4 Have you suffered so many things and experienced so much all for nothing (to no purpose)--if it really is to no purpose and in vain?
5 Then does He Who supplies you with His marvelous [Holy] Spirit and works powerfully and miraculously among you do so on [the grounds of your doing] what the Law demands, or because of your believing in and adhering to and trusting in and relying on the message that you heard?
Look at what our Father tells us so plainly here: He does not act in our life’s because of works (not lying, not coveting, circumcision, not killing, what clothes we wear, how our hair looks, the amount we tithe, how we pray, keeping Saturday’s Holy, and not building idols), but He does work through us because of faith!
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2
The Truth that sets us completely free is that our Father moves in our life’s because Jesus gives us and works His faith through us, so that He can. Faith is not our human ability to believe God, faith is Jesus’ ability to believe our Father working through us! Only Jesus will begin faith within us and only Jesus will finish faith within us. Faith is a gift given to us from our Head, we have no ability to conjure up true faith on our own.
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