CHAPTER 4 – Abraham’s Faith<\/p>\n
What if you hit somebody with your car?\u00a0 You didn’t mean to, but you were fiddling with the radio dial at just the wrong moment when a kid ran out into the road, and you killed the child.<\/p>\n
Would there ever be anything you could do to make up for that?\u00a0 Even if you were able to give billions of dollars to children’s hospitals and invent new technologies that would prevent future automobile related deaths and build and run an orphanage and form a support network for parents who had lost their kids–would any of that (or anything else you could do) restore the life of that kid you hit?\u00a0 Of course not.<\/p>\n
It’s the same with sin.\u00a0 Sin (all sin) causes spiritual death, which means you can’t do anything to save or restore your own soul.\u00a0 That’s why you must be saved by God’s grace through your faith in him.\u00a0 And, obviously it’s more than an acknowledgment that he is real.\u00a0 It’s the same kind of faith that Abraham had, that caused him to do whatever God told him to do.<\/p>\n
Call it faith or belief or repentance, the idea is you change your mind about your old life.\u00a0 You choose to turn around and walk away from sin and walk in God’s ways.\u00a0 That’s what real faith is about.\u00a0 It’s not a feeling or a ceremony or a title.\u00a0 It’s a decision to trust and obey everything God tells you–just like Abraham.<\/p>\n
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