{"id":3053,"date":"2016-06-23T23:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T23:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:19:28","slug":"from-faith-to-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/from-faith-to-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"From Faith to Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years, when I thought about faith, I thought of it primarily in terms of my own faith<\/em>, my appropriate response to God\u2019s free gift of grace \u2014 a faith like Abraham\u2019s, a faith prophesied by Habakkuk, a faith without which it is impossible to please our God (Romans 4:16; Genesis 15:6; Habakkuk 2:4; Hebrews 11:6).<\/p>\n

This first thought is justified. Numerous New Testament verses point us in this Reformation \u201c<\/em>justification by faith\u201d direction. Ephesians 2:8, 9 is a classic example: \u201cFor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;\u00a0it is\u00a0the gift of God,\u00a0not of works, lest anyone should boast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is there any other orientation, other than faith,<\/em> by which I can stand in relationship to the God of my salvation? No!<\/em> As the apostle Paul insists in Romans 1:16, 17, the gospel \u201cis the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes.\u201d And by this gospel of Christ, \u201cthe righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.\u201d Paul calls on Habakkuk 2:4 to clinch his point as the passage ends: \u201cThe just shall live by faith.\u201d Amen!<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m older now, and age gives rise to second thoughts \u2014 or at least other thoughts. It\u2019s not at all that I have found something else, something other than faith \u2014 much less, that I have found something more<\/em>, in addition to faith. Rather, as I have matured in my faith and understand my own need and limitations, as I\u2019ve studied and learned, I see that my faith itself requires a faith greater than, and prior to, my own.<\/p>\n

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God\u2019s faithfulness<\/h2>\n

From faith to faith<\/em>. It\u2019s an interesting phrase. What does it mean? The NIV interprets it more than translates it: \u201cFaith from first to last.\u201d That is a possible rendering, and certainly true in any case. But what is the nature of this faith, or who is its subject? Surely Paul is not saying that the gospel of Christ, the power of God unto salvation, the righteousness of God revealed all comes down to my<\/em> faith from first to last, as if my faith is the beginning and end of faith itself!<\/p>\n

I think N. T. Wright, following James Dunn\u2019s detailed and persuasive argument,1<\/sup> is right when he writes in his Romans commentary:<\/p>\n

. . . its most natural meaning is \u201cfrom God\u2019s faithfulness to human faithfulness.\u201d When God\u2019s action in fulfillment of the covenant is unveiled, it is because God is faithful to what has been promised; when it is received, it is received by that human faith that answers to the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, that human faith that is also faithfulness<\/em> to the call of God in Jesus the Messiah.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

In other words, God\u2019s own faithfulness is in view with the first of Paul\u2019s faiths<\/em>. This is a progression \u201cfrom [God\u2019s] faith to [our] faith.\u201d Notably, Paul\u2019s next reference to faith<\/em> in Romans is of \u201cthe faith of God\u201d (Romans 3:3, KJV). Paul asks rhetorically, \u201cDoes the unbelief, or faithlessness, of the Jews nullify God\u2019s faithfulness?\u201d Paul adamantly replies: God forbid!<\/em> Human beings, as Paul has already concluded in chapter 1 \u2014 and even God\u2019s own people, Israel (in chapter 2) \u2014 are fundamentally faithless<\/em> because of sin.<\/p>\n

What then is to become of us? The good news of the gospel is that God\u2019s faith can be counted on. He acts. And it is exactly His faithfulness that is at work to save in the \u201cfaith of Jesus Christ\u201d (vv. 21-26).<\/p>\n

This viewpoint highlights a little-appreciated fact about the Greek word pistis<\/em>. Both faith<\/em> (trust<\/em>) and faithfulness <\/em>(trustworthiness<\/em>) are within its semantic range. It is like two sides of a coin: The thing trusted in must itself first be trustworthy. Of course, God\u2019s faith does not indicate His trust in us but rather His trustworthiness. And our faith indicates empty-handed trust in Him, as well as that faithfulness that follows from being in relationship with Him.<\/p>\n

The \u201cfaith of God\u201d is prior to all. It is the fundamental faithfulness that undergirds the covenant and creation itself. Often paired with God\u2019s \u201csteadfast love,\u201d it is celebrated throughout the Old Testament as essential to the character of God, as told to Moses \u2014 \u201cThe\u00a0Lord, the\u00a0Lord, a God merciful and\u00a0gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast\u00a0love and faithfulness\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u201d (Exodus 34:6, ESV) \u2014 and sung by David: \u201cbut I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness\u201d (Psalm 89:33, ESV).<\/p>\n

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From Old to New<\/h2>\n

The faithful God of covenant and community is found throughout the Bible, from His own people at Sinai (Deuteronomy 7:9) to His people in Zion (1\u00a0Corinthians 1:9). Significantly, His faithfulness is often found in Old Testament texts that celebrate the righteousness of God that brings His salvation, the very same themes used in Romans 1:16, 17:<\/p>\n

I have not hidden Your\u00a0righteousness\u00a0within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly (Psalm 40:10).<\/p>\n

This is personal for David. God\u2019s righteousness is His faithfulness to save: \u201cHear my prayer, O\u00a0Lord, give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answer me, and\u00a0in Your righteousness\u201d (Psalm 143:1). Paul quotes the next verse in Romans 3:20: \u201cFor in Your sight no one living is righteous\u201d (v. 2). What have we without His faith?<\/p>\n

But the revelation of God\u2019s righteousness is not just personal but cosmic. The prophet Isaiah virtually equates God\u2019s righteousness with His salvation, which will act for the whole world: \u201cThus says the\u00a0Lord: \u2018Keep justice, and do\u00a0righteousness, for My salvation is about to come, and My\u00a0righteousness\u00a0to be revealed\u2019\u201d (Isaiah 56:1; cf. Psalm 98:2, 3).<\/p>\n

Of course, Paul sees all of this Scripture pointing toward Christ (Romans 1:1, 2). This saving righteousness of God is His faithfulness that is revealed in Jesus Christ. After Romans 3:3, Paul\u2019s next reference to faith is found in verse 22 of the same chapter and is a reference to the \u201cfaith of Jesus Christ\u201d (KJV). Here Paul says again, much as David does, that God\u2019s righteousness is revealed, a righteousness that brings salvation \u201cthrough the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe\u201d (vv. 21-26, NET).<\/p>\n

In Romans 3 alone we see this beautiful progression from God\u2019s faith (v. 3) to Jesus\u2019 faith, which finally leads to our own faith and belief in their faithful work (v. 22). The mediating faith of Jesus stands between the faith of God and the responding faith of man, reinforcing the centrality of Jesus Christ in God\u2019s saving and reconciling work of love.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Covenant relationship<\/h2>\n

Jesus is not only the \u201cauthor and finisher\u201d of our<\/em> faith but also the author and finisher of faith itself (Hebrews 12:2). The faithfulness of Jesus Christ reveals, on one hand, God\u2019s faithfulness toward man. On the other hand, He as representative man reveals the faithful response of humanity toward God. And here is where my faith is born: in Him!<\/p>\n

Paul said it: It is from faith to faith, it is by faith from first to last, because faith<\/em> is a word that binds God and man together through Christ in covenant relationship. In light of this, our own efforts and works are truly of no avail at all, for if we are not \u201cof faith,\u201d we are apart from God and Christ. But when we are \u201cof faith,\u201d then we are united in them and participate with them in the faith that defines them, and us.<\/p>\n

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith\u00a0of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20, KJV).<\/p>\n

Today I rejoice knowing that faith<\/em> is a much bigger word than I first thought. Much more than just me! Because before there was my faith, there was His faith, the faith of God that was embodied in my Lord, Jesus Christ. It is their faith, the faithfulness of the Father and Son, that I think about most these days. For their faith is what makes my faith possible.<\/p>\n

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  1. James D. G. Dunn, Word Biblical Commentary<\/em>: Romans 1-8, 38A (Dallas: Word, 1988), 38-49.<\/li>\n
  2. N. T. Wright, Romans, NIB Vol. X<\/em> (Nashville: Abington Press, 2002), 425.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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