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we are not saved by faith in general; we're saved by faith in Christ. Some people trust in a past decision, but a decision will not pay for our sins! Some trust in a past emotional experience, or even their supposed 'faith.' The trust of a Christian is entirely different. If suddenly the floor were to drop out from under us at this moment, every true Christian would cry out 'Lord Jesus!' None would cry out 'My faith!

"...we are not saved by faith in general; we're saved by faith in Christ. Some people trust in a past "decision," but a "decision" will not pay for our sins! Some trust in...a past emotional experience, or even their supposed 'faith'" (pg. 44). Faith isn't an abstract feeling. It's a rational, real, thought-out belief that only Christ's righteousness is enough to cover your infinitely unholy corruption.

"Now, when the soul is made careless and inadvertent, forgetting what an enemy it has to deal with, or is lifted up with the successes it has newly obtained against him, then is Satan's time to attempt a re-entrance of his old habitation; which if he cannot obtain, yet he makes their lives uncomfortable... in weakening their root and withering their fruit through his poisonous temptations."