What is the "Law of Faith?"

[iLOVE]

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Romans 3:27

 

[OzSpen]

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Romans 3:27

Rom 3:27 (NIV) translates the verse as: 'Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith'.

'By the law of faith' in the Greek is 'through/by a law of faith'. There is no definite article 'the' accompanying 'law'. My understanding is that 'law' here has a metaphorical link and refers to a principle or rule. It does not refer to the law of Moses alone but to a principle of works and faith.

Douglas Moo's commentary supports this view and he summarises the emphasis:

Paul's point is that the narrow focus of most of his fellow Jews on the Mosaic law as the system within which their relationship to God was established gives rise to an implicit "boast" in human achievement; what a person does in obedience to the law becomes, in some sense and to varying degrees, critical to one's "righteousness." Once it is seen, however, that God's righteousness comes to people 'apart from the law," there can be no more cause for any pride in human achievement (Moo 1996:250)

Oz

Works consulted
Moo, D 1996. The New International Commentary on the New Testament: The Epistle to the Romans. G D Fee (gen ed). Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

 

[Malachi]

The "law of faith" is simply another way of saying that we are justified by grace through faith, not by works of righteousness which we have done (which have the potential of causing us to boast). The law of faith says that God imputes righteousness to the one who believe Him and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.
The example of the Pharisee and the Publican should suffice.

 

[iLOVE]

The law of faith says that God imputes righteousness to the one who believe Him and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen. Continue...

 

[iLOVE]

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Romans 3:27

What is the "Law of Faith?" It is the way God works. And what is that way? It is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That way is the Cross! Whatsoever is not of Faith is sin. Never forsake the Cross! Our faith must be exclusively in Christ and the Cross, i.e., finished work of Christ - The Blood of Jesus

1. Jesus Christ is the source of all blessings.
2. The Cross is the means by which all blessings are given.
3. The object of our faith must be Christ and the Cross.
4. That being done, the Holy Spirit will greatly help us.

The Cross of Christ must be exclusively forever be the object of the Christian faith (i.e., finished work of Christ - The Blood of Jesus). That's the reason our Lord said we must take up the Cross daily (Luke 9:23). To take up the Cross and follow Christ means that we are to place our faith totally in Christ and what Christ did at the Cross and leave it there. If we choose to ignore God's way, the intrusion of human wisdom (mans point of view), and worldliness enters your life and home. In other words the Cross of Christ is demoted and human wisdom is elevated. When this takes place, the Cross of Christ (The Power Of God) is immediately voided and cancelled out of a Christians life that works in them. Paul says that God intentionally, on purpose, rejects the wisdom of this world and makes foolish. He disrupts, frustrates, confuse any attempts of anyone knowing independently of His way and makes sure it doesn't work. God has made it abundantly clear that He is going to show you who the fool is...and He says, "it won't be Me!" When the wisdom of God has the final say, it can be appealed to for power. Why? Because the Cross of Christ exist to deal with sin. If there is a problem, there is a sin. It could be your sin, somebody else's sin, or both of your sins. The reason why the world can't fix its problems, is because they don't want to take serious and deal with it sins. Therefore things are voided. This is why prayers aren't being answered...they are voided.

The Holy Spirit, He Works strictly within the parameters of the "Finished Work" i.e., "the Cross of Christ", which demands that our Faith be exclusively in the Cross of Christ. The reason is simple, that's were the price was paid, and the victory was forever won (Romans 6:1-14; 1 Cor. 2:2; Gal. 5; Gal. 6:14; Eph. 2:13-18; Col. 2:14-15).

The Way Of The Spirit
Focus: The Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6)
Object Of Faith: The Cross of Christ (Romans 6:1-14)
Power Source: The Holy Spirit (Romans 8:1-2, 11)
Results: Victory (Romans 6:14)

Man's Way
Focus: Works.
Object Of Faith: Performance.
Power Source: Self.
Results: Defeat!

The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6)...the only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27). The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23). If any person tries to come any other way, Jesus says, "they are a thief and a robber" (John 10:1).

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. 3 John 1:2 NKJV

 

[iLOVE]

Everything a Christian go through is a test of your faith. We grow in "Grace" by becoming more dependent on God and what He is providing. We must trust God.

 

[iLOVE]

Are you operating in the "Law of Faith?"

 

[iLOVE]

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 2 Thessalonians 3:2

What does it mean to have faith?

 

[smaller]

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Romans 3:27

It is the same principle Paul applies to the individual in Gal. 4, particularly vs. 29. The flesh man can not be saved or justified by works. The person in faith can not be damned for any reason. Paul deploys these open conflicts throughout all his revealings/writings.

 

[littlemr]

The law of faith is a principal of reduction, where opposite attractors are reduced down to their base pair. Faith then can join the pair by a subtractor. This negates the pair opposites and prevents any futher attractors.

 

[Not_Now.Soon]

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 2 Thessalonians 3:2

What does it mean to have faith?

In all the discription said of faith. They can all be boiled down to trust. Faith is trust and trust is faith. Trust in the LORD, is the same as faith in the LORD. Faithfulness is the same as trustworthiness. So when it says God is faithful to us, it also means He's trustworthy to us. And when it says men are not faithful to God, not even one. It also means we are not trustworthy. These are my opinions, on faith. But how else can you describe faith? Hope in things not seen? That's pretty much trust in a nutshell.​

 

[Malachi]

What does it mean to have faith?

To have faith is to simply believe and trust God and Christ, which means to believe that the Bible is the Word of God, and every word is a word of God. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Rom 10:17). So the more you believe what is revealed in Scripture, the more faith you have.

Some Christians like to make things unnecessarily complicated. But the Bible speaks of the "simplicity of Christ". The hallmark of genius is is simplicity.

 

[JLB]

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Romans 3:27

It is the principle of how faith works.

Faith is intangible substance...

Yet it is substance none the less.

Faith without the corresponding "act" (works) of obedience is dead.

Paul calls it the obedience of faith.

26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: Romans 16:26


JLB

 

[Eugene]

The law of faith is a principal of reduction, where opposite attractors are reduced down to their base pair. Faith then can join the pair by a subtractor. This negates the pair opposites and prevents any futher attractors.

Do you mind reducing this to basic English for us common folk.

Faith is a gift.
Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me (Paul), to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Though not seen it is tangible.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Example - How do we know? We believe what we're told; we hear.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

[iLOVE]

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 2 Thessalonians 3:2

What does it mean to have faith?

How and why is faith tested by God?

 

[littlemr]

Do you mind reducing this to basic English for us common folk.

Faith is a gift.
Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me (Paul), to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Though not seen it is tangible.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Example - How do we know? We believe what we're told; we hear.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I couldn't use the bible in this case, since I was explaining the core principles of the laws of faith. Something that's not found in the bible, but taught by the power of the holy spirit.

 

[Eugene]

How and why is faith tested by God?

1Pe 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Jas 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Jas 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

 

[iLOVE]

The "Law of Faith" equals truth. Truth is the highest level of reality. The word of God has enough power to replace the facts. The "Just" must live by faith. Romans 3:27, "The Law of Faith" says, "whatever God is going to deliver into your hands must first be declared with your mouth. Do not listen to your human logic. No where in the bible did logic produce a miracle.

From the study notes of Pastor Bill Winston