Mr. M.—Do we get any help by believing that?
Mr. R.—When I believe God’s testimony, God’s witness about Jesus, I then can trust myself to God, Giving myself to God, God becomes my Saviour.
Mr. M.—Have these friends the power to believe?
Mr. R.—They are commanded to believe. They can believe it just as well as they can believe any other fact, if they only listen to God’s voice. But they must get rid of their own thoughts, and listen to God: Hearing His voice they will believe. “Faith cometh by hearing: and hearing by the Word of God.”
Mr. M.—All the sinner has to do is to repose in the promises of God?
Mr. R.—Simply to trust Himself to God.
Mr. M.—What would you say to a man who says he has tried a good many times and failed; and who has become discouraged?
Mr. R.—That man has probably made a good many resolutions, hoping that he would gradually make himself a Christian by going through this or that process, or by doing this or that thing. Of course he failed, because he tried to make himself a Christian. Instead of trying to save himself, let him trust in God, who has pledged His word that every one who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ has at that moment everlasting life.
Mr. M.—Should a man not break off from some of his sins before he comes to God? Suppose he swears or has a bad temper, should he not get a little control over his temper, or stop swearing, before he comes to Christ?
Mr. R.—God knows that a man’s nature is wrong: therefore He has promised to give a man a new nature. We must therefore go to God, just as a man goes to a physician, because he needs to be cured of some disease.