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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 17.

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THE FAITH OF JESUS

By William Mayhew Healey

IN previous papers, commenting upon this interesting verse in the book of Revelation, Elder Healey has called attention to the fact that those who fulfil this scripture possess the striking characteristics of keeping “the commandments of God,” having “the faith of Jesus” and “the patience of the saints,” and that they live right at the close of time. Last week he dwelt particularly upon “the patience of the saints.”

THE FAITH OF JESUS

This Faith Imparted to Those Prepared for His Coming — Some of Its Articles
By WILLIAM MAYHEW HEALEY
WHEN Christ comes, He will find a company of people who “keep the commandments of God,” and have passed through trials and persecutions until they have developed “the patience of the saints.” The reason why this company keep God’s commandments, and endure so patiently the afflictions that are poured out upon them, is easily seen in the statement that they have “the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14:12.

THE WORLD’S WEALTH IN COMPARISON

Faith in Jesus is worth more than all the wealth of this world. This faith brings pardon for sin. It brings comfort, peace, and joy, even in the midst of trouble and sorrow; and its final reward is eternal life. But the faith of the Lord’s people when He comes for them is more than faith in Jesus. It is the faith of Jesus.
In the seventeenth chapter of Luke, we have the words of Christ regarding the great wickedness that will be in the world at His coming. Continuing the subject into the eighteenth chapter, He says in verse eight, “Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?”

A FAITH JUST LIKE HIS

The faith of Jesus must be a faith just like His. It must believe just what He believed, and as He believed it.
The faith of Jesus fed thousands of people from a few loaves. It stilled the tempest on raging Galilee. It healed the sick, cast out devils, restored the raving demoniac to his right mind. It even raised the dead. And this is the kind of faith His children will have when He comes.

SOME THINGS JESUS BELIEVED

Consider some of the things Jesus believed, for by them we may know some of the things His people will believe when they have His faith.
Jesus believed that His Father heard Him pray, not merely when He went into the synagogue, but at all times. When praying at the tomb of Lazarus, He said to His Father, “I knew that Thou hearest Me always.” John 11:42.
Jesus looked forward to a time when it would be so with His disciples. “And in that day ye shall ask Me no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it you in My name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.” John 16:23, 24, A. R. V., margin.
At the beginning of Christ’s ministry, He announced His faith in the law of God; and when setting before His disciples the things in which He believed, and the work He had come to do, He said, in His inaugural address on the mount, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.” Matt. 5:17.
Here we learn that Christ’s faith was a belief that God’s law as it existed at that time could not be improved. And as it commanded the keeping of the seventh-day Sabbath, the conclusion unavoidably follows that those who have His faith, in the closing of the world’s history, will believe the same thing.
Christ believed in baptism by immersion, for He was baptized by John, in Jordan.
He believed in the gift of the Holy Spirit; and it came upon Him when He, after His baptism, “came up out of the water.”
He believed in the resurrection of the dead, both good and bad. “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” John 5:28, 29.
He believed that after He should go away to His Father, He would come again for His people. “In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:2, 3.
He believed in the writings of Moses, and reproved those who did not. “Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me.” John 5:46.
He believed Moses’ account of the Flood, and of Noah, and of the ark; for He said that the last days would be like the time of the Flood. “As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matt. 24:37-39.
He believed in the Bible story of Jonah, and all the details of his being swallowed by a monster of the deep, and remaining inside of it for three days. Hear Him about that incident: “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matt. 12:40.
Unless we believe these and many other things that Jesus believed, we can not truthfully be said to have His faith. If we do not have it, how can we be saved at His coming? For at that time His people will have “the faith of Jesus.”