The NXR Podcast - April 25, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Great Faith Honors God

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Abraham Jesus Himself Adam
QUESTIONS - Are We Under Law Or Grace？ THEOLOGY APPLIED - Biblical Womanhood & Head Coverings

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6 minutes

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962

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53

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In this episode, we take a look at Abraham's faith, and how it relates to our faith in God. Abraham, as the great patriarch, was setting the standard of what faith looks like, and what we should aspire to in our dealings with God.

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00:00:27.160 Abraham, as the great patriarch, was setting the standard of what faith looks like and what
00:00:36.200 degree of faith you and I should aspire to. So to Abraham was given a great faith to where he did
00:00:43.220 not waver, where against hope he hoped in God, where he was fully convinced, even though he was
00:00:50.940 surrounded by many details, many characteristics that made it seem as though the promises of God
00:00:56.620 were going to fall flat. And yet Abraham was fully convinced. Abraham did not waver. But what our text
00:01:03.820 is saying today in verse 22, when it says, that is why, and we have to be careful with those first
00:01:09.500 three words, that is why his faith was counted to him as righteousness. Well, if you're coming right
00:01:15.660 off of verses 18 through 21, it's easy to read verse 22 and saying the reason why, the precise
00:01:23.200 reason why Abraham's faith was effective, sufficient for the righteousness of Christ to be
00:01:31.380 accredited to his account is because he didn't waver. See, if you're not careful, if we just back
00:01:37.240 up and we start with verse 18 and read it straight through verse 22, then it's really easy for us to
00:01:43.180 come away with a conclusion that the reason why, the precise reason why Abraham's faith worked
00:01:50.020 in terms of being saving.
00:01:52.620 The fact that Abraham's faith
00:01:54.280 was sufficient for God
00:01:55.640 to impute to him
00:01:56.680 the righteousness of Christ
00:01:58.140 is because his faith was strong.
00:02:00.680 Because he did not waver.
00:02:02.280 Because he was fully convinced.
00:02:03.720 Because against hope, he hoped.
00:02:07.040 And if that's what we walk away
00:02:08.380 with this morning, 0.98
00:02:09.120 then we're all going to walk away damned. 0.99
00:02:11.960 We'll all walk away condemned. 0.99
00:02:14.400 We'll all walk away hopeless
00:02:16.000 and discouraged
00:02:16.960 and filled with fear
00:02:19.640 wrought with anxiety but that is not the message of verse 22 of our text
00:02:25.120 when it says that is why his faith was counted to him as righteousness
00:02:29.880 the apostle is not pulling back just three verses namely to verse 18 19 20 and 21 four verses
00:02:38.340 speaking to the degree of Abraham's faith but he's pulling all the way back to the beginning
00:02:44.120 of his argument, namely verse 16 and 17. Not the degree of Abraham's faith, but the nature
00:02:52.380 of his faith. What kind of faith did he have? Christian faith. And what is the one necessary
00:03:00.340 characteristic, the one determining factor that makes faith Christian faith? It is that you have
00:03:09.720 christ as the object of your faith so what kind of faith saves christian faith
00:03:17.280 and what makes faith christian faith it believes in christ did abraham have great faith yes
00:03:27.180 is great faith more pleasing to god than weak faith yes
00:03:32.900 Yes. Jesus Himself, again and again, He chastises people for having little faith.
00:03:43.200 And He commends people for having more faith, because our faith makes a statement about the
00:03:48.540 character and nature of God Himself. Great faith says that God is not a liar, and that God is not
00:03:56.360 a man that he should be mocked. That God is everything he says he is. Great faith makes a
00:04:03.720 statement about God. It says that God is true. And not only that God is true, but that God is good.
00:04:12.760 Adam and Eve, they doubted God. They doubted God. They didn't trust that God was good. They didn't
00:04:20.340 trust that God was true. They thought that perhaps God in the garden was holding out on them. That
00:04:26.060 He was depriving them of something that would actually be for their good.
00:04:32.880 You see, great faith honors God because it says that God is true, it says that God is good,
00:04:38.140 and it says that God is able. Great faith makes a statement about God. It makes a statement about
00:04:44.280 His omnipotence, His power, that He is able to do that which He promises. But it also makes a
00:04:50.700 statement not only about His power, His omnipotence, but also His character. It says that He is willing
00:04:55.880 to do. That which He promised. That He is good. That He's not deceiving. That He's not cruel.
00:05:02.440 That He's not holding out on us or attempting to trick us. And so, great faith honors God.
00:05:11.880 Weak faith dishonors God. And so, the degree of your faith does, in fact, matter.
00:05:19.000 But to say that it matters in the sight of God, to say that stronger faith honors God more,
00:05:24.160 that weaker faith does not honor God as much. That is not to say that weak faith is not sufficient
00:05:30.160 to save. So we have to understand the distinction there. Faith of a mustard seed, if placed in
00:05:37.500 Christ, if possessing the proper object, is sufficient. And yet, bigger faith, stronger faith,
00:05:47.540 greater faith is more honoring to god so we should aspire to have great faith to not waver in the
00:05:54.300 midst of doubt to hope against hope to be fully convinced thanks so much for listening but real
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