The following is a brief exhortation on faith in Jesus Christ by Vernon
McGee. It is a good reminder upon where the Christian focus should be.
May God bless,
Carl
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my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
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Faith
by J. Vernon McGee
The only thing that God asks of you and me is faith. Faith is more than
intellectual assent. It includes that, but it is also personal trust in God.
Faith does, however, rest upon knowledge.
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans
10:17)
The only condition of salvation is faith-it's to believe God. It rests upon
one foundation: the integrity of God. We believe Him. We take Him at His
word; we believe in God.
He who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
It's the same old illustration we have everywhere that "saving faith" is
mentioned. It is always used with a preposition, either the preposition eis,
"into," or the preposition epi, which means "upon." To be saved means to
put your trust either "into" or "upon" Christ. You can stand by a chair
from now until judgment day and say, "I believe this chair will hold me
up," but faith is not exercised until you sit in it, trust your whole
weight to it-believe into it, if you please, or believe upon it-and when you
do that, then the chair is holding you up.
At this moment you say you believe in Christ. But how do you believe in
Christ?
You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe-and
tremble! (James 2:19)
The demons believe and tremble, but they are not saved. Is this faith? And
among some Bible-believing folks in our day it has become just sort of a
little intellectual assent to something. Oh, friend, that's not salvation.
It's not until you and I come and trust ourselves to Jesus Christ that we
are 100 percent saved.
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