We have the same spirit of faith. In response to this request I sat down at my desk and wrote out a confession of the common faith of the church, as I understand it. Many are driven by anxiety, straining to secure the basic means of life, lost to its real end and purpose. This phrase comes from a messianic prophecy in Psalm 116:10 and is quoted by Paul in II Corinthians 4:13: "I believed and therefore have spoken. It is from this position, in pursuit of this understanding I have scripted the following. Forgiveness is the pinnacle of love because it overcomes hostilities, offenses, and injuries and in doing so restores harmony and unity whether the community consists of only two or a multitude. He did not speak what he saw, He spoke what He wanted to see. As soon as a minister assumes he understands the stranger that he is witnessing to, that this stranger basically shares his cultural reality this missionary is in danger not only of becoming ineffective, unfruitful but worse yet guilty of seriously distorting the meaning of the Gospel by tying the Gospel to his own cultural values and customs and morals. Without the Spirit, God’s word is not heard, and, without the Word, the realm of the Spirit and the spiritual in one’s life, easily morphs into many psychological and cultural voices within and without. Ps 116:10 (NKJ) "I believed, therefore I spoke..." A slogan verse of the "faith" movement. While believers worship, work, and study (and we must worship, really work, and really study) we also must wait on the Spirit, and while we wait on the Spirit we must carry on our labors -passionately. Recognizing our need for this miracle and our ultimate dependence upon it is not relatively important but absolutely imperative. High Noon and the Showdown at Lafayette Square: Profanity vs Protest, The Spiritual Roots of Fear and Courage:Lessons from Moses Encounter With Pharaoh (Part One), Dr Dan’s Message at MBTS Chapel Preach Penang, Malaysia, Justice: The Biblical Understanding vs Modernity’s Understanding Part One. The umbrella of grace has been unfolded through Christ sheltering all humanity from the rain and storm of God’s judgment against sin and unrighteousness – this is the good word of the Gospel of Grace. “Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I” prayed David. The human province is not to create the ideal kingdom on earth but to prepare to meet it, to image and reflect the ideal that has emerged through the Prophetic vision and the Christ. God has given us, through His Word, the ability, the privilege, the right, and the authority to speak as He speaks, to think His thoughts, and walk in His ways. We feel the same way. All of sudden he was relieved because his train commenced moving. When Paul says “It is written,” he is quoting from Psalm 116 where David recounts his brush with death. Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we too believe and therefore speak, But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written: “I, But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I, But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “. I believe in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, which Christians call the Old and New Testaments. Our opening verse parallels the principle in Romans 10:9-10; the “believe and affirm” principle. With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. Now since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with this Scripture: “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak. Readers will find the credibility in the author’s voice refreshing as they follow the informative direction. Specifically, he was the apostle to the Gentiles. This manuscript reveals God’s glory… “I Believe…Therefore I Speak.” November 14th, 2016. We are persecuted, but we never have to stand it alone: we may be knocked down but we are never knocked out! LET US ADMIT IT—there is only one way to believe and one way to show it: speak. Looking at our God, and ourselves, in and through the lens of the Gospel of Christ we, the lost, discover that we are found. By faith we stand under it and from this position we seek to understand what we believe (“faith seeking understanding” – Anselm). The New Testament itself contains instruction that is conditioned by time and culture. Faith believes this good news and enjoys an abundance of peace. I believe that God’s reconciling forgiveness and the resurrection of the crucified Jesus are inextricably bound together, not out of necessity, but simply because God, in God’s freedom, purpose, and wisdom, bound them together. Between our labors to build our churches and carry out our mission endeavors we wait on an intangible subtle spiritual power not lodged in us but in God, a power that cannot be brought into play by even the greatest of plans and the most diligent and talented work. Paul asserts in 2 Corinthians 5:7 “we walk by faith not by sight”. Even though I knew and believed this teaching early on in my ministry the ‘underground’ ( unregistered church) in China demonstrated to me the reality of this truth. All of these social circles we live in (more or less) generate distinct cultures that shape us and become incarnated into ethics. But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—‘I believed, and so I spoke’—we also believe, and so we speak. With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. (2 Cor 4:13; TLB) Truly, the world is seeking hope. 1. 我因信,所以如此说话 (I Believe Therefore I Speak) – International Church of Shanghai Protected: 我因信,所以如此说话 (I Believe Therefore I Speak) Paul, himself an Apostle, wrote to the Corinthian believers who were becoming increasingly idiosyncratic in their understanding of the Christian faith “for I delievered to you…what I received (received – literally handed on to me from the other Apostle – disciples). - Weymouth Bible. This way of approaching ethics does not of course discount the diverse passages found in the Bible about right and wrong but it does transform and shine light on these passages. Christ in heaven did not hand over his saving power to the church. It is of course not enough to read or hears the good word even at the hands of the best evangelist or apologist. Nomos, law as the ground of ethics is transformed by this Apostolic evangel into three elemental ways of being in the world – faith, hope, and love. Rather as Christ’s body, it is called to turn out to the world and minister God’s love both in word and deed (one beggar showing another beggar where the bread is). Paul received an understanding of Gospel truth in the posture of belief and commenced a ministry speaking, i.e. I believe in the coming kingdom. All true work must be filled, not only with diligence and ability but with something intangible and hidden – passionate waiting on a power and blessing that comes from an unseen gracious hand. Here in this fellowship, the ultimate power of all that is dark and dreary, broken, and evil is downsized. Between hearing or reading the Gospel and obeying its claim all depend on the blessing and power of the Spirit. I Believe in the Church. This is the heart of the Gospel and God’s meeting place. 13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. So we also believe and speak. "I believe and therefore I speak." In his parables, Jesus spoke of the lost and the found but being lost and found is, however, not a one-size-fits-all matter. Abstracting corporations and institutions from the persons who they serve and by whom they are powered, treating them as non-personal entities, is a modern device often used to obscure responsibility – a useful and convenient way to escape the moral consequences of human actions. The above script which I have entitled “I Believe Therfore I Speak” is my profession of of faith standing inside and under the church’s confession of faith. I Believe, Therefore I Speak. The essence of sin is not merely ‘missing the mark’ but a spiritual malignancy that has penetrated the souls of all women and men. In Baptism water and spiritual cleansing appear to be spiritually and organically joined together as in many non-Christian faiths. This has been a partial of profession inside the presupposition of the church’s confession. Sin means to refuse God’s Godness. And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak. The church is not to draw its sanctimonious robes around itself and retreat into its own fellowship and remove itself from the world. We become righteous by trusting God and living from Him. When God saw darkness, He spoke forth light. This place Scripture calls “a rock of offense and a stone of stumbling”. The Spirit protects the freedom of God and creates the freedom of all womankind and mankind open to the Gospel. (2 Cor 4:13; TLB) Truly, the world is seeking hope. The first of these possess compelling rationality, but not the rationality derived from universal canons of reason (so-called universal) which this world relies on to conclude truth. In the book of Acts and the Epistles, this presentation of Christ’s ministry (found in Mathew, Mark, and Luke) changes. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Rather, as Jesus taught, true leadership is validated by a different kind of spiritual ethos. Greek: echontes de to auto pneuma tes pisteos, kata to gegrammenon, Episteusa, dio elalesa, kai emeis pisteuomen, dio kai laloumen, (). Those who have attained a measure of material security easily succumb to an all-consuming passion – that of securing their wealth and upsizing it. Rather the church, conceived of by Christ and the Apostles, is the end of ecclesia as nation and the beginning of ecclesia as a ‘passionate’ fellowship of grace in route to the kingdom. This priceless treasure we hold, so to speak, in a common earthenware jar—to show that the splendid power of it belongs to God and not to us. Why we persevere in speaking? But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and so we speak. 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