Satan is after your faith

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Welcome to Redemption Church! My name is Chris Fluitt and I am excited to share the Word of God with you today! Hello to everyone experiencing this online. One day we hope you can visit us in person in beautiful Plano Tx.

I want your help today. We are handing out notecards and pens. On one side of the notecard, I want you to write the word that you would use to fill in the blank.

“I might give up on God if I ever lost ________.”

Be as honest as possible. It is understandable that there would be some situation that would at least give you pause.

All our online viewers and listeners, please feel free to write down your own response.

Hurry because I have a second blank for you to fill.

“Satan is after my ________.”

If Satan is after something of yours it would be wise to take time to identify his plan.

If losing something would cause you to give up on God, then it is worth identifying what that something is.

There is something you could lose that would cause you to give up on God. Today I want us to focus on this thing… It is Faith.

Faith

If we lose our faith we have given up on God. In the words of the great song by the artist “Sting,” “If I ever lose my faith in you, there’d be nothing left for me to do.”

What is faith?

We use this word a lot, but do we understand it?

Here is a direct answer from scripture.

Hebrews 11:1 (NIV2011) Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

This is a great verse, but today I want to give something a little simpler. Here is Faith in a way a child can understand.

Faith is believing what God says is true.

Faith is believing God when he says that he truly loves you.

If God says He will forgive and forget all your sins, then faith is believing that what He promised is true.

Faith is tied to Truth

You have FAITH in God if you believe what He says is TRUE. And your obedience to God flows from your faith in what he says.

In the Garden of Eden, the snake tried to cut the tie between Eve’s faith & God’s Truth.

Genesis 3:1 (NIV2011) Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

“Satan is after my ________.”

Earlier I asked you to fill in the blank… I want you to consider that Satan is after your faith.

Satan is after my Faith

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