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So Great A Salvation Part 7 – Faith Faith is confidence in the faithfulness of God which leads to reliance and trust in God and obedience to Him (Hebrews 11:6). In salvation, faith is a voluntary change of mind and heart in the sinner in which the person turns to God, accepting and relying on His offer of salvation through Jesus Christ. FAITH = BELIEF + TRUST + ACTION. Faith does not operate in a vacuum. It must affect our: Mind – by recognition of our need of salvation. Acknowledging Christ’s death on our behalf and our need of forgiveness. Emotional (Heart) – by giving personal assent to the gospel - What must I do to be saved? Agree to make salvation a part of life. Will – by a conscious turning of our inner affections and motivations to personal trust. Another way of putting it is that we should: Surrender the whole of our life to the Lordship of Christ (John 8:12; Romans 10:9) Receive and appropriate Jesus into the life. (John 1:12; Revelation 3:20) Accept His death on our behalf, and the forgivenes