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Conclusion.
Can I ask “Do you have faith?” Do you believe that God is?
Are you seeking Him? If you are, you will seek to please Him by being
obedient. You look to the future in heaven because it is real. But
the real test that you have faith in Jesus is that you are willing
to suffer for Him, to deny yourself, and to die. Faith means to trust,
to rely on so much that you are ready and willing to suffer. Faith
is more than simple belief in something. That is the message of Hebrews
11.
I
remember as a young man sitting in a high school classroom asking
Jesus to forgive me of my sins and asking Him to take control of my
life. I do not remember telling Jesus that I believed in Him. That
was not important. What was important was having God forgive me. I
had no doubts that I was a sinner, that Jesus existed, that He was
God, that He died for my sins and returned to life, and that He would
take me to heaven in the future. I was depending on Him. I was relying
on Him. Now that is faith!
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