Living By Faith 6

NTRO: In this series on faith we have looked first at the purpose of creation. We looked at the time when only God existed. We saw that creation began with the angels, and then looked at the fall of the angels. Then we began to look at the creation of man, and that God placed man in a material universe and made him a material being. He is locked into a physical world with five senses by which he can learn to know his physical surroundings. And the Lord chose that man should live by faith.
We then began to look at the life of faith and in the last message we defined faith. Later we will look at the difference between our faith; the one true faith, saving faith and the gift of faith. But faith in general is that which we believe. I have defined faith as, a belief held on the basis of any given information which a person deems credible which, on the one hand, does not have certain proof, but which on the other hand gives rise to hope for something that has not yet transpired. Without faith there is no hope. And we saw that Hebrews 11 gave faith as the foundation of hope. It is therefore of utmost importance, if there is truly life after death, that our faith is accurate, so that our hope is right. I am just reading a book on Mormonism. You can study Islam. The hope given to those of that faith is very far removed from the Biblical hope.