Faith

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Faith

• Matt Bradburn

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Housekeeping

• Pads and pens
• Next week
• Andrew Elphinston Blessing
• Feedback

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Faith

• Aims
• Understand
• Point towards God
• Plan
• What is faith?
• What does faith look like? (Peter)
• Conclude

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What is faith?

• Faith pistis
• Take someone at their word
• Relational
• Romans 321-22a
• Righteousness through faith
• Romans 420-22
• Abraham fully persuaded

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Adam and Eve

• Genesis 29
• Genesis 216-17
• Tree of knowledge of good and evil
• Genesis 31-6
• Free will
• Persuaded
• Humans suggestible

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Slavery

• Romans 616-18
• Humans are slaves

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The walk of faith

• Suggestible
• Other influences e.g.
• Flesh
• World
• Satan
• Fathers suggestions

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Jesus

• John 519-20
• Human
• Suggestible
• Tempted
• Faith

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Faith

• Faith is an ongoing, daily journey that says
• Father, there is a cacophony of voices and
  influences in my life that seem tempting,
  rational or even righteous.
• BUT I choose to put those aside and listen for
  what YOU are saying.

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Peters faith

• Depended on what Jesus said
• Obedience
• Trust
• Relational
• Had to do sth.
• Without understanding
• Contrary to experience
• Self-awareness

• Risk-taking, courage
• Focussing on Jesus
• Following example
• Reason usurped faith
• Big event faith
• Faith development
• Contrary to expectation
• Revelation knew God revealed unshakeable

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Peters faith

• Recognition
• God intervened
• Very human did he fully know?
• Cuts across expectations
• Eventually listens and is called again
• Confidence grown
• Misguided
• Learn to submit to God

• Truth not applied properly
• Not own strength
• Over-confident
• Tested
• Prayed for
• Rebuilding, maturing
• Instilling faith in others
• Realisation of dependence on God

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Summary

• Acceptable to God
• Humans can choose, but are suggestible
• Be suggested to by God
• Jesus is our role model

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Faith

• I will learn to hear Gods voice above all others
  and act on it.