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I. LIFE IS RECEIVED BY THE FAITH WHICH MAKES A MAN JUST. A man begins to live —

1. By a full acquittal from condemnation and from penal death as soon as he believes in Christ.

2. As one raised out of spiritual death.

3. No form of works, or knowledge, or profession, or feeling, can prove him to be an absolved and quickened man; but faith does this.

II. LIFE IS SUSTAINED BY THE FAITH WHICH KEEPS A MAN JUST.

1. He who is forgiven and quickened lives ever afterwards as he began — by faith. Neither feelings, devotion, nor acquirements become his trust; he still looks out of himself to Jesus.

2. He lives by faith as to all the forms of his life.

(1)  As a child and a servant.

(2)  As a pilgrim progressing and a warrior contending.

(3)  As a pensioner enjoying and a heir expecting.

3. He lives by faith in every condition.

(1)  In joy and sorrow.

(2)  In wealth and poverty.

(3)  In strength and weakness.

(4)  In labouring and languishing.

(5)  In life and death.

4. He lives best when faith is at its best, even though in other respects he may be sorely put to it.

(C. H. Spurgeon.)

I. THE SOUL IS THE LIFE OF THE BODY.

II. FAITH IS THE LIFE OF THE SOUL.

III. CHRIST IS THE LIFE OF FAITH.

(Flavel.)

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KJV: But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

WEB: Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."