Faithfulness

Faithfulness is a choice; all shallow, fickle, and otherwise selfish choices depend entirely on us. Faithfulness requires forgiveness and patience, and God is faithful by nature, but even God Himself expects faithfulness in return.

Series: Moral Boundaries: What God Wants

Speaker: David Pryor

Notes:

Faithfulness is how faith expresses itself. Faith is belief that produces action. Faith is more than a mental attitude; it's not just believing.

James 2:14,17; Hebrews 11:1,3

Faithfulness is the fruit of faith. Fruitfulness is produced by a lifestyle of faithfulness. Faithfulness is remaining in Christ and allowing Christ to remain in us. Fruitfulness is an ongoing, ever-increasing process.

John 15:2,5,6,18

We choose to be faithful or unfaithful. No one forces us to be faithful or unfaithful. We can't blame our selfish, fickle, unwise choices on anyone or anything else.

Matthew 25, Luke 16:10, Luke 19:11-27

Being faithful is more than not being unfaithful. Being faithful means actually producing the fruit we were designed to produce—love and unity. Faithfulness requires forgiveness and patience. Unforgiveness is withholding love.

John 13:24-25 & 17:21, Matthew 6:14-15 & 18:21-25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 6:23-24, 1 John 2:9-11, 1 Peter 2:22-23

God is faithful and He expects faithfulness. God's grace is costly; don't cheapen it. God's desire is not to forgive us repeatedly, but to give us more chances to produce fruit!

Romans 5:20 & 6:1-2, 1 John 2:5-6 & 5:3, Hebrews 3:12-15

Lord, I WILL…