Our lesson begins in verse 27
of Hebrews 11, then we ended last week's lesson looking at
Moses. And Paul writes in verse 27,
by faith, Moses forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the
king, for he endured seeing him who is invisible. Now, the only
reason that Moses would forsake all the riches of Egypt, the
throne of Egypt, is because he believed God. That's why he could
forsake that. He keeps these things in perspective.
The riches of Egypt were in perspective to him because he believed God. He didn't look at the things
that were seen with the natural eye, or he never would have given
it up. He looked at things that were
invisible to the natural man. He saw those things by faith.
If you look back in verse 1, that's the way we began our study
here in Hebrews 11. with faith's definition. Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen, not seen to the natural man. That's what Moses saw by
faith. That's why he could forsake Egypt.
Moses saw things and understood things that were invisible. You
know, he also understood and saw things that were plainly
visible. Moses knew Pharaoh. By this point,
after all his interaction with Pharaoh, He knew it was very
likely Pharaoh was going to change his mind about letting the people
go. Several times he'd said, just Moses, let them go. The
Lord take this plague away from us. I'll let you go. He changed
his mind. Well, he changed his mind again.
He let the people go. The people left. Pharaoh changed
his mind. He took his army and went after
them. But Moses didn't fear the wrath of Pharaoh and his army.
Because he believed God. God said, Moses, you go. I'll
go with you. I'll lead you. I'll protect you.
You go. So he didn't fear Pharaoh. And I'll tell you how that applies
to us. Believers throughout every generation can expect and should
expect the wrath of man. But don't fear it. Men may have
some authority and some power, but our God is King of kings. He's Lord of lords. He rules
over all. So we don't need to fear the
wrath of men either. Now verse 28, through faith he
kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, lest he that destroyed
the firstborn should touch them. Now before Israel left Egypt,
we have to remember there had never been a Passover. The Passover
story is very familiar to us. It wasn't to them. There had
never been a Passover yet. And Moses went and gave them
the instructions for the Passover, which to the natural man may
sound like an odd thing to do. Select a lamb. Watch it for three
days. Then on the appointed evening,
everybody kill the lamb at once. Put its blood on the door. Roast
its body with fire. Go inside and eat it with your
family. And eat it with your loins girt. Shoes on your feet.
Your staff in your hands. We're leaving this place. And
you show by what you're doing that you believe God. You plan
on leaving this place because God said you're going to leave
tomorrow. And that Passover lamb is such a clear picture of Christ. And it's important for us to
see this, how clearly this shows salvation is in the blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in His blood alone. We're
not saved because of our faith, because we've conjured up some
belief in God. Our sin is put away through the
blood alone, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Now
we're saved through faith, through believing Him, but our sin is
put away and in the blood alone. We're not saved because of some
natural heritage, because our parents are believers or our
friends are believers. It's in the blood. The Lord didn't
pass over. He came through Egypt that night.
He didn't pass over the house of the Israelites just because
they were Jews. He didn't pass over them just because they were
sons of Abraham. He passed over those houses because there's
blood on the door. That firstborn lived because
the blood of the lamb was on that door. He lived because that
lamb died in his place. You know, if a father killed
that lamb, roasted its body with fire, took it in, sat down and
ate that lamb with his family, he spent the rest of the night
in prayer, very sincere in prayer, he spent time admiring the lamb,
admiring the picture of that lamb. He spent time admiring
the power of God. And that's all he did? His firstborn
is going to die. Because the blood hadn't been
applied. The blood has to be applied.
Another father could have taken his lamb and killed it, roast
his body with fire, put the blood on the door and went inside and
ate that lamb with his family and spent the rest of the night
in terror that his firstborn could die. Firstborn children
were dying across the whole nation. He could have spent the night
in fear, but his firstborn would be alive in the morning because
the blood was applied. Salvation is in the blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ. His blood shed and his blood
applied. It's got to be applied. And by
faith, Moses instructed the people, you kill that lamb and you put
his blood on the door and you go inside and wait for the Lord's
deliverance. And that's what they did. Well,
verse 29, by faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry
land, which the Egyptians are saying to do, were drowned. Now
you know the story after Israel left Egypt. They went out and
were trapped against the Red Sea on one side and on the other
side. Pharaoh's mighty army, well armed,
and I'm sure very motivated for revenge. They are coming out
for revenge. And here they were trapped. A
nation of unarmed slaves. And the Lord told Moses, tell
the people to stand still. Moses, stretch your rod over
the Red Sea. And he did. And that sea began
to part. Now, you know, again, in children's
storybooks, we see pictures, and these things always ruin
us. It shows that Red Sea parted from shore to shore and the people
beginning to cross. Most of the writers say that's
not how that happened. It wouldn't take much faith once
you saw that sea parted all the way across to walk through with
a bunch of dry land in front of you. As Moses took a step,
that sea began to part. And there was a wall of water
in front of him by faith. Every step he took by faith,
it began to part until he went all the way across. And they
crossed over on dry ground. Here that, I mean forever I suppose,
here that land had been under water and it parted and it was
dry ground. Our Lord takes care of every
detail. He doesn't leave one minute detail
untaken care of, untended to. for His people. They crossed
over on dry ground. And after they all got across,
the Egyptians thought they'd do the same thing. Now the Egyptians,
they took the same route. They started out on the same
dry ground, but there's one difference, wasn't there? There's no faith. They didn't believe God. And
the means that the Lord used to save His people, He used to
destroy Egypt and wipe out their army. And they never recovered.
And the difference was faith. believing God. Now verse 30,
by faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed
about seven days. Now when Israel finally entered
the promised land, the first big city they came to had to
be taken care of with Jericho. Jericho was surrounded by two
stone walls. The first one was six feet thick.
The second one, I don't know how many feet apart, but inside
it was another stone wall, 12 feet thick, both 30 feet high. And there were houses that circled
the city that bridged those two walls. And it seemed very secure,
those walls. It seemed like you could never
tear those things down. But the Lord told Joshua, and
he had to tell the priest to take the ark, and have them circle
the city once every day while they blow their trumpets. Have
the people follow them in silence. Just walk around the city. They
did that for six days. Now you imagine the first day,
the people of Jericho, they'd heard about Israel. They might
have been kind of concerned. The second day, they're kind
of concerned. But after six days, I bet they're just out there
hollering and jeering and making fun, watching the parade circle
their city. Felt pretty safe inside those
walls. For the 7th day, they circled the city 7 times. And
at the end of the 7th circle, the people shouted. And those
walls fell down flat. And the people had to sit. Only
faith could believe that. That's a story. Only faith can
possibly believe. And I thought this week, that's
a lot like hearing the Gospel. When we first hear the Gospel,
to the natural ear, the Gospel sounds like a bunch of noise.
It sounds like a horn blowing, doesn't it? It doesn't make any
sense. We wonder what in this world
is He saying? What's going on? But to the Lord's
elect, one day, the walls fall down. Oh, now it makes sense. Because the Lord reveals Himself.
He gives faith. Only a faithful man will keep
preaching the Gospel to lost people. It takes faith. That's the only reason. It's
faith. It takes faith to believe. God's Word will not return unenvoid. And one day somebody calls John
and says, I see what you're saying. I want to confess the Lord. I
believe Him. The walls fell down through preaching of the Gospel. Now, verse 31. I've loved this
verse for years. I thought I'd spend the rest
of time on this verse. This is beautiful. By faith,
the harlot Rahab perished not within, but believed not, when
she had received the spies with peace." Now here in the middle
of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Joshua, we read about
Rahab the harlot. I love that. My friends, grace
is for sinners. God's gift of faith is for sinners
who have no one or nothing else to trust Him but the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's who faith is for. Grace
is for sinners. A harlot. And I have to be real
honest with you. I have trouble identifying with
Abraham. I don't have faith like Abraham
had. I've never been called on to
offer one of my children as a burnt offering to the Lord and determined
in my heart to do it. I've never gone through the trials
that Abraham went through with such unwavering faith. Every
trial I've ever been through, I've wavered a great deal. It's hard for me to identify
the man like Moses who stood for years just as an example
of faith, who faithfully led a stiff-necked people. I've never
been called to stand before the power in this world with just
a staff in my hand and say, God said, let my people go. I've
never had to lead that nation. I've never talked to God in the
burning bush. I've never gone up into a mountain
and talked to God face to face like a man talks to his friend.
I've never forsook my home and all the world that I knew to
go out into the wilderness alone because I believe God. It's just
hard for me To identify with that. So we get to Rahab the
harlot. I can identify with that. That's
me. Frank the harlot. I can identify
with being a sinner that doesn't know anything. Those one or two
things, I know God's God. Rahab knew that. God is God. And she knew she needed mercy. I know that. By God's grace,
I know that. And I know what Rahab's scarlet
cord pictured. My only hope of forgiveness is
in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that. Look over
here in Joshua 2. We don't have time to read all
the stories of the different people mentioned in this week's
lesson, but let's read this one. In Joshua 2, verse 9, the spies
had come into the city and Rahab had hit them. In verse 9, she said unto the
men, Now I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and
that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants
of the land faint because of you. But we have heard how the
Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, and when ye
came out of Egypt, and what ye did unto the two kings of the
Amorites that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og,
whom ye utterly destroyed. And as soon as we heard these
things, our heart did melt. Neither did there remain any
more courage in any man because of you. Because listen, for the
Lord's your God. He is God in heaven above and
earth beneath. I know that. God's God. Now,
therefore, I pray to you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I've
showed you kindness, that you also show kindness into my father's
house and give me a true token. And that she will save alive
my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters,
and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. She knew
to beg for mercy. Now, we don't deserve it, but
save our lives, would you? And the men answered her, Our
life for yours, if ye ought or not this our business. And it
shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will
deal kindly and truly with thee, in mercy and truth. And she let
them down by a cord through the window, for her house was upon
the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. And she said unto
them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you, and
hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned,
and afterward may you go your way. And the men said unto her,
We will be blameless of this fine oath which thou hast made
us swear. Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind
this line of scarlet thread in the window, which thou hast let
us down by. And thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and
thy brethren, and all thy father's household home unto thee. And
it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house
into the street, whoever goes out from under the sign and the
token of that blood, his blood shall be upon his head, and will
be guiltless. And whosoever shall be with thee
into the house under the token of that blood, his blood shall
be on our head, if any hand be upon him. And if thou utter this
our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou
hast made us to swear." And she said, according unto your words,
so be it. And she sent them away and they
departed. And she found the scarlet line in the window. They told
her, when we come to the city, you find the scarlet line in
the window. She wasn't waiting. She was identifying with them
right now. Right now. She found that scarlet line in
the window. You know, a lot of people say that That scarlet
corn gave tradition to the red light district. I don't know
whether that's true or not. Here's what I do know is true.
That red corn is a picture of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Those spies were delivered through the blood, and that heart was
delivered the same way, through the blood, through the picture
of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And faith believes that
blood, and that blood alone, will atone for all my sins. Faith
believes I will be eternally secure under the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Under the blood of Jesus, safe
in the shepherd's fold. Under the blood of Jesus, safe
while the ages roll. This is eternal. Under His blood.
And where sin abounds. You know, a lot of the writers
try to make it out like Rahab, she wasn't really a harlot. She
was kind of reformed. She's a harlot. We're sinners. Where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. And you know the story. Rahab
was saved. Joshua sent those men in there to save Rahab. Bring
her out. Save her. And she married a prince. This harlot married a prince
in Israel. She had a boy named Imboal, the
kinsman redeemer. She was the great-grandmother
of Jesse. The great-great-grandmother of
King David. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself
came in the lineage of Rahab the harlot. Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer. King
David, the man after God's own heart. And the Lord Jesus Christ
descended from Rahab the harlot. There can be no doubt that Lord
Jesus Christ came to save sinners of whom I am chained. Look who
He identified Himself with. and publicans and sinners. And
that just gives me such comfort and such joy. Rahab the harlot
is listed among all these great patriarchs of faith. Because
faith is for sinners. If you're not a sinner, you don't
need faith. But if you're a sinner, faith is for you. Grace is for
you. Alright, by faith Rahab the harlot. He goes on in verse
32 and he says, What shall I more say? For time would fail me to
tell of Gideon and of Eric and of Samson and of Jephthah, of
David also and Samuel and of the prophets." Paul is saying, I can give you
so many more examples. I can just go on and on and on
giving you examples of pictures of faith. But you get the idea
now. And he does mention a few of
these people. Again, we just don't have time. He says time
fails. We don't have time to go through all the details of
these. Let me mention a little bit about some of these men he
mentions. Gideon. Gideon was a humble man, a poor
man. He was out hiding somewhere threshing
wheat so the Midianites wouldn't take it from him. They just,
with a cruel hand, were crushing Israel. You can read about it
in Judges chapter 6 and 7. And the Lord came to Gideon,
this poor man, humble man, and told him to gather an army together
He said, give the Midianites into your hand. He gathered an
army of 32,000 men. Big army. Went out to meet the
Midianites. On their way, the Lord whittled
that army down to 300 men. Three hundred! To meet an army
that Scripture says look like grasshoppers covering the field.
Just so many of them. And He armed those 300 men with
an empty water pitcher, a torch and a trumpet, And they lit those
torches and covered them with a picture. And all at once, when
Gideon told them to, they broke those pictures and shouted. And
then they stood still. They didn't shout and then draw
their swords and run in and attack. They stood still. Here they are. I'm holding a lion, making myself
a target, holding a torch at night. Only faith would do. Only somebody who believed God
would do that. And the Lord made that many-night
arming so scared and so confused, they all killed one another.
Gave Gideon the victory. Faith gave him the victory. And
afterwards, faith made Gideon not only a faithful judge of
Israel, but a humble man. He stayed humble because of faith.
Then we mention Barak. This man Barak is not as familiar
of a story as some of these other fellows. He fought a battle under
the direction of a woman, Deborah, the prophetess. She judged Israel
at that time. I can't explain that. That's
just, that's way it is. She's a prophetess. She judged
Israel. And this, I don't know anything else to say about this
other than this. This shows the weakness of men. It takes faith
for a man to be under the direction of a woman. Especially about
war. Here she goes and tells him how
to handle this matter of war. But that's just what he did.
Look over in Judges chapter 4. In Judges chapter 4 verse 4, And Deborah, a prophetess, the
wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time, and she
dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel
in Mount Ephraim. And the children of Israel came
up to her for judgment. And she sent and called Barak
the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said unto him,
Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw
toward Mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of
the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun? And
I will draw unto thee to the river Chisholm, Cicero, the captain
of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will
deliver him into thine hand. And Barak said unto her, If thou
wilt go with me, then I will go. But if thou wilt not go with
me, then I will not go. And she said, I will surely go
with thee. Notwithstanding, the journey that thou takest shall
not be for thine honor, for the Lord shall sell Cicera into the
hand of a woman.' And Deborah rose and went with Pharaoh to
Kedesh." And sure enough, just like what the Lord said, he delivered
that army, Cicera's army, into his hand. But Cicera escaped. He ran off and escaped. And he
came to this tent, verse 17. Howbeit Sisera fled away on his
feet to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for
there was peace between Jabin and the king of Hazor, and the
house of Heber the Kenite. And Jael went out to meet Sisera,
and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me, fear not.
And when he had turned in unto her, into the tent, she covered
him with a mantle, with a rug. And he said unto her, Give me,
I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And
she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered
him again. Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the
tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of
thee, and say, Is there any man here, that thou shalt say no?
Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took
an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the
nail into his temples, and fastened it to the ground. For he was
fast asleep and weary, so he died. And, behold, Beric pursued
Sisera. And Jahiel came out to meet him
and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom
thou seekest. And when he came into her tent,
behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temple."
Now the Lord gave Israel the victory. But I'm telling you
this, the Lord uses means that will give Him all the glory. He's not going to share it with
anyone. And faith, not only does faith believe that, faith loves
that. Faith loves the way that the
Lord works it out so He gets all the glory. Because that's
what faith does, wants to give God all the glory. Then we mention
Samson. And you know the story of Samson,
a man of great strength, physical strength, and many weaknesses
too. But yet he believed God. And
in his death, he gave us a picture of Christ. You know the story
how Samson was captured, the Philistines put his eyes out,
And they had a big party. Thousands of people there. And
they said, bring Samson out. We'll make sport of him. And
they brought him out. And Samson asked the little boy
that led him to put his hands on the pillars that held the
house up. And by faith, Samson pulled those things in. And in
his death, killed more Philistines than in all of his life. That's
a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who saved untold multitudes in
His death through His blood. Then Paul mentions Jephthah.
Look in Judges chapter 11. We'll see about this man Jephthah. Judges 11. Now Jephthah the Gideonite was
a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of Anharad. And Gilead begat Jephthah. And
Gilead's wife bear him sons, and his sons grew up, and they
thrust out Jephthah. and said unto him, Thou shalt
not inherit in our father's house, for thou art the son of a strange
woman. We are not sharing our inheritance with the son of a
harlot. And they kicked him out. Well,
then Jephthah fled from his brethren and dwelt in the land of Tob.
And there were gathered vain men to Jephthah and went out
with him. And it came to pass in the process of time that the
children of Ammon made war against Israel. And it was so that when
the children of Ammon made war against Israel, The elders of
Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tom. And they
said unto Jephthah, Come and be our captain, that we may fight
with the children of Ammon. And Jephthah said unto the elders
of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's
house? And why are ye coming to me now, when ye are in distress?
If I was Jephthah, I said, You boys are on your own. I'm out
of here. You hate me? You don't want me?
Fine, you boys are on your own. I'm going to sit up here in the
mountain and watch them destroy you and laugh. That's what I'd do. Well, that's not right. That's
what I'd do. And the elders of Gilead said
unto Jephthah, verse 8, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that
thou mayest go with us and fight against the children of Ammon,
and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. And Jephthah
said unto the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to
fight against the children of Ammon, And the Lord delivered
them before me. Shall I be your head? And the
elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us,
if we do not according to thy words. And sure enough, the Lord
gave Jephthah the victory. But just like Moses, before a
person is ready to be used of the Lord, I'm telling you, the
Lord's going to humble him. He's going to take all the starch
out of him. Then he's ready to be used. And you know the difference
between what my gut reaction would be and what Jephthah did
there. Faith produces forgiveness. It takes faith to forgive somebody
that treats you so ill. Forgiveness. And he came back
and led them. Well, then he mentions David.
You know the story. David slew that giant Goliath
by faith. Simply by faith. We won't take
the time to read the story, but King Saul told David, he said,
son, you can't fight this fellow. You're just a lad. He's a man
of war from his youth. And David told him, he said,
the Lord delivered me from the paw of the lion and the bear
and this uncircumcised Philistine can be the same way. He believed
God. God would deliver. Now, he's
going to go out and win the battle by himself, but God's going to
deliver that giant into His hands. And sure enough, He did. It's
not good works. It's not the good Christian life
that makes a man a man after God's own heart. It's faith. Simply believing God. And faith
keeps a man humble. After all the victories, after
all the time on His throne, what did David say? He fell before
the Lord and said, Who am I? And what is my house that You
deal so graciously with me? Who am I? Nothing. And David
died by faith. He said, although be not so with
my house, God has made with me an everlasting covenant, order
in all things and sure, and this is all my hope and all my desire. That's faith, believing God.
You mentioned Samuel, the boy who heard the voice of God and
obeyed. You can't hear the voice of God
without faith. Well, verse 33, quickly. Brought righteousness, obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of lions. These humble men, they
subdued kingdoms because they believed God. They brought righteousness. Now our faith, our works, you
know, is not our righteousness. We don't contribute anything
to our righteousness. Faith doesn't make us righteous.
Christ makes us righteous in Him. But true faith in Christ
always produces acts of righteousness and a righteous attitude. In
this flesh it's not perfect, but it's righteous works, righteous
attitudes. James says faith without works
is dead. It's not real faith. They obtained
the promises. They never saw Christ come in
the flesh. Some of them never lived in Canaan. But they enjoyed those promises
just as much as if they had been fulfilled. Because they believed
God. They stopped the mouths of lions. David and Samson killed
lions with their bare hands. Daniel spent the night in a den
of lions. An angel of the Lord was with
him. He used those lions as a pillow to stop the mouths of lions because
he believed God. Verse 34, they quenched the violence
of fire, escaped the edge of the sword. Out of weakness were
made strong. See, that's where our faith is.
When we understand we're weak, we can't handle this situation
by ourselves, then we're strong. Weakness produces faith, strength,
made strong through faith. They waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their
dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
And others had trialed cruel mockings and scourging. Yea,
moreover, of bonds and imprisonment They were stoned, they were sawn
asunder, they were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered
about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted and
tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered
in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth.
All these unnamed believers suffered these things because they believed
God. You know, we get feeling sorry
for ourselves and we read something like that and it ought to put
us to shame. We haven't suffered anything for the sake of the
Gospel. Not anything compared to what
these people did by faith. But they did. And the world wasn't
worthy of it. You know, the world is not worthy
of the least of God's mercy. And believers living in this
world make this world a better place. Now they do. This world's
a better place because God's people are in it. You're the
salt of the earth is what Scripture says. And when they're removed,
they're better off. But the world's not. The world's
worse off because they're not in it. And that's what happened.
Now verse 39, And these all, having obtained a good report
through faith, received not the promise, God having provided
some better thing for us, that they without us should not be
made perfect. Now, believers living today,
we have so much to be thankful for. I'm so glad that I live
today in the New Testament time than in the Old Testament. Because
we still see through a glass darkly. There's still so much
I don't know. But we see a whole lot more clearly
than these Old Testament believers did. They had Christ in promise. We have Him in person. They had
Christ in type and picture. We have Him in reality. They
were saved the same way we are, by looking to Christ. But they
look forward to Him. They look forward to His coming.
They look forward to His sacrifice. They look forward to His resurrection.
We're saved the same way, by looking to Him. But we look back
at a completed, finished work. We look back and see clearly
His work of redemption. We see Him who's come. We see
Him who was made sin for us and suffered and died. We see Him
who is raised again for our justification. We're saved the same way through
faith in Him. And you know, I thought about
this this morning. How sure are you that Christ
is coming back someday? I am so sure of that. I couldn't
be more sure of anything than I'm sure He's coming back. I know He is because He said
so. And to a large degree, that's the way they were looking for
His first coming. They knew He's coming. I find joy. I can just sit and
think about His coming and find so much joy in that. What one
day it's going to be like when He comes back. To see Him face
to face. I'm so sure of that. And I just
enjoy it now. That's the way they were looking
forward to His first coming, when He'd come as a babe in Bethlehem's
manger. So we've got a lot to be thankful
for. We've got a much more clear revelation of Christ than they
did. And what I told myself was this.
That gives me a whole lot less excuse for weakness of faith.
than did then. Because we have a much more clear
revelation, so we should be sure and solid in resting here. All right. Well, I hope that
answers your question.