PURIFICATION BY FAITH.

Acts 15:9.

I. Why Does God Purify the Heart by Faith?

1. Man was ruined by believing the Devil, so God has planned that man shall be saved by believing on Christ.

2. Faith gives God the glory for our salvation through Christ. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son," etc.

II. What Is Faith?

1. Faith is a living conviction not only of the divinity of Jesus Christ, but of His efficiency and mission as our Saviour.

2. Such a conviction is not a mere assent to the truth that He died for our sins.

3. It is a trust from the heart in Jesus to now save me, to now lift me out of this horrible pit.