{"id":706,"date":"2011-07-14T23:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=706"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:19:10","slug":"the-word-of-god-john-gill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"What is Faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a sevenfold definition of faith I<br \/>\npicked up from a sermon by Ebenezer Erskine a long, long time<br \/>\nago.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Faith is the gift of God. It is not the product of a free will. It is<br \/>\nthe operation of the Spirit of God by the Word of God and is<br \/>\nthe parent of all other grace.<br \/>\n2. Faith has Christ Jesus as its principal object, for it is faith in<br \/>\nChrist Jesus \u2014 our Lord, Savior, Mediator and Hope. Christ is<br \/>\nthe bread; faith is the mouth which eats. Christ is the brazen<br \/>\nserpent; faith is the eye that looks.<br \/>\n3. Faith is receiving Christ, not just hearing about Him or<br \/>\nacknowledging Him, but a committal to Him. Is Christ food?<br \/>\nThen eat! Is Christ living water? Then drink! Is Christ the<br \/>\nrefuge? Then flee to Him! Is Christ Lord? Then worship Him!<br \/>\n4. Faith is to rest upon Christ. \u201cRest in the Lord\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Psalm%2037.7\">Psalm 37:7<\/a>).<br \/>\nFaith is not an isolated act based upon an intellectual<br \/>\nknowledge of some facts, but is a trusting in and resting upon<br \/>\nChrist to perform all that I need.<\/p>\n<p>5. Faith is to rest upon Christ alone! The word \u201calone\u201d is<br \/>\nimportant. Most men, by nature, try to add something to the<br \/>\nsacrifice and intercession of Christ. God has established a<br \/>\nbridge of communication between heaven and earth by the<br \/>\nobedience and blood of Christ, and every other passage is<br \/>\nblocked by the holiness and justice of God.<br \/>\n6. Faith rests upon Christ as he is presented in the Gospel. We<br \/>\nask no other sign than the Word of God. Faith is to believe the<br \/>\nrecord that God hath given concerning His Son. \u2014 \u201cHe that<br \/>\nhath the Son of God hath life.\u201d<br \/>\n7. Faith rests upon Christ for salvation, sanctification,<br \/>\nrighteousness and full redemption! The goal of faith is the<br \/>\nsalvation of our souls; and this our Lord undertook in the<br \/>\neternal covenant and which He completed on Calvary when<br \/>\nHe cried, \u201cIt is finished!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a sevenfold definition of faith I picked up from a sermon by Ebenezer Erskine a long, long time ago. 1. Faith is the gift of God. It is not the product of a free will. It is the operation of the Spirit of God by the Word of God and is the parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}