I hope we believe that song we
just heard, and that we will ask for the Lord's blessing on
us. His grace and power are such
that none can ever ask too much. I have entitled this message,
Blessing. Blessing. In Hebrews chapter
6, verse 11, we read, And we desire, the writer to the Hebrews
says, that every one of you do show the same diligence to the
full assurance of hope unto the end, that ye be not slothful
But followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises. And the word desire in verse
11, it is a it's a very strong word, it's sometimes translated
to covet or to lust after. It's a strong desire. Paul says, or whoever wrote Hebrew
says, this is what I desire for you. This is what I covet for
you. And what is it that he covets
for them that they might inherit the promises? Now, what are the
promises he speaks of? Well, in verse 13, for when God
made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater,
he swear by himself saying, surely blessing, I will bless thee and
multiplying, I will multiply thee. And so that after he had
patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Now, the promise
And the promises are the blessing and the blessings of God. Now
this is what I want. I covet this for myself. I covet
this for you. I want the blessing of God, don't
you? I desperately want, I covet, I crave for the blessing of God
upon me. Turn with me for a moment to
Numbers chapter 22. Now this is after Balak had asked
Balaam to curse Israel. Verse 12, Numbers 22, And God
said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, thou shalt
not curse the people, for they are blessed. Now if God blesses
me, you know what that means? I'm blessed. Whatever God's blessing
is, if God blesses me, I'm blessed. Go on reading. And Balaam rose
up in the morning and said unto the princes of Balaam, Get you
under your land, for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to
go with you. He's not going to do it. And
God, verse 12, And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go, for
they are blessed. Now look in Chapter 23, verse
5. Balaam continues to get Balaam
to curse the children of Israel. And we read beginning in verse
5 of Numbers, chapter 23. And the Lord put a word in Balaam's
mouth. This is the Lord's word in Balaam's
mouth and said, return to Balaam and thus thou shalt speak. And
he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice,
and all the princes of Moab. And he took up his parable, and
said, Valeth, the king of Moab, hath brought me from Aram out
of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me, Jacob,
and come, defy Israel. How shall I curse whom God hath
not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom the
Lord hath not defied? From the top of the rocks I see
him, and from the hills I behold him. Lo, the people, talking
about Israel, shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among
the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number
of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous,
and let my last end be like his." Look in verse 15 of this same
chapter. And he, Balaam, said unto Balaam, Stand here by the
burnt offering, and I will meet the Lord yonder. And the Lord
met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again
unto Balak, and say thus. And when he came to him, behold,
he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with
him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken? And
he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear, hearken
unto me, thou son of Zippor. God is not a man, that he should
lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Hath he
said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall
he not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment
to bless, and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. He hath
not beheld iniquity in Jacob." Listen to me, child of God, what
a blessing this is. When God looks at you, He does
not behold iniquity. Now, can there be anything better
than that? Can there be any blessing greater than that? Neither hath he seen perverseness
in Israel. The Lord his God is with him,
and the shout of the king is among them. And I know what that
shout is. It is finished. That's the shout of the king
that God's people rejoice in. Verse 22, God brought them out
of Egypt He has, as it were, the strength of a unicorn. Surely
there's no enchantment against Jacob. Neither is there any divination
against Israel. According to this time, it shall
be said of Jacob and of Israel, what hath God wrought? What has
God done for them? What blessing to be blessed by
God. Now, if I say bless you. Can I do it? No. I can't confer on you any blessing. Some people, I mean, they're
nice in saying it, they'll say, bless you, bless you. And I'm
sitting here thinking, you can't do that. Only the Lord can truly
bless a person. And what power he has to bless. Now, inheriting the promises
are inheriting the promises of blessing. Now I want the promise
of blessing, don't you? I so much want God to bless me. I want God to bless you. This
is what I crave. This is what I desire. God's
blessing. God's blessing makes everything
a blessing. If I have God's blessing, health
is a blessing and sickness is a blessing. If I have God's blessing,
prosperity is a blessing and failure is a blessing. If I have
God's blessing, what I do have is a blessing, and what I do
not have is a blessing. All is a blessing if I have God's
blessing. If God blesses you, you are blessed. If God be for us, who can be
against us? To have God for you to have God
on your side, to have God intent upon blessing you. You see, if
He blesses you, you're blessed. And that blessing cannot be reversed. Now, here is God's blessing.
Would you turn with me for a moment to Isaiah 54? I think the timing
of this is beautiful. Isaiah 54 comes right after Isaiah
53. Isaiah 53 is that great chapter
of the Lord's substitutionary death for his people, his death
on the cross. He had borne our iniquities and
carried our sorrows and so on. Every blessing I have, every
blessing God has to give to anybody comes because of the death of
the Lord Jesus Christ. So we read Isaiah 53. You know what it says. And now
let's look at Isaiah 54. Here's our response to Isaiah
53. Sing, O barren, thou that didst
not bear." You couldn't produce life. Break forth into singing
and cry aloud, thou that didst not prevail with a child. For
more are the children of the desolate than the children of
the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent,
and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy inhabitation.
Spare not. Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes, for
thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left, and
thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities
to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed, neither
be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame. For
thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember
the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine
husband, the Lord of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth, shall he be
called. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken, and
grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth. When thou wast refused,
saith thy God, for a small moment have I forsaken thee. but with
great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face
from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have
mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer." Now I have no
doubt that's a reference to the cross. 4, verse 9, For this is
as the waters of Noah unto me, for as I swore that the waters
of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that
I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains
shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall
not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace
be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted,
tossed with tempest, and not comforted, Behold, I will lay
thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with
sapphires, and I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates
of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones, and all thy
children shall be taught of the Lord. and great shall be the
peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be
established. Thou shalt be far from oppression,
for thou shalt not fear, and from terror for it shall not
come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together,
but not by me. Whosoever shall gather together against thee
shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created the smith,
and bloweth the coals and the fire, and bringeth forth the
instrument for his work, and I have created the waster to
destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper."
And every time that shall rise against thee in judgment, thou
shalt condemn." This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
every single one of them, and their righteousness, their personal
righteousness is of me. Now that is blessing. Can you see why I covet this
for myself and you? I want to inherit the blessing,
want an inheritance of infinite riches, the blessing of the living
God. Now, let's go back to our text
in Hebrews chapter 6. Don't you want the Lord's blessing? I do. And I'm asking for it. Lord,
bless me. Come, my soul, thy suit prepared. Jesus loves to
answer prayer. He himself has bid thee pray. Therefore will not say thee nay.
Thou art coming to a king. Large petitions with thee bring.
For his grace and power are such that none can ever ask too much."
Back in Hebrews chapter 6, we saw this last week, the writer
had given this solemn warning in verses 7 and 8. He says, For
the earth which drinketh in the rain, that cometh oft upon it,
and bringeth forth herbs of meat for them by whom it is dressed,
receiveth blessing from God. But that which beareth thorns
and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end
is to be burned. But, beloved, we are persuaded
better things of you, and things that accompany salvation. though
we thus speak." Now, we're persuaded, he says to these people, of better
things than you, of your end being burned. But we're persuaded
of things that accompany salvation. Now, first, I love this word
salvation. What a wonderful word, salvation. Thou shalt call His name Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sins. God's salvation. It's of the Lord. And oh, His
salvation is such that if He saves you. Here's what salvation
is all about. It's taking somebody like me. Somebody like you. Somebody
that's weak. Somebody that's sinful. Somebody
that's undeserving. You could just go on with all
the descriptions you want to use. He takes somebody like me
and makes me perfectly conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. That's salvation, isn't it? Truly,
salvation is of the Lord. And he said, we're persuaded
better things of you and things that accompany salvation. Now,
there's some things that accompany salvation. These things don't
save you, but you're not saved apart from these things or without
these things. We're persuaded of faith. Now,
my faith doesn't save me. Christ saves me. Faith believes
that. The Lord puts such honor upon faith that He says, Thy
faith hath saved me. Now why does He put such honor
on faith? Because faith gives all the honor to Him. Faith trusts
the Lord Jesus Christ completely. Faith is an accompanying salvation. Repentance, a change of mind. I've changed my mind about God.
I don't believe what I used to believe. I've changed my mind.
I've changed my mind about myself. I don't believe what I used to
believe about myself. I see now, I agree with what God says about
me. I've changed my mind about salvation. I see salvation is
all of grace. I see it's all in Christ. I've
had a change of mind about that. Every believer repents. I've
had a change of mind about sin. I've had a change of mind about
this world. That accompanies salvation. Love
accompanies salvation. I love God. I love the Lord Jesus
Christ. I love God, the Holy Spirit.
I love his word. I love his people. I love everything
about him. I didn't used to. This accompanies
salvation. Salvation is what Christ does
for you. And there's things that accompany salvation. Zeal. I'm
zealous for his glory. Every believer is zealous for
his glory. I love him getting all the glory and none going
to me. I love that. Zealous. Whatever the fruit of
the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, long suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith. Meekness, temperance, that's
the fruit of God, the Holy Spirit. He says, I'm persuaded better
things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we
thus speak. Now, here's why he was persuaded
of better things for them. Let's read verses nine and ten
together. But beloved, we're persuaded better things of you
and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. He was
kind of speaking kind of harshly in verses seven and eight. For
God is not unrighteous to forget. your work and labor of love,
which you showed toward his name, in that you ministered to the
saints and do minister." Now, here's the evidence. Here's the
evidence that God's done something for you. First of all, you have
a love for his name. And you know, I do have a love
for his name. I love the name of Jesus. No name like His name. How wonderful
His name is. I love the name of Jesus because
of what His name means. That's why I call His name Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sins. I love His name
because I realize I'm saved only for His namesake. And I glorify I'm saved for Christ's
sake. And that's enough of a reason
for me to believe I really am saved. He saves me for Christ's
sake. Oh, how I love His name. I love
His name. You see, His name is my name.
Jehovah's atkin and the Lord our righteousness. I love His
name. And notice he talks about the
work and labor of love toward His name. And here's what proves
it in that you minister to His saints. You minister to His saints
and you do minister. You've ministered to His saints.
Now, His saints. Nobody is special like any believer. I don't care who the believer
is. They're saints. They're sanctified ones. They're holy ones. They
belong to the Lord. And here's how special a believer
is. Whatever you do to them, you
do to Christ Himself. That's how special every believer
is. And as much as you've done it to the least of these, my
brethren, you've done it to me." Now, that's special, isn't it?
How you treat me, better watch out how you treat me. How you
treat me is how you treat the Lord Jesus Christ. How I treat
you is how I treat the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, you've ministered
to His saints. Not just you did in the past,
but you're doing it right now and do minister. You seek to
be a servant to God's people. Now, listen to me. The highest
ambition. And we ought to be ambitious
people. A good kind of ambition, the highest ambition there is,
is to be a servant to the Lord's people. You believe that? It's so. That's the highest calling
I can have is simply to be a servant to the Lord's people. Now, let's
go on reading. He says, God, in verse 10, God
is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love,
which you showed toward his name in that you have ministered,
served the saints and do minister. It's not what you did yesterday,
but what you're doing right now. And we desire, we eagerly desire,
we pray for this, we lust for this, that every one of you do
show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until
the end. Now here's what we desire for
you, that you show, first of all, diligence. Diligence. Earnest, watchful care. Give diligence, Peter says, to
make your calling and election sure. Give diligence toward that. Give all diligence, he says,
to add to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge,
and to your knowledge temperance, and to your temperance patience,
and to patience Godliness into godliness, brotherly kindness
into brotherly kindness, charity, give diligence, give, give every
effort, give earnest care. Don't be lazy about this. Give
all diligence to show, he says in verse 11, this full giving
to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto
the end. Now, give diligence. To have
full assurance. To where you know, you know you're
God's child. You know He's put away your sins. Full assurance. Now where does
full assurance come from? Some people act like it almost
like it's, you know, I doubt, therefore I must have faith.
No, not necessarily. Doubting is not good. Is God
worthy of all complete trust? Is the Lord Jesus Christ worthy
of complete trust? Now, where does full assurance
come from? Because I want to have full assurance.
I don't want to walk around doubting, wondering. I want to have full
assurance of faith. Where does full assurance come
from? Our Lord said, it is finished. Now, what else do you need for
full assurance? What else? Now, if I lack full
assurance, there's a reason. I'm not really believing at that
time it is finished. If I believe it is finished,
if I believe my salvation was accomplished by what Christ did,
I will have full assurance. And if I lack full assurance,
it's because I'm not really believing it is finished and I'm looking
to myself for something. If you look to yourself for something,
you're going to lose your assurance. I guarantee you will. You won't
have the joy and peace of believing if you're looking within. If
you're trying to examine yourself and so on about how good you
are or how much you're growing or how much proof you have, you'll
lose your assurance. You look to Christ and you will have,
that's all it takes to have full assurance of faith. Now is there any reason for you
to not have full assurance? No. If He really finished salvation,
no reason not to. Don't rest until you can say
with Paul, I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I've committed to him against
that day. Now let's go on reading, verse
12. Here's what I'm designed for you, that you be not slothful,
but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises. Now, I don't want you to be slothful. That same word is translated
earlier in this chapter, dull in hearing. Lazy, indolent, sluggish. You know, I hate laziness. I
hate laziness, but most especially disgusting is laziness in the
things of God. It's the opposite of being zealous.
Laziness. Now, what is spiritual laziness?
Well, you hear something like, come unto me, all ye that labor
and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. And you think, I'll
do it tomorrow. Come unto me. What do I have
to give up? How much do I have to believe?
What do I got to do? Can't wait. And spiritual laziness
is taking the things of God and saying. It's not worth the effort,
we don't come out and say that, but that's what it is, it's not
worth the effort, he says, I don't want you to be sluggish, I don't
want you to be slothful, spiritually lazy, dull, no emotional connection. Little desire, not willing to
give an effort. What a deplorable state to be
in. Don't be slothful. But he says in verse 12 that
you be not slothful, but followers, imitators, mimics of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises. Be literally mimics
of them who inherit the promises. But don't miss this. Who through
faith and patience inherit the promises. The promises of God
are God's blessing. Glorious inheritance, this blessing
of God, the promises of God. Remember, all the promises of
God in him are yay and amen. It's God's blessing. It's God's
salvation. It's God's mercy. It's God's
favor. That's God's blessing. How does
it come? Through them who through faith
and patience, not apart from faith and patience, but through
faith and patience, inherit the promises. Now, what's this thing
about? I'm not going to have God's blessing.
I'm not going to inherit the promises apart from faith and
patience. So what's this all about? Faith
is believing God. That's simple enough, isn't it?
It's believing what God said. You know, I want to be just a
child who believes what God says. Whatever he says, I believe it. Now in the context of this passage
of scripture, he's using the example of Abraham, verse 13. For when God made promise to
Abraham, he's somebody who through faith and patience inherited
the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he
could swear by no greater, he swear by himself saying, surely
blessing I will bless thee and multiplying, I will multiply
thee. And so after he had patiently
endured, he obtained the promise. Now, this is a quotation from
Genesis chapter 22. Would you turn with me there?
Genesis 22. And this is when the Lord said
this, this was right after Abraham had offered up his only son.
Genesis 22. 15. Abraham had offered up Isaac
in obedience to the Lord, and the Lord provided that substitutionary
ram. And then we read in verse 15,
and the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the
second time and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord,
for because thou hast done this thing. And has not withheld thy
son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, and
in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the
heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And thy
seed shall possess the gate of his enemies." Now, God made a
promise to Abraham before this. And this is the only way we can
appreciate this. God said, through Isaac, the Messiah is going to
come. Through your seed, all blessings
come. Now, God turns around and says,
kill it. That one that I promised the
blessings to come through, kill it. Now look at Hebrews chapter
11. Let's look at the writer to the Hebrews explanation of
what was going on here. Verse 17. By faith, Abraham,
when he was tried, offered up Isaac. And he that had received
the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was
said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called, accounting, and
here's what Abraham believed, accounting that God was able
to raise him up even from the dead, from whence also he received
him in a figure. Now here's what Abraham believed.
God said, kill your son. Abraham said, OK, I'm going to
kill him. But I know God's going to raise him from the dead because
God promised that the seed would come through this boy. Therefore,
obviously, he's going to have to raise him from the dead. He
believed God. God made that promise. He believed
it. Even if Isaac was killed, he
believed God would raise him from the dead because God always
keeps his word. That's what faith believes. Faith
believes what God has said. Faith isn't believing God can
do anything. Somebody says, oh, my God can do anything. I believe
He can pick up that car and throw it 100 yards or give me a million
dollars. Oh, God can do so many things.
That's not faith. Faith is believing He will do
what He said He will do. Faith is believing He has done
what He said He has done. That's what faith is. Here's
faith. The Lord says through the prophet
Nathan to David, the Lord hath put away thy sin. You know what David did? He believed
his sin was put away. When the Lord said it is finished,
the salvation of everybody that Christ died for was accomplished. Faith believes that. I believe
what God said. That's what faith is. It's so
simple. It believes what God says. Through faith and patience,
he says. Here's the fruit of faith, patience. Now, patience. Everybody here thinks, well,
I'm not very patient. And you know that we're not patient enough.
But that's really not what that's talking about when it's talking
about that, you know, when you get irritated in traffic a lot. I hate myself
for getting that way. My wife and daughter hate me
worse. I shouldn't get that way, and
that's wrong, but this thing of patience, we're talking about
patience. He's not talking about, you know, not getting upset while
you're sitting in traffic, although you ought not, I realize. Here's
what the patience he's talking about. You already know the outcome. You've already read the last
chapter of the book. You already know your sins put away. You
already know you're accepted, therefore, all the things that
happen You can take with patience. It's the Lord. It's the Lord.
He's control. I've already read the last chapter.
I've won. I'm victorious in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, I can have patience. It's just like watching a replay
of a ballgame. With those football games, they
show them at 1130 at night when UK's not on TV. And if I already
know the outcome, I don't get upset if things are going bad
because I already know the outcome. I'm patient. Patience believes. It already knows the outcome.
That's where we're coming from in this thing. So through faith
and patience, they inherit the promises. Verse 13, Hebrews chapter
6. For when God made promise to
Abraham. Because he could swear by no
greater, he swear by himself. saying, surely, blessing, I will
bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee. You know,
I love the language of this. Because God can swear by no greater.
Isn't it glorious? He's so great that he can't swear
by anybody greater. There's nobody above him. He's
altogether glorious, he said, because he could swear by no
greater. He swear by himself saying, surely blessing, I will
bless thee. You see, blessing begins with
God. Surely, because I willed it,
I'll bless thee and I'll multiply thee. And what did Abraham do? Surely blessing, I will bless
thee and multiplying, I will multiply. And so after that,
he had patiently endured. He obtained the promise. He simply waited for it to happen. He patiently endured. Now Abraham,
Abraham didn't have perfect faith. I mean, you look at his history,
I can show all kinds of holes in where he didn't seem to believe
God the way he ought to. I think of the way he did Sarah.
Two times he couldn't trust God to take care of him. And he was
afraid that because of Sarah, he would get in trouble because
she was a really nice looking lady. And he said, they'll kill
me to get her. So he said, you lie to them,
tell them you're my sister. And he allowed Sarah to go into
a harem on two different occasions because he didn't believe God
as he ought to believe him. What about where he got in a
hurry with Hagar? The promise didn't come, so he
went ahead and tried to Do God's work for him. Now, as long as
we're in the flesh, there will not be perfect faith, but there
is real faith. He did patiently endure. And
25 years after the promise was made, it still hadn't happened,
but Abraham knew it would. He knew he was, he knew Sarah
was going to have a baby. Now let's turn to Romans chapter
four for a second. He patiently endured. Beginning in verse 17. As it is written. God speaking
to Abraham, I have made thee a father of many nations. And notice, God didn't say, I
will make you a father of many nations. He says, I have made
thee a father of many nations. Hadn't happened yet. But when
God says it, it becomes past tense, doesn't it? I have made
thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed even
God. who quickeneth, who gives life
to the dead, and calls those things which be not as though
they were, who against hope believed in hope, that he might become
the father of many nations according to that which was spoken, so
shall thy seed be. He simply believed what God said.
And being not weak in faith, He considered not his own body
now dead when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness
of Sarah's womb. She'd already gone through menopause.
He understood that. Yet he staggered not at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God and being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he
was able also to perform. Are you fully persuaded of that? Verse 22, And therefore it was
imputed to him for righteousness. Now, it was not written for his
sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also to whom
it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our
Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
again. for our justification. Now, here's
my challenge to myself and to you. Mimic Abraham. Believe who he believed. Believe
what he believed. Believe as he believed. You mimic Abraham. Is there any
reason for you and I to have any faith weaker than that which
is of Abraham? You know, you and I should believe
God just as earnestly, just as simply as Abraham did. There's
no reason for us not to. Christ is the object of our faith,
and therefore we have every reason to have complete assurance in
him. Paul said, I know whom I have
believed. And I'm persuaded. I'm utterly convinced. I'm hanging
my hat here. I'm persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him. Now, what did you commit
unto him, Paul? I committed to him the salvation
of my soul. Hands off. Hands off. If you
believe and it works in any way, that's a failure to commit. The
only way you truly commit to him is he hands off. I trust
him only as everything in salvation. Now, there's no real faith without
this commitment. And if you fail to commit, it's
because you don't really believe that he is able to keep that
which I committed to him against that day. Now, everybody in this
room. Believe God. Just like Abraham
did. I want to do that, don't you?
And by the grace of God, I'm saying by the grace of God, but
by the grace of God, I'm going to do that. That scares me when
I say that, because I know that if the Lord would let me go,
I won't. But by his grace, I want to be
somebody who simply believes God, who through faith and patience
inherits the promises. May God give us all grace to
do that. Believe God. Isn't he worthy
of complete trust? God commands all men everywhere
to believe. Obey God's command. Let's pray
again.