22 The Fundamentals cause he is saved. We are saved through faith alone, but not the faith that is alone, because “Faith without works is dead, being alone.” Water baptism is a divinely ordained ordinance whereby the believer witnesses to the world that he died with Christ, and is risen together with Him,” an habitation of God through the Spirit. (See Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 2:38, 41; 8:12, 13, 16, 36, 38; 9 :18 ; 10:47, 48; 16:15, 33; 19:5; 22:15, 16; Rom. 6 :3 , 4; Col. 2 :12 ; 1 Peter 3 :21 ; 1 John 2 :3 ; 3:22.) Tenth, Assurance. Salvation from spiritual death by the new birth, and from the guilt of sin in justification, imme diately follows “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” “For by grace have ye been saved through faith” (Eph. 2 :8 ) . “These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:13). I t is here stated that certain things are in God’s Word by which the believer is to know he has eternal life. Here are some of them: “He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life” (John 5 :24). “He that hath the Son hath the life.” “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God” (1 John 5:12, 13. For confirmation see 1 John 2 :3 ; 3:14, 24; 4:20, 21; etc.). “And by Him every one that believeth is justified” (Acts 13: 39)—an accomplished work. So the Bible uniformly teaches. Believing these words of assurance, one finds peace and joy. I t is the business of the preacher to make this mat ter plain to converts, that they may be surely and safely anchored; and “that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ, in whom are all the treasures of knowledge hid den” (Col. 2: 2, 3).
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