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The Faith of Jesus

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 25, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 45.

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The Faith of Jesus

The book of Revelation, without any question, must have its application in the Christian dispensation, for it was not written until some ninety-six years after the birth of Christ. In that book we find the text, “Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Then those who have the faith of Jesus, according to this word, are commandment keepers. They do not manufacture the commandments; they keep them. The commandments of God come from a higher than human source. In the same way, the text is clear in showing that this people keep the faith of Jesus. The text does not say that they keep their faith in Jesus, but that they keep the faith of Jesus. In other words, there is bestowed upon them as a gift the powerful faith that was manifested by Jesus Himself when He was here upon earth. That faith which He possessed enabled Him to conquer every besetment of Satan, and to come off victorious in everything. That faith enabled Him to endure all of His anguish and His suffering, to pass through all of the ridicule and the tortures of His tormentors. And that same faith finally enabled Him to triumph over every one of the superhuman efforts of Satan to cause His overthrow. That faith enabled Him to keep His Father’s commandments; for He says, “I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.” John 15: 10.
His faith having enabled Him to triumph completely over Satan and every form of sin, and in human flesh to live a spotless life, He bestows that faith upon us as a precious gift. It has been tested and tried, and in no particular found wanting. Now if we will but receive it, He offers His faith to us as a gift, the same as He offers us His righteousness; and it is His design that the faith by which He triumphed shall be imparted to us as the precious gift through which we shall triumph over sin the same as He did.
The foregoing text quoted from Revelation is a prophecy which states a great fact. It tells of a class of people that would meet the great wrath of the beast which would be seeking to enforce some false worship, and that the power through which they would triumph was their loyalty to the commandments of God, while holding the faith of Jesus.