“… Have faith of God….” Mk.11:22 Literal
translation of the Holy bible
All over the world, when man is confronted by his
persuasions of God, the answer they would always give in response reveals what
their faith preferences are. For example there are some people who hold on to
their tribal traditional faith, some hold on to the faith of others who had
influence over them such as their teachers or guardians, and the list goes on.
A look at our text here however, discloses the source of our faith in the
bible. In most translations of the bible, we are told in this text to have
faith in God. The New Testament bible was actually written in Greek and Aramaic
originally before it was translated to English. A close scrutiny of this text
from the original translations show us that it is literally translated: “Have
the faith of God”! In other words, what is known today as the Christian faith
is the only faith that can be described as the faith of God.
Thus anyone who embraces the faith we preach is
actually embracing the faith of God.
This explains why it is not like any other faith. As a matter of fact no
other faith provides the solution to the greatest need of man which is the need
to be forgiven of sin and be restored back to God than the bible faith which is
also the faith of God. Until the sin problem is solved, man can never be free
because the problem of man resulted from sin and to get rid of it, the sin
question must be correctly answered which is why the Lord Jesus Christ came
into this world in the first place. See the origin of man’s problem in
Gen.2:16-17 and Gen.3.
After the fall of man in Genesis 3:15, God promised
man that He would send a seed of the woman to bruise the head of the serpent
meaning a child was going to be born by the woman without a man’s involvement
who would be instrumental in destroying the serpent that lured the man to sin
and set man free to be restored back to God. This prophecy was reiterated by
prophet Isaiah in Isa.7:14 and fulfilled in Jesus Christ in the New Testament
in Mathew, Mark and Luke. The entire purpose of his coming was to save us from
sin and the means by which He was to do that was death on the Cross of Calvary
and subsequent punishment in hell taking our place of punishment so that we can
be eternally redeemed. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God that was slain before
the foundation of the earth to deliver us from sin. This is the entire faith of
God we are invited to embrace. This is the solution to all of man’s needs. See
Mt.1:18-23; Lk.1:67-75.
As much as God has gone all these length to save us
from our sin, He can only save a repentant sinner. Therefore, the faith of God
demands that when any sinner is invited to embrace Jesus Christ as Saviour and
Lord for the remission of sin, they are expected to do so in order to activate
their salvation otherwise they would not be saved and the end of such a person
is eternal separation from God if they die unsaved.
Thus to be born again because you repent of your sin
nature is the greatest experience a person can ever have. If we go further to
grow in the grace of God by feeding on the word of God daily, we would mature
to start being instrumental in God’s hands to save others also.
In light of the above, this month, God wants us to
take our faith even more seriously than we have ever done and bring his life to
many more people than we have ever done because the time of His return draws
closer by the day. Therefore this month, we are going to be looking at some
elementary principles of faith to help us take off and start to build up our
faith to the point of being able to lay a great foundation of faith for ourselves
and posterity. We shall therefore be looking at a theme I tag:
“Understanding
the Faith of God”. Anyone reading this blog now that is not yet saved and
wants to be can just take advantage of this great opportunity by saying the
following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again and begin to
truly live:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you
raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus
Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of
Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this
father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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