The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 442

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XXXVIII.

The Faculty

of Faith.

"As many

as are led

by the

Spirit

of God, they are the sons of

God."

Rom.

viii. 14.

Saving faith should always be understood as a disposition of man's spiritual being by which he can become assured that the Christ after the Scripture, the only Savior,

We

is his

Savior.

by which he can become asAs water is in the pipes, altho not running just now, or as sured. gas is in the tubes, altho not burning, so by virtue of regeneration is faith present as a disposition in man's spiritual being, even tho he believes not yet, or believes no more. If the house is connected with the city's water-works the water can run; but for this reason nor does the gas always bum. That in it does not always run your house the water can flow, and gas can burn, is the difference between your dwelling and your neighbor's which is not so conwrite purposely a

" disposition "

;

nected.

a similar difference between the regenerate and the unregenerate; that is, between him who is united to Jesus and him The difference is not that the former believes and 7iot so united.

There

is

always believes, but only this, that he can believe. For the unregenerate can not believe; he has purposely destroyed the precious and divine gift whereby he could have joined himself to the life of God. God gave him eyes to see, but he has purposely blinded himHence he does not see Jesus. The living Christ does not self. Not so the regenerate child of God. True, he also exist for him. is a sinner; he also has purposely blinded himself, but an operation is performed upon him, restoring his eyesight, so that now he can see. And this is the \m^\&ri\.&^ faculty of faith. This faculty touches the consciousness.

As soon

as the fact that Christ

is

the

only Savior and my Savior, as an undoubted, firmly established, and

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