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THE RACE OF FAITH
Romans 4message seven
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS
1. The essence of faith is when you refuse to be held captive to a status quo comfort zone
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS
2. Faith responds by allowing God to upset what you are used to, in order to move you forward to where you will be used
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS
3. Faith recognizes that you’ve got to believe in God anyhow, and trust God, in order for God to come through somehow
Thesis• God will always
empty you of self before he will ever use you to accomplish any great thing for him.
Definition• Favor is the Old
Testament word for grace.
Point 1It is not to the one who works, but it is to the one who trusts that righteousness is given.
Definition• Counted means to
credit to your account.
Point 2
God forgave David on the basis of his faith in God, not on the basis of what he could offer.
Point 3
The picture of baptism cannot save you if it does not truly picture the reality of your faith in the death of Christ on your behalf.
Point 4The law brings you the standard of God, so then you will be without excuse when he judges you for not getting saved by faith.
Definition• Faith in God means
believing what God says to enable him to perform what he says.
Point 5The
perfection of the object
makes up for any
imperfec-tion in the
believer.
COME FORWARD
FOR PRAYER