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WHAT was true of Abraham is true today. Salvation and justification still come by believing God’s Word concerning His Son, His miraculously conceived, supernaturally born Son. That is what John says in 1 John 5:9-10:

“If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son” (emphasis is the author’s).

The truth here is as clear as it can be stated: Salvation is believing what God says about His Son, Jesus Christ. God knows of no other way of redemption for lost humanity.

The question at this point is, Have you believed on the Son of God? If you have, then you are saved. If you have not, then you are still in your sin. What is needed is not reason, not feeling, not emotion, but faith. Moreover, Abraham received no visions, emotions, or fleshly sensations, nothing but the promise of God in His Word. And this is God’s way of salvation, for Paul ends the chapter on Abraham’s faith in his Epistle to the Romans with these important words:

“But the words ‘it was counted to him’ were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification” (Romans 4:23-25).

Adapted and modified excerpts from Studies in the Life of Abraham by M. R. De Haan (1891-1964)
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