Even as sinners, the certainty of perfect wholeness awaits us in Heaven. Charles Ellicott wrote, “Because it is who begins and brings to perfection our faith, we must run the race with our eye fixed upon Him: in Him is the beginning, in Him the completion of the promises.”Ĭompletion in this sense is not synonymous with the conclusion of a story but with the embodiment of salvation available to all people who will accept the gift. How can a belief system be perfected or finished? Christ ministered to the people, taught them to know God, to love him, and to love each other, then died and rose again.Īfter a short period of continued ministry, which enabled Christ to prove he had risen from the dead, he concluded his work on earth.
Author and finisher of our faith free#
Although we have free will to shut Christ out of our lives, no Kingdom work is possible in our own strength. “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work” ( 2 Corinthians 9:8).Įvery good work that comes from us is a result of what God has done in us by his grace and our willingness to let him refine us. Then he gave the disciples, by his Spirit, the fullness of himself so that they would yield spiritual fruit. Our Savior was “zealous for good works,” performing many miraculous acts of healing, even raising people from the dead. Jesus rejected all of Satan’s temptations in the wilderness after his baptism.
Author and finisher of our faith how to#
Jesus gave his life for his friends ( John 15:13) so even when he tells us to take up our crosses and follow him, we know Christ understands how hard this is.Īs a pioneer, he taught both Jews and Gentiles how to love the Lord and each other with their hearts, not merely their actions. He fed the hungry, healed the sick, and cared for them all.Įven as he grieved the death of his cousin John, Jesus did not send the people away or lose his temper but “he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd” ( Mark 6:34). He submitted to the will of the Father: “not my will, but yours” ( Luke 22:42). Jesus Christ pioneered or founded the new Way by his example, his teaching, and he sealed our trust at the resurrection.Įverything Jesus told us to do he did first. Jesus is One with God, the author of Scripture by which our way of life is defined. The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works ( Titus 2:11-14). Yet, the replication of Christ’s teaching is the outworking of personal trust in him.
He is the focal point of this Cause, the embodiment of all it stands for. And if ‘faith’ is the gift of God, so too is ‘grace’ and ‘salvation.’ It is not ‘either/or’ but ‘both/and.’”Īs one with God, Christ is himself complete. In one sense, it “is ‘not from ourselves,’ though from another perspective, ‘ faith’ is obviously from ourselves. This is “belief, trust, confidence fidelity, faithfulness.” Trust in Jesus is another way to understand “faith” or “ pistis” in the Greek. Members of the Faith, or Christianity, praise and worship God, repent of sin, and demonstrate maturity of the faith by their increasing submission to his authority.Ģ. This new “way” demonstrated what it means to “do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God” ( Micah 6:8). Christ taught a way of living and thinking about God and about others. He has many names, but Author and Perfecter are distinctly related to a life of faith. The word for “perfecter” is teleiótés, Greek for “completer, finisher.” The writer of Hebrews encouraged his readers to persevere against the internal “entanglements of sin” (12:1) or “hostility from sinners” (v.3) by trusting Jesus. The original greek used for author is “ Archégos” means “originator, author, founder, prince, leader.” The story of the Christian faith was written by Jesus who is the “Author and Perfecter” ( Hebrews 12:2). Let's take a deeper look at this verse's meaning.Ī story is written by an author. He controls our faith as the source of it and the one that maintains it. Every aspect of our faith is centered on Jesus. Other translations use terms such as "pioneer" (CEB), "source" (HCSB), "leader" (Darby), "founder" (ESV). Hebrews 12:2 tells us that Jesus is the author and perfecter of our faith.
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