Faith & Trust
It is something attainable, yea, actually attained, on earth, by those who are partakers of this faith.
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
A letter may be written, which is not sealed; so grace may be written in the heart, yet the Spirit may not set the seal of assurance to it.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Our standing in Jesus changes not. It is like Himself--the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Real faith can never be disappointed.
Do not rest, O believer, till thou hast a full assurance of thine interest in Jesus.
I care not to be told that one may pass at once into all possible sweetness of assurance; it is not assurance I desire, but the thing itself; not the certainty of eternal life, but eternal life.
No one ever had a sight of Christ’s face and forgot.
“because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
He is nearer to us than we are aware of.
If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.
This spiritual light is the dawning of the light of glory in the heart.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Christ and souls are contracted, and the knot is tied so fast, that neither men on earth, how great soever they be, nor devils in hell, though they should combine all their wrath and rage together, still they cannot dissolve, they cannot untie it.
Suppose a man asked me if my name was Moody, and I said, ‘Well, I hope so,’ wouldn’t it sound rather strange?
You can apprehend Him. You can take hold of Him.
God abideth faithful. He is faithful in His love; He knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
So long as the power to refuse exists within the soul, we may be sure that Love, the life of the soul, is there.
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