Characteristics of Great Faith

• Characteristics of Great Faith
• 2 Timothy 1
• “O you of little faith…”
• Worrying for daily needs – Matt 6:30
• Fearful during a storm – Matt 8:26
• Peter’s faith failing – Matt 14:31
• Failing to understand spiritual application – Matt 16:8
• The Centurion’s Faith
• Matt 8:10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, "Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!
• What about us?
• If the Lord’s work is done in our day, it will be done by men and women of great faith
• 2 Timothy 1 – qualities of great faith
• In writing to Timothy, Paul commends Timothy and exhorts him to great faith – 2 Tim 1:3-18
• Great Faith is Sincere
• 2 Tim 1:3-5 For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.
• Great Faith is Stirred Up
• 2 Timothy 1:6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
• Great Faith is Stirred Up
• Our faith cannot be inactive
– James 2:20,26 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? … For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
• Great Faith is Not Scared
• 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

• Great Faith is Not Ashamed
• 2 Timothy 1:8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God..

• Great Faith is Not Ashamed
• Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
• Great Faith Shares Suffering
• 2 Timothy 1:8,12 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, …
• Great Faith Shares Suffering
• 2 Timothy 1:9-10 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
• Great Faith Shares Suffering
• 2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
• Great Faith is Steadfast
• 2 Timothy 1:13-14 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.14 That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
• Great Faith is Steadfast
• 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge --
• Great Faith is Steadfast
• Ephesians 4:14-15 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head -- Christ --