Reader220 Bible Study : April 2011

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Disciple's Handbook by [New Song Nashville]

Lesson 2

Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:3

Genesis 15:1-2)

Matthew 9:27-29

John 9:35-38

Hebrews 11:6 1

Thessalonians 2:13

www.blueletterbible.org, Strong’s G4102

Romans 14:23

Romans 10:9-10, 17

John 20:30-31

Hebrews 3:18-19

Romans 10:17

Hebrews 11:3-6

What does it mean to believe? Read Matthew 9:27-29 and John 9:35-38 Believing involves relying completely on something with unwavering confidence. As a disciple, your conviction that God exists, is the Creator and Ruler of all things, and the Provider and Bestower of eternal salvation through Christ, relies on your belief1 that He is who He says He is.

“Believe” in the Greek language is “pistis” (pē'-stēs), which means “to place confidence in or to trust.” Genuine belief is not about simply complying, but instead involves a true conviction of heart.
The greatest indicator of what we believe is how behave.

Your daily, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ is the source of your faith. Belief begins with a conviction in your heart, a confession of your mouth, and is demonstrated by your actions. As we live faithfilled lives, our profession of our faith in Jesus Christ and His sufficiency will lead us on an epic adventure where we, like Abraham and Sarah, impact the generations to come.--New Song Christian Fellowship [1]

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”[2]~ C.S. Lewis (British Scholar and Novelist, 1898-1963)

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”[3][

“Faith in God constitutes the highest worship, the prime duty, the first obedience, and the foremost sacrifice. Without faith God forfeits His glory, wisdom, truth, and mercy in us. The first duty of man is to believe in God and to honor Him with his faith. Faith is truly the height of wisdom, the right kind of righteousness, the only real religion….Faith says to God: ‘I believe what you say.’”[4] ~ Martin Luther (Priest and Professor of Theology, 1483 – 1546)

Here we have, I. A definition or description of the grace of faith in two parts. 1. It is the substance of things hoped for. Faith and hope go together; and the same things that are the object of our hope are the object of our faith. It is a firm persuasion and expectation that God will perform all that he has promised to us in Christ; and this persuasion is so strong that it gives the soul a kind of possession and present fruition of those things, gives them a subsistence in the soul, by the first-fruits and foretastes of them: so that believers in the exercise of faith are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Christ dwells in the soul by faith, and the soul is filled with the fullness of God, as far as his present measure will admit; he experiences a substantial reality in the objects of faith. 2. It is the evidence of things not seen. Faith demonstrates to the eye of the mind the reality of those things that cannot be discerned by the eye of the body. Faith is the firm assent of the soul to the divine revelation and every part of it, and sets to its seal that God is true. It is a full approbation of all that God has revealed as holy, just, and good; it helps the soul to make application of all to itself with suitable affections and endeavors; and so it is designed to serve the believer instead of sight, and to be to the soul all that the senses are to the body.[5]

Appendix Bibliography

[1] Disciple's Handbook: Volume 1
Copyright 2016 New Song Christian Fellowship www.crownedimage.com
First Edition, 2016 ISBN: 978-0692693049
there is a page where authors are named here:
https://www.crownedimage.com/authors

[2] ~ C.S. Lewis (British Scholar and Novelist, 1898-1963)
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/faith_is_the_art_of_holding_on_to_things_your/258257.html

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[3] ~ Oswald Chambers (Scottish Protestant Christian Minister, Teacher and Author, 1874 – 1917)
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/faith_is_deliberate_confidence_in_the_character/254508.html

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[4] Martin Luther (Priest and Professor of Theology, 1483 – 1546)
www.thinkexist.com http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/martin_luther/