I want to talk to you as personally
as I possibly can while addressing a congregation like this. I want
to speak to each of you personally. I have a question for you, a
question I want you to answer, a question that you alone can't
answer. Your mother can't answer it,
your father can't. Your husband, your wife can't answer it. Your
neighbor can't answer it. I can't answer it. The church
can't answer it. Only you can answer this question. Do you believe God? Do you believe God? That's my subject. That's my
question. Do you believe God? I'm not asking,
do you believe there is a God? Not everyone acknowledges it,
but everyone believes that God is. Everybody does. God has stamped
upon every man's conscience an awareness of his being from which
no man can escape. He may suppress it. He may try
to deny it, but every man knows that God is. Everybody on earth
believes there is a God. I'm asking, do you believe God?
The devil believes that God is. I'm asking, do you believe him?
Most everybody says, I believe in God. I'm not even asking that. I was asking, do you believe
in God? I'm asking, do you believe God? I'm not asking, do you believe
the Bible? You have one in your hand, and
I suppose that you, some measure, believe in the Bible. I'm not
asking if you're religious. I suspect that most everybody
here is. I'm asking, do you believe God? Turn to Romans chapter four.
Here in the fourth chapter of the book of Romans, we read about
a man by the name of Abraham, and we're told that Abraham believed
God. Abraham believed God. Do I? Do you? That's the question. Let's read about this man, Abraham,
and find the answer. What shall we say then that Abraham,
our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if
Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but
not before God. For what saith the scripture,
Abraham believed God, And it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh, the
reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that
worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness. All right, let's look at this
question first. Verse one. What shall we say that Abraham
our father hath found? What did Abraham find? I'll tell
you this, Abraham found justification before God. God declared Abraham
just. Abraham was justified, declared
not guilty by God. His sins were remitted. They
were forgiven. His sins were pardoned. They
were put away. They were forgotten. He found
justification before God. Abraham was justified when he
believed God. That's something to find. There
were two men who went up to the house of God one day to pray,
one a Pharisee, the other a publican. And the Pharisee prayed thus
with himself. He prayed like this, God, I thank
you. that I am not like other men.
I fast twice every week and I give tithes of all that I possess. And I'm certainly not like this
publican. And the publican would not so
much as lift his eyes toward heaven, but smote upon his breast
and cried, God be merciful. God be propitious to me, the
sinner. And our Lord Jesus said that
this man, the publican, this man who believed God, this man
who looked to the mercy seat, Christ Jesus, trusting the crucified
Christ, this man went down to his house justified rather than
the other. The Pharisee came in not believing
God. Oh, he believed that God is. If you asked him if he believed
in God, he'd say yes. He was very religious. He believed
in the Bible. He quoted scripture. He knew
it inside and out, but he didn't believe God. And he went down
to his house, a lost, ruined, condemned sinner, just like he
came up to the house of God. But the publican, Believed God
and he went home justified That's what Abraham did this day when
God spoke to Abraham Abraham believed God and he found justification
before God Abraham found acceptance with God He is described in the
book of God twice in James 2 and in Isaiah 41 as the friend of
God God spoke of him like this Abraham, my friend. Abraham, my friend. This man,
Abraham, believing God, found acceptance with God, friendship
with him by faith, because he believed God. Abraham was chosen
of God, called of God, redeemed by God, given faith by God, and
preserved in that faith by God, like Enoch before him. Abraham
walked with God as his friend by faith. He believed God. Oh, for grace to find acceptance
with God in faith. Believing God, he found that
acceptance. He was accepted of God, accepted
in Christ from everlasting. And he found acceptance with
God when he believed God. His faith did not make him accepted,
but by faith he found acceptance with God. What shall we say then
that Abraham, our father, had found? He found justification. He found acceptance. And Abraham
found righteousness. Abraham found righteousness before
God. He found true holiness, true
righteousness in God's sight. It wasn't in the sight of the
church. It wasn't righteousness in the sight of men. I know that
most people had the idea somehow that men can see righteousness.
That's just not so. That's just not so. What men
look at and call righteousness is an abomination to God. What
men look at and call righteousness is an abomination to God. I said,
well, I know righteousness when I see it. No, you don't, because
you can't see it. You can't see it. Men don't see
righteousness. Men look at other men and they
see that they behave this way or that, they behave in a manner
that's approved by men or disapproved by men, in a manner that is appealing
to men or a manner that is unappealing. They behave in a manner that
society approves of or society disapproves of, that religion
approves of or religion disapproves of. But Abraham found righteousness
not before men. Not before the church, not before
his neighbors, not before his wife, but righteousness before
God. Righteousness before God. Now I want you to think well
of me. That's very important to me. I don't have much of a family
name. I don't spend any time tracing my family tree. It's unappealing to me, what
I know of it. But I do want you and others
I know and others who know me to think well of me. I want to
behave in such a way as to command respect from people. You do too. That's just right. That's proper. But that's not righteousness. That's not salvation. And that's
not even an evidence of it. Abraham found righteousness before
God. How would you like to go home?
Having found today righteousness in God's sight. Righteousness
acceptable to God. Righteousness God approves of. Righteousness upon which God
smiles with joy and approbation and delight. Abraham found true
holiness before the thrice holy God. Before him, before whom
the angels bow with reverence, Abraham found righteousness. Abraham found perfection before
God, who is perfect. Abraham found sanctification
before God. He found righteousness in God's
sight. This righteousness was counted
to him, charged to him, imputed to him, reckoned to him, by God
when he believed God. Now in this fourth chapter of
Romans, I recommend that you read it again as soon as you
get home, and mark the words counted, reckoned, and imputed. They're used 11 times in these
25 verses. 11 times the words counted, reckoned,
and imputed are used. But the three words in our English
Bibles are all translated from exactly the same Greek word. Why? Why are these three English
words used by our translators to give us the meaning of one
Greek word? Because that one word carries
the sense of counted. reckoned and imputed. This is
not a legal term at all. It is not at all a legal term.
Men make great mistakes thinking this is a legal term. Imputed
is not a legal term. It's an accounting term. If you
have a ledger book and you own a business and someone comes
in and says, you take this here that my son-in-law owes you and
you put that on my account. And Joe Blakely comes in and
says to the man, you take Wayne's and Christian's business and
you transfer everything they owe you to my account. I assume
all responsibility for it. And when the ledger is transferred
over under Joe's name, then all that is owed becomes Joe's responsibility,
not his son-in-law's. That's the word. Abraham believed
God. And it was reckoned, counted,
imputed to him for righteousness. It was reckoned to him in his
own mind, in his own conscience. His believing God did not produce
righteousness. His believing God did not change
his account. His believing God didn't alter
a thing. His believing God simply found
righteousness. Do you see that? This is what
Abraham, our father, found. He believed God. and it was counted
to him for righteousness. I repeat myself deliberately.
Abraham was righteous before God from eternity, accepted,
justified, righteous, and holy in Christ the beloved, his surety
from everlasting. We know that because the Apostle
Paul tells us that twice in Ephesians chapter 1 and in Romans chapter
8. But Abraham didn't know anything
about that. That which God did in eternity
was hidden from him. That which God performed before
the world began, he could not know. That which God performed
before he existed, he could not be aware of until God showed
him what he had done. And when he believed God, God
said to Abraham, you're righteous. You're accepted. You're holy. You're perfect. You're just.
I've accepted you in my son. I called you out of Ur of the
Chaldees. I redeemed you. I made a covenant with you. I
am your God and you are my child. Abraham's faith in God, I repeat,
did not produce righteousness. It received it. It didn't produce
righteousness. It found it. Abraham was a sinner
just like you, just like me. He really was. He was a base,
stump-worshipping idolater in Ur of the Chaldees. He was a
barbaric man, just like all Adam's fallen race. Fallen, frail, fickle,
sinful. That was Abram down in Ur of
the Chaldees. until God gave him faith in his
dear son, until Abraham was called to believe God. And when he believed
God, God declared him righteous. Abraham found righteousness. God looked on Abraham and saw
no sin. Imagine that. That sinful man. That man who knew his sin, that
man who was aware of all that he had been and done, that man
who was fully aware of his ancestors, that man who was aware of their
barbaric idolatry, their ungodliness, their vile behavior. And now
Abraham found righteousness with God. He believed God and it was
counted, reckoned, imputed to him for righteousness. How could
that be? How in this world did Abraham,
who is a sinner like you and me, find such a treasure? How did he find it? Where did
he find it? Who gave it to him? How did he
find justification, righteousness before God? How did a guilty
man become not guilty before God? He could say, this man Abraham
could say, with absolute honesty, I have
no sin before God. When God looks on me, he sees
nothing but righteousness. I'm holy before God who commanded
me to walk before him and be holy. I'm perfect before God
who commanded me to walk before him and be perfect. How could
that be? How do you find this before a
holy God? Look at Romans chapter 4 verse
3 again. What saith the scripture? Abraham
believed God. And it was counted unto him for
righteousness. It was counted unto him for righteousness. Not it was counted for him for
righteousness, though that's true. But it was counted unto
him for righteousness. When Abraham had God speak to
him, and Abraham believed God, God said to Abraham, you're righteous. It was counted to him for righteousness. Now look at this next question.
What saith the scripture? What saith the scripture? That's
all we have to go by. What saith the scripture? The scripture says, Abraham believed
God. Abraham believed God. It doesn't say that Abraham joined
the church. It doesn't say that Abraham started
to tithe. It doesn't say that Abraham kept
the Sabbath day. It doesn't say that Abraham wore
certain clothes, dressed different than he used to, cut his hair
different than he used to. The scripture doesn't say that
Abraham counted beans or that Abraham went to a confessional
booth or Abraham was baptized. It doesn't say that Abraham had
an experience. Great. great experience, or that
Abraham felt something just tingling up and down his spine, or that
Abraham went to an old-fashioned altar. It says, Abraham believed
God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. He had justification,
acceptance, holiness. He believed God. That's it. Abraham believed God. We read it earlier in Genesis
chapter 15. Do you believe God? Do you believe God? Do you believe God? Answer honestly for yourself. Do you believe God? I'm not asking,
are you a member of Grace Baptist Church? I'm not asking, have
you been baptized? I'm not asking, do you live right?
I'm not asking, do you have an experience that you can look
to and say, now, boy, I know I'm a child of God because I
remember what happened when it took place. I'm asking, do you
believe God? Do you believe God? God revealed
himself to Abraham. and Abraham believed God. That's
right. God has been pleased to reveal
himself. And the only way any sinner can
ever know God is if God is pleased to reveal himself. The Apostle
Paul said, when it pleased God to reveal his son in me. God reveals himself. Now I know
that God is known in his greatness, in his power, and some measure
in his glory by creation. You can look into the heavens,
you look at the stars at night, and if you don't acknowledge
that God put the stars there, you're fooling yourself or trying
to. You stand by a roaring river as waters break over the rocks
and you hear the roar of that river, and you look at the canyon
that's there, and you say, God did this! And if you don't say
God did this, you're just trying to fool yourself. You're just
trying to fool yourself. You hear the thunder clap, and you
see the lightning flash, and you hear God speak, and you know
that God spoke. And if you say that's not God
speaking, you're just fooling yourself, trying to. You're just
suppressing, suppressing the knowledge of God that's in you.
You have a sense of right and wrong. And some folks say that's
just environment, that's the influence of men, whatever. No,
it's the stamp of God in you called your conscience. And you
know it's so. You may say that, no, no, no,
that's not it. You're just trying to fool yourself,
that's all. But God is never known. God never makes himself
known to a sinner. by looking at the stars and the
moon and the sun and hearing the thunder clap and seeing the
lightning and watching rivers run. Oh, no, no, no. God reveals
himself to sinners in two ways. Just two ways. By his word and
in his son. By his word and in his son. That's right. God gave his word
to Abraham. That's exactly what we read in
Genesis 15. We read the word of the Lord
came to Abraham. God has given us his word. Right here, right here. God's
given us his word. You have it in your hand. You
have it in front of you. The word of God. The Word of God. Oh my, what a gift. The Word
of God. Listen to what the scripture
says about this book. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God, breathed out by God, and is profitable. All scripture
is profitable. Everything written in the book
is profitable. for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction. The things written in this book
teach us what to believe and what not to believe, what to
do and what not to do, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God, primarily in that text in 2 Timothy, Paul
is addressing preachers, and he's talking about this man right
here. God's given his word, He commanded Timothy, study to show
thyself approved of God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth. He's given the word. Study
the word, preacher, so that you, the man of God, may be thoroughly
furnished, furnished thoroughly throughout your being unto all
good works. And you, men and women of God,
You who are born of God and taught of God, God's given you his word
that you may be thoroughly furnished throughout all your being, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works in doctrine and in life, knowing
what to believe and not to believe, knowing what to do and not to
do. Read the Word of God and you'll
know. Find out what God says in His
Word and you'll know. Scripture is given not by the
will of man, but holy men of old, Peter tells us, spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. This is the most remarkable standing
miracle in the universe. This book right here. written over a period of thousands
of years by men, many of whom never knew one another, never
saw one another, never communicated with one another, and written
by men who obviously had different personalities and different backgrounds
with different education, different learning, different skills, and
their skills come out in their writings. Their personality comes
out in their writing. And yet, they all tell the same
story, the same doctrine, the same word, not a contradiction
in the book, everything written in perfect unity, proclaiming
salvation by Jesus Christ the Lord. This book was written by
God. Written by God. God spoke through
men His word, and they wrote it down, just as surely as the
Lord God appeared to Abraham and the scripture says, the word
of the Lord came to Abraham. The word of the Lord came to
Abraham. When you read the letter of this
book, I know to the unbelieving it's
a dead letter. I know that. I know that. But
this is the living word. And when you read the letter
of this book, you're hearing God speak. This is how God reveals himself.
This is how God reveals himself, by his word. Our Lord Jesus said
in John 17, I gave them thy word and they've received it. They
believed it. Do you believe God? Here you've
got a Bible in your hand, got one right in front of you. What
is this to you? What is this to you? Is it a
book that you kindly hold and keep because everybody has one,
it's just kind of customary, and you put pictures that you're
real fond of in there, or maybe you got a lock of your baby's
hair in there, maybe you got a poem you really like and you
keep it in there. Or is this God's word? Do you
believe God? Do you believe God as He revealed
Himself in this Word? Isaiah said, if they speak not
according to this Word, it's because there's no light in them. Now, children of God, hear me,
hear me. Whatever you read, whatever you
hear, whatever you are taught, you young people, Jacob, are
you listening to me, buddy? Whatever you're taught at school, Whatever
you talk, whatever you hear other folks say that's contrary to
this word, it's dead wrong. I don't care whether they're
talking about science or history or religion. I don't care whether
they're talking about morality or talking about social customs.
Whatever is contrary to this word, it's dead wrong. Don't even consider the possibility
that it might be right. This is what God says. And this
is right. Look in Romans chapter four,
verse 21. Abraham received God's word. God said, Abraham, I'm going
to give you a son. I'm going to give you a son,
a son through whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
And I've given you this land. And we read about it in Genesis
15. I read the whole chapter and
it talked about all the land of Canaan. And from river to
river, God's gonna give the land. But if you read the word of God,
you'll find out that those Hittites and Canaanites and Perizzites
and all those other ites in the land of Canaan were only representations
of all the nations of the world. And the land that was given to
Abraham was only a representation of another and a better land,
a heavenly country, a heavenly city whose builder and maker
is God, a city without foundations to which Abraham looked while
he sojourned in the land of promise, never having possessed the land.
He said, I'm going to send your children down to Egypt. And there
they're going to serve the Bodmin for four generations, for 400
years, they're going to serve the Bodmin. And then they're
going to come out. And I'm going to cause them to
come out with great substance. And you shall be, you'll go to
your grave in peace and be buried in old age. What a promise. What a promise. God said, Abraham,
I'm going to give you a seed. And through that seed, blessedness,
blessedness from everything and in everything. And I'm going
to cause you to inherit and possess everything, even the land of
your enemies. And you'll go to your grave in
peace, be buried in an old age. and live forever in peace. Now watch what scripture says
here about that. Romans 421, being fully persuaded. Now that's
some kind of a promise, Bobby Estes. That's some kind of a
promise. God promised Abraham all that.
Read that 15th chapter of Genesis again. Abraham being fully persuaded. He said, I believe God. I believe
God. Being fully persuaded. that what
he had promised God was able to perform and therefore it was
imputed to him for righteousness. God spoke to Abraham and Abraham
believed God. He believed his word. The Lord
God has been pleased to reveal himself by his son as well. He's given us his word and he's
given us his son. Listen to John's testimony. No
man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him." The Word,
the Word, the living Word of God. In the beginning was the
Word, and God was the Word. And the Word, God the Son, God
our wisdom, God our representative, God our savior was made flesh
and dwelt among us. And now we behold him, the Word
of God. We've seen him, we've touched
him, we've handled him, we've heard him. And we beheld him
and in him we saw the glory of God. the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Our Savior
said, I've manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest
me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest
them me, and they have kept thy word. God's Son came here and
manifested God. God was manifest in the flesh. Turn to this great text over
in 1 John chapter 5. 1 John chapter 5 verse 20. Listen to what John says about
this. We know that the Son of God is
come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is
true and we are in him that is true Even in His Son, Jesus Christ,
this is the true God and eternal life. Do you believe God? Do you believe His Word? Do you
believe His Son? As our Savior put it to the man
who was born blind, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? I
know God makes Himself known by His Word and in His Son. That's the only way you'll ever
know it. There's only one way you can find out if God will
forgive sin and show mercy to the guilty. There's only one
way you can ever know whether God will pardon. Only one way
you can find out if God will save and how he saves. It's not
by looking to his creation. It's by looking to his son, looking
to his word and his son revealed in his word. You see, Christ
in all that God is, and in all that God does, and in all that
God says. He's given us an understanding.
Behold, the word of the Lord came to Abraham. Christ, the
word, spoke God's word to Abraham. And when he did, I went back
and read this earlier this morning, and I was just astounded again,
reading that 15th chapter of Genesis. God said to Abraham,
I redeemed you and I called you. I brought you out of Ur of the
Chaldeans. I have accepted you by a sacrifice. Take the ram and the lamb and
the turtle, dove and pigeon and offer them as a sacrifice unto
me. And I have made a covenant with you. Now, that's the very
essence of salvation. That's the very essence of eternal
life. Abraham believed God. He believed God. Do you? Do you? Our God says, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Our God
says, Our God says, he that believeth hath everlasting life. There
are numerous examples of men in scriptures, and women too,
who believe God. People who believe God. And it's
amazing. It's amazing to me. The things
by which we have testimony that they believe God are never things
about which the religious world speaks. The religious folks of the world
that talk about believing God, and that means you quit smoking
and drinking and cussing and chewing and that kind of stuff.
And that's all right. Quit smoking and drinking and
cussing and chewing. I highly recommend it. That'd be just
fine. But that's not believing God. Religious folks think that
believing God is you spend two years in missionary service.
You carry tracts in your pocket and stuff them and leave them
on the bathroom walls. Please don't leave tracks on
bathroom walls. What trash, what trash. Oh no,
no, no. But men who believed God, women
who believed God, so believed God that it transformed their
lives. It affected their conduct in
a remarkable way. There was a fellow by the name
of Paul who was on a ship. And it was about to be wrecked,
terrible storm. And all the men on the ship were
about to abandon ship. They thought it'd be safer to
grab hold of what boards they could and float in the midst
of the stormy sea to dry land, if possible, than stay on that
ship, because there were shores going down. And the apostle Paul
stood forward. And he said, men, listen to me.
The angel of God stood by me this night. And he said, there's
not one man here going to die. There's not one man on this ship
going to die, but you got to stay on the ship. You got to
stay on the ship. And I believe God. I believe
God. And he stayed aboard that tempest-tossed
ship in the midst of the storm until it landed safe at land
with every passenger on the ship. He believed God. There was a
man by the name of Moses who had a word from God for the children
of Israel down in Egypt. These Egyptians had been beating
and tormenting and afflicting and persecuting and slaughtering
the Israelites for nearly 400 years. And Moses had a word from
God. He said, tonight, God's going
to pass through this land. And when it does, The firstborn
in every house is going to die. The firstborn in every house
is going to die. But God told me to tell you to
just whisper in your ears. Don't tell the Egyptians anything
about it. That if you take the blood of a lamb, slaughter the
lamb, and put his blood on the doorpost and the lintel, when
I pass by and see the blood, I'll pass over you. And there
were some folks who believed God. And they slaughtered a lamb. And they put blood on the doorpost
and on the lintel. And that night, in every house
in Egypt, the firstborn died, but not one in all Israel, because
a people believed God. They stood in the face of judgment. believe in God and stood safe. There was a woman by the name
of Rahab. Rahab the harlot. I know the
folks try to make it out Rahab the innkeeper. Well, she probably
was an innkeeper, but women who kept inns in those days were
kind of like Kitty Russell keeping her saloon on gun smoke. They
were harlots. They were harlots. Rahab the
harlot. She heard report of what God
had done for the children of Israel and how that nation after
nation, city after city, king after king had fallen before
Israel because God was with them. And when the spies came in to
spy out the land, she said to them, I've heard what God's done
for you. And I've heard what God said
about you. And I believe God. And they said,
well, tell you what, tell you what, you tie a scarlet cord
to your ribbon or to your window and you stay in the house when
we come through this land and you and your house will be spared.
And Rahab, because she believed God, because she believed God,
she took the spies and hid them on her rooftop. And when the
folks in Jericho came and asked about the spies, she said, why,
oh, they go. Put that in your pipe and smoke
it. Why, she couldn't do that. That's
a lie. She believed God. She believed God and did as God
told her to do. Contrary to what every man would
think to be right. Contrary to what every moralist
would say to be right, Rahab believed God. She hid the spies
and sent them out another way. And Rahab's house didn't fall
when the rest of Jericho's walls fell. Then there was a fella
by the name of Lot. Oh, brother Lot. Lot was down
in Sodom. And God sent two angels to deliver
Lot from Sodom. And the angels grabbed Lot and
his two daughters by the hand and they started out of Sodom.
And they said, don't look back. Flee for your life. God's gonna
destroy this place. His wife looked back and she
perished, turned to a pillar of salt. Lot didn't. He believed God. And the Lord
knows how to deliver the righteous out of temptation. This man lot
forsook Sodom, believing God. Believing God. I'm telling you,
salvation is believing God. This is the personal heart experience
of every heaven-born soul. This faith is the work and operation
of God the Holy Spirit. It's not emotionalism. It's not
decisionism. It's not ritualism. It's not
revivalism. It's not intellectualism. It's
not reformation. It's faith. Believe in God. Believe in God. Turn to Philippians
chapter three. Philippians chapter three. Most everybody thinks they're
saved because they had an emotional experience. They made a decision
for Jesus. They signed a decision card. They said a prayer. They got
baptized. They joined the church. They
changed the way they behaved. Oh, no. Oh, no. That's not salvation. Finally, my brethren, rejoice
in the Lord. To write the same thing to you,
to me, indeed, is not grievous, for you it is safe. Paul says,
Now folks may think I'm just playing the same tune all the
time. They may think I'm just wearing out the same subject
all the time. He said, believe me now what I'm telling you is
safe for you. Beware of dogs. He's talking about religious
prostitutes. Dog is a term used in scripture
for a male prostitute. And that's what religious leaders
are. preachers and evangelists and
missionaries and soul winners who lie to you, making merchandise
of your soul for their own gain. Beware of dogs. Beware of evil
workers. Evil workers. Evil workers are
men who teach you to do good that you might be good. Evil
workers are men who teach you to perform righteousness that
you may be righteous. Beware of the concision. The
concision of folks who mutilate the flesh. People who tell you
that by torturing your body, you can make yourself holy. For
we are the circumcision. We're the children of Abraham.
We're God's covenant people. We're the people to whom God
has promised all good. Who worship God. Worship God
in the spirit. Worship God in the spirit. with
no guile in the spirit. Worship God. Sometimes worship
God with feeling. And sometimes with so little feeling that you
think you're dead. But we worship God. We worship
God sincerely. Israelites indeed in whom is
no guile without guile. We worship God in the spirit
and rejoice in Christ Jesus. This is our glory. This is our
boast. This is our trust. I worship God. I trust God's
son. He alone is my wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification and redemption and have no confidence in the
flesh. Do you believe God? Oh, may God give you grace to
believe his son, to trust his son, to believe
God as he's made himself known in his word, in his son. Oh, may God cause you to believe
him. Amen.