Than on the Objective Word of God. Faith does not rest on our experience, however elevating and Spiritfilled that experience might be. It cannot be stressed too strongly that Bible faith rests upon something that was done entirely outside of us. The Word of God instructs the sinner in the knowledge of Christ's infinitely perfect character, His infinite sacrifice on the cross, His triumphant resurrection. This knowledge of what God has done for him creates faith in the sinner's heart.
Faith rests on the certainty of that objective salvation, feeling or no feeling.
If the believer feels sinful and destitute of the Spirit, he may still rest in the fact that Christ died for the ungodly. If he is filled with the Spirit and transported to the mountain top of Christian experience, he still knows that his experience cannot save him or recommend him to God. In modern Pentecostalism the subjective experience becomes the all absorbing element of religion. In this case people cannot help but build their faith on something inward rather than on something outward. Faith comes to rest on miracles, wonders, feelings, things that the worshiper can sensibly experience.