DOCTRINE OF FAITH-REST
Faith: non-meritorious thinking
Rest: cease from your own efforts
  1. Mechanics: stop your own efforts and believe in the provision of God in eternity past for you, Heb.3:6-4:16.
  2. The Faith-Rest system of spirituality in the Old Testament, Heb.11; Rom.4:17-21; Hab.2:4.
  3. The universal indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit did not occur until the Church Age, Jn.7:39; 16:14; 1Cor.6:19,20; Eph.5:18.
  4. Faith-Rest produces a relaxed mental attitude, Isa.26:3,4.
  5. Faith-Rest dynamics in prayer in the Old Testament, Mt.21:22.
  6. Faith-Rest is always a principle of spiritual victory, Heb.11:6; 1Jn.5:4,5.
  7. Faith-Rest is a factor in every dispensation, 2Cor.5:7.
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