Required reading
Twenty-One Sermons on Hebrews 10:20-24 in Volume III of the Works of Robert Traill (Available from Reformation Heritage Books or free here) - Read Sermon VII.
My summary
Today Traill speaks about what is inferred if the believer's faith answers God's faithfulness.
If the believer's faith answers God's faithfulness then faith:
(i) is a trusting of God's word for his own faithfulness in speaking it, a trusting God's promise for the faithfulness of the speaker;
(ii) is reasonable;
(iii) gives glory to God;
(iv) can be said to have the soul;
(v) is easy;
(vi) is much spoken of.
What grabbed me
I enjoyed the point that faith gives glory to God: 'Faith gives glory to God, because it brings nothing to bim, but poverty, want, and emptiness. All graces bring something to God, but faith brings nothing. Love brings a flaming, burning heart to God; repentance brings a bleeding, broken heart to God; obedience brings a working hand to God ; patience brings, as it were, a broad back to God, let him lay on what he will; poor faith brings just nothing, but the poor man's bare hand and empty dish. The poorer man comes to God, the more glory to God. It is remarkable, that in those cases, wherein we bring something to God, we are very apt to carry away something of the glory that belongs to him : faith brings nothing at all to God ; it brings no more than broken bones, and sores to the great Physician. As a condemned prisoner, it brings his chains and fetters to the great Redeemer, but nothing to commend him to God, nor carries away any thing from God.'
Amen!
Next week's reading
Read Sermon VIII.
Now it's your turn
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