# 06 - Why Are We Saved by Faith?

An episode of [All of Grace by Charles H. Spurgeon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1698446544), 16 Jul 2023, 11 min.

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## Transcript

Section six of All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Marianne Why are we saved by faith? Why is faith selected as the channel of salvation? No doubt this inquiry is often made by grace. Are ye saved through faith? Is assuredly the doctrine of Holy Scripture and the ordinance of God? But why is it so? Why is faith selected rather than hope, or love or patience? It becomes us to be modest in answering such a question, for God's ways are not always to be understood, nor are we allowed presumptuously to question them. Humbly, we would reply that, as far as we can tell, if faith has been selected as the channel of grace, because there is a natural adaptation in faith to be used as the receiver. Suppose that I am about to give a poor man in alms, I put it in his hand. Why well, it would hardly be fitting to put it into his ear, or to lay it upon his foot. The hand seems to be made on purpose to receive. So in our mental frame, faith is created on purpose to be a receiver. It is the hand of the man and there is a fitness in receiving grace by its means. Do let me put this very plainly. Faith which receives Christ is as simple an act as when your child receives an apple from you, because you hold it out and promise to give him the apple if he comes for it. The belief and the receiving relate only to an apple, but they make up precisely the same act as the faith which deals with eternal salvation. What the child's hand is to the apple, that your faith is to the perfect salvation of Christ. The child's hand does not make the apple, nor improve the apple, nor deserve the apple. It only takes it. And faith is chosen by God to be the receiver of salvation because it does not pretend to create salvation nor help in it, but is content humbly to receive it. Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand which receives it, and the eye which sees it. But it is not the price which buys it. Faith never makes herself her own plea.

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