and I have a simple question
for us this morning. But the answer will require us to be
honest with ourselves, honest with what we believe, honest
with who we believe in. And the question is, am I a true
believer? Am I a true believer? A lot of people say they're Christians.
A lot of people say they're believers. A lot of people say a lot of
things. Ask yourself, am I a true believer? And be honest with
yourself. Be honest with yourself. If you were to ask the Pharisees,
are you a true believer? Boy, they'd have no problem saying,
absolutely. Yup. A hundred percent sure. You asked,
A true believer, are you a believer? Yeah, I believe. Lord, help my
unbelief. That would be the answer, wouldn't it? Help my unbelief.
Pharisee wouldn't say that. Pharisees always look at things
seen as either evidence of their salvation or the cause of their
salvation. That's the issue with the law. And everything in the law pertaining
to worship, pertaining to godliness, was doing. You physically touched
it. It was tangible. You could put
your hands on it. You could see it. So it was doing was their
work. They had to do it physically.
And so we see now, though, that it's everything that we believe
in, we don't see it. Everything we believe In the
gospel, everything we believe about God, everything that we
believe about righteousness, we can't see anything physically
as evidence of our salvation, or we can't do anything as the
cause of our salvation. It's all by Him. It's all by
grace. Paul made it clear. He said,
now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I
know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known. Therefore,
a proved believer can't see anything, they believe. If I'm a true believer,
I'm not looking to things seen, but things unseen by faith. Faith
is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen. We examine ourself to further
that statement. Not only do we look at things
not seen, by faith, but when we do look at things seen, when
we examine ourself, we have no confidence in the flesh, isn't
that right? No confidence, no glory in the flesh. No hope, no hope in the flesh.
When we look at the world around us, there's no rest, there's
no rest in this world, there's no peace in this world other
than the Lord, not seen. And when we look at others, I
don't gain confidence by looking at others and saying, well, at
least I'm not as bad as old so-and-so is. At least I don't do this,
and at least I don't do that. No, that's not our peace either,
is it? Because that's something seen. What is our peace? The
Lord Jesus Christ is our peace. And how do we see him? Through
the natural eye? Through the physical touch? Thomas said, I won't believe
unless I thrust my hand into his side and put my hands into
the prince and his hands. He said, I won't believe. He
appeared to Thomas, and Thomas said, he did just that, didn't
he? He said, touch it. Thomas said, my Lord and my God.
He said, blessed are they which have not seen and yet believe. Only the Lord can cause us to
believe. Only the Lord can cause us to be a true believer. A true believer has but one confident,
the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that can only
be seen That can only be believed, and that can only be hoped for
by faith. His faith bestowed freely by
His grace. Now let's read our text. Hebrews
chapter 11, I wanna read one through three. Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith
we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen are not made of things which
do appear. Am I a true believer? Well, am
I looking at things that can be seen? Am I looking to feelings? Feelings come and feelings go.
Now, am I saying you won't have some emotion whenever you hear
the good news of the gospel? Yeah, you'll have some emotion,
but we don't look to those emotions, do we? as evidence of our salvation. We don't rely on those emotions.
And a lot of false religion, they base everything on emotion,
how they're feeling. They get, you've seen videos,
I'm sure, or something, you go on TV and you'll see some charismatic
church that's hooping and hollering and carrying on like they're
heathens. I mean, honestly, that's what
it reminds you of. They're working up something, they're trying
to, and then they call that the Holy Spirit, and that's not,
that's all seen, isn't it? That's all seen. Worship's done
in the heart. Worship's done by faith in the heart. It's not
done in a look-at-me manner. Look at me, drawing attention
to my flesh. No, faith looks to Christ. Worship
is to God. Worship is to God. Am I a true
believer? Well, am I looking to my service?
Am I looking to the ceremonial law that I've kept? What do I
mean by that? I just mentioned the charismatics
and how they do, but a much more subtle way of thinking, or a
much more subtle wrong way of thinking, is men will give invitations
at altar calls. They'll ask people to come up,
and they'll ask people to kneel down and give their heart to
Jesus. That's the statement. And you
won't find that in the scripture. The Lord doesn't want your heart.
He doesn't want my heart. Our heart's deceitful of all
things and desperately wicked. But furthermore, what does that
do? That draws attention to the flesh. That's going to the ceremonial
law, and it's dead works. It doesn't bring about salvation.
No salvation's of the Lord. It's the Lord that said, Lazarus,
come forth. He didn't say, Lazarus, come
make a decision. Lazarus, give me your heart.
No, Lazarus was dead. And you and I are dead. We're
born dead in trespasses and in sin. Not a little bit dead, but
dead dog dead. We're dead. We've been dead since
birth, and I find the glorious miracle of the gospel bringing
life by the Lord's Spirit to a dead person, bringing us to
life. A baby, when it's born, it's
born alive, and you don't get something that's dead and make
it alive. We can't do that. We can't do that physically,
and we certainly can't do that spiritually, but that's exactly
what the Lord does. And He gives us faith to believe
Him. So am I looking to the ceremonial law that I've kept? Am I looking
to my service unto God, what I do for Him as part of my salvation? If I am, I'm not a true believer.
I'm not a true believer. If I'm looking at what I do,
and I'll reiterate what I said before, everything by the law
It was tangible, it could be saw, it could be touched, it
could be moved, it could be worked with human hands. Therefore,
no salvation could ever come about by the first covenant,
the first covenant. This entire chapter is devoted
to teaching the true believer that what, all the things that
the Lord gives is received only by grace through faith, in that
not of yourself, not of works, not of ourself, not of what we
do, but of grace alone. That's what he's reiterating
here. He's saying this is so that we see the things which
are seen were not made by things that do appear. God was the one
that spoke something out of nothing. And we believe God, even though
we haven't seen him, we see him through the eyes of faith, we
believe him. Faith for the child of God substantiates,
I like that word, substantiates, what we hope for. What we hope
for, it substantiates it. There is an expected end to our
faith. This hope is not, This hope is
not just, well, I hope my team wins, or I hope we get some rain
soon. I hope this, or I hope no, no.
This is an expected hope entirely based not upon our performance,
but upon the promise of God to his people. He said, call his
name Jesus. He shall save his people from
their sin. When he accomplished that on the cross, he said, it
is finished. And we stood up on the mountain whenever he was
leaving. The disciples watched him go. They were still standing
there and angels of the Lord appeared and said, you men of
Galilee, why stand you here gazing in the heavens? The same Jesus
that you see go away is going to come back in like manner and
receive you. That's his promise. That's our expected hope. Hope
in Christ. We have hope in death. And this
can only be received by faith. So no, we don't look to the ceremonial
law that we keep or the service that we do. We're looking to
the promises of the Lord by faith. That's what we're looking to.
We're looking to the finished work of Jesus Christ by faith.
It's not by works of righteousness, which we have done because we
can't do any works of righteousness, but it's by his grace alone. Something that's amazing is that
we believe in what we never have seen, nor any man alive had seen. No man alive have seen the Lord,
and yet we believe it because of the testimony of those that
did see it, because of the, well, it's all by grace, isn't it?
I mean, that's the only way somebody can believe. Our gospel's impossible
to believe. The Lord told the Pharisees,
you will not come to me that you may have eternal life. Why?
Because I'm not gonna give you the faith to believe. I'm not
gonna give you the faith to come to me. The only way that we will
believe is if the Lord gives faith. He's got to do it. It's
his choice. It's his right is God. We're
not born with faith. We don't wake up one day and
start exercising our faith to get stronger and stronger and
then one day the Lord chooses to call us. No, no, he when he
calls us. First of all, he saved us. Then
he calls us in time. He gives us repentance towards
God and faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ and we believe.
How do I know if I'm a true believer? Well, you believe. A believer
believes. It's really that simple. It really
is. A believer believes. The Lord
said to the disciples, who do men say that I am? They said,
well, some say you're Elias, some say you're Jonah, some say
you're another prophet. He said, well, who do you? That's
the question, isn't it? Who do you say that I am? Peter,
he had the right words this time. Poor Peter didn't have right
words sometimes, but this time he did. He said, thou art the
Christ, the son of the living God. And the Lord said, blessed
art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal
this to you, but who? My father, which is in heaven. Flesh and
blood can't reveal the Lord Jesus Christ. It takes God to reveal
God. It takes the Lord to reveal his
son to us. Therefore, if you're looking
to something you have done, it's just dead works. Look to Christ.
Look to Christ. Everything pertaining to pleasing
God must be done in Christ by faith must be done by the Lord's
faith. There's not by sight. but by expected hope and full
assurance of faith. He talks about having full assurance
of faith. We have full assurance that Christ did exactly what
he said he was gonna do. We have full assurance that he's
coming back for his people. We don't have any assurance in
ourself, do we? We don't look at ourself and have any confidence
or assurance thinking, okay, well, I got this because of,
no. No, we look at ourself and say, oh, wretched man that I
am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? Lord, have
mercy on me, the sinner. Every thought betrays me of my
Lord. Every action betrays me towards my God. Lord, save me.
Save me again from myself. Give me that faith, Lord, to
believe you, to believe you. Our rest and our confidence is
Christ and his word. Nothing about self, everything
about him. Am I a true believer? Well, if
I am, I'm not going to the ceremonial law. I'm not looking at my service
as part of my righteousness. I'm looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ alone by faith. Second thing we ask, am I a true
believer? Am I looking at what I do or
don't do? what I have done or have not
done. That would be the moral and the civil law. The moral
law is what you do to others. Or the moral law is how I live
my life. The civil law is what you do to others. And so men
will say I've done this for them and I've done this for them as
part of their righteousness. Or I don't do this in my life
like others do. What do the Pharisees say? Lord,
I think thee that I'm not like other men. He's saying he kept
the moral law is what he's saying. I tithe, I fast, I'm not even
like this publican back here. Publican wouldn't so much lift
his head up but smote upon his breast. He said, Lord, have mercy
on me, the sinner. My moral law keeping is not gonna
save me. It doesn't put away my sin. My
civil law keeping's not gonna save me. It doesn't put away
my sin. Should we strive to do good to others? Absolutely, but
not as part of righteousness? No, no, not at all. You know what the Lord said about
those two men? Number one, that publican was not looking at anything
tangible. He wasn't looking at anything
he could touch or anything he could do. He knew what the problem
was. He said, I need a heart transplant.
That's what I need. I don't need a quadruple bypass
to get a little bit better and then I can do the rest. No, you're
gonna have to take out this heart of stone and give me a heart
of flesh, one that believes God. But God, I'm not gonna believe
you if you don't do that. And the Lord said, one, one of these men went home justified.
Well, he was looking to Christ as his justification, wasn't
he? How did he do that? By faith. We're gonna hear the
second hour. Without faith, it is impossible
to please God. It's impossible. This man was entirely reliant
upon God to satisfy God. It's God that shows mercy. Me
showing mercy is not going to do any good. Me trying to restrain
or constrain God to show me mercy and grace will do me no good.
I can't constrain or restrain God. He's God. He's going to
do what he wants to with the inhabitants of earth and heaven.
He's sovereign over all things. He's God. Oftentimes that word
is used, and I think it's been used so flippantly that It kind
of loses its luster, but he's God, the Supreme Alpha and Omega. And if we realize this, the Lord
makes us a sinner. We see that, we'll cry out for
mercy. Lord, save me, because you're
God and I'm not. You're going to have to do all
the saving. I see how vile and wretched I am. And the Lord always
says to one of his sheep that come to him begging for Christ,
I will be thou made whole. I will be thou made whole. See,
that's that expected hope that we have. That's what we receive
by faith is that expected hope of the Lord Jesus Christ saying
unto you and I, I will be thou made whole. Lord, I'm a wretched,
vile sinner. I'm a dead dog sinner. Lord,
I'm desirous of the crumbs that fall from your table. Have mercy
on me. I will be thou made whole. Fear not, I have put away your
sin. Fear not, I've put away your
sin. You shall not die. A true believer doesn't believe
in things seen. And everything we see, we are
suspect to it. It's suspicious to us. Do you
know why? It's always changing. Everything
around us is always changing. Our bodies are always changing.
We're born dying. I'm not being morbid here, it's
just a fact. From the first time we take our breath, we have a
certain amount of breath that God has allotted us, and then
we're gonna die. It is appointed unto men once to die, and after
this, the judgment. So if I'm born dying, I can't
trust my body. I can't control that, can I?
Somebody, I remember telling you all about that doctor I went
to, I was taking some, I take supplements, just vitamins and
things. It's supposed to be good for you. I don't know if it's
good for you. But anyways, doctor was pretty pleased. He said,
I wish all my patients would do this. And I was like, well,
you know, just trying to stay healthy. He's like, you know,
I got a book you need to read. And it's called How Not to Die.
And he said, everybody that's read this book has lived and
done what the book says, has lived to be over 100. And I thought
to myself, I don't want to live to be 100 years old, honestly.
I don't have any interest in, Brother Al, you're the oldest
one here. You can testify to that. You know, I mean, it's, we, no, I'm longing to see my
Savior's face already. I desire that. But the point
I'm making is we're suspect to even ourself. We suspect the
world around us. We're suspicious of all these
things because everything's changing, everything's fading. As the grass
wither and the flower fadeth away, so is every one of us.
So we're suspicious of everything around us. We can't find contentment.
But in one person, in one hiding place, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the only way we can rest
in him is by faith alone. And the only way we can have
faith is if he gives it. And he only gives it to his people. Understand a true believer is
one that believes things that his reason cannot comprehend.
You don't comprehend or understand hardly anything about what you
believe. Is that not true? I don't understand. Okay, I'll
give you an example. We believe three is one and one
is three. Now go to any mathematician and
have them explain that to you. They can't do it because that
doesn't make sense. But God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit, these three are one. We believe one
is three, and we believe three is one. Is that not true? A true
believer believes this. We can't comprehend what we believe.
We receive it by faith. We believe it by faith alone. It's not logical to the flesh,
but it's believed to be true by faith. How about this one? A true believer believes a father
that's no older than the son, and a son that's equal to his
father. Is that not what we find in the
scripture about our Lord and Savior? The father's no older
than the son. They're both everlasting. Explain
that. Can't. Can't. Turn with me to
John chapter five. I'll show you where the Lord
says this. John chapter five, look at verse
16. What you need to know right now is that an impotent man was
just healed by Christ on the Sabbath day. Verse 16 says, and
therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him
because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus
answered them, my father worketh hitherto and I work. Therefore
the Jews sought to kill him, more to kill him, because he
not only had broken the Sabbath, By the way, he is the Sabbath,
just thought I would mention that. But said also that God
was his father, making himself equal with God. Then answered
Jesus and said unto him, said unto them, verily, verily, I
say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, but what
he seeth the father do. For what things whoever he doeth,
these also doeth the son likewise. For the father loveth the son,
and showeth him all things that himself doeth. and he will show
him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the
father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the
son quickeneth whom he will. For the father judgeth no man
but hath committed all judgment to the son, that all men should
honor the son even as they honor the father. He that honoreth
not the son honoreth not the father which has sent him. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth
on him that sent me hath everlasting life. and shall not come into
condemnation, but is passed from death into life. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall
hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall
live." That's him speaking to his people, speaking life into
his people. But he says the Jews were angry
because he said, you've made yourself equal with God. He was
God. So we believe, We believe in
a son that is equal to the father in every way. And we believe
the son that is no younger than the father and the father that's
no older than the son. I can't explain it, but we believe
it by faith. We believe it by faith. The true
believer believes Jesus Christ is the son of God and has all
power given to him by his father. It's not, it's up to the Lord. It's not up to me. And it's not
up to you. It's up to the Lord to do the
saving. It's up to the Lord to do the calling. It's up to the
Lord to do the keeping. It's up to the Lord to do the
electing. And he did all of that. He does all of that for his people.
We believe that by faith. Our flesh says, well, surely
there's something I have to do. Surely there's something I must
do to receive or to be saved. No, there's nothing. There's
nothing you have to do. Whenever I say believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, they that believe are enabled to believe
by faith. That means God gets the glory
for you believing him. God gets the glory for that.
A true believer not only believes this, but rests in it, because
although this is some things that we believe that we don't
understand, we loathe ourself because of our sin, but we know
that because Christ put our sin away, we believe we're precious
in the sight of God. I wanna say that again. We loathe
ourself because of our sin, but whenever we see Christ has put
away our sin, we see that we are precious in the sight of
God. You're precious in the sight of God right now if you're his
child. How can you explain that? I'm
precious to him? How am I precious? Well, he made
you that way. He made you that way on Calvary's cross. All of
his chosen people that he died for, bearing their sin in his
body upon the tree. When the wrath of God poured
out upon his son, he drank damnation dry for his people. There is
now therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
Why? Because he put away the sin. It's gone. It's gone. The Lord's the only, something
else we can't understand. How did he make sin go away?
Where did it go? Well, he said he was going to
cast it as far as east is from the west into the sea of forgetfulness,
but he made it disappear, didn't he? He's the only one that could
make something really disappear. I'm told that even scientists
are, I don't know why they, well, yeah, they always want to be
God. I know what they're doing. That's the answer to what I was thinking.
Scientists say, well, we can, uh, disintegrate things now. But even whenever you disintegrate
something, there's still going to be some kind of atom or particle
that's still there. The Lord, when he put away sin,
he disappeared it. It's gone. He made it go away,
never to be remembered again. Can't understand that, but I
believe it by faith. True believer believes that Christ
put away the sin of his people, that he successfully redeemed
his people, and that God was satisfied, God was satisfied
with his offering and resurrected his son. That's our evidence.
Evidence that we have been justified. Evidence that we have been saved
by him. Now he's seated on the right hand of the throne of God,
making intercession for his people. A true believer dares not justify
himself, even though whenever he cannot see evidence that he's
wrong, he does not justify himself before the throne of God. We're
so ashamed we dare not open our mouth before God, and yet we
come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find
grace to help in the time of need. We dare not open our mouth
to God, but yet we come boldly by the blood of Christ. Think
about that. We beg the Lord for anything
we need, don't we? Dare not open up our mouth to him, and yet
we ask him for anything we need. That's what he enabled us to
have on the cross, by faith. A true believer believes we have
both flesh and spirit. We have a new man and an old
man, and yet we also believe we are not double-minded. We
are singular-minded, focused on the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
The elders shall serve the younger. That's what the scripture says.
The elders shall serve the younger. We are often led captive by the
law of sin, but then we see we've been made free from the law by
Christ. We're often led captive by the
law, by our sin, yet we see that because of Christ, we've been
made free from the law. Sin, we see sin all around us. We see sin all in us. We see
sin in everything that we do, but yet the scripture says, sin
hath no more dominion over you. Explain that, because it's gone. The Lord sees you as perfectly
righteous. He sees you as glorified already.
We're already seated in Christ in the heavenlies. We just get
to experience it one day. He sees the blood. We're going to
take communion this morning. He said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass by you. He wasn't looking for anything
else. No, the true believer don't go to the ceremonial law, he
don't go to the moral or civil law, he don't go to any law whatsoever,
he goes to Christ, who is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believeth. And if the Lord causes us to
believe, we're a believer. A believer cannot make sense of
why he believes what he believes, but we can believe, we do know
that it's God that made us believe it, because we would not believe
it otherwise. Can't explain it. but we believe it. Lord, I believe,
help thou my unbelief. Go back with me in closing to
our text, Hebrews chapter 11. Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. For by it,
the elders obtained a good report. Through faith, we understand
that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things
which are seen were not made of things which do appear. If
we don't have faith, we can't understand how the worlds were
made. You know, scientists are constantly,
I was talking to a guy, and I've never met somebody like this
before, it was a very interesting conversation, but he found out
I was a pastor and he started asking questions about what I
believed a little bit, and I try not to, getting debates. I hate those. I never want to
debate, ever. It doesn't do any good. I just
don't want to do it. Well, he was trying to prove his point
to me, and he told me that he believes in God and science. And I said, well, I do, too.
But I don't know. You're going to have to elaborate
to see if I actually believe what you believe. And he said,
well, God used the Big Bang to make the Earth. And I'm like,
why would he do that when he could just speak it in existence?
That makes more sense. Yeah, that makes more sense.
And I didn't argue with the man. I just let him, I mean, he's
gonna believe what he wants to believe. But I know he's not a believer.
We believe God made the earth. God formed it. God spoke everything
into existence. God brought light out of darkness
by his word. Let there be light. And that's
exactly what he does for every elected sinner that he died for.
At the appointed time, he comes to where we are, dead and trespasses
and in sin, and he says, let there be light. And you know
what the next part says? And there was light, and God
saw that it was good. Why? It's his son. It's his son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Am I a true believer? Well, I'm
not looking to science. I'm looking to Christ. I believe
in science. I mean, I'm not gonna say it's
not, got its place, but you understand what I'm saying. Not in creation,
God created. God's the creator, and he gets
all the glory. He gets all the glory. Am I a true believer? Well, am I looking to my service,
or am I looking to his service? Am I looking to my law-keeping,
or am I looking to his law-keeping? Because he kept it perfectly.
Do I look at what I've done or haven't done as part of my justification?
Am I looking at what I have or have not done as part of my righteousness? Or am I looking to what He has
done on the cross of Calvary? The last question I have for
us is, am I living by faith? Are you a believer? If you are,
you're living by faith. What does that mean? A lot of
people want to look outwardly, don't they? As soon as you start
talking like that. So where's your evidence? No, that's not
what I'm saying. No faith is. I'm going to say
the word exercised. I'm not sure if that's the proper
word. I don't think it's the wrong
word. Faith is exercise in the heart. Through the eyes of the
heart, the Lord gives. Yes, it comes out in the flesh.
The new elder shall serve the younger and it normally way we
see it as love love for one another. That's just how it works. But
living by faith means I am living, looking to Christ in everything,
in all things, all things for my righteousness, all things
for my justification, all things for my sanctification, all things
for my glorification, all things for my election, for my saving,
for my keeping, and my calling, looking to Christ in all things,
all the time. There's never a time that you'll
ask a believer, They might get discouraged. They might get beat
down. They might have a hard week. They might be hit. You know what
it's like. We all live in the same world. You know things that
are going on in life can tend to be difficult sometimes. But
you'll never look at a true believer and hear them deny that Jesus
Christ is God. They'll never deny that. You'll
never look at Even Peter, think about Peter just for a moment,
whenever that little girl and all those others were saying,
hey, you're a Galilean too, you're with them, aren't you? No, I
don't know him, no. He never said, no, that's not
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Never did. His faith didn't fail.
He just got scared. He just got scared and denied.
He denied affiliation with the Lord. He didn't deny the Lord.
There's a big difference. There's a big difference. You'll
never hear a believer deny the Lord Jesus Christ in all, in
all. He's all sovereign, he's all
holy, and he redeemed his people. A believer will always, always
confess that, always. What does it mean to live by
faith? It means his blood alone is my
justification. His life alone is my redemption.
His finished work is my righteousness. Do I have anything to glory in
other than the cross of Christ? Because if I do, I'm not a true
believer. But if I'm living by faith, I
have nothing to glory in but the Lord Jesus Christ who died
on the cross for his chosen people. Am I fully relying on Jesus Christ
alone for all my hope and all my peace? Or am I looking for
something else for my hope and peace? Am I looking to God to
satisfy God, or am I trying to satisfy God? This is the difference
between being a true believer and a non-believer, it's that
simple. If you can say without a doubt,
Christ is all, Christ is all, and believe that, Not 99%, but
believe that 100%. If the Lord has convinced you
of that and given you faith to believe, you're a believer. You're
a believer. You can say without a doubt that
Christ is all in salvation. If you believe Christ did not
attempt to save anyone, but he purposed and he successfully
redeemed his people, you're a believer. You're a believer. If you believe
he ever liveth to make intercession for his people, you're a believer.
I pray the Lord will cause us to know whether we are true believers. And if we are, I pray the Lord
will let us rejoice in knowing that he did it all and gets all
the glory. Let's pray. Father, we are thankful
that you make your people see your face by faith, cause us,
Lord, to believe, help our unbelief. In Christ's name, amen. Let's
take a break.