Live by Faith

~ The Best New Year’s Resolution: “Live by Faith” ~

Introduction  ~  When God’s Word commands the same thing for His people in four separate places we ought to pay close attention. 

Four Passages  ~  “For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.  Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.  Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith” (Habakkuk 2:3-4).  Notice that this passage is in context to the Messiah’s coming. 

“For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith’” (Romans 1:17). 

“But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for ‘the just shall live by faith.’  Yet the law is not of faith, but ‘the man who does them shall live by them’” (Galatians 3:11-12). 

“For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: ‘For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry.  Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.’  But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul” (Hebrews 10:36-39).  Notice that this passage is in context to the Jesus Christ’s Second Coming. 

The Apostle Paul’s Example  ~  “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.  I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain” (Galatians 2:20-21).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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