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respecter of persons”, Acts 10: 34. There is no difference, no

matter whether you have been here five years or ninety years.

The apostle says here that we have “been justified on the

principle of faith”. I hope we all understand that. I am not

delivering any profound exposition of the Scripture; the

simplicity of the gospel is a wonderful thing to understand.

Everything in Christianity is dependent on faith; not sight—

faith! and that from the very beginning of our having to do with

Christ to the very end of our life here. The time is coming when

we shall see His face. How wonderful that will be, seeing the

face of the Saviour and the glory of God shining in it; but now it

is that we are justified on the principle of faith. We

come to God and bow at the feet of Jesus, calling Him Lord.

We have faith in the blood and in His Person and we are

justified. Christ is in glory; the whole work has been done—our

sins have been dealt with, sin in the flesh has been

condemned, the enemy has been dealt with, and the history of

the responsible man himself has been finished in the death of

Christ. That is wonderful news; the believer is justified on the

principle of faith and “we have peace towards God through our

Lord Jesus Christ”. Oh it is a wonderful thing to get these

principles settled in your soul so that the devil cannot disturb

you. He will try to put doubts into your soul, but we would point

you to Christ in glory. Our acceptance is in Christ up there; so

even if you fail, and the devil brings that to bear upon you, let

me just say this, that you are assured of acceptance up there

because it is in another Man. “We have peace towards God

through our Lord Jesus Christ”. It is the full title of His

administration over the kingdom. Nothing can ever disturb Him

or the place He has taken.

Then “we have also access by faith into this favour in which

we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God”. That

glory is yet to come in its public aspect, but we have the hope

of it now and we boast in it because of our Saviour. Oh get

beyond the verses of Scripture to the Person! Thank God for