“Abraham Believed God”
by E.W. Bullinger
Religion versus Christianity
In this short 3 chapter work by Bullinger (Brethren, Hyperdispensationalist), he examines Abraham’s belief in God. It is written for our sake, what do we need? and God has spoken! are his chapters.
CONTENTS
Baxter Directions for a Peaceful Death is an article of 15 points on a Christian approaching his death and what he should be thinking about. This theme is good for the sick, but everybody should also meditate on these things. (Baxter is reformed).
1. Written for our sake
2. What do we need?
3. God has spoken!
“For what saith the Scripture? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness'” (Romans 4:3).
In these words we have the essence of the Gospel of God, and of His Grace. That Gospel is explained in Romans 1:1 to be the “Gospel of God.” God’s Good News; and faith cometh by hearing it. This is the Gospel that Abraham believed; he believed God; believed what God said. The patriarch’s feet were firmly planted on God’s ground; his eyes were fixed on God Himself. He had no shadow of doubt as to his possessing, in due time, all that God had promised. He did not hope it, still less did he doubt it, or go on asking for what God said He had given.
Oh! how few comparatively among the children of God really believe God, and without any reserve take this blessed ground of having died with Christ, of being risen with Christ, of being forgiven all sins, accepted in the Beloved, and sealed by the Holy Spirit! At times they hope it; when all goes smoothly with them they can venture to speak hopefully, but when things go against them, they feel the working of the old nature, and at once they begin to reason about themselves, and to question whether after all they are in reality the children of God. From such reasonings the passage to despondency and despair is an easy one.
All this is destructive to peace, because it is dishonouring to God. It is impossible to make progress in this condition. How can one run a race if he is not sure whether he has started? How can one erect a building if he has not laid the foundation? How can any one grow in grace if he is in doubt whether he has life, or has been “planted”? But some may ask, “How can I be sure about this? How may I know that I am saved?” The answer is, How do you know that you are a sinner and need saving? Is it because you feel you are one ? Possibly so, but feeling is not a ground of faith; faith that is based on feeling is not a Divine faith at all. “Faith cometh by hearing.” Faith must have respect to a promise not to a feeling. True faith rests on the testimony of God’s Word. No doubt it is by the gracious energy of the Holy Spirit that any one can exercise this living faith, but we are speaking now of the true ground of faith, the authority for faith, the basis on which alone it can rest, and that surely is the Word of God, which is able to make wise unto salvation without any human intervention whatsoever.
Why do I Attend Church? Biblical Reasons for attending and participating in Church.
Description: Salvation, in part, is communing with the saints.
TOPICS: Salvation is to be part of the Redeemed | Who do you get together with? | What do you declare with your actions? | God's Worship | God's Praise | The Sacrifices: Singing with Joy | The Sacrifices: The Offerings | The Sacrifices: The Prayer | A Community of Perfect Love (Fraternal Love) | Serving the Brethren | Heavenly Clothes: Good Works Here.
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Why do I Attend Church? Biblical Reasons for attending and participating in Church.
More Tracts on Attendance, Participation in Church:
● Ch09 Our One another Relationship
● ch15 Congregating because we Love
● ch17 Why do I Attend Church?
● ch28 Difference between sheep and goats?
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