In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Saving faith in Christ is not merely a general

belief that Jesus is the Savior. Remember brothers and sisters that the scripture tells us even demons believe.

Instead, true saving faith, it has three basic elements, knowledge, assent, and trust.

This was one of the few cruxes of the Reformation.

A sola Fide.

The faith alone.

But in that, the reformers sought to flesh out and define faith.

What is faith? True, saving Christian faith,

and they came up with three primary components. Again, knowledge, assent, and trust. And this takes us full circle all the way back to the outset of this sermon in the

introduction. That the heart cannot love what the mind does not know. That faith, first and

foremost, it includes knowledge. You cannot believe in something that you don't know.

Faith is knowledge.

Is it more?

Yes.

But it cannot be less.

Faith begins with knowledge, knowing God's truth,

hiding it in your heart,

knowing the gospel.

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