Comments on: Living the Christian Life: Righteousness through faith

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:15:24 +0000

It is written that GOD has giving or dealt to each man the measure of Faith.

Read Romans 12:3.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:11:07 +0000

Faith is ultimately a gift of Grace. See Eph 2:8,9. It is not us grimmacing and gritting our teeth and through them shrieking “I believe; I believe”. That’s us at work, not our having faith. Faith in Jesus is believing IN him.The amplified version “amplifies” “believe” in John 3:16: “…trusts,clings to, relies on”. Naturally there has to be an intellectual assent to the truths of the Gospel or there is no basis to trust. I am simply trusting what Jesus did for me in his life (total and perfect obedience in place of my disobedience) and what he did for me in his death as my atoning sacrifice to make me acceptable to the Father. I cannot offer my works, before or after I became a Christian. I have nothing to offer the Father of my own, nothing nothing nothing. If Jesus does not stand in for me in his life and death, I am eternally sunk. I have no where else to go, but Jesus. Praise his Most Glorious Name. What a wonderful Saviour!!!!

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By: Matt Glover

Matt Glover — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:37:46 +0000

Hi Anne,

I think these deserve a post of their own! I’ll get on to it…

By: anne robare

anne robare — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:47:33 +0000

Hello Matt Glover,

I have a couple of questions for you about Righteousness from God through Faith:

There is a simple command from Jesus Christ to everyone in Matthew 6 that Paul expounded on, primarily in Romans and Galatians, especially his summary in Ro 1:16-21: “But seek ye first His (God’s) Kingdom and His (God’s) Righteousness.” What is it, exactly, that we must find?

In Jn 2, when Jesus Christ changed the water into wine He revealed His Glory, the Glory He had from the Father before the beginning of the world. Do you know what He revealed in Jn 2:1-11?

Thanks,
anne

By: Matt Glover

Matt Glover — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:28:54 +0000

G’day Grady,
I’m reading through Philip Yancey’s “Reaching for the Invisible God” at the moment with my interns. He says a lot about faith, doubt and following a God that seems absent, and sometimes even hostile. At one point he says that when we feel faithless, acting out our faith can help make it real once again.
Obviously Yancey says and explains it a lot better, but it might be worth a read sometime.
MG

By: Grady

Grady — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:04:41 +0000

The words that you gave in your first point were almost exactly the words God said to me when I was searching my faith. I was in Houston alone in a very large church and fell asleep on the pew while asking God to speak to me about the essence of faith. I woke up angry that God had not spoken to me when out of the back reaches of my mind a very small thought said, “Faith is living as though what Jesus said is true. It is strange to see someone else with almost the same words. Thank you.

By: Tigg

Tigg — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:29:16 +0000

i think ur right alison, you need faith to have faith. i like it! =) it makes u think!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:23:44 +0000

I love to read biographies of people and everything I’ve read about Paul paints him pre-conversion asa Zealot and a fanatic - he was totally ruled by the law, he knew the law backwards, and he persecuted any jews who might break laws. His mad-dog personality is what made him such an effective evangeliser when he swung the other way. Remember he went to jerusalem and called Peter and the others hypocrites for not followingJesus’ teachings about gentiles in the temple yet he never actually met Jesus.
this is what makes his words on love even more compelling - he’s a difficult personality trying to express what was now in his heart. Essentially he founded the Eastern Orthodox church, which we Roman christians almost totally ignore.