“We can put it this way–the man who has faith is the man who is no
longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer
looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He
does not even look at what he hopes to be as the result of his own
efforts. He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished
work, and rests on that alone. He stops saying, ‘Ah yes, I used to
commit terrible sins but now I have done this and that.’ If he goes on
saying that, he has not got faith. Faith speaks in an entirely different
manner and makes a man say, ‘Yes I have sinned grievously, I have lived
a life of sin, yet I know that I am a child of God because I am not
resting on any righteousness of my own; my righteousness is in Jesus
Christ and God has put that to my account.’”
-----D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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