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TILOC Chapter 41 - The Law of Faith PDF
TILOC Chapter 41 - The Law of Faith PDF
TILOC Chapter 41 - The Law of Faith PDF
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Without faith, you cannot do what only Christ can do. You end up a dead
loss. With faith, you allow Christ to do through you what only He can do.
Faith is the law that governs our relationship to God and God’s relationship to us. Just as
God has designed a rigid interlock between the instinctive thrust and the animal soul, so faith is
the moral interlock between the Holy Spirit and the human soul, to establish our love for God,
in dependence on God, through our total obedience to God.
That threefold moral relationship allows God to accomplish His will in you and through
you. He does it one step at a time, in every new situation into which that step takes you.
Faith on your part invites and invokes Christ’s activity; for without your faith and this
moral relationship, He would be violating your humanity. He would be treating you like an
animal that must do what instinct commands by the law of compulsion. You and I, however,
THE INDWELLING LIFE OF CHRIST: ALL OF HIM IN ALL OF ME
By Major W. Ian Thomas
were created to act and respond on the basis of a law of love. In love and dependence and
obedience, we let Him do it.
This is what it means to walk by faith, in the Spirit, and this is what satisfies God. Some
mechanical conformity to religious demands that squeezes you into a religious strait-jacket can
never satisfy God. What satisfies Him is to see you, in every situation, bowing yourself out and
bowing Him in, and saying, “God, I believe exactly what You have told me. Without You I am
nothing, have nothing, and can do nothing, for the only way I can please You is by faith. I let
You do it. Thank You!”
Without having seen Him, you love Him; though you do not even now see Him,
you believe in Him, and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious
(triumphant, heavenly) joy.
1 PETER 1:8, AMP
Questions (Ney):
Why is it important that we are free to choose or not choose God?
Contemplate the freedom God has given us. Can we truly choose
anything?
What is God most interested in: is it in WHAT we do or in HOW we do it?
What is the Threefold Moral Relationship to God?