Hebrews chapter 11. The title of the message this
morning is, The Faith of Noah. The Faith of Noah. Verse 7 of Hebrews chapter 11,
it says, "...By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen
as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house,
by the which he condemned the world and became heir." of the
righteousness which is by faith." Faith of Noah. Now the Apostle,
at the beginning of this, having concluded all that Christ hath
done, having fulfilled all the types, all the shadows and prophecies
of the Law and the Old Testament, having accomplished our salvation,
Paul says that we who believe in Christ are to continue in
the faith. He says, "...we are not of them
that draw back into perdition, but of them that believe unto
the saving of the soul." We who believe, we trust in Christ.
And then, in the beginning of chapter 11, he starts by giving
us the definition of this faith and the nature of faith. He says
that in verse 1, "...Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is the substance,
the foundation, and the evidence of our salvation. That's the
definition of faith. You want to know what faith is,
here it is. Faith is the foundational evidence of our salvation. Do you believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ? Do you trust only in Him, forsaking
all your merits and self? That is faith in Christ, and
that is the evidence. That is the evidence upon which
we are founded. That's the definition. We believe
that Christ accomplished all our salvation, and the Holy Spirit
imparts this in the new birth, and faith in Jesus Christ is
the result of the power and quickening of God the Holy Spirit. That is faith. Now the nature
of faith is what? It's in invisible things, things
not seen, things hoped for. Paul says if a man hoped for
something, it's obviously not seen. Otherwise, why would he
yet anticipate it? Hope is in things not yet seen. We believe in election, although
we've not seen election. We've not seen our names written
in heaven, but yet we know they are. We've not seen our Lord
crucified, buried, and risen from the dead, yet we by faith
know it to be so. We know He is in heaven reigning
now, ruling over all things. How do we know this? By faith
we know this. We have faith in things not seen. So the nature of faith is in
the invisible. The nature of faith is in those
things not yet seen. Yet to us who believe, our salvation,
our Savior, is more real than anything we could touch. Christ
is more real to us than anything tangible. Jesus said, they that worship
God should worship Him in spirit and in truth. True worship of
God then is in things not seen. It's spiritual worship. This
morning, we don't have a lot of frills in our worship because
those things don't add to the worship of God. The worship of
God is not something just seen, smelt, or felt. It is intangible. It is something to do with the
heart. and not the outward man. False religion relies on these
things. They rely on sights and sounds
and feelings and emotions and things to tickle the outside
senses. But true worshipers of God are
those who worship God by faith in things not seen. We worship
God by believing on Christ. True worship comes from the heart.
The heart of a new nature. And the only way this worship
comes is by the Spirit and by the truth of the preaching of
the Gospel. This is how worship is taking
place this morning. I'm preaching to you the gospel
of Christ. And you receive this gospel and
rejoice in it by faith. And by this, we praise God. We worship God from the heart. From a heart of faith, we worship
God. And so that's what he tells us
at the very beginning about faith. And then he tells us about these
elders that obtained a good report. And he begins with Abel. And
he says, by faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain. He starts to show us the different
aspects of faith. In each one of these examples,
he shows us something a little different about faith. Benefits,
if you will, of faith. There are multiple benefits of
believing in Christ, isn't there? There are multiple benefits. One of which is justification.
That's what Abel's faith pictured. Justification. His parents taught
him, having learned the gospel from God, The seed of the woman
shall crush the head of the serpent, and he shall bruise his heel."
And then God pictured that by the offering of that animal to
cover their nakedness. And they told that to their sons.
And Abel, by faith, offered that animal sacrifice, looking forward
to the seed of the woman to come, looking forward to him who would
crush Satan's head by his sacrifice. And by this we see that God received
His offering and testified that He was righteous. You listen,
you who are by faith, you who believe in Christ, you are justified. You are justified. How do I know
I'm justified? Had God not received the sacrifice
of Christ in whom you trust? God received that sacrifice.
God has accepted Christ's offering, therefore you are justified before
God. And how do we receive this justification? It is by faith. By faith. And the second one he shows is
Enoch. He said Enoch, by faith Enoch was translated that he
should not see death, and was not found because God had translated. God took him. But before he was
translated, he had this testimony that he pleased God. Oh, wow. How do you please God? How is
it that we can please God? How did Enoch please God? Without
faith, it is impossible to please Him. How did Enoch? By faith,
Enoch pleased God. Enoch walked by faith with God
and was translated. And this was the testimony he
had before he was translated, that he pleased God by faith
in Christ. Without faith in Christ, you
listen, it's impossible to please God. For God said to Christ,
He said of Christ, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased. And you see, you can only please
God by being in Christ. How should you be in Christ?
By faith. By faith we are experimentally
united with Christ. Before we were, we were united
in the election of God. We were united with Christ when
He died. But we were not united experimentally
in our experience until God gave us faith. And then, and only
then have we this testimony, that we please God. By faith,
we please God. And so now we come to Noah. Noah. By faith, Noah. This morning,
we, by the grace of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit,
I want us to see four things about Noah's faith. Four things
about Noah's faith that are really ours. Everything about faith
of Abel the faith of Enoch the faith of Adam the faith of Noah
It is Identical to the faith of every believer these guys
were not just super Saints. I These were men of like passions,
just like we are. They were men of sinners, saved
by grace, through faith in Christ Jesus alone, just like we are. And so these four things, if
you are a true believer in Christ, you can identify with each one
of these things. First of all, the cause of Noah's
faith. What's the cause of Noah's faith?
The grace of God. Secondly, the concern of Noah's
faith. Noah being warned. He was concerned
about the judgment of God. He was warned and he was concerned
about sin. Thirdly, the consequence of Noah's
faith. He prepared an ark for the saving
of his house. That's the consequence of faith.
And fourthly, the conclusion of faith, he became an heir of
righteousness. See all those things here in
our verse? By faith, Noah being warned of God. Let's look at this first one,
the cause of Noah's faith. Go back to Genesis chapter 6
and let's read some of this account here in Genesis chapter 6. Give
us an idea of this man Noah and the age in which he lived and
the circumstances that surrounded him. In Genesis chapter 6 and
verse 5, The scripture says, And God saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the Lord that
he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart,
and he said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing
and the fowl of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made
them." Now, this generation in which Noah lived was so vile,
the Scripture says even the imagination of the heart, the imagination
of the thoughts. Not just the thoughts, but the
very imagination of the thoughts. The thing that happens before
it becomes a thought. That's what he's saying. He's
going directly to the root and the core of a man's being. He said that very thing before
it becomes a thought is evil. See, man always looks upon the
outside. He always judges on the outside. We look at a man that's moral,
a man that's faithful to his family, he loves his wife and
his children, he works hard, he's an honest man, he's a decent
fellow. And we look at that man and say,
well, man, that guy's a good guy. I would. We'd look on the outside. Truly, that'd be nice if we had
a whole bunch more of those in our generation. We could say,
that's a good guy. This man might even be zealous
in his religion. He may do really good works.
And according to the standard of man, he is good. But that's
not the standard. My opinion about what is good
and what is not good is darkly skewed, at best. Scripture says, The Lord seeth
not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the Lord looketh on the heart. Let us see then man as God sees
man. How does God see man? That every imagination of the
thoughts of men are evil. How often? Continually. Continually. See, because of the fall of our
father Adam in the garden, we are corrupt. Completely. If you can find... I mean, I
don't even think completely is a strong enough word to show
us our ruin. We are completely ruined. Completely
depraved. Absolutely corrupt from the sole
of our foot to the crown of our head. There is nothing but wounds
and bruises and putrefying sores. This is what God sees. God sees
you as you are. By nature, corrupt. Therefore, Paul says, we are
all born dead in trespasses and sins. Isaiah says that all our
righteousnesses are as menstrual cloths, filthy rags. We say, well, preacher, these
men that God's talking about here, this is before the flood.
Surely we've improved. Surely man has gotten better
over the decades. We've evolved. We've come up
out of the slime. And we're doing better than the
days of Noah. Okay? Well, let's look after
the flood. Go over to chapter 8. Look at what God says after
the flood. Verse 21, remember Noah, he offered
that sacrifice as a sweet savor unto God, a picture of his faith
in Christ. And God said, I will not curse
the ground anymore for man's sake. Listen, for the imagination
of man's heart is evil from his youth. What changed? Nothing. There were only eight
people left on the whole face of the earth, and God still said,
man is corrupt. He's just as corrupt as before
the flood. Just as corrupt after the flood. And so the flood, it destroyed
millions of wicked men, but I tell you, it did not eradicate sin. I want us to be very clear on
this part. All men are born dead in sin. All of us were children of Adam
and born sinners. We by nature are haters of God,
by nature unable and unwilling to come to Christ. This is the
result of Adam's fall. Complete ruin. Absolute depravity. Jesus said, No man can come. unto me." Planar language no man could
muster. No man can come except, I'm thankful
for divine exceptions, except the Father which has sent me
draw him. Therefore, as we examine the
faith of Noah, we may see how it is that he was called. How is it that Noah was called
out? What made the difference in Noah? Look at verse 9 of chapter 6.
And these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man,
a perfect man in his generation. What made the difference? God
said the thoughts of man and evil is evil continually, and
here it is, Noah is singled out. And He said Noah is a just man,
Noah is a righteous man. What made the difference? How
was Noah just, and the others not? Did Noah walk with God? While the rest of his generation,
how did he walk with God while the rest of his generation was
full of violence? Was Noah just before God because
of his works or his merit or his goodness? No! He was just
as much a son of Adam as the rest of his race. But the Scriptures clearly state
that no one of us escapes depravity. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. There is none righteous. There
is none that seeketh after God. They are all together become
unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. You
see, none of us escape it. How then was Noah made just? What caused Noah to be accepted
in the sight of God? What caused him? cause god to
reveal his plan and purpose to noah and save his family well
the root is in the verse above it verse eight but noah found
grace first-time the word is used in
scripture And you notice that grace, he
found grace before he was said to be just and righteous. Grace. You want to know the cause of
Noah's righteousness and faith in Christ? Here it is. Noah found
grace. unmerited favor in the sight
of God. Noel received the grace of God,
not because he was good, not because he was perfect, but because
God in mercy chose to give it to him. You see, you cannot mix
works and grace. Impossible. Otherwise, you destroy
the very definition of the Word. That's what Paul says concerning
this matter of election. He says, if it is of grace, then
it is no more work. Otherwise, grace is no more grace. And if it be of work, then it's
not of grace. Otherwise, work is no more work.
You've ruined the definition. To mix the two is impossible. Salvation is either by grace
or it is by works. It is never a mixture of the
two. Never. Because man is ruined and dead
in sins, including Noah, man cannot merit The grace of God
by any means of the flesh or depravity of the will could ever
be justified before God. I've told you this before and
it's true. There are only two religions in all the world, works
and grace. The only true religion is grace. Every works religion
is false. Every works religion. Anything
that would impose upon you to do something to earn or merit
God's favor is works. It's no longer grace. Paul said,
if you be circumcised, you add one thing to Christ, He shall
profit you nothing. But here's the salvation of Noah
and everyone else that is saved of God Noah found grace and so
it is with you you who believe on Christ you listen This is
the cause of your salvation the cause of your faith You found
grace in the eyes of God Not because of who you were Not because
of what you've done but because God in free sovereign mercy loved
you. Not what my hands have done could
save my guilty soul. Not all my sighs and prayers
and tears could bear my awful load. Thy work alone, O God, to me doth pardon speak. It is
the work of God alone that saves. It is the grace of God alone
that calls sinners to faith. In that same topic where Paul
describes the grace and works of election, Paul says, at this
present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. This election of grace was that
God before time, before sin, before the ruined, purposed to
save a people for Himself. He purposed and willed that a
remnant should be saved. A remnant according to the election
of grace. How opposite then is modern religion? It says God wants to save all
men without exception. No, God doesn't want to save
all men without exception. If God wanted to save all men
without exception, you mark it down, every man would be saved. If that was the will of God,
that everyone should be saved, then everyone would be saved. This is why it is called a remnant
according to the election of grace. Our God is in the heavens, and
you listen, He does whatsoever He pleases. And if God ever pleased
to save all men, He'd save them all. His arm's not short to save
anyone. But I'll tell you who He will
save, whom He will save. That's who He'll save. He'll
save as many as the Lord our God shall call. That's who He'll
save. He'll save them. And Romans 9 is very clear concerning
that matter of election, concerning those two men, Jacob and Esau.
It says, "...before the children, not yet being born, neither having
done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election
might stand, It is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated. And Paul said, I know what you're
going to say to me. Is God unrighteous? Is God unjust to love one and
pass by the other? God forbid you should say such
a thing. For God told you. by Moses. I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Why Noah? Because God would. Why you? Because God would. There is no
other explanation. You are just as unworthy as everyone
else. and yet God in mercy chose you. You found grace in the eyes of
God, just like Noah. By grace God chose Noah, by grace
God loved Noah, by grace God purposed that Noah should be
in the midst of His generation, a perfect and a just man, even
so it is with you." Isn't that what God said about election?
And Paul, by the gospel, said in election about Ephesians 1,
he said, according as He had chosen you in Christ before the
foundation of the world, listen, that you should be holy and without
blame before Him. in love, having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children," listen, how? "...by Jesus Christ."
He gave you the what for, the why, that you should be holy,
and He gave you the how, by Jesus Christ. Therefore, Christ came
into the world to save His elect people. When He came in the flesh,
God the Son took upon Him our nature, the seed of the woman,
And in his flesh, in his offering, he crushed the head of the enemy. He put away our sin by the sacrifice
of himself once for all. Once for all. One sacrifice. No more sacrifice needed. God
accepted his one sacrifice and by it the scripture says he obtained,
he obtained, he obtained eternal redemption. He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified by his one offering. Jesus told
of this victory you remember in John 6 he said this is the
will of him that sent me that of all he hath given me All he
hath given me all that find grace in the eyes of God All that were
chosen were given to Christ all that he had given me I should
lose nothing nothing nothing But raise it up again at the
last day So I ask you, how many has Christ
lost? You who have found grace in the
eyes of God, how many of you will He lose? Not one. Why? Because the cause of all
of the grace is God. The cause of your faith is the
grace, the unmerited favor of God. Just like Noah. And we, like Noah, being born
dead in sins, were unable and unwilling to trust in Christ.
But all who find grace in the eyes of God, all who are chosen
and redeemed, they all shall be called to life and faith by
the free grace of God. I like that in Ephesians, that
part where... Let me read it to you so I don't
mess it up again. I like this. It says, "...in whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him
who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will,
that we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted
in Christ." Who first trusted in Christ? God did! God first trusted in Christ.
He trusted Christ with all of his elect. In whom you also trusted. After. When did you trust him? After you heard the word of truth. The gospel of your salvation.
In whom also, after you believed, you were sealed with the Holy
Spirit of promise. So what was the cause of Noah's
faith? Grace. What is the cause of your faith?
Grace. Grace. Second of all, what is
the concern of Noah's faith? Look back at your text. Hold
your place in Genesis. We'll be going back here. But
look at this. The concern. Being warned of God of things
not as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving
of his house. The concern. By faith, being
warned of God. By grace, Noah was made to hear
the message of God's judgment. And listen, if God ever gives
a man faith, this is the first thing he's going to hear. He's
going to be warned. He's going to be warned of things
not yet seen. Isn't that what judgment is?
The judgment of God is promised to every wicked soul, the soul
that sinneth. It shall surely, it shall surely
die. That's a promise. That's a declaration
of something that is not yet visible. Lost man's running around thinking
everything's well. What's wrong? There's nothing
wrong. Everything's okay with me. God warned Noah of a coming judgment. He said, I am going to destroy
all flesh. I'm going to flood this world.
That had never happened before. Rain had never fallen from the
sky before. And yet God says, I'm going to
send rain from heaven, and I'm going to flood the earth. Now
God's going to come again, and I tell you, it's going to be
with fire next time, not with water. He's going to destroy
this planet by, not destroy it, but he's going to burn off all
of this garbage that we've built up here. He's going to restore
it. But by fire. And so Noah hears
this. This is the message he hears.
Before any man will ever hear of the good news, he must first
hear of God's holy nature and judgment. Listen, this past month
I've been very sick. I had some problems. I had difficulties
and struggles with the flesh. You know what that moved me to
do? Go to a doctor. Now, if I'd never
felt any pain, if I'd never felt any sickness, do you suppose
that I would have ever thought to go to the doctor? No! But it was the pain that drove
me. It was the pain that moved me.
And listen, no man will ever come to Christ except he know
the sickness of his soul. Except a man know the pain of
his sin. He will never have a need for
the Savior. They that are whole, Christ said,
need not a physician. But who needs a physician? They
that are sick. And if God is ever going to save
you, He's got to reveal to you the sickness of your sin, of
your nature. Therefore the sinner must first
be exposed of his own depravity. Now that's important, I want
you to understand that. You must be exposed of your own
depravity. when i was younger before the
lord saved me i was a pharisee i knew of everybody else's depravity
i believe the doctrine of total prep and was lost and dead in
my seat it was not until god convinced
me of my own that I fled to Christ for refuge." A man must be exposed before
God. He must see that the sin is not
just changing outward habits and religion. That cannot remove
sin. Without the shedding of blood
is no remission of sin. Sin is the fruit of the heart. You remember our Lord talking
about the tree. He said, make the tree good and the fruit will
be good. If the tree is corrupt, the fruit
will be corrupt. What is He talking about? He's
talking about the heart. He said, how can you speak good
things? For out of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaketh. What's the problem with man?
The problem is the heart. How can you change your heart?
You can't. All that a corrupt heart can
do is bring forth corrupt fruit. It cannot bring forth good fruit.
What do you need? You need a new tree. How can you have one except God
plant it? The trouble with man is a corrupt
heart. What man needs is a new heart.
The only hope for you, sinner, is a new heart. A new heart. Are you concerned
about sin? Are you laid bare before God
and stripped naked, exposed? It's what God did when He warned
Noah. He exposed his sin. Noah, like everyone else, deserved
death. But Noah found grace in that
God warned him. Has God warned you? If you've
been given faith, you've been warned. You've been warned. You've been exposed. Your nature
is exposed. But I tell you this, the natural
man hates this message. The natural man hates the message
of absolute ruin and depravity. Matter of fact, they despise
any man who preaches it. Which only proves my point. That man cannot, he said, the
natural man The natural man cannot understand the things of God.
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2.14, the natural man cannot understand,
nor can he receive them, the things of God, because he is
spiritually judged, spiritually discerned, condemned. But all who are called by the
Holy Spirit are made aware of their own sin and depravity. A man who can know all about
the doctrine of depravity, but if he doesn't know his own depravity,
he'll never come. Do you know it? Then you, by
faith, have come like that leper came to Christ. Lord, if Thou
wilt, Thou canst make me whole. You came like blind Bartimaeus.
Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. You came like that
Canaanite woman. When the Lord says, Is it Me
to give the children's bread to dogs? And she said, Yes, Lord,
truth. I'm a dog. But even the dogs
can receive crumbs. You see, that's true faith. She
had a need and found only Christ could fulfill it. And that's
what a sinner will do. Sinners, when they're exposed,
They have only one place to go. And Noah prepared an ark for
the saving of his house. Noah was moved with fear, and
this is the third one, the consequence of faith. The consequence of
Noah's faith. Every man who is concerned about
sin, if it is of the Holy Spirit, is moved with fear to the ark
of God, Jesus Christ. This whole thing, this whole
life of Noah, this whole flood and the killing of millions of
people was for a picture. You got that? To show his son. that His Son is the only Savior
for sinners. The consequence of this faith
moved Noah to the ark. I know so many that are sad about
their sins and they mope about them. They go about waiting for
God to strike them with some kind of lightning, some light
to shine out of heaven. Waiting for some sign. They say,
well, I know I'm a sinner, and if God's going to save me, well,
you know, I'm just waiting for God to do something to me. Give
me a sign that He wants me to believe. Didn't I read you that? There's an ark. There's an ark
prepared. An ark prepared for the saving
of souls. If you're a sinner, come to Christ.
Come to Christ. Most people that are concerned
about their sin, they don't really concern about sin, they just
don't like the consequence of sin. They don't want to go to
hell. So they're moved with fear, but
not to repent and believe on Christ. They're moved to fear
to do a million other things. They're like those that helped
Noah build the ark. You know, Noah didn't build this
on his own. He had other people helping. He was doing this for
a hundred and twenty years, building this boat. A lot of people helped Noah build
the ark, but none of them entered it. But Noah and his family. Noah and all the elect, when
called to life from the dead, are always moved to this. They
enter the ark. They come to Christ. True saving
faith flees from all false refuge that they are exposed. They flee
to Christ as the only ark of salvation. Noah, in godly fear,
obeyed the Word of God, prepared an ark, not of his own imagination
or his own design, but by God's pre-designed specifications.
And I tell you, I know this ark pictured the Lord Jesus Christ.
It was made with an incorruptible wood. It was pitched within and
without. It was the safety. It was the
refuge from the storm and judgment of God. And I tell you, so is
Christ. So is Christ. The only refuge
from the judgment of God is Christ. The ark is the only safety. Christ is the only safety. And
you listen, as Noah entered into that ark, and God shut the door,
he was safe. I don't imagine Noah was comfortable.
Do you? He had over year-and-a-half sit
in that boat with all those animals unimaginable it's gotta be gotta
be I don't want to speculate too much but I just rough it
had to be talked he had to be turning but I tell you he was
safe and so it is with everyone who enters in to Christ many
times it doesn't feel pleasant but I tell you you're safe you're
safe in Christ And if you're not, listen, God has not shut
the door as yet. Come in. Come in. Has God warned you? Has God given
you the faith to come in? Then come in! Come to Christ. This is the consequence
of all true faith. So what the cause is? That's
a cause of our faith. The concern of our faith is sin
and the salvation of our souls. The consequence is we come to
Christ. And thirdly, the conclusion.
Look at this in your text. Two conclusions come out of everyone
who believe in Christ, who enter in. By the witch, He, first of
all, condemned the world, and secondly, He became an heir of
the righteousness, which is by faith. Noah, first of all, condemned
the world by his faith. He heard the gospel of Christ,
and by faith was moved to obedience, and believed, and entered in.
And Peter tells us this, that even during this time, the Holy
Spirit was preaching to those. He was preaching to them for
120 years. Come in. Come in. Come into the
ark. Come in. God's sending judgment.
Come to Christ. Come in. Believe. And even so, now as I preach
to you, the Spirit of God is preaching to you in prison. You
who are in prison. You say, I cannot come. Well,
that's because you're in prison. But I tell you, there's freedom
in Christ. There's freedom in Christ. There's power in Christ. Believe on Christ. Enter in and
come. And I tell you this, by my entering
in, if you will not come, my faith condemns you. I told you there's safety in
Christ. I told you there's salvation
in Christ. I told you to come in and yet
you would not come. So what does my faith do? My
faith condemns you. That's what faith does. Why do
you think the world hates you? Because you condemn them. But second of all and most important
of all, the conclusion of Noah's faith and ours is this, he became
an heir of righteousness. An heir of righteousness. Faith again is the evidence of
things not seen. Faith, by faith I see Christ,
by faith I receive Christ, And I know that I'm washed in His
blood, although I cannot see it. Every morning I look in the mirror
and what do I see? A sinner. Every morning I see the same
old face, only getting older, and none the wiser. I see what I want to be and I
cannot get it but I know this by faith I have
it I am an heir to righteousness which is by faith you see my righteousness was
not earned by my faith it was earned by another's faith the
faith of Jesus Christ. Scripture says, even the righteousness
of God which is by the faith of Jesus Christ. But now, it
is imputed to us through faith, our faith. Unto and upon all them that believe. Is your faith the same as Noah's?
Is it? What was your faith caused by?
Grace or works? Grace. What was the concern of
your faith? My sin. My need. What was the consequence of your
faith? You fled to Christ for refuge. Still fleeing to Christ for refuge. Constantly fleeing to Christ
for refuge. What is the conclusion? You're
righteous. Not by merit, but by air. You see, one died and the covenant
testimony, the last will and testament of Christ is you should
be righteous. And you have it. How? By faith. May God even now bless you and
comfort your hearts with this. If your faith is the same as
Noah's, And you have a good report. Good report. May God bless this
to you. The stand be dismissed.