(1) Saving Faith is Active – James 2:17; Hebrews 11:4… 7-8… 17… 30-32… Revelation 20:11-15 Matthew 25:34-45
FAITH is always ‘looking unto Jesus’ (Heb 12:2)… ‘Coming unto Jesus’ (1 Pet 2:4)… ‘Laying hold of the hope’ (Heb 6:18)… ‘Hungering and thirsting after righteousness’ (Mt 5:6)… Eats and drinks Christ (Jn 6:50-58).
‘FAITH is not lazy; it inclines the soul to work; it sends the creature not to bed… to sleep away his time in ease, but into the field. The night of ignorance and unbelief is the creature’s sleeping time; but when the Sun of Righteousness arises and it is day in the soul, then the creature rises and goes forth to his labor. The first words that break out of faith’s lips are, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” – William Gurnall
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
