ROMANS 10:8; ....The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Romans 10:17; So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
1./ WHAT FAITH IS.....
Hebrews 11
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2./ HOPE SAVES ! ! !
Romans 8:24-25;
24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
3./ "IF" ! ! !
Colossians 1:23;
[ If ] ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Hebrews 3:6;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, [ if ] we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews 3:14;
For we are made partakers of Christ, [ if ] we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
James 1: 18-25;
18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
4./ "IF NOT"
Hebrews 10:37-39
37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
