198. Christ, the Believing One<\/p>\n
\u201cHe trusted in God\u201d (Mat_27:43).<\/p>\n
\u201cI live by the faith of the Son of God\u201d (Gal_2:20).<\/p>\n
Christ is the Author and Finisher of faith\u2014Heb_12:2. His life was a life of constant and unswerving faith in God. We need Christ Himself to live His life of faith, that we may have a faith which corresponds to Him. What kind of faith was Christ\u2019s?<\/p>\n
1. Grounded on the Scriptures. \u201cThat the Scriptures might be fulfilled\u201d is not only said of Him (Mat_12:17; Luk_24:44), but He was ever careful to fulfil them\u2014Joh_19:24, Joh_19:36. There is no faith in God nor likeness to Christ\u2019s faith that is not founded and grounded on the Word of God.<\/p>\n
2. Guarded by Prayer. The attitude of Christ\u2019s faith is demonstrated in His constant act of looking up to His Father\u2014Mar_6:41; Mar_7:34. Faith is defenceless in itself, so it ever appeals to the Lord that He may hedge the heart and life by His protecting Presence\u2014Job_1:10.<\/p>\n
3. Graced by Love. Christ\u2019s faith was ever looking to His Father to supply the need of others\u2014Mat_14:19. The \u201cwork of faith\u201d is ever wedded to the \u201clabour of love\u201d\u20141Th_1:8.<\/p>\n
4. Guided by the Spirit. Christ was always dependent upon the Spirit\u2019s guidance. He did not move in service till He was empowered by the Spirit\u2014see Luke 4, how this is emphasised, Luk_4:1, Luk_4:14, Luk_4:18. \u201cFaith\u201d for and in service is one of the Spirit\u2019s gifts\u20141Co_12:9.<\/p>\n
5. Growth of Faith. Of Christ in His faith, and personal grace, it is said, \u201cHe increased in wisdom and stature\u201d (Luk_2:52). Well for us if it can be said of us because of Him \u201cYour faith groweth exceedingly\u201d (2Th_1:3).<\/p>\n
6. Goal of Faith. The object of faith is God Himself. The enemies of Christ taunted Him that His trust in God brought Him no relief. They looked on with the eyes of reason. Christ trusted to reach the goal of purpose. \u201cHave faith in God\u201d (Mar_11:22) is Christ\u2019s direction, and the Spirit\u2019s commendation\u20141Th_1:8.<\/p>\n
7. Glory of Faith. Faith is a God-honouring grace, for it brings everything to God in prayer and truth, and brings God into everything to guide and govern. How fully Christ illustrates, and how evidentially it is illustrated in the lives of those mentioned in Hebrews 11.<\/p>\n
By: DR. F. E. MARSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
198. Christ, the Believing One \u201cHe trusted in God\u201d (Mat_27:43). \u201cI live by the faith of the Son of God\u201d (Gal_2:20). Christ is the Author and Finisher of faith\u2014Heb_12:2. His life was a life of constant and unswerving faith in God. We need Christ Himself to live His life of faith, that we may have … Continue reading “0201. 198. Christ, the Believing One”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}