3. Why is faith in God so important? Habakkuk 2:4, last part. Compare Hebrews 10:38.
NOTE: ‘The faith that strengthened Habakkuk in those days of trial was the same faith that sustains God’s people today. Under circumstances the most forbidding, the believer may keep his soul stayed on the Source of all light and power. Through faith in God, his courage may be renewed. “The just shall live by his faith.” The Lord will more than fulfil the highest expectations of those who put their trust in Him. He will give the wisdom their necessities demand.’ From Splendour to Shadow, page 203.
4. What impact does a living faith have upon us? Acts 26:15-18.
NOTE: ‘“The worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Once there were no worlds, nor was there any of the material which now composes the worlds. God set forth Christ to declare the word which should produce the worlds, and the very material of which they should be composed. “He spake, and it was.” Before He spoke, there were no worlds: after He spoke, the worlds were there. Thus the word of God spoken by Jesus Christ is able to cause that to exist which has no existence before the word is spoken; and which, except for that word, never could have existence. In this same way precisely it is in man’s life. In man there is no righteousness, from which righteousness can appear in his life. But God has set forth Christ to declare righteousness unto and upon man. Christ has spoken the word only, and in the darkened void of man’s life there is righteousness to every one who will receive it. Where, before the word is received, there was neither righteousness nor anything which could possibly produce righteousness, after the word is received, there is perfect righteousness and the very Fountain from which it springs. The word of God received by faith, that is, the word of God expected to do what that word says, and depended upon to do what it says, produces righteousness in the man and in the life where there never was any before; precisely as, in the original creation, the word of God produced worlds where there never were any worlds before. He has spoken, and it is so to every one that believeth: that is, to every one that receiveth. The word itself produces it.’ A. T. Jones: Review & Herald, January 17, 1899.