A Radical Faith (Forsaking All I Trust HIM)
Lewis Sperry Chafer … Systematic Theology! “According to the simplest conviction of it, faith is a personal confidence in God.
Luke 7: 1-7 … & … Hebrews 11:1
Matthew 8:5-13
Jim Cymbala book …Fresh Faith! “Faith is happy to step out not knowing where it’s going so long as it knows who is going along”…
I. Faith Challenges … The Centurion faith was challenged (vs3)
a. To believe in the unseen!
b. To trust in the unknown!
c. To believe the improvable!
As Christians today we are asked to do the same …
Derek Prince … The Spirit Filled Handbook! “Scriptural faith may be defined as believing that God means what he has said in Word-that God will do what He has promised in His word to do.”
II. Faith brings Healing …
James 5: 13-16
Vs 16b … The Prayer of a Righteous Man (right with God) is man is powerful is powerful and effective!
a. Asking the Healer!
i. Matthew 7:7 … “Ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
b. Trusting the Healer!
i. Christ is the Great Physician …
c. Excepting the Healing!
i. Matthew 8:13… Jesus said to the centurion “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.”
III. Faith brings Salvation …
a. By faith we are saved!
i. We must believe that confession of sin is and belief in Christ as Savior brings Salvation”
1. I John 1:9 … if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us of our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
b. By faith we have a home in Heaven!
i. God is Preparing us a Mansion … John 14: 1-6
ii. Hebrew 11:16 … “Instead, they were longing for a better country – A heavenly, one therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”
c. By faith we except Christ died for our Sins!
i. Romans 10:13 … “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved”
The simples faith is found in a little verse of scripture … Martin Luther wrote it “So simple a child can understand it, so deep a theologian can study if for a life time.”
