Today on Truth Time.
At that exact moment of you believing the gospel, you were saved, marked and set apart to spend all eternity in heavenly places.
You had a change of position.
You were baptized into Christ, transformed from darkness to light, washed, sanctified, made righteous and justified.
Your life was hid with Christ in God and you were sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption.
No need to back up to the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and look to Jesus having faith.
No, not one place does the Bible tell us that Jesus had to have faith for us.
Remember, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Name one thing Jesus hasn't seen.
He's eternal.
He knows the end from the beginning, so He's seen it all.
This is the circle they've painted themselves in.
This is the circle they can't square.
This is Truth Time Radio.
Here we are back to further study the term, the faith of Christ.
This is part four and by the end of the series we will have left no stone unturned and shut every door on this often misunderstood term.
The faith of Christ is a title, not something Christ had to have in case your faith don't hold up.
At the split second moment we believe the gospel, the Holy Spirit sealed us, yet some
don't trust that.
Some don't trust that the Holy Spirit is capable of doing his job.
What part of the day of redemption don't they understand?
We're either sealed with the Holy Spirit or we're relying on Jesus having to have faith during his earthly ministry.
Which wasn't to us, by the way, but to Israel.
That's when he was in the flesh, the flesh that Paul told us not to pay any attention to, 2 Corinthians 5:16.
Paul said, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.
From faith to faith.
What does that mean?
From the faith we read before Paul's epistles to the faith we read in Paul's epistles.
That's what from faith to faith means.
The King James Committee, you know, those gentlemen from Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster who put this Bible together, hey, they knew exactly what they were doing when they placed the book of Romans at the beginning of Paul's famous 13.
And straight out the gate in chapter 1 verse 17, it's no accident that we're immediately told what Paul's getting ready to do.
To move the reader from the time past faith contained in the law of Moses, to the but now faith contained in the grace gospel of Paul.
Law of Moses compared to the gospel of grace.
Don't miss the comparative.
Man, it's good.
It's so good when you once get this, you get a hold of this.
It's nice to know the why of things, you know, the mechanics of how things work.
From Romans all the way through the little book of Philemon, what you and I are reading is the faith of Christ.
Remember that.
It's nothing to do with Jesus having to have faith.
It's a body of data where we find the doctrine, position, walk, and destiny of the church.
The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Christ had.
As you've often heard me say, the Bible is axiomatic, self-evident.
It answers itself.
But even though Paul gave us a clear definition of the faith of Christ right here in scripture, some, they ignore it.
The definitions in Philippians chapter 3 verse 9, watch, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, the law of Moses.
Now compare that to, But that which is through the faith of Christ, that's Paul's
gospel. The righteousness which is of God by faith.
The comparative is obvious.
Righteousness of the law of Moses compared to Paul's gospel where our righteousness is found.
That's where our righteousness is, and it's not in Deuteronomy 6:25 where Moses said that their righteousness came by doing all the commandments God commanded them.
Go read it yourself.
Check it out.
This is actually pretty simple stuff if we get a hold of it before men twist it.
God's word, the word he puts above his own name, says the faith of Christ is the righteousness which is of God by faith.
And nothing, nothing about Jesus having to have faith in anything.
Imagine that.
Imagine Jesus, who the Father himself called God in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 8.
Jesus, who is all-knowing. John 16:30.
Imagine Jesus, who's the John 8:58 before Abraham was I am, needing to have faith in something.
What? Hmm.
That math don't math.
That's not biblical.
In time past, there was a faith which was of the law, the books before Paul, but now there's a faith apart from the law, that which is through the faith of Christ found in Paul's epistles.
Simple.
Now back to our definition.
And let's look at something.
Let's look at something here.
Paul not only gave us the definition of the faith of Christ in Philippians chapter 3 verse 9, bt watch, watch this, watch how Romans 3:22 agrees. Guys, knowing the truth shall set you free. Watch, Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus, unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference. See that?
The righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, that matches the Philippians 3:9 quote unquote, "faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith."
The righteousness of God unto all and upon all that believe.
Believe what?
Believe the gospel of our salvation contained within the faith of Christ, the body of doctrine found in Romans through Philemon.
Again, this is the from faith to faith in Romans 1:17.
Here Paul's saying from faith, mine own righteousness that was of the law, to faith, the righteousness which is of God by faith to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly.
His faith, the one who believes on Christ, is counted for righteousness.
If you missed this clear definition, I'm sorry, but you did it on purpose.
And that's what some do.
They decide they've got too much invested in their error to change now.
I've made too many posts on what I thought it was.
I taught a lesson on it.
I reposted someone's teaching.
I'm in too deep to change now.
The faith of Christ is Paul's doctrine.
It's what we believe for salvation and the faith whereby we live our lives.
And if you want to argue, you want to argue with that, I'll tell you what you do. Prove it while staying within context.
Go do that.
But if you can't, it's because it's not provable.
If you can't do it with context, you can't do it.
No context of the term faith of Christ anywhere in scripture states that Jesus needed to have faith in anything.
It's just not there.
See, the problem is some care less about context.
It's shameful.
But we're grateful for those who do.
Thankful for all you guys, all the Bible believers that have been following us through this series and have contacted us to let us know that they changed their mind on this.
They decided to take a fresh look at the verses that say faith of Christ, faith of Jesus Christ.
Faith of the son of God, faith of him, the faith.
They took each of those and tried replacing it with the words Jesus was required to have faith during his earthly ministry.
And you know what?
They quickly noticed it don't work.
This is what happens when you decide that the word of God in context is more important than what a teacher or a group taught you.
When you escape from the herd mentality and start to think for yourself.
Again, the Bible is self-evident.
It answers itself.
So let's try to rely on it to dictate what the term faith of Christ means.
Okay?
When you take it upon yourself, you do that and you take a three-word term, faith of Christ, and add Jesus was required to have faith during his earthly ministry to make it line up with your personal theology.
For some of us, that's a problem.
Here at TTR, hey, if we can't find it in the context, we don't take it upon ourselves to make blind leap assumptions.
If it's not there, don't teach it.
That's a real simple rule to follow.
The Bible defines faith in Hebrews 11.
Watch, Hebrews chapter 11. You want a definition of what faith is? Of course you do.
If you're going to teach that Jesus had to have faith, then it would be a good idea to know what the definition of faith is. Hebrews 11 chapter 1 verse 1. Here we go, Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Let that marinate a moment.
You see, some today, hey, they got a Jesus that's hoping for things.
They got a Jesus that has to hope for things he hasn't seen.
But that's not our Jesus.
My Jesus is the before Abraham was, I am.
I know the end from the beginning Jesus who's seen it all.
Are you listening?
He's seen it all.
He's not hoping for nothing.
They have a Jesus that died for their sins, but isn't God.
That's a Jesus with limits.
John 1:1, In the beginning. Wait, when? What's that, John? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
Verse 2, The same was in the beginning with God.
Your Jesus may need faith, but it's not the one John wrote about here.
No, it's not the one John says knew all things.
Watch this, John 18:4, Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him. What? Jesus, knowing all things that should come upon him, but he needs faith? For what?
Was his death on the cross part of the all things that should come upon him?
Huh?
Was the resurrection part of the all things that should come upon him?
Of course.
Yet some insist on teaching that he needed faith to raise from the dead.
He wouldn't need faith for something he already knew.
This is sort of a duh moment here, is it not?
If faith is the evidence of things not seen, yet Jesus knew all things, the Jesus required to have faith folk got a problem.
Listen, the Jesus of the Bible, not the one some men have reduced him to, the Jesus of the Bible knew who would betray him before they even did it.
John 6:64. Watch this, But there are some of you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Oops, this doesn't fit the Jesus needs faith narrative.
It just don't.
The Jesus of the Bible was a heart reader.
He read hearts. Mark 2 verse 6, There were certain of the scribes sitting there reasoning in their hearts.
Verse 7, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?
Verse 8, And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Jesus knew what they were thinking before they said a word.
And the faith of Christ's extremists, with a straight face, they want us to believe that Jesus, the Jesus who could read hearts, he Jesus who knew what people were thinking before they even opened their mouth, he needed faith.
When the definition of faith is the evidence of things not seen, math ain't mathing.
Unless it's some sort of new math you're talking about.
And by the way, by the way, Jesus being faithful, hey, that's not the same as him having faith.
Yes, Jesus is faithful.
That's not...
Go look at the...
Listen, the Bible definition won't match faith.
Faithful and faith are not only spelled different, they are different.
Two separate words, two separate meanings.
Does anyone honestly question that?
Surely not.
But if so, let us know and we'll see if we can help you with that.
But hopefully, hopefully you're like these others that we've been hearing from
that are now seeing that this idea of Jesus having to have faith during his earthly ministry just doesn't fit in any of the faith of Christ verses.
Especially if you respect the words of your apostle, Apostle Paul, who very plainly said that you're not to know Christ after the flesh, which is exactly what his earthly ministry was.
God manifest in the flesh.
So by now, hopefully you too, you too are having a light bulb moment.
Listen, you'll have a big light bulb moment when you realize that the faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Christ had to have.
The lights will come on, and when you learn that every time that you come across the words, faith of Christ, it's a term, and not what he needed during his earthly ministry.
How could he who knows everything need faith in anything?
When faith is the evidence of things not seen.
See how it just don't work.
Now, as we explained when we first began the series, there's a group that has taken this teaching to an extreme level.
They use just about any and every verse from Paul's epistles that mention the word faith, and they take it and twist it to make it say Jesus had to exercise faith
during his earthly ministry.
They're scripture twisters is what they are.
You see, when you take an idea, turn it into a doctrine, and begin to teach it,
you have to be ready, you have to be prepared, and able to address the logical conclusion that results from your idea.
If you can't, then don't teach it.
Oh, it's easy to get behind your phone and spout off to babes in Christ about something, but it's another thing when someone is able to talk back and make you face up to what you're saying.
Someone who's not a baby in Christ.
Someone who can press you.
Someone who knows the right verses to go to and the right questions to ask.
Interactive dialogue, instead of that one-way monologue.
That's a lot different.
So I challenge anyone from this group to step forth and give us a call.
We'll pay for it, toll free.
Here's your chance to come up and back your claim concerning the faith of Christ.
These out here that's using Paul's epistles to say Jesus had faith during his earthly ministry must find a formula that helps to identify when our faith is being spoken of
and when Christ's faith is being spoken of.
Otherwise, the logical conclusion will be that the believer is not required to exercise faith for salvation at all.
And you know what that is?
That's universalism.
So what happens?
The teacher of this harebrained idea must formulate stipulations in an attempt to,
to deflect from the potential errors.
For example, the faith of Christ extremists, they will say, when you see the words
through faith, now this is how bad it's gotten, folks.
They're teaching, that when you see the words, through faith, in Paul's epistles,
it's talking about Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry.
Straight up deception is what that is.
They've now created a quote-unquote solution which they believe will avoid the faulty conclusion of universalism based on this idea of Jesus needing to have faith.
But what they fail to recognize is in doing so, they've only created more problems.
Which is what happens when a teacher of false doctrine refuses correction.
False doctrine breeds more false doctrine.
Ideas have consequences.
We're not called to teach ideas, but to preach sound doctrine.
So let's look a little closer and see the problems that develop when this idea of the through faith verses are referencing Jesus exercising faith.
Whom God had set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to declare the righteousness of the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God.
Some are so devoid of the ability to acknowledge the majesty of God that they have taught themselves and others into believing that this means that God had faith in Christ's blood.
Listen, if the object of your faith is required to have faith in something or someone else, then you need a new object.
Because your current one isn't worth a dime.
Where do you find a requirement to exercise faith for the one who is called I am?
If you think I am needs faith, then allow me to be blunt and forthright by suggesting that you don't know who the I am is.
Full stop, straight up, no question.
See, people say they believe the Bible, but if they really did, they'd believe the Hebrews 11:1 definition of faith.
And after believing it, maybe they'd take the time to study out who needs it and who don't.
Anyone who's studied why faith is needed in the Bible should immediately discern that neither God the Father or God the Son is a candidate for needing it.
Okay, we're about to wind things up, but they're also saying, we heard this, they'll tell you that first you have to have faith, and then somehow your faith gets transferred to his faith.
As if it's a relay race.
Just pass the faith baton.
Yeah, it can get seven flavors of nuts faster than a knife fight in a phone booth.
Heard one talking about, sometimes my faith just ain't all that good, so I need Jesus to have faith for me.
What are you talking about?
When you're saved, it's done.
Over.
Your salvation is not a continual process.
What Bible are you reading?
Sounds like something I'd find in the New King James.
Being saved.
No, you are saved.
You're saved, you're sealed, the Holy Spirit has done its job.
This isn't conditional on you continuing to have faith or Jesus continuing to have faith for you.
No.
You're in the land of make-believe.
At that exact moment of you believing the gospel, you were saved, marked and set apart to spend all eternity in heavenly places.
You had a change of position.
You were baptized into Christ, transformed from darkness to light, washed, sanctified, made righteous and justified.
Your life was hid with Christ and God, and you were sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption.
No need to back up to the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and look to Jesus having faith.
No.
Not one place does the Bible tell us that Jesus had to have faith for us.
Remember, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Name one thing Jesus hasn't seen.
He's eternal.
He knows the end from the beginning, so he's seen it all.
This is the circle they've painted themselves in.
This is the circle they can't square.
They're trapped in the circular reasoning bubble that keeps them on a merry-go-round.
Get off of it.
Get off and come into the knowledge of te truth.
When you finally come to terms with the fact that, just like there isn't a single verse in Paul's epistles that tell us how to get our sins forgiven, neither is there a single verse that tells us Jesus exercised his faith during his earthly ministry.
And there sure isn't a single verse in Paul's epistles that tell us to teach this to anyone.
Him dying for your sins, being buried with your sins, raising the third day without your sins, nw that's the gospel.
That's something you can rely on.
That's consistent.
Believe that and be saved and sealed into the day of redemption without Jesus having to have faith.
That's not even the gospel.
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