# “Faith is trust in a person, the person of Christ” by John Murray

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- Published: 2008-09-12T10:47:18-05:00
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“Faith cannot stop short of self-commitment to Christ, a transference of reliance
upon ourselves and all human resources to reliance upon Christ alone for salvation.
It is a receiving and resting upon Him. It is here that the most characteristic 
act of faith appears; it is engagement of person to person, the engagement of the
sinner as lost to the person of the Saviour able and willing to save.

Faith, after all, is not belief of propositions of truth respecting the Saviour,
however essential an ingredient of faith such belief is. Faith is trust in a person,
the person of Christ, the Son of God and Saviour of the lost. It is entrustment 
of ourselves to Him. It is not simply believing Him; it is believing _in _Him and
_on _Him.”

–John Murray, _Redemption Accomplished and Applied_ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955),
111-12.

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