Christ's People Get To Heaven By God's Free and Sovereign Grace

"Fight the good fight of faith" to the promises of the gospel. These are many; one includes them all, and yet there are many. "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." (Hebrews 13:5) But then one says, according to his feelings, "I am forsaken; I have not the presence of God with me; I seek Him and do not find Him; I ask Him to come and He seems to take no notice of me; I ask Him to be with me in a difficult path and I appear to be left alone; I ask Him to shine upon me and I walk in darkness and have no light." Now, "fight the good fight of faith" here. "Who is among you that feareth the LORD,....that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God." Yield not to all these contrary and contradicting feelings, fight this fight. Has God told you that He will bless you indeed? Has He promised to guide you with His eye; never to leave you nor forsake you? Then this must be said to you:

"Judge not the Lord by feeble sense.
But trust him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face."

Blind unbelief always errs, it cannot but err; it is against God, against His truth, against His promise. Cleave to a faithful God; hold fast to what He has said to you. "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it?" (Numbers 23:19) Did He ever say to you that He would be with you? And can He break the promise? O! But I have sinned. Yes, and He knew that you would sin. But I am unworthy. And whoever got a promise on the ground of worthiness? Whoever got a fulfilment of the promise because he was worthy? Ask all those blessed ones in heaven how they got there. Will they bring in some little reason from their faithfulness, their sticking fast to God? No! Grace, free and sovereign grace, constant and unfailing grace, in its abundance, in its efficacy, in its blessedness, grace in all its riches, and grace alone, shall be the song. "Fight the good fight of faith" respecting the promise of God.

- from a sermon by J.K. Popham entitled, "The Good Fight of Faith", preached at Galeed Chapel, Brighton, on June 24,1923