Friday | 18 September 2026
In the New Covenant, a believer does not merely express faith in Christ, believing that He exists or that He possesses the power to deliver them from distress. This was the nature of faith under the Old Covenant. Rather, they live by the faith of the Son of God because He is their life. As the apostle Paul testified, ‘I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life [of God] which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.’ Gal 2:20.
Living Christ’s life by His faith is the realisation of the hope of the gospel. This is because faith is the substance of things hoped for. Heb 11:1. The hope revealed in the New Covenant is ‘Christ in you, the hope of glory’. Col 1:27. Through faith, received by hearing the proceeding word of God, we have access to God’s grace, or His sevenfold Spirit. We rejoice in the realisation of the hope of the gospel as we show forth the glory of God in our daily fellowship in Christ’s offering and suffering journey. We are enabled for this fellowship by the sevenfold Spirit of the Lord. Rom 5:2. This is how we walk by faith according to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
While the Scriptures direct us in the way that we should not speak (i.e. ‘Do not say in your heart…’), they also reveal the way that a person will speak if they have received the same spirit of faith as Christ and, thereby, believe. Gal 2:20. 2Co 4:13. In this regard, Paul wrote, ‘Let your conduct be without covetousness [proceeding from our infirmity as we assess and compare]; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we may boldly say: “The LORD [the Spirit] is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”’ Heb 13:5-6.
Further Study:
Galatians 2
References:
Gal 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Col 1:27
To them, God willed to make known, what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Rom 5:2
Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
2Co 4:13
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke’, we also believe and therefore speak.
Heb 13:5-6
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So, we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’