Prayer Bulletin No. 20b FAITE 18 DANGEROUS! A ourprising statenont? But its true! Faith is the most dangerous hing in the world! Faith sends more people to hell then it does to Heaven! Millions are already in hell, just because they had faith IN ‘THis WRONG OBJECT! Certain countries are teeming with zealous people who have amazing faith, but it is terribly misdirected! Think of Iran today! What fanaticism, bloodshed end sacrifice the faith of those poor Muslin fanatics leads them to! Perhaps Christianity's greatest eneay today is Communism, What blind, senseless faith it builde into its followers - in spite of its terrible results! Paith 4n itself is essential to life! Bverybody has faith, for faith is a quality or fmetion of the mind that COUNTS ON people or things. But Like the sind itself, it 19 THR USB 10 WAIGH IT 15 PUT which deter mines waether it is good or bed. Many people think that whatever they believe about God must be true and hae Soul-caving value. But they may be sadly mistaken. The Bible, Goa'e divine revelation, teaches that the only faith acceptable to God, ig that waich has for ite object the Lord Jesus Christ! fven faith in Goa, apart from Jesus Christ, is insufficient. Tae devile heve that sort of faith - and tremble (James 2.19) See also John 14.6. We also read in Acts 4.10-12 - "There is none other nane under heaven given gmong men whereby we must be saved" - and that none is JESUS! The Bible ie the Book of faith. No word occurs in the Bitle more often than "faith" (490 times) but it stresses over end over egain that the Tord Jesus Christ is the essential object of saving faith - faith in His Person, His atoning death, His resurrection and His keeping power! (1 Cor 15.54; 1 Cor 2.2.) Ié 4s useless putting feith in our own ‘ighteouaness, good works, some dogma, en organisation, @ preacher, or even some past or stale experience (John 15.6). Our prayers, too, mist be offered to God in JESUS’ meme! (John 14.13-14 Acts 5.16). Paith ie the most potent force in the world - for either good oF evil. Directed toward ite proper objective ~ the Lord Jesus Ghrist, the faith of a Christian 1s a spiritual force uninaginably great ~ unequalled in the universe! (John 15.73 Mark 11.2224) . or YOUR TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST - REMENESR, A MISPLACED FAITH 19 VERY ‘whatsoever things are love. think on these things! ‘The face is the index of the person! A pure heart, filled with the Jove of God increases in attractiveness and beauty. Nothing beautifics the face like a beautiful epirit. 4 deep restfulness te mirrored on the face filled with God. If anyone Could invent a mirror which would give ack a transformed beautiful reflection , that person would soon be a multi-niliionaire. Of all the people in’ the world thet should possess loveliness and beauty, it ie the Christian. Pealm 96 tells us that holiness is beautiful. If itclothes our whole nature, it will make us pleasing, charming and lovely. God loves the beautiful. He has ‘touched His universe with loveliness, even in its fallen state. What was it Like before? The mind builds its own house, A cold selfish heart will soon distort ‘the loveliest face. There is an invisible sculptor that moulde the face into the attitude of the soul. "The shew of their countenance doth witness against then" The Gospel is the only power in the universe that can make mankind peautiful! "But we all, with open face beholding a8 a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glozy, even as by the Spirit of the Lord"