FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER
CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION AVAILS ANYTHING BUT FAITH WORKING
THROUGH LOVE.......GALATIANS 5:6.. |
FAITH WORKING THROUGH
LOVE...
(means, the
'love of Yah' constrains me) |
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Many are taught that faith operates by
them loving people, this is not true and even makes
people out to be co-redeemers and more than instruments
and vessels. it is no doubt a theory of rebel Eve from
the 'Eden Ecumenical Church'....Luke 16:29-31.
The subject matter here and the
conversation was between St.Paul and the saints at
Galatia regarding going on in 'the faith' by
'faith' and not going back to their old religious
ways John 15:2........click.
A genuine love for God is required for this to
happen. Honey-Moon-Christians are a penny a dozen in
the world today but the faithful remnant are still few
and decreasing if bible scripture is still true......click.
People with genuine faith is what Father is looking for.
Genuine faith is demonstrated in the manifestation of
the NT Covenant in a man or woman's life, Jesus first
and the left-overs for the neighbours etc.
Faith does not need our love to operate, Yahweh tells us
that through Paul's Letter ref/1 Corinthians 13:2...'all
faith' being the highlighted words in the verse.
Faith operates through love not by us or anything
outside of Him/Jesus. The glory belongs to Jesus....John 15:5...John 1:10.
No man or woman, human, can ever enhance the working
or power of Yahweh, we are but instruments,
vessels.......Colossians 1:29.
Having all faith but still not a dot or jot of
love/agape love. Hence faith does not work by love
in that sense. However, faith is not able to have it's
way without a person doing what the doctrine of the
Christ says, that kind of faith is dead, useless and
forever observes the clouds and wind, price tags and bar
codes are displayed instead.....Ecclesiastes
11:4.
What came first the chicken or the egg?......the
creator Jesus says the chicken, reference Genesis
chapter one. Love is so great (loving God first)
it makes way for all other virtues of God to manifest
and grow in a persons life. Which brings us to the
paramount importance of Christ's Doctrine and
obedience to it John 15:4-6.......click.
By using 'our' measure of faith which Father has
given, we are then in the running to walk in the hope
even great hope that never disappoints. Walking by
faith, obedience to the Christ also enables us to
trust/rest in the Christ, in, by and through Holy Ghost
Power. Faith in anyone else or anything else is not
faith working through Jesus/agape love........click.
For it is 'faith' in 'the faith' that
waters and fertilizes all other virtues, fruits of the
Christ. Will he find any faithful (in the
faith/doctrine) when he comes? Or will he just find
people saying....Jesus is Lord!?.....Luke 6:46.
To say you can have hope and trust in Christ without
'first' having faith is to say that there is another
path to hope and trust in Yah outside of faith, God given
faith. This is heresy, confusion, void of holy ghost
leadership and the way of a robber and a thief....John
10:1.....Faith comes long before hope.......Romans
5:1-5.
Saved by grace through faith is the biblical process
of salvation. Faith in the Christ being the key that
unlocks the door to hope that does not disappoint and a
trust that is continuous and void of faithless
suspicion. Without faith there can be no hope, for faith
is the substance (root) of hope as Jesus is the hope of
the church-body of Christ. Hope and trust 'follow and
are with' the man who walks by faith (in the
faith/doctrine) in the Christ
and none other.
To have faith in Christ is to be anchored in the harbour
of his sweet holiness, the moment we lose faith our hope
and trust fade and shipwreck is near, no longer anchored
in him/Jesus......Hebrews 6:19, Romans 11:22,
Hebrews 3:12-15.
Hope lives in the house called grace and you will never
know him without 'faith'.....Romans 5:2.
Amen. |
Pastor
Paul Sheehan |
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