Keep it Movin!

“The faith that justifies is a living and active principle, which works by love, purifies the heart, and excites to universal obedience.
Hebrews 11:14 says   “Pursue after peace with all men, and after the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.”

According to Gen. 6:9, Noah was a just man, a righteous man, and a man blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. In the face of opposition and ridicule Noah believed and obeyed God. He built the ark. His faith was the kind of faith that built an ark in the middle of a dry wasteland with not a cloud in the sky, simply because his Lord and God told him to do so. He is a man who endured, doing the will of God, and he received the life promised to him when the wicked and perverse men around him were destroyed in God’s judgment.,he became an heir of the righteousness, which comes by faith. He was justified by faith.


Noah persevered in doing the will of God, and “became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.” Noah received the promised inheritance — not by law, or by the works of the law, not by self-righteousness, or by his merit. He received the promised inheritance by faith — faith, which persevered in doing the will of God, faith by which he built the ark. If he had not obeyed God in building the ark he would not have survived the flood.
At the same time, Noah did not receive the promise because he built the ark. The promise is a free and unmerited gift of grace. Noah merited nothing by building the ark. Those who endure, doing the will of God, do not receive just wages; they receive what is promised. 
                             PERSEVERE
 Faith in Christ excludes the doing of self-righteousness, but it does not exclude the obedience to Christ.
 The exhortations and warnings of the apostles given to believers are not intended to lead those who have begun in the Spirit back to the flesh (Gal. 3:3). They are designed to encourage the people of God to persevere in a living and active faith. Although it may not appear to the eye of man to be the case, in view of all they are called upon to suffer at the hands of the ungodly, the righteous who persevere will be vindicated in the day of judgment; the rest will pay the penalty of eternal destruction . “The Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish” “The righteous man shall live by faith” .
~~~SCRIPS FROM THE BOOK~~~