Faith vs. Presumption (50 min)

Faith vs. Presumption

Pre·sump·tion - prəˈzəm(p)SH(ə)n/

“The noun presumption pretty much means jumping to conclusions. It is taking something for granted — an idea, an answer, an event — without having any real knowledge about it, and that is usually not a good thing.” (From Vocabulary.com)

As trouble is increasing in the earth, many believers try to comfort themselves with the sentiment that “everything is going to be ok”… or “it will all work out.”  This is true, but how will it work out for YOU?  The response of the faithful puts them into the place of safety.  The response of the presumptuous keeps them in the way of danger…though both say the same thing!

Faith and Presumption can sound very similar.  One produces a response, the others numbs itself to responding.

Faith without works is simply presumption…it leads to death:

James 2:14-20  What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?  15  If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,  16  and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?  17  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.  18  But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.  19  You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!  20  But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

 

Throughout the Bible, the warning is repeated over and over: presuming you are safe because you are “saved” is a recipe to learn the hard way that you were saved to respond…to lay hold of salvation:

1 Timothy 6:11-16  But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.  12  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.  13  I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,  14  that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing,  15  which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,  16  who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

The Tabernacle of David is the true response of the faithful…over and over since David’s day…to the coming time of trouble.  Presumption in this hour will get you, and those around you, killed…or worse…

Amos 9:9-12  "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.  10  All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.'  11  "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;  12  That they may possess the remnant of Edom,  And all the Gentiles who are called by My name," Says the LORD who does this thing.