Blind Faith

Galatians 3:24-26

If you have blind faith, is that a good thing?  The dictionary in my Mac Book gives this definition of faith: complete trust or confidence in someone or something.  I can live with that definition, but I believe Hebrews 11:1 is a much better definition:  Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”  I’m sure we have a clear understanding of the word “blind” is it not the opposite of sight.  Is that the kind of faith Galatians or the Bible is referring to, unable to see, sightless faith? 

We will return to the question of “blind faith” but first let us understand this matter of the “Law.”  It was rules on how to live life on God’s condition.  It did not declare that by keeping them you would enter into a fellowship with God, but that they would keep you out of God’s judgment.  But Christ came that we might be justified by faith.  If I used the word justified in a sentence it might go like this; “I was justified in loving my brother”.  My dictionary used this definition: Theology, declared or made righteous in the sight of God.

So Christ came to make all mankind righteous in the sight of God.  It requires little faith to believe that Jesus came to this earth, history has given a clear record of His life, in fact no other person in history has had the effect of this one man; Jesus.  So it requires only the ability to read or to understand the many writings in order to believe He lived and that His life had tremendous effect on the history of the world.  So that is not faith; that is history.

 Faith is believing that Jesus is the Son of God and that He was put into a virgin named Mary by the Holy Spirit and was born as a baby, lived among men for 33 years, never sinned, was pure and holy as a man, and never did one act in His on power, but totally depended on His Father.  He was crucified and buried and on the third day arose in victory over death and He is the only way to God the Father.

Blind faith might be putting your faith in someone who says he has seen a 900-foot Jesus, and he was the only one who saw it or that there is 79 virgins waiting for you in heaven if you do some act, like the Muslin religion teaches.  But in the case of the risen Christ, for 3 ½ years He proclaimed He was God in the flesh.  After He came out of the tomb the eleven disciples saw Him, they ate with Him.  This is the account from 1 Corinthians 15:3-6, “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.”

By faith I agree with the Scriptures and this testimony of the apostle Paul, that I was born into sin, that I was a sinner who needed a Savior and Jesus Christ died for my sin, and gave me the faith to believe that His blood shed for my sins made me in right standing with His Father.  I acted on the small faith that God had given me, and one night many years ago at the age of 27 in a motel in Victoria, Texas I enter into Christ and Christ entered into me.  Romans 10:9-10 is what I did, “because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”

If you do not have faith to believe Romans 10:9-10, ask God to give you the faith and He will.  The apostle John states, “for everyone born of God overcomes the world.  This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4)  Hebrews 11:6, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice