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The Faith That Changes Everything Luke 17.5-10 October 4, 1992 Faith, hope, and love, these three, said Paul, but the greatest of these is love. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. I. "If I only had the faith, things would be different!" That is not heard very often these days. "If I only had more money, if I only had an education, if I only lived in another part of the world, if I only had a different partner in marriage, if I only..." On and on we could go. Yet the plea of the apostles may be the most important. Increase our faith! A. Faith is experienced at a very early age. 1. A baby feels the warmth and hears the songs of love from those around it. A sense of trust begins. My life is being cared for. 2. Soon we began to understand that there were some ways in which we could care for ourselves, and that we could trust ourselves with ourselves. 3. Later we experienced someone else's love and gave our love to another. We trusted another person with our lives. We have babies in a variety of biological modes, but fundamentally by faith. We have the faith that there will be a future for them. 4. Somewhere in the midst of these experiences the word God is inserted. At our baptisms, in our marriages, at the most holy moments of communion, at our deaths... "we commend her spirit to the God who gave it." B. Sometimes this faith experience that has evolved becomes disturbed or even shattered. 1. We are abused, we are deceived, we are disillusioned. 2. Leo Tolstoy in his Confessions tells of such an experience in his break with Christian faith. "My break with faith occurred in me as it did and still does among people of our social and cultural type. As I see it, in most cases, it happens like this: People live as everyone lives, but they all live according to principles that not only have nothing to do with the teaching of faith, but for the most part, are contrary to them. The teachings of faith have no place in life and never come into play in the relations among people; they simply play no role in living life itself. The teachings of faith are left to some other realm, separated from life and independent of it. If one should encounter them, then it is only as some superficial phenomenon that has no connection with life. C. Faith is the recognition of a relationship between oneself and another. In the realm of God it is affirming that God knows me, cares about me, enables me. 1. No disillusionment had come from their walk with Jesus. They were seeing with their own eyes the power of his presence in human life. The Faith that Changes Everything 1
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Title of Sermon | The Faith That Changes Everything |
Author | Landwehr, Arthur |
Subject | True Faith, Taking Action |
Date of sermon | 10/4/1992 |
Type | Text |
Format | |
Number of Pages | 3 |
Language | English |
Biblical Book | Luke |
Verses | 17.5-10 |
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Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
Identifier | 431 The Faith That Changes Everything.pdf |
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Title of Sermon | Page 1 |
Biblical Book | Biblical Book |
Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
Transcript | The Faith That Changes Everything Luke 17.5-10 October 4, 1992 Faith, hope, and love, these three, said Paul, but the greatest of these is love. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. I. "If I only had the faith, things would be different!" That is not heard very often these days. "If I only had more money, if I only had an education, if I only lived in another part of the world, if I only had a different partner in marriage, if I only..." On and on we could go. Yet the plea of the apostles may be the most important. Increase our faith! A. Faith is experienced at a very early age. 1. A baby feels the warmth and hears the songs of love from those around it. A sense of trust begins. My life is being cared for. 2. Soon we began to understand that there were some ways in which we could care for ourselves, and that we could trust ourselves with ourselves. 3. Later we experienced someone else's love and gave our love to another. We trusted another person with our lives. We have babies in a variety of biological modes, but fundamentally by faith. We have the faith that there will be a future for them. 4. Somewhere in the midst of these experiences the word God is inserted. At our baptisms, in our marriages, at the most holy moments of communion, at our deaths... "we commend her spirit to the God who gave it." B. Sometimes this faith experience that has evolved becomes disturbed or even shattered. 1. We are abused, we are deceived, we are disillusioned. 2. Leo Tolstoy in his Confessions tells of such an experience in his break with Christian faith. "My break with faith occurred in me as it did and still does among people of our social and cultural type. As I see it, in most cases, it happens like this: People live as everyone lives, but they all live according to principles that not only have nothing to do with the teaching of faith, but for the most part, are contrary to them. The teachings of faith have no place in life and never come into play in the relations among people; they simply play no role in living life itself. The teachings of faith are left to some other realm, separated from life and independent of it. If one should encounter them, then it is only as some superficial phenomenon that has no connection with life. C. Faith is the recognition of a relationship between oneself and another. In the realm of God it is affirming that God knows me, cares about me, enables me. 1. No disillusionment had come from their walk with Jesus. They were seeing with their own eyes the power of his presence in human life. The Faith that Changes Everything 1 |