“Thy faith hath saved thee.”—Luke 7:50 and Luke 18:42
In the instances of the penitent woman and the blind beggar, their faith was fixed alone in Jesus. You cannot discover anything floating in their faith in Jesus which adulterated it; it was unmixed faith in Him. the woman pressed forward to Him, her tears fell on Him; her ointment was for Him; her unloosed tresses were a towel for His; feet she cared for no one else, not even for the disciples whom she respected for His sake; her whole spirit and soul were absorbed in Him. He could save her; He could blot out her sins. She believed Him; she did it unto Him. The same was the case with that blind man. He had no thought of any ceremonies to be performed by priests; he had no idea of any medicine which might be given him by physicians. His cry was, “Son of David, Son of David.” The only notice he took of others was to disregard them, and still to cry, “Son of David, Son of David.” “What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?” was the Lord’s question, and it answered to the desire of his soul, for he knew that if anything were done it must be done by the Son of David. It is essential that our faith must rest alone on Jesus. Mix anything with Christ, and you are undone. If your faith shall stand with one foot upon the rock of His merits, and the other foot upon the sand of your own duties, it will fall, and great will be the fall thereof. Build wholly on the rock, for if so much as a corner of the edifice shall rest on anything beside, it will ensure the ruin of the whole:
“None but Jesus, none but Jesus
Can do helpless sinners good.”
All true faith is alike in this respect.
He Hath Said 