The Message Bible Romans 10:17 The point is, Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christs Word is preached, theres nothing to listen to. Faith does not come through natural genetic processes. Faith truly has a vital link with blood—the blood of Christ, whom God set forth to be a propitiation by His blood, through faith (Romans 3:25). But an individual does not inherit faith through a natural bloodline; God did not see fit to encode faith in human DNA, so that it could be passed to offspring. Christs disciples, in asking Him to increase our faith (Luke 17:5), exhibit their understanding that God, not genetics, is the ultimate source of faith. Because God shows no partiality (Acts 10:34; see Romans 2:11), He has no proclivity to limit His giving and increasing of faith to a particular racial stock. For that reason, faith as a characteristic does not belong to a particular race as, say, a set of facial features is peculiar to a given race. In His time, then, God made faith available to the Gentiles and with it, spiritual salvation, which has its taproot in faith: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, . . . [so] that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (Galatians 3:13-14).
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:36:59 +0000
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