If you take your Bibles now and
turn with me to Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11. And we'll look at verse 11 this morning. Concerning the faith of Sarah.
I've entitled this message, Perfect faith. Perfect faith and personal
faith. Perfect and personal faith. Now, as we've studied in this
passage recently, we've studied the faith of Abraham. We saw
how Abraham, in verse 8, pictures every true believer in Jesus
Christ. Verse 8 and 9. It says, Abraham
when he was called. Everyone who has faith in Christ
is... Abraham pictures all of us who
believe in Christ. Everyone who has faith is called
of God. No one has faith unless they
are called of God and given a new nature. The scripture tells us,
our Lord Jesus says this, no man can come unto Me except what
the Father draw him. And those that are taught of
God, what do they do? Christ said, they come unto Me.
They believe on Me. This morning, if you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, is it not because you were called? You were called of God to life. And you are called of God to
believe. The scripture tells us in Ephesians
2 that faith is a gift of God and not of works. Why? Lest any man should boast. So
we see that Abraham was called and so are we. And what does
this calling of God produce? It produces obedience. Abraham
obeyed. Obeyed. He called Abraham out
of Ur of the Chaldees and said, leave your family, leave your
kin and go to a place that I'll show you. A land that I'll give
you, a land that you have not seen. And Abraham, by faith,
what? Obeyed. And this morning, you
who believe, what are you doing? You are obeying. The scripture
tells us that obedience is simply this, to believe. to believe. Faith is not a one-time activity,
is it? It's a constant, perpetual faith. And by faith, we obey the commandments
of Christ. This is the commandment. This
is His commandment. John tells us this, and I believe
1 John 3 and verse 23. This is His commandment. That
you believe on Him, on the Son. And so with His commandment,
we continually obey. We continue to obey. He was called
of God and he obeyed God, so does everyone. And listen, in
verse 9, we learn that by faith he sojourned. This tells us that
every believer, this is our rule of life. Our rule of life is
this, the just shall live by law, No. By faith. The just shall live by faith.
Abraham continually sojourned out. By faith. This is the rule
of the believer's life. Faith. Faith. And he looked for a kingdom.
He looked for a city whose builder and maker was God. Isn't that
what we look for? I mean, isn't this our hope? Heaven
is our hope, isn't it? It's our anticipation. He has,
Jesus tells us, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you what?
The Kingdom. It is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the Kingdom. This Kingdom was prepared for
you before the foundation of the world. And that's what we
look forward to, friends. We should be looking forward
to His coming. I'll tell you this, Abraham was.
He was looking forward to the coming of Christ. And so should
we. And now then, the Holy Spirit
now would turn our attention from Abraham to his wife. Look
at verse 11. It says, Through faith also Sarah
herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered
of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful
who promised. Now what I want to focus here
is this. I believe the Holy Spirit has
this intention by pointing us to Sarah. I want you to notice
this. In reading all of these Old Testament
patriarchs, you know what's missing here? Their sin. When you read of their faith,
you read none of their unbelief. Now, of all the people in the
Old Testament, why in the world would he pick Sarah? Have you
ever read the Old Testament account of Sarah? The Old Testament account
of Sarah was not perfect, was it? It was not perfect. But in this text, the Lord here
describes Sarah's faith as perfect. Listen, Sarah received strength
to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past
age because, listen, she judged Him faithful who promised. Now Abraham was promised of God
that he should have a seed. You remember that. That in thy
seed, the Word said, shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
But you know what? Abraham didn't have any children.
We read that Abraham had no seed. He had no son. When this promise
was given, he had no children. He was 75 or plus years of age
when he received this promise. 90 most likely in that era. He was an old man. And his wife
was an old woman. They both were past the time
of natural conception, had no seed. Her womb and what made
it even more impossible was this. All of Sarah's life, her womb
was barren. Scripture tells us her womb could
not produce life. Unable to conceive. Yet Abraham
did not look at Sarah's womb. He did not look at his own old
age. Abraham's faith was strong. Abraham's
faith was strong. He didn't consider his own age,
his own time being past conception. We read of his faith being strong,
but in the account of Genesis, I don't have time to go and re-read
all of this, but if you want to go back and look at this,
I suggest you do it. We see that Sarah's faith in
Genesis, as it is recorded, was not strong, but rather full of
unbelief. Sarah's heart was full of unbelief. It was Sarah who convinced Abraham
to go into his handmaid, wasn't it? It was Sarah who convinced
Abraham, said, OK, the Lord promised you a seed. My womb is barren.
Maybe we can help him out. You just go into my servant,
Hagar, and and you have a son by her. And they did. They thought
they were she thought by this she was fulfilling the promise
of God. And one time our Lord Jesus Christ
came incarnate, a pre-incarnate state. He came unto them and
told Abraham again of that promise. After he had messed up, after
he had sinned and went into Hagar, her servant, in unbelief, he
told Abraham of the promise again. But what did Sarah do? The scripture
says this, she laughed. Now, Abraham laughed in joy.
He was rejoicing, but the word there for Sarah in laughter was
unbelief. She laughed at the promise of
God in unbelief, and the Lord rebuked her. He said, why did
you laugh? And you know what she said? I
didn't laugh. Can you imagine that? I can, because I do it
all the time. I mean, we do it all the time.
We lie unto God. Who knows all things and we still,
we still do it. What me? What me? No, it was
you. And he said this, is there anything
too hard for God? She laughed in unbelief. Is this not true of us? We so
often hear of the promises of God, we often, we often like
Sarah try to help him out. God promises this, that we are
sanctified. And what do men try to do? They
try to help out in sanctification. They try to help God sanctify
them. No. You can't help God in your salvation
in any part, friends. We try to help God out fulfilling
His promises by carnal reasoning. Carnal reasoning. You know, God
is, listen to this, God chose a people, didn't He? Christ died
for them and He will call them. And the means by which He will
call them is what? Preaching. Yet what do men constantly
try to do? We try to help God out by entertaining
folks. Well, we want to keep them in
the church so they can hear the gospel, so what do we do? We amuse them.
People entertain them. They say, hey, what if we just
put on a play? That sounds good, right? More
people like plays. So if we just put the gospel
in a play, surely that we can help God out. Oh, that's unbelief,
isn't it? It is. Scripture says through
the preaching of the gospel, this is the means. It's the only
means that God has chosen to save his people. We hear of the blessings of God,
we hear that all that we have in Christ. What do we have in
Christ? We have perfect peace. Listen to this, He has made peace. Now how did He make peace? By
the blood of His cross. So when was peace made? It was
made at the cross, wasn't it? It was purposed in eternity,
but made at the cross. And yet, do you always feel at
peace with God? Does that change your peace? Did your sin somehow alter your
peace with God? No. If peace came by your works,
yes. But it doesn't come by works.
It comes by the work of Christ. So what alters your peace? Nothing. Yet you feel you have no peace. We hear these promises of God
and we laugh in unbelief. Redemption. You are perfectly
redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ. Your sin has been forever
removed from you. And what do we do? We laugh. Unbelief. You see how you and
I can relate to Sarah? God promised her she'd have a
seat. And she laughed in unbelief. How often do we laugh at the
promises of God in unbelief and fear? We laugh in unbelief thinking
God's arm is too short. Surely I've done it this time. Surely I've gone too far. Is there anything too hard for
God? Is there any sin the blood that cannot cover? No. No. You are redeemed. You are perfect and accepted. And yet we sometimes, like Sarah,
in unbelief, fail to believe in His promises. Yet we see this. In light of Scripture, because
of the blood of Christ, because we are washed, because we have
His righteousness and are clothed, God sees us as pure. I like this. Look at Song of
Solomon. I'm not going to stay here, but
look at this. Song of Solomon. Look at chapter 1. Song of Solomon chapter 1. Listen
to what the bride says of herself. I am black but beautiful. I am black but
comely. I am black but comely. Is this
not our confession? We not confess that we see our
sin, we see our nature, we see that we are black, that we are
darkness by nature. Yet because in faith we see this,
we are made perfect in Christ, black but comely. But notice
what the bridegroom says about the bride in verse 15. Behold,
thou art fair. My love, behold, thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes. Behold,
thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant. Also, our bed is green. What is this saying? This is
saying, look, look, you have dove's eyes. You know what dove's
eyes mean? It means faithfulness. When doves mate, they mate forever.
They're faithful forever. He says this about you. You're
faithful. That's what he said. Where's
the mention of your blackness? Does he mention anything about
your blackness? You do. I do. Does he? No, he doesn't. He sees where we see our sin
and unbelief. God sees Christ's righteousness. God sees Christ's perfect faithfulness. Perfect faithfulness. Therefore rejoice, for in Christ,
in Christ, we are holy and without blame before God, even as He
had chosen us to be in Christ before the world began. But in
these last days has sent Christ our Savior to purge our sins. We were purposed to be pure,
we were purposed to be holy by God's eternal counsel. But this
was to be accomplished not by us, but by sending Christ into
the world to accomplish this perfection. He sent Christ in
these last days, our Savior, and He purged our sins. That's what He says in Hebrews
chapter 1. He said this by Himself. He purged our sins. Washed it completely away. Purged
it. Cut it off forever. Redeemed
us. Reconciled us to God by His one
offering. Isn't that what it says in Hebrews
chapter 10? It says, This man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sins forever, sat down, because he was finished, he sat down,
expecting something. He said, My enemy is going to
be made my footstool. For He hath perfected forever them that
are sanctified. Those who are sanctified He perfected
forever. And then what happened? By grace
in the Holy Spirit He called us. He gave us life and faith
in Christ. By His power He came and made
us meet. I like that. He made us qualify. to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints. You know this, you are qualified. You meet every requirement of
God to accept, to receive His perfect inheritance. I know you don't feel that way. And surely, I know this, we don't
act that way. We long to. Don't you? Don't you long to act qualified? But your acting qualified didn't
make you qualified. Christ made you qualified to
receive the inheritance of the saints in life. We have been
made partakers of the divine nature. Partakers of the divine nature.
In Ephesians chapter 4 it says this, in verse 21, He said, If
so be you have heard of Him, and you have been taught of Him,
as the truth is in Jesus Christ. Have you been taught of God?
How do you know if you've been taught of God? Do you believe
on Jesus Christ? Faith is the evidence. How do
we know Sarah was qualified? The Scripture tells us that she
believed, she judged Him faithful who promised. Do you judge Him
faithful? You see, I judge Him faithful. I don't judge me faithful,
I judge Him faithful. I don't judge my works enough,
I judge His works enough. We've been taught this of God.
And what are we to do? Paul says, putting off concerning
the former conversation of the old man. In other words, put
off unbelief. Isn't that the behavior of the
old man, unbelief? Put off the conversation of the
old man, which is corrupt according to deceitful lust, and be renewed
in the spirit of your mind, that you may put on the new man, put
on the new man which is after God, created. I like that. That sure explains a lot, doesn't
it? This explains why you believe.
Because God created something that wasn't there. He created
a new nature by which you are capable of believing. Created
after God in righteousness and true holiness. We are constantly plagued with
fears and doubts and unbelief and sin of the old man. The apostle says, put off that
unbelief. You know, when the apostle says,
put off the sin that easily besets us. You know, that sin is unbelief.
I believe that's the root of every sin. Why do we lie? Unbelief. Why do we steal? Unbelief. It's rooted in every
sin. He says, put off the behavior
of the old man. But we renewed in the spirit
of our mind by putting on the new behavior of the new man,
which is not made after our nature, but made after the holy nature
of God. This new behavior, this new nature
is not made by our obedience to the law, but is the very nature
and holy nature of God that is created in us. Paul said we are
made partakers of Christ. In Hebrews chapter 3 and verse
14. You who believe, you are made
partakers of Christ. Now what in the world does that
mean? Partakers of Christ. One preacher
wrote this, to be a partaker of Christ means that I share
in His merits. I share in His merits. Sinful
and wretched and vile and wicked though I am, I come to the fountain
filled with blood and I am washed of it. I'm made white as snow. In the moment we believe, in
the moment we believe, we are experimentally made holy. In the moment we believe, all
of our sins are washed away. We become partakers of the Son
of God. Partakers of Christ and His merits
are now my merits. That which Christ did as my substitute
is actually mine. It's mine. When Adam was your
federal head, All that was His became what? Yours. And when Christ, our federal
head, came and died for our sins and secured our righteousness,
all that He did became yours. That's the beauty of a federal
head, isn't it? People don't like that. They
don't like Adam to be a federal head. I'm glad for federal headship,
aren't you? If you're in Christ, you should
be exceedingly glad. Did Christ bear the wrath of
God as my substitute? Where then is the wrath of God
against me? It's gone. It's gone forever.
Did Christ bear our sins in His own body on the tree? Did He
not pay all the debt that we owed to God? Then where's the
debt? It's gone. It's gone. Jesus paid it all. I paid it all, and all to Him
I owe. Sin led to crimson stains. He
washed it white as snow. And since my debt has been paid,
since in the person of my substitute, Jesus Christ, I have paid all
that the law requires. In Him, I've paid everything. Listen, the law can demand nothing
more of me. Look at Isaiah chapter 40. Look
at Isaiah chapter 40. This is what we're commanded
to preach. This is what we're commanded to preach to you. Comfort.
I hope that what I'm preaching to you is comfortable. Isn't
it comfortable, you who are in Christ? If you're outside of
Christ, it's not comfortable. You don't have this. This is
for God's people. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry unto her this, Her warfare is... what? Finished. It's accomplished. It's done. Her warfare is accomplished.
Tell her her iniquity is pardoned. Now why in the world should I
be able to tell you this? How could I tell you this? This is how I could tell you,
For she hath received of the LORD's hand double double for all her sins. We are not going to get into
heaven by the skin of our teeth. Did Christ get into heaven by
the skin of His teeth? Did He eat by? Did He just do
the bare minimum? No. Heaven opened and God said,
sit on my throne. Why? You deserve it. You deserve
it. You've earned it. The hymn writer wrote this, payment
God cannot twice demand. First in my bleeding surety hand
and then again at mine. See what faith receives. Faith
that judges him faithful. Who promised. What did he promise?
He promised peace. He promised pardon. He promised
payment. And so now that He's given this,
being partakers of Christ, and His righteousness becomes ours,
not only does His blood wash us, cleanse us, make us acceptable,
He gives us His own righteousness. This is what it is to be partakers
of Christ, is to have His righteousness. His righteousness becomes our
righteousness. I believe it's in Romans chapter
3 and verse 22. It says that even the righteousness
of God, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ, that righteousness
that Christ Himself earned as a man, even the righteousness
of God, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ unto and upon
all them that..." What? "...believe." You believe? Then you are made partakers of
Christ's righteousness. All that He has done as our representative,
fulfilling the righteousness of the law, obeyed the law of
God, fulfilling all righteousness, There is nothing which God in
His law required that Christ has not done. Therefore, with
His spotless garments on, I am holy as the Holy One. You see what faith is to receive?
This is what faith receives. And faith judges Him as Sarah
did. Faith. Therefore, we see that these
believing brethren... Now then, go back to your text.
Now then, I want you to see, that's what faith sees. Through
faith, Sarah. Through faith, Sarah. And again,
this faith that Sarah received, though her faith in practice
was imperfect, was actually unbelief. How does God describe it in our
text? He describes it as perfect faith. Why? Because the faith
that you have is given of God. It's given of God. Now, you and
I know and confess that our faith is not what we want it to be.
I thought about this hymn as I was preparing this. This hymn
writer says, Oh, for a faith that will not shrink, though
pressed by every foe, that will not tremble on the brink of any
woe." Is that not a good prayer? Oh, for a faith that will not
shrink. I long for a faith like that, don't you? When I judge
my own faith, I tell you this, I judge it as, at best, unbelief. This is why we're not to have
faith in our faith, because your faith is prone to heights and
depths, ups and downs, strength and weakness. But what we should rejoice in
is this. God sees our faith as he saw the faith of our substitute. Now, again, you're not going
to see this. These are things that we must
receive that we have not seen. Faith. Isn't that what faith
is? Yes, it is. It's receiving these things that
God has told us. He judges Sarah's faith perfect,
even though in actuality, her faith was not. Even though your
faith is not perfect yet, look what God says of it. Why? It's his faith. It's His faith given to you. The second point is this. True
faith in Christ is personal. Look at this. In verse 11 again.
Through faith, also Sarah herself... herself received strength to
conceive. Abraham believed God. He trusted
in the promises of God. God, and the scripture tells us it
was accounted to Him for righteousness. Now, was Abraham's faith accounted
to anyone else for righteousness? No, it was a picture of all of
us, right? All of us who do believe, you
that believe, your faith is accounted unto you for what? Righteousness. This is the evidence that we
are righteous before God, even our faith in Christ. And so it is for all the elect
of the father, redeemed of the son, all those that called of
God, they will believe on Christ. Our Lord said that in John six,
I just read that to you. A minute ago, John 6, verse 44,
No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me
draw him. As the Scripture has said, they shall all be taught
of God. And he that is called of God, taught of God, believeth
or cometh to me. So if we've been taught of God,
we come to Christ. But this faith of a believer
in Christ, no matter how strong or how evident or how much it
is used of God for the service of God, Faith cannot be transmitted
from one person to another, no matter the relationship or zeal.
No matter how much I want you to believe, I cannot transmit
my faith to you. You found that to be true about
your children? Have you not found that to be true? What does it say in John chapter
1? As many as received Him. How many is that? As many as.
As many as received Him. You received Him to them and
only them that receive Him. Gave He the right to be called
the sons of God. Now how in the world did you
who were dead in sin were capable of receiving Him? Which were
born, John says, not of the will, not of blood. In other words,
This new birth which results in faith is not of kinship. I'm telling you, this is going
on right now. They think just because their
parents are Christians, that somehow their children are Christians.
Where do you think infant baptism comes from? The idea that they
want that child to believe. So what do they do? They try
to perform a ceremony by which they transmit some kind of grace
or faith to that child. By an act of their faith, that
child receives some kind of gift of God. I want to say a bad word. That's bull. Anyone who believes
that, find it. You find it, and I'll start doing
it. You'll find it in your creeds,
and in your confessions, and in your traditions, but you won't
find it in this book. Not one instance of it. Not by
blood, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by the will of man. In other words, not by your will,
or not by the will of some other man. The whole Catholic Church
is based on that, that by the faith of some other man they
can transmit some kind of grace to you. And yet the Word of God is absolutely
completely against that. Faith cannot be transmitted.
You must personally believe on Jesus Christ or you will not
be saved. As Abraham loved Sarah, It was
his wife. Though she was purposed of God
to be the mother of Isaac and eventually the lineage of Christ,
yet she herself must believe. And that's what the Spirit is
transmitting here about faith in our text. Sarah also herself. Not just Abraham, but Sarah herself
believes. I desire my children to be saved
and I want that more than anything. I want you to be saved. You want your children to be
saved. Anybody doesn't? We want our
children to believe. We would do anything in the world
to get them to believe in Christ and be saved. That they should
confess their sins and guilt and they should fall at the feet
of Christ and plead for mercy. We want our friends, those around
us, to come to Christ, to believe on Him. How we desire for grace and power
of God to give them life, that they should see Christ as all
their salvation. But I know, no matter how much
I want them to believe, I will never give them faith. I cannot transmit my faith to
them. Faith nowhere in Scripture is
transmitted from one person to another, nor can one's faith
be counted for another's. In other words, that righteousness
of God that's imputed and imparted to me, I cannot transmit that
to any of you. And you cannot transmit it to
anyone else. It's personal. Look at Galatians 2. Look at
Galatians 2. Galatians 2, verse 16. Paul says,
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, how
is a man then justified? But by the faith of Jesus Christ. How are you justified? You are justified by the faith
of Jesus Christ. This is the only way faith is
transmitted. It is from Christ to you. That's the only thing in Scripture
that gives us transmission of faith, is Christ. The faith of
Christ provides what? Justification. And then what? Even we believe in Jesus Christ. You see, he wrought our justification,
and by that he gave us faith by which we were justified experimentally. Even we believe in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ. You see,
where's the object of your faith and justification? My object
is not in my faith, but in the faith of Jesus Christ. That's
how I know I'm justified. By His faith. And not by the
works of the law. For by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified in His sight. Look at chapter 3 and
verse 22 of Galatians. It says, But the Scripture hath
concluded all under sin. Now why would it do that? That the promise By faith of
Jesus Christ. The promise by the faith of Jesus
Christ. What is the promise? Pardon? Peace? Righteousness? Justification? That's the promise. How did it come? By the faith
of Jesus Christ. It might be given to them who
what? Believe. You believe. Go to Philippians chapter 3 and
verse 9. Philippians chapter 3 and verse
9. Paul says, I count all things but laws that I desire to be
found in Him, not having mine own righteousness which is of
the law. What kind of righteousness do you want, Paul? He said, but
I want the righteousness that is through the faith of Christ. The righteousness of God that
was merited by the faith of Christ the righteousness of God which
is by faith. We receive that righteousness
by faith. The faith of Christ obtained
our righteousness, redemption, but God also purposed that all
those that He chose and all those that Christ died for, that all
of them should believe personally. The scripture says in Acts 13,
as many as were ordained to eternal life, what? Believed. You see, that's the only place
where faith is transferred, when God transfers it from His Son
and gives it to you. That's the only place faith is
transferred. So just as much as Christ was ordained to obtain
our salvation by His merits and His faith, even so, we were ordained
of God to receive this salvation through our own faith, through
belief. Faith is personal, friends. You
must believe. You must. Listen to me, sinner. No one will believe for you.
No one can believe for you. You must believe. Faith is personal. Scripture says in Mark 16 and
verse 16, He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. Whosoever believeth on the Son
of God shall not perish. but have everlasting life. Listen, if you will not come
to God by Jesus Christ, if you will not believe on Him alone,
if you will not forsake your righteousness and your works
religion so that you may win Christ and
be found in Him having His righteousness, if you will not believe on His
blood as all your atonement, listen, it's your own fault. If you go to hell, it will be
your fault. You will have no one to blame
but you. He that believeth not shall be
what? Damned. Sarah is a good picture
of us by nature. She was what? Barren. She was empty of life. She could
not receive life. But God in His rich mercy, if
He will give you life and strength, what will you do? You will receive
Him. As Sarah's womb was given life,
she received the seed of her husband. And what was made? Life. If God per adventure gives
you a new nature, you can do nothing but receive Christ. Christ to us is not an option,
is he? We don't present Christ and say,
you know, well, here he is, take him or leave him. No, He's not an option to us. He's a necessity. I must have Him. Is that how you see things? I
must have Him. Can you do anything else but
belief? I believe. I cannot believe for you, but I believe, what do I believe? I believe He is faithful. I judge Him faithful, that He
has accomplished all my righteousness, my redemption, my sanctification,
He's all my wisdom, He's everything to me. Faith, that's what faith
is. Is my faith perfect? In my eyes,
it's not. In my experience, it's not. But
my hope is this. Before the eyes of God, it is. It's only through the substitute.
It's only through Christ that God can see me this way. And
I'm so thankful that He has given me faith in Christ. I'm thinking about a friend of
mine a long time ago. He said there's got to be something
more. There's got to be something more
than just faith in Christ. And he went seeking for that.
You know what he found? He found religion. Religion,
they offer a lot more. I don't want any more. I don't
need anymore. Christ is enough. Christ is enough. What evidence do we have that
Christ is mine? Do you believe on the Son of
God? I don't know if my faith is real.
Listen, faith worketh by love. Do you love Him? Do you love His Word? Do you love His people? If you do, that's evidence that
your faith is real. And evidence you have His righteousness
is that you believe on Him. And we place none of our trust
in our faith or our love but in Him. in Him. So faith in, according to the
Word of God, Sarah also believed. Though her faith and practice
was imperfect, God says it was. And she believed herself. So
faith is not only perfect, it's personal. You must believe yourself. Do you believe yourself? If you do not believe, why? Why would you not believe God? You believe every other crackpot. Why would you not believe God?
Would God give you grace to believe now? And when you believe, you
believe now. And you believe now. I believe
right now. If I've never believed before,
I believe now. And now, now, all the way that
he takes me home, I pray God would comfort you with
this. Oh, for a faith that would not shrink. I pray God will bless this. Let's
stand and be dismissed in prayer.