JESUS CHRIST, The Object of our Faith
" Now I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me." - Genesis 22:12 [KJV] So spake Jesus to His friend of old. What! did not God know that Abraham feared Him before this? Doubtless he did. But now in the exercise of faith and love he approved himself to God. He gave full evidence that God's commandments are not grievous: that it was his joy and delight to obey his God. Lord, give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt, is the breathing of faith and love! Thus was the faith of Abraham justified by its fruits. Seest thou how his faith wrought by his works? And by works he gave full proof that he possest the faith of God's elect. Thus he obtained this glorious testimony to his own soul from the mouth of the Lord: "Now I know that thou fearest God with a loving, filial fear. Thy faith worketh by love: it has influenced thy heart to this eminent act of cheerful, unreserved obedience to Me." His f...