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Without Faith
►Heb
11:6
And without faith it
is impossible to please Him, for
he who comes to God must
believe that He is, and that He
is a rewarder of those who seek
Him.
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1.
That God is
 God does not argue His existence...
►Gen
1:1 In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1.
That God is - He has already
proved His existence by His deeds.
 Ps 86:8
There is no one like Thee among the
gods, O Lord;
 Nor are there any works like Thine.
 9 All nations whom Thou hast made shall
come and worship before Thee, O Lord;
 And they shall glorify Thy name.
 10 For Thou art great and doest wondrous
deeds; Thou alone art God.
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1.
►Ps
That God is
19:1
The heavens declare the
glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handywork.
►2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and
night unto night sheweth knowledge.
►3 There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard. KJV
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1. That God is
►Jesus gave His deeds (the deeds of
God) as the basis of believing.
► John 10:37 "If I do not do the works of My
Father, do not believe Me;
► 38 but if I do them, though you do not
believe Me, believe the works, that you may
know and understand that the Father is in
Me, and I in the Father. "
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1.
That God is
►Jesus
gave His deeds (the deeds of
God) as the basis of believing.
► John
14:11
"Believe Me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in Me; otherwise
believe on account of the works themselves.
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Without Faith
►2. God is rewarder: suggests, provider
 Matt 16:8 But Jesus, aware of this, said, "You
men of little faith, why do you discuss among
yourselves that you have no bread?
9
"Do you not yet understand or remember
the five loaves of the five thousand, and how
many baskets you took up?
 10 "Or the seven loaves of the four thousand,
and how many large baskets you took up?
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Without Faith
►2. God is rewarder: suggests, provider
► Matt 6:28
"And why are you anxious about
clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they
do not toil nor do they spin,
► 29
yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his
glory did not clothe himself like one of these.
► 30
"But if God so arrays the grass of the field,
which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the
furnace, will He not much more do so for you, O men
of little faith?
► 31
"Do not be anxious then, saying, 'What shall we
eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'With what shall we
clothe ourselves?'
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Without Faith
Without Faith
►2.
God is rewarder: suggests, provider
► Ps
37:25 I have been young, and now I
am old;
► Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
► Or his descendants begging bread.
► 26 All day long he is gracious and lends;
► And his descendants are a blessing.
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Without Faith
►2.
God is rewarder: Implication: Faith
in the word of God
 Acts 27:25 "Therefore, keep up your courage,
men, for I believe God, that it will turn out
exactly as I have been told.
 1 John 5:10 The one who believes in the Son
of God has the witness in himself; the one who
does not believe God has made Him a liar,
because he has not believed in the witness that
God has borne concerning His Son.
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Without Faith
►1.
It is impossible to please God.
►Most
obvious reason, Faith pleases God
 Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so
that he should not see death; and he was
not found because God took him up; for he
obtained the witness that before his being
taken up he was pleasing to God.
 Heb 11:6 And without faith it is impossible
to please Him, …
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1.
It is impossible to please God.
►Objective: Pleasing God
 Col 1:10
so that you may walk in a manner
worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all
respects, bearing fruit in every good work and
increasing in the knowledge of God;
 1 Thess 4:1 Finally then, brethren, we request
and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you
received from us instruction as to how you
ought to walk and please God (just as you
actually do walk), that you may excel still more.
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►1. It
► Rom
is impossible to please God.
8:5
For those who are according to the
flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but
those who are according to the Spirit, the things
of the Spirit.
►6
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the
mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
►7
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile
toward God; for it does not subject itself to the
law of God, for it is not even able to do so;
►8
and those who are in the flesh cannot please
God.
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns
► John
16:8
"And He, when He comes, will
convict the world concerning sin, and
righteousness, and judgment;
► 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe
in Me;
► 2 Thess 2:11
And for this reason God will
send upon them a deluding influence so that
they might believe what is false,
► 12 in order that they all may be judged who
did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in
wickedness.
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns
►Satan’s
temptation of Eve: He
questioned faith in what God had said.
 Gen 3:4 And the serpent said to the
woman, "You surely shall not die!
 5 "For God knows that in the day you
eat from it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and
evil."
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns; but with faith, people
obey God
 Heb 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned by God
about things not yet seen, in reverence
prepared an ark for the salvation of his
household,
 Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was
called, obeyed by going out to a place which he
was to receive for an inheritance; and he went
out, not knowing where he was going.
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns; but with faith,
righteousness rules
► Gen
39:9
… How then could I do this great evil,
and sin against God?"
► Dan 1:8
But Daniel made up his mind that he
would not defile himself with the king's choice
food or with the wine which he drank; so he
sought permission from the commander of the
officials that he might not defile himself.
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns; but with faith,
righteousness rules
 Heb 11:24 By faith Moses, when he had
grown up, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter;
 25 choosing rather to endure ill-treatment
with the people of God, than to enjoy the
passing pleasures of sin;
 26 considering the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was
looking to the reward.
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns
► Num
20:12
But the Lord said to Moses
and Aaron, "Because you have not believed
Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the
sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring
this assembly into the land which I have
given them."
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Without Faith
►2.
Sin reigns; therefore, without
faith, you will die in your sins.
►John
8:24
"I said therefore to you,
that you shall die in your sins; for
unless you believe that I am He, you
shall die in your sins."
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Without Faith
►3. Prayers go unanswered
► Mark 11:24
"Therefore I say to you, all
things for which you pray and ask, believe
that you have received them, and they shall
be granted you.
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Without Faith
►3.
Prayers go unanswered
►Luke
11:9
"And I say to you, ask,
and it shall be given to you; seek, and
you shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened to you.
►10 "For everyone who asks, receives;
and he who seeks, finds; and to him
who knocks, it shall be opened.
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Without Faith
►3.
Prayers go unanswered
► 11
"Now suppose one of you fathers is
asked by his son for a fish; he will not give
him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
► 12 "Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not
give him a scorpion, will he?
► 13 "If you then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much
more shall your heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"
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Without Faith
►3. Prayers go unanswered
► James 1:6
But let him ask in faith without
any doubting, for the one who doubts is like
the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the
wind.
►7
For let not that man expect that he will
receive anything from the Lord,
►8
being a double-minded man, unstable in
all his ways.
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Without Faith
►4.
Good (and great) things
become Impossible
► Heb
11:5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that
he should not see death; and he was not found
because God took him up; for he obtained the
witness that before his being taken up he was
pleasing to God.
► 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him,
for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
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Without Faith
►4.
Good (and great) things
become Impossible
►Matt
14:30 But seeing the wind, he
became afraid, and beginning to sink,
he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"
►31 And immediately Jesus stretched
out His hand and took hold of him, and
said to him, "O you of little faith, why
did you doubt?"
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Without Faith
►4.
Good (and great) things
become Impossible
► Mark
11:22
And Jesus answered saying to
them, "Have faith in God.
► 23 "Truly I say to you, whoever says to
this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into
the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart,
but believes that what he says is going to
happen, it shall be granted him.
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Without Faith
►5.
There is no courage.
► Add
to faith virtue.
► 2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all
diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to
virtue knowledge; KJV
► Without
virtue.
► Virtue:
faith; nothing to which to add
Manliness… valor… moral excellence!
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Without Faith
►5.
There is no courage.
► Mark
4:36
And leaving the multitude, they
took Him along with them, just as He was,
in the boat; and other boats were with Him.
► 37 And there arose a fierce gale of wind,
and the waves were breaking over the boat
so much that the boat was already filling
up.
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Without Faith
►5.
There is no courage.
► 38
And He Himself was in the stern, asleep on the
cushion; and they awoke Him and said to Him,
"Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"
► 39 And being aroused, He rebuked the wind and
said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died
down and it became perfectly calm.
► 40
And He said to them, "Why are you so
timid? How is it that you have no faith?"
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Without Faith
►5.
There is no courage.
►1 Sam 17:8-11
► 8 And he stood and shouted to the ranks of
Israel, and said to them, "Why do you come out to
draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine
and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for
yourselves and let him come down to me. …
► 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of
the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly
afraid.
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Without Faith
►5. There is no courage.
► 1 Sam 17:36 Your servant has killed both
the lion and the bear; and this
uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of
them, since he has taunted the armies of
the living God."
► 37 And David said, "The Lord who
delivered me from the paw of the lion and
from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me
from the hand of this Philistine."
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►5. There is no courage.
► Dan 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-
nego answered and said to the king, "O
Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give
you an answer concerning this matter.
► 17 "If it be so, our God whom we serve is
able to deliver us from the furnace of
blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of
your hand, O king.
Without Faith
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Without Faith
►6.
No basis for Hope
► Heb
11:6 And without faith it is
impossible to please Him, for he who
comes to God must believe that He is, and
that He is a rewarder of those who seek
Him.
► Hope of the reward
► Rewarder = Misthapodotes (Gr); a
remunerator, one who pays wages.
► God pays wages (Rom 6:23)
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Without Faith
►6.
No basis for Hope
►Future
► Heb
Reward (wage) produces hope
11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things
hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
► Heb 6:11
And we desire that each one of you
show the same diligence so as to realize the
full assurance of hope until the end,
► 12 that you may not be sluggish, but
imitators of those who through faith and
patience inherit the promises.
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Without Faith
►6. No basis for Hope
►Future Reward (wage) produces hope
► Heb
6:17
In the same way God, desiring even
more to show to the heirs of the promise the
unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with
an oath,
► 18
in order that by two unchangeable things, in
which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have
strong encouragement, we who have fled for
refuge in laying hold of the hope set before us.
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Without Faith
►6. No basis for Hope
►Future Reward (wage) produces hope
► Heb
6:19 This hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast
and one which enters within the veil,
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Without Faith
►6. No basis
►Wages of faith
► John
for Hope
4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is
to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to
accomplish His work.
► 35
"Do you not say, 'There are yet four
months, and then comes the harvest'?
Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields, that they are white for
harvest.
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Without Faith
►6. No basis
►Wages of faith
► John
for Hope
4:36
"Already he who reaps is receiving
wages, and is gathering fruit for life eternal; that
he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice
together.
► 37 "For in this case the saying is true, 'One sows,
and another reaps.'
► 38 "I sent you to reap that for which you have not
labored; others have labored, and you have
entered into their labor."
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Without Faith
►6.
►1
No basis for Hope
Peter 1:8
and though you have not seen
Him, you love Him, and though you do not
see Him now, but believe in Him, you
greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full
of glory,
► 9 obtaining as the outcome of your faith
the salvation of your souls.
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Without Faith
►6.
No basis for Hope
► Heb
11:39 And all these, having gained
approval through their faith, did not receive
what was promised, because God had
provided something better for us, so that
apart from us they should not be made
perfect.
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