A Faith-Filled Stewardship Adventure (Living Faith)
Pastor Phil Vance
Highlights:
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In its’ essence, faith is being sure and certain about unseen hopes and realities.
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Walking without faith does not please God.
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Walking in faith does please God.
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Faith is being persuaded by God and His word, Faith is a belief, a conviction, that what God says is true, and is sure to happen.
Discussion Questions:
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What does it take to have faith? Where do you get more of it, how are you brought to it, where does it come from?
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Pastor Phil said, “Walking without faith does not please God.” What about a faithless walk causes God displeasure?
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Talk together about Enoch, who walked so faithfully with God that he didn’t see death, God took him up for HImself. What would a day in the life of Enoch look like? What about his life would have been ordinary and what would have been extraordinary?
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Pastor Phil said we grow our faith by exercising it. How are you exercising your faith and how has that exercise lead to growth of faith in your life?
Key Scriptures, Quotes and Definitions:
-Hebrews 11: 1-3 and 5-6 “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” “5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.”[a] For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Genesis 5:24 “24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.”
Faith: G4102 pistis, persuasion.i.e. Credence. Conviction of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God, reliance upon Christ for salvation, constancy, the system of religious truth itself.
Please: G2100 to gratify entirely
Diligently: G1567 to search out, investigate, crave, demand, worship.
-2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
– Romans 10:17 “So then faith comes y hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”