How to Experience Faith
I. Looking At the Object of Faith - Romans 1:1-7; Hebrews 12:2
- A. The Person of Jesus Christ
- 1. God's good news (the Gospel) about Christ - Rom. 1:1
- a) Revealed in the Scriptures - Rom. 1:2
- b) Christ is a genuine man - Rom. 1:3
- c) Christ is the Son of God - Rom. 1:4
- 2. Faith comes when its Object comes - Gal. 3:22-26
- 3. Faith is counted as obedience in the N.T. economy - Rom. 1:5
- 4. Faith is counted as righteousness in the N.T. economy - Rom.
4:13; 9:30; 10:6
- B. The Person of Jesus Christ is available through His Name - Rom.
1:5
II. Coming Under the Hearing of Faith - Romans 1:8-13
- A. Faith is bound up with the hearing that portrays the object of
faith - Gal. 3:1-2, 5
- B. The contagious nature of faith - Rom. 1:8
- C. The cultivating of faith
- 1. Our spirit soaking itself in the good news about Christ - Rom.
1:9
- D. Imparting faith to one another - Rom. 1:10-12
- E. Fruit is the impartation of Christ into others - Rom. 1:11-13
III. Receiving the Infusion of Faith -- Rom. 1:14-17
- A. Available for everybody - Rom. 1:14
- B. Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ (the Gospel) - Rom. 10:17
- C. The Gospel is the power of God that creates faith where there is
no faith - Rom. 1:15-16
- D. The story of God's relationship with man based on His righteousness
is revealed in the Gospel. It is hearing this story that brings faith as
a gift into our heart - Rom. 1:17; 10:3-17; Eph. 2:8-9
- E. To live a life by faith is to live an infused and supplied life
- Rom. 1:17; 2 Cor. 5:7