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Faith is a cheap commodity. Everyone has some kind of faith.
Atheists have faith - faith that there is no God, no place of everlasting punishment in the hereafter.
Animals possess faith. They display the utmost faith in their masters, as do children in their parents.
Sick people also display tremendous faith. They go to a doctor who took courses in school with names they may not even be able to pronounce correctly much less understand. He gives them a prescription they can not read. They take the prescription to a pharmacist they may not have even seen before. He gives them some medicine they do not understand and that cost and arm and a leg. All this is done in trusting, sincere faith.
But faith by itself does not save anyone. It is the object of our faith that saves us. That's why the object of saving faith must be Jesus Christ.
- Bill Gordon
Source: Bill Gordon
Topics/Tags: Jesus, the christ, faith in; Salvation; Faith
Everyone knows how to have faith. We do it all the time in countless ways. When I get in a car and turn the ignition key I have faith that my car will start. When I pick up a ball point pen and press it down on a sheet of paper, I'm exercising faith in the ability of that pen to write. When I sit down to eat and put my wife's cooking into my mouth I am exercising faith that my wife hasn't poisoned the food.
Day by day, in countless ways we exercise faith in the people or things around us. Likewise, when Jesus asks us to have faith in him he is only asking us to do what is natural for us to do.
- Bill Gordon
Source: Bill Gordon
Topics/Tags: Jesus, the christ, faith in; Faith; Salvation
Many people believe Jesus lived. They believe he is divine. They trust him for finances and for health, but you see, saving faith is trusting Christ for salvation. Some people will trust the Lord for their protection when they go out at night. They wouldn't think of putting out the garbage at night without trusting the Lord to take care of them. But as far as their eternal welfare is concerned they are trusting in their own efforts because they have never understood what the Bible teaches. Saving faith is putting our trust in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life.
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Topics/Tags: Jesus, the christ, faith in; Belief; Salvation; Faith
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