Hebrews chapter 12. Tom, my Sunday
school lesson here is what does your faith do? What does your
faith do? People say they have faith. I've heard people all around
this country and I've heard it on TV and I've heard it in my
family and people ask me questions like that famous country star
that had cancer recently. How'd you get through it? I leaned
on my faith. I relied on my faith. I trust
in my faith. My faith got me through. What
kind of faith is that? Is that the kind of faith that
God talks about? I don't want to hear man's opinion. I want to hear what God has to
say. Do you? Are you interested in those things? This will go really good with
the second message. I saw that at the end of it. I had to go
write that down. Let's go with the second message. Hebrews 12
verse 1. Wherefore, Seeing we also are encompassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. This context here
for Hebrews 12, we remember this is about faith. That's what the
Hebrew writer is talking about. It's talking about faith. If
you look just one page to the left of Hebrews 11, this is what
some people call the Hall of Faith instead of the Hall of
Fame. They go through and list so many believers of the Old
Testament. But here in Hebrews 11 verse 1, what is faith? Hebrews 11 verse 1 says, the
substance of things hoped for. Substance. Substance is something,
isn't it? That's a noun. And it concerns
hope, our expected end. It concerns where we're going
to be at, who we're going to be made like. Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Evidence is something, right?
Like if you go in a court of law, evidence is something, but
evidence does something. It's a verb. What does evidence
do in a trial, in a courtroom? It proves something, doesn't
it? It's doing something, it's proving it. The verb, this evidence,
it believes Christ. He's the triune God in a body. And He said things. In the beginning
was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word
was God. He created all this. From Genesis 1-1 through Revelation
22-21. The Scriptures don't end with
the end. The Scriptures end at God wrote,
Amen. That's Christ, isn't it? He said a lot. He said a lot,
doesn't He? And the evidence, the verb that
faith does, it believes what God says. What He says about
man, what He says about Himself, what He says He's going to do,
it believes Him. He said it. I believe that. And
the noun, the substance, my faith, The noun is the faith of Christ. What's that? Our faith is Christ. You could go through Hebrews
11 and everywhere it says faith you say Christ. By Christ Abel
offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. by His doing. That's what faith declares, because
that's what it is. It's the faith of. Look here
in Galatians 2. We won't turn quite a bit today, but it will
be good for us. I don't have much to say. I just
want to show you what the Lord says. Galatians 2, verse 16. Here's the substance, the noun.
This thing's hopeful. Galatians 2.16, knowing that
a man is not justified by the works of the law. We have to
be justified. We have to be just. We have to
be unguilty before God. People want to go to heaven.
What's that? Well, that's to be made like Christ and be in the presence
of a God that we was at war with. We hated him. Knowing that a
man is not justified by the works of law, but by the faith of Jesus
Christ. Now listen to your pastor. If
your Bible says faith in Christ, throw that Bible away and go
get you a King James Version. That's unadulterated. That's
unmarred. That says the faith of Christ. The faith of Jesus Christ. Even
we have believed in Jesus Christ. That's His faith and we believe
in Him. Our faith says He's faithful.
You get that? 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." Can we earn this faith? No, it's the
faith of Christ. It's His. How do we get this
faith of Christ? He's going to give it to somebody.
Do you know that? Can you believe that? Almighty
God is going to give faith to somebody. He's going to save
somebody. That's amazing. Turn over to Ephesians 2. Ephesians 2 verse 1. And you hath he quickened, made
alive, who are dead in trespasses and sins. There are people that
are dead in trespasses and sins. That's everybody born of Adam. But the
Lord is going to make some people alive. Wherein in time past ye
walked according to the course of this world. You used to hate
him. You used to have everything your way. You used to think this
was Burger King. You can't have it your way, but you used to
according to the prince of the power of the air. You was under
the influence of Satan. What's it say? The spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also
we all had our conversations in time past, we conducted our
lives in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind. And we were by nature the children
of wrath, even as others. We ain't nothing but putrefied
sores and an unclean thing. The best thing we ever did for
God was filthy rags. It was used menstruation cloths. But God. Now who did the work? We is at war. Here comes the
captain. But God, who is rich in mercy
for his great love, wherewith he loved us. We love Him because
He first loved us. Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace are you saved.
He's made us alive with Him. And hath raised us up together
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in
the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace
in His kindness towards us through Christ. Christ will get all the
glory. For by grace are you saved through faith. We're gonna have
to believe. This is the conduit. This is
the water hose that the water comes out of. Through faith.
And that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. If God gave
you a gift, would you look at it? Would you want to know something
about it? It's in a closet somewhere. It's a gift. How are we going
to get it? God is going to have to give
this faith. How are we going to have eternal life? Christ is
going to have to give it. It ain't on a shelf somewhere in
a store. It ain't in a vending machine. You can go get it. It's given. It's a gift given
from a person to a person. Not of works lest any man should
boast. For we are His workmanship. It's His work. He's the potter. We're the clay. Created. There's a new creation in you.
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. What's good works?
Doing works of righteousness. Believe in Christ. Love in your
brethren. If that works in you, you can't keep from it. Which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. What
is faith? It's the faith of Christ. How
do we get it? It's a gift. Who gave it? God
did. He's the gift giver. We're thankful
for the gift, but boy, we ought to be thankful for the gift giver,
shouldn't we? Shouldn't we thank Him and praise Him for these
things? Turn over Romans 10. Romans 10. I know most of you all know this,
and it's good for us to read again, and somebody may have
never heard this before. Romans 10 verse 13. What's the means
the Lord will use to give his people faith? Well, he's going
to have a man 200 years ago write a book, and if you find this
book and you read this book, then you'll have faith. That's
not what God said. Could he do that? It ain't a
matter of what God can do, it's a matter of what he said he's
going to do. Did you know that? Look here, verse 13, for whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Saving faith
is going to call on Christ and all His names for everything,
the provider, the sustainer, the life giver, the defense,
our banner. Verse 14, how then shall they
call on Him and whom they've not believed? And how shall they
believe on Him whom they've not heard? How are you going to believe
in somebody that ain't never been told to you? People say
they were saved under, whenever there's another kind of religion
and then they came to the doctrines of grace. You weren't saved back
then. You never heard of Christ. If I defend somebody, I hope
you get mad enough to look at yourself in the mirror and God
makes this happen, gives you faith to bow to Him, and you
confess Christ before you go into eternity thinking you did
something good for God. It's eternal life and death, isn't
it? This is big. It's important. And how shall
they hear without a preacher? They're going to send a person
to talk to a person because it's a person that's going to give
this gift to another person. And how shall they preach except
they be sent? I have to experience this and I have to tell you.
I'm just a witness. I'll just tell you what happened. I'll tell
you what happened to me. That's what the Word says. God
says He's going to do it. He did it. Now believe Him. And
you'll have peace. You'll have rest. And you'll
quit wringing your hands so much and worrying yourself sick that
you can't sleep every night. rest in Christ. He's the faithful one. How shall they preach except
to be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring
good tidings of good things. The feet's the foundation, isn't
it? That's the path, that's the way. The Lord's established that. He's the one that brings these.
But they've not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah said, Lord,
who's believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing,
I always put my right hand up in my ear. Hearing and hearing
by the Word of God. He's going to have to rain on
us. Have His Spirit with us. Give us a new seed. Broadcast
that seed and then it's going to have to rain. We'll see next
hour. This Word is like water. Isaiah 55 says, For as the rain
come down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither, But
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth bud, and that
it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, that
their life can be given. So, after the same manner, so
shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not
return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. What's the
rejoice? What's the results of that? The
Lord said, this word will go forth, and it's going to accomplish
what I sent it to accomplish. For you shall go out with joy."
Contentment. You have all those pains and
all those things in normal life, but in you is going to be some
contentment. There's going to be some joy there. You're going to go
out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and
hills shall break forth into singing and the trees shall clap
their hands. You see, this is the Lord's world and He chose
me and He saved me and He gave me this gift of faith and I believe
Him and He's on His throne. What do you got to worry about?
Bob wasn't with us Wednesday. Early morning Wednesday, Bob's
garage door was up, by God's perfect providence, and two big
old dogs come in his house. Thankfully, they were nice dogs.
But he wasn't able to be here with us, but do you think them
dogs wandered in there by accident? The Lord sent them dogs there,
didn't he? It's his dogs. I'm his dog. I know those dogs
are his dogs, too. Have a little bit of sense, don't
we? Lord's done that. We don't need to worry. This watering, as that water
comes down, that's what we're doing right now. Did you know
that? Is anything going to grow? I'll tell you, I've had some
one sentence revelations this week. If a man will repent towards
God, he'll repent towards other men and women. If you apologize
to God, you'll apologize to those you offend. That'll be easy.
Won't it? If the Lord has a garden, let
me tell you something, it's going to grow. And it's going to produce
fruit. Fruit to the Spirit. It will.
Or it ain't His garden. But we're the water. That's what
Paul said. He goes, so then when Paul, who's Paul? Who's Paulus? But the ministers by whom ye
believed, even as the Lord gave to Everman. The Lord sent somebody
to you. Paul and Paulus showed up. And he says, I've planted
in Apollos water. But God gave the increase. This
Word made stuff grow. You see a difference. Not much,
maybe. I don't know. As the Lord's pleased,
He gives the increase, but there's going to be an increase. He said
He's going to give it. If that's so. When the Lord gives faith,
how do we use it? He gives this gift of the faith
of Christ and puts that in us. Do we go hide in a cave somewhere
and just ride out our time? We travel through this life believing
God. Ain't that what you want to do?
I pray for that. Do you want to walk through this
world like somebody believes God? It's going to be a hard
walk. Paul would call it a race. You
won't be running. Turn there to 2 Corinthians 5.
2 Corinthians 5. Sir is talking about this life. This speaks to me, I pray it
speaks to you. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 6. Therefore,
we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in
the body, we're absent from the Lord. That seems wildly simplistic,
doesn't it? I know I'm here right now. And
I'm not in glory with the Lord. I'm here. I'm doing something
here. He has me here. It's not time for me to go be
with him yet. For we walk by faith and not by sight. Now,
verse 8. We are confident. He just said
he was confident. He's in this body. We're confident,
I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to
be present with the Lord. What's this walk by faith? It's
Lord keep me until I'm with you and made like you. And Lord haste
the day. Well, if the Lord comes tomorrow,
that's what we'll see. He told Pharaoh, he said, tomorrow hell
and fire is coming. Would we be sad? Well, he said, well,
that's wonderful. Aren't you glad? I hope so. I'm
ready. What's the end state of this
race of faith? It's to be present with the Lord. We have the evidence
and it's substantial substance, isn't it? We have this earnest
of our inheritance and we walk through this life waiting, just
waiting on the Lord. And for Him to do what He said
He's going to do. That's it. He said He's going to do some
things. I believe He's going to do it. He's going to save all His
people. I don't have a doubt about it. Everything that's going
to come to pass. All this evil. I ain't had cable
television 10, 15 years. Longer than that. Don't care
to watch the news. But just walking up and down
the streets. All the evil that's in this world. Every ounce of it is going
to honor Christ. He's going to get all the glory
for everything. Everything. That makes me happy.
And that makes it easier to wait, doesn't it? It's going to happen. How do we walk by faith? Is there
a certain prayer we have to pray to be spiritual and have faith
in us? Or do we have to have certain shoes on to walk by faith?
Well, look in 2 Corinthians 6. Page over for me. 2 Corinthians
6, 14. Giving some good instruction
here, Paul is. And he says, Be not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers. If you're yoked, what's that?
They're walking. You get two bulls out there,
or two donkeys, or whatever, and you put a yoke on them, they're
going to go someplace, right? They're walking. Be not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness?
Amos worded it this way, he said, can two walk together except
they be agreed? Verse 15, And what concord hath
Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple
of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the
living God. As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk
in them. How are we going to walk by faith?
God is going to be in us walking in us. I might go the wrong way. I might stumble. I might fall.
I might break my leg. I can't do that. He said He's
going to walk in it. That means He gets the glory
in walking by faith. Do you get that? God's people
are happy about that. And I will be their God and they
shall be my people. Amen. Yes. Yes. Look here in verse 17. Where
are we going? We're going on a walk. Well,
you start somewhere and you end somewhere and you go somewhere
on the way, don't you? Where are we going to end up? Where are we
going? Verse 17. Wherefore, come out. I told you this went good with
the second message. I can't believe how good it goes with it. Exodus. Let my people go. They're in
there. Bring them out. Get them out of Moab. Get them
out of Egypt. Get them off that dirt and get them in that ark
because the rain's coming. They got tired and Noah said,
you've been warning us of the same thing for a hundred years,
we're sick of it. We heard thunder that day. It
thundered a lot. We'll see that next hour or two.
But it thundered and the rain started coming. The windows in
the front of our house started shaking. Oh, thunder's good. It might remind people that there's
a God in heaven. It's a blessing to have thunderstorms. Come out
from among them, verse 17, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing, and I will save you. And I will
be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty." God said so. Now how do we sustain? How do we continue? How do we
endure this walk of faith? I want to be like Enoch. I want
to walk with God, don't you? Luke 22, the Lord said, Simon,
Simon, Satan hath desired you that he may sift you as wheat,
and I'm going to let him for a little bit. Just so you know,
I'm going to turn my face from you just for a moment, and then
I'm going to look at you. So what's going to happen? We know
that come to pass, didn't we? He said, Satan's desired you, but
I prayed for you. God looked Peter in the eye and
said, I prayed for you that thy faith fail not. Remember what
I said about Hebrews 11, you can take faith out? and put Christ
in there. Peter, I pray that your Christ
fails not. He ain't going to. He ain't going
to. And when thou art converted,
whenever you get over this mess, because your heart ain't in the
right place right now, you strengthen your brethren. You tell them
that I'm the one that's faithful, that I sustained everything.
Now, we're given instructions on this walk back in our text
there in Hebrews 12. this execution of this given
faith. The Lord gave us faith. He gave some people faith. And
those people he gave this gift to, this faith of Christ, he's
going to give us some instructions with it. You ever get something,
like you buy something and it don't come with instructions,
and you go, what in the world do I do with this? How do I get
in there? Where do you put the batteries in? I can't see little
tiny screws as good now. I got to at least have a picture
show me with an arrow, show me where to do it. Well, we've got
faith. The Lord gave some people faith. Here's some instructions
with it. Look here at verse 1, Hebrews 12, verse 1. Wherefore
seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses. We remember the context, because chapter 11 is all those
that the Lord kept listing and listing and listing the faith
of God's people. And as a side note, wouldn't
that be a wonderful biography of a believer? What do you want
written about you? This is a whole story. They believed God, now
they're with Him. God gave them faith, and now they're with Him.
They believed God, then they died. A headstone is only that
big. What legacy we have is going
to burn with the rest of this earth, isn't it? I won't believe
God. I won't be made like Him. Wherefore,
seeing we are encompassed about so great a cloud of witnesses,
they aren't watching us, they're looking to Christ. That's a good
witness for us to do the same. Let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with
patience, the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith." Let us lay aside every
weight. I went running last week. We
had to do 100-yard sprints, and I'd carry a 50-pound dumbbell
in each hand. And I'll tell you what, buddy,
I wanted to lay those aside. My arms were still sore from
holding. And you know what would happen?
I thought, man, this is taking forever. If I was to lay those
weights aside, Do you know I would go a lot faster and it would
be a lot easier? Do you know that? That burden
would go away and I'd go a lot quicker. This vapor would pass
a little bit faster, wouldn't it? The Lord said, come unto
me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I'll give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. We're going to be taught. He said, we're going to learn
of him. For I am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest
for your souls for my yoke is easy, my burden is light. Let
us lay aside every weight. What's that? Whatever slows us
down from looking to Christ. Believe in Him. Worship in Him.
Be in where His people are. Well, now that's just, that's
important. I just, I got some, I got to
go to the grocery store. I got to work. I got to do this.
Put it away. It's a race. It's almost over. Lay it aside. Lay it down. Life will go a lot
easier and a lot faster for the child of God and this race is
going to be filled with peace if the Lord allows us and makes
us lay aside the weights of this world. And, the sin which doth
so easily beset us. What's that? It says sin singular,
doesn't it? These sin and these sin which
doth so easily beset us. It's unbelief. Unbelief. If you had to get up in front
of everybody and confess, you got to truth serve them. I don't
know, make something. Tell me the worst thing you've
ever done in your life. The worst thing you ever thought. Boy,
there's a list, ain't there? I let it slip one time, people
quit eating lunch with me, I'll tell you that right now. I'm
a murderer. You know, I don't come close
to what the worst thing is, that this sin. What sin so easily
besets us? Unbelief. If you're taking turns
and you're next, somebody got up and said, I've had unbelief.
That's it. That's the opposite of faith, isn't it? The Lord
said, don't be faithless, you believe. Unbelief, that's that
sin. The Word preached. Not believing
the Lord, not believing the message that He's sent, not believing
those that He's sent, and just ignoring it. That's the sin. That's the sin. We're living
in Sodom and Gomorrah right now. Drive downtown, come back. You'll
see it. Especially here. This state and this city. We're
living in Sodom and Gomorrah right now. But you know it'll
be better for those that's never heard the gospel than those that
heard the gospel and didn't believe it and didn't pay attention to
it. They didn't care too much for it. We'll see next hour they
didn't regard it. They didn't lay it to heart.
That's why it's interesting, it gives me something to think
about. Here's what the Lord says. We know, you go downtown, you
know that homosexuality's wrong. You know abortion's wrong. That's
just fact. Brother Bruce wrote an article,
I may send it to y'all. He gave some, I wrote him, I texted him,
I said, you're gonna get some backlash for that and I'm thankful
for it. I am charged to warn people. But it's gonna be better
for that gay pride parade in Sodom and Gomorrah than it will
be for those that hear this word and don't regard it. The Lord
said, Verily I say unto you of a truth. God said, this is true.
It shall be more tolerable in the land of Sodom and Gomorrah
in the day of judgment than for that city. He was talking about
that city that wouldn't receive him. He said, dust your coats
off, go, leave them alone. Oh, what a terrible thing. God,
give us ears to hear. I pray for my family. I pray
for your families, for those you love. I pray for my enemies,
because if the Lord saved me, I wouldn't have to, there wouldn't
be an enemy no more I wouldn't have to put up with. There'd be a joy to be
around. God said this is coming. Faith
believes God's going to do what He said He's going to do. Now
that's what He said He's going to do. I don't want to hear that part. You've
got to find out. You've got to find out every one of it. I mean,
this race is quick. It's a vapor. I want to lay aside
my unbelief. Do you? We that believe have
unbelief. We do. We're housed in the body
of this dead. That man that had a son with
unclean spirits, he said, nobody else can do it. Can you get these
unclean spirits out of him? And the Lord said to him, if
thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
And straightway that father cried out. He cried. And it says, he
said with tears. This is heartbreaking. He melted
their hearts and water came out of his face. And he said, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. Who's the unbelief? It's mine.
That's all me. I'm flat wrong. But I do believe
because you gave me that life and you're the only one who can
do anything about this unbelief too. You're the only one that can
make me believe and you're the only one that can do anything about my unbelief. Lord, do it. If the Lord's pleased to remove
everything of this world out of our minds and help our unbelief
and make us believing, What's left? Who's going to take everything
away from us? What if He took everything from
us like Job? Took all of our boats, and our cars, and our
children, and our friends, and our respect, and our titles,
and our honor, and all these things that we care so much about.
What's left? The only thing that the child
of God would be happy about. Let us lay aside every weight, the
sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that's set before us, looking unto Jesus. You mean I'm just going to go
look to Jesus? Yes. I'm just going to have to hear
about Him and that's it? Yeah. Thank God for it. This is amazing. Most people don't see it. Looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. A race, this is
a race. A race has a beginning, it has a continuance, and it
has a culmination, doesn't it? Just like repentance, there's
a beginning, a continuation, and a culmination. And just like
faith, there's a beginning to that faith, there's a race to
that faith, running to Christ, looking to Him the whole way,
and there's a culmination. That face can be made sign. I
don't have to earnestly believe every word He says. I'm with
Him. He said I'm going to be with Him. Now I'm with Him. I
don't have to have an expected end. That is the end. That's
the hope. Hope's gone. What's left? Love. Love. If a man say he loves God and
he hates his brother, the love of God ain't in him. That means
someone's going to be in person and they're going to say, I love
God. I love the gospel. I love him. I'm on your side. Same team. But the love of God ain't going
to be in him. We'll see that next hour or two. If I said, I love my wife. I'm good
to my wife. I'm a good husband. But all I
do is come home once every two months and slap her in the face
and turn around and walk out. You wouldn't say I was a good husband. But
he said he was. Yeah, but he ain't. This is the race the Lord has
given us. It says have patience. We don't know how long this race
is. Do you know that? How long am I going to live?
I don't know. Maybe now. Maybe 30 seconds is all I have
left. I'll drop dead of a heart attack while I'm preaching. Good
way to go. Maybe I'm going to be 110. Our sister Doris just
turned 100 the day after my birthday. She may keep going. I don't know.
We don't know how long this race is. How are we going to have
patience? Well, wait on God and look to Him. Look to Him. Look
unto Jesus. That's the present tense. You
see, looking. It doesn't say looked or going to look. It says
looking. That's looking. Yesterday we
looked to Him. Right now we're looking to Him.
And tomorrow we shall look. Always looking to Him. Who are
we looking at? That's the covenant Christ. He's
the author and the finisher of our salvation and it's all His
glory. He wrote it. It's His. The covenant of grace,
it's His covenant. He wrote it. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith, we look to the crucified Christ.
He endures the cross. Who for the joy that was set
before Him endured the cross. We look to a holy Christ. He knew no sin. Who for the joy
set before Him, despising shame. Who's that? That's the same one
the Lord spoke of in Psalm 45 verse 7. Thou lovest righteousness
and hatest wickedness. Therefore God thy God hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. He despised
the shame. And we look to the enthroned
Christ. Where's he at now? Where is he? He's on his throne. Looking unto
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
which is set before him has endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." What's
he doing there? Mediating for us. Interceding
for us. The horrible prayers that we
pray. consume on our lust, Lord do
this and do that and don't do this and I think this ought to
be done. And he turns and he says, Amen, your will be done,
Father. Communicates for us. What does faith do? It does something. Just like I said, love does something,
faith does something. It looks to Christ in all things.
Looking unto Him. And it's going to be a hard race.
This ain't an easy manicured course we're going to be jogging
on. It's a foot race and there's a lot of stones. We're going
to stump our toes and those things. What should we do during that time?
Verse three, for consider him. You look to him, not consider
him. For consider him that endureth such contradiction of sinners
against himself. That was us. Lest we be wearied
and faint in your minds. Whenever we get tired, you're
going to get tired. When you're hurt and you're overwhelmed,
look to Him then too. And when it's a bright sunny
day, sometimes you just feel good. And like, boy, this is
just a nice run. I'm going for a run. Boy, it
feels right. My hips ain't hurting. I'm breathing
good. Humidity ain't terrible. This is wonderful. Look to Him
then too. Look to Him always. That's what
faith does. What's your faith do? You got
faith. I got faith. What's His faith?
That's something else. Let's pray. Father be with us.