What do we as believers live by in our walk of faith? Do the promises of God have anything to do with the faith that God has given us to walk by? What role, if any, do God's promises have with our faith? If faith is the substance of things hoped for, where did that hope come from and what are those things that we are hoping for? If faith without works is dead, then faith without hope has no promise of life.
The life of our faith is the hope that we have through the promises of God that always reveals the person of Christ. (Hebrews 11) is a list of the heroes of faith that believed in the promises of God. Any faith that is not rooted in the promises of God is not the faith of the Son of God nor the faith that we live by as God's just people. The faith that is pleasing to God is one that is filled with His promises. When we believe and trust God our faith must be one of promise.
Unbelief is when the heart does not trust in the promises of God. The measure that our faith does not depend upon the promises of God, is the same measure that we have no hope and live in unbelief toward the promises of God. This is involuntary but nevertheless it is unbelief in the heart instead of a lively hope. When the promises of God are distorted through false doctrine, the hope that we have in the living God is also distorted according to our faith and the love we have becomes dissimulated or filled with hypocrisy.
2Pt 1:3,4
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
This should not be, but many believers have a faith with no living promise, with no lively hope and is without the purity of the love of God. They are saved and will go to heaven but their faith is becoming shipwrecked because it lacks the steadiness and rudder of God's promises. We must learn to cleave to the promises of God with our faith and never turn to the right or left to other things.
The life of our faith is the hope that we have through the promises of God that always reveals the person of Christ. (Hebrews 11) is a list of the heroes of faith that believed in the promises of God. Any faith that is not rooted in the promises of God is not the faith of the Son of God nor the faith that we live by as God's just people. The faith that is pleasing to God is one that is filled with His promises. When we believe and trust God our faith must be one of promise.
Unbelief is when the heart does not trust in the promises of God. The measure that our faith does not depend upon the promises of God, is the same measure that we have no hope and live in unbelief toward the promises of God. This is involuntary but nevertheless it is unbelief in the heart instead of a lively hope. When the promises of God are distorted through false doctrine, the hope that we have in the living God is also distorted according to our faith and the love we have becomes dissimulated or filled with hypocrisy.
2Pt 1:3,4
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
This should not be, but many believers have a faith with no living promise, with no lively hope and is without the purity of the love of God. They are saved and will go to heaven but their faith is becoming shipwrecked because it lacks the steadiness and rudder of God's promises. We must learn to cleave to the promises of God with our faith and never turn to the right or left to other things.