Saving Faith

There is only one faith that saves and it isn’t a religion.

When people ask what faith are you they want to know if your beliefs align with theirs.

1 Corinthians 12:5

(ESV) and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;

(KJV) And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

(CEV) There are different ways to serve the same Lord,

The fact that you serve the Lord does not mean you are saved nor the manner in which you do it.

The greatest testimony I ever heard was that of a Vineyard pastor who said, “I served as a pastor for 20 years after divinity school before I came to a saving grace knowledge of Jesus Christ.”

How could anyone preach the gospel and bring souls to Christ without being saved himself?

1 Corinthians 3:5-8 English Standard Version

5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

Only God can make us grow in Christ, to become this new creation in Christ, having placed our faith in Christ, to believe in Him and all that He has done to win this bride unto Himself.

We can strive in the flesh to attain knowledge, positions and title and it is as Solomon declared, “vanity of vanities”.

John 12:24 English Standard Version (ESV) 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.

Matthew 7:20 English Standard Version (ESV) Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

The seed of faith planted produces fruits of faith. Yet it has to die where it is planted.

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