We believe Jesus for salvation, not ourselves,
The faith is of the body, while personal faith is for each member.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (Gal 2)
We're not justified by our own works, nor saved by our own faith.
To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. (Titus 1)
The common faith of Jesus is His word written in Scripture, that we must all do and obey, if we are believing Him.
Our personal faith is for matters of personal conscience only, within the common faith is for all the churches of God.
Ex: To eat meat or drink wine is a matter of personal conscience, which is our personal faith we are not to defile. So one member by personal faith chooses not to eat or drink, while another does, and neither of them are better nor worse than the others.
But the common faith of Jesus declares that no glutton nor drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.
The common faith is the common rule of the body, while personal faith of conscience is for each member to live by within the body.
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name.
The faith of Jesus that saves is to be obeyed by all, but our personal faith is only practiced by each member according to conscience.
Ex: If my faith says I am saved by grace while getting drunk, then may faith saves nothing, but is only deceiving me.
The faith of Jesus says no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.
But if my says I can drink wine without getting drunk, then that is my liberty in the law of the Lord. And if another say I will not drink by faith, then that is one's conscience in the Lord.
Too many believers think just because they believe something for themselves, that every other believer must do the same, and begin to teach their own personal faith for that of Jesus' whole body.
They don't know what they are doing and only bringing strife and division into the body.
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Teachers of the faith of Jesus are teachers of the law of Christ we must obey to be within the body.
We are saved by both...but not without Jesus.
The faith/faithfulness of Jesus is obedience to God, fulfilling God's Will
He became the Source of salvation...for all who would believe
Another words God is not just the God of the Jew who were once under the law...
through Jesus death on the cross...He frees those who were under the law...so that anyone who believes can Live by the Spirit. (Jews and Gentiles)
So now we all can be governed under His rule and receive the promised Spirit by faith....
So as God once directed the Jews and they failed by their own natural abilities (flesh) to keep the law....
Now it is shown How one can uphold the Law....by the Spirit and not by the letter of the law....For the letter killeth, but the Spirit is Life.
So with the Spirit of Christ we can conquer the flesh...
If we by the Spirit put away the deeds of the flesh we shall live.
We are to be transformed by the renewing of the mind....
So what was Jesus's Faith He obeyed His father......and in His obedience He was faithful unto death....where He took on the penalty of sins on the cross by the shedding of His blood? But He is also is faithful because death could not hold life (God)
And so He is our High priest who lives forever to INTERCEED on the behalf of those who come to Him.....
So He Saved those from their past sins
And because He lives He can also save you from your present sins.
For if you sin we have an advocate with the father Christ Jesus.
So we are saved through His faith/faithfulness ..
Because if He did not die He would not have reconciled us, and if we were not given His Spirit we would not be able to continue to live or have eternal life by Him. In my opinion
So now we are given His Spirit.....and this is where I see Duet 30..amazing passage
30 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9 And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.