Hope anchors the soul. It ties it down, not in the way that the powers of darkness would tie your hope away, for it is the goal of darkness to make you lose hope. When people start believing in God they need a real experience of their faith eventually or they are in danger of losing their hope. We walk by faith, not by sight, but the devil is real and the first thing he will try to do to a converted sinner is steal their faith, and consequently steal their hope. Hope and faith are intricately woven together and when we face the powers of darkness in our society and in our personal life, the main objective of the darkness is to make us lose faith and hope.
We live in a society where it is not too cool to believe in God anymore and this is politically correct. Political correctness is wrong when it isolates a large part of our population and when it stops freedom of speech, and consequently stops people from living out their faith which will give them hope. God didn't want to create a world where people stopped believing in Him, in fact in Romans 1 God talks about the consequences of "suppressing the truth in unrighteousness" and these are the people who refuse to believe in God and are consequently given over to their sins, (Romans 1:26). This is the worst of all judgements by God, because not many people return from a state of apostacy like this, but in the bible wherever there is judgement there is mercy. However God's mercy stops for some, but I would like to talk to those believers who are constantly being beat down day after day, and why the devil wants to destroy our faith.
When we die there will be a judgement of faith, I am not sure exactly how it works but what I do know is that the bible teaches we are justified (made right on a continual basis with God) by faith, (Galatians 2:16, Romans 5:1, Galatians 3:24). This is a major doctrine in Christianity and part of the devil's attack on our faith is because he doesn't like this doctrine. All humans are given faith, (Romans 12:3-8) and I believe the judgement at our death is what we have done with this measure of faith? Did we choose to put our faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, and did we use this faith to become holy and glorify God? I believe God Gives all a measure of faith, because that is what the bible teaches, and it is through this faith that we are justified.
In a sense Satan can't take our faith from us, because it is a gift from God, but he (Satan) uses hardships so that we would lose hope, and our hope is what keeps our faith alive! You have heard that saying "never lose hope" but even if we lose hope God through our faith, which might be dormant can revive us at any time. The enemy looks at our faith knowing that the devils cannot be saved, Jesus died for humans only and he gets mad and tries to destroy the faith that God gave us as a gift so we would be condemned like Satan and the third of angels who fell from heaven. This is why we need to hang on to hope, and anything that give us hope or happiness is a good thing because happiness feeds our hope, and hope and faith are connected. This is Mike.
We live in a society where it is not too cool to believe in God anymore and this is politically correct. Political correctness is wrong when it isolates a large part of our population and when it stops freedom of speech, and consequently stops people from living out their faith which will give them hope. God didn't want to create a world where people stopped believing in Him, in fact in Romans 1 God talks about the consequences of "suppressing the truth in unrighteousness" and these are the people who refuse to believe in God and are consequently given over to their sins, (Romans 1:26). This is the worst of all judgements by God, because not many people return from a state of apostacy like this, but in the bible wherever there is judgement there is mercy. However God's mercy stops for some, but I would like to talk to those believers who are constantly being beat down day after day, and why the devil wants to destroy our faith.
When we die there will be a judgement of faith, I am not sure exactly how it works but what I do know is that the bible teaches we are justified (made right on a continual basis with God) by faith, (Galatians 2:16, Romans 5:1, Galatians 3:24). This is a major doctrine in Christianity and part of the devil's attack on our faith is because he doesn't like this doctrine. All humans are given faith, (Romans 12:3-8) and I believe the judgement at our death is what we have done with this measure of faith? Did we choose to put our faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, and did we use this faith to become holy and glorify God? I believe God Gives all a measure of faith, because that is what the bible teaches, and it is through this faith that we are justified.
In a sense Satan can't take our faith from us, because it is a gift from God, but he (Satan) uses hardships so that we would lose hope, and our hope is what keeps our faith alive! You have heard that saying "never lose hope" but even if we lose hope God through our faith, which might be dormant can revive us at any time. The enemy looks at our faith knowing that the devils cannot be saved, Jesus died for humans only and he gets mad and tries to destroy the faith that God gave us as a gift so we would be condemned like Satan and the third of angels who fell from heaven. This is why we need to hang on to hope, and anything that give us hope or happiness is a good thing because happiness feeds our hope, and hope and faith are connected. This is Mike.
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