TITLE: Put Faith Behind It

Pre-Message Prompt: “Holy Spirit, what places of my heart do you long to be?”


Intro

Previous Message: Hope → believers strength

living from hope → fuels faith → fuels life

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1 Cor 13 → 3 eternal things: faith, hope, and love

These 3 attributes: foundation—birth place of every action/work

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Our actions ≠ birthed from

love → fear / pride

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Faith → obligation / self-preservation

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Hope → Sloth / despair

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Trap—living ≠ 3 eternal attributes

Fall into a lifestyle → empty religion, laziness, pride

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Our talk

Previous: living from hope → living from faith

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God’s desire: our works birthed → faith

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stop living from → fear / religious obligation

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our actions = have faith behind them

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repeat: “put faith behind it”


Starting with: provoking verse

Paul—Romans 14:23

…and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

Wow—repeat

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means: every action / work ≠ birthed from / come from faith → sin