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GRACE ABOUNDS ONLINE BIBLE STUDY THEME: FAITH LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS (Part 13) TOPIC: FAITH NEUTRALISES SELF SPEAKER: Peter Ayoola Fakeye (PAF) Hebrew 11:5; Genesis 5:24 The Bible made a very strong statement here that, "Enoch walked with God to the point that he was not found in himself, but He was found with God, right in His presence." This is God's dream for humanity, that we will be found in Him; spirit, soul and body. Although, this dream shall be perfected at the second appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ. But in the meantime that we are here in this world, we already have the first fruit of this glorious redemption in our spirit man. We are not in possession of our spirit man the moment we come to God through faith in what Christ has done. The triune God becomes possessive of us with all that He is. The same nature of God is applicable to the spirit man of a born again child of God. For example, if God is eternal, then your spirit man is eternal and will nev...

GRACE ABOUNDS ONLINE BIBLE STUDY THEME: FAITH LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS (Part 12) TOPIC: FAITH BUILDS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD SPEAKER: Peter Ayoola Fakeye (PAF) The first thing I will want us to note is that what makes Faith really Faith, is the object of our Faith, Which is Christ Jesus. Therefore, when I use the word Faith, I mean faith in the person of Christ and what He has done for us. Hebrew 11:5; Genesis 5:22-24 What Apostle Paul called Faith in Hebrew 11 is the same thing as 'walk with God' which Genesis recorded of Enoch. It takes faith to walk with God. We have seen in our previous discussion that, faith in Christ transcends what we can feel, taste, smell, see or hear. That is, it is beyond our five physical senses. Therefore, for us as christian believers, to rise above all what this physical world is throwing at us and engage a walk with the Lord, then it must have taken Faith in the person of Jesus. We had a report from the scripture that the generation which E...

GRACE ABOUNDS ONLINE BIBLE STUDY THEME: FAITH LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS (Part 11) TOPIC: FAITH AND SERVICE SPEAKER: Peter Ayoola Fakeye (PAF) Hebrew 11:4 We can see from our text that it was through the excellent sacrifice Abel brought that he could obtain a witness that he is righteous. The sacrifice you bring determine what God testifies about you. God told Abel that he was righteous because of the sacrifice he brought. Even his brother, Cain could understand what God has declared concerning him. Everyone could see God's hand over his life because it was evident. God doesn't just want to keep you in a corner where you won't be relevant in your generation. Instead, God really want to manifest His life (Righteousness) through you. But when you bring yourself and what you can offer on the platform before God (just like Cain), then God's righteousness cannot be established in you. God's righteousness can't be manufacture. It can not be established by your good w...

GRACE ABOUNDS ONLINE BIBLE STUDY THEME: FAITH LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS (Part 10) TOPIC: FAITH, A RESPONSE TO REVELATION SPEAKER: Peter Ayoola Fakeye (PAF) Hebrew 11:3; Genesis 4:3-5 In today's study, we will be learning from the life of Abel, how Faith in Christ transformed him. The Bible says; "by Faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain...." Abel offered an animal to God as his sacrifice, but Cain didn't offer an animal, Instead he offered the fruit of the ground. Abel understood that they should have been struck dead when their parents fell into sin in the garden, instead, God offered a lamb in their stead. He understood that they were accepted and treated with mercy and grace based on the sacrifice of the Lamb. Therefore, they could stand in God's presence based on the covering of the Lamb (Genesis 3:21). This Lamb is a symbol and shadow of Jesus Christ, the Lamb who came to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29).  You will never...

GRACE ABOUNDS ONLINE BIBLE STUDY THEME: FAITH LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS (PART 9) TOPIC: FAITH HELPS UNDERSTANDING SPEAKER: Peter Ayoola Fakeye (PAF) Hebrew 11:3 I want to first talk about the first phrase in the scripture above; 'By faith we understand...' The first thing I will want you to note from the text is that faith in Christ helps us to have a proper understanding of God. I understand that people do say that "God's way is past finding out, and that our 'pea nut' brain can't be able to comprehend God." There is a lot of truth behind those statements. But I want you to know that God want us to understand Him. We may not be able to have a full grasp, but God want us to understand Him and His ways progressively. We will see that in many scriptures, God explained Himself to people. If we can't understand Him, then there is no point for Him to have explained Himself to people. It's true we can't understand God with mere logic but the tr...