FAITH-JESUS
CHRIST-in
Forgiveness
is available for all sins, without exception. Forgiveness is received freely
through trusting Christ. And trusting Christ involves confessing sin as sin and
turning away from it to embrace the ways of God with joy.
Bethlehem Baptist
Church
A Statement on Divorce and Remarriage in the Life of Bethlehem Baptist Church,
May 2, 1989, www.DesiringGod.org.
As the act of
healing through the eyes of the Israelites and the brazen serpent went
together; so, in the act of justifying, these two, faith and Christ, have a
mutual relation, and must always concur- faith as the action which apprehendeth, Christ as the object which is apprehended; so
that neither the passion of Christ saveth without
faith, nor doth faith help unless it be in Christ, its object.
Daniel
Cawdray
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 104.
Faith is only
as reliable and helpful as the trustworthiness of its object; and Christian
faith is powerful and effective because the object of faith, Jesus Christ, is
infinitely powerful and absolutely dependable. Christian faith never fails,
because the One in whom that faith is placed never fails.
John
MacArthur
Ephesians, Moody, 1986, p. 358.
The object of
saving faith is not a creed, not a church, not a pastor, not a set of rituals
or ceremonies. Jesus is the object of saving faith.
John MacArthur
The Gospel According to Jesus, © John MacArthur, 1988, p. 112.
Christ is…not
primarily an example for faith but the object of faith.
J.
Gresham Machen
Historic Christianity, The
Witness of Paul.