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These Three Remain: Faith, Pt. 1
Pastor Rollan Fisher
How does God instruct us to move forward?
With faith, hope and love
*In our day, we need to redefine our terms to understand what God means when He introduces the vital qualities of faith, hope and love.
Today, we’re going to talk about faith.
Focus: We will walk in the blessing of God as Jesus remains the focus of our faith.
Romans 4:13-25
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
God’s promises towards us are made to us because of God’s goodness, not our own.
The promises that God makes us are entered into as a product of grace - God giving us what we don’t deserve rather than what we do.
God gives life to things that have died and calls into existence those things which did not exist.
Faith is not a denial of reality. It is a realization that God is greater than our present reality.
Faith is counting God’s word as true and acknowledging His ability to do what He’s promised in His word and that He's spoken to us by the Holy Spirit.
We are counted righteous and enter into the life of God when we take God at his Word and put our trust in Him.
We enter into Jesus’ righteousness, the forgiveness provided by His substitutionary work at the cross and are justified at the judgement when we put our faith in Him.
By faith in God, all things are possible!!!
Second City Church - Pastor Rollan Fisher 2021