Category Archives: Faith From The Beginning

Saving Faith SAVING faith is believing God’s Word, believing that He is trustworthy to fulfill His promise and able to carry it out. Faith is not reasoning about or feeling that Word, but simply believing it because God says it. … Continue reading →

The Reward of Faith “For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness’ . . . . No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in … Continue reading →

For Us Also 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 … Continue reading →

Sarah and Abraham Were Dead IN Genesis 18:11 we read this: “Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.” Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in years. … Continue reading →

What Did Abram Believe? NOW what did God ask Abram to believe? He asked him to believe what He had said concerning a promised son. But more than that, God asked him to believe in a long-promised son, a long-delayed … Continue reading →

Abraham’s Desire LET us return to the narrative of Abraham: After God has promised to protect Abram and reward him, Abram begins to question God emphatically. He reminds the Lord that he is not primarily interested at all in the … Continue reading →

Genesis 15 CONCERNING Abraham’s faith then we have to ask the question, therefore, what did Abraham believe? What was it that God said, which Abraham believed, and which saved him and was counted to him for righteousness? We have the … Continue reading →

The Ground of Faith “What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the … Continue reading →

Further Evidence MANY other passages in Scripture corroborate the great fact that God will not bring judgment upon the earth until the saints of God are first caught away. Speaking of the coming day of the Lord and the tribulation, … Continue reading →

What a Difference WHILE the Bible teaches beyond a question of a doubt the rapture of all saints before the tribulation, it also shows that there will be different results. In 1 Corinthians 3 we have two classes of believers … Continue reading →

Two Kinds of Believers WE face the question squarely: Who will be raptured at Jesus’ coming, which we believe to be imminent? Some tell us that the Church will have to pass through the tribulation. This is called the post-tribulation … Continue reading →

The Rapture in Genesis “Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there” (Genesis 19:22). THESE words were spoken to a worldly, carnal man of God by the name of Lot, just before God destroyed Sodom and … Continue reading →

Needs But Little – Continued MOSES was indeed, the salt of the earth in those days. When finally God did come to judge Israel, it was because the salt had lost its power and there was found no intercessor. In … Continue reading →

Needs But Little IT does not take a great deal of salt to flavor and to preserve, usually only a pinch. So, too, a few believers, yes, one believer, has more power with God than a world full of diplomats … Continue reading →

Salt of the Earth JESUS said of this company of believers, “You are the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13). Yes, indeed, God’s people are the salt of the earth. Salt retards corruption. Salt will not prevent corruption from setting … Continue reading →

Standing In the Gap THE world and professing Christendom are unaware that the only reason the hell of God’s judgment has not yet fallen upon the nations is that there is in this world today a company, a small, despised … Continue reading →

Most Important People MANY important lessons lie here in the story of Abraham, the intercessor. First is the importance of believers in the world. The most important people in all the world are that little company of often unrecognized but … Continue reading →

Speaking Boldly AFTER each test Abraham’s faith becomes stronger. In Genesis 18 we have wonderful evidence of this fact. Here Abraham becomes the great prevailing intercessor for his backslidden nephew, Lot. The wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah had reached its … Continue reading →

Normal Experience THIS is the law of the Christian life. God is constantly testing and trying us, passing us through the fire and under the rod, that out of each testing and each trial we may emerge stronger, purer and … Continue reading →

Abraham the Intercessor . . . but Abraham still stood before the LORD (Genesis 18:22). FAITH which is never tested will never grow strong. Faith must be exercised or it will ever be weak. This is the reason God permits … Continue reading →