things but it could not lift man to where God wanted man to live. So one of those words is faith. [Music]

praise the lord we're glad that we can come around his word again last sunday we were looking at the marks of true faith and we saw that the first of those marks was that a person keeps a good conscience

you in that line particularly in the New Testament in the New Covenant in the old Covenant there was not much emphasis on faith in fact Faith was not he hardly ever mentioned in the

holy as much as we have faith for David in the macabre a beacon of until number Cora which must endure love a three window at the Torah Windham buddy within the province a tomorrow we can picture faith like a vessel and we keep outside

praise the Lord this is a day the Lord has made and every day is the day the Lord is made so we rejoice and are glad in it so today I want to begin a series on the marks of true faith see faith is

you know that nowadays we hear a lot about faith there's a whole movement called the word of faith movement and i have serious questions about it because it emphasizes only

when we think of faith we think of what we believe in our mind i've understood these truths and i believe it but it doesn't seem to bring the power of god and it goes on to say that in this gospel the righteousness of god is revealed

sharing I see a man man of Faith even brother Zach uh I remember them see beyond their words there is a life which backs them a

is the victory that overcomes the world our field whatever is born of God overcomes the world this is the victory that overcomes the world our faith and I want you to

Daughters of God that's what Paul Paul solemnly testified to the gospel of the grace of God the other thing is in it's not just repentance but faith in our Lord Jesus Christ that

Hebrews 11:7 and it says my faith by faith Noah being warned by God about things not seen in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household

Zac Poonen the true grace of God you'll hear both those messages there. The second important word is in the New Testament is faith. There is not very little about mentioned in faith about faith in the Old Covenant even though they lived by faith as we read in

A couple of Sundays ago I'd spoken here on faith. Before that for two Sundays I'd spoken on grace. Now the reason for that is these are two of the most important words in the New Testament.

that's very important and you know in the new testament in hebrews 11 it says it's by faith that abel let me show you that verse and then we'll come back here in hebrews chapter 11 it says by faith

we're thinking our subject is you know discipleship and faith the reason I chose that subject was because those are the two most important things that Jesus spoke about if you read the Gospels he

And today we're going to start by we're going to take a series of going through all of these three things that we've considered, faith, hope, and love. And I'm going to begin by talking about faith today and we'll continue talking about faith some

Jesus was astonished this time he was astonished at this man's faith in mark 6 he was astonished at these people with whom he had grown up for thirty years he was astonished at their unbelief and now he's astonished that the faith of a man

and in your place of work did you live in faithfulness then even if your words are broken words and you can't sing in tune and we don't have good musical instruments it's a tremendous offering of praise and thanksgiving to God we never want to

faith in god means i believe that everything he has commanded is for my good that's faith you know just like our little children you tell them to do something they don't do it because they don't believe it's for their good is there any every person

so yesterday we did we did look at faith and we looked at uh what it what it's faith and how what is faith and how you get it today i want to um again emphasize that faith in essence if i was to use one phrase to describe faith it's