Alright brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to Romans chapter 4. Romans 4. And let's go to the Lord before
we begin. Our God and our Father, Lord we beg of You that You would
send the Spirit, that You would fill us with the Spirit this
morning. Cause us to hear and truly worship You in spirit and
in truth. Cause us to truly worship You,
Lord. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Alright, brethren. Now, in Romans
4, in verses 13 through 16, We saw the reasons why God justifies
His people through faith in Christ. And Abraham is the pattern. He's the pattern. Now today I
want to look at Abraham walking by faith. After we see that God
justifies through faith, There are many in this world that want
to go back to Mount Sinai to the law. But we see here Abraham
walked by faith. The rest of his days he walked
by faith. Let's read it. Verse 18. It says,
Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the
father of many nations according to that which God had spoken. God promised, so shall thy seed
be. And being not weak in faith,
he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded
that what God had promised, he was able also to perform, and
therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Our subject
is the just living by faith. The just living by faith. Now, remember, Abraham did not
have the Ten Commandments. The law wasn't given for over
430 years later. He did not have the Ten Commandments.
Now most preach and most believe that though we are not justified
by our works, by the works of the law, those that say we're
justified by Christ, through faith in Christ, still say that
the law is our rule of life. The Ten Commandments are our
rule of life. They say it's by the law that
we learn how to live a righteous life. But Abraham did not have
the Ten Commandments. And God is holding Abraham up
here in Romans 4 as the pattern of every believer that God saves. He's the father of all who truly
believe. Scripture declares, as our text
does, that though they didn't have the law of Sinai, they didn't
have the Ten Commandments, Scripture says, that the elders obtained
a good report. Talking about those who lived
before God gave the Lord Sinai. He said they obtained a good
report. How'd they do that? By faith. Through faith. It says by faith
Enoch had this testimony from God. God said this about Enoch.
That he pleased God. That was through faith. He walked
by faith. Look over at Hebrews 11. We'll
look at a little scripture here before we get into our text.
Hebrews 11, look at verse 8. It says, By faith Abraham, when
he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for inheritance, obeyed. He did that by faith. You see,
he obeyed by faith. And by faith he He went out not
knowing where he went, by faith he sojourned in the land of promise. It wasn't just by faith that
he was first, when he was first called, the rest of his days. He sojourned in the land of promise
by faith, as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with
Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For
he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God. God's people are justified by
the faith of Christ. by his faithfulness, by the faith
of Christ. And we're sanctified by the faith
of Christ, and we live the rest of our days on this earth by
the faith of Christ. Habakkuk said this in Habakkuk
2. So first place it's used, but
it's used four times. including Habakkuk. This is used
four times in Scripture, but I want you to see something here
in Habakkuk 2. He said in Habakkuk 2, and he
said in verse 3, this is the Lord speaking to Habakkuk. He said, The vision is yet for
an appointed time. But at the end it shall speak
and not lie, though it tarry, wait for it, because it will
surely come, it will not tarry. That's Christ he's talking about.
Christ seared up the vision in the prophecy. He's talking about
Christ will come in time. He's coming, Christ is coming.
And look what it says next. Behold, his soul which is lifted
up is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith. And brethren, it is truly by
the faith of Christ, by His faith, by His faithfulness, that we're
justified, justified before God. You know, Galatians 2 and verse
16, Paul said, knowing that a man is not justified by the works
of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have
believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the
faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, for by the
works of the law shall no flesh be justified." To be justified
is to be perfect before God, before the law of God, having
never committed a crime, no trespass, no sin, no guilt. Christ accomplished
that for his people by his faithfulness, by his obedience unto the death
of the cross. Well, not only that, look at
Galatians 1.18, It's by the faith of Christ living
within us that we live the rest of our days. It's by the faith
of Christ within us that we're sanctified and kept sanctified. And if we bring the law back
in, remember Christ broke down that little wall of partition
between His people and He broke it down between us and God? Well,
Paul says if we build that back again, we make ourselves transgressors. He said this in regard to Peter.
Peter got up from that table and went over and sat down at
the table with James and the Jews. Peter was building up the
law again. He was making a distinction between
Jew and Gentile based on what he ate or didn't eat. And look
what Paul said, Galatians 1.18, if I build again the things which
I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. And he said, for I through the
law am dead to the law. that I might live under God.
I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live
by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me. So you see there in two places right there, Paul said,
number one, we're justified before God by the faith of Christ, and
we live and are sanctified by the faith of Christ living in
us. it's to be led of the Spirit. If you look over at Galatians
5, look here, Galatians 5, it's to be led of the Spirit. Galatians
5.16, they were wanting to, they were, the Judaizers were saying
you need to use the law so that you don't, I'm sorry, it's verse,
Galatians 5.6, No, it's 16, I'm sorry. They
were saying, you need to use the law to mortify your flesh
and cut out your sins. And this is what Paul said, Galatians
5, 16, this I say then, walk in the spirit and you'll not
fulfill the lust of the flesh. You see that? And how are we
going to do that? The flesh lusted against the
spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary
the one to the other so that you cannot do the things you
would. It's the spirit mortifying our
flesh. But if you be led of the spirit,
remember this too now, you're not under the law. Why did he
add that? When he said the Spirit is gonna,
if you walk in the Spirit, you won't fulfill the lust of the
flesh, and he said, and the Spirit's gonna war against the old man,
and he's gonna mortify your flesh. Why then did he say, but you're
not, if you're led of the Spirit, you're not under the law? Because
he's not suggesting here that you're gonna be without sin.
And so you need to know that if you're led of the Spirit,
though, you're not under the law. So when you do sin, Christ
is still your justification, and He's going to keep you sanctified
unto Him. You see that? We're sanctified by the faith
of Christ, and we're sanctified by the faith of Christ. Scripture
teaches God's saints to run with patience the race that is set
before us. Looking to Moses? Looking to
the law? No! Looking to Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith. who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God. God-given faith,
the faith that God gives so that we rest in Christ, just like
Abraham did, believes this, believes we're justified by the faith
of Christ, who laid down his life for us and redeemed us from
the curse of the law, And we also live by the faith of Christ. He's living in His people. We're
walking by faith. We're led of the Spirit of our
Lord. He's teaching us. So we go the
rest of our days walking by the faithfulness of Christ working
in us, in our new heart, led of the Spirit of the Lord. That's
how Abraham was justified before the law, and that's how he lived. That was faith, which worketh
by love, was Abraham's rule of life. And God said of Abraham
and Enoch and Abel and Noah, he said, they pleased me. They
pleased me. Now let's see it in Abraham.
Here's what this faith is going to do that God gives and Christ
sustains and by Him leading us and directing us. Faith believes
God by believing the Word of God. Faith believes God by believing
the Word of God. He says in verse 18, who against
hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many
nations according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed
be. God told Abraham, you will have a seed more than the sand
of the sea. You're going to have children
more numerable than the sand of the sea. And by God's grace,
by Christ taking up a boat in his heart and creating a new
holy heart in him, Abraham believed Him. He believed God. He believed
the Word of God. And he walked the rest of his
days as a sojourner in this world, believing God, trusting God was
going to do what God promised he would do. What's your proof
for believing God? You know, men ask you this, what's
your proof for believing God? Exactly what Abraham's was, God's
word. God gave his word. We can't trust
one another's word. That's why we have to sign so
many contracts. Every time you swear yourself,
you're saying, I can't be trusted. And we've done it so much between
men that we don't trust men. And so that's why when you hear
the word of God, that's one reason we don't believe him. Because
we don't trust. But God gives you faith to believe
God's word. That's all I need. I put that
article in the bulletin that Pink wrote there and he said,
imagine 40 persons of different nationalities possessing all
these different degrees of musical culture and they come to the
organ of some great cathedral at long intervals of time. They
take turns walking in there and they hit a note. 66 men over a thousand years, they
come in there and they all hit a note. They don't know each
other, from different cultures, different backgrounds, and when
you combine all those notes that they hit, it's just a beautiful song. You have to say somebody told
each one of those men what note to hit so that it would make
that beautiful song. Well, that's what God's Word
is. It's God telling men over a whole long period of time what
to write. And they wrote it so that when
you put it all together, it's a beautiful story of sinners
saved by the grace of God through the faithfulness of the Lord
Jesus Christ from beginning to end. That's the story. Peter
spoke of being in the Mount of Transfiguration. Now you hear
people say things like this, if I just had some sort of proof
that I could see or hear, they were in the Mount, and our Lord
was transfigured right in front of them, and they saw His glory,
and they heard it, and the Lord God spoke from heaven. And he
said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Peter
said, this voice which came from heaven, we heard it. And we saw
Christ's glory. You know what he said next? Listen,
we have also a more sure word of prophecy. We got something
more sure than what I saw with these eyes and what I heard with
these ears. That's what Peter said. What's he talking about?
He said, until you do well that you take heed as unto a light
that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day
star arise in your hearts, knowing this first, that no prophecy
of scripture has any private interpretation. It came not in
old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. This is the word of God. This
is the word of God. If someone asks about your hope
and they want to talk about what your hope of salvation is, first
thing you establish is, do we agree this is the word of God?
Because you'll sit there and you'll declare these scriptures
to them and at the end of the day, they'll go, well, you don't
even know if that's the word of God. Well, this is what I'm going
to speak out of right here, so we need to settle it right up
front. This is the word of God. This is the word of God. If a
man won't believe the word of God, you know what that tells
me? We have to be born again and
given faith because we won't even believe God. We won't believe
our creator. We won't believe the one who
gave us life and who sustains us in life and who upholds all
things. And this is his word and we won't
believe him. That shows you something about
how depraved we are, doesn't it? We won't believe God. But
Abraham, against hope, he didn't have any children. Christ did
not come yet. Abraham believed in hope that
he might become the father of many nations according to the
Word of God. God said, so shall your children
be, Abraham. So first, faith believes God's
Word. It believes God's Word. That's
by the Spirit of our Lord. Then secondly, faith doesn't
consider carnal inabilities and carnal impossibilities. Listen,
verse 19. And being not weak in faith,
he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.
God promised Abraham he was gonna give him a child through Sarah,
and God waited a hundred years to do it. Carnal Sight, Natural Reason,
he waited until he was 100 years old to do it. Carnal Sight, Natural
Reason would say, that's impossible. That's what Carnal Sight would
say, that's what Carnal Reason would say, that's impossible,
that can't happen. Abraham considered not what was, he didn't consider
what he was incapable of doing. He didn't consider what Sarah
was incapable of doing. He didn't consider what natural
man would say is impossible to happen. He didn't consider that.
Why not? God gave him faith to believe
God. You know, everything God does in the salvation of his
people is impossible with you and me. Everything. Everything
God does in salvation is impossible with us. That's why the Lord
Jesus, that's just what he meant when he told his disciples, with
man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
All the things of salvation are possible because God works them.
God created life in Sarah's womb when Abraham was 100 years old
and she was past the age of childbearing. God did that. Why? He promised
it and he did it. Paul told the Galatians that
it's God that works miracles among you. Remember that? We've
seen it a few times recently. He said, through the hearing
of faith, He works miracles among you. Everything about salvation
is a miracle. There's nothing about our salvation
that's not a miracle. Everything. The Son of God came
down and took flesh in the womb of a virgin. How did that happen?
Miracle. The Lord Jesus came into this
world and laid down his life and really and truly died and
then arose from the grave. How come? Miracle. He comes to
you. Yes, it was a great miracle that
Abraham and Sarah were past the age of being able to produce
a child, and it was a miracle a child was conceived in her
womb. Me and you are worse off than
that, brethren. We're dead in sins. How are you
going to have spiritual life? The Lord Jesus is formed in us,
and a new man is born and created of God out of nothing that was
there. It's of God. He who was of the
bond woman was born after flesh. But he that was of the free woman
was by promise. God promised it and God produced
Isaac. And so every elect child born
again of God is a child of promise created by God. It's impossible
for man to contribute to us being born again. It's a miracle of
God. And God does it that way so that
we can't boast that we had any part of salvation. It's all a
miracle of God. And every man that boasts that
he had something to do with being born again, that he accepted
as Jesus, or he did something that made him be born again,
he's confessing he's a child of the flesh and not a child
of promise. Because child promise doesn't
confess that. Listen, neither because they're the seed of Abraham
are they all children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the
children of God, but the children of the promise accounted for
the seed. Children of promise are children created entirely
of God alone. The reason the Pharisees didn't
believe the Lord Jesus to be the Christ is because with these
carnal lives, he didn't look like what they thought the Christ
was gonna look like. That's one reason they didn't
believe him. God promised redemption for his
people in Christ. You think about how the Lord
did it. He does everything to make you and me so that we know
it's his glory and not of us. He came down born of a virgin.
They couldn't believe that. They said, oh, you're a child
of fornication. She's lying. Our Lord Jesus Christ is first
despised and rejected of men. Born poor, raised poor, a carpenter's
son. Then he comes riding to Jerusalem
on a donkey rather than on a mighty stallion like a conquering king. He goes to a cross and he's nailed
to a cursed tree and he's spit upon and he's rammed upon and
they pluck the hair out of his beard. And then he dies and he's
buried in a tomb. And men look at all that and
they say, see, he's not who he said he was. But God's given
you faith, and the only way you have faith is by God, and by
faith you know that all of that work was the work of God, whereby
he redeemed his people from the curse of the law, and justified
us from all our sins, and now he's at the right hand of God,
ruling everything in this world for us, and he's the one that
sent the gospel to us, and he's the one that gave us faith to
believe in. What's impossible with men is possible with God,
and it's all a miracle. So that the only way a man can
believe it is through faith in Christ. And God has to give the
faith. Everything God does in salvation
is impossible to man. Everything. Faith is the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The evidence
of things that the Carlite cannot see and cannot know. Faith believes
God. And that's by the Spirit of our
Lord. Thirdly, true faith gives God all the glory. This is something
a natural man can't do. This is impossible with a natural
man. A natural man can't give God all the glory. Abraham did, verse 20, he staggered
not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith,
giving glory to God. When we hear that and you see
that, you know what Abraham did. Under that old covenant, we know
that Abraham got tired of waiting, and him and Sarah both. Sarah
laughed when God said, you gonna have a child? And then Sarah
said, well, take my handmaid. Have a child with my handmaid. And so Abraham produced a child
with the handmaid. How then could God say, Abraham
staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and make no mention of
Abraham's sin? How could God say that? because
Christ Jesus lived in perfect faith, in perfect fidelity to
God, with no unbelief and no sin, and he staggered not one
time at the promise of God, and then he went to the cross and
laid down his life with Abraham's sin upon him. All that sin that
Abraham committed when he was in unbelief, when he produced
Ishmael, and all the sin that Sarah produced, Christ bore that,
and he went to the grave, and that old man and Abraham and
Sarah died in Christ on the cross under the justice of God, and
so God does not remember Abraham and Sarah's sin at all. All he
remembers is what Christ did, and he says, Abraham had perfect
faith. And so you and me who he's given
faith to believe, and all his elect people. That's what Christ
did for us, brethren. And it was the faithfulness of
Christ working in Abraham that gave Abraham faith and made and
strengthened Abraham to believe God and to give God the glory.
That's the only way Abraham could obey God and send Hagar and Ishmael
out of the house, packed up their bags with everything they had
and told them they had to leave. And I serve you and me. The only
way you believe Christ, the only way you keep walking by faith,
the only way you keep trusting the Lord Jesus is by the faithfulness
of Christ working in you. That was so Abraham. That's so
me and you. Oh, I'm so sick of hearing men
boast about their faith, boast about their works, boast about
what they've done and how good they are and how bad other people
are. No, you're not. Left to yourself,
you and me are rotten, hell-deserving, God-hating sinners that can't
do one thing without Him. And we need to stop boasting
that we've done anything. If you do anything pleasing to
God, God gets the glory, nobody else. That's what Abraham would
have told you. If he's standing here right now, Abraham would
have said the same exact thing. That's what our text tells us.
It's only in Christ that we have no sin. It's only in Christ that
we're righteous before God. It's only due to Christ's intercession
that God gives us faith to begin with. It's only by Christ's interceding
with us that God doesn't cast us away once we believe. It's
only by the righteousness of Christ that He gave us this faith
and He works in us to keep that faith sustained in our heart
and keeps you giving all the glory to God and all the praise
to Christ and worshiping Him. It's only by Christ and His Spirit
that we do this. He has to make Christ all to
us. That's just all there is to it.
Two things that the Lord does to show you this, He makes you
see you are just a vile sinner. He does that and He makes you
see that Christ is all in salvation. And when He makes you see those
two things, that's when we'll stop boasting and we'll give
Him the glory. Fourthly, by the faithfulness
of Christ, by the faithfulness of Christ, by the Spirit of the
Lord leading us. He keeps us persuaded in our
heart that what God has promised us, God is able to finish. He's
able to accomplish it and He's able to finish it. That's what
He's going to keep us persuaded of. Look here in verse 21. And being fully persuaded that
what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Christ
persuades us He does. He persuades us. The Lord God
raised him up and he said, set him in his right hand and he
gave him the glory to work this in his people. He said, thy people
shall be willing in the day of thy power. That's how we're persuaded
by our Lord Jesus Christ. Why did Abraham offer up Isaac?
Now I want you to get this. Men talk about their works of
faith. I did what James said, the beggar
come to my door and I gave him some food. I didn't just say
leave and be full. I gave him food. I didn't want
him to do without. And you got a freezer full of
food and a refrigerator full of food and a closet full of
coats. So when you gave him one, you
didn't miss it. When you gave him a piece of bread, you didn't
miss that either. What is a work of faith? It's a work whereby
you don't have anything for yourself, you can't do anything yourself,
and you have to trust God's able to do what he promised to do.
That's a work of faith. God tells Abraham, I'm gonna
send the Messiah through you, and that's the only way you're
gonna be saved is through the Christ that's coming through your son. I'm gonna give you this son Isaac,
and in Isaac, your seed's gonna be called. Christ is coming,
and Christ is gonna save his people, and through him, all
the rest of these children, I promise you, are gonna be born. Now Abraham,
take that boy Isaac and go up there on the mount and kill him. Offer him to me for a burnt offering. Now we're talking about a work
of faith. Now we're talking about a work of faith. By faith, Abraham,
when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received
the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was
said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called. accounting that
God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from whence
he also received him in a figure. Abraham did what he did because
he was persuaded God was able to do what God promised. That's
what faith believes. True faith believes God's able
to work every promise that He's promised His people in these
scriptures. When we read Hebrews 11, everything
God's saints did, they did by faith. They did persuaded, God's
able to do as God promised. Listen to Hebrews, look there
with me, Hebrews 11, 13. Hebrews 11, 13. These all died in faith, not
having received the promises, but having seen them afar off
and were persuaded of them. and embraced them and confessed
they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. They were persuaded
that what God promised, God would do. Look at, here's the example,
verse 22. By faith, Joseph, when he died,
made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and
gave commandment concerning his bones. God told Joseph, Joseph's
Pharaoh in Egypt, and he told Joseph, he said, all your brothers
are gonna come down here and they're gonna be in bondage in
Egypt, and then all of Israel's gonna stay in bondage for 400
years, and then I'm gonna deliver them out of bondage. And Joseph
said, told his children, made them swear to it and said, when
the Lord brings you out, you pass down through the generations
and tell them, when the Lord brings you out, you dig my bones
up and you take my bones with you. That's a man who believed
God was able to do what he promised. That's why he did that. He believed
God was able to do what he promised. Look at verse 27, by faith Moses
forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured
as seeing him who is invisible. He believed God would spare him
and keep him and save him just like he promised. Rahab, Rahab,
she's told that you keep this scarlet line in the window and
when I come, when the Lord passes through, He will save you. picture
of trusting the Lord Jesus, and she believed God was able to
do what he said. And whenever she lied to the
spies, she could have been killed for doing that, and then she
stayed in that house. That house was in the wall that
God said was falling down. And she believed I have to stay
in this house like they told me to. And she stayed in that
house, and she told all the people in the city, if you wanna be
saved, you have to come into this house. You know what that
house was? A whore house. That's what it
was. Do you think anybody's gonna
believe that unless God gives them faith to believe that I
have to stay in that house or I can't be saved? and God gave her faith and she
stayed in that house. That's a work of faith, trusting
God's able to do what He promised. Faith believes God is able to
save exactly as God promised. 2 Timothy 1.12, in all his suffering
for the sake of Christ for preaching this gospel, Paul said, I'm not
ashamed. For I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed
unto him against that day. I am persuaded, brethren, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nothing shall
be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. God promised that. Is he able
to do it? If He don't, none of us will
be saved. He promised it, and I'm persuaded it's so. Is anything
too hard for the Lord? When Sarah laughed, that's what
the Lord told her. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? But here's how sovereign God
is. He tells us beforehand, records it in His Word, promising what
He's going to do, and then He brings everything He promised
to pass, because He's able to. Oh, what a Savior, brethren. With men it's impossible, but
with God all things are possible. Now listen, I've been telling
you all this because it's only through faith in Christ that
God imputes Christ's righteousness to a sinner. Look there now,
verse 22. It was imputed to him for righteousness
because he believed God. Verse 23. Now it was not written
for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also
to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised
up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered from our fences
and raised again for our justification. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom also we've accessed by faith into this grace wherein
we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Listen,
if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, everybody sitting here
today, if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord will
say, you're righteous. My son made you righteous. He'll
impute the righteousness of Christ to you if you believe on Christ.
Believe on him. Believe on him. Why won't men believe on him
right now? Why do the young people not even pay attention? They
don't need him. They'll need him. I guarantee
you, though, if you knew that this afternoon you're going to
meet him, you'd be paying attention. Believer, walk by faith, not
by sight. Walk by faith, not by sight.
The things that you see with these eyes are temporary. They're
going to be burned up. They're just here as a stage
on which God has worked out this salvation in which He's saving
His people. And when He's done, Scripture
says He's going to fold it up like you fold up old clothes
and put them away. Christ has brought peace between
His people and God. Trust Him. Believe Him. We have
access by faith into this grace where we stand. It's through
Christ. We can go to the Father and ask
the Father for help. He's going to lead us to His
throne of grace. And the Spirit of God is going
to keep you walking by faith, trusting Him. Don't ever turn
back to the law. Don't turn to you. Don't turn
to the world. Don't turn to your sin. Keep
running this race with patience. He said it before you. Everything
that's come to pass, He put it right there in your path. Run
the race looking to Christ, who is the author and finisher of
our faith. He has accomplished salvation.
God promised it. He is able to perform it. Believe
Him. Believe Him. Let's go to Him.
Our Father, we thank you, Lord, that you have worked this work
for us in Christ Jesus. What a God and what a Savior.
Lord, we entirely depend upon you for faith. We need you. We need you to bless us and keep
us. We can't do one thing without
you. And we pray, Lord, that you would keep us believing you,
trusting you, keep us worshiping you in spirit and in truth and
following after you all our days. Lord, thank you that you put
our sin away, that you remember our sin no more. We thank you,
Lord, that you don't regard our unbelief and our falls, that
you see us just like you saw Abraham, perfectly faithful by
the faithfulness of Christ. Help us to remember this at all
times, Lord. Keep us walking by faith. Forgive
us our unbelief. Forgive us for trying to walk
by sight and not believing unless we have some kind of visual and
proof or whatever. Lord, thank you for saving us
in spite of us. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.