The Whole Congregation of Believers Was United As One

There is one body & one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope

when you were called, one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

Ephesians 4:4–5 (NIV)

THE ONE FAITH IS SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT YOU

THINK.

1. I MUST PLEDGE MY FAITH, MY ALLEGIANCE, TO KING JESUS.

If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart

that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9 (NIV)

Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do not do what I say?

Luke 6:46 (NIV)

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the

other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You

cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 6:24 (NIV)

2. I MUST BE ALLEGIANT TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE FAITH.

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to

the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Acts 2:42 (NIV)

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the

salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for

the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.

Jude 1:3 (NIV)

As for you, continue in what you have learned & have become

convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and

how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to

make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:14–15 (NIV)

3. I MUST PROVE MY FAITH THROUGH OBEDIENCE.

Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

James 2:17 (NIV)

By faith Noah built an ark to save his family. By faith Abraham went,

even though he did not know where he was going. By faith Moses

left Egypt.

Hebrews 11:7–8, 27 (NIV)

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves

me.

John 14:21 (NIV)

4. I MUST REJECT EVERY RIVAL TO CHRIST.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under

heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.

Acts 4:12 (NIV)

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father

except through me.

John 14:6 (NIV)

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

1 John 5:21 (NIV)

5. I MUST LIVE OUT MY FAITH IN COMMUNITY WITH THE

CHURCH.

Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy

people.

Jude 1:3 (NIV)

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love

and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the

habit of doing, but encouraging one another.

Hebrews 10:24–25 (NIV)

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship,

to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Acts 2:42 (NIV)

6. I MUST PERSEVERE IN FAITH UNTIL THE END.

But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:13 (NIV)

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the

faith.

2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV)

We do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to

those who have faith and are saved.

Hebrews 10:39 (NIV)

7. I MUST FIX MY EYES ON THE ETERNAL REWARD OF FAITH.

Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the

Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day.

2 Timothy 4:8 (NIV)

To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my

throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his

throne.

Revelation 3:21 (NIV)

Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there,

the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:20 (NIV)

WILL I LIVE IN THE ONE FAITH?