The Just Shall Live By Faith

Heb. 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

We live in a society that lives for the moment.
Lives for the Now.

A great love for the temporal things of the world.
Even one of Paul’s hand picked protégé’s was like this.

2 Tim. 4:10  “Demas, having loved this present age has deserted me”.

See!  He loved this “PRESENT” age, for the now.  But for the Christian, we walk by faith not what we see NOW!

Listen to what Paul wrote to Timothy.  He spoke of those who “denied the faith” or “suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.”

“Wandered away from the faith”.  Those who “fall away from faith.”

Four times we are instructed to live by faith.  It’s the way to the Higher Law of blessing and if we don’t apply it we will go right back to living in the LOWER LAW!

The “JUST”.  You and I are the just if you have come out of darkness and into the LIGHT!

So we should LIVE different than the world.  Yet Christians don’t know how to LIVE.

We are to do everything by faith.  From birth through childhood, teens until adult we are trained to learn how to LIVE in society.

If you’re sick you go to a doctor.  Do you think it’s important that he be trained?  Or a lawyer?  A house contractor?

So why do Christians think we don’t need to be trained?
We get saved and want to lead a major ministry the next day.

We need to be trained how to LIVE by faith so we don’t wander from it like Damas.

Faith’s power to change your circumstances is not going to operate in your life until you decide you are going to live by faith.

And to do that you need to be a student of His Word.  Then you begin to see that FAITH is a NOW thing.  FAITH is NOW, present tense.

Heb. 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

What I'm Reading:

Let it Go - T.D. Jakes

What I'm Listening To:
Heal Our Land - Planetshakers

Go & Do Likewise

Luke 10:30-37

Who is your neighbour?  ANYONE HURTING.

27 million are caught in the human trafficking world with no hope.

More slaves now than ever in HISTORY ON OUR WATCH.

You and I can give them hope.  We can do something.

380 thousand orphans in Guatemala with NO HOPE.  We can give them hope.

I am determined to build this church in the centre of darkness to bring a great light.

It is for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free.

Every one of us knows someone that is wounded.

Will we be too busy with our religious activities or will we be a vessel that pours IN oil and wine?

Notice, the Samaritan paid for the wounded person’s immediate and ongoing care.

Will we put our money out, to help the hurting?

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, “3rd Day, GO & DO LIKEWISE.”

In Philippians 3:10 Paul wrote, “That I may know Him and the POWER of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.  If by ANY MEANS I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”

Most unbelievers are going through life and they never think that they are ONE BREATH away from eternity.  If we don’t tell them, who will?

Paul has an urgency in him when you read this verse, “THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION.”

Can we go find some darkness?  And let it know YOU WILL NOT prevail, not on my watch!

Hell says NO but heaven says YES!

Where do you think the term, “Good Samaritan” came from?  THIS VERSE.

Bandage wounds, pouring in oil and wine, transporting someone, paying for them, all require TIME.

And TIME is running out.  How will the Lord characterize our current Christian generation?

Will it be we were TOO BUSY?

Will it be “I’ll do it tomorrow”?

Today is the acceptable day of salvation.

The earth is telling us Jesus is coming.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong