Faith is essential for salvation and the Christian life. It leads to repentance, forgiveness from God, and victory over sin. Faith is trusting in God and His promises without proof. It comes from God as a gift and allows believers to access spiritual blessings. True faith is in God as revealed in Scripture and works through love, not being blind. It gives believers power over darkness and makes all things possible with God.

1. THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH
YES I BELIEVE
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2. FAITH/REPENTANCE
• True faith always merges into repentance,
tears of sincere grief over sin lead to a saving
trust in God.
• Without faith repentance recedes into
indifference, or moves on into helpless
remorse.
• Faith leads the repentant soul to God, first to
receive His forgiveness, then to appropriate
His resources for daily victory and holiness.
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3. IMPORTANCE OF FAITH
• The importance of faith is indicated by the fact
that all men use it as an avenue to access God.
Sinners, must use this avenue if they are to be
saved.
• Saints that are saved by faith through grace
must keep on believing in order to continue
their walk in God. Initial faith made us
His, continuous faith keeps us His. Colossians
2:6
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4. FAITH BY DEFINITION OR DOCTRINE
• Faith is the substance of things hoped for: the
evidence of things not seen. Faith is that
attitude of mind, which the foundation rock of
hope stands. Hebrews 11:1
• By faith the believing one is able to penetrate
beyond the veil that marks the limit of sense
and enters into the region of unseen things. It
is receiving the testimony of Christ as truth.
Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 7:9, Matthew 8:8-13
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5. HOW FAITH WORKS?
• Dr. R.A Torrey said, “to believe God is to rely upon
or have unhesitating assurance of the truth of
God’s testimony, even though it is unsupported
by any other evidence, and to rely upon and have
unfaltering assurance of the fulfillment of His
promises, even though everything seems against
fulfillment. John 1:12
• Faith is the ear that refuses to be troubled any
longer by harassing questions and suspicious
doubts, but listens to what Jesus says. Romans
10:17, Isaiah 55:3
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6. BELIEF
• Believe is found 247 times in the New Testament,
and it kindred term faith is found 244 time, while
faithful is found 67 times in the New Testament.
• So believe means to persuade, to give credit to,
to trust or confide in. In the Old Testament
believe means to stay, to support. The English
word amen, signifying of a truth or so be it, is
also derived from believe. Luke 5:18-20, John
4:46-53, Mark 16:16, Romans 14:23
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7. NOT BLIND FAITH
• The faith that we are speaking about is not a
blind faith. It is not an unintelligent act of the
mind. It rest upon a knowledge of God as
revealed by His Word. Psalms 9:10
• Faith through knowledge leads to
commitment . 2Timothy 1:12
• Without trusting in The Word of God a
believer would have nothing to put their faith
in.
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8. ITS NECESSITY
• Faith in God is imperative to our Christian life
Hebrews 11:6
• We will be overtaken by condemnation without
the proper faith. Psalms 78:22, Hebrews 3:19
• Faith is absolutely essential to salvation. John
3:36
• Without the faith God asks for, their can be no
access to Him, or blessings from Him. unbelief
sets God aside, enthrones self will, and becomes
the crowning act of sin.
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9. ITS SOURCE
• Faith is a gift from God resulting from His grace.
Acts 15:11, Ephesians 2:8
• God gives the believer a measure of Faith so that
we can believe in Christ. Romans 12:3, Philippians
1:29
• Jesus was our greatest example of faith, and the
author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:1-2
• It must be born in the mind that faith is both a
human act and a divine operation. Ephesians 2:8
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10. ITS WARRANT
• Faith in God is no delusion. The warrant of
faith accomplishment is The Word of God. Our
faith rests not on our accomplishments, not
on itself, but it rests completely on Jesus
Christ. Mark 11:22, 2Corinthians 5:19
• Its power rests in the fact that it unites the
needy soul to the strong and all sufficient
Lord.
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11. ITS WORKS
• Obedience and service are part of the fruit of
saving faith and proof of its genuineness.
Romans 4:5; 5:2
• We are saved by faith. The believer life is
based completely on faith in Christ from
beginning to end. 2 Corinthians 1:24; 5:7
• There are two people that all things are
possible for. 1. God 2. The Believer. Mark 9:23;
10:27
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12. ITS POWER
• Faith links us to the omnipotence of God and
makes us more than conquerors. Acts 3:16,
Hebrews 11:30
• A strong faith in the wrong object can accomplish
very little. A weak faith in the right object can
accomplish great things. 2Corithians 4:13
• The powers of darkness can never stand before
the believer, because they are God sent, and God
sustained. Acts 6:5-8; 11:24
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13. ITS TRANSCENDANCY
• The clash between Modernism and
Fundamentalism has brought the issue of faith
versus reason to the forefront. Liberals deny
the miraculous elements of the Bible.
Conservatives hold that faith transcends
reason.
• There are things about God that faith must
accept and reason cannot explain. Faith does
not contradict reason it just rises above it.
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14. ITS QUALITY
• THERE ARE VARIOUS ASPECTS AND DEGREES OF FAITH:
• NO FAITH Deuteronomy 32:20
• LITTLE FAITH Matthew 14:31
• WEAK FAITH Romans 14:1
• DEAD FAITH James 2:17
• VAIN FAITH 1Corinthians 15:14
• GREAT FAITH Luke 7:9
• FULL OF FAITH Acts 11:24
• STEDFAST FAITH Colossians 2:5
• RICH FAITH James 2:5
• UNFEIGNED FAITH 1Timothy 1:5
• PRECIOUS FAITH 2Peter 1:1
• HOLY FAITH Jude 20
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