I go against the world, against my senses, and against the present to lay all of my eggs

in the basket of the future.

But it's not a wistful longing, it's a certainty, isn't it?

We're not standing around in fear and trepidation saying,

I hope this thing pans out.

We know it will.

That's faith. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

The Bible is clear you cannot be saved except by grace through faith.

Every person lives either believing what God says and staking his life on it or

trusting in and acting on his own understanding. Those are really the only

two options. The question is, what kind of faith drives your life? How can you be sure if you

have the faith that saves?

What exactly do you have to believe?

John MacArthur starts answering those questions today

as he begins a study titled,

The Power of Faith.

Well John, this is a series that will reveal the kind of faith that honors and blesses God.

And with that in mind, and as a brief starting point, we need to consider that there is a kind of faith that does not please God.

So talk about that for a moment.

I think it's fair to say there are many different kinds of faith.

There's a kind of a basic faith that you get in your car, you turn on an internal combustion

engine and you don't expect to blow up because you have learned that you can trust the engineering so it's not

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