Hebrews 12:
2 looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Our author/captain/prince perfected faith in the flesh by obedience and suffering.
Hebrews 2:
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom all things and by whom all things, in bringing many sons to glory,
to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
1 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified
are all of one, for which reason
He is not ashamed to call them brethren
The Prince of life is the Prince of faith
Acts 3:
14 But you denied
the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
15 and killed
the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know.
Yes,
the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence
of you all.
Christ Jesus, as the author/captain/prince of our faith imparts unto the members of His body
the measure of faith. Our faith is not our own, it is the perfected faith of Christ.
Romans 12:
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think
more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one
a measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the
same function,
5 so we as many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
6 Having then gifts that differ according to the grace that is given to us: if prophesying,
in proportion to our faith….
We receive our measure of faith from the Prince of immeasurable faith.
John 3:34 For He whom God has sent
speaks the words of God, for God does not give
the Spirit by measure.
And faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
The righteousness of God is found in the faith of Jesus Christ
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by
the faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference.
The faith of Jesus Christ imparts the divine nature into the believer.
2 Peter 1:4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises,
that through these you may be
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
in the world through lust.
The faith of men undermines the faith of Christ through doubt, therefore,
our faith is not our own, but a gift of grace from the author of faith.
Matthew 21:
21 So Jesus answered and said to them,
Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done.
22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
The doubts of man originate from the sinful nature, which is overcome
by the faith of Christ Jesus.
Romans 14:23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat
from faith; for
whatever is not from faith is sin.
Only the faith of Jesus Christ, which He perfected in the flesh through suffering,
can overcome the sinful nature of the one who abides in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:
3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God by sending
His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according
to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
