We're so thankful to have you here, Brother John. Would you come up here and brag on us? The first time I ever heard that, bragging on Christ, was over there in Danville. They like to introduce their pastors that way. I thought that was wonderful the first time I heard that, because that's exactly what we do, isn't it? We brag on our Savior, the Lord Jesus.

I brought last Sunday's message for the Bible study here this morning, so these folks would be all caught up like you folks in Rescue are. I want to talk to you a little bit this morning about The same thing we talked about last week. We talked about what the message, a preacher and his message. And we looked at John the Baptist and what his message was. And what a message that was.

Behold! When you're feeling low in esteem of this flesh, the sin that overwhelms us in this flesh, what a better thing to hear than behold! Look! Look unto Jesus. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Oh, I don't know about you folks, but I need to hear that over and over and over again.

On the front of your bulletins here in San Diego, Mike put a verse from Revelation 22, verse 17. It says, and the bride, the Spirit of God and the bride say this, they say, come and let him that heareth say come and let him that athirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely. Folks, this gospel message is free. It's free to you and I. but it cost a great price to our God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself.

I've mentioned this before, but it just boggles my mind to think about how God, not only is it a mystery that He became flesh, but to think that God Himself, the very One who created all that is, He's the Creator of everything that is. He created everything for His purpose. He's perfect in every way. He knew no sin. He never sinned once. It just boggles my mind that He was made sin for me.

I paused. I imagine that you're thinking the same thing. More about Jesus. More of His saving fullness see. More of His love who died for me. What great words. I want to go out into the world. Even if the Lord didn't have me in a position to preach, I would want to attest to people who walk this earth, there is a Savior. I would want folks who have never heard it before to know this, that there is one who has saved His people. His name is Jesus, for He shall save His people.

I'd like to ask you if you would turn to Hebrews chapter 12. What was the message of John the Baptist? Behold, look, turn your eye upon Jesus. More about Jesus.

Here in Hebrews chapter 12, we read in verses 1 and 2, wherefore, now that word wherefore, wherefore what? In chapter 11, we're not going to read it all, but in chapter 11, we read over and over again, by faith, Noah. By faith, Abraham. By faith, Enoch. By faith, Abel. By faith, Sarah. By faith, Abraham. All of these who are listed in chapter 11. And it calls them encompassed about with a great cloud of witnesses.

That was what John the Baptist was. Remember what we read about John the Baptist? There are none greater than him. Remember that from last week and this morning's Bible study. There are none greater than John the Baptist. It doesn't mean that he's greater than anybody else. It means nobody had a greater message. And the message was this. They were witnesses.

And these very same ones that is listed over there in chapter 11, it says their faith by faith. Abraham, when he was called to go into a place, he should have to receive for an inheritance. He obeyed. He went. When? Because he believed what God had promised him through His Word.

We are commanded to believe and to love the Lord with all our hearts. I can't do that. I do it the best I can. But in God's eyes, when He sees me and His Son, the Lord Jesus, I love God with all my heart. I obey perfectly in my Savior. All of His people do. We may not realize it. We may not think it. We may ask the Lord at times, Lord, when did I feed you? When did I feed you when you're hungry? Because we don't see it. We don't see what the Spirit does all the time in our hearts. But it's there. And the very things that He does in our hearts is He gives us that love for God.

You see, that's the greatest thing of all right there. What's the first commandment? It's love God with all your heart and all your soul. Something we can't do in this flesh, but we've done perfectly in our Savior, the Lord Jesus. And we don't even see it. We don't even know it.

Wherefore, seeing we are all so compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, Aren't you thankful the Lord takes us into His Word with these people that were listed there in chapter 11 and He shows us their weaknesses? Aren't you thankful when you see David, a man after God's own heart? I'm not thankful that he did what he did with Bathsheba, but I'm thankful the Lord didn't hide it from us. I'm thankful that the Lord showed me that we are weak in the flesh, including those who are a great cloud of witnesses. What are they a great cloud of witnesses to? They're a great cloud of witnesses to their Savior, the Lord Jesus. That's what they're witnesses to.

It's like I was telling these dear folks in the Bible study. Mike was telling me about a road that goes up to a mountaintop full of towers and how neat it would be to go up there. You can almost make it up there in a Subaru. And I've never been there. But he was able to witness to me. Maybe someday you can take me up there and then I can witness it better to you. Everyone who witnesses Christ is witnessing from the heart.

The truth. I am a sinner. I deserve nothing but the wrath of God. This is something even easy for these young ones to understand. I'm a sinner. I need a Savior. I can't do it on my own. And then I look to the One who can. Looking unto Jesus.

Let's go on here in our text, if you would please. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily beset us. What sin so easily besets? You and I, I was talking with Mike about this last night, and it really all boils down to pride. But what besets me the most and the most easiest is doubt. When I read those verses that say, Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief. Oh, I understand that perfectly. I understand that perfectly. Set it aside, the sin that so easily... And here's why. Let us run the patience, the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, for the joy... And here's the gospel. For the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame. And because He endured that cross, He endured the cross and despised the shame. He is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Brother Henry Mayhem made this statement. He said, one of the dangers of emphasizing our experiences and sharing our experiences and telling others the way we were brought to faith in Christ is that all believers do not have that same experience. I often shared with how the Lord called me out of darkness, but the point I've always tried to make out of that experience was that I heard the gospel preached. It didn't matter why the Lord brought me to the rescue that day. It didn't matter how I sat next to my brother and his wife in the church. It didn't matter that she poked me with her elbow saying, look at you sitting on the edge of your seat. All that matters. No, it's not at all. What mattered was I was under the preaching of the truth. A man who was witnessing to me, witnessing who Jesus Christ is, what He's done. and where he is right now. That's the point of that.

But for the rest of it, we want to be very careful about that. We know that there were three people that came to know the Redeemer. There was one called Lydia. There's more than that, but I mean, there's three. I want to give you an example. Lydia, a demon-possessed woman. and a Philippian jailer, and all of them had different experiences. I want to talk a little bit about it.

Lydia, as you know, she met some people down by the riverside where they were accustomed to prayer, in a prayer meeting of some kind. And Paul came along. He came down and he spoke to those people at the riverside, and the Scriptures tell us that God opened Lydia's heart. So we see that point that I just made a moment ago. What was it that I was doing? I was under the preaching of God's Word. The witnessing of the truth. And Lydia, God opened her heart to receive the Word of God. She attended unto the things that were spoken of by Paul. He quietly opened, God did, her heart, and she believed the Gospel.

Now, a few hours later, here's a different way the Lord did it. Henry Meehan was talking about when he said, we want to be careful about giving our experiences. There could be dangers. You may think, well, if I haven't gone through that experience, then maybe I'm not saved. Let me give you another one. A couple of hours later, Paul encountered a woman that was demon-possessed. You remember that story. She began to cry out all kinds of things as she followed Paul and Silas down the street. And Paul, wary of harassment, he turned. And he commanded the demons to come out of her. And the demons were cast out, and she followed Paul. You see the difference of Lydia's experience and this young woman's experience. They were totally different. She wasn't even under the preaching of the Word.

But I can tell you that Paul cast out demons by the preaching of the Word. For all of his apostles did this very thing. We do this in the name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus. Remember in the book of Acts, when the man came and he wanted to worship them, and they also said, no, no, no, don't worship us. Don't worship us. We didn't do anything. All we did was witness to you who God was.

A little time later, Paul was in prison. Remember that story? There was a Philippian jailer, and a great earthquake came, and the jail Doors opened up and the jailer, he was going to kill himself. Remember that? He was going to kill himself. Paul said, don't harm yourself. Don't harm thyself. For we're all still here. And that statement that Paul gave them drove him to come into the jailhouse and say, sirs, what must I do to be saved? What must I do to be like you? Paul went to his house. And the man dressed him and washed his wounds. And he preached the gospel and he came to know Christ and was baptized that night. Now you see how there's some differences between the way the Bible gives us on these very things. Well, that's what Henry was talking about. But there are some common things as well. We may not have the same experience in how the Lord draws us unto Himself But we do have three things that are very much in common.

Kathy and I used to ride with a motorcycle group. It was all kinds of different people. 20, 30 different people in the club that we rode with. We were from all different kinds of walks of life. We had one thing in common. We liked to ride motorcycles.

God's people come together. You're gathered here today in San Diego, just as those who are in rescue, just as those who are on the internet with us right now, and several are with us, by the way. There's a bunch, there's actually a pretty good-sized group worshiping right now, this very minute, together. With three wonderful things in common.

Listen to this. Paul says in Romans chapter 3 verse 23, and this is the first thing we all have in common, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. When I read those words and I think of you folks, I see myself in the mirror and I think to myself, that's exactly what I'm in right now. I know that I have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If you belong to God, you know the same thing. Even young folks know these things.

Gene Harmon would tell us about his son that died, who drowned. I think it was his second to the oldest, Scotty. Before Scotty died, he came to Gene, just a little boy, not much older than these young kids here. And he said, Daddy, I can imagine this very thing. It grabs a hold of my heart. He says, Daddy, I'm a sinner. And there's nothing I can do about it. This is a young child. These are the things that God brings all of us to the point of knowing we're sinners in need of a Savior.

Paul wrote again in 1 Timothy 1 verse 15, he said, This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. The Son of Man is coming to seek and to save the lost. So one thing that every believer has in common with each other is we know we're sinners. We know that we sinned against an almighty, righteous, perfect God. And then when that day of judgment comes, if it wasn't for His grace, if it wasn't for His mercy, we'd be standing with the thousands and thousands and thousands who will go on into that A place called hell because that's what we deserve.

The Scriptures say this. God commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Our Lord said this. He said, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Paul wrote, Christ died for the ungodly in Romans chapter 5. Again, I quote from Henry Mahan where he says, I can faithfully say if you have never been lost, you have certainly never been found. If you've never been convinced of sin, you certainly have not been brought to rely and depend upon and believe in a Savior from sin, a Redeemer.

So that's the first of the three that every believer has in common. Every one of them have a tremendous burden of guilt because of sin. David said it this way. He says, my sins are ever before me. Isaiah said this. He says, I am cut off. I am undone. And Job. came right out and said these words, I hate myself. Paul said I am the chief of sinners. I am less than the least of all the saints. He said I'm not worthy to be called an apostle. Every believer has a deep sense of their own sin. Secondly, we have in common when we come to know that Christ is that all believers are made aware and convinced of their own inability to please God in any way. There is absolutely nothing that I do in this flesh that pleases God.

God the Father. Remember, God the Father cannot look upon sin. That's why he turned his back on his son, the Lord Jesus. when Christ was made our sin. Let's just come right out and be honest about this. This is a man who never sinned, never had a sinful thought, never did anything that displeased the Father. The Father looked down upon him and said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. When he was made sin for me, for you, for all of his children, Oh, what it must have been like for God the Father to turn his back on his son. What it must have been like for God the Son, who is one with the Father, have his back turned upon him. Do you ever have your dad or your mother turn their back on you? So ashamed? I couldn't, I wouldn't even share with, I wouldn't even want to share with you how many times that happened to me as a child. And I still can't imagine what it was like for Christ to cry out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

We're convinced of our own inability to please God in any way. We realize that our inability, we realize our inability to obey Him, to obey the very One who commands, to even to come to Him on our own strength, our own merit, our own efforts. It's like David said in Psalms 130, he said, Lord, if thou shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Who among us shall stand? We read that in Friday night Bible study. In Romans 3.20, Paul said this, he said, By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. In the flesh, no man can please God. We're convinced. We have an inward knowledge. As that of a propulsive is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. David said this, he said, a man at his best state is altogether vanity. We sing the song that the hymn writer wrote, he says, in my hands no price I bring, simply to thy cross I cling. Could my tears forever flow? Could my zeal and enthusiasm no longer know? This deed for sin could never atone, Never, never, never Christ must save and Christ alone. Every believer knows that. We have in great common the knowledge of our sin and the knowledge that there's nothing we can do about it.

And then we come to that third point, and I'll spend the rest of this morning message on this. We all have a genuine desire to be saved. We want above all things to know God more about Jesus. Isn't that a favorite song of yours? I love that song. Actually, I've got a lot of songs I could say are my favorite. But that's one of my favorites. I think Gene, in 20 years, I think, or almost 20 years, I think he probably listed 50 of his favorite songs, at least. That's just about all that we ever sang, though. All 50 of them. We went desperately. I went with all my heart

One of my favorite verses, here you go, you're going to get a bunch of my favorites today maybe. One of my favorite verses, grow in grace and what? You know what comes after that? The knowledge of my Savior, the Lord Jesus. Oh, to grow in His grace and His knowledge. We want so desperately and sincerely and truthfully to be reconciled to God, to know more about Him. We want to be accepted in the Beloved. Our Lord said this in Jeremiah 29, 13, He said, Ye shall seek Me and ye shall find Me. When will a man find God? Christ tells us that we'll find Him when we search for Him with all of our hearts. I'm not talking about half a heart. I'm talking about all of our hearts. About when you search for me with all your heart, that is, you should desperately want more of Him than anything else. Like Peter, when he was sinking beneath the waves, he said, Lord, save me or I perish.

Our Lord in Matthew 6.33 said, Seek ye first the kingdom of God. Now, I'm not saying secondly, thirdly, or fourthly. I'm saying first. Seek ye first. I get out of bed in the morning and I want to seek after the Lord. Maybe I'll go mow the lawn or whatever else. Play golf or whatever else.

First, do you get up knowing that you're a sinner? Do you wake up and open your eyes in the morning knowing that there's nothing you can do to satisfy our Creator? Do you get up in the morning saying, well, I need more of Him? Well, you may not be saying it. What about thinking it? I need more of Him. More about Jesus. What do I know?

So we know first that we are sinners. Secondly, we know that there is nothing, there is no power of this flesh, no ability, no merit, no works, nothing that we can do to appease or to satisfy our holy God. If left upon ourselves, we will perish in eternal hell. And thirdly, we know that we want to know more about Him.

I got ahead of myself. We've got one more. You were wondering, where's the title, John? Where is it looking unto Jesus? Well, that's our fourth point. We all have this very thing in common. Remember what I said to you when I came down that first Sunday after you lost your pastor? That first Wednesday or whatever it was. I came down and I said, and it grabbed a hold of my heart. If you remember, I almost cried. Grabbed a hold of my heart. Here are the people of God doing what? Worshipping. Looking unto Jesus. That's what we were here doing.

I was thinking about the title. I was telling Mike about this last night. Looking unto Jesus. You realize every message I've preached for the last six years, it'll be six years in November. Every message that I've preached, you could title looking unto Jesus. This would be looking unto Jesus part 666 times, or whatever it is. How many times have I preached in the last 50 years? Twice a week? You figure the math. I'm slow at math. This would be part 600 and something pieces, looking unto Jesus.

It's the same message. This is what we have in common. We know that we're sinners. We know there's nothing we can do. We know we want to know more about Jesus. And we're looking unto Him for all that there is. Every true believer, every person who is redeemed looks to Christ. I don't care who you are. I don't care where you are. I don't care what religion you hold or whatever. They look to Christ. They believe on Him, trust in Him, rest in Him, look to Him for everything pertaining to God.

Do we do it perfectly? No, that's what we know. We can't do anything right, anything perfectly. We're still looking to Him. Different men come to me and tell me, I just don't know if I'm saved. I don't love God the way I should. I don't look to God the way I should. I don't this or I don't do that. And the first thing I'll hit them with is this, do you believe that He's the Lord Jesus Christ? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. You can't believe that He's the Lord, that He's God Almighty in the flesh without the Spirit blowing in. That's what Scriptures tell us. To call Him Lord, you can only call Him through the Spirit. To call Him Lord. So we come together. The fourth thing is that we come together. The writer of Hebrews, he says it this way, he says, wherefore we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Well, what was it that cloud of witnesses all did? They all looked to Christ in faith. They all looked to Christ, believed upon Him. They believed His Word. That was what Abraham was accounted for righteousness for. For believing, not for what he did. I could never do what he did unless God Almighty gave me the power to do so as he gave Abraham.

Seeing we are encompassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight every sin that does so easily beset us, and look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of faith. So what is it to look unto Christ? We'll wrap this up in just a couple minutes. Looking unto Christ is looking away from me. That's what repentance is. Repentance means to turn away from something. People think, okay, well, I've turned away from smoking. I've repented. I've turned away from drinking. I've repented. The Scriptures talk about repentance as turning away from the flesh. Turning away from me. Turning away from I. And looking to Christ. Turning from. Turning to. That's what true repentance is. Turning away from the trust that you have in your own flesh. and turning to the only one that you can trust, and that's the Lord Jesus.

It says in the Scriptures, looking unto Jesus, who was appointed of the Father, who was sent of the Father to be our prophet, our priest, our king, to be our surety, our sanctification, our sacrifice, and our security, looking unto Him. It is looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. Look at Acts. Turn over to Acts chapter 2 with me, if you would, for just a moment. What is looking away from, looking to Christ? What is looking to Christ? That was to answer that question. Turn over to Acts chapter 2, if you would. Look here at verse 36. Acts chapter 2 verse 36. Let all the house of Israel, that all the people of God is what that's saying, know assuredly, understand completely, grasp ahold of with your heart that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ,

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, repent, turn from what you are from you and turn to Christ and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. And you shall receive the Holy gift, the gift of the Holy ghost for the promises unto you and unto your children, and to all that are afar, even as many as the Lord shall call.

" So what is turning? What is looking to Christ? It's repenting, turning from me and looking to Christ. It's turning from my feelings. It's turning from my experiences. It's looking away from my works, looking away from my deeds, looking away from my decisions, looking away from my thoughts, my ways, and looking unto Christ. Yea, we look unto the Lord who is the author and the finisher of our faith. It's not even in us to believe, for faith is a gift of God. Faith is the work of His grace. Faith is the product of His mercy. Faith is the flower that blooms in the garden of human depravity. It is the gift of God, yet even our faith, even Jesus, who is the author of it, He is also the finisher. We not only have no power to believe, we have no power to continue. We are kept by the power of God, as it says in 1 Peter 1, verse 5. Paul says this, he says, I am persuaded, or confident, as it says, that he that hath begun a good work in you shall perform it till the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are looking unto Jesus. They're just three words, folks. Think about that. As I said a moment ago, these things that we have in common, even the children can understand what I'm talking about. Looking unto Christ. Gene's son came crying, Father, I'm a sinner. And as a preacher, he would do nothing less than tell his son, look unto Jesus. That's where salvation is. You can read a dozen books on faith. There's a lot of people making all kinds of money off of writing books. You know how many books are written about believing? Looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, is as simple as it gets.

Scotty, not only do you want to look to Christ, as a sinner, as one who's been convicted as a sinner before God, not only do you want to look to Christ, that's where your peace is going to be. In Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. How could God love us? How can God love us only in Christ? How can God look and with favor upon me? How can I look and believe? How can God accept me, this guilty sinner? The same way He does all of His people. He accepts us, loves us, turns our guilt into His Son, and He accepts us only in Christ Jesus. He that hath the Son, it says, hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Paul said this, he says, I have a desire to depart. Not just to depart, but a desire to depart. That is to leave this world of sin behind and be with his Savior, the Lord Jesus. Peter said in 1 Peter 3 verse 18, For Christ did once suffer for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. As one who testifies, one who brings a message, my message will always be this, look to Christ. Just as Gene told his son, when you get feelings of overwhelmness with your sin, When you get the feelings of doubt, do I love God? When you get the feelings of being overwhelmed by sin, put it away and look to the One who took that sin for you. You see, that's what He did, folks. He took our sin upon Himself when He went to that cross. When our Lord died for us, He was buried, was He not? Was he not put into a grave and a stone rolled over the grave so that he couldn't get in or out? But yet when they opened the stone the next morning, he wasn't there.

All of our sins. You know why God can look upon us and not see our sins as far as the east or the west, as though we had never sinned? Because every sin that we have committed and will commit has been laid upon our Savior. Would you come to God? Would you know God? You're going to have to look to Jesus. For our Lord says he that hath the Son hath the Father.

Turn over to Matthew chapter 14 and I'll bring this to a close. Matthew chapter 14. Beginning at verse 22, we read these words, and straight away, Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go before him under the other side while he sent the multitudes away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray. And when the evening was come, he was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea.

Are the seas of your life boisterous, raising up against you? Feel like they're holding you back some? Go on. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed by waves, for the wind was contrary, blowing against it. The wind was raising the... You know, we had this... What do they call it? The King's Tide on our coast just recently. And it showed pictures of all the waves slamming against the coast all up and down northern California. I don't know if you guys had that down here. But all up and down. This is a great time if you want to go watch waves hit the rocks. That's what this is talking about.

What is the first thing we have in common? We're centered. Second thing we have in common is we can't do anything about it. Third thing in common, we want to know more about the Lord. And here's the fourth thing, when those waves are crashing down hard on us, thank God if we don't see it, if He doesn't show it ourselves, that we have brothers and sisters who come to us and tell us, quit looking at yourself and look to Christ. Quit looking at those waves that are slamming up against you. Watch what happens when you do.

Go on with me if you would. And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, it is a spirit. And they cried out for fear. But straightaway, Jesus spake unto them. He spoke to them as they looked to Him. As they're being tossed about in their little ship, they look to Him who's walking on the water. And He said, Be still, or be of good cheer. It is I. Be not afraid.

And Peter, he'd lost all of his fear at that point, but he said, Lord, if it be Thou bid me come unto Thee on the water. And the Lord said, Come! And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on water to go to Jesus. Oh, what a picture of you and I walking on the Scripture walking through this life, through the Scriptures. That's what the Scriptures are referred to many a times, is the water. Where do we go to drink, to fill our thirst with the Lord Jesus, but to His Word?

And Peter's walking on the water, and when he saw the wind, when he took his eyes off of Christ, and he looked, he said he was afraid. And he began to sink, and he cried saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand and caught him and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were coming to the ship, the wind ceased. Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped Him, saying of a truth, Thou art the Son of God.

Our Lord said, Who do the people say that I am? Disciples, some of them say, well, some say that you're a prophet of some kind. You might be John the Baptist, you may be Isaiah. Who do you say that I am? Do you say He's the Son of the Living God? Can you say that with your heart? Are you looking to Him through that heart that God has given you?

Our Lord said to Peter after He said, Thou art the Son of the living God, He said, upon this rock. Not Peter. Peter wasn't more solid than any rock at all. Who was it that denied the Lord three times? Who was it that kept putting his foot in His mouth? I relate to Peter more than I do all the other apostles. I did all the same things he did. I still do them. Peter wasn't that rock. The fact that Peter called him, looking unto Jesus, the son of the living God. Blessed art you, art you. Actually he says, blessed art thou. But he's talking to you and I as well. Blessed are you, for flesh and blood, I haven't revealed anything, but if God's revealed that to you, You'll look unto His Son, the Lord Jesus, for all of your salvation and all of your needs in this world.

I look, I, I, I, I encourage you. Look unto Jesus. Take your eyes off yourself and look unto Him.

Brother Mike. Pastor. And he said, we're encompassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses, and he mentioned all those witnesses in chapter 11. They look forward to Christ. This is often Old Testament, all Old Testament saints. We have a more sure witness. We have the whole Word of God complete. He even said in chapter 11, 39, and these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.