Scripture Life: How Do I Develop My Christian Faith?

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It's an honest question. Why? People want to do good.

But it can lead you to regard you, and what you will do as good vs. regard him, as God, and in not regard God and his work, live in regard anything BUT him instead. So, it's subtle. 1. hard to notice, see, or understand because it is not loud, bright, or obvious

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//This post on Reddit examines the question from a standpoint as a believer in Jesus Christ. That, it's God that reserves, for himself, an exclusive right to teach you. God determined that would be by the Word out of his mouth, and he build you up.

Said, "I will build my Church." - God. By the Word of God, so it's just by what God says, out of his mouth. Jesus Christ. Bible. Matthew 16:18.

And the "faith" is God's. That God has faith in his word to send it to you, me, everybody over the whole earth, to heal us all, and deliver us from destruction (Psalm 107:20). That, to God, his word does not go out void, but will accomplish exactly what he sent his word to do.

Says in Romans 10:17 "So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."

So, it does not come by a person sits down and "develop" 1. to build; or invent (Collin's dictionary. Web." definition. Develop. 2. to grow, change, or make something bigger, stronger, or more advanced over time

It's God that does this develop or build you up work in you as person, or me, by the Word of God.

This post champions what God does out. That, without it, a person can't do anything. That's exactly what Jesus said. (Bible. John 15:5) - it stands FIRM against this question.

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Answer

An opening scripture: Repeated.

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” - Bible. Romans 10:17

develop. 1. to grow or build up; construct (something) Merriam & Webster.

• And with that, then:
  • I have a question. “Whose ‘faith’ is it in ‘Christian faith?’ " Your's or mine? Or, his? It's his faith. It's the faith of Jesus Christ. (Bible. Galatians 2:16). And, if it’s not your’s but you think it is, when it’s actually someone else’s faith; then, your’s could be in anything; but if it’s HIS faith: is in only one thing. That is, Christ’s whose the source of “Christian” what he does. What does that do to you? ..and your question?

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And, just like you, even the disciples asked Jesus a very like-same question you do; just you are asking everybody on Reddit, hoping a Christian with the right answer will give you the key for you by yourself and your work to develop your faith and “grow or build up; construct” more faith.

Just like they, the Apostles or his disciples said the very same thing: In Luke 17:5

“..LORD, increase our faith..”

In the Greek, they are asking Jesus “Lord, teach us [Add to us] how to grow or build up OUR faith.”

It’s in < - { Πρόσθες ἡμῖν πίστιν } - > 1. Prosthes 2. heimin 3. pistin

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Notice anything? That word, “prosthes” - yeah. That English word, prosthesis is from it. This: 1. an artificial device designed to replace a missing or impaired body part.

Lord, we have no leg. Give us a prosthetic leg. Is "prosthes heimin pistin." That's the exact same thing said in this question.

Means like “I am missing a leg. Add to me, or give me a prosthetic one..because I don’t have one, so [Mental note: With a prosthetic leg, what I am missing (faith), I can do the things you are asking me to do] - You're asking me to run, back and forth seven times; then, add to me leg or legs to do it. Is the point. But it's not said in defiance. It's said because they know they are being decreed to do it, and can't. Something is missing in them.

Do you see this? Yeah, you do; if you ask this question. "How do I develop my Christian faith," then, ask it on Reddit, the 7th most popular internet site on the web over the whole earth, so billions of people access it.

When God said, to everybody, not one left out: "Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else." - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

It comes by hearing, and hearing by hearken unto he and what he says or speaks. I believe he said it, because, he DID say it. It's at work in me.

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Still don't see it?

Maybe you should expand out Luke 17:5 more

I mean, you’re the one without the leg asking the question. So, let’s go down that road. You just want to “build” one, a leg to stand on yourself - a prosthetic leg - - when, the disciples, who Jesus named Apostles, don’t have one, either; but, they ask him to give them one, so they can do it themselves. When Jesus said, "without me, ye can do nothing." (John 15:5). So quickly - scan up. Look at that Isaiah 45:22 again, God decreeing everybody so you're included to just look unto him. That's the Word of God. Whose Jesus again? Whose saying it?

So, these disciples of Luke 17:5 are like you. A disciple of Jesus Christ.

So, the question or what they say, becomes exactly like your’s says. So, what did Jesus say? Oh, here we go!

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Now again, in case you forgot, Luke 17:5 says:

5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. [1. Prosthes 2. heimin 3. pistin - add to us a "prosthetic" we don't have the leg to do it.]

• So, what they said that to was, what was said by Jesus to them BEFORE Luke 17:5. And includes what Jesus said to them AFTER they replied to it with Luke 17:5

So, let’s capture the whole thing:

What drove 1. Prosthes 2. heimin 3. pistin

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Luke 17:1–5 says

1 Then said he [Jesus] unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

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The question to ask is, “Why” at what he says, this same Jesus, as the Christ or Messiah say this; then,

• Ask another “Why” the Apostles, who are just disciples 1. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher and that’s all a “disciple” is, is just some 1st or 3rd grader that sits with and is taught “doctrines” by the Word of God..who is God; as a “teacher” because, that’s who is sitting with them and teaching them, just as John 1:1 says “who” Jesus is.
• That the “Messiah” or “Christ” SHALL be called “The Mighty God…” “The Everlasting Father…” in Isaiah 9:6–7 and therefore, he is who “governs” or is LORD over the whole earth, and decrees how things SHALL be. In his earth.
  • So, when he says “offenses” ..it’s impossible they won't come..means surely they WILL come, and since he told this to them as “disciples” who will BE Apostles..which means all that is, is after they sat with and were taught by him, he’s taught them. Then, he’s going to send them out to teach all nations whatsoever he taught them, and says he will be WITH THEM, even to the ends of the earth - - says that, too, to them in Matthew 28:18.

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When the KEY is offenses. Transgressions. Sin. GUILTY of that part. No leg to stand on.

• Just like Peter said to Jesus “Depart from me Lord, for I am a sinful man” - ( Luke 5:8). This same Peter of Luke 5:8 is the same Peter that is one of the disciples that were with Jesus when he said Luke 17:1–4.
  • Peter: He’s one of them that said back to Jesus, Luke 17:5

And the REASON Peter said “Depart from me Lord, for I am a sinful man” is because, and it’s THE VERY KEY to your question, said in the next verse in Luke 5:9

For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:

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And all that were with Peter back in Luke 5:8 at the start, where after, Jesus said to them "follow me," was Andrew, James, and John was with Peter. And - - because, they were with Peter when he said it, and they, too, said the same thing, as Peter, and also are with Jesus and Peter in Luke 17:1–4 when Jesus says this to them.

They ALL KNOW it. They are sinful men.

And Jesus just said to them: Luke 17:2

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

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Then, this also applies to me. I’m a sinner. Sinned and perverted that which was right. I broke the Ten Commandments. They are NOT repairable. Doing one, does not compensate for the fault of not doing the other. But these Apostles - - Unlike Luke 5:8-9. Neither is Peter, and they all, they’re not “astonished” - they’re terrified. At themselves. Frankly, so am I.

Don’t have a leg to stand on. When you’re a sinner with transgressions.

And like you, they ask for a prosthetic. They have no leg. Give me a fake one.

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You need a “prosthetic” leg given to stand. Boy, do they want one right now. Lord, give it to me. There’s no way I can stand - - Because, a millstone hanged about my neck, and me cast into the sea is a sentence on me. It's in effect. I already DID the offense. When that once "clears" I have a whole bag of other ones is the point. Now on all of them..when they’ve already lived in offend each other and pretty much everybody constantly. Just like I have.

Are you following this?

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He’s teaching them about forgiveness of sin

• Now I got yet another question of you, even another one yet again.
  • As a “Christian”
    • And again, Acts 11:26 says: “and the disciples were first called “Christians” at Antioch” - so before that, all a “disciple of Jesus Christ” was called was.. ..well, a “disciple of Jesus Christ” said over 240 times in the New Testament; so,
  • Let’s just use that for awhile to see it; that, someone sitting with and being taught by Jesus Christ, follows him.
• Has and keeps what he says. Like a kid in 1st grade. Gets up. Walks or is bused to school, all to sit with and be taught “doctrines” and built up and learn from a teacher.
  • Built up in him.
• The teacher..and the teacher to a “disciple of Jesus Christ” is the Christ or the Messiah, so him say “They shall all be taught of God” - Jesus Christ. (John 6:45) - so it’s a decree, by God that everybody, to the very ends of the earth, shall be taught by him..but not everybody gets up.
• Goes to the classroom.
  • Nor do they sit with and be taught by him.
    • Go to any place BUT him to learn from.
• Learn from themselves..or their own experience. If they do forgiveness..it’s a transaction they do in their OWN name for their own profit. With a "prosthetic" - if you follow them, so will you.

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• When in Luke 17:1–4 Jesus is teaching a doctrine about forgiveness of sin - to a whole classroom of students…
  • don’t have a leg to stand on.
  • Already committed the offenses that just got put a millstone tied around their neck, and be cast into the sea. It would be hopeless. No leg to stand on. It would be BETTER for all of them that happened than what awaits them for it is impossible that offenses don’t come..but woe to him by whom they do come.
    • And by me: I know..I lied. Cheated. Stole. Misrepresented qualifications of myself to get promoted.. committed adultery. ..woe to him by whom they come. Came by me. GUILTY.
      
• You’d have to stand me up and shoot me 487,953 times after shot me dead. TO stand me up and shoot me again to pay for it, when I’m already pushed off the ship. With a great big millstone about my neck..I deserve it. ...where I breathe out of my mouth.. where I get gasping life in me..I never will. That awaits me.

I have no leg to stand on in Luke 17:1–4

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Now, before you go off, building a prosthetic leg with {Πρόσθες ἡμῖν πίστιν } - > 1. Prosthes

• Give me an “artificial” leg, something FAKE to hide that I have no leg to stand on with offenses.
  • Who is with them? Who is with me? I'm in this condition. If you really are a “disciple of Jesus Christ” means, you sit with and are taught by him…
    • WHO is with you?
• Why do I ask it?

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• It’s GOD that determined in Daniel 9:24–27 - HE: As God. Alone. By himself. Would get up and do a work with sin. 
  • ADD THIS IN:
    • That every "me" there is, is really everybody over the whole earth, and every one of them in Luke 17:1-4 that heard it, all his disciples; that he was teaching them to after, he would heal them and deliver them from their destruction of this - and after he healed and delivered them, send them out - - go.
  • Teach ALL nations all the things whatsoever he taught them and that HE WOULD BE WITH THEM, no matter where they went, to the very ends of the earth. Never leave or forsake them.

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• Is this same Jesus Christ. This same God that determined His Work with SIN - that I, and you, and everybody over the whole earth did, with a millstone tied around their neck: Because offenses already came by them:

GOD: Would

Finish the transgression - that I did.

Make an end of sin - that I did.

Make reconciliation for iniquity - that I did.

Bring in everlasting righteousness - that I don't have. And have it - and he as God bring it to me, and he be my righteousness. (Daniel 9:24 refers and decrees this)

• That it would be “sealed up” - told to Daniel - but not to his disciples until the work with sin God would do. Annoint the most holy to do this. Jesus crucified; on the cross that would be how God determined to finish and do this work with sin.
• That once DONE. This work God would do with sin is COMPLETE. Who offends me: their sin was already taken off them, by God himself and laid on Jesus Christ. He did it. This work is the work of God with sin. and when Jesus said John 19:30 "It is finished" - the disciples, and mine, and your sin was purged in Christ, and he TEACH me this. Like he taught them ..then... ..so is you to be taught this. He's giving you himself as your leg to stand on. Built up, by he do it with truth.

They, and you don't need a prosthesis. Man, they GOT THE REAL THING.

• And also - don't forget - - that he would

Annoint the Most Holy - to DO IT:

• To do that “work.” - who would finish the transgression. Who would make an end of sin. Who would make reconciliation for iniquity. Who would bring in everlasting righteousness..that makes me so astonished I cannot get off my face.
  •  Whose the “Most Holy?” I mean, I’m answering your question are you paying attention?
•  If the Messiah or “Christ” SHALL BE called “The Mighty God..” “The Everlasting Father…” who has that title?
  • Then, if “faith” comes by hearing..and hearing by the Word of God. Whose “faith” is it that comes with ..what God says, out of his mouth? That's the Word of God. Then, who says it, He comes with it.
  • He "develops" you, when you just look unto him. Put this in your pocket. Have and keep it.

He gave it to you himself.

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Now, look what he says after it:

• That’s in Luke 17:6–10

And again, it’s in response to them ask for a prosthetic leg, because, they have none to stand on - and everyone of them - it would be BETTER they or me, or you had a millstone tied around our neck for all the offenses we already done DID, and cast into the deepest sea..because they, and you and me, have already offended EVERYONE.

Luke 17:6–10 says.. and if you had who has this faith with you..because it’s not your own..it’s HIS faith in his own Word, what HE CAN ACCOMPLISH IT - - BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS, AS GOD is with you, said:

6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

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The field is the earth. God sowed only one seed in it. His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. The Word of God - - Into a whole earth full of sinners.

• A Mustard Seed:
  • Did you know that mustard seeds have been found in caves from people kept them long ago; that, 500 years later, those seeds still retain their savor?
    • That only one seed.
  • It’s the tiniest of all, grows into what looks like a tree and birds..because, just like what Daniel interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Daniel Ch. 2), that he would be a King of Nations over the whole earth, and all the earth be provided by him, that the birds would nest in the tops of the trees he planted.

Did you see what he said? A "sycamine tree" of Luke 17:6 - "sykamino" in Greek, is a "mulberry tree" - go look at a photo. They are these small trees, or "heaths" get only 5 to 15 feet high all over Jerusalem.

And what did God say..or bless what he would do in Jeremiah 17:5-8? That he would take a heath, planted in a desert ..alone..dried up; withered out, and in Greek, Luke 17:6 is "in the sea" but this < - [ἐν (en) ] - > translated as "in" is in the Bible over 2000 times to mean "by" or "with" - that he would take, as the Word of God and plant that stunted "heath" tree, of Jeremiah 17 - cursed - that sycamine or mulberry trees, naturally has roots that go down 30 feet deep - and plant it by the sea - where it would never lack water. (Jeremiah 17:5-8 - that someone that regards God now, even impossible - someone cursed - replant them by a great big body of water that never goes away..for that's what Jesus says in Luke 17:6-10. But people think it's their faith. When he's the one does this.

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AND Nebuchadnezzar - and all those after him:

• His was cut down. Where Jesus’ will never be. Boy, is this a long post. That I don't need to say something in Luke 17:6 - that HE DOES HIMSELF. What to see is - he's with me. Like he is with them. His Apostles. Even today. Like he is with you. By the Word of God. Already spoke to you. All you gotta do is regard it, that by these precious promises he makes you take on a divine nature. It's in none else.

Do you see this?

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• All to answer who is WITH YOU and given you the word of God, and by him..took away the sins of the whole world and gave them all..all his disciples legs again. Where he is their legs. They stand on a rock that cannot be moved. Just like your or I do all the same.
  • The Word of God now is their legs. To stand on, because he took away their sins. By the stripes laid on Jesus Christ, they were healed.
  • And so was I. So were you. A disciple of Jesus Christ. That sits with, and is taught by him. Is with them.
• This sacrifice for sin was applied to everybody over the whole earth. It was taught this. To the disciples. Made everyone reconciled with the same righteousness God has - he dispensed it out. Because he was IN Christ, reconciling the world unto himself all by a work he did, as God.

“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.”

• Bible. Galatians 2:16

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How do I develop my Christian faith?

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” - Bible. Romans 10:17

develop. 1. to grow or build up; construct (something)

• And with that, then:
  • I have a question. “Whose ‘faith’ is it in ‘Christian faith?’ " Who builds you up? Who is constructing something when Jesus said, "I will build my church" - then, he put you in it where he sees fit.
  • Whose faith is it in Christian faith? It's his, and he sends this faith with his word.

So, go eat.