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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 41.

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Faith

By J. F. BAHLER

J. F. BAHLER
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him.” Heb. 11: 6. We can not please God without living faith in him. A faith that will keep the commandments is the faith that is needed. “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” Rom. 3: 31. A faith that comes short of this is not a saving faith.
When justified by faith and through faith, we are made Christlike, because that justification embraces the keeping of Jehovah’s precepts. Faith never makes void the power of God’s word in our hearts, but it fixes, or establishes, the ten commandments in the heart of each child of God.
The Holy Ghost is a witness to the fact that God will put his law into our hearts, and sin shall have no more dominion over us, for the divine word shall control us, and thus our sins are remembered no more against us. “Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” Heb. 10: 15-17.
We should desire this holy condition, and should live and pray for it; for inspiration declares: “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11: 24.
Keene, Tex.