Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Interpretation
Saving faith is about completely relying on Christ for salvation and grace.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of having a direct and personal relationship with Christ for the purpose of salvation. He conveys that true faith is not merely intellectual belief but an active trust and reliance on Jesus, acknowledging His role in justification, sanctification, and eternal life through God's grace.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to illustrate the importance of faith in Christ for salvation.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.
We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
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