Der Glaube
Einleitung
- Der Glaube ist ein Thema, das sehr oft in der Bibel vorkommt, und das
Paulus in 1.Kor.13 erwähnt, als einer der Schwerpunkte des Christentums.
Es gibt so viele Bibelstellen über den Glauben, dass es gar nicht möglich
ist, alles in einer Predigt zu decken (es sei denn wir bis mitternacht bleiben
(das eigentlich biblisch wäre, Apo.20).
- Wir schauen nur die ersten 3 Punkte an:
- die Wichtigkeit des Glaubens
- was ist der Glaube
- nach Glauben streben
- (Bibelstellen für andere Punkte findet man (auf Englisch) am Ende)
Die Wichtigkeit des Glaubens
- Es scheint mir unnotig, zu sagen, dass der Glaube ein wichtiges Thema
sei. Aber wenn ich mein Leben anschaue, sehe ich, dass er findet nicht die
zentrale Rolle, die, biblisch betrachtet, der Glaube finden sollte. Meine
Gedanken gehen viel um was ich tue, was ich zu tun habe, was ich getan habe,
was ich hätte tun sollen, usw. Und von meinen Gesprächen mit anderen,
denke ich nicht, dass ich ein Ausnahmefall bin.
- 2.Kor.5,7 denn wir wandeln im Glauben und nicht im Schauen. Das Kontext
ist, dass Paulus über Leben und Tod schreibt, und er sagt, eigentlich
würde ich eher sterben und mit Gott sein, als hier weiter leben.
- Hab.2,4 Der Gerechte wird aus Glauben leben. Vom Kontext, hätte
ich nicht erwartet, dass ein wichtiges Prinzip hier besprochen wurde. Aber
die Stelle wird dreimal im neuen Testament zitiert (Röm.1,17; Heb.10,38;
Gal.3,11). Ohne Zweifel ist sie doch eine bedeutende Stelle.
- Auch Jesus sagte, in seiner Kritik der leitenden Juden zu seiner Zeit
(Matt.23,23) dass das Wichtigste im Gesetz ist das Recht, die Barmherzigkeit,
und den Glauben.
- Heb.11,6 Ohne Glauben ist's unmöglich, Gott zu gefallen.
- Röm.14,23 Was aber nicht aus dem Glauben kommt, das ist Sünde.
- Viele andere Stellen unterstreichen den Glauben. zB Paulus beschreibt
was er immer gepredigt hat, und Glauben ist einer der Hauptthemen. (Apo.20,21;
24,24)
- Gal.5,6 Denn in Christus Jesus hat weder Beschneidung noch Unbeschnittensein
irgendeine Kraft, sondern [der] durch Liebe wirksame Glaube.
- Heb.6,1 Deshalb wollen wir das Wort vom Anfang des Christus lassen
und uns der vollen Reife zuwenden und nicht wieder einen Grund legen mit
der Buße von toten Werken und dem Glauben an Gott
- Jes.7,9 ... Glaubt ihr nicht, dann bleibt ihr nicht!
Was ist der Glaube?
- Die klassische Definition für den Glauben findet man in Heb.11,1
Der Glaube aber ist eine Verwirklichung dessen, was man hofft, ein Überführtsein
von Dingen, die man nicht sieht.
- Weil es viel falsche Lehre gibt, will ich es ganz klar machen, was
das Objekt unseres Glaubens ist (1.Pet.1,21 die ihr durch ihn an Gott
glaubt, der ihn aus den Toten auferweckt und ihm Herrlichkeit gegeben hat,
damit euer Glaube und eure Hoffnung auf Gott [gerichtet] sei).
- Können wir mit unserem Glauben Gott kontrollieren oder zwingen?
Heb.11,13;39 Diese alle sind im Glauben gestorben und haben die Verheißungen
nicht erlangt, sondern sahen sie von fern und begrüßten sie und
bekannten, daß sie Fremde und ohne Bürgerrecht auf der Erde seien
... Und diese alle, die durch den Glauben ein Zeugnis erhielten, haben die
Verheißung nicht erlangt
- So wie schaut ihn praktisch aus? Jak.2,14-26
- V.17 So ist auch der Glaube, wenn er keine Werke hat, in sich selbst
tot.
- V.18 ich werde dir aus meinen Werken den Glauben zeigen
- V.22 der Glaube aus den Werken vollendet wurde
- Der Glaube ist etwas zwischen dir und Gott. Röm.14,22 Hast du
Glauben? Habe ihn für dich selbst vor Gott! Glückselig, wer sich
selbst nicht richtet in dem, was er gutheißt!
Nach Glauben streben
- 1.Tim.6,11 Du aber, o Mensch Gottes, fliehe diese Dinge; strebe aber
nach Gerechtigkeit, Gottseligkeit, Glauben, Liebe, Ausharren, Sanftmut.
- 2.TI.2,22 Die jugendlichen Lüste aber fliehe, strebe aber
nach Gerechtigkeit, Glauben, Liebe, Frieden mit denen, die den Herrn aus
reinem Herzen anrufen.
- 1.Tim.6,12 Kämpfe den guten Kampf des Glaubens; ergreife das ewige
Leben, zu dem du berufen worden bist und bekannt hast das gute Bekenntnis
vor vielen Zeugen.
- Jud.1,3 Geliebte, da ich allen Fleiß anwandte, euch über
unser gemeinsames Heil zu schreiben, war ich genötigt, euch zu schreiben
und zu ermahnen, für den ein für allemal den Heiligen überlieferten
Glauben zu kämpfen.
Other Passages About Faith (NRSV)
Faith: The Measure of Christianity
- ROM12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not
to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with
sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
- 2CO13:5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith.
Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless,
indeed, you fail to meet the test!
- COL1:4 for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love
that you have for all the saints,
- 1TH3:5 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find
out about your faith; I was afraid that somehow the tempter had tempted you
and that our labor had been in vain.
- 1TI6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in
their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced
themselves with many pains.
Salvation by faith
- ROM1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God
for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the
Greek.
- GAL2:16 yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of
the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in
Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by
doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works
of the law.
- EPH2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is
not your own doing; it is the gift of God--
- COL2:12 when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised
with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
- HEB4:2 For indeed the good news came to us just as to them; but the
message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by
faith with those who listened.
- 1PE1:9 for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation
of your souls.
The Power of Faith
- MAT8:13 And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; let it be done for you
according to your faith." And the servant was healed in that hour.
- MAT9:2 And just then some people were carrying a paralyzed man lying
on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart,
son; your sins are forgiven."
- MAT9:22 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter;
your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.
- MAT9:29 Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith
let it be done to you."
- MAT15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let
it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.
- MAR2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son,
your sins are forgiven."
- MAR5:34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go
in peace, and be healed of your disease."
- MAR10:52 Jesus said to him, "Go; your faith has made you well." Immediately
he regained his sight and followed him on the way.
- LUK5:20 When he saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven
you."
- LUK7:50 And he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in
peace."
- LUK8:48 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go
in peace."
- LUK17:19 Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith
has made you well."
- LUK18:42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has saved
you."
- ACT3:16 And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man
strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given
him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.
- ACT14:9 He listened to Paul as he was speaking. And Paul, looking at
him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
- JAM5:15 The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise
them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
Sources of Faith
- 1CO12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing
by the one Spirit,
- ROM10:17 So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes
through the word of Christ.
Promises Regarding Faith
- MAT21:21 Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith and
do not doubt, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but
even if you say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,'
it will be done.
- MAT21:22 Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."
Criticisms Regarding Lack of Faith
- MAR4:40 He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"
- LUK8:25 He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were afraid and
amazed, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that he commands even
the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
- LUK9:41 Jesus answered, "You faithless and perverse generation, how
much longer must I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
- LUK12:28 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive
today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe
you--you of little faith!
- LUK17:6 The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed,
you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,'
and it would obey you.
- LUK18:8 I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet,
when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
- MAR9:19 He answered them, "You faithless generation, how much longer
must I be among you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to
me."
- MAR16:14 Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting
at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness,
because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
- MAT6:30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive
today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe
you--you of little faith?
- MAT8:26 And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, you of little faith?"
Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a dead calm.
- MAT14:31 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying
to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
- MAT16:8 And becoming aware of it, Jesus said, "You of little faith,
why are you talking about having no bread?
- MAT17:17 Jesus answered, "You faithless and perverse generation, how
much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring
him here to me."
- MAT17:20 He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly
I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to
this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will
be impossible for you."
- PSA78:22 because they had no faith in God, and did not trust
his saving power.
- PSA106:24 Then they despised the pleasant land, having no
faith in his promise.
- REV21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers,
the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place
will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second
death."
- ROM1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Protection and Victory through Faith
- EPH6:16 With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you
will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
- 1TH5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on
the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
- 1PE1:5 who are being protected by the power of God through faith for
a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- 1JO5:4 for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is
the victory that conquers the world, our faith.
Righteousness by Faith
- ROM3:22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all
who believe. For there is no distinction,
- ROM3:25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood,
effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, because in
his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;
- ROM3:26 it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous
and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus.
- ROM3:27 Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law?
By that of works? No, but by the law of faith.
- ROM3:28 For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from
works prescribed by the law.
- ROM3:30 since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the
ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
- ROM4:5 But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly,
such faith is reckoned as righteousness.
- ROM4:9 Is this blessedness, then, pronounced only on the circumcised,
or also on the uncircumcised? We say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness."
- ROM4:11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness
that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to
make him the ancestor of all who believe without being circumcised and who
thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
- ROM4:12 and likewise the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only
circumcised but who also follow the example of the faith that our ancestor
Abraham had before he was circumcised.
- ROM4:13 For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come
to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness
of faith.
- ROM4:14 If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs,
faith is null and the promise is void.
- ROM4:16 For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise
may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the
adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for
he is the father of all of us,
- ROM4:19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body,
which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old),
or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
- ROM4:20 No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but
he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
- ROM4:22 Therefore his faith "was reckoned to him as righteousness."
- ROM5:1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- ROM9:30 What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for
righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;
- ROM9:32 Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of
faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling
stone,
- ROM10:6 But the righteousness that comes from faith says, "Do not say
in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ
down)
- PHI3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that
comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness
from God based on faith.
Miscellaneous Verses about Faith
- 1TI1:4 and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies
that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by
faith.
- 2CO4:13 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance
with scripture--"I believed, and so I spoke"--we also believe, and so we
speak,