What is faith?

NLT 1 Tim 6:12-13 - "Fight the good fight for the true faith. Hold tightly to the eternal life to which God has called you, which you have confessed so well before many witnesses."

Just what does it mean to fight the good fight of Faith? What do I mean as ‘the faith’? This will be part #1 of our article….

In Luke 4 we have Jesus in the desert fasting for 40 days and nights. The devil comes to Him in His hour of great and severe weakness and begins to question Jesus. The whole of the Devil’s interrogation is centered around, “If Thou be the Son of God…’

What then is ‘the faith’? It is all summed up into one great phrase, “the Son of God”. He is Jesus Christ, the Son of God - -that is, the deity of Christ. Remember the announcement made from heaven when He was baptized? “ This is my beloved Son” (Luke 3:22).
Then, into the wilderness, and to the challenge of Satan He went. The devil pressed him again and again… “If thou be the Son…” and so intense was the battle that it took angels from heaven to minister to Jesus after the great conflict.

Jesus is standing against the Sanhedrin that dreadful night and what is it that they press Him on??  “Are you the Son of God.” There whole challenge is on Jesus’ son-ship, Him being the Son of God….Matt 8:28….When Jesus was come into the country of the Gergesenes, who met Him there? Two men possessed with devils, who had been living in the tombs, (and they were exceeding fierce, the scripture says) They were so tough that no one would go past that way. What did the demons inside these two men yell out? Here it is as recorded by Matthew himself….”What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

This proclamation speaks for itself and is noteworthy.

What did John the Baptist say the day he saw Jesus along the Jordan River for the first time, “And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.”

So the whole question of what is ‘the faith’ that Paul is talking about in our opening scripture, is that Jesus IS “the Son of God”….

I could go on and on with this, but let’s begin to wrap this up with a scripture given to us by the apostle John who says it quite well, in John 20:31 “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

And the apostle Paul adds for our edification, “Because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” (Gal. 4:6).

Galatians speaks to all of us throughout the ages who believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior. He was ‘the son of God’ come to pay the ransom for our souls & because of that, we become ‘sons’-- one scripture verse says “joint heirs with Christ.”  Isn’t that great!
Let’s build on this in part two….

 What an awesome thing it is to be an “heir”.....not of earthly things, but of Heavenly!