Faith Notes # 2
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
· Likewise we must have faith in the operation or in the energy puts forth by God’s resurrection power found resident in the revealed Person of Christ. We must see ourselves as seated at the right hand of God in Christ, demonic powers and the name of every circumstance far below us in physical distance. When we see ourselves and believe this report about ourselves, the righteousness of God, which is by faith, will kick in and our experiential reality will become as such of what has been already accomplished by the operation of God.
Romans
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is
excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
·
A law declares
to us that under a particular set of circumstances; specific results will
always come about, without fail.
·
The
law of faith operates
in this fashion.
·
The voice of
the Holy Spirit wills or desires something within us.
·
His desire
is translated for us as a rhema word.
·
If we hear
and obey the rhema word it reveals Christ Jesus within us who will labor by His
grace to bring it to pass.
·
His accomplished
grace in us is translated into His righteousness, or His accomplished work of
grace that makes us Christ like.
·
This is the
law of faith! This law will never ever
fail and will allow us to overcome, become set fee, and get every single victory
all by a simple step by step obedience to the voice of the Holy Ghost apart
from our own efforts. Obedience, grace,
righteousness; all of faith, and all of the Lord.
28 Therefore
we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
·
This is why
it says in Romans 8: 28 that a man or woman will be pronounced as innocent from
sin as the Lord Himself, when he or she live by faith.
·
When the
Christian life is lived by the law of faith, it will produce the character of
Christ automatically.
·
If however we operate by the law, Christ is
not revealed in us to labor by His grace. We are left to labor by our own
power. We have rejected the law of
faith and have fallen into the law of works.
·
The grace of
Christ thus becomes stifled, useless, and breaks down. The righteousness of God, which is by faith,
does not come about and we remain in our sins instead of being changed into the
image of Christ.
Galatians 5:4
Christ is become of no
effect(
becomes deprived of all effectiveness.) unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen
from grace.
Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
·
We establish. “We establish,” in this verse is in
the present tense. This means that we
make the whole of the Old and the New Testament and what it contains for us to
stand and thus be effective from moment to moment by a life of faith.
Romans 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
·
Blessedness: This word is defined as a blessed happiness or a state of inward
happiness.
·
The man or
woman of God that live by faith come into a state of happiness which is the
result of the liberty in Christ that is produced in them by their living by the
law of faith apart from their own efforts.
Romans
10:6 But the righteousness( the accomplished labor of the grace of
God) which is of(
root system) faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who
shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that
is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8
But
what saith it? The rhema word
is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the rhema word of faith, which we preach;
·
Obedience to
the rhema word of faith activates the law of faith and results in God’s righteousness
accomplished in us.
Romans 11:20
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by
faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
·
Unbelief, as
I said, is an absence, or void of faith, and obviously spells out obstinate
disobedience to the Lord.
·
Continual disobedience
will cause the life of the Lord to die within us until the day that us a branch
in the vine is broken off. We stand and
continue to abide in Christ only by a life of faith.
Romans 14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
·
Faith as
found in the Romans 14:22 is in the present tense. This means that it our responsibility to have faith at all times.
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Greek: And what is the surpassing greatness of His
power INTO US THE ONES WHO ARE “CONSTANTLY BELIEVING” (present participle).
This power is defined as the energy put out by God as an exhibition of the outward
dominion of His inward strength.
·
In other
words, if we continuously believe the rhema word of God, He will honor our
faith by putting forth into us the surpassing greatness of His power as defined
above.
2 Thess 2:11 ¶ Wherefore also we pray
always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil
all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power
·
Greek:
That our God may count you worthy of
your calling and ministry, and fulfill every delight of His goodness ( in you)and every work that has its source in faith with dunamis power.
·
Every work
that we do by the faith of God will be met by the dunamis power of God.
Hallelujah!
Romans 15:25 ¶ Now to him that is of power to
stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the
world began,
Romans
16:26 But now is made manifest, and by
the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting
God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
·
Greek:
The prophetic scriptures ( or by the same token, words of prophecy)reveal the Person of Christ who dwells
within us in a mystery form. Christ must
be preached in this way. The revelation
of both His Person, and the gospel, is what establish us in the faith. The reason why Christ is revealed through prophetic
preaching is to cause the nations to become saved and to obey Him. This obedience is one which is by faith.
·
Programs do
not save. It is the Person of Christ.
Our preaching must always reveal Christ. There is nothing more boring than a preacher that does not preach
out of the rhema word of God.
1
Peter
1:25 But the rhema word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you.
1 Cor 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
·
If we live
in strict obedience and belief to the rhema word of God, mountain after
mountain, from moment to moment, will be removed from our lives.
2 Cor 4:13
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
·
This is the
definition of the spirit of faith.
·
First of all
the scripture tells us that we are responsible to maintain faith at all times,
as I have already said.
·
Faith is a spirit;
indeed it is the Spirit of God Himself. When we believe, because we have seen in
our spirit the rhema word of God, then we can speak. This is prophecy!
2 Cor 5:7
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
·
Greek: We conduct our lives by faith and absolutely
never by what appears.
2 Cor 8:7 ¶ Therefore, as ye abound in every thing,
in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love
to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
·
Walking
by faith will cause the utterance gifts such as prophecy and tongues to
increase and abound in us as well as the knowledge gifts such as that of
healing. The abundance of gifts will guide us into our ministry and increase
our motivation and diligence.
2 Cor 10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly
·
Increase
in the faith of a local assembly increases spiritual activity and ministry
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
·
Greek
Grammar: The live which I now live, I live in the
sphere or in the world of faith that belongs to or comes out of Christ.
·
It is the
faith that comes out of the Person of Christ living His life constantly in me. This is how you and I must live. Remember
His every delight and desire is translated for us to a rhema word. Simply live
by the rhema word!
Gal 3:2
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of
the law, or by the hearing of faith
· Greek paraphrase: Do we receive the things of the Spirit by our own efforts and strength, or by a hearing which is made up purely out of, and promotes a walk of faith?
Gal
3:5 He therefore that ministereth to
you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the
law, or by the hearing of faith?
·
Greek paraphrase: He that supplies, furnishes and ministers to
you the things of the Spirit, and likewise works of dunamis power(s), does He
do it through your own efforts and strength, or through a hearing that is made
out purely of, and promotes a walk of faith?
Gal
5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by
love.
·
Greek paraphrase :
The only thing that has any inward
strength to execute God’s outward dominion and victory for us in our lives is faith that is energized by a walk of divine
and self sacrificial love.
Gal
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is
no law.
·
Let
us study these two scriptures in more detail
·
First
of all please note there are not many fruits, but one fruit produced by the
Spirit. This fruit is nothing more than
the revelation of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The fruit of the Spirit is the character
found in Christ Himself.
·
Though
there is only one fruit, as with any fruit, it develops in stages.
·
When
the Lord who is love comes into our live, the revelation of His Person produces
an ongoing liberty in our lives, which brings us into state of progressive joyfulness. This is part of the Lord’s inward work in
us. We could call these two phases of the fruit of the Spirit as a work of
inward grace. We now see some of God’s outward accomplished work of righteousness.
·
Longsuffering, is defined as our long
endurance with the quirks, frailties, and blind spots of others. We can only be
longsuffering as Christ is revealed in us, because it is the fruit of His
character. The revelation of Christ also brings gentleness and goodness.
·
As
we grow in Christ we learn to operate by His rhema word or His faith. Learning to live by faith will restrict and
bind our whole life to live in accordance only to the Lord’s voice.
·
As I
have said before, the more restricted we live in accordance to the voice of the
Lord, the greater we shall be in the kingdom of our God. This restriction is
called meekness.
·
Meekness
is defined as yielding up all of our rights to Christ.
·
Self
control it not our self control but Christ’s. Self-control is the result of living a life in all meekness before
the Lord. When we live in all meekness we become as free as Christ is and fully
blossom into His self-control.
Eph 2:8 For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift
of God:
·
Greek paraphrase: By a life of faith you are saved through Christ’s
labor in you. (which is activated
by our faith.)
·
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
· The shield of faith is one, which is made up purely out of faith. Hence, only when we live in faith will we have God’s dunamis power to quench all the fiery darts of the enemy. There is no other way!
God Bless You,
Jose
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