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Saving Faith — Don Fortner
(Tune: #52 — Majestic Sweetness— CM)
1. The sinner who truly believes,
And trusts the Son of God,
Full pardon from the Lord receives —
Redemption through His blood.
2. The faith that lays hold on the Lamb,
And brings salvation home,
Confesses sin, and guilt, and shame,
And looks to Christ alone.
3. It says to the mountains, “Depart,”
Between God and my soul.
It binds my broken, heavy heart,
And makes this sinner whole
4. Faith bids my many sins confessed,
Forever to be gone;
And reckons true what God attests, —
I’m righteous in His Son!
5. And now I know (Oh, precious faith!)
That I am forgiven,
That I have passed to life from death,
Predestined to heaven!
“It is not blasphemy to say what
God has said. It is blasphemy to replace what God has said with the words and
wisdom of man. What He says plainly is what He means and all else is
blasphemy!”
Pastor Gary Shepard
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“And
he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.” (Luke 7:50)
Some
men preach as if they are scared to death one of the non-elect might get saved!
They throw up barbed wire, razor fences all around the gospel, doing everything
they can to keep sinners from believing on the Son of God.
I never cease to be amazed that the heads of sinful
men often swell with such dizziness, under the intoxication of heart-pride,
that they imagine themselves smarter than God and presume to assert that the
very language of Holy Scripture is heretical and blasphemous, if not qualified
by their own “explanations.” Recently, an imaginary theologian, who thinks he
has come to “new light”, has vehemently asserted that anyone who uses the terms
“saving faith” and “effectual faith” is a blaspheming heretic. Were his
assertions not so serious and deluding, they would be laughable.
“When Jesus
heard it, he
marveled,
and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel” (Matt.
8:10). “Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even
as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour” (Matt.
We recognize and rejoice in the fact that faith in
Christ is the gift and operation of God the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:8-9; Col.
1:12). No sinner can or will believe on the Son of God, except God the Holy
Spirit graciously cause him to do so by omnipotent, effectual grace (John 5:40;
6:37, 44; Ps. 65:4; 110:3). Every gospel preacher proclaims, and every saved
sinner knows, that it is Christ (the solitary object of our faith) who has
redeemed, justified, and saved us by free grace alone. He has reconciled us to
our God.
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Yet the Word of God
plainly declares that we receive the atonement by faith in Christ (Rom.
Faith in Christ is not a notion, or a doctrine, or a principle. It is
the heart confidence of every needy sinner who looks to Christ as his only
Savior that causes him to confess, “My Lord, and my God” (John
The breath in my lungs is God’s gift. He enables me to breathe. Yet, it
is my breath and my breathing that is the evidence that God still gives me
life. And the breathing of my body is as necessary to my living as God’s gift
of life. The two cannot be separated. If you doubt that, try putting a plastic
bag over your face and see if you can live without breathing!
So it is with faith. We “are
the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Gal.
And “your faith in Christ”
is just as necessary, just as vital to your everlasting salvation, and just as
precious (2 Pet. 1:1), as God’s decree of election, Christ’s accomplished
redemption, and the Holy Spirit’s effectual call. — “Without faith it is
impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him” (Heb. 11:6).
Do you, like the Philippian jailer of old, ask, “What
must I do to be saved?” I do not hesitate to answer with Paul and Silas, “Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts
Do you
ask, “How can I know that I am saved?” Answer this one question — “Dost thou
believe on the Son of God?” It does not matter whether you can answer “What
did you know when you first professed faith in Christ?” or “Was the man
preaching a sound gospel preacher?” or “When did you believe?” Those questions
are totally irrelevant. This is the only question to be answered — “Dost
thou believe on the Son of God?” If you now trust the Lord Jesus Christ,
salvation is yours.
As for
those imaginary theologians who are offended by these things, as far as I am
concerned, if men find the language of Holy Scripture offensive, I do not
hesitate to offend them. As Bro. Gary Shepard put it, “It is not blasphemy to say what God has said. It is
blasphemy to replace what God has said with the words and wisdom of man. What
He says plainly is what He means and all else is blasphemy!” Be assured, that which men
call “new light” is old satanic darkness!
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Grace Bulletin
GRACE BAPTIST
CHURCH of DANVILLE
Telephone (859) 236-8235 - E-Mail don@donfortner.com
Donald S. Fortner, Pastor
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