Luke 17, verse 5. Luke 17, verse 5. Verse 5 was
included in our lesson last week, but it was right at the end.
We had a few closing comments to say, I want to look more closely
at verse 5 and then verse 6 with it. Luke 17, 5, and the apostles
said unto the Lord, increase our faith. And the Lord said,
if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto
this sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted
in the sea, and it should obey you. Now you remember the reason the
disciples asked the Lord to increase their faith. He taught them about
forgiveness. In the few verses before this,
in this chapter about forgiveness, he said that if your brother
offends you seven times, and seven times he comes and repents
and says, I'm sorry, I was wrong, then you're to forgive him, all
seven of them. Of course we know in another
place they asked him, how many times shall we forgive our brother?
Seven times? And he said, seventy times seven. So it's clear what he's teaching
there. There's no limit to the way that we should forgive because
there's no limit to God's forgiveness of us. If we are forgiven, you're
either forgiven of your sins or you're not. If you're forgiven
of your sins, you're forgiven of all of them. Boy, that covers
a lot of time, covers a lot of water under the bridge, doesn't
it? How much is enough forgiveness?
When have I forgiven enough and I just can't do it no more? God
doesn't think that way, does he? And so neither should we. There's no doubt that forgiveness
is a difficult thing for us. It's impossible, really. Even
when we say we've forgiven somebody, usually we haven't. So it's upon
that teaching that the disciples ask, Lord, increase our faith. Forgiving ought to be the easiest
thing in the world for us to do, seeing how we not only have
been forgiven the unforgivable, But also, we're still doing things
all the time that need forgiving. We're in need of forgiveness.
How could we not be ourselves forgiving? But we see ourselves,
we understand something of our own sinfulness, and so we want
to ask with the disciples here, I want this to be my prayer too.
Lord, increase my faith. The disciples understood something
important here that we need to understand when we're thinking
about anything that God instructs us to do. We just read a while
ago where the scriptures are profitable for instruction, for
reproof, for instruction in righteousness, for correction. So when the Lord tells us something
to do, what's our reaction? Oh, I can do that. Remember in
the Old Testament when the Lord gave his law and he said this
do and I'll bless you and if you do not according to the word
then my curse will be. And they said oh we'll do that.
Ain't nobody ever done it before or since. But by God's grace these disciples
had this attitude Lord if we're going to do anything you're going
to have to do something for us first. Increase our faith. It doesn't matter what it is,
whatever the Lord tells you to do. If you're going to do it,
He's going to have to do something for you first. And it's still
not going to be what you do. It's still not going to be meritorious.
It's still mixed with all of the sin that's in your old nature.
It's not about... We have one righteousness before
God, and it's His Son. It's Christ. who alone in thought,
word, and deed did always those things that pleased His Father.
He is my righteousness. My righteousness is not patterned
after His. He is my righteousness. And then
because I love Him, I want to honor Him. And I pray that He
will increase my faith that I might honor Him in this life. He is the author. He says to
us through the preaching of the gospel. Now think about that. What's the first thing we ever
did with regard to God besides sin against Him? We believed
on Him by His grace. I believed on Christ. And my
faith is still full of sin. It's still full of unbelief.
But I believed on God. How did I do that? He gave me
faith. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. How does a sinner do that Christ
is the author and the finisher of our faith or you're not gonna
have any He's got to author it. He's got to be the origin of
it the one that gives it to you He's if it's gonna be increased. He's gonna have to increase it
if it's not gonna fail. He's gonna have to keep you through
faith So we pray, Lord, give us faith
to believe. Because that's what faith is,
it's believing God. It's believing God, particularly
concerning His Son. But when the disciples ask for
more faith, they're asking the One who gave them what faith
they had now. That just makes sense, doesn't
it? If you're going to get more of something, and there ain't
but one place, where are you going to get faith? You have
to go to Him. They came to the right place.
Turn with me please to Mark 9. Mark 9. And one of the multitude answered
and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath
a dumb spirit. And wheresoever he taketh him,
he teareth him, and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth,
and pouteth away. And I spake to thy disciples
that they should cast him out, and they could not." Now listen,
this is a definition of our text. If you want a definition of faith,
and a lesson on where it comes from, look to the scriptures.
And he doesn't just sit there and give definitions in the word
of God like you might find in Webster's dictionary. They usually
don't really tell the whole thing, do they? It's the best we can
do, but look, pictures, pictures, stories, illustrations, this
is something done. It's not just something believed
or defined in some Just with words. This is something done.
And here's him doing it. Right here. This is him doing
it. So this man comes and says, my son, he's in a horrible state. He's gnashing with his teeth
and foaming and tearing himself. He cast Himself into the fire.
And look at verse 19. And He answereth him and saith,
He said, I took Him to your disciples and they couldn't do anything
about it. And the Lord said, O faithless generation, how long
shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you?
Bring Him unto Me. Now listen. Faith is not, well, I failed,
so I'm going to bring him to Christ. Our faith wasn't enough,
so we'll let him do it. No, faith, if they had any faith,
they would have brought him to Him to begin with. That's what
faith does. It brings everything to Him. You see that there? Bring him to me. You faithless
generation, bring him to me. That's what faith does now. Alright, so verse 20. And they
brought him unto him, and when he saw him, straightway the Spirit
tear him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming."
You talk about a nightmare. That's this man's son. And he
asked his father, how long is it ago since this came unto him?
And he said, of a child. Oh man, can you even imagine
that? We thought we'd been through some things with our children. And oft times it hath cast him
into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. They had to go and pull him out
of the fire and pull him out of the water. This is a picture
of our sin. We are self-destructive by nature,
aren't we? If there's any possible way we
can find our way to hell, we'll do it, won't we? God's got to
pull us out. Paul said, if some have compassion,
save them with fear as though you're pulling them out of the
fire. That's the gospel. This is a picture of that. This
is not just about, well, I need more faith so I can name it and
claim it. This is life and death. This is eternal life and death. We've got to believe on Christ.
We've got to come to Him. We've got to bring everything
to Him. The only object of true faith is Christ. It's faith in
Him and what He can do. He said to those blooming, do
you believe I'm able to do this? And they said, yay, Lord. That's
why we're here. And He said, as according to
your faith, be it so. And they could see. That's how
a sinner's saved, my friends. You got to come to Him. He's
going to have to give you faith now. And you're going to have
to come to Him. If you can do anything, if you
can do anything. I tell you this. If Christ can't
do anything, then nothing can be done. Who else is going to
do something about it? Oh Lord. Christ is not a last resort.
He's the only resort. He's it. I'd come to Him first, not last. Well, may God give us all grace
to do that. Have compassion on us and help
us. Help us. If we ever thought of the saving
of the soul that way, or that picture, You can sympathize with
that, can't you? Can you sympathize with somebody
that don't know God? That's just stupid about the
things of God and don't have a clue how a sinner is saved?
Can we feel that much empathy towards somebody like that? Look
at how horrible that is. You could see that boy thrashing
around on the ground and gnashing his teeth and foaming at the
mouth. You could see that and you could say, oh my God. Have
mercy. Do you look at a sinner, do you
look at the people you work with and say, God have mercy. They
have no idea what's going on. They're oblivious to anything
good and right. They're self-destructive, they're
killing their own soul. And they're paying other people
to kill their soul. That's how bad, we're in bad
shape by nature now, bad shape. Jesus said to him, if you can
believe, is this our text? All things are possible. You
might, and that's a hypothetical in our text, and he said you
might say to this tree, for example, if you had faith as a grain of
mustard seed, now you think about that, if you did, this is a hypothetical,
clearly, You might say, you might say a lot of different things,
but one of the things you might say is to that tree right there,
be removed, or to that mountain over there, be you moved and
cast into the sea. You might say that, and it would happen
if you had that much faith. That's not unclear. We could
sit there and spend, oh, what did he mean by that? Well, it
kind of sounds like to me he's saying you ain't got that much
faith. Have you ever seen anybody do that? That didn't take a lot of brain
power for me to come up with that. That's a good thing is
I ain't got much. We ain't got it. But, it's not
about how much faith you have. It's who's the object of your
faith. If God gives you faith, we ain't
got much. He said to his disciples all
the time, how come you don't have any faith? Where'd your
faith go? Why is it that you have no faith?
It don't take much, does it? Because it's not the faith. Faith
is not meritorious. Christ is. Faith is not where
the power lies. Faith connects us to the one
who moves trees around when he wants to, and mountains and everything
else. May God teach us this and Jesus
said unto him if you can believe all things are possible to him
and straightway the father of the child cried out and said
with tears Lord I believe And let me tell you something. This
is good advice now from the scriptures not from me from God's Word,
and I'm telling you Whenever you say I believe The next thing you say Should
be help Lord, I believe on you. I believe
on you. Help. Help. Now listen. He had just gotten
through saying help us already, didn't he? Help. So you see in
the picture of that boy thrashing and gnashing and foaming and
just he's out of his mind. He's a monster. It's a disaster. It's horrible to look at. And
what did he say? Help. And then, you know what that's
a picture of? We need Christ. If anything good is going to
happen for that boy, he's in a horrible place. What's the
solution? Christ. You know what the solution is
spiritually? Believe. So when that boy is in a horrible
place, what did he say? Help. And when he needed some
faith, what did he say? To believe on Christ. Help. It's Him. It's going to have
to come from Him. Physical, spiritual, earthly,
heavenly, it don't matter what it is. Without Him we have nothing. Without Him we are nothing. Without
Him we can do nothing. It don't matter what you need.
If you need a new job, Lord help. If you need God to save your
son, help. If you need to believe on Him,
help. Help me! There's nothing I can do and
there's nothing anybody else can do. Help me. Nobody ever
came to Christ that way without getting what they came for. It
hadn't happened yet. It hadn't happened yet. Help
me. You have not because you ask not. Can you sympathize with this
Father? Help me. Look at my son. Help me. Can you sympathize him with the
other part? Lord, I believe. Help. Help. Help thou my unbelief. When Jesus
saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul
spirit, saying unto him, thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge
thee, come out of him and enter No more into Him. Get out and
don't come back. That's my testimony. That's salvation
right there. Christ says, get out and don't
come back. He plumb saved me. And the Spirit cried and ran
Him sore and came out of Him and He was as one dead. And so much that many said, He's
dead. But a picture that is. We do indeed count ourselves
dead unto sin and alive unto God by grace through faith in
his Son. But Jesus took him by the hand
and lifted him up and he arose. Can you picture him now? What
did he look like? What did his face look like now?
He's not gnashing anymore. He's not foaming anymore. He don't want to go in the fire
now. He don't want to go in the water. Well, there was a time
when we didn't have any faith at all. Who helped our unbelief
then? That's who we cry to now. Is
that clear? You need Him. You think we just
sing we need Thee every hour because it has a pretty tune?
I need Thee every hour. I need Him right now just as
much as I ever needed Him. We don't need Him to improve
our life. He is our life. and all things are possible.
Without Him, we can do nothing. But Paul said, I can do all things
through Christ who strengtheneth me. That's not saying He gave me
enough strength to do a bunch of stuff. If that was true, there'd
be all kinds of mountains moving around. That's saying I can do
all things because He can do all things and I believe on Him. Faith connects me to the One
who does everything, who does whatever needs doing. All things are possible not because
faith is some kind of magic power. We know better than that. All
faith does is believe God. That sounds simple, doesn't it?
Just believe God. That's pretty simple. Give it
a shot without Him giving you faith. Look around this world. It's His gift. It's the gift
of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. And with men
it is impossible. And he told that rich young man,
he said, follow me, go sell everything you have, give it to the poor
and come follow me. Now if you believe that Christ is everything, that wouldn't be that hard to
do, would it? Could not do it. And our Lord said, the reason
he couldn't do it is because it's impossible with men, but
with God. All things are possible. You see the connection? This
doesn't just have to do with, oh, I can name it and I can put
on a magic show because I've got a lot of faith. It's Christ. It's faith connects us to the
one for whom nothing is impossible. And faith particularly believes
God regarding His Son. You can believe all kinds of
true things, but unless you believe on Christ, you have no faith. Christ is the singular object
of all true, God-given, saving faith. And we call it God-given
faith to distinguish it from what people call faith in religion. You know, faith just believes.
Faith is just, you know, it's like the power of positive thinking.
Faith doesn't believe God's going to do what you want Him to do.
Faith believes that God's going to do what He said He would do. And it believes that He's right
whatever He does. Faith. You call it God-given
faith because God has to give it. Or you're not going to have
any of it. We call it God-given faith because
it is not of yourselves. By grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. We call it saving faith because
the Lord said to two different sinners in the book of Luke,
thy faith hath saved thee. I've heard and read several times
those who fancy themselves to know a lot about scripture say
faith doesn't really save. Why would anybody say that when
the Lord Jesus said your faith saved you? Why would anybody
say that? Think about that for a minute.
I know they have a good reason for saying that. People that
are wrong usually do. But if the Son of God said your
faith has saved you, I reckon he could have said that differently,
you think? if he'd have wanted to. Maybe you should think about
what he said instead of presuming to know better. Does faith save? It depends on where you got it. If you came up with it, it's
not going to save a flea, much less you. But if God gave it
to you, That'll save you because it'll because you'll look to
Christ and you'll say there's my righteousness There's my sin
offering you'll look to Christ crucified and all of your hope
and all of you trust will be in him That's what faith is and
that's what faith does And it trusts him in everything now You're not gonna be saved I believe
in God for earthly, temporal things, but I'll tell you this,
those who believe Him and have trusted their soul with Him,
they trust everything else with Him, too. Mark it down. If it came from or in the form
of a decision that you made, then it's not going to save you.
But if Christ gave you faith to believe on Him, then you're
saved by faith and not the deeds of the law. That's how Paul put
it in Romans 3, 19 through 28. And we've looked at that passage
so many times, but go there if you have any questions about
that. Justified by faith and not works. In other words, nothing
we do adds to or takes away from our position, our standing before
God. We're either in Christ or we're
not in Christ. There are two standings before
God. Perfectly holy in Christ or absolutely, utterly sinful
in ourselves. That's it. There's no some people are better
than others. There's some people are holy in Christ and some people
ain't. That's scripture, that's the
word of God. Justified by faith. He talks about faith in his blood
there in Romans 3, 19 through 28. Faith in Christ who is himself
the righteousness of God and faith in Christ whose precious
blood hath redeemed us from our sins. Or as Paul put it there, faith
in his blood. Romans 3 that faith that faith
will save a sinner He said it will he said it did And let me
ask you this what is moving a mountain a physical mountain compared
to the saving of a sinner I Guarantee you you'll move a
mountain before you'll save a sinner Religion can talk about getting
people saved all they want to they'll just assume move the
mountains around before they'll do that Faith looks to Him who's
got to move whatever it is. A mountain of rock or a mountain
of sin. You ain't moving it. But by faith,
it'll move. It'll move. It's by grace through faith that
the mountain of my sin was removed. And it's not an accident the
way he put that. You might say to that mountain,
be that I removed. And what are you going to do with that mountain?
Cast into the depths of the sea. You know the scripture talks
about my sin that way? That the Lord removed it from
me and did what? Cast it into the depths of the sea. That happens by faith. That's
what our Lord's teaching here. By faith in Him. By His grace
through faith in Him. What is Mount Everest compared
to that? The mountain of my sin. Now it's Christ's blood that
removes sin. We know that, but it's by faith
in Him that we receive the forgiveness of sin by His precious blood. God didn't say, when I see your
faith, I'll pass over you. He said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. But you know what He said to
do? Put the blood on the door. You know how that happened? By
faith. There it is. It was the blood he was looking
for. But I'll tell you this, if you
didn't believe him and you didn't put the blood on the door, the
sinner's gonna die instead of the substitute. Every time. It's not your faith that's meritorious
now, it's his blood. It's his righteousness and blood,
but he's not gonna save you apart from faith. Faith itself is not a power of
some kind, but faith unites us to Christ. It looks to Christ. Look and live. And it's Him who moves mountains
whenever He wants to. And faith is His gift. Lord,
give us faith. Lord, increase our faith. Lord,
help our lack of faith. We've seen all three of those
in the different scriptures we've read and we need all three of
those right now. Give us faith, increase our faith,
help our lack of faith. If we're going to believe, if
we're going to believe, you've got to do something first. That's
what that verse now teaches us. We know that's right, don't we?
If I'm going to start believing, you're going to have to give
me faith. If I'm going to believe more, you're going to have to
give me more faith. It's not complicated, is it?
Not a bit. If I'm going to walk on water,
there's something that defies the laws of physics like moving
a tree or something. How did Simon walk on water? First he said this, Lord, you
bid me come to you on the water. There's something important now
in that request. It's in Matthew 14, 25-33 and
I can already tell I don't have time, we don't have time to look
at that but listen He said, Lord you bid me come to you and if
you have faith it's because He gave it to you now He gave you
faith to believe on His Son and He gives you faith in His
Son because He loves you with an everlasting love and so in
other words if Christ wants you where He is And that's what he
said, Lord, bid me come to you. I want to be where you are. Do
you want me to be where you are? Then you're going to have to
say it. You see that? He's going to have to say, come
on. It's so simple, isn't it? Lord,
you bid me. You say the word. I'll walk on
water. But you got to say it. You got
to want it. You got to want it. And I guarantee
you, if you want it, He wants it. Because that's why you want
it. If you want to be where He is,
and I'll tell you this, if there's anything between you and Christ, a mountain, a tree, whatever
it is, Because here's the thing now, faith wants to be where
he is. And faith wants him to want it.
And faith wants that because he wants it. Come on, come over
here. Get over here. And if there's a mountain or
a tree, anything in between there, it's got to go, doesn't it? That's our text now. That's what
we're teaching. It's got to go. Well, wait a
minute. There's water in between us and
I can't walk on water. You can now. Because faith brings
us to Christ no matter what. That's how we're united with
Him. Simon's over here. Christ is over here. The way
this happens is by faith. And He's got to say it. He's
got to give it. It's His power, not Simon's.
But Simon believed. Here I come. When he gives the
word, when he says stretch forth thine hand, I ain't never done
that before, but here goes. There we are. Lazarus come forth. How in the world is that going
to happen? He said it. He gave the power. Now Christ has bid sinners to
come to him for salvation, has he not? He said come, his gospel
says come. But is it mixed with faith in
them that hear it? The scripture says it's not always
true. Some believe not because the gospel not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it didn't benefit them. Generally speaking, the gospel
says come, but it's got to be mixed with faith. When the command
goes forth, the ability How is Lazarus going to come out of
that grave? Well, the one who says, come forth, is going to
have to give him the power to come forth, give him life. That's
how the gospel works. He who says, come unto me, got
to give you faith to come, or you ain't a coming. If he does,
you coming. But he says in the gospel, Come
unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I'll give
you rest. What would stand in the way of that? Is there a mountain
that might need to be removed? Is there a raging sea that would
keep you from Him? Of course there is. That would
otherwise without His power. Without a miracle. With men it's
impossible. Why? What's the mountain? You
know what it is, don't you? It's your righteousness. Philippians 3 is all about how
the Apostle Paul at one time trusted his own works to save
him, his own religious heritage to save him. And when he met
Christ, he realized that the goodness and works that he had
thought were merits before God were actually demerits. That
which he thought was gain unto him, he said, I realize now it's
loss for Christ. And Dung, he said in Philippians
3a, doubtless that I count all things but loss for the excellency
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things and do count them but Dung, that I may
win Christ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness, which is of God by faith. Now listen
to this verse while thinking about what Paul wrote there in
Philippians 3. Think about what he wrote. Oh, I've got to have
Christ. I've got to jettison my righteousness,
what I thought was my righteousness, and I've got to get to Him. I
must be found in Him. I must have Him. And everything
else is lost and done. Now listen to Romans 4.3. For
what saith the scripture, Abraham believed God, and it was counted
unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the
reward not reckoned of grace but of debt. If you're working
your way to heaven, I'm going to do this, that, and the other
and God will save me. That's not grace, that's God owing you
something. That's God rewarding you for
what you've done. But to him that worketh not,
to him that knows that everything he does is sin, and says, I'm
not going to get to God by what I do, but believeth on him that
justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. That's the righteousness you
need. It's the one who says, My works are not only worthless,
they're disgusting. I leave them behind and I'm running
to Christ. That's the one who's righteous
before God. Who justifies the ungodly. It sounds like a contradiction,
doesn't it? What does justified mean? It
means godly. Him who godlies the ungodly.
That's what he does. Faith is not a substitute for
righteousness. Faith unites us to Christ who
is our righteousness. This is what Paul can say to
that Philippian jailer. You believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and you'll be saved. Because it is by grace through
faith that we sinners are united to Christ Jesus, who is made
unto us. He is made unto us wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. Now, am I wiser than I was in
the things of God? Am I wiser today than I was before
I knew Him? I know things that I didn't know
then. That's not my hope. Christ is my wisdom. Do I make better decisions? Do
I do things that are relatively better things than I did then?
Well, I never worshipped before that. I never worshipped God. I'd say worshipping Him better
than not worshipping Him, wouldn't you? That's not my hope. Christ
is my righteousness. He is made unto me wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. It's Him. And listen, now let me make this
point, and we may have to finish this tonight, but listen to this. I'll try to close with this.
When I say that your righteousness is what keeps you from God, the
scripture says that we are, there is that which
separates between us and our God. And when I say your righteousness
keeps you from Christ by nature, apart from His grace and faith
in Him, that's just another way of saying your sins. This is important now. This is
important. Your sins have separated between you and your God. Well, why then Chris did you
say righteous? Why didn't you just say sins to begin with?
Well, it's the same thing except for something very important.
You're out and out sins, that which you know is evil. And look,
you don't need me to tell you the difference between right
and wrong. Every child knows the difference. They know it's
evil to do certain things and not evil to do other things.
That's not what we're here for. But those deeds of yours which
are black, and everybody knows it, you and everybody else knows
it, what you call your good works is just as wretched as that. They're just as vile and evil
and repulsive to God, if not more so. And they will take you
down to hell just as fast, but they're even worse in this sense
especially. Your out and out sins that you
know are sins you are at least likely ashamed of to a certain
extent. That's just natural. There's
a conscience in every one of us that causes us to be ashamed
of the bad things that we do, that we know are bad things.
But the problem with your sins that you call righteousness is
that you trust them. You're not even ashamed of them.
You're proud of them. That's a big problem. They're
just sins, just like your other sins, but the difference is you
like them, you're proud of them, you trust them. The only reason we even call
them righteousness is in the sense that Paul said, not having
my own righteousness. I don't want my own righteousness
which is of the law. The only reason those sins are
called righteousness instead of sin is because we trust them.
And we think that they're righteousness. And that's what makes them worse
even than our out and out sins that we know are sins. And what
you consider your sins, you try to hide. But your sinful righteousness,
you flaunt it, and you're proud of it by nature. And there's
nothing that God hates any more than that. You're trampling under your nasty
feet the blood of his son when you do that. True faith rejects
our sins and our righteousnesses with Paul and says, I must win
Christ. And I've got to be found in him. Notice that when thinking about
forgiveness and their lack of it, the disciples did not say,
Lord, increase our patience. If you're going to forgive the
same person seven times, you'd need some patience, wouldn't
you? After about the second time, I'd be like, that's it. They
didn't say, Lord, we need more patience. This is important now. They didn't say, Lord, increase
our humility. That's another thing now. The
reason we won't forgive people is because we think we're better
than them. If we realized what we are, it wouldn't be that hard.
We need some of that, some humility, but that's not what they asked
for. Those are important to forgiveness, but these qualities by themselves
are nothing. They're nothing. I know some
people who are outwardly very unassuming people, and the world
would say, well, this is such a humble person, you know. That
personality trait is not going to hold up to the fire. The heat
of the fire will burn that away. But the trial of your faith is
like the refining of gold. That's what we need. We need
to believe on Him. We don't need better personality
traits. We need faith in Christ and everything else will fall
into place. What we need in order to be saved
and in order to act like it. I let this sink in. I want to
say this slow and let's listen to it slow and I'm done. Even though I got about four
more pages of notes. Listen to this. This is the last
thing I'm going to say. What we need in order to be saved
and in order to act like it is to know, bow to, love and trust the Lord Jesus
Christ. Lord, increase our faith. Let's pray.