[W]e must never think of faith as something in and of itself. Faith is never something isolated or alone. You must never divorce faith from its object. Faith is always linked to an object. The object is the Lord Jesus Christ and His perfect work and His perfect righteousness; and as long as you always remember that, you can never go wrong. So we must not boast of our faith; it is not faith as such that saves us. Faith is merely that channel, that instrument, that link that connects us with the righteousness of Christ which saves us. His is the righteousness that saves, and faith simply brings it to us. It is His righteousness that saves us by faith, through faith. – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Vol. 3, Pg. 120
23
Mar
09
There’s nothing like a visit from the Dr. on a monday. Just what I needed.
Me too. What a beautiful reminder to hold to.
for some reason, this reminds me of Zwingli going through the churches and smashing the statues of Jesus, Mary, etc. People were beginning to put trust more in a representation of an object than the object itself.
On the surface it looked like people were trusting and had faith, but in reality they were making icons of who God was. Zwingli went through and busted those busts up. He wanted people to put faith in God not a picture or statue of God. Makes me want to be careful…