the Apostle starts out talking
there in verse 1 Hebrews 12 wherefore so you gotta go back to wherefore
he's talking about what he's talking about see we're gathered
compassed around so great a cloud of witnesses he's talking about
the people in Hebrews 11 all those, look what it says in verse
39 of Hebrews 11. These all having attained a good
report, who gave them a good report? God did. God did that. Said it in the first, third verse
of the beginning of this. Through faith. They didn't receive the promise,
the promise of the Messiah. They looked forward to it, the
one that would come. And here's the reason, God having
provided us some better thing for us, not shadows, not images,
I mean not shadows and not laws and not rituals and not sacrifices,
not types, but he actually provided us a better thing in the Lord
Jesus Christ. That without us, those without
us, Those folks that believed here in Hebrews 11, without us
they should not be made perfect. In other words, we all gotta
be made perfect together. And then seeing we're encompassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doeth so easily beset us. And I don't
know what that is. A lot of folks say it's unbelief. Well, I can believe that. Because
Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. And let us
run with patience the race that's set before us. Just keep on running. Just keep on moving. Just keep
on... And here's when you're running, while you're running
this race, you're looking. You're looking ahead of you.
You're looking. Well, who are you looking at?
Unto Jesus. When we're running this rate,
who are we looking at? We're looking unto Jesus. Huh? The author and finisher of our
faith. Who for the joy that was set
before Him endured the cross. He despised the shame and is
set out at the right hand of the throne of God. And so consider
him that endured such a contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
you be wearied and faint in your minds. You know, I want to talk
about the Lord Jesus being the author of our faith and the finisher
of our faith. What he starts, he finishes. In fact, his work was complete
even before he got here. He just was fulfilling God's
eternal purpose when he got here. It was as good as done. But bless
His holy name. Thank God He did come. And thank
God He gave us faith. He's the author of it. And what
He starts, He finishes. The Lord Jesus Christ is truly,
truly all in all to His people. He is precious, so precious to
those of us who believe. Here he's called the author of
faith. We've heard. We've heard of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We've heard, we've listened.
And oh, we've heard that he's our atonement. And oh, we've heard that he's
everything to us. He was the ark in which Noah
hid himself in. He's the altar upon which we
approach God and our Lord Jesus Christ. He's our advocate. He's
the one that pleads his own Mary before the father. And he's the
one who gives us faith and finishes our faith. The word author, this
word here, author, the author and finisher of our faith is
used three times. Three times. And every one of
them is concerning our Lord Jesus Christ. In Acts he's called the
Prince of Life or the Author of Life. He's called the Prince
and the Savior. The Author and Savior. And he's called the Captain of
our Salvation. He's the Author of our Salvation.
But that's the same word. Prince of Life, Prince and the
Savior, and the Captain of our Salvation. And so here he says
the Author and Finisher of our Faith. Now faith has two meanings. Two meanings in the scriptures.
The first meaning is believing. Believing. It's not that we have
believed, but we believe. God gave us this blessed faith
and we believe. We're believers. That's what
we call ourselves. Believers. Christians. And then the second
meaning of it is what is believed. That's what we call the faith.
And it's not, you say, what faith are you? Well, it's not Baptist.
That's what I was told when I joined the Marine Corps. I said, what
faith are you? I said, Baptist. I thought that was a faith. But
that's not a faith. That's a denomination. But I'll
tell you what is believed. And what is believed is unconditional
election, total depravity, particular redemption, the effectual Death
of our Lord Jesus Christ. The blood that cleanses us from
all sins. The righteousness of Christ. The perseverance of the saints.
All of these things we believe. And that's what is believed.
It's called the faith. Paul said, I kept the faith. He trusted Christ. He believed
Christ. But he had truth revealed to him. And that truth, he embraced
all that truth. And he said, I kept the faith. and I tell you what we have a
faith to keep that's what he said let us run with patience
the race has set before us now I tell you what and here's the
thing our Lord enables us to believe and then he turns around and
gives us what we're to believe and so I tell you what does it
mean to be the author of faith well that means he's the cause
of it Somebody has to be the cause And he's the cause of faith. It says what they did what he
said. He's the author of it. He's the cause of it He's the
Alpha and Omega of saving faith for by grace Are you saved? Through faith and that's not
of yourselves. It's the gift of God not of works
Lest any man should boast And I tell you, beloved, our Lord
Jesus Christ gave us this faith. He's the cause of it. And if
faith is the effect, He's the cause. Now I tell you, man does
not have the nature or the power to believe. Man does, did you
hear what I said? Man does not have the power,
does not have the power or the nature to believe. This idea,
there's a And I've got to deal with this guy about this. He's
got out there by the house. He's got a big sign up in front
of his church. He said, God loves you whether
you like it or not. That's one of the most blasphemous
things I've ever heard in my life. And I'm going to deal with
it. I'm going to deal with him about that. I cannot help myself. It upsets me. But I tell you
what, nature. Man does not know man by nature. Can't believe. No man by nature
has the power to believe. Well, where in the world are
we going to get the nature? Where are we going to get the power?
The Lord Jesus Christ. You see, let me tell you something.
Faith. Faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ,
when he died, he purchased every gift that God could justly give
us. And faith was a gift that He
gives us. He bought and purchased with
every gift we have. Christ gave it to us and He bought
it with His blood. So the Father can give it to
us justly so. And I'll tell you, He's the author
of every gift that we have. He gave us eternal life. He said,
I give unto them eternal life. He said, I've granted them repentance. He said, and everyone that's
ordained eternal life, what do they do? They believe. They have
faith. And I'll tell you something,
if He's bought heaven for us, heaven's where we're going. If
He shed His blood to put away our sins, then we have no sin.
If He established righteousness for us, then we've got a righteousness
that'll last us throughout eternity. And what good would any of these
things do without faith? What good would eternal life
be without faith or repentance? What would His shed blood be
without faith? What would righteousness be without
faith? What would all these gifts amount to without Him enabling
us to believe? Now that's why free will works
religion is heresy. It's absolute heresy to tell
a man that he has the power to believe that he can accept or
reject Jesus Christ. That he has the power in his
own will to let God do something for him or not do something for
him when the whole Bible tells us that salvation of the Lord
from Alpha to Omega from beginning to end and the only people that
know that and believe that is the ones that's been saved by
the grace of God and the power of God and been made to be sinners
always feeling their need of the Lord Jesus Christ And I tell
you, you cannot look to Christ without faith. And that's something
you ain't born with. Ain't that right? Oh my! This business of faith,
it's a work of power. It's a work of power, a miracle
working power of God Almighty for a sinner to believe Christ.
You know what a miracle it is for us to believe Christ? Huh? To have faith? The scriptures,
I want you, you keep Hebrews and look over here in Ephesians
1. Look what power, look what power God uses to give us faith. Look in Ephesians 1 in verse
18. You know it's in the day of His
power, He makes us willing. And look at the power that God
gives us to believe Christ and to have faith. He said here in verse 18, 118,
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. In other words,
you know, the understanding, that's what we see with, that's
the same thing as talking about faith. And he comes and he takes
our understanding and he shines light in there. Just like in
the darkness, he shines light in there. And when He does that,
He wants you to know what is the hope of His calling. The
calling that He, the hope that comes with His blessed calling
when He calls us. And He wants us to know what
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in saints is. And
now listen to this. And He wants, when our understanding
is enlightened, we'll know what is the exceeding and greatness
of His power to us who believe. According to the working of His
mighty power. What kind of power is He talking
about? Which He brought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead.
That's the power that God gives us faith with. The same power
that He raised Christ from the dead, that's the power that He
uses to raise us from the dead and give us faith. So it's a
power. Then it's called an operation.
Colossians 2 is called the operation of God. He works faith in you
by the operation of God. And operation means to work in,
to be active in this business of faith. So he's the cause of
it. Thank God he's the cause of it.
And not only is he the cause of it, but look what it says,
he's the author of faith. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
we were talking yesterday a little bit about it. If you've got saving
faith, how do you know that you have saving faith? Do you look
at your faith to see whether you've got it or not? Do you look at yourself to see
whether you've got it or not? No, saving faith, if you've got
it, it always looks outside itself to the Lord Jesus Christ. I read something by Martin Luther
and I told yesterday and someone already told me and Brad told
me this he said when I look at myself I don't see how I could be saved
but when I look to Christ I don't see how I could be lost. Ain't that right? That's what
we do we look at saving faith the only way you know you got
saving faith is you never ever Look at yourself. You gotta look
outside yourself. And our whole salvation is done
outside ourselves. When Christ died on the cross,
we didn't exist. When God wrote the Bible, we
didn't exist. Faith come to us outside ourselves. Christ died outside ourselves.
Our sins were put away outside ourselves. Everything that we
got God gave to us and brought to us and gave it to us Don't
you see and beloved and he's saving and he had his saving
faith object is the Lord Jesus Christ He's the foundation of
this faith ain't that what he says here in Hebrews 12 in verse
3 Who for the joy set before him? Oh, he despised the shame. Oh, it was awful, the shame that
he had to go through. He despised that. But yet he
said, Father, if it be possible, let this come back from me. But
nevertheless, not thy will, but thine be done. And he endured
the cross. Oh, my. And I tell you, beloved,
Not only he is the saving face object in his foundation, he
is the author of the means of faith. Romans 10.17 says faith
cometh by hearing. Faith cometh by hearing. Ain't
that what it says? Now, you know I deal with this
all the time when I'm preaching. That's what he talks about, you
know, when we have faith. When you're hearing the gospel
preached, your faith, your faith, because he's the means, the means
is the hearing. It's what faith, when you hear
it, that's why you get so filled with joy. That's why you nod
your head. That's why you say, yes, that's
right. Yes, that's true. Because he's the one that still
has to keep bringing that faith. And he does it through us hearing.
He gets in the ear gate. And in our eyes of understanding,
we say, yeah, I see, I see, I see. And oh, I'm not ashamed, Paul
said, of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God under
salvation to who? Everyone that believes. And He
sends the Holy Ghost with the Word. In power. In power. He sends it in power. And it takes power for us to
believe. It takes power for us to receive
the Word of God. It takes power for us to get
outside of ourselves. And He sends this Word with power
and this Word is the seed. It's the seed. It's called the
seed of God, the Word of God. And that seed is sown over and
over and over again and it keeps bringing forth fruit and fruit
and fruit. And I'll tell you what, whenever
you hear that seed sown in your heart and God puts that seed
in your heart and it germinates. It germinates. And beloved, immediately
that seed when it springs forth, it looks to Christ. And I tell you what, the word
priesthood, and I tell you the word priesthood is looking unto
Jesus. Not look at Him and then turn
away. It's not looking at Him going backwards. And you know, our Lord Jesus
said, any man having put his hand to the plow, looking back,
is not fit for the kingdom of God. And it says looking. It
does not have no E.D. on it, for having looked. It says looking. Looking, looking,
looking, looking. Kind of like standing in front
of an ear, looking at yourself. You get enamored with yourself.
I want to see if I look alright here, you know. But I tell you
what, you know the prettiest sight you ever see is the Lord
Jesus Christ and that's why our faith keeps looking to Him. Do
you get up in the morning and do you look to Christ? You go to bed at night and you
say, Oh Lord Jesus, thank you for the day. Do you wake up in the night and
say, Oh Lord Jesus, I thank you that I'm saved by your grace.
I thank you for my home. I thank you for my joy. I thank
you for my peace. I thank you for my home. I thank
you for my car. I thank you for my health. I
thank you for my maid. I thank you for everything you've
done. Lord, you did it. So we have to look to you who
did it all. And I tell you, you can't look
to Him without faith. And He gives us faith. Bless
His name. He gives us faith to look at
Him. And He gives us faith to look at Him as the crucified
one. He said He endured the cross.
He's crucified. And then look what it says. And
we look at Him as the risen one. He's set down. He's exalted one. He's set down. We look to Him
as the exalted one. Let's worship the King. And then
he sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. He's the
reigning one. And he's the coming one. And
oh, listen. His righteousness. He's the saving
face object. He gives us faith to look at
Him. As the crucified one. We understand
why He was crucified. Do you know why Christ was crucified?
If man could be saved by words or by his will or by
his power then why was Christ crucified? Why did Christ die? If man has the power or the will
or the ability to do anything to help him save himself. Why
did Christ die? We know why Christ died. We know
why He died. We know why. And His righteousness
is the object of justifying faith. Now when His righteousness, and
we don't know of no other righteousness. We know of no other righteousness.
Do you know of another righteousness that God would accept you with? Look in Galatians 2.20. I want
you to see this. You know, we know of no other.
We know of no other righteousness. And one of the things that you
learn is when God saves you by His grace and you go back around
your family and you go around people that you've known all
your life and you get shocked, you know, that how self-righteous
they are. And then you look back at yourself
and how self-righteous we were. I was one, that was a time I
was one of the most self-righteous human beings that could draw
on breath. I was a preacher. I lived right and wanted everybody
else to live right. I dressed right and wanted everybody
else to dress right. I quit smoking and everybody
else had to quit smoking. You know, women had to dress
a certain way or they couldn't possibly know God. And you women
who's got all this short hair? Oh, that's awful. That's awful. And if a man come in here with
long hair? Oh my word, what are we going to do? They thought we was doing God's
service. Until one day, God drew back
that bow. And He slew that awful, awful
giant of self-righteousness. And oh, I tell you what, you
lay on the floor and you beg God to have mercy on you. Forever
looking and hoping that you had anything or knew anything or
trusted anything about yourself. You lay and you weep and you
cry and say, how could I lie on you? How could I? It's all
such a thing. But oh my, And now bless His
holy name. I'm as righteous, the scriptures
tells me I'm as righteous as God's righteousness. Because
we have, Christ was made sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God. Where at? In Him. In Him. Look what it says here in Galatians
2.20. His righteousness is the object
of justifying faith. Paul said, I'm crucified with
Christ. I died with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live. But I'm not the one that lives.
It's not me living. Who is a living being? Christ
in me. The hope of glory. Christ formed
in me. Christ lives in me. And the life
which I now live in this body, In this flesh, how do I live
it? By the faith of the Son of God. I want you to notice what that
says. By Christ's faith. The faith of the Son of God.
Now I tell you, you know who had a faith? Faith has to be
perfect. Who had perfect faith? Christ. Why do we look to Christ? To
get the same faith here. We look to Him for faith. And listen to this. who loved me. Loved me. And you know what? How did he
love me? He gave himself for me. Gave
himself for me. Oh, I tell you, beloved. And
I tell you, this justifying faith, he was delivered, delivered up
for our sins, for our offenses. And then God raised him from
the dead. for our justification. Now the
same thing as faith goes outside ourselves to Christ, faith goes
outside ourselves for justification. Justification is done in glory.
And justification means this, that God when he looks at us,
he is justified to clear us. Why would God, how could God
be justified, how can he justify himself in accepting you? How
can he do that? through His Son. And you know when I get into
glory and when you get to glory you know you will not be more
justified than you are right now. Will you? You will be more
righteous than you are right now. And all this justifying
faith enables us to stand justified before the holiness of God and
the righteousness of God. And two ways God appointed man
to attain life. You know that God appointed two
ways for man's sake to attain life. You know what the first
way He said to obtain life? Works. Works. He said that man He says the
man do and live. That's what He says. A man that's
justified by the works of the law, he must continue in all
things written in the book of the law to do them. So if a man
wants to be saved by his works, they got to be perfect. And they
got to be good enough for God to accept. And here's the second
things. Thank God. Thank God for this. Faith. So we done forgot about them
works. Them's been set aside. We ain't
gonna be justified by them. But faith. Here's the way He
appointed to attain eternal life. Faith. And this is where He gives. Justifying faith. He gives us
faith. How can you say that you're justified
right now, before the presence of God? God's holy, God's righteous. God's holy, God's righteous.
Now, if you're standing before God, how can you be justified to stand
before the holiness and righteousness of God? What justifies you to
stand before God? Now you just asked yourself,
what justifies me if God was here and Christ was here right
now and I had to stand before Him. What justifies me that I
can stand before Him and be accepted? Faith. And that means, beloved, that
you You have nothing else that you can stand before Him with. You look to Christ and you say,
where is my justification at? It is set in God's right hand. Christ is set in God's right
hand. My justification that God accepts me sits right now in
God's right hand. And where does your justifying
face sit? Oh my, here's what he does. He
takes a man. He takes a man. He takes a woman.
And he turns him. He turns him. God turns him.
Jeremiah said, turn us and we shall be turned. Save us and
we shall be saved. He takes a man and turns him
from trusting Himself in any way he will not trust himself
in his flesh dwells no good thing He has no confidence in the flesh,
and he turns himself in any way from looking to thinking of or
believing in any work or Anything that would contribute to his
faith or salvation Anybody here got any faiths going to contribute
to their salvation Anything God buy, God hear, anything is going
to contribute to their faith. You know why you're not that
way? God turns you from it. He won't let you. If it was works, if it were of
works, beloved, we'd have no need of Christ at all. Ain't
that right? Let me show you over in Galatians. Let me look in Galatians chapter
2 with me again. I want you to see this and then
I want to look at something in chapter 3. If salvation were of works, you know like that guy said,
you know, spring has sprung, has your faith blossomed? If it were of works, there would
be no need to have Christ at all. And that's why people, Christ
is just an addition. Their faith is good. Their works
is good. Their obedience is good. Their
righteousness is good enough for them. And Jesus just helps
them along. Jesus just gives them a little
help along. Jesus just gives them a little
bit of grace to help them along. Gives them a shove in the right
direction. He's an insurance policy to keep them out of hell. He's a mat to wipe their feet
on whenever they get dirty and decide that they want to live
for Jesus. But a man that has anything to
hope or trust in other than the Lord Jesus Christ, he has no
need of Christ. But you find a man that God's
done something for and he needs Christ all the time. Never a time that he don't need
Him. And look what it says here in
Galatians 2.21. I do not frustrate the grace
of God. I'm not going to frustrate it.
I don't want to be frustrated and I do not frustrate the grace
of God. For if righteousness come by
law, by works, by doing, by baptism, by any other means, then Christ
is dead in vain. Means nothing. Huh? Means nothing. And look here
in chapter 3 in verse 21. I tell you this, works is hard
to kill. I tell you works and self-trust
is hard to kill. Ain't it? But oh my, God kill
it, kill it, kill it. Is the law against the promises
of God? God forbid. Now listen to this,
for if there had been a law, a principle, a law given which
could have given life, well truly righteousness would have been
by the law. Ain't that right? But the scripture
hath concluded all under sin. that there is a promise by faith
of Jesus Christ this promise of faith by Jesus Christ might
the promise given to them that believe but now wait a minute
before faith came faith has to come where we are we were kept
under that law kept under God's word shut up under the faith
which should afterwards and everything God about God has to be a revelation
which should afterward be revealed We're for the law, the Word of
God. Now this is not talking about the Ten Commandments. This
is the Word of God. We're for the law was our schoolmaster. That began to teach us and instruct
us in the things of Christ. And show us that He's all and
in all. And that the schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ. Now listen to this. That we might
be justified by faith. But then when faith has come,
we don't need a schoolmaster anymore. It brought faith to us. All right. If it were works, there'd be
no need. Then back over in our text again, let me give you this. Not only is he the author of
our faith, but it says here he's the finisher of our faith. What
in the world does that mean? You reckon we'll end up as believers? Huh? Paul said, what did he say
over here in verse 13 of Hebrews 11? Look what he says here. You
reckon we'll do this too? Hebrews 11, 13. These all died
in faith. We've known a few folks that's
died in faith. It's a joy, ain't it? That whenever
you know somebody that's died in faith, oh, the joy it produces. Oh, my. And that means, beloved,
Paul said it this way, being confident of this one thing,
this one thing, that he which hath begun, somebody has started,
he which hath begun a good work in you shall perform it. Carried on until the day of Jesus
Christ. And He's the finisher of our
faith. He's going to sustain our faith. He's going to sustain
it. He's going to maintain our faith.
And He's going to strengthen our faith. Look at that great
cloud of witnesses He just talked about. These all obtained a good
report. These are witnesses of the faithfulness
of God Himself. of the keeping power of the Lord
Jesus Christ look what it says in Hebrews 10.38 look at this
with me for a moment he's a finisher of our faith now he said look what he says
here now the just I said justifying faith now those who are justified
by Christ shall live by faith but if any drawback Draw back
from his faith, draw back from Christ, draw back from the truth
of Christ. My soul shall have no pleasure
here. But now listen to this. But we
are not of them who draw back under perdition. But who are
we then? We are them that believe to the
very saving of our soul. Now do you know what that saving
of soul means? When you get to the end. When our Lord Jesus Christ said,
there's no way I'll ever cast them out. Have you ever done
anything that you said, boy, what have you said? What have
you done? Where have you been? How have you acted? What have you not done? And how
have you not acted? What have you not said? But nothing
you ever said, nothing you ever done, anywhere you ever been,
nothing in the world will cause Christ to cast you out. If he could, everybody in this
building here who's a believer had already been cast out. Ain't
that right? But he ain't gonna do it. He
ain't gonna do it. Well, I fell flat on my face.
Oh, I've done that so many times. I can't, I lost count. I stumbled
so many times. Oh, I've done that. I can't.
But you know what? I'll never leave him. Never forsake
him. Never. He gives us himself. When he
gives us faith, you know who he gives us? He gives us himself. He gives us Himself. That's what
we get when we get faith. We get Christ. And you know how
He sustains this faith? How He maintains this faith?
You know how He keeps us believing? And that's what we want, Lord.
Keep us believing. Keep us believing. Keep me believing. You know how He does it? He prays
for us. My little children, I write unto
you that you sin not, but if any man sin, listen to this,
we have an advocate with the Father, an old lawyer, an advocate
with the Father. Who is this advocate with the
Father? Jesus Christ the righteous. And you know what he does? He
prays for us. He intercedes for us. Simon Satan has sought to sift
you as wheat. But I prayed for you that your
faith fail not. I wonder how many times he's
prayed for me like that. His faith is about gone. I prayed
that your faith fail not. Old Thomas said, I ain't gonna
believe until I can see myself. They stick my finger. Oh, you
say, boy, you, that's a lot of unbelief. Man, I've been Thomas,
how many times? And I, Lord Jesus, all of a sudden
appeared to Thomas. I said, Thomas, if that's what
it takes for you to believe me and to trust me here, here. And you know what Thomas did?
He fell down before the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and my
God. Let me tell you what we do, fall
down before Him, my Lord and my God. And I tell you what,
you've got to see this. Look with me first of all in
1 Peter, and I'm going to get done. I'm going to get done.
I tell you what, this sets me on fire. I'm telling you this.
I love this gospel. But oh my, He brings us to a
thin. When He says He's a finisher,
He brings us to a thin. 1 Peter 1.8, look what it says. 1 Peter 1.8 whom talking about the Lord Jesus
Christ it is appearing whom having not seen you've never seen him
except by faith you love and whom though you see not now you
see him not yet you believe You believe it. You're believing.
You continue to believe. And when you hear this blessed
gospel and the appearing of Christ, you rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory. And here's what the result of
it is. Receiving the end of your faith, the goal of your faith,
when your faith ceases to be the salvation of your souls.
That's the time this thing is going to wind up. Jude verse
24 that little bitty one chapter book right before the revelation
look in verse 24 Jude 24 oh my looky here Jude 24 that little
book right before revelation look what it says now unto him
that is able to keep you from falling and not only to keep you from
falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy That's when it's all done. We say, well, when everything's
said and done. When everything's been said, and this is done.
You take away Christ. You take away Christ. And faith dies. Without Christ, we have nothing. But with Christ, we have everything.
Take away Christ and faith thys. He's the author of our faith.
He's the finisher of our faith. And our Lord Jesus told us, He
said, I'll never, no never, no never, no never, no never leave
thee nor forsake thee. Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ, our
blessed Savior, thank you for your word. Thank you for your
gospel. Thank you for the blessed hope you've given us. That hope
of this calling, hope of this calling, high calling, heavenly
calling, glorious calling. Thank you for it. Praise you
for it. Thank you for the saints of God.
Thank you for faith. Thank you for repentance. Thank
you for every gift. Thank you for your blood that
cleanses us, your righteousness that stands us in holiness and
righteousness before God himself. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Save your
people in this place. May someone be brought to faith
and believe. I pray that today somebody's
understanding was enlightened and they see, they see now. And we praise you and thank you
in Christ's name. Amen. 228, I believe that's what it is. My faith has found a resting
place. Is that it? Let's stand together and sing
this and then you'll be at liberty to go. My faith has found a resting
place. It's my Jesus died and let me die for
Thee I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
that He died for me. He's precious, but he's shit you