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Everyone who has been saved from the creation of Adam until today has been saved by faith. From the fall of Adam until Christ came the first time, they were saved by faith because they believed God's promise that he would send a Messiah to save them from their sins. While Christ was on the earth, those in the area were saved by faith because they believed him to be the Christ. Those in other countries, who had not yet heard of Christ, were still being saved by faith because they were looking for the Messiah to come. Today, we are saved by faith in believing that the Messiah has already come in the person of Jesus Christ, nearly two thousand years ago. Faith is the agent by which God gives salvation. It doesn't matter whether faith was looking forward to Christ, as those in the old testament did, or if faith is looking backward to Christ, as we do today. It was and is, still by faith! Some religions and sects have come up with the strange teaching that God will raise all of the dead who never heard the gospel during their lifetime and give these people a chance to be saved. The intention of these well-meaning people is to make God appear fair, because a God who would send people to hell for something they never had the opportunity to learn seems unfair; and it is. What they do not realize is that God does not need their help. He is already fair. Romans 5:13 NIV for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Romans 2:12 NIV All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. Just as those who never had the law preached to them during the time of law died without being judged by the law, so to those who do not hear the gospel will not be guilty of rejecting it. This does not mean that they will be saved by following some pagan religion, as we will see. God can save a person who has lived out in the middle of the desert or on a deserted island all of their lives and has never had the opportunity to learn or read the Bible. If that person looks up in the sky and sees the sun, the moon, and the stars, and looks at their own body and everything around them and says in their heart and mind, "I believe there must be a God who created all of this and wish I knew who he was", God can because of their faith, make arrangements for their salvation. He will show them what they must do to be saved, like he did for Saul (Paul) on the Damascus road. (Acts 9:3-6 NCV) So Saul headed toward Damascus. As he came near the city, a bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.Saul fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?" Saul said, "Who are you, Lord?" The voice answered, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Get up now and go into the city. Someone there will tell you what you must do." No one, who has honestly searched for the truth pertaining to God, will fail to find it. God is constantly searching the hearts and minds of all human beings, looking for someone who wants to know the truth. Psalms 14:2 NIV the Lord looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. Proverbs 8:17 NIV I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. In speaking of the wisdom that leads to God, the book of proverbs states that "those who seek me find me." God is not in the business of hiding the gospel from people who wish to find the truth. He will go to great lengths to get his word into the hands of those who seek it. The story is reported of a man in Russia who was walking alongside some railroad tracks thinking to himself, if only I could find out about God. Inside of a train passing by, a guard discovered a passenger, a pastor, who possessed a Bible. The guard took the Bible from the pastor an threw it out of the open window where it landed at the mans feet who was desiring to know about God. After taking it home and finding the owners name and address in it he contacted the owner, returned the Bible, was led to Christ, and given a bible of his own. God will get his word to those who truly desire it by whatever means neccessary. This though does not absolve us of our responsibility to be an insturment God uses for this purpose. God will get the job done with us or without us, but we will be accountable at the Judgment seat of Christ for every opportunity we carelessly disregard. Acts 8:29-39 NIV The Spirit told Philip, "go to that chariot and stay near it." Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. "Do you understand what you are reading?" Philip asked. "how can I," he said, "unless someone explains it to me?" So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. The Eunuch was reading this passage of scripture: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth." The Eunuch asked Philip, "tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?" Then Philip began with that very passage of scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the Eunuch said, "look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?" And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the Eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the Eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. From the time that a person desires to know God, it is God's responsibility to reveal the truth to that person. God has made it his responsibility by stating in his word that anyone who searches for the truth will find it. Jeremiah 29:13 NIV You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. God can make provision for anyone seeking him to be given his word. The problem is that not very many people are seeking after God. God will save everyone who truly desires with all of their heart to seek God and find God. Titus 1:2 KJV in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; If God does not save everyone who seeks him, or at least presents the opportunity to that person to know the truth, then God would be a liar and a sinner, like we are. But he is not and cannot be either a liar or a sinner. John 8:47 NIV he who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." Out of the millions of people in the world there must only be a few who are seeking God, or the planet earth would be saturated with the gospel of Jesus Christ. God would see to it. God will get the gospel to every person who wholeheartedly desires to know the truth, no matter how much that truth will affect their lifestyle. God will send someone with the gospel to that person via some means, be it another person, the radio, the television, the printed word, the internet, an angel, or the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit. Nothing can prevent God from getting the gospel to any person on earth. Psalms 139:7-19 NIV where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, o God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. God has left himself with the option of saving anyone who has faith regardless of how much knowledge he (God) has made available to them. God has stated in this word that, "to whom much is given, much is required"; and the reverse is also true--to whom little is given, little is required. Luke 12:48 NIV From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. No one knows everything. God does not reveal all of his truth to anyone in a body of flesh or even to the angels. Even Christ did not know the day or hour of his own return, when he was living in a human body. The amount of truth God reveals to a person is God's business. It is our responsibility to believe whatever amount of truth God reveals to us as individuals. God will be a fair judge. No one who has desired with all their heart to know who the true God is and believes whatever amount of truth God has chosen to reveal to them, will be cast into the lake of fire. They will be saved. What Is True Faith? There has been much confusion down through the centuries on the subject of salvation by faith. The reason for this is that the definition of what true faith actually is has been overshadowed by man's opinions of what it is. True faith is not simply an intellectual belief. Even the devil believes and trembles, and he is not saved. True faith always results in action. James 2:19 NIV you believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder. James 2:19 KJV thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. As an example, have you ever heard people talking about a get rich quick scheme or some way to invest money and double or triple it in a few months? If the person doing the talking had true faith in this idea, they would not be sitting around talking about it, they would be out doing it. Human greed being what it is, they probably would not even be telling anyone else about it unless they needed a financial backer. They would be putting every penny they could find into this scheme, if they had true faith that it would make them rich. James 2:17 NIV in the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. The result of true faith is not simply idle chatter. True faith is always followed by action. Hebrews 11:1-19 NIV Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead. By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in Holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. Hebrews 11:17-19 & 11:24-26 NIV by faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, "it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. Hebrews 11:39 & 12:2 NIV these were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. In Hebrews the faith of the Patriarchs is extolled, because it was their faith that motivated them to perform their deeds of righteousness. In the book of James the deeds of the Patriarchs are lauded to show how their faith resulted in action. James 2:18 but someone will say, "you have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. James 2:20-26 You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. Actions that result from faith do not save us, they are merely the outward expression of the inner faith that we possess if we have truly been "born again." Anyone who actually believes that the Bible is true, will not simply give lip service to the name of Christ. They will be doing something about it. This is why many have not understood the teachings of Paul compared to the book of James. Paul was constantly instructing and exhorting those he taught that salvation was by faith. Paul had taught the people who were written to in the book of Hebrews, and they understood what true faith consisted of. He did not have to explain it to them again. The Galatians, who we will study later, were so action oriented, they were losing sight of the fact that salvation was by faith and not by works. James, on the other hand, was writing to people who were under the mistaken impression that faith was simply saying, "I believe" and then doing nothing after that. James was trying to teach them that true faith and true belief will result in action. While those of us in whom God has placed his Holy Spirit may not perform any spectacular deeds like those of the "hero's of faith," our attitudes and our life style will certainly begin to change after our conversion. Rewards Although God has given us eternal life as a result of faith, he has also promised in his word that a person's good works and giving will be repaid to that person one hundred times over, both in this life and in the life to come. Mark 10:28-30 NIV Peter said to him, "we have left everything to follow you!" "I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields-- and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. This means that in monetary terms, one dollar invested in God's work would result in a hundred dollar return at the time of the resurrection. Now God is not talking simply about money in the verse above. He will place a value on every good work that we do that stems from faith and reward us one hundred times over for it in his kingdom. Much of the reward in this life comes from the peace, joy, and happiness that comes from knowing Christ, which is something that no amount of money can purchase. John 15:11 NIV I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. Philippians 4:7 NIV and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 1 peter 1:8-9 NIV though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Jesus taught that every true believer, when they come to faith, will be given the spirit of God to open their mind to spiritual truth. Anyone having this spirit of God in them will not be so senseless as to let the opportunity for spiritual rewards slip through their fingers so easily. Not all will do everything, but all will do something. True faith then will result in good works. The good works are not in any way a part of earning the salvation that came by faith. They are simply the outward evidence that faith may be present. I say may be present because as you will see later in this book not everyone who does good works has true faith. However, everyone who has true faith will have some good works, if they live long enough after proclaiming their belief in Christ to have time to do some. These works may not always be evident to men, but they will be known to God and will be revealed at the judgment seat of Christ. Christ has commanded us not to blow our own trumpet about the things we do for him because of our faith. 2 Corinthians 5:10 NIV for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 1 Corinthians 3:9-15 NIV for we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 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