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420 - Make No Mistake, Faith Always Has a Cost
Episode 42030th October 2017 • Leaving Laodicea • Steve McCranie
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Nothing is Free… Especially Faith

Faith is not free. In fact, faith costs everyone associated with it something. No, I’m not talking about saving faith or salvation. But even then, salvation has a cost. It costs Christ His life and the Father His only Son. And it costs each of us who embrace saving faith the one thing we hold most dear. Us. Salvation costs each of us who we are.

But the faith we are talking about is the Hebrews 11 kind of faith. It’s the faith defined as the “substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1). It’s the faith that made the notable men of the Scripture, notable. And it’s the faith that helps us answer the why questions in life.

The Why Questions

Why does God allow bad things to happen to people who love Him?

Why does God allow innocent babies to die?

Why does God allow drug addiction and abortion and rape and child abuse and starvation and disease?

Why, oh why, oh why?

Get the point? But having the faith to trust God’s answer to these questions will cost you something. Why? Because it costs Abraham and Noah and Jacob and Moses and many, many others what it will cost you to know the truth. Are you willing to understand the cost of faith? Do you want to know the answer to the most troubling questions in the Christian life? If so, then keep listening.

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