Studies on Strong Doctrine
CHAPTER NINE
FAITH
1, T F Faith is such an important part of true Christianity, but so many professing Christians altogether miss the true import of this word. It is equally mistaken that faith is a purely mental process. (p. 286)
2. T F The power of faith lies wholly in having the proper object of faith. (p. 287)
3. In Hebrews 11:1-3 the verses set forth the following things: (p. 289)
A. Faith is a ____________ of future things, which have no present reality in fact.
B. Faith is also a ____________ ____________ of invisible things.
C. Faith gives ____________ a good report before God.
D. Faith also ____________ ____________ about the world that the most knowledgeable scientist cannot find out.
4. In order to come to a full understanding concerning faith, we need to ask the following questions:
A. ____________ is faith? (p. 289)
B. ____________ is faith? (p. 298)
C. Why is faith ____________? (p. 306)
D. What are faith’s ____________? (p. 310)
E. What is the ____________ of faith? (p. 313)
5. The three kinds of faith may be classified as ____________, ____________, and ____________, faith. (p. 290)
6. T F Historical faith is simply a belief in the historical existence of something or someone. (p. 290)
7. T F Living faith is that everyday dependence upon the Lord for all needful things. (p. 290)
8. The writer to the Hebrews has very effectively dealt with the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer (saving faith): (p. 291)
A. Faith is not merely a ____________ ____________, but that the justified person lives by faith.
B. That any who draw back from the life of faith are such that God has no ____________ in them, and therefore they were never in a ____________ ____________ ____________ with Him.
C. That “we are not of them who draw back unto ____________.”
D. That they were “of them that believe to the ____________ of the soul.”
9. T F Salvation is a complex event which involves the intellect, emotions and will of man. (p. 292)
10 T F Salvation can be summed up as a repenting toward God, a relying upon and receiving of Christ as Savior. (p. 292)
11. T F Faith it is a natural product of the natural man. (p. 296)
12. T F Faith must be implanted in the human heart by the Holy Spirit before the individual is capable of believing the Divine testimony. (p. 293)
13. T F Saving faith is a total, unreserved committal of one’s eternal destiny unto the Son of God. (p. 297)
14. T F God still requires a complete, continuous, perfect keeping of the ten commandments. (p. 298)
15. T F Faith is the turning point in every person’s life, before which he is condemned and under the wrath of God, and after which he is saved and an heir of God. (p. 299)
16. T F That faith is not always a personal and individual matter. (p. 300)
17. T F God has a requirement of a personal faith before anyone can be saved. (p. 300)
18. T F If faith were a natural ability in the unrenewed man, then one could be saved at any time he pleased, and when he did trust in the Lord, his salvation would be of his own ability, and he could boast in himself. (p. 301)
19. T F Unbelievers are said to believe not because they are not of the elect. (p. 301)
20. T F To hold that man by nature has the ability to believe the gospel and to trust in Christ is to wholly deny this portion of Scripture, and indeed to repudiate the doctrine of the total depravity of man. (p. 302)
21. T F Since faith come from hearing the word of God explains why so many people have no faith, and are blameworthy in this matter since they willingly absent themselves from the place of hearing of the Word of God. (p. 305)
22. In order for the natural man to be capable of this ____________ and ____________ of the Father, something must be done with his heart to render him capable of believing; ____________ must be instilled in him. (p. 305)
23. T F No one will trust in the Lord to save him so long as he has any hope of contributing in any way to his own salvation. (p. 307)
24. The ____________ side of ____________ is that man trusts in the Lord for the salvation of his soul. (p. 307)
25. The ____________ side of ____________ is that he casts away all reliance upon human works, deeds, resolutions, promises, etc. (p. 307)
26. T F But faith is also required of man in order that he might be personally assured of an interest in the atonement made by Christ, and of the peace and strength that flow therefrom. (P. 307)
27. T F Faith is necessary to manifest to the world that God has wrought salvation in the individual. (p. 309)
28. T F Faith is required to be exercised by man in order that God may be glorified for saving man. (p. 309)
29. T F One of the chief products of faith is love to God, and love to one’s fellow men. (p. 311)
30. T F Faith also produces the fruit of joy and peace in believing hearts. (p. 312)
31. T F Faith also produces submission to God in all things, and the greater one’s faith, the easier it will be to trace all things—even trials and afflictions—to God. (p. 312)
32. The fruits of faith grow in three directions: (p. 313)
A. They grow ____________.
B. They grow ____________.
C. They grow ____________.
33. T F Faith only receives in this present life a very small part of what is promised to it; the bulk of the blessings that God has for His own, is yet future. (p. 314)
34. T F The supreme end of faith will be to see that supreme Object of our faith—the Lord Jesus Christ—in all His glory and splendor, and to be made like Him. (p. 316)
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