THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES
Hebrews 6:1-3; Y’hudah 3
“Faith Toward YHWH”
“Contend for the Faith”

1. EARNESTLY CONTEND

1864 - epagonizomai (ep-ag-o-nid’-zom’-ahee)  to struggle for; to agonize; to express effort, to fight

1. Epi: over or upon

2. Agonizomai: (ag-o-nid’-zom-ahee) to struggle

1. To compete for a prize

2. To contend with an adversary

3. To endeavor to accomplish something

2. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH:  I Timothy 6:12

1st Fight:        agonizomai (ag-o-nid’-zom-ahee)  same as (above)

            2nd Fight:       agon -- an effort or anxiety, conflict, contest

3. BELIEVE “FOR” OR FAITH “FOR”:  RECEIVING FAITH

1. Be Ye Doers:  Ya’akov (James) 1:22

2. Faith Without Works:  Ya’akov (James) 2:17

3. Shew Me Thy Faith:  Ya’akov (James) 2:18
   “How? By corresponding action.”

4. By Works is Faith Made Perfect:  Ya’akov (James) 2:22

1. Hearing & doing:  Mattityahu (Matthew) 7:24-27

2. Faith comes by hearing:  Romans 10:17

3. Faith activates by doing

4. DRIVE THEM OUT:  D’varim (Deuteronomy) 9:1-3

1. Without Fail:  Y’hoshua (Joshua) 3:9,10

2. Down to Deliver:  Sh’mot (Exodus) 3:7-10

1. Canaanites:  pedlar, merchant; compromise

2. Hitites:  terror, fearful

3. Amorites:  prominence, mountaineer; high society

4. Perizzites:  open country, without walls, no boundary, no standard

5. Hivites:  living place, villager, contentment, complacent, indifferent.

6. Jebusites:  threshing place, trodden