Adrian Rogers: How to Be Strong in the Faith (2052)

Adrian Rogers: How to Be Strong in the Faith (2052)

Scripture Passage: Romans 4:16-25

As children of God, faith is the stamp on our lives that pleases our Father. It is faith alone that enables us to live this Christian life.

Romans 4 reminds us that in spite of Abraham’s sins, God remembers him for his faith, not his failures. By his example, we can learn how to be strong in the faith.

“Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all...” (Romans 4:16).

Faith is not a hunch, nor is it positive thinking; faith is our response to the promises of God, taking Him at His word. Strong faith is received as a gift of God: “according to grace.” Grace is not a reward for our faith; it takes the initiative to give us that faith. We cannot generate faith, for we are totally depraved by nature. The only reason we could have faith is that God takes the initiative and puts that faith in our own hearts.

Unbelief holds grace a prisoner; strong faith releases the grace of God. The only way that grace can ever operate in us is through faith.

Abraham was faced with two impossibilities: having a child in spite of being barren, or believing God, who raises the dead and makes something out of nothing, could break His promises.

Abraham respected the greatness of God, and he experienced the miracle of having a child in his old age.

Strong faith regards God’s guidance, and as a result, reflects His glory.

“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform” (Romans 4:20-21).

Abraham obeyed God, knowing that He would work through him; his story reflects the glory of God.

Adrian Rogers says, “The greatest thing you could do to glorify God is to believe God.”

Apply it to your life
Adrian Rogers says, “You cannot please God without faith; if you please God, it doesn’t matter whom you displease, and if you displease God, it doesn’t matter whom you please.” Do you have strong faith, believing in Him, taking Him at His word?

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[JoeandAngie]

Amen. We all matter. No one is better than any other...especially in God's eyes. We're all sinners and in need of Jesus, the propitiation for our sins.
While we were still sinners, He died for us.

[travistofpi]

I love how Mr. Rogers preached from the Holy Scripture. I have faith that I will be Baptized in water soon. God bless you, Blessed be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

[davidferguson]

I always listen to Adrien he's the best

[CatmanJovi]

I real Man of biblical teaching.Always enjoyed listening to daily sermons.Glad they are preserved here to continue giving God's word to the earths inhabitants.

[dennissayer]

Adrian always reminds me of the Minister that baptized me after I came forward at church as a young man! Praise the Lord!!

[ameliamae]

I just love this man!!!! I wish I could have attended just 1 of his sermons before he passed!!!! He is the one that recharged my spirit and got me back to studying the Bible and he just helped change my life!!!!

[coryc]

When he said "inferior paper", I admit I laughed.

God bless you.
Jesus is LORD of all.

[LittleCountryCabin]

Thank you for sharing Bro Rodger’s powerful sermons. So full of the truth of Almighty God❤️

[ReformedCitizen]

Praise the Lord for this message 🙏🏻
Lord give me faith!

[YvetteJirsaraie-gpoi]

I love that! I am justified by faith and works! Hallelujah, thank you Jesus! Oh how I love Dr Rogers sermons. Bless his relatives, friends and all who has a place for him in their spiritual database. In Jesus name. Amen 🇺🇸🙏

[harleyrider]

Amen..it's just beautiful..the amazing Grace of our loving saviour!!..thank you Jesus..come and get us!!!

[felipekennedy]

just wish my faith was half as strong as of Abrahams faith, thank you love worth finding ministries, for this sermon, i needed it.

[georgemichaelmichael]

❤❤❤❤ what a man of conviction of the word exposition we miss such men of God in this present generation ❤

[JamesSmith-ptdy]

Hey ...everyone Moniee-Mon, is listening thanks for the info vedios keep doing what'cha do best God bless ya!.

[brandondavidson]

Every time Jesus healed someone, he said "because of your faith you are healed". The woman with the blood disease, the centurion with the dead daughter, the man with the withered hand

[mach]

How did this ministry even survive on a Money
Hungry station like TBN … sound doctrine !!!

[harrymurray]

This world loves not the ways, nor the attributes, nor the things of God! It is no wonder why the Antichrist will easily captivate the world and subdue it, for it is already subdued. The Antichrist is already in control, we are merely waiting for this son of perdition to appear.

Follow Jesus Christ, correct your life, do not pretend Sin does not matter. We must have self control.

Proverbs 18:21 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

2 Corinthians 3:5 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Romans 2:12 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

1 John 4:1 4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Isaiah 55:6 6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

1 Timothy 5:6 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

1 Corinthians 15:33 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Numbers 32:23 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.

John 3:19 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Revelation 3:20 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 7:21 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 7:13-14 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Psalm 101:2 2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Revelation 22:11-12 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Revelation 20:11-12 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 2:4-5 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

James 1:22-25 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Proverbs 1:7 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Psalm 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

John 8:31-32 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 16:33 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:16 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

John 10:29 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Romans 2:13 13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is Lord! Every eye shall see Every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ is Lord! Amen Seek God Whilst he can be found Repent while you can, Time is SHORT
John 8:34 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 14:15 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 4:24 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Romans 10:9 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 6:1-2 6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Psalm 66:18 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1 John 2:15-17 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Jesus Christ is Lord! Every eye shall see, Every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ is Lord!
Luke 17:28-30 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Repent while you have a chance. Accept Jesus as your Lord and I know most will mock, but this is why the Bible said
Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

For the fool says there is no God. The byproduct is that same fool returning to his folly, as a Dog to its vomit....