Accepted by Faith
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Gal. 3: 26.
To talk of religion in a casual way, to pray without
soul hunger and living faith, avails nothing. A nominal faith in Christ, which accepts Him merely as the Saviour of the world, can never bring healing to the soul. The
faith that is unto salvation is not a mere intellectual assent to the truth. He who waits for entire knowledge before he will exercise faith cannot receive blessing from
God. It is not enough to believe about Christ; we must believe in Him. The only faith that will benefit us is that which embraces Him as a personal Saviour; which
appropriates His merits to ourselves. Many hold faith as an opinion. Saving faith is a transaction by which those who receive Christ join themselves in covenant
relation with God. Genuine faith is life. A living faith means an increase of vigor, a confiding trust, by which the soul becomes a conquering power.
True faith is that which receives Christ as a personal Saviour. God gave His only- begotten Son, that I, by believing in Him, "should not perish, but have
everlasting life" (John 3: 16). When I come to Christ, according to His word, I am to believe that I receive His saving grace. The life that I now live, I am to "live by
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Gal. 2: 20).
The apostle Paul clearly presents the relation between faith and the law under the new covenant. He says: "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ." "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law." "For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh"-- it could not justify man, because in his sinful nature he could not keep the law --" God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom. 5: 1; 3: 31; 8:
3, 4).
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