Sacred Truth Friday: Saving Faih

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But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul. - Hebrews 10:39 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews10:39&version=NKJV
Let's be of those who have saving faith not of those who draw back, who have evil hearts of unbelief departing from the living God (Hebrews 3:13).


By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. - Hebrews 11:7 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews11:7&version=NKJV
Look at Noah's saving faith. 

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. - Genesis 6:9 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis6:9&version=NKJV
He was a just man. He obeyed God. 

And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind  will come to you to keep them alive.And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. - Genesis 6:13-22 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis6:13-22&version=NKJV

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that  you are righteous before Me in this generation.You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.Noah was  six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. - Genesis 7:1-6 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis7:1-6&version=NKJV


So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. - Genesis 7:7-12 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis7:7-12&version=NKJV

On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in. - Genesis 7:13-16 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis7:13-16&version=NKJV

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark. - Genesis 8:15-19 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis8:15-19&version=NKJV
You can see from these brief passages that Noah obeyed God each and every time. 
So what is saving faith?  It is faith that obeys God and is faithful unto death (Revelation 2:10). Let's make sure we have this saving faith and not a dead faith without works (James 2:26).





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