Hebrews 11:6 Without Faith - What a Terrible Thought
1:6 But without faith - cwriV de pistei - by itself, separate from faith - it is no wonder it is not possible that man can be saved by works. It is also not possible, that a anyone may walk in Christ by anything other than faith.
Without Faith you cannot enter into God's rest! cf. 3:18; 4:6
Without Faith you cannot be saved! John 8:24
Ps. 78:21-22 "Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: So a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation."
John 3:18 "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he bath believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
it is impossible - adunaton - impotent, weak, no strength
to please him - euaresthsai - Aor Act Inf -
Ps. 69:30-31 "1 will praise the name of God with a song, and I will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the Lord better than ox or bullock..."
Ps. 16:7 " When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with I'm."
Rom. 8.8 "So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
I Thess. 4:1 "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more."
Example is Jesus: John 8:29 "for I do always those things that please him."
How?
By Being a servant: Gal. 1:10 "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." It is unimaginable and preposterous to think that we can please God in our own limited strength.
for he that cometh to God - prosercomenon - Pres Pass Ptc - To approach someone important, draw near, etc.
must believe that He Is - Pres Act Ind - John 8:58; Exodus 3:14; Acts 17:24-28
“God does not depend on anything or anyone for his continued existence. God is independent. He is not dependent on anything for continued existence, not even Himself.
Indeed, He does not depend upon Himself for continued existence. He, by His nature exists. Continued existence is automatic within His nature. To cease to exist would require a shift in His nature - a nature that is unchangeable. Can He cease to exist? A totally mute question. To cease to exist is not consistent with His nature. In fact the idea of continued existence may well be foreign to His nature. He is that He is. This eliminates even the need for continued existence. He exists as He exists.
We not only depend upon God for our existence in the first place, but we depend upon Him for our continued existence. He preserves the creation. He on the other hand depends on nothing.
Pendleton said, “When God interposes His oath to confirm His word He swears by Himself saying, As I live, leaving His oath to rest on the immutable basis of His self-existence. In the boundless range of human and angelic thought there will never be found a deeper mystery than the self-existence of God. It defies finite comprehension. God alone knows how He exists, why He has always existed, and why He will exist forever.”
Psalm 90:2 "Before the mountains were brought forth, or even thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God."
Isa. 44:6 “'Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God."
Rev. 1:8,17 "...Fear not; I am the first and the last: lam he that liveth, and was dead; and , behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen..."
John 5:26, “For as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;”
Harris - “God is. His name is evermore, I AM. It certainly can be no limitation of God that He is absolutely unlimited and independent, that He is uncreated and eternal, endowed from all eternity with all possible perfection as the absolute Spirit.”
*It is God’s nature to exist. That seems to be what God said when He said, I Am That I Am. This is why the name I AM is so important when it leads people to faith! Here is Self-Existence. Life in Himself! Even as the Mediator, the Lord Jesus tells us that it is given Him to have life in Himself, even as the Father hath life in Himself. I am fills the empty and solemn sepulcher. He that liveth and was dead and is alive for evermore, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, declares, I am the resurrection and the life.
If I want to live unto God, I must have Christ; and if I desire to continue to live unto God I must continue to have Christ; and if I aspire to have that life developed to the complete fullness, I must find that fullness in Christ. He has come not only that we may have life, but that we may have it more abundantly. Anything that is beyond the circle of Christ is death.
We have not take breath during our life times, but by the blessing of Jesus. He ever lives to give life. He saith, Because I live, ye shall live also. We live not for any other reason - not because of anything in us or connected with us, but only because of Jesus. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Faith is the only channel by which we can draw from Jesus our life. I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me...
He does not say, he that loves me, he that serves me, he that imitates me, but He that believeth in me.
Conclusion:
We can be assured that God is self-existent that He is the source of all life, and because of this truth, if we have accepted His conditions and promises, then all His promises will absolutely come to pass.
God is the source of life and thus is the only one that has the right or ability to offer eternal life, which He controls. He may offer this to anyone He so desires, and He offers it to “whomsoever” that will come.