I Have Peace With God

Q: What does the Bible say about peace with God?

The Bible teaches that believers have peace with God through justification by faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). Romans 5:1 clearly states that, 'Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.' This foundational truth shows that our peace with God is not based on our own merits or righteousness but is rooted in the perfect justification that comes through faith in Jesus Christ. Peace with God is essential for every believer, signifying the end of enmity and the beginning of a reconciled relationship with our Creator.

Q: How do we know justification by faith is true?

We know justification by faith is true because it is affirmed throughout Scripture, particularly in Romans and Galatians, as the means through which we receive grace (Romans 8:34). Justification by faith is affirmed repeatedly throughout Scripture as the only means by which sinners are reconciled to God. Romans 8:34 poses the rhetorical question, 'Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died...' illustrating that our justification is rooted in Christ's atoning sacrifice. This biblical truth highlights that it is not by our own works or righteousness that we stand justified but through faith alone in Jesus Christ, revealing the grace and mercy of God towards sinners.

Q: Why is having peace with God important for Christians?

Having peace with God is vital for Christians because it assures them of their salvation and allows them to endure trials without fear (Romans 5:1). Peace with God is crucial for Christians as it signifies the believer's reconciled status before their Creator. This peace assures believers of their salvation and invites them to live without the fear of condemnation. The assurance of peace means that, even amid life's trials and tribulations, the believer can trust that they are secure in Christ's righteousness rather than their own. Romans 5:1 provides this foundation, emphasizing that justification leads directly to a relationship characterized by peace with God, which is a source of strength and hope in the face of adversity.

Q: What is the source of peace according to the Bible?

The Bible states that the source of peace is found only in Jesus Christ, who is our peace (Ephesians 2:14). According to Ephesians 2:14, it is explicitly declared, 'For He is our peace.' This verse underscores that true peace with God is not found through any personal endeavors, emotions, or religious practices, but is solely sourced in Jesus Christ. He fulfilled the law on our behalf and took the punishment we deserved, thus reconciling us to God. By aligning our faith with Him, we achieve not just temporary peace but an enduring state of well-being that sustains us through every challenge.

Q: How does faith play a role in obtaining peace with God?

Faith is the means by which we receive justification and, consequently, peace with God (Romans 5:1). Faith plays an essential role in obtaining peace with God as it is through faith that individuals are justified. Romans 5:1 states, 'Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God.' This indicates that faith is not merely intellectual assent; it is a heartfelt reliance on Christ's finished work. It is by placing our trust in Jesus, acknowledging our need for His grace, that we transition from a state of enmity to one of reconciliation. The implications of this are profound, as a true faith results in not just a one-time peace but an ongoing assurance in our relationship with God.

Let me read my text again, Romans,
the fifth chapter, verse one. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now when Paul wrote this epistle
to the Romans, In this first verse he used five golden words
which very few people can truthfully use. He said, we have peace with
God. I have peace with God. Now the so-called wise men of
the world, men like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and others,
know much about science, they know much about history, and
they know, people tell me, much about philosophy, but I wonder
how many of these men could truthfully say, I have peace with God. I have peace with God. The religious
leaders have their forms and their rituals, they have their
sacraments and their ceremonies, they have their doctrines and
their theology, they have their organizations and their programs,
but I wonder how many religious leaders today, men standing in
the pulpit, men officiating in church services, Me, in saying
the words of religion, yea, using the name of God and Jesus Christ
and the blood and the cross, I wonder how many of them can
truthfully say, I have peace with God. I have peace with God. The wealthy of this world have
the best food, the best clothing. They have all that the body can
crave, all that the body can desire. They are successful. But I wonder how many wealthy
men today can say truthfully and sincerely, I have peace with
God. The famous and the well-known
have recognition. They have what they want. They
have recognition. They've won much fame and honor
in this world. They're praised by all. Their
ego is well fed. But I wonder when they're alone,
when they face the real issues of life, I wonder how many of
them can say, it is well with my soul, for I have peace with
God. Paul said that, therefore being
justified by faith, we have peace with God. And when he said this,
he used these words not only for himself, He speaks of every
true believer, for every true believer, every child of the
living God can say, nothing between my soul and the Savior, so that
his blessed face can be seen. Nothing preventing the least
of his favors. Jesus is mine. There's nothing
between. I have peace with God. Now the
believer knows his guilt, he knows his sins. He can remember
all of his sins. He can say with David, my sins
are ever before me. The believer does not claim to
be without sin. He remembers his sin with great
sorrow, but seeing the blood of Christ covering those sins,
he can say, I have peace with God. His peace with God is not
because he's perfect, but because his Lord is perfect. His peace
with God is not because he is without personal sin, but he
is without the guilt and the penalty of sin, because that
penalty and that guilt has been removed by his Lord. His peace
is not found in his own righteousness, it's found in the righteousness
of another. The believer can live with trials. He's not without trials. In fact,
actually, you will find that the believer Read Psalm 73 sometime. The believer has greater trials
than the unbeliever. The believer must live through
greater tribulation and sorrow than the unbeliever. That's one
thing that troubled David to a great extent. He saw the wicked
prosper, and he saw the people of God go through deep waters
of sorrow. He saw the wicked, the unbeliever,
excel in hell and yea, material happiness." And he saw the child
of God, the trusting man of God, suffering, going through great
trial and tribulation, and he questioned God's wisdom and God's
righteousness, and God said, you go to the house of the Lord
and I'll show you some things. And David said, I went to the
house of the Lord and then I saw not the wicked's prosperity,
but I saw his end. I saw not his present comforts,
I saw his future torment. And he said, I came away rejoicing.
And these trials and tribulations weary the believer, and they
make him weak. But he can rejoice in them all,
knowing that all things work together for good to them who
love God. Not our present good, not our
temporal good, but our eternal good to those who are called
according to his purpose. The believer is not without sin,
he's not without trial, he's not without sorrow, but he has
peace with God. And in the deepest sorrow, in
the deepest trial of life, he weeps. Not because there is a
barrier between him and his Lord, but he weeps because of natural sorrow. And
then the believer can see death approaching and yet not be greatly
moved. He will one day, he knows, bid
farewell to this earth and bid farewell to all whom he knows
on this earth. He knows that one day he'll go
down in the shadow of death, and perhaps soon, but he's calm
in his soul because he has peace with God. The believer can look
forward to the resurrection. He can even look forward to the
judgment without fear. He can see the great white throne
as well as anyone else. He can see the assembled multitude
as well as anyone else. He can see the open books. He
can see the judge himself. And yet, not fear. because his
great mediator is there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who intercedes
for him, who is his advocate, who pleads his cause, and he
has peace with God. The believer can think of eternity
and not fear. He can picture an everlasting
Sunday, a never-ending existence with God, a perpetual fellowship,
and yea, he can see on the other side of that great gulf a great
hell. But he sees all this without
fear, for he has peace with God. If a man does not have peace
with God, I care not what he has. He may have great gifts
and great talents. He may have great honor and great
fame. He may have great wealth. But
if he does not have peace with God, he's the poorest man on
earth. He has nothing that will last Naked he came into this
world, and naked he shall leave. And they may carry him to the
grave with pomp and ceremony. They may bury him in a bronze
casket, and they may erect a monument, a beautiful marble monument,
over his body. They may name buildings after
him. They may leave memorials all
over this world, but it will be nothing but a pauper's funeral
if he doesn't have peace with God. Blessed is the man, happy is
the man, wrote David in the Psalms, to whom God will not charge sin.
Happy is the man whose sins are forgiven. Happy is the man who
has peace with God. And though he has great sins,
and he knows it, and he weeps over them, and he grieves over
them, and he remembers them, And he asked God to deliver him
from them and to make him a walking testimony to the glory of God,
but under it all he has peace. He has peace. And he may face
the darkest trial and the deepest sorrow and the waters may seem
to cover his soul, but underneath he has peace with God. And he
may grow old and his dark hair turn white and his shoulders
stoop and his steps slow down and he approaches the grave,
but he approaches it without fear because he has peace with
God. And he sees a vast eternity out
there preceded by a certain judgment, a righteous judgment by a holy
God in which all nations shall stand before him and all the
dead shall face him and the books will be opened, but he faces
it without fear. He has peace with God. I want to show you three things
from this text today. First of all, the foundation
of this peace. It's no vague, dreamy feeling. It's not something that is without
reason. But there's a foundation for
this peace. And then secondly, the source
of this peace. It comes from one source, one
place to get it. And then thirdly, the hand that
receives it. First of all, the foundation
of peace. Look at the text. Read it carefully. Paul said, therefore being justified
by faith, we have peace with God. Therefore being justified,
we have peace with God. The peace of the believer is
not a vague thing. It's not a dreamy thing. It's
not without reason. It's not without foundation.
He can show just cause for this feeling of peace. He has peace
with God because he's justified. That's why he has peace. He has
peace with God because he's justified. Therefore, being justified, we
have peace. No peace without justification.
Turn to Romans chapter 8. Now, as I said, the believer
is a great sinner and he knows it. He's a great sinner. I always am fearful of those
who claim to be without sin. John said they're liars. If any
man says he has not sin, he's a liar and the truth not in him.
Secondly, they make God a liar. John said if any man says he
does not have sin, he makes God a liar. Thirdly, he's deceiving
himself. He's the one that's going to
suffer the loss. He may try to convince me he
has no sin, but when he's convinced me he has no sin, he's the one
who is suffering because he's deceived himself. If any man
say he hath not sinned, he deceives himself, and the truth's not
in him. The believer knows he's sinned. He knows it well, but
he also knows his sins are forgiven. The Scripture tells us they're
blotted out. The Scripture says they are atoned
for. The Scripture says they are pardoned.
The Scripture says, though your sins be as scarlet, I'll make
them white as snow. Christ didn't die for good people.
He died for sinners. He didn't die for the righteous.
He died for the ungodly. He didn't come to seek and to
save the religious and the righteous. He came to seek and to save the
lost. God said, I'll remember their sins no more. I'll separate
them from you as far as the east is from the west. And in Romans
8, verse 34, Paul says, who is he that condemns? He challenges
heaven, he challenges earth, he challenges hell. He says,
who can condemn me? This is the man who was a blasphemer,
injurious, a persecutor of the church. This was a man that said,
I didn't even know what lust was until the scripture says,
Thou shalt not covet. But who is he that condemned
it? It is Christ that died. Here's the reason that we have
peace. We are justified by the death
of His Son. Not justified by our works, but
by His works. Not by our righteousness, but
His righteousness. Yes, the believer is a great
sinner. He knows it, he confesses it, he admits it, he faces it,
but he knows his sins are forgiven. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanseth us from all sin. In Christ, I am as holy as God. Out of Christ, the most righteous
person on this earth is as evil as Satan. In Christ, the greatest
sinner on this earth is as holy as God. That's the efficacy and
the power of the blood. It cleanses all sin, every sin. He's able to save to the uttermost
them that come to God by him. Out of Christ, the purest woman
on this earth is as evil as Satan. For to offend in one point of
the law is to be guilty of the whole law. Or the believer's a debtor, he
knows it, but his debt's been paid. He owes 10,000 times 10,000,
he's bankrupt, he has nothing by nature with which to satisfy
that debt, but he knows Jesus paid it all. All the debt I owe. Sin left a crimson stain, but
he washed it white as snow. On the books of God there's nothing
charged under my name in Christ. At the judgment bar of God there
shall not one sin, not one secret thought, not one idle word, not
one thought of foolishness be charged against one person in
Christ. Oh, we owe a debt, and we know
it, but we also know that Jesus Christ paid that debt. The believer faces the broken
law. He's broken God's law. He knows
he's broken God's law. Every believer knows he's broken
God's law, but he also knows this. He knows that the demands
of that law have been fully met by the righteous Son of God Almighty. Listen to Galatians chapter 4,
verse 4 and 5. Galatians 4, verse 4 and 5. But when the fullness of time
was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under
the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God
has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your heart, crying,
Father, Father. The believer deserves death,
and he knows that he deserves death. He knows that his sins
deserve the wrath of God. He knows that if he gets what
he deserves, he'll go to an eternal hell. But he knows he's not going
to get what he deserves because Christ has already taken it in
his person on the tree. Christ said, I lay down my life
for my sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I
lay down my life for the sheep. I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish. Never perish. Oh, if we get what
we deserve, we'll perish. But Christ said they'll never
perish. I give them eternal life, and they'll never perish. That
soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not," he said,
I will not, desert to its foe. That soul, though all hell should
endeavor to shake, I'll never, never, no, never forsake. Grace is God giving us what we
don't deserve. And mercy is God not giving us
what we do deserve. I'm not going to get what I deserve,
thank God for that. The world may cry, I want justice,
give me justice. We don't want justice, and we
know it, we want mercy. And then the believer knows that
he was naked, he was clothed in filthy rags, but now The filthy
rags have been taken away and he's been washed and clothed
in the wedding garment, the spotless robe of Christ's righteousness. He can sit down with the angels
of God and feel no shame. Not in himself, in Christ. He can sit down with the elders
of Jerusalem and feel no shame, not in himself, in Christ. He
can walk through the gates of glory and feel no shame, not
in himself, in Christ. He can come boldly before the
very presence of God's awesome throne and feel no shame. He
that believeth shall not be ashamed, not in himself, in Christ. We have peace with God. There's
no warfare, there's no enmity. God is reconciled with sons of
God. And sons of God have peace with
God. But they have a foundation for
that peace. It's because they're justified. It's not some vague, dreamy imagination. It's not something that they
cooked up within their own imagination. It has a foundation. I have peace
with God because I'm justified. Now, Isaiah wrote twice, once
in Isaiah chapter 48. Verse 22, and once in Isaiah
57, verse 21, there is no peace, saith my God to the wicked. There's no peace. You're not
going to find peace in religion. You're not going to find peace
in music. You're not going to find peace
in great knowledge. You're not going to find peace
In philosophy, you're not going to find peace anywhere but in
Christ. Now, let's look back at our text.
Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. What's the source? Through our
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, they tell me that the whole
world is looking for peace. They tell me that men are in
search of peace. They're searching for it in education,
in knowledge. They're searching for it in nature. They're searching for it in communion
with others. They're searching for it in vague
philosophies. They're searching for it everywhere. I'm going to tell you the only
source of true peace. Now, you can only have peace
with God. And this is the peace we're looking
for, peace in the soul, peace with God. And the only way you
can have peace is to be justified, to have your sins put away, to
have the debt paid, to have the broken law satisfied, to have
your filthy rags taken off and be clothed with his righteousness.
You've got to be justified to have peace. But we can't be justified
by our works, we can't be justified by our philosophy, we can't be
justified by our personal serenity. Peace comes through Christ. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God, and it comes
through our Lord Jesus Christ. We're not justified by any goodness
of our own. We're not justified because of
any work that we've done, any prayer that we've prayed, any
decision that we've made, any religion we've adopted, any doctrines
we've memorized. We're justified by Christ. And
he is our peace. Turn to Ephesians chapter 2.
I want everybody that's got a Bible this morning in this congregation,
I'm going to give you time to find it, everybody that's got
a Bible, everybody that has one in your hand, turn to Ephesians
2. Ephesians 2, verse 14, and mark these five words. These five words. Now, Paul said
these five golden words in Romans 5, I have peace with God. How,
Paul? Where did it come from? What's
the source? All right, look at Ephesians 2, 14. For He is our
peace. There it is. That's where you'll
find it. That's the source of it. That's
the key that unlocks the mystery of all ages. How God can be just
and justify you filthy, ungodly sinners. Us filthy, ungodly sinners. There's the key. There's the
answer to how God can deal with a sinful man and reckon him innocent. How God can deal with a fallen
man and reckon him righteous. How God Almighty can hear the
prayer of a man whose very imaginations are evil continually. He is our
peace. Not it is our peace. He, a person. You see what I'm saying? And
I'm getting it from the Word of God. Time proven. Trial proven. He is our peace. How God can
deal with a sinful man and reckon him innocent. How God can be
just and holy and yet Justify you and me, how God Almighty
can admit into his holy presence a sinner. He can do it in Christ. Christ stood in our place. Isaiah
53, verse 6 says, He was wounded for our transgressions, and by
his stripes we are healed. Christ suffered for our sins,
just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. You know
what 1 Peter 3, 18 says? Christ suffered for our sins,
the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God. Christ
obeyed the law. What the law could not do, Paul
wrote, in that it was weak through the flesh. The law wasn't weak,
the flesh was weak. The law cannot be a savior because
we can't keep it. But God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh. Christ
went to the grave for us. Christ was buried and rose again
for us, and Christ ascended to the right hand of God, and there
he intercedes for us. He's done all, paid all, suffered
all, fulfilled all that is needful for my redemption. I have peace
with God. He's my peace. When I search
for peace, I don't look within my own heart. The heart is deceitful
and desperately wicked. Who can know it? When I search
for peace, I don't look into my own mind, because the mind
of the natural man is enmity against God. My thoughts, God
says, are not your thoughts. When I search for peace, I don't
look to my works, because even our righteousness is filthy rags
in God's sight. When I search for peace, I don't
even look to my faith, because there is no perfect faith. The
devil believes in trembles. When I look for peace, I look
up yonder at the right hand of God, and I see a man. I see a man. I see a man who
was foreordained before the world as my surety. I see a man who
was typified in every sacrifice and every offering of Moses,
Aaron, Isaiah, Jeremiah, David. I see a man who came down here
in the likeness of sinful flesh and was born of a virgin, and
the angel said, This is the Son of God. I see a man who was perfect
in all that he said, perfect in all that he thought, perfect
in all that he did. I see a man meeting every trial,
every jot and tittle of God's holy law. I see him obeying it
perfectly. I see a man going to the cross
of Calvary, and there, for all the sins of every believer, suffering
and dying, forsaken of the Father, I see a man put in a tomb, and
the rock rolled in front of that tomb, and the power of the Roman
government sealing But I see a man coming out of that tomb,
triumphant, victorious, over hell, over sin, over death, over
the grave. I see a man ascending to the
right hand of the Father and there being seated in honor and
glory. Sit thou on my right hand. I
hear the Father say to that man, and I'll make your enemies your
footstool. When I look for peace, where
do I look? I look to the right hand of God, and I see a man. And I hear God saying, there's
one God and there's one mediator between God and me, and that's
the man, Christ Jesus. And I see written on his breastplate
is my great high priest, my name. And he prays for me. He prays for me. And when I see
that victorious man, when I see that conquering man, when I see
that beloved man at God's right hand accepted, I know I have peace with God
because everything the Father could charge me with, that man
fulfilled. Everything the Father could expect
from me, that man fulfilled. Everything the righteous Father's
justice demanded of me, that man paid in full. And my heart may be tossed about
by the troubled sea. There may be doubts and fears
rolling over my soul. There may be trials and sorrows
through which I have to walk that almost overcome me. But
every time I face these mountains of doubt and fear, I look back
to the right hand of God and I see the man, the man Christ
Jesus. There was an interesting story
that came out of the out of British history. I read about it this
week. There was a famous Englishman named Lord Nithdale. He fell into disfavor with the
King and with the Parliament, and he was sentenced to die for
a political crime. He had been charged and tried
and found guilty and put in prison. He was well guarded, but they
did allow his wife to visit him. He was kept in prison awaiting
execution, and one day his wife came in to visit him. And during
that visit, she changed clothes with him. And that man, dressed
in his wife's clothes, walked out of that prison and was never
found. She remained behind in his clothes,
taking his place. Out of sin's prison I have flown,
dressed in a righteousness not my own. Christ Jesus came down
here and visited me in my prison of sin, and he changed places
with me. And wearing his righteousness,
I went free, and wearing my skin of sin, he stayed behind to be
executed in my place. There's no mediator but one,
and that's Jesus Christ. There's no purgatory but one,
and that's Calvary. There's no sacrifice for sin
but one, and that's the blood of the Savior. There's no priest
but one, and that's Jesus Christ the Lord. There's no perfect
work but one, and that's His righteousness. You want peace? You're not going to find it in
some weird, mysterious saying. You're going to find it in a
person. You're going to find it where
God invested it. You're going to find it where God put it in
Christ. I know there are a lot of people
who abuse this. I know there are a lot of people
who misuse this doctrine of grace, this gospel of grace. But there
are a lot of people who abuse ropes. They hang themselves with
them, but there's a lot of good been done with them. The gospel
of Jesus Christ giveth peace. That's the source of it. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. That's where you'll get it. And
then, last of all, the hand that receives peace. Therefore, being
justified, not by works, by faith. not by good deeds that leave
too many of us out, by faith. The means by which a man obtains
an interest in Christ is faith. The means by which a man obtains
justification is by faith. The means by which a man obtains
peace with God is by faith. It's not, therefore, being justified
by works or by baptism or by decisions faith. There's but one thing for you
to do in order to be justified and have peace with God, and
that's believe God's Word, believe God's Son. Listen to these scriptures. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, have everlasting life. Verse 18, John 3, he that
believeth on him is not condemned, he that believeth not is condemned
already. John 3, 36, he that believeth
on the Son of God hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not
the Son of God shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth
on him. go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature he that believeth, and is baptized
shall be saved." Acts 13, 39. Listen to this verse
of Scripture, the thirteenth chapter of Acts, verse 39. The
apostle wrote, "...and by him all that believe are justified
from all things." from all things, not some things, not the greatest
things, not the most wicked things, from all things from which you
could not be justified by the law of Moses. And by him all
that believe, old and young, rich and poor, white and black,
all that believe. Now this saving faith is not
the possession of everybody. Everybody doesn't have it. You
know the scripture says in 2 Thessalonians 3, 2, all men do not have faith. And this faith is not a matter
of, a mere matter of feeling. I know a lot of religious people,
I stand where it happens, praise God, I have faith. I ought to
know I stand where it happens. A lot of emotional hogwash is
what most of that is. You know, our Lord said, they
went out and sowed the seed, and it fell among the thorns,
and it sprang up, fell among the stony ground, it sprang up.
They received the word with joy, He said, but it soon withered
away. I don't want a phony joy. I want
a permanent faith. This faith is not a matter of
feeling. It's not a matter of emotionalism.
It's not a matter of experience. This faith is not a matter of
intellect. When they saw the miracles which
he did, many believed on him. Why did they believe on him?
They saw some strange miracle. He said, I know why you follow
me. You follow me because you're going to get some more loaves
and fish and you're hungry. This faith is not a bargain with
God. I'll follow you, Lord. Let me
go home first and bury my father. What is this faith? Bishop J.C. Riles said this, I think it's
good. Faith is the hand of the soul that lays hold on Christ. It receives Him. Out of the depths
of need it reaches out and says with Peter, Lord save me or I
perish. I see old Peter sinking beneath
that water. The waves are high and the wind
is blowing and he's fearful and Christ is standing there above
him and he reaches out. And he says, Lord, save me or
I perish. It's not emotionalism. It's not
just a feeling. It's a desperation. It's a move
of desperation. It's a move of need. Lord, save
me. I reach out to you. No use reaching
out to man. He can't help himself. No use
reaching out to the preacher. He can't save himself. No use
reaching out to the statues and the pictures of religion and
the crucifixes and kissing them and rubbing your hands all over
them and reaching out to all these other things. Lord, I'm
reaching out to you. Like Paul wrote in Hebrews 6.18,
lay hold on Christ for faith there. And then secondly, faith
is the eye of the soul that looks to Christ beyond Satan's charges and sin's fears. As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that
whosoever looketh. Faith is the eye of the soul
that sees in Christ all I need. I see in Christ all I need. I don't see a thing in me, and
I don't see a thing in you, and I don't see a thing in all these
stained-glass windows and flickering candles either. But I see perfection
in his Son, my representative. Faith is the mouth of the soul
that eats Christ's flesh and drinks his blood. Faith is the
mouth of the soul that takes in the person of Christ. There's
room for Him in my inn. I want Him as the guest of honor,
don't you? Faith is the foot of the soul
that walks in the light. If we walk in the light as He
is in the light, we have fellowship with Him. I want to walk with
God, don't you? Faith is the heart of the soul
that really loves Christ. If any man loved not our Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. Maranatha, let him be accursed
when Jesus comes. That's what that means, if he
doesn't love Christ. Faith honors the Father, glorifies
the Son, and brings hope to the sinner. That's what faith is. It's a hand of the soul that
lays hold on Christ. Oh, there will be a lot of people
who want to turn your attention to something or someone else. They want to get glory from your
flesh. Faith is the eye of the soul
that looks only to Christ. He sees a lot of imperfections
in the people of Christ. He sees no imperfection in him.
Somebody says, well, I don't go to church because of the hypocrites.
There are a lot of them. But our Lord's not a hypocrite. I don't go to church, I don't
worship God, I don't believe in Christ because I know a man
that he said he believed in Christ and he didn't hold out." Well,
there are a lot of imperfections in the people of God, but you're
looking to the wrong place. Don't look to the people, look
to the Savior. You won't find any fault in Him.
They tried to pilot-examine Him with with the microscope and
the magnifying glass of every law he could find. He said, I
find no fault in him. I find no fault in him. The Heavenly
Father couldn't find any fault in him. He said, this is my Son
in whom I'm well pleased. And you can't find any fault
in him either. I'm telling you to look to him.
Faith is the eye of the soul that looks to Christ. beyond
all this mess, religious mess that we're in, looks to Christ.
Faith is the heart that beats with a love for Christ. Faith
is the foot that walks with Him. That's what faith is. Not emotionalism. Confidence in Christ. Confidence
in Christ. Our Father, we thank Thee for
this peace of passive understanding. We don't hope to explain it to
a natural heart, but we pray that Thy Holy Spirit would reveal
it to the hearts of those who have been touched by Thee, who
have been set apart, who have been singled out who have been
made thine own. May the Holy Spirit apply this
message to every one of our hearts. Strengthen our faith, for we
know the more we believe, the more peace we are going to have,
the more joy will fill our hearts. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with thee. but it's through our Lord Jesus
Christ, to whom be all glory and all praise in his name. Amen.

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