Faith # 5

Faith to believe the Gospel is the fruit of the Spirit ! 2


Faith or belief of the Truth, the Gospel is a production of the Spirit of God, in behalf of Christ's Finished work 2 Thess 2:13 ! Now Jesus had confirmed the same earlier that the Spirit would lead to Truth John 16:13

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

The word guide is the greek word hodēgeō and means:

I.to be a guide, lead on one's way, to guide

II.to be a guide or a teacher

A.to give guidance to

He Leads the Children/Sons of God Rom 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

The Spirit of Truth shall testify of Christ's finish work unto His Sheep, His Church that He died for Jn 15:26

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

Now that word testify the greek word martyreō and it means in this instance:

I.to be a witness, to bear witness, i.e. to affirm that one has seen or heard or experienced something, or that he knows it because taught by divine revelation or inspiration

A.to give (not to keep back) testimony


B.to utter honourable testimony, give a good report


C.conjure, implore

Its the Spirits Testification in the souls of the redeemed to give assurance of the sacrifice of Christ was for them.

Its also the same word used by Paul when he writes to the Romans Rom 8:16

The Spirit itself beareth witness/testimony with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

All of this is involved in the Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth. The Spirit gives assurance 1 Thess 1:5, belief of the Truth 2 Thess 2:13, leads to the Truth Jn 16:13. All this is also part of their predestinated adoption by Jesus Christ Eph 1:4-5

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

This ensures the Spirit being sent into their heart Gal 4:5-6

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

And this begins the Sanctification of the Spirit unto belief of the Truth 2 Thess 2:13 confirming the Words of Christ Jn 16:13 !

The proud in heart denies this, and proclaim the false gospel that men in the flesh of their own freewill believe the Truth, dishonoring the Work of the Spirit through Christ ! Their faith is the fruit of their sinful flesh therefore and not of the Spirit ! 16

Spiritual Life before Faith !

Since the Spirit gives Life from Christ Jn 6:63;1 Cor 15:45 and Faith is a fruit of the Spirit, then it comes to reason that Life Spiritual precedes Faith in Christ.

The false teachers of our time teach that its within the abilty of the natural man to put faith in Christ, totally contradicting Jesus own words Jn 6:44,65 [the coming means coming in Faith to Him] and no man by nature has that ability, to believe on Him as it pertains to Salvation; thats why they are false teachers that teach that. The fact is, no one dead in sin can legitimately by right believe on Christ as their Saviour ahead of being born again by the Spirit Jn 3:3 ! Now by nature yes men spiritually dead might have faith in Christ/ God, BUT its a dead faith, no different from that Faith/Believing the devils have James 2:19

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

These demons/devils no doubt believed in Christ the Son of God Matt 8:28-29

28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

See both an unregenerate man and a devil have this in common, they have no spiritual life, yet they can believe in God and Christ with a dead faith, however a living Faith in God and Christ is the consequence of having received Spiritual life from Christ by the New Birth, and not until then, does anyone have Spiritual life or an operative living Faith ! 16

Spiritual Life before Faith !2

Scripture confirms that no one has even the right by nature, while in the flesh to believe on Christ Jn 1:12-13, see being born of God in Vs 13 gives one the right to be lieve on or receive Christ and then be openly recognized as the Children of God, which are also the children of the promise Rom 9:8

8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

The right comes not by the will of the flesh, which would be the case if men in the flesh, not born of the Spirit could believe on Christ and become the Children of God, which is an contradiction of scripture; And secondly, scripture points out that Spiritual life or living precedes Spiritual Believing on Christ here Jn 11:26

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Please notice what Jesus says, "everyone LIVING and BELIEVING IN HIM shall never die " ! The word Living means to have been made alive, not dead, being animated by Spiritual Life from the Spirit and believing on Him, which also means they are being led to believe the Truth by the Spirit, for Paul writes in Rom 8:14, 16 which are the same children of God which believe on Him Jn 1:12-13 !

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Predestinated to Faith in Christ !

Those who were Chosen in Christ before the foundation, they were also predestinated to Faith in Christ, to believe on His Name, to receive Him, according to Eph 1:4-5

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Here Paul writes that those Chosen in Christ before the foundation of the World, were predestinated to the Adoption of Sons by Jesus Christ.

This Adoption of Sons is Faith in Jesus Christ, after receiving in our hearts the Spirit of Adoption Rom 8:15; Gal 4:4-7

15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father[Because we are Sons /Children of God].


4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

And from this we become the Manifested, Acknowledged, Recognized Sons of God, by or because of Faith in Jesus Christ Gal 3:26

26 For ye are all the children of God by[because of] faith in Christ Jesus.

Faith in Christ is what reveals openly what had been a hidden fact known only to God, that we are His Children or Sons.

Faith in Christ is the evidence that we have always been His Children.

The word children in Gal 3:26 is the same word for children in Eph 1:5 the word huios.

Now Faith in Christ did not make us Sons, but revealed us as Sons, the Sons that God Loved in Christ Heb 12:6

6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son huios whom he receiveth.

And this Faith in Christ Gal 3:26 is the Fruit of the Spirit of Adoption Rom 8:15;Gal 5:22, Faith is the Fruit of the Spirit, by which Spirit we have the Right of Adoption to be called the Children of God Jn 1:12-13

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

They believed on His Name because they born of the Spirit of Adoption, which Adoption they had been Predestinated to, according to them being Chosen in Christ before the foundation Eph 1:4-5 !

BTW, there are many deceivers in the world, who have the audacity to say everyone without exception was Chosen in Christ Eph 1:4, but that is shown to be a lie, because all who were Chosen in Christ were also in accordance with that Choice Predestinated to the Adoption of Sons through Jesus Christ, which Adoption makes itself manifested by Faith in Jesus Christ Gal 3:26 ! If we never come to Faith in Christ, we were never of those blessed ones Chosen in Him before the foundation ! 16