I just want to look at one verse
this morning, Romans chapter 1, verse 17. The title of the message is,
The Just Shall Live by Faith. And we looked at this verse as
part of last Sunday's message, but I want to go back and look
at this verse in particular. Look at it in some detail, since
this verse is the theme of the whole book of Romans. The just
shall live by faith. Justification is by faith in
Christ without any of our works being added to it. That's what
Paul says, the just shall live by faith. And you know, that
must be an important statement. Because that statement, the just
shall live by faith, is repeated four times in the Word of God. I kind of like things that are
repeated. If God takes the time to repeat them, I think, hmm,
maybe it's meant to be heard, huh? I like to look at those
things that are repeated And I want to look at the four different
places this phrase, the just should live by faith, is used
in God's Word. Because in context, each time
that phrase is used, it deals with a different aspect of the
believer's experience of salvation. Now, this is a powerful statement. Only God could make such a powerful
statement in such few words. The just shall live by faith. The Lord put that phrase in the
heart of Martin Luther. and the whole Protestant Reformation
came out of it because the Lord finally showed him what it means.
The just shall live by faith. Not by our works of the law,
not by all of our religious activity and religious ceremony, but the
just shall live by faith. The Lord showed Mark Luther what
that meant. Salvation is all in Christ and
it's ours by faith in Christ. Now the focus here in Romans
1 verse 17 is that sinners are made righteous in Christ. Let's
read it. For therein, in the gospel of
Christ, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith. As it's written, the just shall live by faith. Now that
ought to get our attention. Because you know all of us here
are ruined in sin. We're ruined in Adam. And you
know when something is ruined, That means it can't be repaired.
You can't fix it up. It's ruined. And that's what
you and I are in, Adam. We're ruined in sin. We can't
be fixed up. We can't be remodeled. We can't
do something by trying to keep the law or acting religious.
We can't do something to prop ourselves up. No, we're ruined. We're ruined. But the gospel
of Christ is good news for sinners because the gospel of Christ
declares a righteousness for sinners. Now, this righteousness
that the gospel of Christ declared, it's not a righteousness we can
earn. It's not a righteousness we can earn through the law.
It's not a righteousness we can earn by switching religious denominations
or going through some religious ceremony. Righteousness for sinners
is the righteousness of Christ. It's the righteousness that Christ
earned as a man by obeying the law. And God freely imputes that
righteousness to his people. God makes his people legally
righteous by making the righteousness of Christ to be our righteousness. And every believer by faith says
this, that the righteousness of Christ, the obedience of the
man, Jesus of Nazareth, that is my personal obedience before
God. Somebody might ask, now, how
can you say that? How can you say that the obedience of Christ
is your personal obedience? You didn't earn it. He did. You're
exactly right. He earned it. But you know why
it's mine? Because he gave it to me. That's
imputation. He gave me his righteousness
so that I'm righteous in him. And sinners receive that righteousness
simply by believing Christ, through faith in Christ, by being joined
to him by faith. How am I righteous? How righteous
am I? Through faith in Christ. Does
it make me pretty righteous and I got to finish it up? Or does
it make me righteous but then I got to keep myself righteous?
How righteous is it that Christ makes me by faith in Him? Absolutely
perfect. So that it can never be lost.
Paul says everyone who has this faith in Christ is just. The
just shall live by faith. That word just means justified. Not just as if I'd never sinned,
but so that I have never sinned. That's how righteous a believer
is through faith in Christ. Completely righteous. And Paul
says this righteousness, the only righteousness of Christ,
the only place it's revealed, is through the gospel of Christ.
Now, when Paul talks about the righteousness of God being revealed,
what is it that he means by that? Well, he doesn't mean that the
righteous character of God is revealed in the gospel, although
we do declare that in the gospel. But what Paul is talking about
here specifically is the gospel declares how Christ is the righteousness
of his people. That's what the gospel declares.
The father elected a people into salvation. Now, God's holy. Do we know that God's holy? Well,
then those people that God chose to save, somehow they've got
to be righteous. They've got to be made righteous
because God can't accept them if they're not righteous. They
can't make themselves righteous. God gave the law, but they can't
keep it. So you know what God did? He sent his son into this
earth as a man. to obey the law, to establish
righteousness so that he could give it to his people and so
that God could make his people righteous. He makes his people
exactly what he requires. He makes them holy. He makes
them righteous. And God reveals that to the hearts
of his people through the preaching of the gospel, through the preaching
of Christ. And when the gospel is preached,
God gives his people faith to believe it. One of the themes
that we seem to be talking about this week here at the conference
in Lexington was the necessity of faith and the necessity laid
upon preachers to preach simply and clearly. I hope that Just
a few minutes into this message, you've understood all the words
that I say. I've worked very hard to look
at every word that I plan on saying to make sure it's easy
to understand. So you can understand exactly
what it is I'm saying. I don't think anybody's had any
difficulty understanding what I'm saying. Here's our problem. By nature, we don't believe it
until God gives us faith. And you know how he gives faith
to his people? through the preaching of the gospel. Faith cometh by
hearing. That's how he gives faith in
Christ. So this is what Paul's saying.
All of us are dead. We're dead in Adam. And the only
way we can ever be made spiritually alive, receive spiritual life,
is through faith in Christ, who is our life. When we believe
Christ, we have life. And when the Spirit gives us
life, we believe Christ. Life and faith are two sides
of the same coin. You receive them at the exact
same time. You don't receive one and then
get the other. You receive them at the exact same time. The moment
the Spirit gives us life in Christ, we believe. We have faith. That's
what John the Baptist said. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He has it right now. He does
not believe the Son hath not life. Spiritual life can only
come to us through faith in Christ. Righteousness before God can
only come through faith in Christ. Now, that's so simple. I know
everybody here understands that. Now, believe. Just believe. Believe Christ and you shall
be saved. Believe on Him and you shall
have eternal life. And this life, it's all in Christ. The just shall live by faith. This life is all in Christ through
faith in Him. And I believe I can show you
that from this one verse of Scripture. Paul says the gospel of Christ
reveals the righteousness of God from faith to faith. Now, I can't tell you through
the years how often I've looked at that phrase from faith to
faith and how long I've looked at it this week. I've read a
lot of different commentaries and pretty much all of them had
something different to say about it. And usually I've heard this
phrase used this way or interpreted this way. The just shall live
by faith, from one degree of faith to another degree of faith.
And that's true. Faith is a growing grace. And
no matter how much faith grows, justification and life is always
through faith in Christ. No matter how much we grow in
faith, no matter how much we grow in knowledge or in grace,
our salvation, we'll see, is still totally dependent upon
Christ. The more faith grows, the more
we see, I need faith to believe him. I need him. When faith grows,
that doesn't mean that somehow we grow less dependent on God
and instead of just holding us up, he just props us up or just
helps us. No, we never become independent, no matter how much
faith grows. The more faith grows, the more
we see and understand I'm more dependent on Christ. I understand
I'm more dependent on Christ than when I first believed because
faith has grown. And that's a good meaning of
that. From one degree of faith to another degree of faith, it's
always by faith, always through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
But I believe this is a better interpretation of this, that
righteousness is from faith to faith. Salvation. comes to God's people from the
faithfulness of Christ, and we receive it through faith in Christ.
It's from the faith of Christ to faith in Christ. Those justified
ones, the just should live by faith, those justified ones,
you know why they have spiritual life? Why do they have eternal
life? It was because of the faithfulness of Christ to earn it for them.
faithfulness of Christ, obey God's law perfectly, the faithfulness
of Christ to suffer and die as their sacrifice, as their substitute,
so they would receive life. We receive that through the faith
of Christ. Let me show you that in Galatians
chapter two. Galatians two verse 16. God's elect are saved by the
faithfulness of Christ to accomplish all of our salvation. And we
receive that through faith in Him. Galatians 2 verse 16, knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law. We know
this. We cannot make ourselves justified by keeping the law,
but we're justified how? By the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus
Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, not by
the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified. So see, it's by the faith of
Christ to accomplish all of our salvation. And we receive it
through faith in him, by believing him, by trusting him, by resting
in him to be all that God requires of me. I don't have to contribute
some of my works of the law because Christ is all. Christ is enough.
So the focus of this phrase in Romans, that just shall live
by faith, is that all of our salvation, from beginning to
end, it's all through faith in Christ. Now let me say this about
faith. Faith is not just believing that
God is. I can't remember a time I didn't
believe that God is. You know, I was just a little
guy, I mean, two years old. My parents told me, God is. Say your prayers before you go
to bed. I've always believed God is. And as I got a little
older, I mean, you just look around this world. You're just,
you're being willingly ignorant to say that God isn't, is. I mean, it's just, you know,
it's obvious. The devils believe God is. They know God is. they're not saved. So faith is
not just knowing that God is. Faith is not just believing what
we call the doctrines of grace. We ought to believe the doctrines
of grace. The doctrines of grace, the five
points of Calvinism, they're undeniable fact. We ought to
believe undeniable fact, but facts don't save sinners, do
they? Christ saves sinners. Faith in Christ is simply this. It's to rely on Christ to be
all of my salvation. That's all faith is. It's just
to rely on Him. And when you believe Christ,
when you trust Him to be everything you need, everything God requires
to save a sinner like you, all the rest of that stuff is going
to become obvious. It will. God will teach you.
I am dead and hopeless. But Christ does not, and He's
able to save me. He's the only one who can. So
all of my faith, all of my reliance on salvation is in Him. The just
shall live by faith. All right, now look back at the
book of Habakkuk. If you'll go to the end of the Old Testament,
go back, I think it's five books, you'll find the book of Habakkuk.
This is the first time the phrase, the just shall live by faith,
is used in Scripture. In Habakkuk, the focus on this
phrase is on this, that God will deliver His people from His wrath
against their sin. God will deliver His people from
bondage to sin. Now you just wait on Him to do
it. Faith just waits on God to do what He promised He'd do.
That's the focus here. Now this afternoon, if you want
to, you can read Habakkuk chapter 1. And the Lord in that chapter
promises awful judgment upon the nation Israel. The Lord says,
Habakkuk, you tell the people this is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to raise up a heathen people. I'm going to raise up
these heathen idolaters. I'm going to give them power.
I'm going to give them authority. I'm going to give them ability.
And they're going to invade Israel. And I'm going to use those heathen
to punish my people. You know who those heathen are
that the Lord's going to raise up at this time? They're the
forefathers of modern day ISIS. and they were just as wicked
and just as vile then as they are today. That's the people
God said, I'm going to use them to invade my people and punish
Israel, my people. And when they do, you know what
they're going to do? They're going to give credit to their
idol for doing it. And God said, I'm going to let them do it.
And when they come, there'll be no way of escape. And Habakkuk
hears that. And imagine if that was us today,
we'd be just like Habakkuk. I don't understand. I do not
understand. I don't have to go very far through
my day to see something. I know God did that or it wouldn't
happen, but I don't know why. I don't have the foggiest idea
why God's doing what he's doing. And Habakkuk, the Lord gives
him some wisdom. You know what he does? He seeks God in prayer. Why, Lord? Why is this? Why?
Would you tell me why? And then you know what Habakkuk
does? He shuts up and he waits to see if God will answer him.
Habakkuk 2 verse 4. Behold, his soul which is lifted
up is not upright in him, but the just shall live by faith. This is part of the answer when
Habakkuk Asked the Lord why, and he shut up and waited. This
is the answer that the Lord gave him. The just shall live by faith. Now this judgment's coming, but
God gives his people a promise of life. He gives his people
a promise of deliverance, and it's through faith in God. Just
to rest in God, to do what he promised he'd do. Just wait on
him. The Lord here gives Habakkuk a promise to save his people,
who humbly wait on the Lord. See, there's a man of faith is
willing to wait. If I believe that God's going
to do exactly what he said he'll do, then I'm willing to wait
on him to do it. I don't have to try to help him
out. And as far as it relates to Israel here, those people
who you can't fight, you can't fight and defeat the enemy, you
can't find a way to escape them. If your only hope of life, your
only hope of deliverance is just to wait on the Lord. God says
to just to live by faith. And the picture is the picture
of salvation. God's people are born in this
world and they're bondage to sin and they cannot escape it. Oh, they can try to fight against
it by keeping the law. They can try to fight against
sin by quit sinning, but they're going to fail. Their works can't
set them free. The only way for us to be delivered
from sin is to be delivered by the Lord Jesus Christ, by His
work of righteousness, by His sacrifice to pay for our sin.
And the soul that God's given faith in Christ will just wait
on Him to do it. And we won't try to help Him
out in the meantime. We just wait. But that soul that's
lifted up with pride or lifted up, it's lifted up with pride.
It's those who are proud of their own righteousness. Isn't that
religious people so proud of their own righteousness? But
God says they're not upright and hard. God who looks on the
heart says they're not upright and hard. They're not just because
they're trusting in their own works to make them righteous.
And here's their problem, what they don't know. All their works
are sinful. They can't do anything righteous.
They're just filthy rags defiled with sin. And trusting in those
things can never make a person upright. And those proud people
are still today. And I tell you how you can find
them, how you can identify them. They're proud. They won't wait
on the Lord. They do not trust the Lord to
save his peoples simply by the preaching of Christ. They don't
trust the Lord to give his people faith in Christ simply by the
preaching of the gospel. And because of that, they can't
preach the gospel to somebody and leave them alone with God.
They've got to bug the everlasting daylights out of them. They've
got to get them to sign on the bottom line. They've got to get
them to make a decision. If you don't make this decision,
you're going to go to hell if you get in the car wreck on the way home.
And when they do that, you know, they can arm twist and get somebody
to make a decision. But when they do, you know what
they've done? They've given that poor sinner a work to trust Him. Something they did. It might
be just, they might consider just a small part of their salvation,
but they're trusting even the smallest part of their salvation
in something they did. Well, then their faith is not
in Christ alone and they can never be justified that way.
What an awful thing to do to somebody. God's people, those who have
faith in Christ. Tell you how you, when you see
a preacher, here's how you can tell he believes God. He preaches
Christ to you and lets you along. Just let your love. God's going
to save his people. I know that. He will. I don't
have to talk to you doing something. You hear the voice of Christ,
you'll come to him. Those who are not upright. See, they don't
trust Christ alone. They can't. So you know what
they do? They think, well, Christ's righteousness alone is not enough.
So we got to do something. So you know what they do? They
don't give the whole law to people, because that's too much. But
they pick out a few. They're kind of their favorites.
And they give men those laws to live by. And if you don't
live by them, you're not righteous. If you do, they say you are righteous. But when they do that, they make
void the righteousness of Christ. They take away the sinner's only
hope of righteousness. It's through faith in Christ
to rely on Him to do everything God requires for me. They do
that because they don't thank Christ alone. is enough to justify
them, to make them righteous, to set them free from the bondage
of the law. But the just shall live by faith. They're willing to just preach
Christ and wait on Him to save His people. They're just willing
to preach Christ and have God's people rejoice in Christ to finish
the work of salvation for them and let them just rest in Christ. Whenever I preach the gospel,
I always want to preach in such a way that if someone's here
who doesn't know the Lord, will be forced to look to Christ,
because I hope I've not given them anywhere else to look. And
my second goal is this, that those who know the Lord, those
who know Christ, those who trust in Him, will leave here assured
that's my Savior. that leave here with a heart
that's thrilled, not because of how eloquent I am, because
I'm not, but thrilled because they saw Christ in the Word and
thrilled and assured. I know I'm saved because that's
my Savior. Our assurance is in Him. The
just live by faith. and the just. Those who have
been given faith in Christ, they'll wait. They'll just keep waiting
on God because they believe God will save His people. They just
keep preaching. They just keep preaching Christ.
They just keep looking to Christ and eventually, they know God's
going to provide a way out. God's going to deliver. And I'll
tell you what, to us, it's going to seem like a long time. In Habakkuk's day, some people
heard that and they thought, well, all right, you know, the
Lord's going to deliver us. And it took, to them, it seemed so
long, they quit believing. They quit waiting. But true faith
just keeps waiting, no matter how long it takes. Even when
human reasoning, especially when human reasoning sees no reason
at all to believe God's going to do what He does. What he promised
to do, faith keeps believing he'll do it. Look here at chapter
3, verse 17. This is faith speaking. Although
the fir tree should not blossom, neither should fruit be in the
vines. The labor of the olive shall fail, the field shall yield
no meat. The flock shall be cut off from
the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls. There's no
earthly reason for me to rejoice. There's no earthly reason for
me to think God's going to keep his promise. But faith says yet. I will rejoice in the Lord. I
will joy in the God of my salvation. I don't have any strength, but
the Lord God is my strength and he will make my feet like Heinz
feet and he'll make me to walk upon mine high places to the
chief singer on my stringed instruments. Let's sing that. Even when there's
nothing in the field and everything's died in the field, let's sing
that. I will rejoice in the Lord. That's what faith says. Alright,
look in Galatians chapter 3. The third time the phrase, the
just shall live by faith is used in scriptures in Galatians chapter
3. And the focus here is on justification. Justification is being made without
any sin. And the only way a sinner can
be made without sin is through faith in Christ. Galatians 3
verse 10. For as many as are of the works
of the law are under the curse. For it's written, cursed is everyone
that continueth not in all things which are written in the book
of the law to do them. Now, the law, if we're going
to be just, if we're going to justify our own selves, we've
got to keep all of the law of God all of the time. We can never break one one time.
Well, we can't do that. But you know, when the believer
looks at the law, the believer says the law is holy. It's just,
it's good, it's right. Believers love God's law. I can't
personally keep it, but I love God's law. David said three times,
I love thy law. But people who use the law, they
use it all wrong, they use it as a means of justification,
as a means of salvation by us keeping the law. They're using
it all wrong. The law was never given so a
man have a way to earn his own salvation. The law was never
given as a way a man could keep himself saved by keeping the
law. Never was it given for that. You know why God gave the law?
To drive men to Christ. To say, I can't keep that. I
need to go to the one who can. That's why the law was given.
Let me give you five reasons why the law ought to drive us
to Christ. Number one, the law was written
on tables of stone. It wasn't written on parchment.
It was written on tables of stone to show us the inflexibility
of the law. It can't bend to suit us. The
law is inflexible. That ought to drive us to Christ
who will keep the law. Second, the law was written by
the finger of God to show it's God himself who's going to judge
whether we've kept the law or not. And it's God himself who
will issue punishment for not keeping it. Well, that ought
to drive us to Christ, shouldn't it? Third, the law was given
in a fearful way. When the law was given, there
were thundering and lightning and the blast of the trumpet.
It ought to scare people to death. It ought to have crushed all
hope of keeping the law. So it would drive us to Christ.
And fourthly, the law was given through a mediator to show us
we cannot deal with God directly. God gave the law. He called Moses.
And Moses come up here in this mountain. And God gave Moses
the law. And Moses took the law and took
it back to the people. And Israel was glad it was that
way. They were afraid. They said, Moses, don't let God
speak to us. We can't stand it. Let God speak
to you. Then you come back and speak
to us. The law was given to show us we need a mediator. We can't
deal with God directly. That ought to drive us to Christ,
shouldn't it? And then fifth, The law, when we read it, ought
to drive us to Christ because all the law can do is curse the
sinner. That's all it can do. It can
never say, well, I know you didn't mean to do it, so it's okay.
The law can never do that. All the law can do is curse the
sinner. Well, what's the curse of the law? Eternal death. That's what the law says. The
law demands death for sin. Well, who's under that curse?
every man, woman, boy or girl who's trying to keep the law
and make God happy with them. Those people are under the curse.
If you're trying to keep the law, if you're trying to do something
religious to make God happy with you so He'll accept you above
somebody else, my friend, I'm here to warn you, you're under
the curse of the law. All the law can say to you is
death. All the law can do is curse anyone
who's trying to keep the law to make God happy with us. Because
God can only accept us if we keep the law perfectly. Always. And we can't even do
that for a second, can we? Just one sin puts us under the
whole curse of the law. All the condemnation of the law
falls upon us for just one sin. Well, we know we can't do that. We've got Adam's nature. All
Adam's nature can do is sin. So it's easy. It should be easy
for us to see, I need to run to Christ. I need to run to Christ
who did keep the law. There is one way out of the curse
of the law. You know what it is? It's in
Christ. It's through faith in Christ
who kept the law for us. Look at verse 11. But that no
man is justified by the law on the side of God. It's evident.
For the just shall live by faith. Paul says this is evident. This
is obvious. The only way a sinner can be
justified is through faith in Christ. The only way we can be
delivered from the curse of the law is through the Lord Jesus
Christ, who kept the law for his people. And after he established
perfect righteousness for his people, as a substitute, he traded
places with his people. and he died to satisfy the law's
last demand so that his people would be set free from the curse
of the law. That's what he says in verse 13. Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us for
it's written. Cursed is everyone that hangeth
on a tree. That's how the believer is completely
set free from the curse of the law. because Christ already died. He already died for his people.
We're set free from the law because we've already died to the law.
We who believe have already died to the law in the person of Christ
our substitute. And so we're free from the law.
Isn't that good news? You're free from the law. You're
free from the law's demands. You do not have to keep the law
or make God happy with you. Christ already did. and you're
free from the curse of the law. If you believe Christ, you don't
have to worry about the death of this body for an instant.
Because after the death of this body, you'll not experience eternal
death. You'll experience eternal life. Because Christ already
died to set us free from the curse of the law. Then you look
at Hebrews chapter 10. Here's the fourth place, this
phrase. The just shall live by faith is used. Hebrews chapter
10. The focus here in Hebrews 10
is this. It's perseverance in the faith. Perseverance in the
faith. The just shall live by faith. They'll live continuing by faith
in Christ and they'll never quit believing in Him. Hebrews 10
verse 38. Now the just shall live by faith. But if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. The just should live by
faith and they'll never draw back. If you draw back, God said,
my soul, I have any pleasure in you. You didn't have real
faith, genuine faith in the first place. The only way a believer
can persevere all the way to the end is by depending on Christ
to carry us all the way home. Now, a believer does grow in
grace. We grow in knowledge of Christ.
Surely, we grow in knowledge of Christ. The more we hear Christ
preach, the more we grow in knowledge of Him, the more He'll reveal
Himself to us. A believer grows in love for Christ. How can you
not? If you continually hear of the
sacrifice of Christ for you, you continually hear of His unmerited
love for you. How can you not grow in love
for Him? How can you not grow in love for His people? You grow
in that. You grow impatient. We grow in patience. That's not
a linear growth. At least it's not for me. It's
kind of a thing, you know. But you know how we grow in patience?
Because we wait on the Lord. Sure enough, He does what He
promised. He do, we think. Yeah, I've seen,
I've got evidence of that. And the next time we wait on
the Lord, we remember. He delivered me in the past.
I waited long enough. He delivered me in this time.
And it helped me wait this time. We grow in patience. We grow
in joy of the Lord. But the believer never grows
in self-sufficiency. A believer is always dependent
upon Christ. The just shall live by faith. Faith. How can I get this faith
that's going to grow and carry me all the way to the end? If
you're here Thursday night, Brother Marvin made a wonderful statement. I can't say it like he did. He
said, faith cometh, cometh, cometh, cometh by hearing. It doesn't mean faith came one
time by hearing and that was enough. Faith cometh. It continually comes to us. It's
continually fed and strengthened by hearing. It's strengthened
the same way faith came to us the first time. by hearing of
Christ, and it's strengthened by hearing of Christ. And those
who have faith in Christ, they're going to live by it, but just
to live by faith. And you know why? Faith in Christ
will never let the believer go anywhere but Christ for everything
we need. Verse 39, but we're not of them
who draw back into perdition, but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul. Faith in Christ will not let
us go to the law for justification or for sanctification. You know
why? Faith says Christ is my justification
and my sanctification. I look to Him. Faith is not going
to let the believer go to the law to find a rule of life. No. Faith looks to Christ who is
our rule of life. Faith in Christ is not going
to let us start depending upon our knowledge to make the right
decision and do the right thing. No. Faith looks to Christ who
is our wisdom. You see, we began this thing
of salvation. We began this thing of eternal
life through faith in Christ. And the believer is going to
take every single step to glory, from here to there. by faith
in Christ. We walk this walk, we walk the
rest of our journey here below by faith, looking to Christ,
depending upon Christ. We walk through this journey
below saying with David, I'm going to look to him. He's all
my salvation and all of my desire. My desire is to see him and to
be with him. We walk by faith. That's how we finish this journey,
by faith. And when we finally arrive in
glory, we're going to open our eyes and you know what we're
going to see? We're going to see Christ face
to face. No more faith. No more faith. It'll be by sight. It'll be by
sight. But the sight there, sees the
exact same thing faith sees here. It's Christ. In eternity, it'll
still, we won't have faith anymore, but it'll still all be Christ.
And just there, it'll be by sight. But until then, may God grant
us this faith, faith to live by Christ. All right, let's bow
and pray.