Now let me read my text again,
if you will, from 1 Corinthians chapter 2. We'll read the first five verses. 1 Corinthians 2, and I, brethren, when I came to you, came not
with excellency of speech, or of wisdom declaring unto you
the testimony of God. For I determined not to know
anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And
I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Holy Spirit and of power that your faith, that your faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Now from the word of God and
from the examples of the prophets and apostles, and from what God
has been pleased to reveal unto me, let me speak plainly to you
on the subject of faith, faith. Of this I am quite sure, beyond
a shadow of a doubt, faith is the gift of God. This precious
flower of faith is not found in the fallen human nature. It's not produced from fallen
human nature. Where you find saving faith,
you find God at work. I'm confident of that. Now, without
your turning to the Scripture, because you know it, having heard
it many times, but Paul wrote in Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, Are you saved through faith?
And that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. It's not of
works, lest any man should boast. For where his workmanship created
in Christ Jesus, where you find faith, you find God at work. Faith is the gift and work of
God. But here's what I want you to
look at, Philippians 1, verse 29. you're not quite as familiar
with this as you are the other. It says in Philippians 1.29,
for unto you, unto you it is given in the behalf
of Christ, not only to believe on him, that was given to you,
but also to suffer for his sake, that's given to you too. So repentance is the gift of
God, faith is the gift of God, and even trials are the gift
of God. This is all God working in you,
both to will and to do on your part, not only to do His pleasure,
but to want to do His pleasure, to will to do His pleasure. Is
that clear? Is that understandable? Faith
is the gift of God. The precious flower of faith
does not grow in the garden of human nature. It's a gift of
God. God planted it, and God waters it, and God causes it
to bloom. So if I believe in Christ, it's
by God's grace that I believe in Christ. Oh, and secondly,
I'm sure of this, beyond a shadow of a doubt, this saving faith
is not only a gift of God, a work of God, but it's a heart work. It's a heart work. Now you know
this scripture without me turning to it. If thou shalt confess
with thy mouth Jesus to be Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Far. What does it say? Far. With the heart man believeth
unto righteousness. That's where it's done. It's
in the heart. Now listen to me. Listen to me. The gospel of Christ
is scriptural. Anybody can read it there in
the scripture. This is the record God has given
us eternal life. It's life in His Son. For God
so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him. As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
That's clear, isn't it? The gospel of Christ is scriptural.
The gospel of Christ is reasonable. Yet it is, it's reasonable. If
someone pays my debt, it's paid. If someone answers for my guilt,
then I'm not answerable. If God sends a substitute and
he satisfies righteousness and justice, that's reasonable. The
gospel of Christ is reasonable. The gospel of Christ is in keeping
with the character of God. It's logical. It's reasonable. It's scriptural. Anyone with
any ordinary intelligence, if he gives enough time to the study
of the attributes of God, the character of God, and the need
of men, and the life and righteousness and death of Christ, will say,
all of this fits a perfect puzzle and a perfect pattern, and that's
reasonable. But this is what I'm saying to
you. It's not facts that say. A man can, and I'm afraid there
are a lot of folks, not maybe a lot, but there are some, who
have met these facts and accepted them. The gospel that I preach
is scriptural. I read it from the Word of God.
We've gone verse by verse through the entire, almost the entire
New Testament. It's not only scriptural, it's
reasonable. There's no logic to this thing,
if I do the best I can, God will receive me. What is the best
I can? How long am I due to do the best I can? How much good
deeds? But this substitution is reasonable,
it's logical, it's scriptural, it's in keeping with the character
of God. But my friends, this thing of faith is not mental
agreements with facts. This thing of faith has something
to do with love for Christ. It has something to do with an
approval of the deeds and works of Christ. It has something to
do with submission to Christ. If any man love not the Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. He that believeth on the Son
of God, as many as received him, to them gave he the power, the
right to become sons of God. David said, My heart is fixed,
O God. Fixed on what? Fixed on deep.
So the second thing I know about faith is this, it's the gift
of God and it's the work of God in the heart that brings a man
not just to give mental agreement with facts and even truth, it
brings a man to love those facts and love that truth and love
that person and embrace him and receive him and walk with him. I know this. This thing of saving
faith is born of the Word of God, the Word of God. The Scripture says, and you're
familiar with this, faith cometh by hearing, by hearing. And not just hearing with these
ears, but hearing with the heart. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing
by the Word of God. The Scripture says, "...of his
own will begat he us with the word of truth. We're forgotten
or born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed
by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." When Paul
stood on that ship in the middle of the sea, and those experienced
mariners had given up hope, and the storm was raging, and the
waves were dashing, and the ship was about to be dashed to pieces,
and these men were ready to abandon ship. Paul stood there and said,
sirs, remain on the ship. We'll lose the ship and our life
will be lost. For I believe God. He wasn't
believing a feeling. He wasn't believing a vision.
He wasn't believing an experience. He said that it shall be even
as he told me. See what I'm saying? He had some
reason to believe God because God had said something to him,
God had spoken to him. Abraham. Abraham, it says in
Romans 4, believed God that he would do all that he was promised. And so I'm saying this, that
you can't just say, well, I know I'm saved because I feel it.
I know I'm saved because I was there when it happened. I know
I'm saved because God's heard my prayer. The foundation of
faith is, I know I'm saved because God says it here in His Word.
Now, that faith is born of the Word of God. I know those three
things to be true. Faith is the gift of God. It's
a supernatural, extraordinary work of God. Faith is a heart work. It's not
just giving assent to some doctrine. It's not just being a Baptist.
It's not just being logical or reasonable. It's not being Calvinistic. It's not accepting the doctrines
of grace. It kind of bothers me a little
bit when somebody says, I came to the knowledge of the doctrines
of grace. You can come to the knowledge of the doctrines of
grace and not know Christ. That's so. You can be ever so
precise and orthodox because the doctrines of grace are logical. Actually, Arminianism and free-willism
doesn't make good sense to me. But the doctrines of grace make
good sense. God's able to do what He said.
He chose you, He'll save you. If God is God, to say that God
wants to save us from somebody incarnate, that's no God. That's
a puppet. to say that God wills this and
can't do it because somebody won't let him, then let's worship
who won't let him. He's going to win. Because he
won't let him do this, he won't let him do that. Like a fellow
said, if he can't save me and I let him, I won't let him send
me to hell. So, but faith is not logic. It's a heart work. Faith is a
hard work, it's a love for Christ, it's not just agreement with
His doctrines, it's a love for His person and for His Word.
God is God and I'm glad He is. Christ is the only Savior and
I rejoice in Him. And this thing of faith, and
I'm telling you, don't stray very far away from this book.
Don't stray very far away. I don't care how good something
is. Like a man called me from Oregon the other day, and I was
talking to him on the phone. He was telling me about a certain
writer he'd been reading. He said, he said this. I said,
well, remember one thing. He's a man. Because he said it
doesn't make it so. It's so if God says it. I don't
care who you're listening to or who you're reading. Still
a man. Subject to error. So don't stray very far away
from the book. God has said, I'll never leave
you nor forsake you so that I can boldly say that the Lord is my
helper. He said it first. All right,
here's the fourth thing. Now, saving faith has one object,
one source, one cause to exist. And that's my text. Paul preached
to these people, and he said, I want your faith to stand in
something. I want your faith to stand in
something. In what? In the power of God. In the power of God. Now turn
to Romans 4. I want you to look at this with
me. In the power of God. This is
called a common faith. Here gathered, here's a preacher,
and here David read and prayed while ago, and the quartet sang,
and Martha played the instruments, Doris Men met with me in the
study. We're here from all walks of
life. We're here all different ages.
We're here in all different occupations. But we have one common faith.
One common faith. And that faith, the object of
the faith of everybody here, is the power of God in Christ. That's what we believe. That's
what Abraham said here. Now watch Romans 4, verse 20.
He staggered not. at the promise of God through
unbelief, but he was strong in faith, strong in faith, that's
what we want, strong in faith, giving glory to God and being
fully persuaded that what God promised, God was able to perform. Now what's this? Therefore it
was imputed to him for righteousness. This man Abraham, this man, friend
of God, companion of God, who walked with God, with whom God
talked face to face as with a friend. What was his secret? He believed
God. He believed God. This man, with
all the frailties of a man, a man of like passion as you and I,
but this This man was called a friend of God. This man was
the pattern of believers. This man had a righteousness
imputed to him. Why did he believe God? And that was it, Cecil. He believed
God. He believed the power of God
to do what he said. That your faith should stand
in the power of God. Listen to these verses. Hebrews
1, 3, He created and upholdeth all things by the word of His
power. I believe that. Matthew 6, 13, That is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory. I believe that. Romans 13, 1,
There is no power but of God. I believe that. Romans 9, 21,
Hath not the potter power over the clay? I'm glad he does. 1
Corinthians 1.24, Christ the power and wisdom of God. Yes,
for a fact. Matthew 28.18, all powers given
unto me in heaven and earth. 1 Peter 1.5, we are kept by the
power of God through faith. 2 Corinthians 3.4, he liveth
by the power of God. Ephesians 1.19, we believe according
to the working of his mighty power. Jude 25, for the only
wise God our Savior, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power
both now and forever. Here's where faith rests, the
power of God. Here's where faith feeds, on
the power of God. Here's where faith rejoices,
in the power of God. Here's where faith grows, in
the power of God. Men are in and out of religion.
up and down on the religious ladder, hot today and cold tomorrow,
in today and out tomorrow, on fire today, cold as a wedge tomorrow. But a man who's ever come face
to face with, in his heart believed, with his soul embraced, and feeds
upon God, who's a God of power, is as stable and set as a rock. Because that's what he builds
on, the rock, Christ Jesus. That's right. I shall not be
moved." His faith and confidence is not in the wisdom of men,
it is not in feeling, it is not in form, it is not in doctrine,
it is not in organization, it is not in denomination, it is
not in tradition, it is not in experience, it is in the power
of God. My God shall not fail. Turn to
Hebrews 11. Now watch this, Hebrews 11. This
is so rich right here. Anybody that's not interested
in faith, I don't understand you. I love it. It's a subject
never exhausted. I prayed for you. Our Lord said
that your faith fail not. Now Hebrews 11 verse 1. Listen
to this. Now faith, now faith. saving faith, real faith, genuine
faith, the faith of God's elect, is the substance, or it's the
ground, or the confidence, or the support of things hoped for. What do we hope for? Well, David
talked about it, adoption, acceptance, justification, eternal life, God's grace in Christ. That's
what we hope for. We'll faith until these promised
things become a reality. Faith is our support. Faith is
our confidence. Faith is our ground. You see,
God promised these things and a promise of God to faith is
as much in hand as if it's already done. I hear people say a bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush, according to whose bird it is.
If it's God's bird, I'd just as soon have two in the bush,
because those in the bush are good as in the hand, as He promised
it. See what I'm saying? Faith, everything,
adoption, acceptance, approval, eternal life, is a promise in
Christ. And if God promised it, it's
as certain as if it's already done. Let me share this part
of this letter with you all. This is from a blind lady here
in town who listens to our television program. Many of you know her.
She's raised eight children. The oldest one now is 20 years
old. Raised eight children. She's never seen. She's been
blind all her life. Raised eight children. Now she
takes care of her mother. But she says here, without him
I could do nothing. Paul says, I have learned in
whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. I'm not talking
about now this woman is legally blind. I'm talking about she's
flat blind. She's never seen. Never seen. It's hard to imagine
that someone who's been blind all their life will be made to
see at just one glimpse of Christ. And even so, at the twinkling
of an eye will be made not only to see him, but to be like him. But I know it's so, and I rejoice
in the promise." You see, that's faith. She's going to see, and
this faith is her ground or confidence at this point. She's concerned
it's already hers. She's just waiting until the
time comes. And that's what Paul is saying
here, the same thing in Hebrews 11.1, faith is the substance
or ground or confidence or support of the things we hope for. She
says it's amazing. She's just declaring this thing
like, isn't it amazing how much snow fell yesterday? It's amazing,
she said, a person who's been totally blind is going to see
just like that. And she's so happy, she said,
And I believe it's the promise of God. Look at the next slide.
And it's the evidence of things not seen. It's the support or
confidence of things hoped for, and the evidence or proof of
things not seen. It's the proof. Faith stands
in the place of these things until they become a reality.
Let me show you an illustration. Now, down here in verse 4. Abel
offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. See, these two brothers
come, and these are not little boys now, these are full-grown
men. And Abel comes over here to build his altar, and Cain
builds his altar, and Abel brought a lamb. And like God said in
his word, and Cain said, Now Abel, look, he said, I've worked
hard, I've planted this farm and raised these vegetables.
I have here a bushel of the best apples. I have a bushel of the
finest tomatoes. I have a bushel of the finest
corn and wheat and oats. And he said, I have here these
beautiful citrus fruits. I'm bringing all this to God.
I'm bringing all this to God. You know it's reasonable that
God is going to pay more attention to me for these things that I've
done. I've given Him the first part
of everything. I've brought all of these things
here that's taken me weeks and months to raise, and I'm giving
Him the best I've got. All you've got over there is
one little old lamb. One little old lamb. And you're
going to cut its throat and roast its body and pour its blood on
an altar. And God's going to accept you,
and Abel says, I can't explain it to you, just know that's what
he said. That's what he said. A lamb without spot or blemish,
the first thing of the flock. When I see the blood, I'll pass
over you. His dad had explained that to
him. I know it came from him. But that's what he said. Here's
Noah. Look down here at verse 7. By faith, Noah, being warned
of God of things not seen, prepared an ark. Here's Noah building
an ark. Worked on it 120 years, and you know people with any,
you know any reason, but Noah, it's never rained. It's never
even, you talk about so much water that it's going to cover
the mountains and the trees and the, Noah, it's never rained,
Noah. Yeah, but Noah said that's what
he said. I can't explain it to you, I just know that's what
he said. And then down here in verse 8, by faith, Abraham, when
he was called to go out to a place where he should go, after receiving
inheritance of Baal, went out, not knowing where he was going.
Now you can imagine, here's a 75-year-old man. And he had a wife called Sarah.
He had a whole household. He had servants. He had cattle. He had camels. He had goats and sheep. He had
donkeys. He had all these things, oxen.
75 years old. He's always lived in the same
place with his father and his family. They were protected from
roving bands and bandits because they lived in a place together. And he comes in and says to his
father, we're leaving. I beg your pardon? We're leaving?
Where are you going, Abraham? I really don't know. Well, how far is it? I don't
have any idea. Abraham, don't you think you
ought to think this over? I mean, this, you bandits out
there, and you don't know where you're going? Where'd you get
this crazy idea? God told me to leave my father's
house and go to land I'll show you. He'd make that be a great
nation. Well, that doesn't make sense
to me. And then down here in verse, look at Hebrews 11, 23. By faith, Moses, verse 24, when
he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, choosing rather to suffer the afflictions with the
people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,
esteeming the reproach of Christ's greater riches in the treasures
of Eden." Now you think about this. Here was a man, Moses,
forty years old. He was raised by Pharaoh's daughter.
This is the most powerful man in the world, the greatest kingdom
in the world. He was raised by the daughter
of that man, and he was in line for the throne. He was educated
in Egyptian schools. He had all his treasures, comforts,
wealth, food, everything. What does he do? He identifies
himself with the slaves down there making bread. You mean
you're going to give all this up? You're going to leave all
this? Why, Moses, why? I just know this is what God
says. I just know. You see, this is, this faith,
this faith, that's what he says here in Hebrews, this faith is
the ground, confidence, and support of all these things we hope for.
And this faith is the evidence or proof of these things, though
we haven't seen them, we've heard them, and we just know they're
so. We just know that. Turn back
to 1 Corinthians 2, and let me work on our text a little bit.
That's what I know about faith. It's the gift of God. It's a
work in the heart. It's based on the Word of God,
on the Word of God. And it has one object and one
foundation. This faith believes that what
God says, God will do. What God says, God will do. And
like these men, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, they cannot, there is
no way they could explain what they were doing to the satisfaction
of a natural man. There's no way they could be
understood. But they were acting on faith. You see what I'm saying?
There's no way that they could explain to a natural man what
they were doing. A natural man is not going to
understand. But they were acting on faith. Now this is what Paul
is saying in 1 Corinthians 2. In verse 1, he came to the mighty
city of Corinth, city of philosophers, debaters, politicians, yea, and
religionists. But he did not try to impress
them with his wisdom, his fine speech, his personality, He said,
when I came to you, I didn't come with excellence in speech
or wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. Now, what's
the next verse? For I determined not to know
anything among you. You say, Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. Now, pause right there. Of course,
He determined this long before. You say, preacher, are you saying
that Paul just stood up and preached the events of the day of crucifixion,
and that's all he preached? No. I'm not saying that at all. He's not saying that. You see,
if a man preaches Christ and Him crucified, he preaches the
purpose of God that gave birth to Christ crucified. See what
I'm saying? He not only preaches Christ and
Him crucified, but included in that is the purpose of God that
sent Him to the cross. If we preach Christ and Him crucified,
we preach the character of God which demanded the cross and
required the cross. You see that? If we preach Christ
and Him crucified, we preach the deity and glory of Christ
which made the cross effectual. You see, the cross of just any
man is not effectual. It's the cross of the divine
man. Glorify me with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was. If we preach Christ, somebody
says, well, all you preach is Christ, all you preach is Christ
crucified. But in preaching Christ crucified,
we preach all the counsel of God. Because all the counsel
of God is wrapped around Christ crucified, included in Christ
crucified. See what I'm pointing out? If
you preach Christ crucified, you preach the love of God which
gave Christ to be crucified. If you preach Christ crucified,
you preach justification by the death of Christ without work.
If you preach Christ crucified, you preach the preservation and
perseverance of those whom He redeemed. Can we comprehend Him
failing? If you preach Christ crucified,
you preach holiness of walk and character because you're not
your own, you're bought with a price. If you preach Christ,
Him crucified, you preach His glorious resurrection because
His crucifixion means nothing if He's still in the tomb. If
you preach Christ to Him crucified, you preach the Holy Spirit's
divine work, because if Christ was not crucified, the Holy Spirit
got nothing to do, because He came to reveal Christ. If you
preach Christ to Him crucified, you preach a full and complete
victory in Christ, and the exaltation of Christ, and the second coming
of Christ to establish a kingdom which He bought by His death.
Oh, my soul! The man that says, well, you
just can't preach the gospel, the gospel, the gospel, you got
to preach something else. There is nothing else. Practical
godliness without Christ is practical foolishness. And prophecy without
Christ crucified is nothing but speculation. You see what I'm
saying? Everything is linked to the cross. That's what he's
talking about here. So when he came to this excellent
city of philosophers and debaters and religionists and all these
people, he said, I've determined not to know anything among you
save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. In verse 3, he said, I didn't
have all the answers. Who's sufficient for these things?
I stood before you in weakness, human weakness. Stood before
you in terror. Stood before you in much trembling.
These fellas that have all the answers, there's something wrong.
I don't think they know the questions. With you in weakness. I'm just
a man like you are. Some fella attended this church
some time ago. He's an apostronaut. He told
me, he said, you're the first preacher I ever heard. It meant
he was a sinner. Paul said he was the chief of
them. Verse four, in my speech, And my preaching was not like
David said. We didn't debate. We didn't argue. We declared something. My speech
and preaching was not with enticing, persuasible words of man's wisdom. We didn't use psychology to get
people down the aisle. We didn't use all of this psychology
and methods and gimmicks But we left that to the demonstration
of the Holy Spirit and the power of God. You see, salvation is
of the Lord. You come here and I read this
Word and preach to you, and you know what my desire is, that
I read this Gospel and declare this Gospel and exalt the Lord
Jesus, and I'll tell you, the Spirit of God is able to make
that effectual in your heart, able to reveal that to you, and
you don't need to to walk down this aisle and shake my hand
and make some kind of public display and all that sort of
thing, you need to do business with the King from your heart.
You need to bow down and go home, go home alone, get by yourself
and open the Word of God. And like the leper of old, Lord,
if you will, you can make me whole. Like Bartimaeus, he didn't
need a gang, just him and Christ. He said, Jesus, our son of David,
have mercy on me. The woman with the issue of blood
had to get the disciples out of the way. The woman who came
to have her daughter to be healed had to get the disciples out
of the way so she could get to Christ. They kept trying to send
her away, didn't they? The little children even had
to get them out of the way so they could get to Christ. Except
for the little children to come to me and forbid them not. We
need all these soul winners and preachers and evangelists and
all these fellows out of the way so people can get to Christ
and lay hold of Him and embrace Him. Now, Paul said the reason
for all this, the reason for all this, verse 5, that your
faith, that faith I've been talking about, which is a gift of God,
which is a hard work, which is based on the Word of God, which
individually, personally, Believes God. I believe God. I just worry about, yes, Savage,
are you saved? Yeah, I was converted when Brother
so-and-so came to town. That bothers me. If he hadn't
come to town, what would have happened? Well, yeah, I was converted
under so-and-so. So-and-so baptized me. You know
there's one reason Paul wouldn't baptize people? so they couldn't
go out and say, Paul baptized me. Brethren, your faith, your faith
must not stand in the wisdom of men. Have I adopted a tradition
that my parents left me? I mean, however good, however
commendable, but if I just adopted something, they hand If so, I've
missed Christ. Am I following a denominational
pattern? I've invited somebody to church
one time, and they said, I'm Catholic. Well, what's that got
to do with it? What's that got to do with it?
Am I looking to a clever religious man? Is my faith in a logical
system? But my faith in the power of
God, in Jehovah my Savior, in the power of God, the believer
personally, individually, from the heart, looks to the living
God. I like what Spurgeon said, and
I quote it twice in the bulletin recently, I believe if no one
else believes, I believe. Christ is my hope, Christ is
my foundation, Christ is my life. And those who look to the living
God have the witness in themselves. And I say this, 10,000 arguments,
if you can come to this place, whoever you are, and myself too,
I'm not preaching down to you, but if we can come to this place
where what we believe, whom we believe, is not based on any
wisdom of men, or logic of men, or argument of men, or feeling,
or vision, or experience, or decision, anything like that.
But we believe God. I just flat believe God tonight,
don't you? Believe God. I believe God. If you come to that place, then
listen, ten thousand arguments, my skeptics won't move you, because
you know my Redeemer. 10,000 arguments in favor of human merit
can't move you because you know your guilt before God. 10,000
arguments in favor of free will cannot move you because you know
the inability of the creature. 10,000 arguments for self-righteousness
cannot move you because you know in the sight of God even your
works are filthy rags. 10,000 false prophets cannot
move you because you know whom you have believed. 10,000 trials
will not turn you away because it's Lord to whom shall we go.
10,000 preachers and deacons and religious people departing
from the gospel will not move you because you say, as for me
and my house, we serve the Lord. 10,000 doubts about yourself
will not produce one doubt about Him. That's what I'm saying. Your faith should not stand in
the wisdom of men. Doctrines or arguments or logic
or persuasion, enticing wisdom or whatever, your faith should
stand like Abraham of old in the power of God. You imagine Joshua that day standing
there in front of all those people, and he said to them, you choose
the God you'll serve, whether God's over there or the God's
over there, but I'm telling you this, that's for me and my house.
We serve the living God. Serve the living God. That's
my heart, heart confidence. Our God and Father, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. We speak boldly, openly concerning
these matters of redemption because we believe. We speak openly and
boldly concerning these promises of your grace in Christ because
we believe. We speak openly and publicly
before these people of the righteousness and holiness which we have in
His perfect obedience and the cleansing which we have in His
perfect blood, because we believe Your Word. We believe God, like
Abraham of old, Noah, Moses, Abel. Thou hast said, Thou hast
spoken, Thou hast declared these things. Lord, we believe. Help Thou our unbelief. Increase our faith. And we pray for Your glory that
you'd make the message effectual to some heart here tonight. Some
man, woman, some young person will look to thee and say, Lord,
I too believe. Help thou mine unbelief. In Christ's
name we pray. Amen.