Understanding the Depth of Saving Faith
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"I remember an old Minister, a man who preached the gospel in all its Purity, not only Faithfully but with great power and indeed a man who passed through experiences of Revival. I remember that man on his death bed in a very lingering painful illness which weakened him very much, and he was in trouble. He wasn't happy about his soul salvation, and he put it to a friend of mine on one occasion like this: he said, 'I have no difficulty, I have no doubt about the way itself. I have no difficulty, I have no doubts about the Savior and his all sufficiency and his fullness and that he has done everything that is necessary. There is no trouble about that,' he said. 'I'm troubled about this, about its registration here.'" [00:28:37]
"Twix gleams of joy and clouds of Doubt our feelings come and go. Our best estate is tossed about with ceaseless ebb and flow. No mood of feeling, form of thought is constant for a day, but thou, oh Lord, thou changest not, the same art thou always. I grasp thy strength, make it my own, my heart with peace is blessed. I lose my hold and then comes down darkness and cold unrest. Let me no more my comfort draw from my frail hold of thee. In this alone rejoice with all thy Mighty grasp of me." [00:30:20]
"Speak, I pray thee, gentle Jesus, oh how passing Sweet thy words breathing over my troubled Spirit peace which never Earth affords. All the world's distracting voices, all its enticing turns of ill, at thine accents mild melodious are subdued and all is still. Tell me thou art my or savior, grant me and assure Assurance clear, banish all my dark misgivings. Now that's the prayer of a saving Faith man for full assurance and certainty of Salvation." [00:32:24]
"The emphasis upon the heart, to what extent then is that involved? Does it mean that I must have a full Assurance in my heart? It doesn't. It does mean this though, that you've been so convicted by the truth that you felt and seen that you're a sinner, that you're alarmed and troubled, that you see the truth about Christ and his salvation and eagerly grasp at it and cast yourself upon it and leave yourself there. That's saving faith. It hasn't got Assurance at that point, but it can have assurance." [00:33:17]
"If Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, Thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Now then, confession with the mouth, this is the third element in Saving faith, and I think in the light of what we've already been considering, it is inevitable. It needs no demonstration. It follows as the night the day." [00:34:47]
"The moment you put the emphasis that the Apostle puts upon the heart, this arises inevitably. The moment you see the whole man is engaged, the moment you emphasize his understanding of his own position and of God and of the way of Salvation, this then, I say, is something that must of necessity happen. The heart cannot be engaged with without it leading on to this." [00:35:20]
"Faith is a whole, and that these three elements are always involved and are always there together, and that if any one of them is absent, there's something wrong. It isn't true saving Faith. Now that becomes important, you see, for this reason: you may have come across a teaching that puts itself to you in some such terms as these. It draws a sharp distinction between an Evangelistic service and a teaching service." [00:37:56]
"Saving faith is one. You cannot take him only as your savior. Who are you taking? Well, you take the one who is Lord. If Thou shalt confess with thy mouth what Jesus is, Lord, and He is the lord of the whole of the universe, he the lord of the whole of your life. You can't take him in bits and parts and portions." [00:40:00]
"It is impossible for a man to believe in a saving Sense on the Lord Jesus Christ Our Savior only. It's impossible because you can't believe in him as Savior without, I say, all the rest being involved. Of course, there are degrees in this. Again, you can grow in your understanding, but if a man tells me that he's believed in Christ and tells me at the same time that he feels exactly as he was before and he's got no desire which is different from what he had before, and that he's no longer anxious not to sin and no new sense anxious to serve God and the Lord Jesus Christ, I say that man's not saved." [00:41:04]
"This distinction, this division between accepting Christ as Savior and taking him as Lord is utterly unscriptural. He of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and Redemption. You can't divide him. He's one, and looking at it from the experimental side or the subjective side, a man who has believed in him from the heart is a man who will confess him with the mouth. It's quite inevitable." [00:42:02]
"This is how you draw the distinction between the True Believer and the false Professor. This is how you draw the distinction between saving faith and intellectual assent. But if you make that other division, that wrong division, you've got no test at all. You've got to grant that the man who says I believe in Jesus, I believe he truly saved. No, no, but these things the Apostle takes the trouble to bring in the heart and the confession. Why? Well, because it is a vital part of Saving faith." [00:43:02]
"Grant that all thy people, thy dear Children Here gathered, may know as they've never known before the spirit bearing witness with their spirits that they are the children of God. Grant that they may know during this coming season that the one who was born of old in Bethlehem of Judea has also been born in their hearts and in their souls. Grant that we all may know of assurity a Christ within, a living Christ dwelling within us, taking up his abode within us and never leaving us." [00:46:03]
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"Twix gleams of joy and clouds of Doubt our feelings come and go. Our best estate is tossed about with ceaseless ebb and flow. No mood of feeling, form of thought is constant for a day, but thou, oh Lord, thou changest not, the same art thou always. I grasp thy strength, make it my own, my heart with peace is blessed. I lose my hold and then comes down darkness and cold unrest. Let me no more my comfort draw from my frail hold of thee. In this alone rejoice with all thy Mighty grasp of me." [00:30:20]
"Speak, I pray thee, gentle Jesus, oh how passing Sweet thy words breathing over my troubled Spirit peace which never Earth affords. All the world's distracting voices, all its enticing turns of ill, at thine accents mild melodious are subdued and all is still. Tell me thou art my or savior, grant me and assure Assurance clear, banish all my dark misgivings. Now that's the prayer of a saving Faith man for full assurance and certainty of Salvation." [00:32:24]
"The emphasis upon the heart, to what extent then is that involved? Does it mean that I must have a full Assurance in my heart? It doesn't. It does mean this though, that you've been so convicted by the truth that you felt and seen that you're a sinner, that you're alarmed and troubled, that you see the truth about Christ and his salvation and eagerly grasp at it and cast yourself upon it and leave yourself there. That's saving faith. It hasn't got Assurance at that point, but it can have assurance." [00:33:17]
"If Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, Thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Now then, confession with the mouth, this is the third element in Saving faith, and I think in the light of what we've already been considering, it is inevitable. It needs no demonstration. It follows as the night the day." [00:34:47]
"The moment you put the emphasis that the Apostle puts upon the heart, this arises inevitably. The moment you see the whole man is engaged, the moment you emphasize his understanding of his own position and of God and of the way of Salvation, this then, I say, is something that must of necessity happen. The heart cannot be engaged with without it leading on to this." [00:35:20]
"Faith is a whole, and that these three elements are always involved and are always there together, and that if any one of them is absent, there's something wrong. It isn't true saving Faith. Now that becomes important, you see, for this reason: you may have come across a teaching that puts itself to you in some such terms as these. It draws a sharp distinction between an Evangelistic service and a teaching service." [00:37:56]
"Saving faith is one. You cannot take him only as your savior. Who are you taking? Well, you take the one who is Lord. If Thou shalt confess with thy mouth what Jesus is, Lord, and He is the lord of the whole of the universe, he the lord of the whole of your life. You can't take him in bits and parts and portions." [00:40:00]
"It is impossible for a man to believe in a saving Sense on the Lord Jesus Christ Our Savior only. It's impossible because you can't believe in him as Savior without, I say, all the rest being involved. Of course, there are degrees in this. Again, you can grow in your understanding, but if a man tells me that he's believed in Christ and tells me at the same time that he feels exactly as he was before and he's got no desire which is different from what he had before, and that he's no longer anxious not to sin and no new sense anxious to serve God and the Lord Jesus Christ, I say that man's not saved." [00:41:04]
"This distinction, this division between accepting Christ as Savior and taking him as Lord is utterly unscriptural. He of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and Redemption. You can't divide him. He's one, and looking at it from the experimental side or the subjective side, a man who has believed in him from the heart is a man who will confess him with the mouth. It's quite inevitable." [00:42:02]
"This is how you draw the distinction between the True Believer and the false Professor. This is how you draw the distinction between saving faith and intellectual assent. But if you make that other division, that wrong division, you've got no test at all. You've got to grant that the man who says I believe in Jesus, I believe he truly saved. No, no, but these things the Apostle takes the trouble to bring in the heart and the confession. Why? Well, because it is a vital part of Saving faith." [00:43:02]
"Grant that all thy people, thy dear Children Here gathered, may know as they've never known before the spirit bearing witness with their spirits that they are the children of God. Grant that they may know during this coming season that the one who was born of old in Bethlehem of Judea has also been born in their hearts and in their souls. Grant that we all may know of assurity a Christ within, a living Christ dwelling within us, taking up his abode within us and never leaving us." [00:46:03]
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