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The world's idea of faith is in yourself. The Bible's idea of faith is in a personal God and what he has done in history, is doing now and will yet do. And without faith, it is impossible to please God.
Recent Entries
God? Who Needs Him?May 31, 2013
Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
September 12, 2012
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
August 18, 2012
The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
July 23, 2012
To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
April 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
You Gotta Have Faith
February 25, 2009
God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6-7
Believing the above paragraph takes faith. There is no reason capable of comprehending its breadth. It's truth is breathtaking. No physical eye can go there. Only faith has that power. Listen to the Puritan pastor Richard Sibbes get caught up preaching on the value of faith.....
Faith has senses, by which she goes to Christ. She has arms of her own to grasp and clasp Christ. She has ears of her own to hear the word of God and believe it.
She has eyes of her own, and what kind of eyes? To see things afar off, to see things invisible, to see things within the veil, to see things that are upward, things that sense and reason can never reach unto.
Reason sees more than sense, but faith sees more than reason. Faith sees the resurrection of the body; faith sees the glory in heaven that all the eyes in the world cannot see.
Faith corrects the error of reason; reason corrects the error of sense. "They saw him afar off," with the blessed eye of faith. Faith has an eye that sees afar off, it sees things remote in time and place.
It sees things far off in place. Faith sees things in heaven; it sees Christ there; by it we see ourselves there, because we shall be there before long.
Faith sees all this; it breaks through and looks through all; it has most piercing beams, the eye of faith. And it works in an instant; it goes to heaven in a moment and sees Christ.
And for distance of time, the eye of faith sees things past and things to come. It sees things past. It sees the creation of the world; it sees the redemption of us by Jesus Christ; it sees our sins there punished in Christ for our surety; it sees us crucified with Christ Jesus; it sees all discharged by him.
Faith sees this in the sacrament; when we take the bread, faith has recourse presently to the breaking of the body of Christ and the shedding of the blood of Christ. Then Christ is crucified to us and dies to us. When we believe Christ was crucified for us and died for us, faith makes it present.
And so for the time to come, faith has an eye that looks far off. It sees the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Faith sees the general judgment. It sees eternal happiness in heaven; it sees things far off. It is the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the eye of the sanctified soul; it is the light of the soul.
Richard Sibbes
FAITH TRIUMPHANT
Believing the above paragraph takes faith. There is no reason capable of comprehending its breadth. It's truth is breathtaking. No physical eye can go there. Only faith has that power. Listen to the Puritan pastor Richard Sibbes get caught up preaching on the value of faith.....
Faith has senses, by which she goes to Christ. She has arms of her own to grasp and clasp Christ. She has ears of her own to hear the word of God and believe it.
She has eyes of her own, and what kind of eyes? To see things afar off, to see things invisible, to see things within the veil, to see things that are upward, things that sense and reason can never reach unto.
Reason sees more than sense, but faith sees more than reason. Faith sees the resurrection of the body; faith sees the glory in heaven that all the eyes in the world cannot see.
Faith corrects the error of reason; reason corrects the error of sense. "They saw him afar off," with the blessed eye of faith. Faith has an eye that sees afar off, it sees things remote in time and place.
It sees things far off in place. Faith sees things in heaven; it sees Christ there; by it we see ourselves there, because we shall be there before long.
Faith sees all this; it breaks through and looks through all; it has most piercing beams, the eye of faith. And it works in an instant; it goes to heaven in a moment and sees Christ.
And for distance of time, the eye of faith sees things past and things to come. It sees things past. It sees the creation of the world; it sees the redemption of us by Jesus Christ; it sees our sins there punished in Christ for our surety; it sees us crucified with Christ Jesus; it sees all discharged by him.
Faith sees this in the sacrament; when we take the bread, faith has recourse presently to the breaking of the body of Christ and the shedding of the blood of Christ. Then Christ is crucified to us and dies to us. When we believe Christ was crucified for us and died for us, faith makes it present.
And so for the time to come, faith has an eye that looks far off. It sees the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Faith sees the general judgment. It sees eternal happiness in heaven; it sees things far off. It is the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the eye of the sanctified soul; it is the light of the soul.
Richard Sibbes
FAITH TRIUMPHANT
