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. How do you define faith? Is it simply blind belief or taking a leap into the unknown?

Some people think of faith as embracing the power of positive thinking.

But today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg helps us think through the biblical meaning

of the one true faith and how it is discovered.

Well, I invite you to turn to Ephesians and to Chapter 4.

Here we are again in verse 5, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.

And our focus this morning simply on two words, one faith.

So we need to pause for a moment and ask God's help.

Father, we always need the help of the Holy Spirit when we turn to the Bible so that beyond the voice of a mere man,

we might not simply understand things intellectually, but that we might have a divine,

a meaningful encounter with you, the living God, through your Word. And so then come and meet with us, we pray, for Jesus' sake. Amen. Well, it's important as we move through this

sort of in an atomized way that we remember that what Paul has begun to do here at the beginning

of chapter 4

is urge the believers in Ephesus to maintain the unity which is theirs in and through the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is not a unity that they are to create. They couldn't create it.

But it is a unity which arises from the unity that exists within the Godhead himself, so that there is one

Lord, there is one Spirit, there is one God and Father of All. And we have been looking

at this sevenfold foundation, as we've put it, of Christian unity. We've said there is

one body because there is only one spirit

that indwells each of us and together. We've been called to one hope that is part of the birthright

of our call to salvation. There is one Lord. We're not free to believe anything other than

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