shall live by faith. Now these words are spoken four
times in the Word of God. Four different times. They're
spoken here in Romans 117. They're also spoken in Habakkuk
chapter 2, and that's the first time they're spoken in verse
4. And in Habakkuk chapter 2 in verse 4 it says, Behold, his
soul which is lifted up is not upright in him, but the just
shall live by faith. Spoken again in Galatians chapter
3 and verse 11, Paul said, But that no man is justified by the
law and the sight of God, it is evident. For the just shall
live by faith. Then in Hebrews chapter 10 and
verse 38, it says, Now the just shall live by faith. But if any
man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Now all the Word of God, we know,
is divinely inspired. It is God-breathed. That's what
Paul told Timothy. All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction
and instruction that the man of God might be truly furnished
unto all good works. One Bible verse is no more important
than any other Bible verse. If you would ask most fundamentalists,
they would tell you that John 3.16 is the most important verse
in the Bible. If you get a Gideon's New Testament
and open it up, you'll find that they have John 3.16 translated
into about 58 or 59 different languages. John 3.16 is not even
a complete sentence. It's not even a complete thought.
The complete thought starts in John 3.14 and ends in John 3.17.
But nonetheless, John 3.16 is not the most important verse
in the Bible. Not one verse is not held up as more important
than another. Debbie and I were in Sam's on the way back from
Asheville the other day. I've got a $25 gift card that's
burning a hole in my pocket, and I can't find anything in
Sam's I want. Isn't that weird? But nonetheless, we were there,
and we were running down looking at the books, and one of the
books said, the 150 most important verses in the Bible. That was
the name of the book, and I thought, Who decided that? Who decided
that? And I looked over at Deb and
I said, did you see that book? And here's what she said, well, who decided that?
How do you decide what's the most important? There is no one
verse more important than another verse. But in the scriptures, when you
see a thing repeated, it should at least grasp our
attention. because it is a theme that runs
perhaps throughout all the scriptures, does this theme. We ought to
look at it as if it were kind of in bold type. This phrase,
the just shall live by faith, is repeated four times in the
Word of God. Another example, when Paul told
the Galatians that if any man or angel or any other creature
from heaven or from earth preached any other gospel than what Paul
preached, that person would be accursed when Christ came. He
said that in Galatians chapter 1 verse 8. Then he repeated it
in verse 9. He repeated it. It bears our
attention because we should be doubly sure that what he's talking
about is worthy of our attention. He said again, he said, and let
me say it again, if any man, any creature from heaven, angel,
man, whatever, comes down here to earth and speaks any other
gospel than that which I preached to you, let it be a curse when
the Lord comes. Let it be anathema maranatha. Paul repeated the phrase to declare
his righteousness twice. in Romans chapter 3 in reference
to the substitutionary, propitiatory work of the Lord Jesus Christ
in saving his people in both the age of the Old Testament
and the age of the New Testament. To declare his righteousness,
he said. To declare, I say, his righteousness at this time, that
he might be just and justifier of him that believes on the Lord
Jesus Christ. And what our Paul was saying
was there, that God declared he was righteous to save his
people. by the blood and righteousness
of Jesus Christ. He was righteous to do that,
and He was righteous to save those in the Old Testament exactly
the same way He saved these in the New Testament, and that is
by the blood of Christ. Those in the Old Testament were
not saved by works, they were saved by grace. They were saved
because they were in Christ when Christ went to Calvary. And that's
why He said to declare First to declare His righteousness
for sins that are past, speaking of the Old Testament saints,
and declare His righteousness now for those who believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody is saved exactly the
same way. They're saved by Jesus Christ
through His sacrifice by the grace and the mercy of Almighty
God. God is just to justify and give
faith to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, since
this is repeated four times, this just shall live by faith,
it behooves us then to take notice here. To stop for a minute and
pause and give due diligence, at least to the fact that God
uses four different places where He uses a specific reference.
It is written, Paul said. It is written. It's already been
said. And when God says something, that's it. That's it. No question should be asked.
No opinion should be rendered. Because an opinion rendered, once you've
heard the truth, is heresy. Truth is to be bowed to, and
to be adored, and appreciated, never to be opinionated upon. So when our Lord says this four
times, we need to pay attention to what He's saying. The just.
The just. shall live by faith. And it is sad but nonetheless
true that we live in an age when we use a word like faith, which
is a grand and glorious word that's used from the Old Testament
all the way through the New Testament. Run across a word like faith,
it's sad we have to explain what it is not and tell people what
it's not before we can actually tell them what it is. But that's
where we are. Several years ago, Henry Mann
wrote a book on faith and took it to a publisher. It's a well-written
book, an excellent book. Gave it to the publisher. The
publisher read it and said, you know, people just aren't going
to be interested in this. Can't be interested in this. He said,
we're talking about a thing that runs from Old Testament to New
Testament. We're talking about the faith of the saints. We're
talking about the gift of God that enables men and causes men
to believe the gospel. And the publisher said, you know,
people aren't interested in that. You got anything on Revelation?
Get anything on those beasts and those monsters and things
like that and last days and future events. People are really interested
in that. We can post a book on that. People aren't really interested
in faith today. They're not really interested
because most people believe everybody has it. Most people believe everybody's
born with faith or they can somehow work up faith throughout their
lifetime. When you hear the word faith
today, my advice to you is to hold on to your wallet, because
generally speaking, faith is attached to some sort of money-making
scheme by a TV preacher. He's going to make a lot of money
on you. That's his desire. He's going to do it on what he
calls a faith ministry. If it was really faith, he'd
never ask you for a dime. Now, you think about that. If
he believed God, he wouldn't ask you for money, would he?
Of course he wouldn't. But they use that faith in planting
a seed faith and all kinds of nut jobs like that come on the
screen and they say, you know, the Lord told me to buy a airplane
or a bus and told me to have you pay for it. That's a trick.
That's a bait and switch. That's all that is. Doesn't have
anything to do with faith. But that's what you hear today.
Folks who talk like that, they're running a game on you. They're
running a game on you. They're going to stroke your
ego while picking your pocket and promising you what is not
theirs to give. But they keep on going on because
people are suckers. Theirs is a Barnum and Bailey
faith. It really is. They believe and live this faith
that Barnum and Bailey said there's a sucker born every minute and
there are plenty of them out there who give money to these
clowns. It's also generally held that many, or by many, that everybody
has faith, and when they say faith, they believe in saving
faith, and they just need to exercise it. I heard a man down
in Atlanta, a very popular Southern Baptist preacher just the other
day, and he was talking good there for a while. I'd listen
to him. You know, you go across the stage and you hear somebody
start saying things about the sovereignty of God, and God is in all these
things, and you know, God has done this, and salvation is by
grace, and all this, and you think, well, you know. And then
he says, all you've got to do is exercise faith. All you've
got to do is exercise your faith. He's saying you have it. But
the Scripture says that's not true. Scripture says all men
have not faith. All men don't have faith. Those
who have faith will never perish. For he who believes on the Lord
Jesus Christ shall never perish, saith the Scripture. But those
who don't have faith never believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
the only way a person has faith is that God sovereignly bestows
or gives that faith to that person. Faith is the gift of God. It's not a general pool. It's
not on the shelf so you can take it if you want it or don't to.
Don't want to. The fact is if you have faith,
one day you are an unbeliever. One day. In fact, I'll put it
even closer. One second you were an unbeliever.
and the next you were a believer. And nobody could ever change
your mind after that second passed. Why? Because you were given something
that is eternal in nature, and is spiritual in nature, and can
never be challenged. Even though you can't prove a
word of it. Faith is a miracle of grace.
And the just live by it. The just lived by faith. Others talk about faith as if
it were some kind of magic enchantment, that if you believe strong enough
and believe hard enough, you'll always have what you need. That's
what the TV hucksters say. You'll have money, you'll have
health, you'll drive a fine car, you'll never have troubles. And
if you have troubles and don't drive a fine car and you're poor
and sick and you're running around in a rust bucket, it's because
you don't have enough faith, you see. They get off the hook
that way. Same way the healers do the same
thing. You come up and if you're healed, they say, you know, this
is, you're healed by faith. But if you're not healed, they
say you don't have enough faith. If they're healed, they'll say,
the Lord to the Lord be the glory. If you're not healed, they say,
the Lord don't get no glory out of this. Listen. Faith is a gift
of God. Don't have anything to do with
those things. It's a trap of religion. A trap of religion
that religion sets to ensnare poor men's souls. They talk about
faith as if it's a common everyday thing. In fact, not all men have
faith. Many think that faith can be
seen. They think that you can see faith, even that it must
be displayed in a religious manner. Generally, this has to do with
noise. catch phrases that punctuate
the end of sentences, postures that bespeak humility, the waving
of the hands or the my shout is bigger than your shout mentality.
Listen very carefully. Faith is invisible. If you can show me some evidence
of your faith, I'm going to tell you right now what you show me
evidence of ain't faith. Because faith cannot be proven. It is invisible. And the only
one who knows that they have it is the one who has it. I may
believe that you have faith, but I don't know for sure. And
you may believe I have it, but you don't know. The only person
you can truly know is a believer is yourself. And I'm here to
tell you tonight, you know one way or another. You do. You know.
If you can convince someone you have faith, neither one of you
know what faith is. Faith cannot be proved, and that
is the wonder and the beauty of it, and it is specifically
why it is foolishness to the world. God said faith is the
substance of things hoped for. Faith is the evidence of things
not seen. That's the only time the word
evidence is used in Scripture. in the New Testament. One other
time in Jeremiah, but it has nothing to do with faith. God
says faith itself is the evidence of things that nobody can see.
What is faith? The just shall live by faith.
What is faith? What is it? The word is used
basically two ways in Scripture. When it's preceded by the definite
article THE, as in examine yourselves whether
you be in the faith. Faith means the gospel. That's
what it means. The faith means the gospel or
the whole teaching of scripture which is the gospel. It means
the doctrine of God or what God teaches. The doctrine of God
as revealed in his blessed word. Faith secondly means believing
or to believe. Both of those are the definitions
or the way faith is used in Scripture. And the difference is so slight
and so minute that they are often used interchangeably in the Word
of God. But the difference is important.
Faith, true faith, saving faith, is wholly based upon the ground
of the revealed Word of God. Nothing else. If you are a believer,
you believe in Christ. You believe that God sent His
Son to die in your room instead and pay for your sin and make
you righteous before God. You believe that. Why? Have you seen it? Have you laid
hands upon it? Has it been played out in some
movie for you? Is it written in the stars? Why do you believe? Why does a person believe that
Christ died for them? If they believe it, they believe
it because this Word says it, and for no other reason. It ain't
what they feel, but sometimes their feelings go astray. Sometimes
their feelings are one thing one day, up one day, and down
the next. They believe based upon what God alone has said. Devils, the devils believe in
God. Scripture says that. They believe
in God and they tremble, and yet they will reside eternally
in the bowels of fire and darkness where the worm dies not and the
fire is not quenched. Saving faith has to do with the
record of how God saves, not the record of His existence.
If you were to ask, and I think a recent poll was taken, that
97% of Americans believe in God. Does that mean they are all saved?
No, they believe in His existence. You may believe in His existence
as the devils do, and be lost as a goose in a snowstorm. Believing faith, saving faith,
has to do with the way God saves. How does God save sinners? By
Christ alone. by Christ alone, based on what
is recorded in the Scripture alone. This is the record, John
said, that God has given us. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath
not life. Well, I don't like it that way. It doesn't matter.
That's the record. And if you're a believer, you believe that.
You believe the Son. Saving faith has to do with how
God saves. You may believe in God without
believing God. Did you know that? You may believe in God without
believing God in reference to how He's just in the salvation
of the elect. But if that's the case, you do
not possess saving faith. Therefore, you're not saved by
faith. But rather, faith believes that you are saved by grace.
We're not saved by faith. Faith believes we are saved by
grace, brought to fruition by the finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith does not make you righteous.
Faith believes that you are righteous when all evidence is to the contrary.
Faith believes that you are righteous because of the finished work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. God has made Him to be to us
wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Faith doesn't
make stuff happen. You know, people say, well, if
you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could move that mountain.
You know why our Lord said that to the disciples? Because they didn't
have any faith. They had so little faith. He was telling them they didn't
have no faith. Oh, ye of little faith. In fact, the way that's
actually worded in the original, oh, little faith. That's what
he called them. Your name is little faith. We can't move mountains. Why?
We're little faith. He could move them out. He had
great faith. Faith doesn't make stuff happen.
Faith believes that God has made stuff happen and makes stuff
happen. Faith believes God as He is,
as He is revealed in the Scripture, in that which most glorifies
Him, the salvation of the elect by the blood and righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture teaches us about Christ.
From Genesis chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 22, a single crimson
thread runs through this book that says Christ, Christ, Christ
and Him crucified throughout this book. And if you believe
the Bible, you believe Christ. And if you don't believe Christ,
I don't care what you believe about this book, you don't believe
the Bible. You don't believe the Bible. So four times our
Lord says, the just shall live by faith. The just shall live
by faith. Now in every instance these passages
have to do with Christ and His work and men's reaction to His
work. In Habakkuk the passage reveals
the pride of the Pharisees as He will not bow to the necessity
of coming to the Messiah. In Romans chapter 1 the passage
speaks of those who have trusted in the righteousness of Christ
as it is revealed in the gospel called the righteousness of God.
It's the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. In
Galatians chapter 3, this passage is used to declare that those
who believe that they, by keeping the law, by being good people,
establish a righteousness that God will accept, they're dead
wrong because the just don't live that way. The just live
by faith. They live by believing. And in
Hebrews 10, the same principle is set forth, that those who,
having heard the truth, return to the bodily elements of the
old covenant, when it is declared in no uncertain terms, in absolute
terms, that Christ has done away with the old, and established
the new, and perfectly saved his elect, and they return to
that, then they prove that they were not God's people at all,
because the just, shall live by believing the gospel, by faith. The best reference to the fact
that this is about the gospel are the texts themselves. In
every instance a question is answered by truth declared. Who
shall live by faith? The just. The just shall live
by faith. Who are the just? I want to know,
don't you? Who are the just? They are those
who are just with God. Just with God. Now in the day
in which we live, in the dark religion that permeates the world
in the name of Christ, this is not an issue at all. Men falsely
believe that God loves everybody. They tell them that. They preach
it from the pulpit. They put it on bumper stickers.
They put it on signs outside their church. God loves everybody. When the Bible says He doesn't,
who are we going to believe? Some church sign of what the
Bible said. God is angry with the wicked every day. He hated
the workers of iniquity. Jacob, have I loved thee, so
have I hated thee. There's the three times at least the Lord
says he hates people. Oh, God can't be like that. God's
like that. Get used to it. Barney, you say if you think
God's a monster, get rid of being a monster, because the one of
the Scriptures is the one you're going to meet, not the one of
your imagination, the one you're likely to meet. This is the God of Scripture. But men say, well God loves everybody
and Christ died for everybody and the salvation is ultimately
dependent upon man's will. So to even speak about who is
just with God seems to be a useless thing. It seems by what men are
saying everybody is just with God already. He loves them. Christ
doesn't pay their sin debt and all they have to do is say yes
to God. I heard a man, a preacher say the other day, just say yes
to God. Why? Did he ask you some kind of question?
Did He put something before you? Well, show me that. What did
He say to you that you're going to say yes to Him? What that
man was saying is God just wants to see you. God's just trying
His best. He's just trying His best to
get you to do something. Just say yes to Him. What a poor
and pitiful God that is. Say yes to God? The world believes that faith
is useless. That being just doesn't matter.
But it does. The one question that must be
answered, and you're going to have to answer this, and you
must answer this, and I must answer this. The one question
that cannot be avoided is the question asked in the oldest
book of the Bible. In Job, the question of questions
is simply this. Here's the question. You have
the right answer to this. You're in good standing with
God. How can a man be just with God? How can you? How can I? Stand before God just. Just. That's a question. The man who is just with God
lives by believing God. But how can a man, a woman, born
of a woman, born in sin, conceived in iniquity, proceeding forth
from the womb as soon as they are born speaking lies, hating
God by nature, at enmity with God, having no thought about
God, caring not for God, drinking iniquity like water, called a
worm, a maggot living on a dunghill, sinning in every thought, word
and deed, guilty of Adam's sin by imputation, lost, doomed,
damned, dying, condemned, ruined, undone, unclean, vile, wicked,
murderous, evil, criminal, felonious, a transgressor that is full of
iniquity. How can such a one be just with
God? If you know anything about yourself,
that is the question that needs to be asked. How can a man be
just with God? How can a man? And that's the
question that's being asked in heaven. That's the question that
kept the minds of Elijah and Moses when they came back on
the Mount of Transfiguration. They spoke of the death which
Christ should accomplish at Jerusalem. What's that death about? Being
just with God. Being just with God. What does it mean to be just
with God? To be just means to be justified. Justified. That's a legal term. That's a
legal term. Which means that before the law,
you have never committed not even one minor infraction. You have never broken the law. That's what it means to be just.
You are perfectly righteous before the law. To be justified means
that there is no record in heaven, in hell, or on the earth, anywhere,
there is no record that you ever sinned against God. That's what
it means to be justified. It doesn't mean be pardoned.
That's an Old Testament term under the Old Covenant. To be
pardoned implies guilt. It implies guilt. There was a
story of a French lieutenant who was falsely accused and put
in prison. And many years later, the king had found out that this
lieutenant had been falsely accused and he came to this French lieutenant
and said, I'll pardon you. He said, I will not receive a
pardon. He said, I'll be justified or I'll stay in this cell. He
said, because I had committed no crime. And so the king justified
him. Richard Nixon was pardoned. And
we all knew, didn't we? At 18 minutes of tape, we knew.
Pardon implies guilt. Justification declares innocence. It doesn't merely say not guilty,
it declares purity, righteousness, holiness, and innocence. To be
just with God means that the holy searchlight of God's exacting
law scans you from top to bottom, looks at the record of your total
existence here on earth from the moment you drew your first
breath, even to the deepest recesses of your soul, and cannot find
one spot, one wrinkle, one blemish, or any such thing. The law must
find only perfection. Or you're not justified. The just, the justified shall
live by faith. The law and the conscience must
have no ground upon which it can accuse you. Or you're not
just with God. Indeed, how can a man be just
with God? We know this, the declaration is plain. The just, the justified
shall live by faith. How can a man be just with God?
I know this, if a man is just with God, that man, that woman,
will live by faith. Because if they know anything
about themselves, they'll not try to live any other way. They really
won't. I know that I can't be just by
keeping the law, because I can't keep it. What's made to be kept
anyway is made to declare what a rotten person I am. For the
law, Paul says, for by the law no flesh shall be justified in
God's sight. That's clear enough, isn't it? How many? None are
justified by the law. I know I cannot be just by trying
to defend myself for Scripture declares that that would be a
useless endeavor. In Job chapter 9 verses 1 and
2 and in verse 20 it says, If I try to defend myself before
God and declare my righteousness, God will give me one thousand
things for every one I point out. If I point out one good
thing, He'll show me a thousand things that are bad. One for
a thousand. If I try to justify myself, my
own words condemn me, is what the Scripture says. I know that
I cannot be just with God by asserting my own righteousness.
Why? Because I have none of my own. I don't have any righteousness.
My righteousness is Jesus Christ. You mean that's it? That's all
of it. That's all my righteousness. God has made Him to be righteous
unto me. And His name shall be called the Lord, our righteousness. Scripture says there is none
righteous, no, not one. And what I might think I have
to offer God as far as good works
or good deeds or anything like that, Isaiah 64 declares that
all my righteousness is human righteousness. are as filthy
rags." And that word is minstrel, filthy minstrel rags. That's
under the law a woman who is having her minstrel cycle was
put outside the camp and she was not allowed back in the camp
until she was cleansed and an offering, a blood offering was
made for her before she was allowed back. So what she did in that
In having her cycle, she represented all humanity as being cursed
before God. And that's what Isaiah was saying. If I endeavor to approach God
with my own righteousness, what I'm doing is taking these cursed,
fouled rags and accept them for my righteousness. That won't
work, will it? All our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags. How can a man be just with God?
There must be no record of his sin. And he must be perfect and
righteous before God. How can such a thing be? We saw
this morning in our Bible lesson this morning that a man, that
Jesus Christ, has purged our conscience from dead works to
serve the living God. He has perfected our conscience
before God. Because of His one sacrifice,
we have no more conscience of sin. But look over at chapter
10 of Hebrews just for a moment. Hebrews chapter 10. Look at verse
11. Here Paul is comparing what the
law could not do and what Christ did do. He says, For every priest
standeth daily ministering, and offering oft times the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sin. Under that old covenant, all
those practices, no sin was ever remitted. No sin was ever put
away because none of those things could do that. They were sinful
men offering sinful sacrifices on natural altars and no sin
could ever be remitted. And so they never sat down. They
stood daily, 24 hours a day in shifts, running, moving all the
time, busy, busy, busy, busy. Always keeping blood before God,
always keeping incense before God, always keeping fire before
God, always. Why? cause. No sin was ever admitted. But this man, speaking of Jesus
Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever
sat down on the right hand of God. Why'd he sat down? The work's
done. It's finished. Don't have anything
else to do. There were no chairs in the tabernacle. There were
no chairs in the temple. There was not one piece of furniture
you could sit on. Why? Because the work is never done.
But Jesus Christ sat down on the right hand of the Father.
There's a chair there. It's called the throne of heaven. And He sat down there. Why? Because the work is done.
From henceforth expecting, awaiting till His enemies be made His
footstool for by one offering, He hath, past tense, perfected,
past tense, forever, them that are sanctified. And what's the
result of that? Look down at verse 17. God says,
Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." That
will never, ever be brought up by God. Now, Satan will accuse
you. Your conscience will accuse you.
You might even have friends and relatives that will accuse you.
But I'm telling you this, before the thrice holy God, whose eyes
are too pure to behold evil, before whom the sun, moon, and
stars are not pure in His sight, He will look at you pagan. He'll
say, I see no sin. I've never seen sin. You've never
seen it. You've never seen sin, Malcolm. The devil might say,
look, I've been knowing. He says, you shut up. I ain't
never seen him sin. That's what it is to be
justified before God. That's what it is to be just
before God. He's made unto us wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. Jesus Christ was made to be sin
on Calvary Street. Nobody knows the full extent
of all that that means. We know that all the sins of
all the elect from all ages past and future were made to beat
on Jesus Christ. And in that moment, He was declared
to be sin, the essential sin, the corruption itself. And God
cut the lights out and God beat on His Son, thrashed Him for
three hours in punishment for our sin. And he came out on the
other side alive. And he said, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? And then after he had been punished
for our sin and took our hell in three hours of darkness, he
did what was absolutely necessary for us to be justified. He died. He gave up the ghost. And when
he gave up the ghost, the law was satisfied and Malcolm was
declared absolutely, completely justified. justified. And God was just to do it because
He had met all His requirements. Christ had suffered the punishment
for sin. Christ had died in the room instead of sinners. Christ
had become sin. Christ being made sin was punished
as sin. He hath made Him to be sin for
us, and you know sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. How do the just live by faith? They rest wholly in what Jesus
Christ has accomplished. This ain't going to get you nowhere
in religion. They ain't going to win no popularity contest
and people aren't going to understand what you're talking about when
you tell them. But you tell them anyway. We're saying it tonight.
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. Don't look at yourself. Nothing
there worth looking at. If you believe there is, you're
in trouble. Nothing worth looking at. Never look for religious
evidence. If you find some, you're in real
trouble. Faith trusts Christ, and it trusts that Christ has
accomplished salvation by Himself for His people. Why? Because the Bible tells me so. Well, I feel it in my heart,
brother. I don't care what you feel. I see it in my life. I don't care what you see. I believe Jesus Christ died in
my room instead. I'm resting and hanging my soul
on that whole thing because that's what the Bible tells me. That's where faith rests. Completely
and subjectively to what God has said. Don't look to evidence,
you won't find it. If you look at your life, you're
going to find ample evidence that you have never known God
and you never will know God. If you look at your life, that's
what you're going to find. Nothing but darkness there, no
light there. But faith doesn't live there.
They just live by believing. And I believe in the face of
all contrary evidence, I believe Jesus Christ paid my sin debt. Because the Bible told me so. Barney, you say, if a man believes
the Bible, he's a Christian. If he believes the Bible. Do
you believe what God says about how He saves sinners? Are you
trusting in Christ alone for salvation? Looking nowhere else? If you are, you're one of them
just people. who are living by faith. Father, bless us to understand
and pray in Christ's name. Amen. Good night. God bless you.