WORDS OF LIFE

                                             BELIEVING = OBEDIENCE
 
Belief is the root - Works are the fruit
*Noah believed God so he obeyed:
God warned Noah about the flood.
Because Noah believed, he built the ark.

Heb 11:7 shows that his faith produced action.
He didn’t just say, “I trust God”—he spent years building.
 
*Abraham believed God so he obeyed:
God told Abraham to leave his homeland.
Because he believed, he went.
His obedience revealed his faith.
 
Rom 4:3 ...Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. (Biblical righteousness is the state of being in a proper, aligned relationship with God, characterized by obedience to His will)
 
 *Abraham did not earn righteousness through his actions, nor did he possess it as a natural trait of his character. Instead, God took Abraham’s trust, his total reliance on the divine promise, and accounted it to him as if it were a perfect performance of obedience to the law.
A covenant was made: (a binding agreement / promise)

The sign of that covenant was circumcision >
Gen 17:9...thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
 
· Biblical circumcision was an operation of faith through obedience to God’s requirement

Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
 
Ja 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
*Belief was perfected by his obedience.
 
Ja 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Ja 2:26...so faith without works is dead also.

*Belief becomes fruit when it is acted upon by obedience to His word.
*Example: My belief that a chair can support my weight means nothing until I actually sit in it.
 
►For an in-depth study of ‘belief that leads to salvation’ >

 jjjppx.wixsite.com/biblelessons 

Downloads: What Must I Do To Be Saved