Faith Counted for Righteousness

From: Echoes of Grace: 1951

Just as a dollar bill is in itself worth nothing, but is valuable through what it is connected with, and is counted to the person who has it for the wealth it stands for; so faith, deriving all its value from what it stands connected with, is counted for righteousness to that sinner who believes in Jesus. We are saved, not by virtue of believing only, but by the virtue of what we believe.

"Flee from the wrath to come." Matt. 3:7⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Matthew 3:7).

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