John14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Yesterday I ended my devotional by saying God provided a way. If you have placed your faith in Christ you have access to the Father by faith, His way of communing with us. This is a most precious truth for those who are born again and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. To the rest of the world it is the most hated and vial of scriptures because it says whatever they are doing is wrong. They claim it is not fair.

Let us lay aside the promises for a moment and speak directly to this issue of fairness. It is my contention that God is perfect in every aspect. One of the aspects of God is fairness. He is a just God. God would not be unfair to anyone, no matter how evil or corrupt. All are be treated the same. If an offer is made to one, it is made to all.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The best known bible verse in all the world speaks this fairness plainly. Whosoever will place their faith in Christ will receive the promises of God, eternal life being one of them. For some people it is the only one that matters. Does that say that all are given a seed of faith to plant? It implies that it does but other scriptures are more plain in that pronouncement.

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

This says each man (and woman) has been given a measure of faith. Now where you place that faith will determine what that seed of faith produces.

Matthew 25:25, 30 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The unprofitable servant planted his faith in the earth(world).

John 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (ESV)

While we have been trying to understand how we can learn this language of faith, we have seen that we need a new heart to receive this word of faith and that we need the Holy Spirit to translate faith into understanding. In these devotionals we are still at those beginning stages. Yesterday we spoke of a heart prepared to receive this faith seed. Now let us look at the process of this new life experience.

This seed of faith is planted in our prepared heart, now what? Allow me to point out that this faith seed is the gospel of grace which is the Good news, that faith in Christ and His work on the Cross, is your dying moment, to be reborn with this new heart.

Romans 6:3-5 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Note the use of the word planted in verse 5. Here is that connection between the seed of faith, the prepared heart and death required for rebirth. It is all tied together in where you place your faith. Only placing your faith in Christ will produce this result.

Romans 6:6-7 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

In the beginning of this thesis I said it was sin that was keeping us from God. This is His answer to the problem, this is God taking sin out of the way. Once you are freed from sin you can hear God by faith.