FAITH

THE FAITH 

WE ARE TO HAVE A COMMON FAITH AND A COMMON SALVATION.

Titus 1:4 To Titus, Mine Own Son After THE COMMON FAITH: Grace, Mercy, And Peace, From God The Father And The Lord Jesus Christ Our Saviour.

Jude 1:3 Beloved, When I Gave All Diligence To Write Unto You Of The COMMON SALVATION, It Was Needful For Me To Write Unto You, And Exhort You That Ye Should Earnestly Contend For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints.

WE ARE TO BE IN UNITY OF OUR FAITH.

Ephesians 4:13 Till We All Come In THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, And Of The Knowledge Of The Son Of God, Unto A Perfect Man, Unto The Measure Of The Stature Of The Fulness Of Christ:

WE ARE TO BE LIKE-MINDED, ONE-MINDED.

Romans 15:5-6 Now The God Of Patience And Consolation Grant You To Be LIKEMINDED One Toward Another According To Christ Jesus: That Ye May With ONE MIND And One Mouth Glorify God, Even The Father Of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

TOGETHER WE MAKE UP THE BODY OF CHRIST.

Romans 12:5-6 So We, Being Many, Are ONE BODY IN CHRIST, And Every One Members One Of Another. Having Then Gifts Differing According To The Grace That Is Given To Us, Whether Prophecy, Let Us Prophesy According To The Proportion Of Faith;

WE ARE TO BE ONE.

Ephesians 4:4-6 There Is ONE Body, And ONE Spirit, Even As Ye Are Called In ONE Hope Of Your Calling; ONE Lord, ONE Faith, ONE Baptism, ONE God And Father Of All, Who Is Above All, And Through All, And In You All.

John 17:20-23 Neither Pray I For These Alone, But For Them Also Which Shall Believe On Me Through Their Word; That They All May Be ONE; As Thou, Father, Art In Me, And I In Thee, That They Also May Be ONE In Us: That The World May Believe That Thou Hast Sent Me. And The Glory Which Thou Gavest Me I Have Given Them; That They May Be ONE, Even As We Are ONE: I In Them, And Thou In Me, That They May Be Made Perfect In ONE; And That The World May Know That Thou Hast Sent Me, And Hast Loved Them, As Thou Hast Loved Me.

WE ARE TO BE IN THE FAITH ONLY. 

Romans 9:31-32 But Israel, Which Followed After The Law Of Righteousness, Hath Not Attained To The LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. Wherefore? BECAUSE They Sought It Not By FAITH, But As It Were By The Works Of The LAW. For They Stumbled At That Stumblingstone;

JESUS IS THE STUMBLINGSTONE. FAITH IN HIM IS WHERE THEY STUMBLED, THEY HELD ON TO THE LAW.

Galatians 2:16 Knowing That A Man Is Not JUSTIFIED By The Works Of The LAW, BUT BY THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST, Even We Have Believed In Jesus Christ, That We Might Be JUSTIFIED BY THE FAITH OF CHRIST, And Not By The Works Of The LAW: For By The Works Of The LAW Shall No Flesh Be Justified.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine Yourselves, Whether Ye BE IN THE FAITH; Prove Your Own Selves. Know Ye Not Your Own Selves, How THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU, Except Ye Be Reprobates?

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch Ye, STAND FAST IN THE FAITH, Quit You Like Men, Be Strong.

1 Timothy 3:13 For They That Have Used The Office Of A Deacon Well Purchase To Themselves A Good Degree, And Great Boldness IN THE FAITH WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS.

Jude 1:3 Beloved, When I Gave All Diligence To Write Unto You Of The Common Salvation, It Was Needful For Me TO WRITE UNTO YOU, AND EXHORT YOU THAT YE SHOULD EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints.

CONTEND:  To strive in controversy or debate; dispute, assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing. 

STANDING STRONG THE FAITH THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS, IS NOT ONLY AGAINST THOSE WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN HIM AS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD BUT AGAINST THE PHARISEES, LEGALISTIC PEOPLE OF TODAY.

Philippians 3:1-3 Finally, My Brethren, Rejoice In The Lord. To Write The Same Things To You, To Me Indeed Is Not Grievous, But For You It Is Safe. Beware Of Dogs, BEWARE Of Evil Workers, Beware Of The CONCISION. For We Are The CIRCUMCISION, Which Worship God In The Spirit, And Rejoice In Christ Jesus, And Have No Confidence In The Flesh.

Acts 15:1-2,5-6,8-11 And Certain Men Which Came Down From Judaea Taught The Brethren, And Said, Except Ye Be Circumcised After The Manner Of Moses, Ye Cannot Be Saved. [2] When Therefore Paul And Barnabas Had No Small Dissension And Disputation With Them, They Determined That Paul And Barnabas, And Certain Other Of Them Should Go Up To Jerusalem Unto The Apostles And Elders About This Question. [5] But There Rose Up Certain Of The Sect Of The PHARISEES WHICH BELIEVED, Saying, That It Was Needful To Circumcise Them, AND TO COMMAND THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES. And The Apostles And Elders Came Together For To Consider Of This Matter. [8] And GOD, WHICH KNOWETH THE HEARTS, Bare Them, Witness, Giving Them The Holy Ghost, Even As He Did Unto Us; And Put No Difference Between Us And Them, PURIFYING THEIR HEARTS BY FAITH. Now Therefore Why Tempt Ye God, To Put A Yoke Upon The Neck Of The Disciples, Which Neither Our Fathers Nor We Were Able To Bear?  BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WE SHALL BE SAVED, Even As They.

Acts 15:24 Forasmuch As We Have Heard, That Certain Which Went Out From Us Have Troubled You With Words, SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS, SAYING, YE MUST Be Circumcised, AND KEEP THE LAW: TO WHOM WE GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT.

Donna K Purifoy 

1/2/2022