CONTINUE IN THE FAITH

Sunday Morning: January 10, 1999

Text: Acts 14:22 "Confirming [present active] the souls of the disciples, and exhorting [present active] them to continue [present active] in the faith (pleasing God), and that we must [present active] through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."

FAITH PLEASES GOD

Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith (pleasing God) it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

GOD WILL HELP US PLEASE HIM

GOD IS WORKING

WE SHOULD BE WORKING

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR?

CHRIST IS RISEN

1 Corinthians 15:20 "But now is Christ risen from the dead.."

FAITH IS NOT VAIN

FAITH IS GIVEN BY MEASURE

Romans 12:3 "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."

WE GROW IN FAITH

BY THE WORD OF CHRIST

NOT AS MUCH AS YOU THINK

EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH

Jude 1:3 "... it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend [struggle] for the faith..."

HOLD FAST THE FAITH

PERSEVERE IN THE FAITH

ESTEEM FAITH

EXAMINE YOURSELVES

2 Corinthians 13:5 "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith (pleasing God); prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"

WARNING!

1 Timothy 4:1 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."

FLEE RICHES

1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money ... which ... some coveted after, they have erred from the faith (pleasing God), and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

MAN OF GOD, FOLLOW AFTER

BY FAITH THESE MOVED

Hebrews 11: 4. Able offered; 5. Enoch was translated; 7. Noah prepared an ark; 8. Abraham went out; 11. Sara conceived; 20. Isaac blessed; 21. Jacob blessed; 22. Joseph's bones; 27. Moses forsook Egypt; 29. Israel passed through; 31 Rahab received the spies, perished not;

Hebrews 11:39 "... these all, ... obtained a good report through faith, ..."