{"id":47587,"date":"2022-10-01T02:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/true-faith-is-an-active-faith-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:57:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:57:59","slug":"true-faith-is-an-active-faith-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/true-faith-is-an-active-faith-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"True Faith Is An Active Faith &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story is told of a tight-rope walker in a circus who once asked his audience this question: How many of you believe that I can walk backwards? Everyone in the audience raised their hand. He then walked backwards on the rope (see 3rd video) and asked, How many of you believe that I can ride a bicycle across the rope? Again, every hand was raised. He rode the bicycle across the rope and then asked, How many of you believe that I can push a wheelbarrow across the rope? The same response was given. Finally, he asked, Who will volunteer to ride in the wheelbarrow? Not a hand was raised!<\/p>\n<p>Folks, its relatively easy to say we believe something (cf. James 2:19-NKJV), but to demonstrate our faith, is sometimes a different story.<\/p>\n<p>The apostle Paul admonishes us to:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised<\/strong> (Romans 4:12-NKJV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Abrahams faith was characterized by the following two qualities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> He accepted Gods word <strong>without doubt or hesitation<\/strong> (Hebrews 11:8-NKJV; cf. Genesis 12:1-NKJV; Acts 7:2-4-NKJV). Also see James 1:5-8-NKJV).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>He was motivated <strong>to obey God<\/strong> irrespective of the hardships and apparent sorrows involved (Hebrews 11:9-NKJV; cf. Genesis 12:8-NKJV). Also see Hebrews 5:5-9-NKJV; 1 Peter 1:22-NKJV).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Gods people, let us never forget that in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only <strong>faith working through love<\/strong> (Gal. 5:6-ESV &#8211; emphasis mine).<\/p>\n<p><strong>True faith is an active faith<\/strong> (James 2:14-26-NKJV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story is told of a tight-rope walker in a circus who once asked his audience this question: How many of you believe that I can walk backwards? Everyone in the audience raised their hand. He then walked backwards on the rope (see 3rd video) and asked, How many of you believe that I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/true-faith-is-an-active-faith-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;True Faith Is An Active Faith &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47587","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=47587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}