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"faith working through love" > in Galatians 5:6 > faith is not really alone, then, but works by means of love. And I note how at the beginning of certain New Testament epistles, one of the first things is something like "grace and peace to you". We need how God in His grace has us understanding and living His word > it is not enough to believe what we can understand His word to mean; we need how God in us does all He means, by means of His grace.According to the scriptures we receive God's Spirit by believing and following what Gods' Word says.
"we who first trusted in Christ" > in Ephesians 1:12 > so faith is not only believing ideas of God's word, but there is what I say is personal trust, with actual relating with Jesus in submission to Him. And words of the Gospel report are not all there is to it >
"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." (1 Corinthians 6:17)
God actually joins a person to Jesus, so the person is "one spirit" with Jesus. This effects the person's character so he or she becomes a new person > 2 Corinthians 5:17.
And there is how a person is turned "from the power of Satan to God" > see Acts 26:18. This is what God does in a person. So, it is not only faith or only the scriptures, but Apostle Paul says >
"by grace you have been saved through faith" > in Ephesians 2:8. And I think grace means God Himself acting in us, here. In sin, we were dead, but God in us changed us by His grace so we are now alive . . . alive in His love >
"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins," (Ephesians 2:1)
If we have become alive in God's love, this makes us very different than how we used to be.
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)
So, our hope is based not only on faith, but how the Holy Spirit is sharing God's own love with us.
We need faith which works through love, then, I see this means.
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