By faith, Moses, when he was
born, was twenty-four, excuse me, I'm sorry. By faith, Moses,
when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people
of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming
the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the treasures in
Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king,
for he endured it, seeing him who is invisible. Through faith
he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he
that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith they
passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians
are saying to do were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho
fell down, after they were compassed for seven days. By faith the
harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not. when
she had received the spies with peace. And what shall I more
say? For the time would fail me to
tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, Jephthah, of David, also
of Samuel and the prophets. Time would fail me. I want to
talk about priceless, precious, priceless faith. Faith is the
most glorious gift God gives us. Because it enables us to
believe Him, to believe His Word, to trust Christ, take Him at
His Word. Faith honors God like nothing
else does. And in talking about faith, many
don't understand its nature, how that faith finds reality
in unseen things. Faith takes things that it can't
see and makes them real, makes them reality to it. I've never
seen the resurrection, but the resurrection's reality to me.
I've never seen the Lord Jesus Christ except by faith, but He's
a reality to me, just like He is to you. It's a reality to
me that my sins are put away, even though I feel the weight
of my sins often. It's a reality to me that this
world was framed by the Word of God. Now, most of the scientists
and all them say, no. You know, they go and try to
prove it. That it couldn't have been created because of this,
that, and the other. But we understand by faith that
the things we're looking at was made by God Himself, by just
speaking a word. And what faith does, it gives
substance. Substance. This is substance. Something you can touch. Something
you can taste. Something you can handle. Something you can
feel. Faith gives substance to things hoped for. Gives evidence
to the things we hope for. Evidence that Christ has put
our sin away. Evidence that we're justified
in God's sight. Evidence that we have the righteousness
of Christ. Evidence that Christ died for
me individually. And faith gives evidence to you
that Christ died for you. And don't give me evidence that
He died for you. Give me evidence that He died
for me. And, oh, beloved, faith believes
God. That's all it comes down to.
Faith believes God. And that He will fulfill all
His promises, carry out all His purpose, and meet all of our
needs in the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that. I really, truly
believe that. The Scripture says, now, Abraham's
a perfect illustration of that. He went out. He didn't have any
idea where he was going. But you know why he went out?
He believed God. He said, I'm going to give you
a land as far as you can see in any direction. But it never
owned the spot of ground, but his own grave. God told him he was going to
have a child. He said, it's impossible. But he said, I believe you. He staggered not at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God. And oh, beloved, faith will keep
a man going. Faith will keep a man going.
Faith will keep a man standing. Faith will keep a man carrying
on his life when there's absolutely nothing in his sight and reason
as to why he should keep on keeping on. Faith will keep us going. When you have faith, we walk
by faith. Everything seems to be against
you. The world's coming down around you. And you cannot see
any way out. And reason starts telling you
all the things that you need to be doing or should be doing
or shouldn't be doing. But faith will cause you to stand
when you ain't have no sight or no reason anymore. Let's look here at some things
about faith. First of all, let's look at the
choice of faith here in verse 24 and 25. Faith's choice. Faith makes a choice, you know
that? But you've got to have faith before you can make these
choices. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh's father, choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season. So you see, the choice of faith,
he says, by faith I refuse to be called son of Pharaoh's father.
By faith, I chose rather to suffer affliction. By faith, I'd rather
be numbered with God's people than to enjoy any pleasures of
sin in this world for just a little time. And our beloved man talks
about making a choice in their free will, except in God. Well,
here Moses, you've got to have, before you can make any choices
at all, you've got to have faith. And Moses had faith. And he says,
this is what I want to do. This is what I'm going to do.
Here he was in Pharaoh's court. Here he was. raised in Pharaoh's
house. And he says, there's a bunch
of slaves over here, despised by the Egyptians, making bricks
out of straw and mud, slaves. And he says, you know what? I'm
going to leave Pharaoh's house and I'm going to go over here
and I'm going to join this bunch over here that is afflicted.
that Pharaoh despises, that Egyptians despise. He said, that's who
I'm going to number myself with. But oh, you have pleasures of
sin over there in the palace. He said, I would rather suffer
affliction with the people of God than enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season. And that's what he says. Faith
chooses to cast lots with God's people regardless of the cost. It's like a lot. Abraham said,
La, here's before you. Here's the well-watered plains.
You go to the right, I'll go to the left. You go to the left,
I'll go to the right. You choose. Well, he looked down
there and he saw all this water and grass and everything, but
it was in Sodom. He'd have to live in Sodom. He
said, I'm going to take this over here. And sure enough, he
moved into Sodom. Raised his family in Sodom. and
lost his family in Sodom. And, oh, beloved, he chose the
well-watered plains, but, oh, what a price he paid. And it
was just pleasure for a season. He saw it. He chose a bowl of
pottage, a bowl of oatmeal, and it satisfied his flesh for a
very short time, but he lost his soul for eternity. That's
why Moses said, I'd rather suffer affliction with the people of
God. Oh, Lot says, man, look at this place down here. This
is the best spot of ground in the world. He got down there
and the next thing you know, the only way he got out of there
was God went down there and got a hold of him and dragged him
out of there. And the Moabites were people born out of incest. His own daughter got him drunk
and slept with him and produced a child so he wouldn't be childless.
That's what his life ended up being. That's what a mess he
made out of his life, because he said, I don't want to suffer
affliction with the people of God. I want pleasure for a while. I want to enjoy the water, and
the cattle, and the grain, and the good things in life. And
my wife wants it, my kids want it, my children want it. But
Moses said, you have it. Have your palace, Pharaoh. Have
your palace. I'm not staying here. I'm going
to go over here and join up with them bunch of Slaves over there,
them bunch of nobodies. And oh, no, he saw, he had the
birthright. What good's my birthright gonna
do me if I die? That's what it's gonna do you,
everything! That's when you need the birthright more than any
other time when you die. That's when you need to promise
more than any other time. You don't need election. He said,
I'll let you have the birthright. Birthright means you're head
over the house. You're the priest. You're the preacher. You're the
one offered sacrifice. You represent your family before
God. And he sold that for a bowl of
food. Boy, it was good. Man, it was
good. And it filled his belly for just a short time. And oh,
beloved, this is what sense does. This is what sense does. This
is what sense does. It chooses in the light of the present.
And what's going on right now, the easiest way out, the best
way out, the lightest way out, the most enjoyable way, the pleasure-less
way, but you know what faith does? It chooses in light of
eternity. Faith chooses in light of the
end. What's the end going to be? What's
the end going to be? Look over here with me in Philippians
3. Faith refuses the honors of the
world at the cost of Christ. Look what
Paul said about it here in Philippians 3. Faith refuses the honors of
the world at the cost of Christ. If it's going to cost me my relationship
with Christ, if it's going to cost me the knowledge of Christ,
if it's going to cost me my relationship with God, I don't want no part
of it. And that's what Paul said here. He says in verse 4, Though
I might also have confidence in the flesh, and that flesh
means in my standing before God, as far as men are. Philippians
3.4. If any man think that he hath worth, he might trust in
the flesh, I more trust it in what I've accomplished, being
where I am. I circumcised the eighth day
of the shock of Israel. Of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew
of Hebrews is touching the law of Pharaoh. He's a full-blooded
Jew with gold through his genealogy, and being according to his religion,
he was a Pharisee. as touching the law. Concerning
zeal, I persecuted the church. Oh, I was zealous. Touching the
righteous, which is in the law, you couldn't touch me. But what
things were gained to me that made me be something in the world,
that made me be approved in the world, that made the world look
up to me, and made me look up to myself, and made me trust
in myself, but what things were gained to me, they were lost
for Christ. So, yeah, Dallas, I count all
things but a loss. Everything I ever trusted in,
hoped in, believed in, loss, zero, not a nothing. What for,
Paul? For the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord. Being a Pharisee don't amount
to nothing. Being a Hebrew of Hebrews don't amount to nothing.
My religion still don't amount to anything. My circumcision
don't amount to anything. He said, I want to know Christ,
whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them done,
that I may win Christ and be found in Him, not having my own
righteousness. That's why Paul said, here's
the world honoring Him, and He honored Himself. He said, put
it away, because it'll cost Christ. And then look back over here
in Hebrews 11. We see there the choice of faith. Look here at
the estimate of faith, what they estimate faith to be like. Verse
26, esteeming the reproach, this is Moses again, esteeming the
reproach of Christ, greater riches than the treasures in Egypt,
for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. And oh, here's
the estimate of faith esteems here, esteeming. That means to
hold very highly. hold very highly, to regard very
highly. When you esteem somebody, that
means you hold them very high in your eyes, in your stand,
in your opinion. So he esteemed the reproach of
Christ greater than the riches of Egypt. Now, you know how many
riches was in Egypt? Do you have any idea how many
riches is in Egypt? They'll still bring him treasures
and riches out of Egypt and travel them all over the world and let
people look at them. Look at the gold, look at the
silver, look at the way they've done this and the way they've
done that, and they've made movies about it, and all going on and
on. But listen, riches untold. The pharaohs had their bodies
covered in gold when they were buried. All this wealth, big pyramids,
and you know what? You know what Moses says? I'd rather have the reproach
of Christ. Boy, they got a lot of money
over there. Ah, it don't mean nothing. Has a lot of treasure
over there. Ah, don't need it. Oh, I can
make you wealthy. How can I be more wealthy than
being in Christ? I've got the riches of grace,
I've got the riches of Christ, I've got the riches of His knowledge.
And the world's here, all I've got in Egypt, what's it got in
Egypt? The world's here, sir, and the fullness thereof, it
belongs to Him. And always said, I'd rather bear
the reproach of Christ, esteem it greater, and many are reproached
for Christ's sake, They're not reproached for Christ's sake.
They're too involved in Egypt. But there are some people who
are reproached for Christ's sake. They really are. There are some
people that you know, they say, you all make too much out of
Christ. You all make too much out of your religion. You make
too much out of grace. You make too much out of the Scripture.
You make too much out of preaching. You make too much out of Christ. And you know, and listen, what
a blessing for folks to think that about you and consider that.
How come none of those that they think about, Dirk, you and Reuben,
and Rick and Helen, you all drive by. How many churches do you
reckon you drive by to get here? And you know what people say,
that's the craziest thing in the world. Do you know that? Why do you
do that? You think you're something special?
No, but Christ is. I'm going to go where they preach
Him, where they talk about Him. And, oh, beloved, look what it
says here. He had respect under the recompense of the reward.
What's the reward? God was faithful to reward them
who seek Him. He'll give them what He promised.
And then look over here at faith's flight in verse 27. Oh, I'd rather have Christ and
His reproach. Christ and His reproach. Oh,
my. And the reproach of Christ is just that, you know, if you
ever told folks that you're a believer, where you're going at, and they'll
find out what you believe, and they'll say, oh, oh, oh. They're reproaching you right
then and there. Stay away from up there. Don't go up there. But oh my, what an honor. What
a blessing. Like old Scott, you know, this
woman had been there and he told me this. I heard him tell several
times. A woman, some folks had been in the services there for
two or three, four years. And she finally comes to Scott and
she's kind of a legalist and wanted some law preached to her
on how to live and how to do this, that, and the other. And
she come to him, talked to him one time and said, you know,
I've been here for three years and I followed you in the Bible.
I've kept notes and all you've done is preach Christ, Christ,
Christ. That's all you preach. He said,
well, you put that on my tombstone. Will you put that on my tombstone?
Yes. And she thought she was reproaching
him. And then look at faith fly here,
verse 27. By faith he forsook Egypt. Listen
to this, I love this, not fearing the wrath of the king. Pharaoh was God. He said, die,
death come. Prison, prison come. And oh,
beloved, he wasn't, it looked like cowardice when he left.
But look over here in Exodus with me real quick, Exodus 10.
You know, when Moses left, it looked like, boy, he'd be in
a cow. Exodus 10. But he wasn't. He wasn't. He didn't fear the wrath of the
king. That's what our Lord said. Don't fear them that can destroy
the body, but fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in
hell. And look what He said here in
Exodus 10, 28. It says in verse 27, The Lord
hearted Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. And
Pharaoh said unto him, said to Moses, Get thee from me, and
take ye to thyself. See my face no more. For in the
day that thou seest my face, thou shalt die. Oh, boy! I mean, you know, and if he ever
saw his face again, he would have died. Yes, he would. You
reckon old Moses had to take some aspirins to calm his nerves
down? You reckon he shook him up? Look what he says now. Moses
says, oh, you said good. You said, well, I'll never see
your face again. I'll never see it again. You
know why? God fixed his little house down. That's why. And oh,
it looked like Charis, but he didn't fear the wrath of the
king. Oh, I'll kill you next time I see you. No, he didn't
fear the wrath of the king. And beloved, sometimes it feels
like You know, and he wanted out of Egypt. He wanted out of
Egypt. And God's people want out. Do
you want out of Egypt? Do you want out of this Egypt,
Bolivia? Oh, do you want free from this Egypt? Do you want
free from this world? Do you want free from the burdens
and the temptations, snares? That's why Paul told Timothy,
he said, Oh, men of God, flee these things. Flee, you fools.
And oh, beloved, it looks like sometimes it may be People think
that we're cowards because we won't do something, this, that,
and the other. But I tell you, beloved, Moses wanted out of
Egypt. And God's people wanted out of Egypt. And I want out
of Egypt. Don't you? I want out of it. How did faith react when Pharaoh
came after them? Look with me again over here
in Exodus 14. I should have kept you over there
while I had you there. Exodus 14. Oh, how did faith react? Now, they left, and Pharaoh got
to thinking, oh my, we've really goofed up. What are we going
to do? What are we going to do? Here we've let all our laborers
go. We've let all the slaves go. Who's going to make our bridge
for us and build our buildings? Who's going to do this now? And
oh, he says, well, I tell you what, we're just going to bring
them, every one, back. We're just going to bring them back.
Now look here in Exodus 14 and verse 5. And it was told the king of Egypt
that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh in his service
was turned against the people. And they said, why have we done
this, that we let Israel go from serving us? And he made ready
his chariot and took his people with him. He took 600 chosen
chariots, chariots of Egypt and captains over every one of them.
And the Lord, listen to this, you don't want God to do this
to you. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of
Egypt. You don't want God to harden your heart. And he pursued
after the children of Israel, and the children of Israel went
out with a high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after
them all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and
his army, and overtook them in camping by the sea beside Pahaihooroth
before Baal-zebun. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, The
children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians
marked after them. I mean, here, look, 600 chariots. I mean, 600 of them coming after
you, being a mighty army. And here's just a bunch of people,
they ain't got nothing but shoes on their feet, and clothes on
their back, and they're eating frost. Their babies, and granny,
and grandma, and all the kids, and what happened? And all they
lifted up their eyes, and the Egyptians marked that, and they
were sore afraid. And the children of Israel cried
unto the Lord, and they said, Moses, because there were no graves
in Egypt, places for us to be buried, you're going to let us
die here in the wilderness to die? Wherefore hast thou dealt
with us to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word
that we did tell them in Egypt, saying, let us alone that we
may serve the Egyptians? Would that have been better for
us to serve the Egyptians than when we should die in the wilderness?
And Moses said unto the people. Now he got a big army coming
after him. He said the same thing they said. And he's not only
that, but he is getting, he's getting, oh, everybody said,
Moses, what have you done to us? What have you done to us?
You've really got us in a mess. What did Moses say? Fear ye not. Everybody's scared to death with
Moses. Stand still! And that stand still means you
all just calm down. Just calm down. Be still in your
heart. Let your mind be at rest. Be
calm. And see the salvation of the Lord, for He'll show it to
you today. For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you'll
never see them again no more. And listen, the Lord shall fight
for you, and you shall hold your peace. Oh my, how did Moses react
when they come after him? And all beloved's faith wants
out of Egypt, wants nothing to do with its flesh parts. Now
back over here in Hebrews, look in verse 28. Oh, faith is going to leave Egypt.
And oh, bless God, faith left Egypt. By faith we've left the
world. By faith We count the world, all that's in the world
as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, and we've left that. We want away from that. We don't
want no part of that. We're like Jacob, who fled from sin. We're like Jacob, I mean, Joseph. We fled from sin. Then look what
he says here. The means of faith. Verse 28. Through faith he kept the Passover
and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn
should touch them. God's going to go through there
and He's going to slay the firstborn. But, O beloved, through faith
He kept the Passover, the sprinkling of blood. And it was through
and by the sacrifice of that Passover, Christ, our Passover,
we receive by faith, and faith, what it does, just turns around
and gives back to God what God gave us. We bring Christ to God,
because that's what God gave us, is Christ. God gave Christ
as our sacrifice, our Passover. We just come back to God with
our Passover Christ, our sacrifice. And that's what happened here.
God says, slay a lamb, put the blood on the door, and when I
see the blood, I'll pass over you. God gave them the lamb,
and beloved, they looked to God back with that lamb and said,
Lord, we trust this lamb, we trust this blood, we know you'll
pass over us. And oh beloved, and that's one
way you can know you got faith. Now listen to me. God gives us
Christ. Christ was sacrificed for us.
He was our Passover sacrifice. He was our sin offering. God
gave Him as the Lamb of God. Now, when we receive Him and
believe Him and trust Him, what do we come back to God with?
With Him. We come back with His blood.
We come back with His sacrifice. We come back with His sin offering.
We just give back to God what God gives to us. Is that not
right? And that's what people... And
listen, faith, what it does, it puts its hand upon the head
of the sacrifice. Oh, that's what you do when you
put your hand on it, your sins are going on, that sacrifice.
You're being identified with it. It's me that should die.
Faith knows that sin must be punished. Faith knows that God's
holiness must be honored. Faith knows His justice must
be satisfied. And how's it going to be? Christ
our Passover sacrifice for us. And Beloved, we pray, and that's
why He said by faith He kept the Passover. Because He should
smite the firstborn. He should destroy them. And I
tell you, Beloved, if we don't have Christ, As God smoked the
firstborn in Egypt, without Christ, God will destroy you. Ain't that right? That's what
our Lord says, no man can come unto the Father but by me. This
is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Listen to what
He has to say. And oh beloved, to the world
it's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous that
we are saved by a man who died 2,000 years ago. And when Moses
offered that lamb sacrifice there, those lambs, they were looking
to Christ who was going to come. And they said, how in the world,
why in the world are y'all doing this? This is the dumbest thing
I ever heard. You're actually killing a lamb. And you're going
to roast it, you're going to eat it, you're going to put blood
on that door. You say that roasted lamb and that blood is going
to keep God from killing you? That's going to bring you out
of Egypt and God's going to save you by that? That's what I'm
saying. That's... Who in the world... I want it! To the Jews, that's
a stumbling block. Oh no, we don't need Jesus. We
got the law. We got the Ten Commandments.
We got our ceremony. We got our dress codes. We got
the way we wear our hair. And the greatest foolishness.
Oh my, that's just too simple. We need some philosophy. We need
some death. We need some intellectualism.
We need some doctors. We need some law. We need some
men who've got the best education to teach us. We want somebody
to tell us things that we don't understand, so at least we can
think somebody's smart among us. But to those who are called,
those who believe, Christ is the power of God. Christ is the
wisdom of God. Yes, sir. Blood sprinkled? Yes,
sir. Who believes that? Who needs
that? God does, and I do. Faith lays hold of God's appointed
way. Faith submits to His way. And
then look here at the boldness of faith. There in verse 29. By faith they
pass through the Red Sea. Listen to this. by dry land."
Now, the Egyptians tried to do the same thing. What happened
to them? They drowned. By faith, it says, by faith they
passed through the Red Sea. That's by dry land. You know
what faith does? It goes where God sends it. They're standing there, and God
said, Moses, tell them to go forward. There was water right
there in front of them, until God said, tell them to go forward.
The moment they started forward, the water started pouring. The
moment they... They're all standing there. How
are we going to get through here, Moses? What are we going to do?
God says, Moses, tell them to go forward. They took a step,
and by the time they took a step, it was dry land immediately.
And they walked all the way across there, and the next thing you
know, it just parted in front of them. Well, here comes the
Egyptians behind them. They said, well, we can do that,
too. No, no, no. Only people who believe can go
through on dry land. The Egyptians weren't believers. Faith, beloved, meets our foes
and conquers them. Faith will go into the furnace.
And it always comes out as gold. Faith goes through the flood,
and it's not drowned. It goes through the fire, and
it's not burned. And here's the most blessed thing
about faith. It goes into the holiest of holies
by a new and living way, through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then look here at faith's victory. Oh, this is a blessing. See what I'm telling you about
how precious and priceless faith is? Then by faith, in verse 30,
the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about
seven days. You know, Jericho was a great,
great big city, walled city. Great big walled city. And you
know that God told them, He says, you march around that once a
day for seven days. And then on the seventh day,
go around it seven times. And then just give a big shout.
And the walls would fall down. He said, you don't have to fight,
you don't have to kill nobody, you don't have to go in there
with bows and arrows and swords. He said, all you have to do is
just shout! Bam! Down come the walls. You see, faith overcomes. That's
what our Lord meant when He said, if you have faith as a mustard
seed, you can stay under this mountain, stay under that tree. And oh, here's an armed city,
great walls, lots of people. Oh, Lord, we're marching. Well,
we're marching. Just keep on marching. That's what we do.
We have these walls in front of us. We have these enemies.
We have these great obstacles. But just keep on keeping on. Oh, just keep on. You know, let
me show you something over here in 1 John 5. Just over to your
right just a little bit. 1 John chapter 5. You know, faith overcomes. By
faith, the walls of Jericho fell down. How in the world can you walk
around a great big city seven times and then just give a holler
and all the walls fall down? It took them years, hundreds
of years to build them walls. A lot of effort, a lot of work,
a lot of people in there. Just walk around and around it
and you're going to cause it to fall just with us hollering
real loud? That's all you got to do. Now, you're talking about faith.
You're talking about faith. No, that's not the way you take
a city. What you do, you get you a big army. And you get you
some guns, and you get you some swords, and you get you some
bow and arrows, and you get you some fire, and you attack it,
and you start on out. God said, that's the way you
all do things. That's not the way I do things. And look here in 1 John 5, verse
4. All faith overcomes. For whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory
that overcometh the world. Even our faith. Who is he that
overcometh the world? But he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God. And then look back over here
again. Let me show you this quickly. through salvation of faith. Verse
31, By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed
not, but she had received the spies with peace. Now, Rahab
was a harlot that lived in that city. And she knew that the walls
of Jericho was coming down. She had heard about God. She
had heard what God was going to do. And she believed in Him. She had heard of His great wonders
and what He had done for His people. Well, there's some spies
come in there. And oh, listen, she said, and
they found out they were there, and they said, where'd them spies
go? And she hit them. And she said, they went this
way. And so they went out after them,
and they slipped out another way. She said, but now promise
me, promise me that when you all take this city, when these
walls come down, that you'll save me, and my father, and my
mother, and my household. Save me." And you know they destroyed,
he said, hang a scarlet thread out your window. And they told all Israel, says,
now when you go there, when you go there, you'll see that city,
you'll see that scarlet ribbon, that woman there. Don't you dare
hurt her. Said, we made a promise to her.
And we're going to save her, because she saved us. And Beloved,
sure enough, they went in there, and she was the only one saved.
They seen that scarlet thread. God sees that scarlet thread.
And everything else falling down. There she was left. Oh, Beloved. And let me tell you something.
It would have been unjust not to save Rahab. After they
promised they would. Is that not right? If God promised
salvation, would it not be unjust if He didn't give it? Yeah. Here's a harlot, a sinner. But
she was a believing sinner. And she did not perish with them
that believed not. And then look here quickly at
the sufficiency of faith. There in verse 32. And what shall I more say? What else can I say about faith?
What else can I say about it? It's sufficient. Time would fail
me to tell you about Gideon. It'd fail me to tell you about
Barak. It'd fail me to tell you about Samson, Jephthah, David,
Samuel, prophets. I'll tell you, you know what
they did through faith? They subdued kingdoms. They wrought righteousness,
they obtained promises, and they even stopped the mouths of lions.
They quenched the vows of fire, fire coming, they just quenched
them. Escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made
strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of
the aliens. Women received their dead, raised
to life again. Elijah and Elijah both raised
some mother's sons back from the dead. And others were tortured,
not accepting deliverance that they might attain a better resurrection. I'll tell you something, beloved.
There's three things, three things, three graces that will never
fail, and faith is one of them. Faith, hope, and charity. The
greatest is charity, but none of these will never fail. If
there's faith in a man's heart, that's what our Lord says. Oh,
listen. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him
that believeth, according to your faith, be it unto you."
And I tell you, beloved, see how, why faith is so precious? Faith is so priceless? Look at
all of mine. That's why it honors God. Every
one of those people honored God. They believed God. They believed
God. Do you believe Him? I believe
Him with my heart and my soul, by His grace. And I understand
that He gave me the thing. I understand that He, by grace,
did this for me. And I just give back to Him what
He gave me. And if God's enabled you to believe,
thank God for it, bless Him for it, and confess Him, own Him. Do like Moses. There's a lot
of riches here, but you know I won't cross more. Man, there's
this blood, and here's myself. I think I'll take the blood.
Here's all these obstacles, these great walls that's against me.
I believe I'll just give a shot, trust them. And they'll all come
down. I'm going to look to Christ.
I'm going to look to God. Our Father, O our gracious, gracious
God, in the blessed holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ, thank
You for giving us this day. Lord, You gave us the daily bread
of Your own food, the daily bread of Your blood, in your life, your flesh. And
we thank you for what you gave us today. Oh, I bless you for
it. You're so gracious, so wonderfully
kind, so merciful, so loving, so giving, so strengthening,
so encouraging, so comforting. Thank you, Lord. And I thank
you for those who believe. I thank you for those who want
to confess their faith in Christ. and count everything else but
done. And I thank You for them. And I pray that You would move
upon hearts and moves upon lives and give people rest and assurance
in Christ our Lord. In His name we pray. Amen.