DAILY TRUTH - The 3 Key Elements Of Faith
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The third and final component of true saving faith is assent, which is knowledge, assent and implicit trust in God and His person alone. Without this, there is no real saving faith, and without that we are not truly saved.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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So real saving faith requires knowledge and assent.
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without the third that I'll mention here in just a moment,
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to the level of faith that is, biblically speaking, demonic.
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If we look at the context, they believe that God is one.
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James is saying to his audience that he's writing to,
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And the result of their belief is that they shudder.
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Now, look, you don't tremble at something that's not true.
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So the demons, they don't just have knowledge of the fact that God is three eternal persons
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The demons have a better working Trinitarian doctrine
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demons have better doctrine and theology than you do and me so they know that god is three
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eternal persons and that he is one and they don't just know this because just knowing something if
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you don't agree that it's true doesn't result in trembling see the demons shudder because they
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know it and they have given not eagerly not joyfully not willingly but they have given
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nonetheless because they must their assent they agree with what they know see the third and final
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component of true saving faith christian faith is that we know that we grant assent and that lastly
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we we give our implicit trust and with that there is personal trust as a way of illustration if
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there was a chair on the stage before me i could look at the chair and i could say i know that this
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is a chair i'm not an expert in chairs but i've seen enough chairs in my life and the concept of
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a chair is simple enough to where I can look at this chair and I know that this is a chair. I see
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its chairness before me. I recognize its chairness. And not only do I know it's a chair, but I believe
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it's a true chair. I have given my assent. I agree that this is not just a chair, but it is a chair
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chair. It is a true chair, but I am not biblically having faith in the chair until I ultimately cast
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my weight upon it, trusting that it will hold me up, that it is able, that it is sufficient to do
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what it was created and designed to do. In the same way, you are not truly trusting Jesus. You
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do not have biblical faith in Jesus until you know Jesus from the scripture. You agree with
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what the scripture says about Jesus. And lastly, you cast the full weight, not of your behind,
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but of your soul on Jesus, believing that he is able and willing to sustain you before God on that
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final day, to wash you pure as snow by the sprinkling of his blood, to clothe you in his
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righteousness, to present you pure and spotless and without blemish before God, not by works which
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you have performed, but by grace, that is the free gift of God that is laid hold of through
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the instrument of faith, which is knowledge, assent, and implicit trust in God, and that the
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object is Christ and his work, his person alone. Thanks so much for listening. But real quick,
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