Faith

“faithful obedience comes from a sincere faith. Faithful obedience comes from a sincere faith. If you're taking, if you're, if you have your own Bible with you, go ahead and underline those words sincere faith. If you want to circle the word sincere, that's kind of the key word here. Sincere faith. Faithful obedience comes from a sincere faith. Why do we say that? Look with me at verse 5. Verse 5 says, I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your”

“That's a foundation of who we are. We have faith in many different things in this life, like these pews that you're sitting on. You have faith in the pew to not force you to fall to the ground because it's not sturdy enough to hold the weight of your body up. We all have faith in something. We all have faith in many different things, but here we see that these men had faith in someone and that someone's name is Jesus. And so in Hebrews 11 verse 1, and this is the NIV, it says that faith is confidence in what we hope for, an assurance about what we do not”

“who has put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Let me make it clear. Salvation is by faith alone, is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. By grace, through faith, in Christ alone. That's it. And when we put our trust in Christ, when we confess that Jesus is our Savior and Lord, when we bow our knee and surrender our life to Christ, we receive the gift, the ultimate”

“sacrifices that you make. And so I just want to honor you today. We're so grateful that you're here. I'm grateful that my mom's here in about the fifth pew and just the life and the faith. There's a couple of things that my mom has taught me, is to have thick skin, is to be gritty, is to persevere even when life doesn't go your way. And so I'm grateful for my mom and the influence of faith she had on our family, the devotion we had as a family to the local church and really growing us up in the faith. I'm grateful for my wife, who's willing to sacrifice”

“faith, we must have sound doctrine. To contend for the faith, we must have sound doctrine. Because you can't contend for what you don't know. We want to be followers of Jesus. We want to fight the fa fight the good fight of faith and tell others about who he is. But how do we do that if we don't know who he is and what he believed? And so Paul knew that the early church in order for them to be healthy, they had to have sound doctrine. They had to have these teachings, they had to understand them in some capacity so that they knew how”

“you want to be and you get the job that you want and you you end up in a relationship that you want to be, maybe you have kids or whatever the dreams or desires are that are on your heart. At the end of the day, if you're not living and walking in purpose before that, all those other things are not going to be enough. And so we have to know our purpose before that. And know also that God has placed you somewhere here and now to live and lead out of that. So live faithfully wherever God has placed you. Live faithfully in the here and now. Contend for the faith. Do what God”

“And on the rollercoaster of life, we need to have somebody that's going to remind us he's faithful. Might be on a downturn, but he's faithful. He's consistent. We need to have those teammates in our life who know what it's like to celebrate. We need those people who are willing to sacrifice alongside us. And we need people who are going to remind us that he is faithful to complete it. Won't he do it? We need those people in our lives.”