07-What Is Justifying Faith?

Justifying (or saving) faith is the act of a sinner, from his heart,
resting his soul upon Christ and his finished work, and thus
receiving the imputed righteousness of Christ.1 By my use of ‘act’,
I do not imply that the sinner can exercise saving faith by his own
power or will. Not at all. As Jesus said: ‘No one can come to me
unless the Father who sent me draws him... No one can come to me
unless it has been granted to him by my Father’ (John 6:44,65).
Man is naturally unwilling, resentful, even hating God, regarding
spiritual things as foolish (Rom. 1:18 – 3:23; 5:10; 8:7; 1 Cor. 2:11-
14; Col. 1:21).