We have the pieces in significant statements.
How one puts them together is just as important as seeing each piece, my friend.
For example, where does our faith as believers in Jesus Christ ( God's elect ) come from?
Have you not read:
" Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Again, where does the believer's faith actually come from?
" We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." ( Galatians 2:15-16 ). <--- The faith "of" ( in the Greek, the word means "from" ) Jesus Christ.
" I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. " ( Galatians 2:20 ).
" But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." ( Galatians 3:22 ).
" But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: " ( Romans 3:21-22 )
" For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
9 not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." ( Ephesians 2:8-10 ).
The faith "of" ( by or from ) Jesus Christ...which, by the way, is yet another evidence ( Hebrews 11:1 ) of a true believer.
They have faith, and it's the kind that does not fail under the trials and tribulations of this life.
Did you miss these, Dave?
I did, for approximately 10 years after I first picked up the Bible and started studying it for myself.
