Six Things Believers Will Do

1). Believers so trust Christ as to renounce every other ground of confidence. (Philippians 3:7-9).

2). Believers glory only in the righteousness of Christ and count their own to be filthy rags. (Isaiah 64:6).

3). Believers rejoice in the cross of substitution, glorying in nothing else. (Galatians 6:14).

4).Believers love the Lord Jesus supremely and will so order their lives as to avoid commitments and associations which hinder fellowship with Him. (Luke 14:26-27).

5). Believers will continue in the faith, for true believers never quit. (1 John 2:19).

6). Believers obey the Lord’s commandments, not in order to gain His favor but because they love Him and dwell in His favor. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). Pastor Henry T. Mahan (bulletin 1987)

The Difference Between True Faith And False Faith

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5).

I recently listened to a message from this text by Pastor Henry Mahan and he gave these following points on what false faith can never produce.

Here is the Sermon Audio link to the message:

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=3907195043

1). False faith can never produce a broken heart over sin against God. David, when he sinned said, “Against thee and thee only have I sinned.” (Psalm 51:4).True faith will readily confess sin unto the Lord and beg for mercy (Luke 18:13).

2). False faith will never produce a heart that hungers and thirsts for righteousness in Christ Jesus alone. False faith is always going about to establish a righteousness of their own making (Rom. 10:1-4). True faith will find all the righteousness God has for a sinner is in Christ alone (Rom. 4:6-8; Phil. 3:7-9).

3). False faith will never own its total inability to please God. Where true faith is found in the heart of a sinner there is a confession of total dependence upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone (2 Tim. 1:12). Job said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” (Job 13:15).

4). False faith will never own the absolute Lordship of Christ and willingly bow to His will in all things (Psalm 110:3).True faith, the faith of God’s elect, will own and bow to His Lordship (Titus 1:1).As Job said in true faith, “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” (Job 1:21).

DOYOU LOVE GOD’S SALVATION?

"Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, let God be magnified" (Psalm 70:4).

Every believer can truly identify and say with David, that we love the salvation that God has abundantly, eternally and sovereignly given to the poor and needy sinner in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no doubt that everyone is in need of salvation (Rom. 3:23), but few seem to have any real interest. The warning of scripture is, "how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation" (Heb. 2:3). Why does the true believer love the salvation of God? Let me give you several scriptural reasons.

1). We love God’s salvation because of the experience of it in the heart. This salvation is not only a perfect work accomplished for us at Calvary with His justifying blood atonement, it is also a work of God the Holy Spirit making application to the sinner’s heart (John 16:8-15). Salvation that is revealed in scripture is an experience of the grace of God revealing Christ to the heart (Phil. 1:6).

2). We love God’s salvation because of the method of it (1 Peter 3:18). The method of this salvation was devised, implemented and executed by God Almighty. It is the way of sovereign grace through the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ who satisfied the demands of God’s justice and supplied every need for the guilty sinner (Phil. 4:19).

3). We love God’s salvation because of the sureness of it (Rom. 4:16). We run no risk when we trust the eternal welfare of our soul upon Jesus Christ the Righteous; it is truly a safe salvation (Psa. 62:6-8). He guarantees and gives eternal life to all those who believe on His name (John 3:36).

4). We love God’s salvation because of the completeness of it (Col. 2:9-10). Nothing remains unfinished or lacking. God’s salvation is not waiting upon the sinner to add something to make it complete or effectual. Only that which God provided will be accepted (Gen. 22: 8). Sin is put away (Heb. 9:26), redemption is accomplished (Heb. 9:12), righteousness is established (Phil. 3:7-9) and reconciliation is achieved (2 Cor.5:18).

5). We love God’s salvation because of the Person of it (1 John 5:10-12). Jesus Christ Himself is the sum, substance and subject matter of the gospel (Rom. 1:1-3). "He is altogether Lovely" (Song of Sol. 5:16). Salvation is not in a profession, place nor a position but rather in a glorious Person.