Midweek Review #25 (Acts 15:1-11)

You may be religious. You may be doing good things, like coming to church. You might take communion with us.

You might have been baptized. Every ritual, the outward things that we do, might give you hope that you're genuinely born again.

But unless faith has been born in your heart, you're not yet saved.

This is the distinction, the outward versus the inward. The Jewish people wanted an outward sign.

Unless you are circumcised, you cannot be saved. They wanted the outward rituals of keeping the law, the ceremonial and the dietary laws, that if you could keep these things, we'll recognize that you're genuinely saved.

But the text points out, God knows the heart. And faith resides in the heart.