{"id":8343,"date":"2017-09-06T04:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T01:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2018-01-11T01:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T23:44:21","slug":"what-is-faith-gospel-basics-sermon-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/what-is-faith-gospel-basics-sermon-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Faith? | Gospel Basics Sermon Series #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From God&#8217;s Word we see that faith is the defining aspect in the lives of those who responded positively to God\u2019s direct Words, believing what God said, even though they didn\u2019t see it, trusting His word and acting in faith upon what he said, even though it was difficult and in some cases led to their death!<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FWhat_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fwhat-is-faith-gospel-basics-sermon-series-2%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-3\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/What_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8343-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/What_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"What_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 32:53 &#8212; 60.8MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('8343-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_8343-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_8343-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FWhat_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fwhat-is-faith-gospel-basics-sermon-series-2%2F#mode-Light&amp;border-000000&amp;progress-000000&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;165&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; id=&quot;blubrryplayer-4&quot; class=&quot;blubrryplayer&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/feeds.blubrry.com\/feeds\/nowisthetime.xml\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.blubrry.com\/feeds\/nowisthetime.xml\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0term \u201cfaith\u201d is widely misunderstood and misused today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few misunderstandings of faith:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will power to achieve your goals and dreams<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A real force or energy that needs to be harnessed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positive thinking \u201cI\u2019m just sure everything will be ok\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belief in your own subjective set of truth propositions that might your religious tastes. (You believe what\u2019s good for you and I\u2019ll believe what\u2019s good for me.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this sermon I talk about some of our culture&#8217;s attacks upon the faith and I also show from God&#8217;s Word what real faith looks like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8961\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/what-is-faith-gospel-basics-sermon-series-2\/maxresdefault-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"maxresdefault (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8961\" src=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-1080x608.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-483x272.jpg 483w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-263x148.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnowisthetime%2FWhat_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3&amp;modern=1&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fsukofamily.org%2Fwhat-is-faith-gospel-basics-sermon-series-2%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/What_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8343-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/content.blubrry.com\/nowisthetime\/What_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"What_Is_Faith_Gospel_Basics_Sermon_Series_2.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 32:53 &#8212; 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