050522  Baccalaureate Service for 2005

By Ronald E. George Jr. at the Fayetteville Baptist Church

 

1Tim 4:12 (NIV) Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.

 

  1. Speech and Life --  Bob Coulter. 

 

  1. Love -- Harry Fuller

 

  1. Faith -- Ron George Jr

 

  1. Purity -- Robert Morey

 

Faith -- Ron George Jr

 

What is Faith?  

  We all want to be successful.  This is the way that all of us can be successful.  Have Faith.  Most of us, in our desire for meaningful faith, seem to be saying to God:  "Show me, and I'll believe!" This approach never works.  God has made it very clear to us, in the life and teaching of his Son Jesus, that the process must be reversed.  He is saying to us:  "Believe in me, and I'll show you."   -- John Powell, S.J., in Through Seasons of the Heart.  Christianity Today, Vol. 31, no. 2.  

 

Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

 

Have Faith.   Faith in what?  What do you believe in?  Who do you believe in?  Do you believe in God?  Do you believe in Jesus?  The resurrection is the proof.  Allow faith in your Savior to guide you through your life.  God will guide your future and become your rock in a life of shifting sand.  He will always be there. 

 

Make Faith your life.  Have a living faith.  A faith that is active and moving in your life. 

Rom. 1:16 (NIV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

 

   I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightening.  But Faith did not seem to come.  One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, "Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."  I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith.  I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.     -- Dwight L. Moody,  Leadership, Vol. 10, no. 4.

 

Make God your life and Have Faith in Him and you will always succeed in your life.  Don’t fail to remember your Creator, your God, and your Savior, or you will fail.  Live by Him and your faith in Him is your life given to him.  Faith is the key.