DEAD FAITH
BY BRO. MARK BULLEN
WORKS NOT OF FAITH ARE DEAD
HEB. 9:14
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS THE SAME
JAMES 2:17-26
NEITHER BRING ETERNAL LIFE,
BUT BOTH GEHENNA'S FLAME.
JAMES 2:14,26; MATT. 7:20-27
JEWS STUMBLED O'ER THE FIRST;
Romans 9:32
CHRISTIANS O'ER THE LAST.
2 Peter 3:15,16,17.
SATAN PROPAGATES THEM BOTH
2 Peter 2:18-19
TODAY AS IN THE PAST.
Jude 4,5
A FAITH THAT WORKS BY LOVE
GAL. 5:6
IS WHAT GOD WANTS FROM MAN.
TITUS 2:11-15
THIS HE COUNTS AS RIGHTEOUSNESS
ROMANS 4:5-9
TIS GOD'S REDEMPTION PLAN
ROMANS 4:20-25; JAMES 2:22-23; HEB. 11:4-7
WORKS NOT OF FAITH ARE SIN
ROMANS 14:23
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS A LIE
1 JOHN 2:4
BOTH DECEIVE THEIR VICTIM,
JAMES 1:22
AND FORSAKE THEM WHEN THEY DIE.
1 JOHN 2:5
OF DEAD WORKS WE MUST REPENT
HEB. 6:1
WHETHER ROBBERY OR HATE,
GAL. 5:19-21
OR PHARISAIC RITUAL
ROMANS 9:32
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
2 THESS. 2:10-12
OF DEAD FAITH WE MUST REPENT;
MATT. 15:7,8; 21:28-32.
TAKE JESUS AS OUR LORD,
ROMANS 10:9; 14:9
TRUST HIS PRECIOUS CLEANSING BLOOD
1JOHN 1:7,9
AS WE OBEY HIS WORD.
HEB. 5:9, 1 JN. 1:7 "IF"
DON'T BELIEVE THE DEVIL'S LIE
2 PETER 3:17
OR HIS POISONED CANDY TAKE;
1 TIM. 4:1
WHEN JUDGMENT MORNIN' ROLLS AROUND
ACTS 17:30,31
YOU'LL FIND HE WAS A FAKE.
1 PETER 5:8-9; REV. 20:10
GOD HAS NO PARDON PROMISED
TO THOSE WHO DON'T REPENT:
ROMANS 2:5-9; IS. 55:6,7; 1:16-20
LEAVING OFF THE SINFUL WAY
MATT. 21:28-32
TO OBEY THE SON HE SENT.
ROMANS 6:16-18, HEB. 5:9; REV. 22:14
NOR CAN MAN RIGHTLY SAY
HE'S KEPT THE LAW INDEED;
ROMANS 3:20, 10:3
HE DESERVES HEAVEN'S HOME
GAL. 3:10,11
NO NEED FOR CHRIST TO BLEED
GAL. 3:12; ROMANS 4:4
THAT WOULD NOT BE WORKS OF FAITH.
GAL. 3:12a CONTRAST 1THESS. 1:3, ROM. 16:26
SALVATION WOULD BE A DEBT.
ROM. 4:4; GAL. 3:12
WROUGHT BY JUDICIAL ACT
THAT BY GOOD DEEDS WE GET.
GAL. 3:12b.
BUT WE'RE CONDEMNED AS SINNERS
ROM. 3:10
AN ATONEMENT THERE MUST BE
GAL. 3:13; ROM. 5:1-11.
A SACRIFICE TO CLEANSE PAST SIN,
ROM. 3:25
SO FROM PENALTY WE'RE FREE.
1 JOHN 1:9; ISAIAH 55:6,7
CHRIST'S BLOOD ONLY CLEANSES
FOR THOSE WHO WALK IN LIGHT;
1 JOHN 1:5-9
NOT FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE WRONG
AND WITH CONVICTION FIGHT.
HEB. 10:26-30
SO WE MUST CONTINUE ON
ACTS 13:43; 14:22
IN LIGHT, AND FAITH, AND GRACE:
JN. 8:31; 1 JN. 2:24-25
BELIEVING JESUS TO THE END
COL. 1:23; HEB. 10:37-39; MATT. 24:9-14.
SO WE CAN SEE HIS FACE.
REBELS DON'T GO HOME EARLY
EZ. 3:20,21; JER. 23:14-17
THEY GO TO HELL, MY FRIEND.
REV. 21:7,8
TIS A LIE TO THINK YOU'RE SAFE
EPH. 5:1-7
WHILE YOU GO PRACTICE SIN.
HEB. 10:26-39; 12:25
"BELIEVETH" IS CONTINUOUS;
JN. 3:15,16,18; 3:36; 5:24, ETC.
NOT ONE ACT OR PRAYER.
HE THAT "IS BELIEVING" THEN,
WILL HEAVEN'S GLORY SHARE.
(HEARETH, COMETH, BELIEVETH--
ARE PRESENT PARTICIPLE)
OUR HIGH PRIEST IS READY
HEB. 7:22-25
TO CLEANSE YOUR EVERY SIN;
BUT YOU MUST KEEP ON COMING
("COME" IS PRESENT PARTICIPLE)
AND AVAIL YOURSELF OF HIM.
1 JOHN 1:9 "IF"
IT'S TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH
THE INHERITANCE WILL BE:
REV. 2:7,11,17,26; 3:5,12,21; 21:7
WHO RAN THE RACE IN PATIENT FAITH,
HEB. 6:15; 12; COL. 3:23-25
AND FROM ALL SIN DID FLEE
HEB. 10:35,36; 1 JOHN 3:3
FAITH IS DOING WHAT GOD SAID
IN HOPE OF A PROMISE MADE.
ACTS 26:6,7; HEB. 11
FAITH IS BUILDING ON THE ROCK
MATT 7:24-27
THE FOUNDATION GOD HAS LAID.
1 COR. 3:10-15
O FAITHFUL ABRAHAM
GAL. 3:9
TRUSTED AND OBEYED;
HEB. 11:8-13
BELIEVING GOD FOR A SON,
WHICH HE ON THE ALTAR LAID.
JAMES 2:21-23
GOD SAW HIS FAITH IN ACTION,
IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS THERE.
JAMES 2:23; GAL. 3:6,7
SO IT IS TO EVERY MAN
WHOSE FAITH THEIR WORKS DECLARE.
ROMANS 4:11-13
SO IT WAS WITH NOAH,
AND ABEL IN HEBREWS ELEVEN.
HEB. 11:4,7
THEIR WORKS SHOWED THEY BELIEVED,
AND NOW THEY ARE IN HEAVEN.
DON'T TELL ME YOU CAN'T REPENT!
YOU CAN, OR HE'D NOT SAID IT.
ACTS 17:30, LUKE 24:46
YOU CAN BELIEVE AND OBEY,
AND YOU MUST OR YOU'LL REGRET IT.
YOU PRAYED THE PRAYER AS A CHILD,
WHILE IN INNOCENCE PLAYED.
DEUT. 1:39
BUT WHEN YOU BECAME A MAN,
FROM GOD'S PATH YOU STRAYED.
TRUSTING YOU WERE SAFE INDEED
EZ. 13:22
AND NEED NOT FEAR THE LORD.
1 PETER 1:13-17
AS LONG AS YOU GOT TO HEAVEN
PHIL 3:18,19
YOU WANTED NO REWARD.
MATT. 6:24.
WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW, MY FRIEND,
DEAD FAITH HAD YOU DECEIVED;
JAMES 1:22
AND WHEN YOU STOOD BEFORE THE THRONE,
YOU WERE NOT RECEIVED.
MATT. 7:21-23
THIS MAN WAS A SINNER,
MATT. 13:22
FOUND VICTORY AT THE CROSS;
LUKE 8:13
BUT LATER BECAME BITTER,
HEB. 12:15
AS GOD BURNED AWAY SOME DROSS.
HEB. 12:5,7
DID NOT LIKE TO FEEL THE PAIN,
MATT. 24:9-13
AND FIGHT THE BATTLE SORE;
ACTS 14:22; HEB. 4:11; 10:35,36
SO HE LEFT OFF PRAYING
FOR THREE WEEKS OR MORE.
GOD CHASTENED HIM AND CALLED,
SO CONDEMNED HE WOULDN'T BE;
1 COR. 11:32
BUT THAT ROOT OF BITTERNESS
DEFILED THE MAN, YOU SEE.
HEB. 12:15
SO, THIS MAN DESPISED THE LORD;
HEB. 12:5
TRAMPLED O'ER THE BLOOD;
HEB. 10:26-29
WILLFULLY WENT ON IN SIN,
THE SOW BACK TO THE MUD.
2 PETER 2:20-22
HE DID NOT OVERCOME, AND SO
REV. 3:5
HIS NAME WAS BLOTTED OUT.
EZ.3:17-21
T'WOULD BE BETTER IF HE'D NOT HEARD
2 PETER 2:20-21
THAN FROM HEARING TO TURN ABOUT.
HEB. 12:25
GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED, AS IN
EZ. 18:20-28
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER TEN;
1 COR. 10:1-5,12
FOR HAVING WHAT THE OTHERS HAD,
HE DID NOT ENTER IN.
GOD GIVES ALL PROVISION HERE
FOR SAFE ARRIVAL THERE;
HEB. 4:14-16
BUT WE ALL MUST DIE IN FAITH,
HEB. 11:13
LEST SHIPWRECK BE OUR SHARE.
1 TIM. 1:19,20.
SO IN LIVING, WORKING, FAITH
GAL. 5:6
CONTINUE ON, MY FRIEND.
HEB. 12
AND BE ASSURED OF HIS "WELL DONE",
ACTS 14:22
WHEN YOU SAFELY REACH THE END.
MATT. 25:23
COMMIT YOUR SOUL TO HIS GRACE
IN WELL DOING, AS GOD SAID.
1 PETER 4:19; TITUS 2:11-15
IN PATIENT CONTINUANCE
ROMANS 2:7
DON'T LET YOUR FAITH BE DEAD!
HEB. 6:11-15; 10:35-39.
MARK BULLEN '94