Faith - Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
In the series THE SACRIFICES OF GOD ARE A BROKEN SPIRIT: A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE HEART we have looked at Conviction - Empowerment To See The Spirituality of God’s Law. Where we saw that Just as insufficient power from a dead battery to the starter motor of a vehicle renders it unable to start itself; as no food can in any way provide energy for a dead man; although it is the function food to give energy;
Spiritual truth cannot provide Spiritual liveliness to a mind that is dead to righteousness; as such the mind is unable to capture the essence of the truth and similarly, Spiritual truth cannot make an unregenerate will to believe.
We will continue our look at:
Faith - Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
Repentance - Empowerment for a yielded will to turn away from sin to God.
The Eternal Value of A Sound Conscience
Confession - Its Power to Remove The Sting of Sin
Circumcision of The Regenerated Heart.
Dead To Sin - Empowerment to overcome indwelling sin
Alive To Christ, Jesus - Empowerment to live a righteous and Godly life.
The Consecration, Quickening (or Awakening), Faith and Repentance Needed For Revival
God’s Way of Restoration & The Cleansing That Leads To Joy.
Faith - Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. (Romans 9:16-18)
The Conversion Process which follows regeneration (at point of quickening) is Faith (Saving Faith) and Repentance working hand in hand in an indivisible process. Saving faith is trust in Jesus Christ as a living person for forgiveness of sins and for eternal life with God. It is faith that propels one to take the next step past simply having knowledge of Christ and believing in the facts presented.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:24-26)
Saving faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of one’s understanding of the fact that he/she is a sinner who is in the process of making the personal decision to trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and receive the salvation Jesus Christ earned for us on the cross. (this process being one you cannot physically see) and the conviction of the reality (perceiving as real what is not reveal
5. The Grace To Believe
“The essential meaning of our active abiding is receiving and trusting all that God has for us in Christ Jesus.”
The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart
23. IF YOU believe IN Jesus
AND repentANT OF YOUR
SINS THEN you are saved.
To Repent means: Being sincerely sorry for your sins and
bringing them before God (between you and Him); with the
aim of not going back to them.
Believe in Jesus Christ: To be the son of God; died and
rose up again, and that His finished work on the Cross is
more than enough to set you free.
38. Regeneration
Even when we
were dead in
sins, hath
quickened us
together with
Christ, (by grace
ye are saved;)
(Ephesians 2:5)
How ye turned to God
from idols to serve the
living and true God. (1
Thessalonians 1:9b)
“BORN AGAIN”
“ONLY”
Conviction
Quickening
Faith, Repentance, Conversion & The Salvation of Man
Conversion
Reconciliation (2Corinthians 5:8-19)
Grace
Truth
Mercy
Justice
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Truth
Mercy
Justice
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Truth
Mercy
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Truth
Mercy
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Justice
The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart
44. Expense
God’s
Riches
At
Christ’s
Gift from God
Received by faith
Available to all
Centred in the cross
Extending through eternity
The benefits far outweigh any cost to us.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for
joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:Who, when he had found one pearl of
great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
(Matthew 13:44-46).
Grace
By Grace Alone Through Faith
The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart
46. IF YOU believe IN Jesus
AND repentANT OF YOUR
SINS THEN you are saved.
To Repent means: Being sincerely sorry for your sins and
bringing them before God (between you and Him); with the
aim of not going back to them.
Believe in Jesus Christ: To be the son of God; died and
rose up again, and that His finished work on the Cross is
more than enough to set you free.
56. IF YOU believe IN Jesus
AND repentANT OF YOUR
SINS THEN you are saved.
To Repent means: Being sincerely sorry for your sins and
bringing them before God (between you and Him); with the
aim of not going back to them.
Believe in Jesus Christ: To be the son of God; died and
rose up again, and that His finished work on the Cross is
more than enough to set you free.
71. Main Evidence
God
Man
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
Grace
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Grace
Grace
Not
Guilty
Righteousness Justice
Truth
Righteousness Righteousness
Justice Justice
Truth Truth
“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face. Blessed
are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they
rejoice all day long, And in Your righteousness they are exalted.” (Psalm 89:14-16)
Mercy
Mercy
Mercy
“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets: Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.” (Romans 3:21-25)
JUSTIFICATION - You’re Not Guilty!! Says God
77. IF YOU believe IN Jesus
AND repentANT OF YOUR
SINS THEN you are saved.
To Repent means: Being sincerely sorry for your sins and
bringing them before God (between you and Him); with the
aim of not going back to them.
Believe in Jesus Christ: To be the son of God; died and
rose up again, and that His finished work on the Cross is
more than enough to set you free.
86. IF YOU believe IN Jesus AND
repentant OF YOUR SINS THEN
you are saved.
To Repent means: Being sincerely sorry for your sins and bringing them before
God (between you and Him); with the aim of not going back to them.
Believe in Jesus Christ: To be the son of God; died and rose up again, and
that His finished work on the Cross is more than enough to set you free.