Good post

byTONY PHELPSonSeptember 24, 2024| Comment

Faith is not a meritorious work; the New Testament never says that a man is saved on account of his faith, but always that he is saved through his faith. Faith is the means which the Holy Spirit uses to apply to the individual soul the benefits of Christ’s death. And faith is a very simple thing; it simply means the receiving of a gift; it simply means that abandoning the vain effort of earning our way into God’s presence we accept the gift of salvation which Christ offers so full and free. Such is the doctrine—let us not be afraid of the word—such is the doctrine of justification by faith.J. GRESHAM MACHEN | God Transcendent and Other Selected Sermons, ed. Ned Bernard Stonehouse (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1949), 86.