Keeping Power Of Faith

The Keeping Power of Faith

Hebrews 12:2
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.

Jesus is the “author of eternal salvation”

Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;


Everything that Jesus author’s is both needed and required for salvation.

There has never been a time when God has warned men that they could have “too much” of the faith that Christ authors. Christ Himself, while He walked on this earth, spoke complementarily of those with “great faith”

Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

I question any comment that suggest anything God gives men to save them could possibly lead them astray. Yet, in our day we have all sorts of warnings that suggest such a thing could happen.

Have you ever heard the following statements?

“You can be too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good”

What exactly was the person intending to say that “came up” with that one? - Obviously true heavenly mindedness was not clearly understood, because those who are filled with the considerations and hope of heaven will be the most productive of people, both on earth and in glory.

How about these statements… “We don’t believe in believing to be saved” or “We don’t have faith in faith” or “faith doesn’t save you, God does”



All of these statements betray an ignorance of what faith and believing is, could something that Jesus authored, or God worked in the person eventually lead to their rejection by God?

It is my personal persuasion that the “de-evolution” of divine nomenclature has resulted in the deterioration of understanding what God has revealed in His word.

If men are allowed to play god with the meaning of sanctified words, changing them to their own twisted meanings, thus adding to the ever-increasing flood of modern translations of the scriptures, then how will “the word of faith” be preached and understood?

1 Corinthians 1:17 –18
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Ultimately, the matter of faith, believing and salvation are not merely in the hands of men. God has undertaken to “save them that believe” and this He will do through His Son, Christ Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:3 –5
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

The Church must be ever vigilant to maintain the focus that “true or genuine faith” in the God of heaven produces.

Anything that attempts to turn our eyes away from Jesus must be thoroughly cast down and abandoned.

The Apostle gives us the perspective that faith affords those who are disciples of the Lamb.

Galatians 2:20
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.

There is no life outside of Christ Jesus, and there is no access to the Life of Christ Jesus outside of “the faith of the Son of God” – That faith will keep you, as long as you keep it.

Grace and Peace.

Bro. Robert