FAITH AND REVIVAL

DISBELIEF AND ARROGANCE

 

The main reason for disbelief there is a lack of trust.

It is manifested:

- unwillingness to hear ( Zach 7.11-12, 2 Pet 3.5-6 )

- non-confidence to heard ( John 5.44-47, 16.9 )

 

Disbelief appears in a sinful hardened heart.

"Look, brethren, that-would not have been in the heart of evil and wrong, that you don't back off from the living God" (Heb 3.12).

Unbelief is a great sin, because it makes the person a judge on God and His word :

John 16.9   -   "of sin, because they do not believe in me"

1 John 5.10  -  "Faithless God represents Him a liar”

 

Examples of unbelief:

- faithless people before the flood

- lack of inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah

- lack of Israel in the wilderness

- PARTICULARLY the GROWING DISBELIEF in recent times ( Luke 18.8, 2 Tim 3.1-5,13 )

ARROGANCE is to eliminate (defiance) law or commandments of God and the performance of something else in the hope that God will accept them and in this ministry ( Num 15.30, 31, 14.40-45 ).

 

During the purification of Earth from sin unbelievers and arrogant will be out of the new Jerusalem.

 

Note: The faith in the Gospel of the promise begins seed (Christ) and ends at His second coming.

REVIVAL

 

All have sinned against God ( Rom 3.9,19,23 ) .

 

The first thing that you need when applying-consciousness of his sinfulness and guilt:

 

a) Law leads to the consciousness of sin. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned in him” ( Rom 5.12 ). But there is a sin unto death - not born from God - and not to death for infants born from Him ( 1 Jn 5.16-20 ).

b) the Holy Spirit makes the word Law alive and real and in the light of the law of sin is in his form. "But I tell you the truth: it is better for you that I go, for if I do not go, the comforter will not come unto you; and if I go, it will send it to you, and He, having come, convicts the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment " ( John 16.7-8 ).

 

No one can be saved, if not the will ( and will not be "as children" - Matt 18.3 ) and be born again of water and the spirit " ( John 3.5 ).

 

When the man realizes his sinfulness, God's sadness fills my heart:

"You sorrowed to repentance ... sorrowed after ... Godly sorrow produces constant repentance to salvation, and the sorrow of the world produces death " ( 2 Cor 7.9-10 ).

 

The next step is the CONFESSION of SINS to God ( 1 Jn 1.9, Ps 19.6 ) and others who have sinned and wronged

( Matt 18.21, Jac 5.16 ). If someone stole or cheated by middle-should cover it ( Ezek 33.15, Luke 19.6, Num 5.6-8 ).

 

A repentant then must believe in the forgiveness of his sins by Christ ( Heb 11.6, Mark 11.24 ) and promise to leave old habits ( Prov 28.13, John 8.11 ).

Then the Lord forgives and forgets their sins: "I forgive them their sins and iniquities are not remember more"

( Jer 31.34 ).

 

 

Lord wrote the law in the heart and a desire to keep it "for the love of God, that we observe his commandments; and his commandments are not a high price " ( 1 Jn 5.3 ).

 

Then “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will save your hearts and thinking through Christ Jesus"     ( Phil 4.7 ).

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH

 

When a sinner confesses his sins and turns away from them, then the Lord about drew him ( 1 Jn 1.9, Ps 31.5 ).

 

It permanently removes the sins that made man ( Jeremiah 31.34 , Ps 102.12 ).

The faithful sinner then is Christ's obedience and righteousness ( Rom 5.17-19, 4.24 ).

 

Justification through FAITH ALONE, not through works. "We recognize that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law" ( Rom 3.23 ).

Then God looks on the flawed human life as the perfect:

"Who will accuse God's elect? God justifies them " ( Romans 8.33 ).

Righteousness, close to him through Jesus Christ makes it whiter than snow ( Is 1.18, Ps 50.9 ).

 

Quite the same sin confess ONCE ( 1 Jn 1.9 ).

 

God gives the grace and power through the Holy Spirit to resist temptations and be obedient to God in everything

( Eph 3.16 , Phil 2.13 , Col 1.11 ).

To obtain the promised assistance needed WAKE ( Matt 24.42 ) and PRAYER :

«All prayer and petition pray at all times " ( Eph 6.18 ).

 

Note: Revival and justification by faith is an integral part of the plan of salvation and go from the fall until the end of time of grace.

FAITH IN CHRIST

 

Faith is the substance of and confidence in an invisible and is by hearing and reading ( Heb 11.1, Rom 10.17-18 ) .

 

For meaningful faith should:

- Understanding ( Matt 15.16, Luke 24.45 )

- Knowledge ( Rom 10.14-18 )

- Trust (1 Jn 5.14, Eph 3.12)

 

Three reasons for confidence in the Scriptures:

1. This is the inspired Word of God ( 2 Tim 3.16-17, 2 Pet 1.21 ).

2. This is the truth ( John 17.17 ).

3. The closer the end of time, the more we are convinced of the truth of the Words,

because ALL the PROPHECIES are EXECUTED ( 2 Pet 1.19, Dan 12.4, 9.10 ).

 

Without FAITH IT is IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE HIM ( Heb 11.6 ).

We have to pray on the strengthening of our faith ( Mark 9.24, Luke 22.32).

 

God always will perform all the prayers in his time and His way, if they agreeing to his will and his word. "And this is the confidence we have in him, that, where we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he is no hearings into us in everything, why should we not ask - know that GET REQUESTED of HIM (1 Jn 5.14-15 ).

 

Only believer obedient, docile and only believe ( Ezek 36.26-27, Rom 3.31 ).

 

Faith must be supported by DEED ( Jac 2.17, Eph 2.10 ).

 

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