Living by faith - Gateway Foursquare Church -February 23, 2025

This episode is a message that Tim gave on February 23, 2025 at Gateway Foursquare Church in Campbell River BC. 

To live as a follower of Christ, is to live a life of faith. It is impossible to have a relationship with God without faith as it is written “without faith it is impossible to please God…” 

The interesting thing about faith, is that it is not something that can be produced by human means. It is always described biblically as something that God empowers and enables, and that he gives freely as a gift.

This is true of saving faith, or salvific faith… but this is also true of another expression of faith that we can observe in scripture. As mentioned earlier, every Christian is saved by faith and without faith there is no relationship with God… but there is another type of faith that is often recognized and commended by Jesus (Jesus also points out the absence of such faith) and this is the on-going, operational faith by which we live day to day as followers of Christ. It is to truly believe in God and his word, and this is the theme that the writer of Hebrews picks up leading up to chapter 11, often referred to as the “hall of faith.” 

In chapter 6 of Hebrews the writer exhorts believers to “imitate those who by faith and patience inherit the promises of God” (Hebrews 6:12). Later in chapter 11 the writer recalls the incredible lives of great men and women of faith, who believed in God and whose lives are remembered in the pages of scripture. The point is this- that we would look to the lives of these great saints and imitate their faith! 

Join me as we dive into this topic of living by faith, looking further into how we define faith, and how we live fully in faith, imitating the great saints who have gone before us.  

 

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