Mr. R.—An intellectual assent is not faith. I have never found anyone who really believed God’s Word who did not get power in believing it. People may assent to it; but I do not admit that that is believing it. I do not think there is any man or woman here who really believes the Gospel of the grace of God, who has not been taught it by the Holy Ghost. I could easily cross-examine any one of those “intellectual believers” who imagines he believes God, but really does not; and he would break down in a few minutes.
Mr. M.—For whom, then, did Christ die?
Mr. R.—For “the ungodly.”
Mr. M.—Why is salvation obtained by faith?
Mr. R.—That it might be by grace. “For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace?”
Mr. M.—How may a man know if he has eternal life?
Mr. R.—By not treating God as if He were a liar, when He tells us He has given us eternal life in His Son.
Mr. M.—What is the means by which the New Birth we were speaking of is effected?
Mr. R.—“Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth.” “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God . . . . and this is the Word, which by the Gospel is preached unto you.”
“Oh, the wondrous love of Jesus