The Fine Point of Faith

Unbelief sees rules, a series of steps, a path, and a set of neat proverbial sayings to live by and understand the world.  All of this can be attempted without faith and that is the damning work of a false gospel (Gal 1:8-9).  Faith looks to Jesus.  Faith grasps no ethic abstracted from the Bible; faith grasps Jesus and is filled by His Spirit.  And that filling causes a Christian to live according to the Spirit and not the flesh (Rom 8:4-6).  To be “filled by the Spirit” is to be under the sanctifying influence of God.  It is the ongoing life of walking according to the gracious glory of Christ personally revealed in His people.