The Life Faith Leads To — What Believing in Christ Produces

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Christian faith is not merely accepting that Jesus existed, agreeing that certain doctrines are true, or experiencing a strong religious emotion at a particular moment. In the New Testament, the Greek noun pistis and the related verb pisteuō convey belief, trust, confidence, and reliance according to their context, so genuine faith involves personally resting one’s confidence on Jehovah’s saving provision through Jesus Christ. Hebrews 11:1 describes faith as assurance regarding what is hoped for and conviction regarding realities not presently seen, indicating that biblical faith rests on what Jehovah has revealed rather than on imagination or wishful thinking. Romans 1:16-17 connects faith directly with the good news and with the life of the righteous person, while Romans 1:5 and Romans 16:26 frame Paul’s message with the expression “the obedience of faith.” Faith therefore begins with believing Jehovah’s testimony concerning His Son, but it does not end with intellectual agreement because the person who trusts Christ comes under Christ’s authority. Jesus Himself exposed the inadequacy of verbal profession when He asked in Luke 6:46 why people called Him “Lord” while refusing to do what He said. James 2:19 provides an equally forceful clarification because even the demons know that God exists, yet such recognition obviously does not constitute approved faith. Genuine Christian faith is trusting allegiance to Jehovah through Christ, a reliance that reshapes the believer’s loyalties, values, decisions, conduct, worship, and hope. The life faith leads to is therefore not the cause of salvation, as though sinners could earn Jehovah’s favor, but the necessary life produced when a person truly believes the good news and continues walking according to it.

Faith Begins with Accurate Knowledge

Faith cannot exist independently of knowledge because a person cannot intelligently trust Christ without knowing who He is, what He accomplished, what He requires, and what Jehovah has promised through Him. Romans 10:14 asks how people can believe in the One about whom they have not heard, and Romans 10:17 answers that faith comes from hearing the word concerning Christ. The pattern is especially clear in Acts 17:2-3, where Paul reasoned from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead before calling his hearers to believe. Acts 17:11 describes the Bereans examining the Scriptures daily to determine whether Paul’s message was true, showing that strong faith is compatible with careful investigation rather than careless acceptance. Christian faith therefore has objective content: Jehovah is the true God, mankind is sinful, Jesus is the promised Christ, His sacrificial death provides the basis for forgiveness, Jehovah raised Him from the dead, and eternal life is available through Him. Romans 10:9 connects believing with the historical reality that God raised Jesus from the dead, while 1 Corinthians 15:14-17 explains that denying Christ’s resurrection destroys the foundation of Christian faith. Accurate knowledge alone is not sufficient, since someone can understand Christian doctrine while refusing to entrust himself to Christ, but saving faith cannot be separated from the essential truths Jehovah has revealed. The historical-grammatical reading of Scripture protects faith from becoming subjective because meaning is determined by the inspired writer’s words, grammar, historical setting, and context rather than by personal feelings imposed upon the text. The life produced by faith therefore begins with a mind instructed by the Spirit-inspired Word and a heart persuaded that Jehovah’s testimony concerning His Son is true and worthy of complete trust.

Faith Rests on Christ Rather Than Human Merit

The object of Christian faith is not faith itself but Jesus Christ and the saving work Jehovah accomplished through Him. Romans 3:23 states that all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, leaving no human being with a flawless record from which to demand a righteous standing. Romans 3:24-26 places the basis of justification in the redemption accomplished through Christ Jesus and His atoning sacrifice, which means forgiveness rests on Jehovah’s provision rather than human achievement. Ephesians 2:8-9 likewise teaches that salvation is received through faith and does not originate in works that would give a person grounds for boasting. A Christian therefore does not trust church attendance, charitable activity, theological knowledge, moral improvement, family heritage, or years of religious service as though these could erase sin. Philippians 3:8-9 shows Paul rejecting a righteousness based on his own record in favor of the righteousness associated with faith in Christ. This does not make Christian conduct irrelevant, because the very next verse after Paul’s statement about salvation not resulting from works declares in Ephesians 2:10 that Christians are created in Christ Jesus for good works. Faith removes boasting while producing gratitude, because the believer understands that eternal life is Jehovah’s gift and that Christ’s sacrifice supplied what sinful humans could never supply for themselves. The resulting life is neither self-righteous nor morally careless, for the believer depends entirely upon Christ’s sacrifice while responding to that sacrifice with willing obedience to the One who bought him at such great cost.

Faith Produces Genuine Repentance

Believing in Christ changes the believer’s judgment about sin because a person cannot truly accept Christ as Savior while continuing to regard rebellion against Jehovah as harmless. Acts 3:19 commands people to repent and turn back so that their sins may be blotted out, joining forgiveness with a real change of direction. Acts 17:30 likewise says that God commands people everywhere to repent, and Paul immediately connects that command with the coming judgment through the Man whom Jehovah raised from the dead. Repentance is therefore more than sadness about consequences, embarrassment after exposure, or temporary emotional regret over a poor decision. Genuine repentance recognizes an action, attitude, or course as contrary to Jehovah’s will, rejects that wrongdoing, seeks forgiveness through Christ, and begins moving in the opposite moral direction. Romans 6:17-18 describes Christians who had been slaves of sin but became “obedient from the heart,” showing that the good news reached beyond their vocabulary into their conduct. A dishonest businessman who becomes convinced from Scripture that deception violates Jehovah’s standards cannot consistently claim repentance while continuing to falsify records whenever doing so increases his profit. He demonstrates repentant faith by abandoning the deception, accepting whatever legitimate financial consequences follow, correcting matters where reasonably possible, and establishing honest practices for the future. Faith therefore produces a life in which sin is no longer defended as acceptable but confronted as something from which the believer must repeatedly turn while relying upon Christ’s sacrifice for forgiveness.

Faith Produces Obedience from the Heart

Paul’s description of “the obedience of faith” in Romans 1:5 and Romans 16:26 shows that obedience is not an optional addition attached to Christianity after a person has already acquired everything faith requires. Genuine belief recognizes Jesus as Savior, but it also recognizes Him as Lord, Teacher, King, and Judge whose commands carry authority over the believer. Romans 6:16 explains that people become slaves of the one they obey, whether of sin leading toward death or of obedience leading toward righteousness, making conduct a serious expression of spiritual allegiance. Jesus stated in John 14:15 that love for Him expresses itself through keeping His commandments, not because obedience purchases His love but because love takes His authority seriously. Matthew 7:21 similarly warns that merely saying “Lord, Lord” is not equivalent to doing the will of the Father, directly rejecting a Christianity consisting only of religious speech. The obedient believer therefore allows Christ’s teaching to govern honesty, sexual morality, marriage, forgiveness, speech, work, money, worship, association, evangelism, and treatment of fellow Christians. Obedience does not mean flawless performance, since Christians remain imperfect and require the continuing value of Christ’s sacrifice, as 1 John 2:1-2 makes clear. The distinction lies between a believer who sins through human weakness and then repents, and someone who deliberately chooses an established course of rebellion while appealing to a past profession of faith as protection. Biblical faith produces heartfelt submission because the person who genuinely trusts Christ also trusts the wisdom, goodness, and authority of what Christ commands.

Faith Shows Itself Through Works

James confronts the difference between living faith and empty profession by asking in James 2:14 what benefit there is when someone says he has faith but does not have works. His concrete illustration in James 2:15-16 describes a Christian brother or sister lacking adequate clothing and daily food while another believer offers warm words but refuses available practical assistance. The problem is not that the needy Christian requires religious conversation instead of food, because James deliberately demonstrates that claimed compassion becomes meaningless when obvious ability to help never becomes action. James 2:17 therefore states that faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead, identifying inactivity as evidence that the professed faith lacks life. Paul does not contradict James when he rejects works as the basis for justification, because Paul opposes attempts to earn righteous standing while James opposes a claim of faith that produces no obedient conduct. Abraham illustrates both truths, since Genesis 15:6 records that he believed Jehovah and was counted righteous, while his later action in Genesis 22 demonstrated that his trust was genuine and operative. James 2:22 explains that Abraham’s faith worked together with his works and that through those works his faith was brought to completion. Good works are therefore not the purchase price of salvation any more than fruit purchases life for the tree on which it grows; rather, fruit reveals what kind of tree is actually present. The life faith leads to becomes observable because trust in Christ inevitably enters decisions, relationships, priorities, sacrifice, generosity, and obedience instead of remaining concealed as a claim that never affects behavior.

Faith Produces Moral Transformation

Christian faith changes the direction of life because the gospel does not merely offer forgiveness from former sins while leaving the believer comfortably attached to the same sinful practices. Romans 12:2 commands Christians to be transformed by the renewing of their mind, showing that changed conduct develops through changed thinking shaped by Jehovah’s truth. Ephesians 4:22-24 describes putting away the old personality associated with the former manner of life and putting on a new personality formed according to God’s righteous standards. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 names serious practices that characterized some members of the Corinthian congregation before they became Christians, then states that they had been washed and sanctified, marking a genuine break with their former course. The significance is practical: a person formerly governed by sexual immorality, greed, drunkenness, dishonesty, uncontrolled anger, or exploitation cannot treat conversion as permission to preserve those practices under a Christian label. Galatians 5:19-23 contrasts the works of the flesh with qualities such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, mildness, and self-control. Those qualities do not arise through mystical impressions or an indwelling voice, because Christians receive guidance through the Spirit-inspired Word that instructs, reproves, corrects, and trains them in righteousness, as 2 Timothy 3:16-17 explains. As the believer repeatedly brings his thinking into harmony with Scripture, decisions that once appeared normal are reevaluated according to Jehovah’s standards, and conduct gradually reflects the mind taught by His Word. Faith therefore leads to recognizable moral transformation, not instant human perfection, because the Christian increasingly rejects the patterns of the old life and deliberately cultivates conduct that honors Jehovah and imitates Christ.

Faith Produces Love That Acts

Galatians 5:6 describes what matters as “faith working through love,” making love one of the clearest visible activities of genuine Christian belief. Jesus connected discipleship with love in John 13:34-35, teaching that His followers would be recognized by the love they showed one another rather than merely by the religious vocabulary they used. 1 John 3:16-18 makes that love concrete by describing a believer who possesses material resources and sees a Christian brother in need but closes his compassion against him. John then commands Christians to love not merely in word or speech but in deed and truth, preventing love from being reduced to sentiment. A believer may sincerely speak about generosity, but when an elderly Christian needs transportation to medical care, a family has temporarily lost income, or a fellow believer requires practical assistance after a disaster, faith-trained love looks for reasonable ways to act. Such assistance does not earn salvation because no amount of charitable activity can remove sin or replace Christ’s atoning sacrifice. Rather, the person who trusts Christ values what Christ values and therefore learns to place another person’s legitimate welfare above personal convenience when circumstances require it. Philippians 2:3-5 reinforces this outlook by directing Christians away from selfish ambition and toward the humble mindset exemplified by Jesus Christ. The life produced by faith consequently becomes less self-centered because reliance upon Christ teaches the believer to imitate His sacrificial concern through practical, discerning, and Scripturally governed love.

Faith Produces Self-Control and Purity

Trust in Christ affects private conduct because Christian faith recognizes that Jehovah’s authority extends to actions hidden from other human beings. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 identifies sexual sanctification as God’s will and commands Christians to control their bodies in holiness and honor rather than in uncontrolled sexual passion. 1 Corinthians 6:18 commands believers to flee sexual immorality, making separation from immoral behavior an active responsibility rather than a vague preference. Matthew 5:27-30 goes further by showing that Jesus addressed not only outward adultery but also deliberately cultivated immoral desire, bringing the believer’s inner life under moral discipline. Faith therefore changes what a Christian willingly watches, reads, entertains in imagination, pursues in relationships, and permits to develop when temptation arises. Titus 2:11-12 explains that God’s undeserved kindness teaches Christians to reject ungodliness and worldly desires while living with soundness of mind, righteousness, and godly devotion. Grace does not tell the believer that conduct no longer matters; it gives him powerful reason to reject conduct that contradicts the One whose undeserved kindness made forgiveness possible. A Christian struggling against an entrenched sinful habit therefore does not excuse the behavior by saying that he has faith, but uses Scripture, prayer, wise avoidance, Christian association, and decisive changes in routine to weaken opportunities for wrongdoing. Faith leads to purity because trusting Christ means believing that His moral judgments are wiser than sinful desire and that obedience to Him is worth whatever sacrifice self-control requires.

Faith Produces Peace Without Presumption

Faith gives the believer peace because the Christian no longer approaches Jehovah on the basis of a personal record that can never remove the guilt of sin. Romans 5:1 connects justification through faith with peace with God through Jesus Christ, establishing an objective basis for relief from a condemned conscience. The believer knows that Jesus’ sacrifice, not emotional intensity or moral perfection, provides the basis upon which forgiveness is available. 1 John 1:9 teaches that Christians who confess their sins can rely upon God’s faithfulness and righteousness in forgiving them, which encourages honest confession instead of concealment. At the same time, biblical peace must never become presumption, because Hebrews 10:26-27 warns against deliberately continuing in sin after receiving accurate knowledge of the truth. The faithful Christian therefore does not reason that future sins are irrelevant because he once believed, nor does he conclude that every failure proves Jehovah has permanently rejected him. When he sins, he acknowledges the wrongdoing, genuinely repents, seeks forgiveness through Christ, corrects his conduct, and continues walking according to Jehovah’s Word. Philippians 4:6-7 also connects prayer with the peace of God, showing that anxious concerns can be brought before Jehovah with thanksgiving rather than carried as though the believer were alone. Faith produces balanced peace because confidence rests neither on careless presumption nor on obsessive self-condemnation, but on Jehovah’s trustworthy promises, Christ’s sufficient sacrifice, sincere repentance, and continued loyalty.

Faith Produces Perseverance Through Difficulties

The Christian path includes hardship because believers remain imperfect people living among imperfect people in a world influenced by Satan, demons, sinful desires, injustice, sickness, loss, opposition, and death. Faith does not guarantee exemption from these difficulties, but it gives the believer sound reasons to remain loyal when obedience becomes costly. Hebrews 10:35-39 warns Christians not to throw away their confidence but to endure so that they may receive what Jehovah has promised. Colossians 1:21-23 connects reconciliation with continuing in the faith, firmly established and not moved away from the hope of the good news. Galatians 6:9 similarly tells Christians not to give up in doing what is fine, because a harvest will be reaped if they do not grow weary. Persevering faith therefore appears when a Christian remains honest after honesty causes financial loss, remains morally clean when companions mock Christian standards, continues worship when discouraged, or keeps proclaiming the good news despite indifference. Such endurance is not stubborn confidence in oneself but continued reliance upon Jehovah’s promises and continued submission to Christ. Philippians 3:12-14 portrays Paul pressing forward toward the goal rather than treating his earlier conversion as though nothing further were required of him. The life faith leads to is therefore a continuing course in which confidence must be maintained, obedience renewed, repentance practiced, and hope kept firmly fixed on what Jehovah has promised through Christ.

Faith Produces Responsible Christian Work

Believing in Christ does not remove ordinary responsibilities but gives them a new moral seriousness because everyday work becomes another setting in which Christian character is displayed. Colossians 3:22-24 instructs Christian workers to serve sincerely rather than merely when observed, recognizing that their ultimate accountability reaches beyond a human supervisor. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 addresses believers who were unwilling to work and commands them to labor quietly and earn their own living, showing that Christian hope is not an excuse for idleness. Ephesians 4:28 provides an especially concrete transformation by instructing the thief to stop stealing, work honestly with his hands, and have something to share with a person in need. The change described there moves through three stages: abandoning dishonest gain, adopting productive labor, and using the fruit of that labor generously rather than selfishly. A Christian employer likewise cannot consistently confess faith in Christ while deliberately cheating employees, falsifying agreements, withholding legitimate payment, or using deception to obtain advantage. Christian employees cannot claim loyalty to Jehovah while stealing time, property, confidential information, or money simply because they believe their misconduct will remain undiscovered. Faith makes ordinary economic conduct part of discipleship because the believer recognizes that Jehovah sees what human supervisors, clients, customers, and coworkers may never see. The life produced by belief therefore includes reliability, honesty, industry, responsible stewardship, and generosity as practical expressions of loyalty to Christ.

Faith Produces Evangelism and Public Witness

A person who truly believes the good news comes to recognize that the message about Christ is not private information intended only for personal comfort. Matthew 28:19-20 commands Christ’s disciples to make disciples, baptize them, and teach them to observe what Jesus commanded, placing evangelism within ordinary Christian responsibility. Romans 10:13-15 explains the practical necessity of proclamation by asking how people can believe without hearing and how they can hear without someone preaching. The Christian therefore speaks about Jehovah’s Kingdom, mankind’s sinful condition, Christ’s sacrificial death, His resurrection, repentance, forgiveness, discipleship, resurrection, judgment, and the hope of eternal life. 1 Peter 3:15 instructs believers to be prepared to give a defense to anyone asking for the reason for their hope, while doing so with mildness and respect. Evangelism is not an effort to earn salvation points, force religious conversation, or demonstrate intellectual superiority over people who do not believe. It grows naturally from conviction that the message is true, that Christ alone provides the saving sacrifice mankind needs, and that other people deserve the opportunity to hear what Jehovah has revealed. A Christian who believes a neighbor is in physical danger would normally give a warning, and belief in the reality of sin, judgment, resurrection, and eternal life gives an even stronger reason for responsible spiritual warning. Faith consequently produces a public witness because loyalty to Christ includes helping others hear the same Scriptural truth through which the believer himself came to trust Jehovah.

Faith Produces Loyalty to the Christian Congregation

Christian faith does not create an isolated believer who claims loyalty to Christ while refusing meaningful association with Christ’s people. Hebrews 10:24-25 directs Christians to consider how to stimulate one another to love and good works and warns against abandoning their gathering together. The congregation provides opportunities for instruction, encouragement, correction, worship, evangelistic cooperation, practical assistance, and the development of qualities that cannot mature in complete isolation. Romans 12:4-10 describes Christians as members who do not all have the same function but who belong to one another and must show genuine affection and honor. Galatians 6:1-2 further shows that believers have responsibilities when a fellow Christian is overtaken in wrongdoing or burdened by serious difficulty. Faith therefore teaches a Christian neither to ignore sin within the congregation nor to treat an imperfect fellow believer as disposable after every disagreement. Restoration should be pursued with mildness where repentance is present, while serious unrepentant wrongdoing must be addressed according to Scriptural direction so that Christian holiness is protected. Congregational loyalty also means refusing gossip, malicious speech, unnecessary division, and personal ambition that turns fellow believers into rivals. The life faith leads to includes committed Christian fellowship because the believer understands that love for Christ expresses itself in responsible love, encouragement, service, correction, forgiveness, and cooperation among those who belong to Him.

Faith Produces a Life Governed by the Spirit-Inspired Word

The Holy Spirit’s role in Christian life must be understood through the revelation He caused to be written rather than through claims of private revelation, uncontrolled impressions, or new messages added to Scripture. 2 Peter 1:20-21 explains that the prophets spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit, establishing the Spirit-inspired Word as Jehovah’s authoritative communication. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says that all Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be fully equipped for every good work. A Christian therefore seeks the Spirit’s guidance by learning, understanding, remembering, and obeying the Word that the Spirit caused to be recorded. Romans 12:2 describes transformation through renewal of the mind, showing that Christian change involves reshaping thought rather than waiting for an internal supernatural impulse to supply decisions. Galatians 5:16-25 contrasts walking according to sinful flesh with producing qualities identified as the fruit of the Spirit, and those qualities harmonize completely with the moral instruction given throughout the Spirit-inspired Scriptures. When a believer confronts a decision involving honesty, sexuality, forgiveness, worship, marriage, money, speech, or Christian association, he does not need a new revelation because Jehovah has already supplied principles governing faithful conduct. Serious Bible study consequently becomes part of the life faith produces, because trust in Jehovah includes trust that His written revelation is sufficient to teach Christians how they should think and live. Faith grows stronger as the believer repeatedly allows the inspired Word to correct faulty reasoning, expose wrong desires, clarify responsibilities, strengthen hope, and direct conduct toward Christlike obedience.

Faith Produces Hope in Resurrection and Eternal Life

Christian faith looks beyond present life because Jehovah’s promise through Christ includes resurrection and eternal life rather than merely improved circumstances now. John 11:25 records Jesus identifying Himself as the resurrection and the life, placing the hope of the dead directly in His authority and in Jehovah’s power exercised through Him. 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 presents Christ’s resurrection as the guarantee that those belonging to Him will also be raised, making resurrection central rather than peripheral to Christian faith. Biblical hope does not depend upon the idea that every human possesses an immortal soul that consciously survives death, because Scripture presents death as the cessation of conscious human life and resurrection as Jehovah’s restoration of the person to life. Ecclesiastes 9:5 states that the dead know nothing, while John 5:28-29 speaks of those in the memorial tombs hearing Christ’s voice and coming out. Romans 6:23 contrasts death, the wages of sin, with eternal life, which is the gift of God through Jesus Christ, showing that endless life is granted rather than naturally possessed. Revelation 21:3-4 directs Christian hope toward a restored order in which death, mourning, crying, and pain are removed, giving believers a concrete reason to remain faithful despite present suffering and loss. Such hope affects daily conduct because 1 Corinthians 15:58 follows the resurrection discussion by urging Christians to remain steadfast and have plenty to do in the Lord’s work, knowing that their labor is not useless. Faith therefore produces a forward-looking life in which present obedience is strengthened by confidence that Jehovah will fulfill His promises through the resurrected and reigning Christ.

Faith Treats Salvation as a Continuing Path

The New Testament presents salvation as involving what Jehovah has already done for the believer, what He is presently doing as the Christian continues in faith, and what He will finally grant when salvation reaches its promised completion. Romans 5:1 speaks of the justified believer’s present standing, while 1 Corinthians 1:18 describes Christians as those who are “being saved,” demonstrating that biblical salvation cannot be reduced to one past moment. Romans 13:11 says that salvation is nearer than when believers first exercised faith, plainly identifying a future aspect that had not yet been received. Philippians 2:12 therefore commands Christians to keep working out their salvation with fear and trembling, language that would make little sense if final salvation were an irrevocable possession secured regardless of later conduct. Colossians 1:22-23 similarly speaks about Christians being presented holy and without accusation “if indeed” they continue in the faith, firmly established and steadfast. This continuing responsibility does not mean salvation is earned by accumulating sufficient works, because Jehovah remains the source of salvation and Christ’s sacrifice remains its indispensable basis. It means that the faith through which salvation is received must remain living faith rather than being abandoned and replaced by deliberate rebellion or unbelief. A Christian consequently does not build assurance solely upon the memory of a decision made years earlier but examines whether he presently trusts Christ, repents when he sins, obeys Jehovah’s Word, and remains committed to the Christian path. Faith leads to a lifelong course because the good news calls people not merely to begin believing but to continue believing until Jehovah brings His saving purpose to its appointed completion.

Faith Produces a Distinctly Christian Life

The strongest evidence that a person understands biblical faith is not how frequently he uses the word “faith” but whether his life increasingly demonstrates what trusting Christ actually means. Jesus’ illustration in Matthew 7:17-20 teaches that a tree becomes recognizable by its fruit, establishing the principle that inner spiritual reality eventually becomes visible through outward conduct. The believer who trusts Christ begins thinking differently about sin, forgiveness, money, sexuality, family responsibilities, work, worship, Christian fellowship, truthfulness, suffering, death, and the future because each subject now stands under Jehovah’s revealed judgment. He does good without imagining that good works purchase eternal life, repents without imagining that repentance makes Christ’s sacrifice unnecessary, and perseveres without imagining that human determination is the source of salvation. He loves fellow Christians because Christ commanded it, speaks about the good news because others need to hear it, studies Scripture because faith requires truth, and rejects persistent wrongdoing because submission to Christ cannot be separated from trust in Christ. His weaknesses do not disappear immediately, and human imperfection means that he will continue needing correction, forgiveness, growth, and the atoning value of Jesus’ sacrifice. Yet the direction of his life matters, because genuine faith fights against sin rather than making peace with it, seeks Jehovah’s will rather than redefining it, and continues following Christ rather than treating a past profession as permission for present disobedience. Romans 1:17 says that the righteous one will live by faith, and that wording captures more than the beginning of Christian belief because faith becomes the continuing manner in which the disciple lives. The life faith leads to is therefore a life of trusting Christ, obeying His teaching, depending upon His sacrifice, renewing the mind through the Spirit-inspired Word, loving others in practical ways, proclaiming the good news, enduring hardship, pursuing holiness, and pressing forward toward the eternal life Jehovah has promised.

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EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).

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