Now, Hebrews 10, verse 38. This message just might be very
helpful to you. If you want to take notes on
it, I'll try to give the points of the message and the divisions
of the message clearly so that you'll have time to jot them
down along with the Scriptures. Our title is, Living by Faith. Our text is Hebrews 10, 38. Now
the just shall live by faith. Now the just shall live by faith. This was the portion of Scripture,
the particular passage that God used to convict and convince
Martin Luther that salvation was not by works but by grace. Martin Luther was a Catholic
monk who lived in a cell, who mistreated his own body, doing
penance, starving himself, trying to establish a basis on which
he could approach God, trying to establish a righteousness
of his own. with which God would be pleased.
He was trying to make himself holy. He was trying to make himself
acceptable to God. That's why he was doing all of
this. He studied long hours. He starved himself. He fasted.
He prayed. He did works of penance. He counted
beads. He said, Hail Mary. He did all
of this. sort of thing. He isolated himself
as one old monk told him, Luther, go back to your cell, go back
to your cell and seek God. God's not in a cell. God's not
in human works and human merit. You come to God by Christ. You're
accepted by the Father in the Beloved, in the righteousness
of Christ. You see, Luther didn't know that.
He was following his tradition. He was following the custom of
his day. He was following the teaching
of the preachers of his day, the priests and the Catholic
leaders. He lived in the dark ages. He lived in the dungeon
and darkness of pagan Catholicism. which is a glorified system of
works. That's all it is. Making yourself
acceptable to God. Finding a righteousness of your
own. But he was reading the Bible, and he found this verse of Scripture.
It's there four times. It's in the book of Habakkuk.
No use turning to it. It says the same thing in four
places. Habakkuk 2, verse 4. In Romans
1, 17. In Galatians 3.11 and Hebrews
10.38, those are the portions. You write it down and look them
up later. But it says, "...the just shall live by faith." The
just shall live. The just, those who are justified,
those who are accepted of God, those who are righteous before
God, shall live. Shall live now and eternally
by faith. And Luther would read that. He
didn't understand it because he was trying to live before
God by works. He was trying to be saved by
works. And most religionists are trying to be saved by works.
They're trying to find a righteousness with which God will be pleased.
They're trying to do the works of religion and the deeds of
religion and keeping the holy days of religion and the Sabbath
days and the feast days so that God will accept them because
they're good, because they're different from other people,
because they're holy. God accept me. on that basis. He won't do it because there's
no way that I can present a righteousness with which God will be pleased.
There's no way. My righteousness is a filthy
rag. And finally, Luther went down there to Rome. And there's
a stairway there. All the pagan, the pagan ideas and doctrines of Rome,
they've got a stairway. They're still there. The Santa
Scala or something, that's C-A-L-A, And it's supposed to be the stairway
that was in Pilate's hall, up which our Lord walked before
He went to the cross. And when He had the crown of
thorns, and the blood was dripping, and they have spots on that stairway
under glass. Now this happened 2,000 years
ago, but these stairs are there, they claim. And the blood marks
are still there. And you're not allowed to walk
up them. Nobody can walk up them. One day Spurgeon visited this
place and stood at the foot of those stairs. You've got to crawl
up them on your knees. You can't walk up them. So he
wouldn't dare crawl up them on his knees. He just stood there
and looked at them. But he said, I'm not crawling up those stairs
on my knees because Christ is my righteousness, not this sort
of thing here. But Luther went down there in
his struggles And in his despair, he found out that an honest man
cannot find happiness in his own righteousness. Some of those
old monks and priests were happy because they were blind, but
a righteous, honest man, a man who is seeking the truth, will
never find happiness in his own faith, or in his own righteousness,
in his own works, or in his own person, because he knows the
truth about himself. And he knows truth about God
and he knows God won't be satisfied with anything I produce because
it's unholy. And he went down there and he
got on those stairs and started climbing up them on his knees,
kissing those red spots that are supposed to be the blood
of Christ. And just like that, he said this verse came to his
heart again. Martin Luther, the just shall
live by faith, by faith. This is not the way. What kind
of God do you have? What is your conception of a
living, holy, sovereign, eternal, all-wise, omnipotent God that
you think that your sins can be put away and you can be accepted
by this holy God? because you crawl on your knees
up a stairway and kiss what's supposed to be the blood. And he said, when that verse
came to him so positively and emphatically, he said, I got
up off my knees and to the amazement of all the people in that huge
cathedral, I ran down there. I guess Martin Luther was the
last fellow to walk on those stairs. He ran down those stairs
and ran out of that place. And boy, we can thank God, every
one of us this morning, that he did. Because we have profited
by the Reformation. That's why we have freedom of
religion in this country. Those gallant, brave men like
Calvin and Luther and Zwingli and all the rest of them. He
dared to battle that awful octopus of Rome that reaches its tentacles
out to the whole world and strangles the life out of people everywhere
those tentacles reach. But those men believed in the
grace of God. The scripture alone, grace alone,
Christ alone, and the right of private, personal interpretation. Everybody here has a right this
morning to look at that verse and receive it as you will. I'm
not going to make you receive it anyway. The Holy Spirit will
reveal it to you. You've got the right to receive
it or refuse it. That just shall live by faith.
Faith is the foundation of every grace. Without faith, he said up in
verse 6, it's impossible to please God. It's impossible. It's the foundation of every
grace. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He
that believeth not shall be damned. Whatever else he does. Faith. The Word of God is written that
we might have faith. Turn to John 20. My subject this
morning is of the utmost importance. The most vital importance. Faith. Living by faith. Luther discovered
it and lived. And then he had happiness. And
then he taught the church to sing. Did you know Martin Luther
edited the first hymn book? The church didn't sing up until
1500 and something, whenever he lived. They didn't sing. The old priest chanted. And the
choirs chanted. But Martin Luther and another
man put together the first hymn book, had seven hymns in it.
One of them was, A Mighty Fortress is Our God. He wrote that. Words
and music. He got married. He had a family. Oh my goodness, faith. Faith
brought him to Christ. Faith brought him happiness.
Happiness, not bondage. But John 20, 31. These are written
that you might believe. These are written that you might
believe. These are written that you might
believe. You see that? It's not just a
book of science. The man that looks on the Bible
to prove the world is round, You can prove the world is round,
but the Bible doesn't know why the Bible is written. There's
some silly people who sit around proving the world's round. It's
not a history book. It's not a philosophy book. It's
not a book of philosophy. Well, you know what the good
book says? Well, the good book says you're going to hell if
you don't receive Christ. Well, you know what the Bible
says? Cleanliness is next to godliness. The Bible doesn't
say that. But the Bible does say that Christ is the Son of
God, who loved us and gave Himself for us. Oh, we need to quit using
this Bible as a history book and a book of philosophy and
a book of old-lettered sayings and an almanac. It's written
that you might believe! That's what it says there, that
Jesus is the Christ! And He's the Christ! He's not
an example only, he's the Christ! He's not a reformer, he's the
Christ! That's who he is, THE CHRIST! You know who that is? The Messiah,
the Redeemer! These are written that you might
believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ! Why, this book
is written. It wasn't written to amaze you
or amuse you, it was written that you might believe. that you might know God and believe
God, and that believing the Son of God, that believing you might
have life through His name. Oh, that you might believe. Lord,
I believe. Help my unbelief. Well, I want
to do that if I can. Hebrews 10.38, that just shall
live by faith. Now, first of all, notice this.
Notice what the text does not say. The text does not say that
just shall live. Now listen to me. The text does
not say that just shall live because of his faith. That's
not what it says. It doesn't say that at all. Eternal
life is not in faith, it's in Christ. Now this is vital and
important. You need to hear this. It doesn't
say four times in God's Word that just shall live because
of his faith. It doesn't say that at all. Faith
is not the Savior, Christ is the Savior. Eternal life is not
in my faith, it's in Christ. The Scripture says, Christ in
you, the hope of glory. Christ is our life. Now we, the
just, shall live. We begin to live spiritually
because Christ, our Lord, represented us as our surety. And as our
representative, he loved us and gave himself for us. You who
were dead has he quickened and made alive. We begin to live
spiritually because Christ loved us and gave himself for us. We
continue to live spiritually because Christ right now intercedes
for us. It is his prayers that fill the
Holy of Holies with Sweet aroma. It is His intercession that covers
the mercy seat. It is His blood that atones before
God as a sin offering that puts away our transgression. My faith
doesn't represent me. My faith doesn't pray for me.
My faith doesn't cleanse me. My faith doesn't represent me.
Christ does. I don't live because of my faith. I live because of Christ. He
said, because I live, you live. Because do you see that? And
we shall live eternally because we are one with Christ who ever
lives. Old Brother Muse used to say,
I wish I could make that claim. We don't live because we believe. We live because Christ loved
us and gave himself for us. Now remember that. That's what
it's saying. The just shall live not because of his faith, not
because he believes, he lives because Christ from eternity
to eternity, in his person and work, is our representative,
surety, and our redeemer. Notice this, now move on. And
the text does not say the just shall live upon his faith. It doesn't say that, does it?
It doesn't say I live because of faith, it doesn't say I live
on my faith. I'm telling you this, my weak
faith would make mighty poor food for my soul. Mighty poor
food. And I fear that if I lived on
my faith, if I lived on my faith, most of the time I'd be pretty
hungry. I'd be without food, I'd be without
comfort, I'd be without peace, I'd be without assurance. Now
watch this. Turn to Genesis 27. Let me show
you something here. Genesis 27. Genesis 27, verse
40. Now the Scripture doesn't say,
I live because of my faith. It doesn't say, I live on my
faith. It says, I live by faith. By
faith. Now watch this Scripture here.
Genesis 27, verse 40. Isaac's talking to Esau. And
he's saying to Esau, verse 40, Genesis 27, "...and by thy sword
shalt thou live." And by thy sword thou shalt live. Well, everyone knows that Esau didn't
feed on his sword. He didn't get nourishment from
his sword. But he lived on that which his
sword could capture and which his sword could subdue. So when
Jacob, when Israel said to Esau, you live by your sword, he doesn't
mean that his sword itself was the nourishment, but what his
sword secured, what his sword could capture, that's what he'd
feed upon. And to just live by faith, not
on their faith. Their faith doesn't sustain them,
their faith doesn't comfort them, but him whom their faith embraces. You see this? Him who is the
object of their faith. The Christ in whom they believe.
He is their comfort. Not the faith itself, but Him
whom the faith embraces. To whom the faith reaches. You
see that? That's what the text is saying.
We live by faith. Not because of faith, but because
of Christ. Not upon faith, but upon Christ. He said, I'm the bread of life.
Faith, not the bread. Christ did. Christ did. Somebody illustrated it this
way. I'm thirsty. And I reached out and took that
glass of water. I'm not thirsty anymore. I drank
the water. Why aren't I thirsty? Well, it's
not because I saw the water, or I reached for the water, or
I picked up the water, or even that I drank the water. I'm not
thirsty because the water quenched my thirst. The water satisfied
me. The water met my need. The hand
didn't meet my need. I wouldn't have received the
water had the hand not reached for it. I wouldn't have received
the water down within my throat and my body unless I had drunk
the water. And even so, this is the way
faith is. I'm not satisfied. I'm not comforted. I'm not redeemed. by my faith,
or because of it, or upon it, but because of Christ. Christ
is the water of life. He's the one that satisfies.
He's the one that cleanses. He's the one that redeems. You
see that? Christ is the water of life. Christ is the bread
of life. Faith reaches out to Christ, looks to Christ, receives
Christ. But He's my life. When Christ,
who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with
Him in glory. But He is our life. Come, thou
fount, come, thou fount of every blessing. Tune my heart to sing
thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing
call for songs of loudest praise. He is the fount of every blessing.
Do not have faith in your faith. Somebody says, well, I am saved
because I believed on Jesus. No, my friend. There's an element
of truth to that, but it's not the truth. Not if you mean it
like you say it. I'm not saved because I believe
on Jesus Christ. Although I won't be saved unless
I do believe on Jesus Christ. Any more than my thirst is quenched
because I picked up a glass. I've got to receive Christ Jesus. He's the water of life. He's
the bread of life. He's the mediator. He is the
substitute. He's the atonement. He's the
sin offering. He's the one that represents
me. I live because He loved me and He died for me and He enabled
God to be just and justifier. And He enabled God's righteousness
to be satisfied, His law to be honored, and this sinner to be
lifted. Christ is my life. Do you see that? I hope men and women in this congregation
won't perish believing in their faith and resting in their faith
and looking to their experience and say, well, I'm saved because
I did what the preacher told me to do. No, you're saved because
Christ did what God told Him to do. That's the reason you're
saved. It says a just shall live by
faith. That is, by the strength of Him
to whom my faith looks, by the righteousness of Him whom my
faith embraces, by the holiness and intercession of Him to whom my faith reaches out
and looks, it's cracked. And my faith is at times it's
so weak. But it's not the strength of
faith, it's the fact of faith. Do I believe enough? It doesn't
matter how much or how little you believe, it's on whom you
believe. You see that? I'm trying to help
you. And you see if you're saved, if you're saved because of your
faith, then it better be a pretty good size faith. But if you're
saved by Him to whom your faith clings, it doesn't have to be
very big or very strong. Great big old vine, great big
old vine clings to the post. So you remove the post and that
great big old vine will fall. But that little old bitty spiderweb
clings to that post too. And it's not going to fall until
the post falls. But remove the post and they'll both fall, the
little spiderweb and the big vine. So it's not the strength
of the faith, it's not the degree of faith, it's Him on whom it
rests, to whom it looks. It's Christ. The just shall live
by faith. All right, watch this. We shall
live a life of justification before God by faith. Because the object of our faith,
Jesus Christ, has justified us by His blood. I live a life right
now of justification, so near to God. Nearer I cannot be, for
in the person of His Son, I am as near as He. All of God's mercies,
my dear friend, come through Christ. All of God's blessings
come through Christ, and where Christ is, I am, and what He
has, I have. I'm resting in Him. I'm looking
to Him. I've submitted it and committed it, Paul said, to Him
against that day. And He'll take care of it. He's
my priest. I have a priest. Poor Catholic
people. I feel sorry for Baptists too,
but I feel sorry for these poor people who have their salvation,
their hope, their life, their souls, their heaven over there
in the hands of a man. A man in a stone building with
these moth-eaten, musty robes on, going around chanting with
his head shaved and looking sissified. And they've got their whole hope
in that. If I get to heaven, he'll have
to get me there. If I get to heaven, it's in resting in that
church. Brethren, we have a priest, and
he's a man, who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
But he dwells not in houses made with hands. He dwells Not in
the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle, but in the very presence of God
Himself. And you know, He's the Son of
God. My mediator, my priest. This man, Jesus Christ, is the
very image of God. He's the brightness of God's
glory. He's God's Son. And I've got my salvation in
His hands. I've rested it in His hands.
I've given it over to Him. And He loves me. He loved me
enough to die for me. He loved me enough to come down
here and obey the law for me. He says, I love you. I give my
life for my sheep, and they're not going to perish. I'm going
to see to that. And He's admitted to the very presence of the Father.
In fact, not only admitted to the presence, but the Father
is so satisfied with Him, He sat Him on His right hand in
glory. And all my hope for prosperity
and spiritual blessings and life and heaven and forgiveness of
my sin is not going through these little silly motions and counting
these beads and paying off some priest or preacher or burning
some candle or crawling on my knees somewhere or looking to
that poor, poor old dark-hearted, deceived, covetous, mercenary,
huckster in a stone building, that with his discipline and
his exclusions and his rules and laws, I'm looking to him,
Christ, the Son of the Living God. And that's what I want you
to do. I can't help you, and he can't
either. That guy down there, he can't do a name for you. Take
the gold and white and the robes off of that old poor old 70 year
old Polack and he'd be nothing but just an old sagging fleshly
diseased old man. That's all he is. Ugly old man. A pile of flesh that God despises. That's all he'd be. people kissing
on his gown and his ring and his robe is an abomination to
good common sense. Oh, but I'll kiss the Son. I'll
fall at the feet of the Son. I'll crawl on my knees to the
Son, the living Son of God, the great high priest of glory. We have a priest, Paul said. We have one. But he's gone not
into the holy place made with hands, but into heaven itself,
there to make intercession for us. And he's got a lot of influence up there, a
lot of influence. In fact, the Father said that
he's going to finally have all the preeminence. And the Father
said we're going to destroy all his enemies. The Father said
the whole world some day is going to call Him Lord. Not a bunch
of blinded, confused people who worship a system, but everybody
in God the Father said not only everybody in heaven, earth and
hell is going to call Him Lord. My Lord, my brother, my Savior. That's faith, you see. And I'm
not saying because I believe that, I'm saying because of what
He's doing, what He's done, what He's doing, what He will do.
And what little faith I have, the small, oh ye of little faith,
that's alright, just praise God we've got a little. But it's
in Him. It's in Him. And we live a life
of justification before God because of Him, and we live a life of
holiness. By one man's disobedience, I
became a sinner. associated with that bunch that
tried to throw God off His throne in the Garden of Eden, identified
with that bunch who nailed Christ to the cross. That's my kin,
folks! And by their disobedience, I've
made a sinner. Thank God, by the righteousness
of Christ, I've made righteous. And I live by faith. I live by
that righteousness which that faith procures. I live by that
righteousness in which that faith rests. You see what I'm saying?
It's not that I feed upon the faith or live because of the
faith or that, but I live by Him in whom my faith rests. And I live a life of peace. My
faith can't give me any peace because it's too weak. It fluctuates. It's different. It's strong today
and weak tomorrow. It can't give me any peace. My
peace is not my faith. Christ is my peace. He said, My peace I give unto
you. Christ is my joy, that my joy might remain in you. My joy! Oh friend, you can go home and
you can get your Bible and you can sit and try to find out how
much faith you've got. Lord, do I have enough faith? Now, I'm trying to read the Bible,
I'm trying to understand it, I'm trying to live godly, and
I'm trying to believe, I'm trying to believe everything that's
there, and you can't find any joy in that, or any peace. But
if you can say, Lord, I believe in Your Son, I believe Your Word,
I don't understand all that's there, I don't understand all
I can't comprehend all the promises, my mind's just not that good,
not that strong, not that infinite. Because I can't comprehend all
that God is, but what I understand, I believe. And Lord, what I don't
understand, I believe too. And Christ is my hope, and I
just give it all to Christ. I commit myself, my life, my
few years I've got left, my whole family, my income, Lord, it's
all yours! I rest in You. I'm not resting
in anything but Christ. He's my peace and my joy. I derive
all of my hope from Him. I have a hope because He will
remain faithful. Christ will remain faithful.
He cannot fail. Alright, let me close with this
definition here in Hebrews 11. We've read this all our lives.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen. And this is, I hear preachers
talking about the simplicity of the gospel. Well, in a way
it is, but in a way it's profound. And I looked at this verse, and
I just begged God to give me some understanding. I got out
the different translations, understanding enough to say what it means.
Let's see if I can help. Let's take the first line. Faith
is the substance of things hoped for. The substance. In other
words, faith is the assurance. It's the confidence. It's the
title deed to the things that we hope for, or of the things
we hope for. Now what are the things we hope
for? Faith is the substance of confidence,
the title deed, assurance of these things. What are the things
we hope for? Well, we hope for the forgiveness of sin. I've
got to have that, because I'm a sinner. I have sin, I do sin,
I will sin. I hope for the righteousness
of Christ. With His spotless garments on, I'm as holy as His
Son. I've got to have that. I hope for perseverance. I hope
I'll continue in Christ. I've got to have that. I hope,
by God's grace, that when another ten years have come and gone,
I'm still resting in Him. I hope for deliverance in the
day of death. I won't die in grace. I want
to die in Christ. And I hope for him to be my deliverer
at the judgment, don't you? And I hope for eternal glory.
Now those things hope for. Now at this moment, right now,
faith is the ground or the foundation or the support or confidence
that I have this thing. Faith. I don't have anything
on paper to carry around in my pocket I have a driver's license here
that says I'm a resident of Kentucky. I have a social security card
that tells me I'm citizen of the United States. But this forgiveness
of sins and this righteousness of Christ, this perseverance
in Christ, this deliverance in judgment, this eternal glory,
I got no piece of paper. I got no piece of paper. And
I don't have any title deed on any special gold embossed certificate
sent from heaven to put on my study wall. What do I have? I have faith. I believe God. I believe God. That's what this
means. Faith is the substance. It's the confidence. It's the
assurance. It is the title deed. that these things are mine."
God said to Israel, the land is yours, enter it. They didn't
take it. Why? Unbelief. It was there. And all they had to do was believe
God and just walk in. Just believe God. That was their...
God said it! That's it! Abraham believed God!
And that was his title deed. That's why he did what he did.
Hey, let me show you this right here, because of it being the
assurance over here in verse 7. Noah spent 120 years building
an ark. What was his assurance or his
confidence or the ground for what he did? He believed God.
Abraham packed up. Abraham, where are you going?
I don't know. You mean you're leaving home? Yeah. And do you
know where you're going? What's the reason for this? What's
the substance? What's the confidence that you
have for this move? I believe God. God told me, I
believe. And here I go. He took a boy,
a precious boy, his only son, whom he loved, laid him on an
office, and bound him and took a knife. Wait a minute Abraham,
what are you doing? Sacrifice this boy. What in the
world is the substance of such a move and the ground What the
confidence or the motivating force? I believe God. You mean
that faith triumphs over the love for that boy? Uh-huh. That
faith triumphs over the love for your home and family? Uh-huh. You're going out. I understand
you. No. I preached on that last Sunday. A man who believes God understands,
but he's not understood. Nobody understands. John A. didn't
understand what you did when you moved down here. You're a
nut. That's what they think. Lee got a home up there in Kingston,
moved down here to Ashland to sit over there and listen to
this dummy preach. You're a nut. Why'd you do that? That's the substance of it. That's
the reason. Faith. And that's what this is
saying right here. Faith is the substance. It's the foundation. And Bob
Coffey has a business 150 miles from here. But he lives in Ashland. Every Monday morning drives all
the way down. Leaves his family, stays down
at three, and hurries back to Prairie Meadow on Wednesday.
You're nuts. That's what the world says. What? No. Why don't
you move down there? Got to fellowship with his people. Got to hear the gospel. That's
all right. He understands. What's the reason
for that sort of thing? Faith. That's the only reason.
You say, is that clear what I'm saying? Faith. That's the substance
of things. Hope for it. What do you hope
for? Forgiveness, mercy, righteousness. A living relationship with Christ.
And it triumphs over home and family and natural affections
and loved ones. And it triumphs over possessions. That's right. Moses. Moses, now Moses, you can't. You can't lead the company. Moses,
you're the highest paid man in the company. Moses, you're the
vice president. They're going to make you the
president. Son, stay here in Egypt. Well, you're going to
be the president of the company. You can't. You can't turn your
back on prestige and power and influence and possessions and
fame and all these things. Where are you going, Moses? I'm
going down there and live with them Israelites. They're not
anything. You're a nut. You're something wrong with you.
You've got problems, Moses. Huh? Did he? Faith triumphs over... You can't buy a believer. You
can't do it. If you can, he's not a believer.
Esau sold his birthright. He wasn't a believer. That's
right. It triumphs. You read that whole
11th chapter. Faith triumphs over everything
this world has to offer. And the man who believes knows
it. It's the evidence. Watch this. Faith is the substance
of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen.
What are the things not seen? What's not seen? Well, the things
done back in eternity are not seen. The counsel of God, the
covenant of grace, the purpose of God. No way I can see that. The things done in time. The
incarnation of the Son of God, the death of the Son of God,
the resurrection of the Son of God. I haven't seen any of that.
Things that are done now, the regeneration of my soul, the
calling of the Holy Spirit, the providence of God, the peace
and joy and delight that I have in Christ, I don't see any of
that. Things in the future, my body will be buried and resurrected
and ascended and there will be a new heaven and new earth, I
don't see any of that. These are all unseen. But faith
gives my heart proof and evidence of these blessings. His spirit
bears witness with my spirit that such a counsel did occur,
that such a purpose is in fact a reality, that such a thing
as the incarnation and death of the Son of God did occur.
that I do live by the grace of God, that I have been made alive,
that I have passed from death unto life, that I am a new creature,
and that I shall live forever with Christ. Faith is the evidence
of that, the proof of it. The proof of it. I have a risen
Savior. He is in the world today. I know
He is living. Whatever men may say, I see His
hand of mercy. I hear His voice of cheer, and
just when I need Him, He's always near. He lives. Christ Jesus
lives today. He walks with me. He talks with
me along life's narrow way. He lives. Salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives. He lives in my heart. It's a
reality. Faith is the evidence of it.
It's the evidence of it. And that faith, that faith triumphs. That faith triumphs. It grows. That substance, that confidence,
that assurance, that title deed, it gets more real every day.
And that proof, proof, that evidence, It's more real all the time.
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. And the
world may laugh and ridicule and they talk about one religion
as good as another, one church as good as another, it doesn't
matter what you believe, just so you're sincere. My faith knows
better than that. My faith hungers for Christ. And you can't satisfy me with
the stale bread of this world. I got to have the bread from
heaven. And I know the difference. And my soul thirsts for the water
of life, and you can't satisfy it with Pepsi-Cola. I know the
difference. I know the difference. And my
soul thirsts for the living God in a dry and thirsty land. And I know the difference. I
know when I hear my God exalted, and you do too. And one place
ain't good as another. I wish there were more places,
but they're not. Our Father in Heaven, O that
we might believe. All things are possible to them
that believe. Believe God. Abraham believed
thee, and it counted to him for righteousness.