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Faith Building

Jan 17, 2016

Passage:Hebrews 5:12-14

Preacher: Rick Blackwell

Detail:

Faith Building

Hebrews 5:12-14 (ESV)

12  For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

13  for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.

14  But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

1. We must hear and internalize the Word of God.

Romans 10:17 (ESV)

17  So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

James 1:21 (ESV)

21  Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

2. We must obey and practice the truth that is revealed to us.

Hebrews 5:14 (ESV)

14  But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

James 1:22-25 (ESV)

22  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

23  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

24  For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

25  But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

3. All of this is made possible only by God’s grace.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)

8  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

9  not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 10:13 (ESV)

13  No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.