a biblical look at a faith that works

1. Does Your
Faith Work?
Or, what goes in
determines
what comes out

2. Broken? Or Working?
• There are watches
that run and watches
that don’t run
• In some ways a
Christian can be
compared to a watch

3. A Faith That Works
• How does a Christian
obtain a “real faith”,
that is one that
works?
• What kind of faith will
lead to salvation?
• Hebrews 10:38-39

4. FAITH COMES BY HEARING
• Romans 10:17 So belief cometh of
hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ
• Consider the principle of “what goes in, is
what comes out”
• Matthew 15:16-20
• Christians today need to consider what is
“going into” their hearts

5. Important to Know God’s Word
• it is the SOURCE of
our faith
• Psalm 1:1-3
• Psalms 63
• it is so easy to be
distracted by other,
more common
concerns

6. Nourished by the Word of God
• There should not be
any need to
encourage that
Christian to devote
more time to the
study of God’s Word
• We have a very free
access to the Word of
God

7. THE BATTLE FOR INFLUENCE
• Satan is working to
destroy your faith in God
• 2 Corinthians 2:11
• The Word of God is your
protection against
ungodliness
• Psalm 119

8. God’s Influence On You
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Through His revelation
Jesus Christ
The Holy Scriptures
John 6:63
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Galatians 2:20

9. WHAT GOES IN, MUST COME OUT
• This principle is a
“constant” in human
experience
• Galatians 6:7-8
• IF the Word of God is
truly in you, it will find
a way to “get out”
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Jeremiah 20:9
Acts 4:18-20
1 Corinthians 9:16
Mark 7:31-37

10. Romans 13:11-14 And this, knowing the
season, that already it is time for you to awake
out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us
than when we first believed.
12. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand:
let us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armor of light.
13. Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in
revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering
and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts
thereof.

11. Romans 10:8 But what saith it?
The word is nigh thee, in thy
mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the
word of faith, which we preach: