before I can call somebody to saving faith, I have to give them the information that they're

asked to believe. And that involves the mind. That involves communication of information

that people can understand.

When we say that you are justified by faith, the faith that justifies has to have a content.

So the immediate question is, if I say, you have to be saved by faith, you should say to me,

faith in what?

Faith in hamburgers?

Faith in Buddha?

I mean, we have that idea in our culture where people say, it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere.

Oh, does that mean I can put my trust in Satan and be saved, or that the Old Testament people

could trust in bail, and they could be saved?

No, no, no.

There is certain content that is part of Christianity, an essential level of information,

so that when the apostles went out to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ,

they gave a summary of key points about the person of Jesus and about the work of Jesus,

how he was born according to the scriptures, how that he suffered on the cross for their sins, how he was raised

from the dead, and so on, that's all part of the notes or the data, or the notitia.

That's the information that before I can actually call somebody to saving faith, I have to give them the information or the content

that they're asked to believe.

And that involves the mind.

That involves communication of information that people can understand.

Before I can call upon Christ, for example, as my Savior, I have to understand

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