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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON MARK - MARK 11:22-26
  by J.C. Ryle
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Let us learn from these words of our Lord Jesus Christ, the immense
importance of faith.

This is a lesson which our Lord teaches first by a proverbial saying.
Faith shall enable a man to accomplish works, and overcome difficulties,
as great and formidable as the "removing of a mountain, and casting it
into the sea." Afterwards the lesson is impressed upon us still further,
by a general exhortation to exercise faith when we pray. "What things
soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you
shall have them." This promise must of course be taken with a reasonable
qualification. It assumes that a believer will ask things which are not
sinful, and which are in accordance with the will of God. When He asks
such things, he may confidently believe that his prayer will be
answered. To use the words of James, "Let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering." (James 1:6.)

The faith here commended must be distinguished from that faith which is
essential to justification. In principle undoubtedly all true faith is
one and the same. It is always trust or belief. But in the object and
operations of faith, there are diversities, which it is useful to
understand. Justifying faith is that act of the soul by which a man lays
hold on Christ, and has peace with God. Its special object is the
atonement for sin which Jesus made on the cross. The faith spoken of in
the passage now before us is a grace of more general signification, the
fruit and companion of justifying faith, but still not to be confounded
with it. It is rather a general confidence in God\

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