Loved ones, there is both a divine side and a human side to Christian faith. God is the author of the faith and men are the respondents. From the human side faith is composed of right belief and right action, both of which are legislated by God. That being the case, right belief may properly be thought of as the ground on which all else pertaining to faith stands. One may adopt a personally desirable moral code, a personally approved attitude, and worship in a personally satisfying manner, but if each is not governed by right belief each will be faulty.
Revelation has nothing to do with opinions or abstract reasoning, for it is founded wholly and entirely upon facts. There is not one abstract opinion, nor one speculative view, asserted or communicated in Old or New Testament. Facts, then, are the Alpha and the Omega of both Jewish and Christian revelations. What God has said and done He has said and done out of His own counsel, and love for the Lord willingly submits to both (1 John 2:4; 2 John 6; Luke 6:46).
The teaching of Jesus that all men must honor the will of the Father will remain an integral part of His teaching till the end of time (Matthew 7:21). How can it be otherwise? The Pharisees, Saul of Tarsus, and even idolaters were all religious in their own way. But none of them were pleasing to God. For that reason they were required to change (cf. Luke 13:3, 5).
It is imperative that, when in the presence of the divine will, all men must consider themselves of unclean lips (Isaiah 6:5). Where God has spoken, no action is right which does not harmonize with what He has said. God is so good. Love you. Samuel – 31 May 26
