Eph 2:8For by grace are ye saved

through faith

Eph 2:8For by grace are ye saved

through faith

TitleTitleFaith and

Salvation

A Test “about” Faith

What is the main Hebrew root word translated as “faith” and “belief” in the OT?

Q1

Book and Chapter: “For by grace you are saved through faith”?

Q5

Where is the concept of faith first found in the Bible?Q4

What does belief have to do with faith in the Bible?Q3

What is the main Greek root word translated as “faith” in the NT?

Q2

Some Basics on Faith

Persuasion, that is credence, moral conviction, especially reliance on Christ for salvation, Constancy in such profession (460x)(Strongs 4100, 4102)

To build up or support, to render (or be) firm, faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet, to go to the right hand – basis for word “Amen” (169x)(Strongs 130,139)

Hebrew

Aman

Greek

Pistis

Faith

Some Hebrew and Greek

Constancy

Security

Firm

Build up

Unpacking the Bible Words

Faith is something solid and firm, a sure foundation

Faith is Persuasion, Active trust and commitment

Faith is a noun-verb – both being and doing

Temporal“things

which are seen are

temporal”

Eternal“things

which are not seen

are eternal

Seen

Time

Space

Length

Breadth

Height

Unseen

Another

Time

Not Seen

Natural

World

Spiritual

World

Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things

not seen.

FaithConnecting

To theSpiritual

World

2Co 4:18 For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are

not seen are eternal.

Bible Words plus Bible Verses

• Faith is the measure of our connection/connecting with the Spiritual World (God and Jesus)

• Faith is the measure of the reality of Jesus living in us

The Signal Strength

The history of the English word Faith is rather interesting than important; use and contexts, alike for it and its Hebrew and Greek parallels, are the surest guides to meaning. But we may note that it occurs in the form "feyth," in Havelok the Dane (13th century); that it is akin to fides and this again to the Sanskrit root bhidh, "to unite," "to bind." It is worth while to recall this primeval suggestion of the spiritual work of faith, as that which, on man's side, unites him to God for salvation.

Important Observations

• Almost every NT occurrence of word “believe” in NT is root Pistis Faith as a verb

• Very seldom referred to as simple belief in a creed

• Faith and intellectual understanding not the same – Faith is much more than understanding

• The bible use of faith is a compound word with many related ideas associated with it

Faith – A Compound Word

Resurrection

ActiveTrust

FuturePromises

GOD

ConvictionFoundation

firmness

ConnectionTo

Spiritual

SeeingThe

Unseen

Characteristics of

Faith

Righteousness

Faith

Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Romans 4:3

Unpacking Abraham’s Faith

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Gen 15:6

Believed in unseen

God

He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised.

Rom 4:21

Unassailable

Conviction

His faith did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God.

Rom 4:20Energizing

He was then almost one hundred years old; but his faith did not weaken when he thought of his body, which was already practically dead, or of the fact that Sarah could not have children.

Rom 4:19

Believed the impossible

As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in God's presence, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't even exist.

Rom 4:17

Resurrection &

Promises

Passage

Our Faith

• The words "he was accepted as righteous" were not written for him alone. (24) They were written also for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death. (25) Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.

• Rom 4:23-25

1.Belief in the unseen God

2.Belief in Resurrection

3.Belief in impossible – We can be made right with God

4.Unassailable Conviction

5. It is Energizing – Results in Action