 some reading and it just came across. You know what? I would really like to share this with with some people and so here we are. I wanted to share something with you but before I get into what exactly is it we're sharing I want to ask you guys a question and I think it's an obvious answer at least it should be but we'll see. The question is this how are we saved? How do we become Christians? How do we become saved? How do we get eternal life? What is the mechanism? It's not a trick question. I promise you not a trick question or maybe it is. I don't know. We'll see. I don't think it is but the question is what is or what causes us to be saved? How do we become Christians? How do we get saved? That's all I'm asking right now. I'm going somewhere with this because it's going to take us into what we're talking about and it's going to relate to the topic at hand and so you'll hear someone that will say and I'm pretty sure you all will say the same thing that faith is how we're saved. We faith alone. Now there's an argument out there about faith. Are we talking about works or what have you? We're not really going into into that but we are saved by faith. Now before I go there I want to deal with this issue of faith what it is and really what it's not. Now there's two types of faith. There is the faith that is the noun and then there is the faith that is the verb. Are you with me? The verb faith obviously is an action. We are doing something. We are doing faith. Are you with me? That is an action. It's a verb and then there's a faith that's a noun. We know that that that the Bible deals with both of them because we see how both of them are used. We see the fact that it'll use the faith as a noun. We can tell just like well not in English as much but in Greek we can tell by the ending if it's a noun or if it's used as a verb and it's important to know when the two are used. Now obviously when we talk about the verb faith there is a verb faith that is not leading to salvation and then there's a verb for faith that does. The verb that is not leading to salvation is a temporal. It's a right now. I believe for the moment and again I've showed scriptures which is funny because you can show somebody's scriptures and say well I disagree. Well I literally just showed you scripture where somebody believed the same word as you believe but that person wouldn't say. But then there's a verb that is what we are, true Christians, we are the believing. We are in a constant state continually there with me. Now if I asked you faith is how we're saved the next question is going to be faith in what? Explain the faith that brings about salvation. What is this faith? Now I will submit to you that salvation isn't in knowing what is going to happen. No, it'd be one thing and it'd be easy to have that kind of faith if we knew for a fact what was going to happen. No and I'm going to say this now I'll probably say it in the middle and I'll say it towards the end. Matter of fact even at the end that the faith or the object of our faith is not in what is happening, what's going to be done, not where, not why, or not even when. That's not the that's not the faith that saves us. The faith that saves us is in the who? Faith in God or with me. I don't want to throw anybody for a loop but our faith is squarely planted on God. He is the object of our faith. It's always been that way. He is a God that just does not change. I the Lord do not change. He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. And so it's our faith in him. Why is that important? Because just in a practical sense, if your faith is based on what you think God is going to do, you're going to have some problems because what if he doesn't do what you think he's going to do? What if he doesn't bless you the way you think we should be blessed? Okay let me just let me just read this guy. He says we are saved by God in election applied by the Spirit to the elect and given to Christ, apprehended understood by us through faith. Let me just say this because I think now this is my buddy. It's always interesting to read people's doctrine in their statements. Nothing wrong with a statement but let me ask you guys a question and I want to thank you for leading us on. Do you think that everyone who is saved, and I'm talking about genuine saving faith, understands everything that we're supposed to have faith in? Kind of like you just said. Do you think that everybody who is saved now, obviously going forward, but even in the past, they understand it all? What about the Christians or the believers, I shouldn't call it, but the believers in the past? Because oftentimes we talk about that our salvation is based on having faith in what Christ's redemptive work on the cross brought about and I agree with that. That's a fact. That is a fact. But do you all think, I want you to think about this for a second, do you all think that the Old Testament believers, those who will find in Hebrews 11, do you think they place their faith in the redemptive work of Christ on the cross? Do you guys think that these people, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Rahab, do you think that they place their faith knowing that Christ was going to take on flesh and die on the cross? Do you think that, what about Abel? You think that Abel knew that Jesus was going to take on flesh and be crucified on the cross? Do you think that was the case? No. No. Now, someone's going to say, well no, their faith was looking towards the cross, ours is looking back towards, and that's cute to say. In fact, it matters. They had no idea the cross was coming. They had, you know how I know? Because if they did, tell me, then that makes us so much better than them. You know why? Because we talk about the cross all the time. We talk about the shed blood on the cross. We talk about all these different things that have happened for us, for the benefit of us on the cross. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, the shed blood, the cross, right? But they don't talk about it. You mean tell me, they knew that the Lord would come and pay the price for our sins and don't say anything about it? Well, no, because their faith was in the very same God, but just in God. I don't know what God is going, I don't know what you're going to do, God, but I trust you. That's the argument, and that's the use that Jesus had with the disciples when they were in the boat. I'm literally here with you, and you are compliant, you're worried that you, carousel, let me use the King James version. Carousel, not that we perish. Jesus, you don't care that we're going to perish? Jesus, I'm literally in the boat with you. What are you talking about? I'm in the boat with you. He says it depends on what Jesus means to you. Well, but if we go back further, we don't know what Jesus meant to them, because the Bible doesn't tell us. We know the gospel was preached beforehand, but what about the gospel? What specifically? All we know is that they knew that God was going to deliver them. We know that they knew that the Lord would show up as Messiah and deliver them to God sometime in the future. They don't know how it's going to happen, when it's going to happen, what will be the mechanism. They had no idea. When God has Adam and Eve and the serpent Satan lined up, they didn't know. They didn't know if they did. Wow, it's a tightly kept secret because they didn't tell anybody else, and Moses didn't tell anybody else, and Abraham didn't tell anybody else. And now we get things that are progressively revealed as we go through, but we just don't know. And so what we want to get is the one thing that we don't want to miss is faith. I agree, it is what saves us. What faith is, it is in the conviction or trust in God. Our faith is in God and what God says. I'm reading something, I'm sorry. So for us, we believe that salvation for us is trusting what God did on the cross. For someone like an able, someone before the flood, they were just trusting in God, period. God tells you to do something, you do it. And we're going to see this in just a second. Obviously we're going to look at some scriptures. Matter of fact, let's go ahead and start. Amen. Continual faith is what saves us. And I want to, matter of fact, I'm going to reference this as well. We have this up and down faith, but it's still kind of going this direction. We're up, down, up, down, up, down. Today I miss faith. Listen, you can shoot rocket launchers at my head. I'm still going to trust. And tomorrow you can throw daisies at me. I'm scared. But our waning, our great faith, our lagging faith, we're still headed in the same direction. There's something today that's pulling us, that's helping us, that's working in us. There's something that is doing something on the inside that carries us there. And this keeps coming up because I was watching the basketball game last night. The game was over and I saw that someone was covering something that I said. Really they were covering me in the debate with Seiko, but they were really covering me, which is fine. And for the most part, he and some of the artists pretty much missed a lot of what I was saying because when you try to fix something into your doctrinal lens is why I'm not, and I'm not what folks say I am. I'm not a Calvinist. I'm not a dispensationalist. I'm not Baptist. I'm not Method. I'm none of those things. Are there certain doctrinal views that I hold that some of these groups have? Sure. Sure. If you have some truths now, I'm going to try to hold to as many as possible. Now, do I think that all of mine is perfect? I don't think so. But I'm going to make you prove that I'm not, that I'm wrong. I won't just take your word and I'm not going to just, you know what? Let me just go ahead and just lean on your confessional faith. No, I'm not going to do that either. I think Corey is a Calvacostical. You know what? That's what I am. Start my own news. I'm a Calvacostical. Calvacostical. And that's true too. All faith is not the same. That's true. You can, well, I put it this way, faith and that kind of faith that is it true starts off looking the same. We both, people that are genuinely safe, believe that what happened on the cross happened on the cross. We believe it. Those who have this waning faith, this temporal faith, that's not real saving faith, they still start off at the same starting point that faith in what Christ did on the cross, they believe the same thing. Something's different though, and we're going to look at the something different part so we can understand what this issue of faith really is. I like that too. As far as he said, he's a charismatic reformer or maybe, which is or maybe reforming charismatic. We have patients. So because you want to know what's funny, you want to know what's really, really funny until we drill down how many people thought that I was just like them. Think about that. How many of, let's say the Calvinists thought that I was like, of course the Calvinists just like us because I'm saying a lot of the same things. But you don't agree with, you don't agree with this tenant of our confession, but you believe these others. How, how is it possible? How in the world is it possible for you to think in many ways like us, but you don't hold all these other confessions because I'm not saved by those confessions. I'm not behold to those confessions. I am here. And if what you believe is true, then amen. If what we both believe is true, then amen. We're going to, we're similar. And so I want to drill down onto what this issue of faith is. I want to start in what we call the faith hall of fame. It's in the New Testament, but, but we're good. I want to answer what? Hold on. What? R M R M B. Well, I want to answer what? What? What I want to answer. I'm looking to answer questions. If you got one, what am I, what am I answering? Let me see. I don't see a question for me. You can't. Well, I don't think this is a question you're asking, but you said you can't just have faith in Christ without the gift. Okay. I don't think that was a question you were asking. But let me know if I, if I missed a question that you were trying to ask or that you, is faith a gift? Sure, faith is a gift. That's, that's literally what the bottom is. Matter of fact, as a matter of fact, guess what? It's literally on my screen pulled up ready for us to go to in just a little bit. So yes, faith is a gift. Faith is a gift. So I want you guys to write it down that Corey says that he or Corey believes that faith is a gift. Faith is a gift. All right. Now, I want to go ahead and pull this passage up. Let me go ahead and pull this pass. I'm sitting looking at something else. Let's start in Hebrews chapter 11. Let's put it back. I don't want to go too far. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction or the evidence of things not seen for by the men of old gained approval. So what is that saying? Faith is this belief, this bedrock belief, this conviction, this, how do they say it? I'm 10 toes down. I'm standing firm on this, this belief, this assurance of the things that I'm, that's hoped for. I know for a fact. I, I'm bought in. Now this is this, this faith right here, put it back on the screen. This faith right here, this pistis is a noun. Are you with me? This is a noun. We'll look at the faith that is a verb in a little bit, but right now he's talking about the now this thing. This thing is what we're talking about. The thing, the thing faith. Are you with me? So this thing faith, what is it? It's just, it's an assurance. It's a conviction. I am my sincerely held belief that it is true. And look what it says, the conviction or the evidence of things not seen. So I'll see something that hasn't been seen. In other words, it's the evidence, it's the proof that, that is brought about by this thing, this faith. It's the proof. You'll know my faith. You'll, you'll know my faith because you'll eventually see my faith in some way, shape, form, or fashion. But Corey, that sounds like works based salvation. I really don't care what you think it sounds like, honestly, because we have been doing this, this back and forth, this works based salvation. I can promise you most folks who talk about this works based salvation don't even understand throughout salvation to begin with. You're going to find this out. That salvation is basically a sandwich. Salvation is basically a sandwich. What do I mean by that? Salvation is a sandwich. There's faith in the middle sandwiched by God and God. God and God and faith. I believe that God is the, the generator of, of this faith. And it, he brings about the conclusion as well. So the faith that we have is produced by God and then is also demonstrated by God, perfected in God. Are you with me? So our faith is sandwiched between God and God because I'm making you hungry. Amen. Are you with me? Thoughts on the I'll see if I, I'll see if I can come to it. This one too. So now first three for by faith, we us ussises. And I obviously in this passage, in this book, he's speaking to the Jews, but there's a lot of things that we can also glean from this as well. So this week, yeah, it's the Jews at that time, but they're in the same position as us. They weren't there. Neither were we. So all of us by faith, they and us, we understand that the world was prepared by the word of God. So that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible, meaning we weren't there. The only way that we know the world was created by God. The only reason though that we believe that in the beginning God created the heavens, the only reason why we don't believe that some aliens created it is because the Bible says so. We have faith that the word of God is true. We believe what it says. That's our faith, this bedrock, this conviction. We don't believe that something else happened to bring about this earth by faith. And here we go. Verse four, by faith able offer to God a better sacrifice than came through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous. God testifying about his gifts and through faith, though he is dead, still speaks. So through this faith of able, and actually it's really through it, but it's speaking of faith, we know what able believed. Now we're not privy to the conversations that God had with Cain and able all the other children that Adam and Eve had, or with Adam, we're not privy to, we're only privy to what the Bible has given us. All we do know is that God told them to do something and able believed it and obeyed just the way he was told to. Cain did not. We have the conversation between God and Cain says if you do what's right then you'll be you'll be approved of, but if you do what's wrong then sin lies at the door. Able believe God. We know why do we know that able believe God because it literally says by faith able offer a better sacrifice. So our faith according to this so far is going to be seen in some sort of way and he says because of that, yet he died as a result of it, but his testimony still rings out. The testimony of able still rings out even though we have these stories about Cain and able. Are you with me? Now going to verse five by faith. Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death and he was not found because God took him up for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up, he obtained this witness as he was pleasing to God. Don't know exactly all the things that Enoch did, but he did it in such a way that it was pleasing God. He did what he was supposed to do. He heard God. He trusted God. By the way, you're going to notice that one of the things that seems to be in common is that these people hear from God. That's important as we go forward. Verse six, he says, and without faith, it is impossible to please him that it's to please God. Why? For he who comes to God must believe that he is some verse will say that he is God because this is relating back to him. And so now why is that important? Because believing in what the Bible teaches, what the Lord teaches is not enough. Believing that it comes from God, believing God, because it's the fact that you believe God that determines what you're going to do. For example, if you heard the voice of God right now to tell you to do something, you notice the voice of God, you would do it. Get up and leave your home right now and go stand on the curb. You would do it. Why? Because God said so. Do you all recall when Jesus comes up to Peter, Peter's in the boat, Peter's mending his nets? They hadn't caught anything. Jesus comes by and Jesus says, push out into the deep. What does Peter say? Peter says, we have been fishing or toiling all night and we hadn't caught, we hadn't caught a thing. Now we do this, Jesus, in case you didn't know, we do this at night and we do it in the shallow end, the shallower ends, not out in the way, way deep. Peter, Paul, I mean, Jesus says, push out into the deep and his daytime. Peter didn't argue. Peter didn't say, well, no, no, Jesus, you got this wrong. No. What did Peter say? Peter says, he gives an objection, we've toiled all night, but nevertheless, because you Lord, because you say so, then I'll do it. Why would Peter do that? Well, because Jesus is not a stranger. Remember, John the Baptist had disciples. Peter's brother is, has met Jesus and tells Peter, hey, we have met him and he goes to get Peter and he has his encounter with him. So he knows who Jesus is. And so we don't know if it's the second, third or fourth time that Jesus spoke with Peter. All we do know is that when Jesus shows up on the banks and says push out, he pushes out because you said so. Why? Because he trusts God. He trusts the Lord. That's what faith is, not in the result, what might happen, what has happened. You said so. And so the same thing we're seeing with these people in, in, uh, in Hebrews 11, the same thing. They trust God. Don't know where we're going. Don't know what, what's going to happen. Don't know. I don't even know how it's going to happen. But Lord, I trust you. Let's continue. Look at this one. He says, by faith, Noah being warned by God about things not yet seen in reference, prepared an ark for salvation of his household. Now we know the story. God wants Noah to build a ship. It's the greatest ship, the most famous ship ever built. More, more famous than the Titanic, more famous than any carnival cruise line. This is the most famous ship, the most famous boat ever created, more famous than the boat that got Gilligan stranded on the island. This is the most famous boat in the history of mankind. He is not a shipbuilder. He doesn't know anything about boats. He's not a, he's not a maritime person. He's not, he's not in the Navy. God says, build the boat. What does he do? Start building the boat, gathering the materials. Now, as he's building, God has told him, gotta get all these animals, too. Wait a minute. Yeah, yeah, just champ. Even more, even more than the love boat, Isaac and his thick mustache are even more important than the love boat. Yes, more famous than the love boat. So now, he was one heck of a carpenter. Yes, he was. But then he's got to be a zoologist and a tracker according to him because God just want him to get, wait a minute, Lord. Now, Noah is not a spring chicken. Noah's not a spring chicken. Hey, man, thank you, child and cat. Noah's not a spring chicken, so what does Noah have to do also? After I'm through building this boat, which by the way, I'm, Lord, this is, swinging his hammer and he, and he, what, now I gotta go chase monkeys and lions, lions bite by at this time, lions bite. I gotta catch drafts and zebras. I gotta go out and catch. I'm not that fast. How's it going to happen? But, Lord, nevertheless, Lord, because you say so, in my mind, I'll do it. I'll get her done. Thankfully, he doesn't have to. God brings him. But I'm sure he had to be just, it's just in my mind. I'm thinking, how am I going to get these? Listen, how am I going to catch the birds? What's going to happen? But, faith. So, folks walking by, know what you're building, the boat, why? Because it's going to rain? Well, what is rain? I don't know, but God said it. God said it's coming. Never seen rain. That's what, why? Not in what's going to happen, or how it's going to happen, or even the why, even though he's been told why, but it's the what. I mean, it's the who. Who your faith is in? God said so, so God did. And so by faith, and guess what? It is still, guys, this is still the noun faith, by faith, by that thing, that object, in reference prepared in Ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteous according to faith, according to faith, according to faith, and this is still a noun. Now, I want to look at this fellow right here, and I want to bring something up, because I think people keep missing it. I think some folks miss it. Yeah, just honestly, I think some folks miss what I'm saying, because they want to miss it, because it doesn't fit a particular part of their narrative. Overall, we believe the same thing, but this particular issue, and I want to, I want to broach it again just, just momentarily. 118, by faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going. So here, Abraham is told by God. Let me stop for a second. Lately, I've talked about this issue, really, it was concerning total depravity and living at home, but the issue of total depravity, which also relates to the heart being regenerated and so forth, whatever. And I said that people in the Old Testament, and even the new, have had the occasion to believe though they weren't regenerated. Well, what makes you say they weren't regenerated? Well, because the Bible doesn't say they were regenerated. You mean to tell me Abraham, the father of our faith, he wasn't regenerated? How can an unregenerate person, that's what they're saying, an unregenerate person have faith and even be called the father, I mean be called the father of us, but also a friend of God? So my question to them back, or my question will be to them is this. When you think about Abraham, you're gonna think about a couple of things that are unique to people like Abraham that we have not experienced. First of all, is it possible, just possible that maybe the Spirit of God was upon Abraham, rather than in Abraham? Is that possible? Is it possible the Spirit of God was on Abraham, not in Abraham? Now, why that's important? Because in the Old Testament, we've seen times where the Spirit of God has come upon somebody and then left, even on people who were not believers. So the Spirit of God can come upon somebody, but not be in somebody. But here's something else that's just as important. Matter of fact, pretty doggone important. Pretty doggone important, and maybe this might have been the greatest reason why Abraham believed. This might be the single biggest reason. Now, I don't know if the Spirit of God had come upon Abraham or not, didn't say, but this might be the single biggest reason why Abraham believed. Can you imagine? Let's just think about this for a second. Can you imagine you're sitting there with your father's people, with your, with your, with your kinfolk, notice me, and then God speaks to you. Not somebody come and tell you, hey, the Lord told me to tell you, no, God Almighty from heaven speaks to you. Abraham or Abraham. Wait a minute. Because when God speaks to you, I've never had it happen the way Abraham had it happen, but I would imagine if I hear God the way Abraham, I imagine I would know it's God. Do you all think that I would, me too, Chester, I follow my face. Do you all, could you imagine hearing God, the God that we say we worship, the God that we cry about, the God that we cheer about, the God that we tell us about, the God that we warn sinners about. That God speaks to you. If that God speaks to you and says, leave here and go over yonder, what do you think you would do? I think if you heard God speak to you and tell you, I'd leave, tell you, leave here and go over yonder. I think you would leave here and go over yonder with or without having your heart regenerated. That's what I think. By the way, that's exactly what happened. God spoke and he moved. Even the sinners, when they hear God face to face, I got to move. I got it. All right. So when God speaks, I think that might be a little bit of a certain, I think that's an important fact to mention. So it's not that I'm saying or that you need to say that Abraham was regenerated. Because that's the conversation now. That's the conversation on deck right now. Some kind of way, the old ballhead man over at Smart Christians channel has got folks talking about regeneration. No problem. No problem. Give me the scripture that disproves what I'm saying. I'm giving you the ones that prove what I'm saying. I'm giving you the scripture that said that he's going to regenerate people in the future. Why would he regenerate anyone in the future if he's already doing it right now? But how does Abraham move? Because God told him to move. Most of you all would agree, not everyone, but most people would agree would say that God doesn't speak to people today like he did then. Is there anybody that would agree with that that God doesn't speak with everyone today like he did then? Most people most people could agree that God doesn't speak to us that way. Now some folks say no, I believe God still does speak. We're not going to have that debate right now, that discussion right now, but I don't care who you are. When God tells you to do something, you're going to do it by the way, by the way, did not God have a purpose in calling Abraham? Did God choose Abraham because he was awesome and great or God is getting ready to do something? Now I'm sure he didn't pick the worst of the bunch. I'm pretty sure he didn't go out and find the Hitler of the Chaldeans and the Uyghurs. I'm sure he didn't pick the worst of the bunch by picking Abraham. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case. I would give Abraham a benefit of doubt and say that Abraham was probably a decent God as far as people are concerned. But God has a point, a purpose, a plan in what he's going to do. And surely if he's going to use man, the man that he's going to use is still going to be a fallen man, whoever the man is. And so he chooses Abraham. And when he chooses Abraham, you know what he says? Abraham and Abraham hears it and then Abraham obeys. Interestingly enough, when you think about the times that Abraham didn't obey, it seems as though there wasn't a lot of conversation between God and him, and then God shows up. He wasn't talking to God when he told the king, him elect to, that this is my sister. But then God shows up and starts talking to him again. Let's continue. So by faith, Abraham, when he was called by God, obeyed by going out to a place in which he was to receive an inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was going. Again, we don't know the why. Faith is not in knowing the why, it's in knowing the who. God said so, so by faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob fellow heirs of the same promise. Another question, why do you think Isaac and Jacob follow? Because God spoke. Pretty easy. For he was looking for the city which has foundations whose architect and builder is God. By faith, even Sarah herself received the ability to conceive even beyond the proper time of life. Since she considered him, listen to this, considered him faithful who had promised. Wait a second, wait a second. So Sarah, the object of Sarah's faith was him. Who's the him God? It certainly wasn't her old body. And it certainly wasn't in Abraham's dead body. Now I understand, listen, this is children's programming. So we're not going to use your imagination, but it took some faith to get this party started. It took something to get the boat moving. Let's go back to it. By faith, even Sarah herself received the ability to conceive even beyond the proper time of life since she considered him that's God faithful who had promised. Therefore, there was born even one man and him as good as dead. She called Abraham dead. He's dead. She dead. He owe we both cold. That's what that's what's happening here. So he says, him and him as good as dead at that as many descendants as the stars of heaven and number as the sand, which is by the seashore. So all right, God, I believe you. I don't believe him. I'm looking dead at him. He's old. I'm old. I believe you God. So come on, Abraham. Let's get the party started. Now this is after, this is after they concocted the plan to, I'll tell you what, go ahead and you and you and Ms. Hagar. Oh, by the way, Hagar came back after she ran away. Why did Hagar come back? Because God told her she literally met God and I can promise you when you come face to face with God and God says and you hear, you're going wherever he says to go, I want you to walk into that house on fire, walk into it. Don't worry about the flame. All right. Cause you said so. That's the power of God in his word. Verse 13, all these died in faith without receiving. Now here's an important point. All these died in faith without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance and having confessed that they were strainers and exiles on the earth for those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. So let me say this, these folks died in faith. Do you ever remember I had the conversation I said before that when Jesus speaking in John three, he says that no one has ascended except he who has descended. So all persons ever been in heaven at this point when John is speaking, when Jesus speaking in John three, no one has not even Elijah, not even enough. No one has. And he says all of these died in faith, all of who all the ones that were just mentioned, that includes he not died in faith without receiving the promises. Well, they're not talking about an actual land. We know he's not talking about an actual land because look what land or what region or country he's actually talking about. But having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth, they knew the earth is not their appointed place. So they never received their final destination. They did eventually, but there was a wait. We'll get to this wait just a little bit. He says for those verse 14, for those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. And indeed, if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had an opportunity to return. So they weren't thinking about going back to they were thinking about going someplace. They don't know where they don't know how they don't know when. What do they know? They know him. They know who they know God. Verse 16, but as it is, they desire a better country. Look what it is. That is a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Obviously, we're talking about heaven. Faith is not in where you're going, in what's happening, in why, in when. They don't know this. The Old Testament saints have no idea, no clue, according to this passage, what, when, why, and how they just have faith in who? God. God said it. I'm doing it. Abraham, leave this country. Well, a voice from heaven spoke. It's God. I'm gone. I don't know if Abraham left a goodbye note. Mom and daddy, this is Abraham. This is your baby boy. I'm getting ready to leave. I can't tell you why. Well, I can tell you why, but you won't believe me. But God told me. Yeah, that's what's happening here. Noah built an ark. All right. Can you imagine the conversation he had with his wife? Sweetheart, I'm going to be busy for the next few months. Doing what, sweetie? Building a boat. Building a what? Building a boat. Why are you building a boat? Because God said, I don't know. I don't know if Noah had some brothers. I imagine he probably did. I don't know. But I'm about to build a boat. Yep. The USS heaven. That's what I'm about to build. I'm about to build a boat. Okay. So what's going to be on the boat? A whole bunch of rooms, some barns, some stalls. Why? Because I'm going to get some animals. Wait a minute. You're going to get the tigers and the lions and bear. Wait a minute. Why? Because God said, when you hear from God, you do move. You do move. Let's go back to verse 17. By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promise was offering up his only begotten son. Why would he, Abraham, give up Isaac? Because he heard God's voice. God told him, one, even if we go back and look at the story, but God told him what Isaac was going to be. He's the only one of his boys. Clearly it's not Ishmael, it's Isaac. And then God, he hears Abraham hears from God again, go and offer your son. Now, what did Abraham believe? We're going to find out what Abraham believed about offering his son. He says, it was he whom it was said, in your son, in Isaac, your descendants shall be called. He considered, this is what Abraham thought that God was going to do. Abraham thought that God, he considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type. So he believed, okay, fine, I'll kill him and then God will raise him up. And the only reason I'm going to kill my son is because God told me to, and God is the one that gave me, listen, God gave me from my dead, dead body and her dead wounds, we can do it again, because it's God. It's God. So whether we say he was regenerated or not, we don't have a text to say so. What we do have a text to tell us is that he heard from God. I can promise you this, that when God says, move, you move. I think so. Not, hey, the Lord told me to tell you, no, no, when the Lord actually tells you. So let's go back to it. He says, by faith. And this is going to be, this is going to be kind of funny. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come. Wait a second, hold up. Let me drink some coffee from my, my prison beverage container. Did y'all see what he just said? Now we read, we read this, but sometimes we read and it just kind of just goes over our head. We're not paying attention. We just, sometimes you just read, just be reading. Sometimes you read just to get through. Let me put it back on the screen, because this doesn't make, matter of fact, God, I love you and I believe you, but this don't look like faith, God, knowing the story that I know about Isaac and Jacob and Esau. He says, by faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. Lord, or maybe the writer of Hebrews, that makes no sense, because Isaac blessed Jacob, not based on who or what he knew, he did it. It seems like he did it based on a lie, based on some trickery, some chicanery, that that's what it looked like. So how then can you turn around and say that by faith that's why Isaac blessed Jacob? Well, I want you to notice something even embedded in the passage. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come. Now, can we have a little bit of Greek here? Let's have a little bit of Greek here. Sorry, we start the week off Sunday with some Greek. How about that? This word for even is the word chi, which is also even or as. What he's saying is, piste chi pedre melonton, which is he speaking of the future. Now, Isaac knows, I'm sorry, yeah, Isaac knows that Jacob is going to be the one that is going to serve. I mean, Esau is going to serve the younger, the older child serving. He knows that. He says it to Rebecca. Obviously, Isaac knows it as well, but still it's time to give the give the blessings out. And so there's a trickery. And if we go and look and see, the blessing that he's really talking about is even for our future. And so obviously Isaac knows what God, Isaac knows what God has said to his father and that through him, all of these nations, all of these people would be blessed and be born. So far, Isaac only has two kids. So some kind of way, there's got to be more to come. So Isaac is looking for, why would Isaac even be looking forward? Isaac is looking forward because he's talked to God. These are people so far that have talked to God. They've heard God or heard his word. Question, is our faith different from the Old Testament saints? No, it's not. Well, our faith is still in God. Our faith is in God, what he's done. How was Job, how was Job righteous? Because he did what God said, his faith was in God. Lose all your children, but I trust your God. Abraham, I trust your God. What about Abel? My parents and God has kicked out of the best place ever, but I trust you God. Noah, I trust you God. As we go through the list, look at all the people. These people heard from God. What about Joseph? Joseph heard from God. He believed God. So much so that no matter what he went through, he believed God. Those people who heard the word and trusted God even under the law, they weren't really so much. Now some did trust in the law, but the salvation comes from God, trusting God. Real quickly, Jesus, not Jesus, the Jews in the law have to trust God. Here's how this works. You've got the priest giving the offering, giving the sacrifice. All the sins are professed or confessed on the head of the scapegoat sent away. Then you've got this shed blood from this animal. Do y'all realize, do y'all realize, I want you to hear this, do you realize that's not the end of it? It's going to sound funny. Let me make the end point. If I say that the sins confessed upon the people sent away and then the shed blood on the altar, that wasn't enough for them to have their sins atoned for. How were their sins atoned for? God then accepts the sacrifice. Are you with me? I saw that too. God must accept the sacrifice and then they place faith in God. What God did, God provided and God accepted. And all you're doing is accepting. And so because of that, one God provides, your faith comes in and then God makes you right. Remember I said earlier, our salvation is based off of a God sandwich. God, faith, God. That's how it works. God initiates, does something, we have faith, and then God. Can y'all see why it's a picture of what happens even in the New Testament? God initiates something, God starts it, God gets the party rolling, we place faith in it. God then credits to us righteousness. He puts us in a justified state. Now the difference is then is their justification was for one year. But then he also gave them something in the meantime. If a week later, two weeks later, months, two months later, you mess up, he also gave you this other provision, these offerings, these sin offers and so forth. So he says young Don said that heretics always take you to the Greek. Let me just say this and I would hope that he hears this. That was one of the dumbest statements that they hear you make that statement. That's just, that's just really ridiculous. But he's young. So he'll, we'll give him some grace that he'll come around and stop saying some of the things he's saying. But would I say that it was God keeping the Old Testament saints? Well, yeah, God, yes, yes, it was. Yes, God was working in them to keep them believing. Now the problem was a lot of them were not. The problem was the big issue was, and this is why the prophecy states that he is going to do something to their heart. He must do something with their heart because their wayward sheep, he must do something with their heart and he must deal with sin, this desire for sin, this desire to keep returning to sin. He must do something with that. And oh, by the way, he's also got to get them, make a mechanism for them to go to heaven. Remember to say that they did not receive the blessing. And we're going to talk, matter of fact, we're going to come up with that in just a little bit where he covers this again, that these people did not receive the promise. These Old Testament saints did not receive the promise because I saw a couple of times when someone says, is Corey saying that there are two different types of salvation, two different tracks? I'm not saying that, but the faith in God is clearly the same, old and new. They gave an offering of whatever before the flood, that is, Cain, Abel and his siblings, presumably Adam and Eve. I don't know if the Bible doesn't say anything about Adam and Eve after this. Noah did not have the same functioning in terms of reconciliation with God as the children of Israel did under the law. The children of Israel, their faith in what God was providing was in something different, not as good as what our faith is. It's the same atonement and God has been making atonement all the way through, but it seems though he's using different elements. After the garden, his remedy for atonement is different than the remedy for atonement under the law, which is a different remedy for atonement at the cross and afterwards. Are you with me? And let me just say this, the same sin that is bothersome to God before you are a born again believer is the same sin that's bothersome afterwards. God is not like, you know what you're a Christian now, you're a believer and your sin doesn't matter that much. Yeah, it still matters. It still matters. But again, your faith is in what? Your faith is in God, what he's done, and the fact that God has brought you through, God is going to keep you, you have that faith in him. We're looking for a deliverer, some sort of deliverer. Now, we know we have, we have the story of him. They did, they had no idea. They had no idea. And so what they put their faith in, God, what do we put our faith in? God, same thing. This is why this problematic when people would believe that Jesus is not God because wait a second, now we do have, if Jesus is not God, that we have a different salvation. Our faith is no longer in God, but now in some creation that can't be. That's why we believe that Jesus is God, same God. That's why Leviticus 1711 actually matters. Now I want to get back to, I want to show you something. Verse 23, now faith, I'm sorry, by faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child. And by the way, I just would like to see, not Moses, the adult Moses, but I would love to see what the baby Moses looked like. How good looking of a baby was he that everyone keeps talking about how good looking of a baby he was. I think for the most part, babies are cute. I think they are. Oh, now, I'm sorry to say that. I've seen a couple ugly babies. I know, I know, I know it's wrong. I know it's wrong, but I've seen some babies that just made you wonder if their family was living under a curse. I've seen that before. But this baby Moses, wow, they keep talking about how beautiful Moses is. So I just want to see, I want to see what Moses as a baby looked like. I want to see what Eve looked like. She was the very first one and Adam too. But you also want, you know, you want to see, you want to see what how beautiful Esther was. They talk about her. And then Sarah, she 175 years old and men are still going crazy. She's not 100% but she's old and men are going, how beautiful are you when, when all the folks are looking, I'm behaving CG, I'm behaving, but I'm just, this makes you wonder, this makes you wonder because again, I'm looking at the text. The text says that by faith, Moses was born. Why? Because he was a beautiful baby. I don't think he was as beautiful as my grandchildren, but you know, that's just me. That's just, if my baby, if my grandbabies were in a beauty, a baby beauty contest against Moses, my baby would win my, because didn't say that Moses was the only beautiful baby. Maybe all the other Hebrew babies just didn't look good. Maybe their babies look like pig pen on Charlie Brown and Moses look different. Maybe I'm kidding. I'm kidding back to it. He says, but because they saw he was beautiful child and, and they were not afraid of the Kings eating by faith. Here it is, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Well, and remember, Moses has been brought up by his, by his family. So they know who God is. They know what God has done. He knows what God has done. He says, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to endure ill treatment with the people of God than obey the passing pleasures of sin. Considering the approach of Christ, by the way, this word for Christ is obviously the Messiah. So considering, and some verses do say the Messiah. So considering the approach of the Messiah or Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward, didn't know what the reward was, but he was looking to it, knowing what God will do eventually. By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King, for he endured as seeing him who was unseen. By faith, he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them again. Once you hear from God, once God speaks, that's all it takes for me. If I, I can promise you this. If God spoke right now, told me to go outside, get on the roof, and start flapping my arms like wings, I'm going to do it. If I hear from God, I'm going to do it. By faith, I'm sorry. Yeah, by faith, they passed through the Red Sea as they were passing through dry land and the Egyptians when they attempted it. They were doomed or they were drowned. I'm sorry. Look at this. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. Remember, the faith is in who? God, not in what, not in what, not in why, not in when. God says it again. Look at this list. These are people that have heard from God. And when God says something, good to go. Now I got a question from my folks that's still getting on me. By faith, Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient after she had welcomed the spies in peace. By faith, Rahab trusted. What did Rahab know? Now, here's, here's a person who we don't know heard by her from God because the Bible didn't say that she heard God. The Bible didn't say that she heard God. Nope. So how, how does Rahab have faith? So we're going to say, well, maybe her heart was regenerated. Okay, fine. I'm going to look for that passage still. I'm still waiting on that passage. How does Rahab have faith? Well, what did Rahab say? Rahab said, we've heard of how the God of Israel has done these things for you. We've heard what happened to these kings over here and these folks have come in. We heard these things and Rahab says, I'm no dummy. So what does Rahab do? Can I, can I help you out so you can help me out? I believe that guy that you guys are serving. That's what I believe. Verse 32. And what more shall I say for time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Baruch, Samson, Jephthah of David and Samuel and the prophets who by faith conquered. By the way, you keep noticing how these folks have faith, do stuff? Again, we don't have a works based salvation, but we do have a salvation based works. That part is inescapable. Verse 33. Who by faith conquered kingdoms performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of swords from weakness. Could you imagine if we had all of the things, what would happen? How awesome would it be? Because, you know, we don't see, we have not experienced the God speaking from heaven like that. We have not experienced Red Sea Crosses or Jordan River Crossings. We haven't seen that. We haven't experienced fire coming down from heaven and consuming people multiple times. We haven't seen or witnessed the earth opening up and swallowing people in judgment. We haven't seen these things. We haven't seen a pillar of fire leading us by day or a pillar of cloud by night and a pillar of cloud by day. We haven't seen that. We haven't seen what Moses' face looked like when he sees or catches the peak of the Shekinah glory. We haven't seen the Shekinah glory on the mountains. It's this this thunderous cloud. We haven't seen that. We haven't seen God in action like that. And when we see, notice when they see God in action, what do they do? They move. They move. Now with us, it's a little bit different. We've got something not on the outside, but on the inside, and God has demonstrated that the thing that's most important is our walk with him, is our knowing him, brought about by the very, the most important thing, which is our faith in him. You cannot please God without faith. Why? Because we already read, you must first believe that he is God. So the object of our faith is not what, not why, not when, but who? That is the object of our faith. Delivered by the Spirit says, during the Old Testament, where the sins, their sins were forgiven for a year, no matter how they lived. No, no, no, that's an important point. This is this whole thing about perpetuation that we need to understand also. Perpetuation is made. Perpetuation doesn't have to be accepted though. A payment is made, but all of Israel was not redeemed. There were some evil wicked folks that also lived in the camp who may have been there. Remember, they had to afflict their souls, not work and so forth, but also fast. And then whatever happened by the hand of the priest, by the scapegoat, by the shed blood on the altar, and then God accepts it, they place their faith in that, if they place their faith in that God accepted the offering, the atonement, then they are atoned for, for one year. And then also throughout the year, they have these other offers that they can give, but you'd have to adhere to it. Everyone didn't. And so that therein lies the issue. Everyone didn't, but you had to have faith. You have to have faith again, because, because do y'all think that every Jew understood what God was doing? No, no, just like every Christian understand what we have the Bible. We don't read it. We don't understand it all. But you don't have to be a seminary professor to be saved. You can be a kid in the field. I just know what God did for me. It's good enough. I know my faith is in God. Amen. So continue. Look what he says. Verse 34, quench the power of fire, escape the air. Verse 35, women received back their dead by resurrection and others were tortured, not accepting their release so that they might obtain better resurrection, and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment. In other words, they went through that because of their faith in God. They kept, they believed God. And God, what's funny is even when they were going through things, God would still show himself to be faithful. I agree with that, Pocahontas. I agree with that. 37, they were stoned. Matter of fact, to go what you just said, they were stoned. They were sawn in two. Can I ask a question? No, this is a little off topic, but on topic. How many of these folks that want to be something special, the bishops of the world today, the apostles of the world today, the prophets of the world today, the most highs or whoever these leaders, how come they're not signing up to be stoned or sawn in half? What gifts? How come you guys aren't as faithful as these guys were? They didn't have the Holy Spirit in them, but you guys do. How come, you say you do, how come they, you, where is the line to get sawn in half? Now I'm not asked to tell me that I'm lining up for that lie. I'm not telling them, but these guys that have all this Holy Spirit power in them, why aren't they doing it? 38, men of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. Now we're getting to the end. And all these have gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised. Wait a minute. We talked about this earlier. He says they did not receive what was promised. They're looking for a heavenly estate, not this earthly country. We read that earlier. The country they're looking for is not here. If that was the case, they went back to their old country. As the scripture said, they were looking for something in heaven with God because they were looking for it. They didn't get it. Why didn't they get it? Why did they not get it? I think, and I'll come back to this later, not today, but I'll come back to this later. I think it has something to do with one, the true gospel being preached to them and the Holy Spirit. I think that's what's going to happen. I think it has a lot to do with the Holy Spirit because you just can't, even though you have been made right, how do you go before God? How do you go before God? There's got to be something, you've got to be in right standing in order for it to happen. We'll do it that way. But notice this though, they did not, they gained approval. They gained approval. And how do you gain approval? We got to have faith. But look what they didn't get. They did not receive what was promised because God had provided something better for us. So that apart from us, they would not be made perfect. In other words, they're not getting in without us also. There is a delay in them getting the promise. Why? Because of us. Now, he's saying us speaking of these Jews, these Hebrews and Hebrews 10, but it also refers us as well. We're being brought in as well. All right, hold up guys, hold up Isaiah, hold up Jeremiah, hold up Abraham, hold up Job, hold up all you guys. I got some other folks I got to deal with too. Listen, this is going to be a big beautiful party, but it won't just be you guys. I got some more folks bringing some Gentiles because remember when he makes his promise to Abraham, I think God means what he says when he says, in you, all of the families of the earth shall be blessed. That means Jews and non-Jews. He's using the plural families. So not just Israel, one family, but all of them. Now, I want to go to passage. We see this passage a lot. Ephesians 2A says, For by grace you have been saved through faith, through faith. What did I tell you that this word was? Remember I said earlier, there's two types of faith. I wonder what the clock means behind Corey. It's always five o'clock because that's usually when the showtime starts. That's when the showtime starts. I've been asked to get rid of that clock. Somebody even thought that the clock was, is that some sort of sign that you're given? Because when I put my hand like this, or you know what I can't stand? I cannot stand. This is just me. When people say they're given these Illuminati signs of this and that or whatever, y'all do realize there is no Illuminati. And then you've got folks that are saying they're Illuminati because they're playing with you guys. If there was an Illuminati, they wouldn't tell you. But everything is a sign. Corey, you did like this. And when you did like that, this whatever must mean some sort of sign. If you do like that, that's a sign. There's only so many positions you can put your hands and your fingers in. And each one of those is some sort of pagan sign, I guess. And so someone said that that clock is that's representing some sort of pagan symbol or no, it's just it's a clock that my old daughter, my old daughter, my daughter has. She didn't want it. I said, I love those kind of clocks. It's kind of clocks we have with little kids. And I like it. And so rather than throwing away, I don't even want to get it fixed. I just like the clock. So what time is it? Five o'clock is already always time. That's what it is. Anyway, I just had to throw that up there. And so someone said that Corey, Corey, part of Illuminati, because he did like this. Well, first of all, I don't do like that. I might have been like this, though. I think I did do this before. And someone said that what's that hand sign you're doing? I'm just resting my hands together. If I were part of the Illuminati, I'd come and get you. If I were a part of the Illuminati, because Illuminati, that's so powerful, right? If I were, I'd come and get you. But because the old statement used to be back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, how come no one's ever met someone in the Illuminati? Now everybody's saying, yeah, I'm part of the Illuminati anyway. There's even one guy that he starts his comments off that I'm part of the Illuminati. Yeah, whatever. Why would the Illuminati be making a comment on this channel? I don't know. But anyway, going back to this, he says, for by grace, you have been saved through faith. And notice the word for faith here is a noun, pisteos, which is a noun. You have not been saved by your believing. It is this conviction. It's the thing, not the verb. I'm sorry, not the belief. But you have not been saved by the verb. You have been saved by the noun faith, the thing, the object. And what's the object? Him. The faith that is the bedrock is him. That's what it is. And he says, and that that's why he says it's not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. And we've covered this before. Let's go ahead and cover it again, you all can make sure you know where I stand. That gift and that salvation are both a gift. I mean, that faith and that and the salvation are both a gift. How do I know? Well, you've got three ways of using a noun. You've got three genders. You have a masculine, obviously, you have feminine, and then you have the non-binary 2023 way of things, the neuter, the genitoneutronunc. But there's a neuter. There's a masculine, there's a feminine, and then there's a neuter. Typically, we can look at the antecedent and see if it agrees with the, like in this case, the it. If the it is, let's say, for example, let's go back to it. This is for by grace, we have been saved in this word for salvation. It is in the masculine, so, and then faith over here, pisteos, is in the feminine. So to figure out what the it is that's referring to it, what is by grace? I mean, what is a gift? Either salvation or faith will be able to know if we look at what case the it is in. This word here, let's put on the screen again. Tuta, this word, tuta, or the word it. So we'll know what is a gift if this word it is, if the word it is in the masculine, then salvation is the gift. If faith, which is in the feminine, then if the it is in the feminine, then that is the gift. Are you with me? So let's go and look again. So salvation is in the masculine, faith is in the feminine, tuta, uh-oh, it's in the neuter. Well, it doesn't match either one of them. So what's the rule? The rule states that it encompasses both. If it's in the neuter and the other two, neither of those are in the neuter, and if one of those were in the neuter, then it would refer back to the neuter. But since both one is a masculine, one is a feminine, then the neuter refers to both of it. So what is a gift of God, the salvation that we have, and the faith that we have? God does, that's why I said we are, our salvation is based off of a faith sandwich. God, faith, God. He initiates, he does something to cause this faith, to move this faith. Are you with me? How did he do in the Old Testament? Well, at least with Abraham, he spoke. Again, tell me to move in this God, I'm moving. That helps my faith. The fact that, yeah, in the, that's right, Mr. Valentine, yeah, the feminine, not the effeminate. Feminine, I like that. God tells me to move. I heard from God. Yeah, I got faith. I got some serious faith right now, because God did. He told me. And then what, what, what's the culmination of that? God again, I get to see him. He brings me through. He keeps bringing me through. Why do you think we have all these different offerings and so forth in the Old Testament? Why do we have the day of atonement every year? Because I'm gonna keep messing up with God, has a way, a remedy for me to keep giving or for me to keep honoring him, for me to keep reconciling, for me to keep having payment of a debt, for me to keep acknowledging the fact that I'm falling and he keep accepting them. He does, it's like God just kind of goes over and above the call to bring me to him. God just does, it's almost like God, you're doing too much to save me. I wouldn't do it. God, I wouldn't even do it for myself. That's how much I love God. That's how much God loves me. To do something for me that I wouldn't do for myself, couldn't do for myself, but even wouldn't do for myself. Yeah, that pretty awesome God. Pretty, pretty, pretty awesome God. Now, I want to show you something. John 3, this is after he says that no one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. He says, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. What does that mean? Amen, Mona. She says, he brought me through, he brought me through. What does that mean? Well, they were grumbling and complaining against Moses and against God, mainly against God though. And so what does God do? Fine, you want to complain, complain about the snake biting you. He fasted the, the circumference, bit them, and many, the Bible says that many of them died. Then he fashions the remedy. I'm going to make you believe it. I'm going to make you, I'm going to make you act right. So what does he do? He fashions this serpent, puts it on a pole, holds it up. And if you look on it, believe me, if you look on this, you will be saved. Now, did everybody look on it? Everyone did not look on it. That much we know. Everyone did not look on it. But if you did, then you would be safe. Why is that important? He says, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. He says, for God, so love the world. Now the Greek is, who does God take a place out? So this is how God loved the world. Who does God take a place in hot theos, time, Cosmon? This is this in this way, what God did with this serpent on a pole being lifted up in this way. This is how God shows his love for the world. That he gave his son, that all the people that are believing in him, that if you happen to be, if you happen to be believing in him, if you were one of the believing ones, then guess what? You'll never perish. You don't have to worry about that. Parish the thought pun intended. You don't have to worry about it. Yeah, Joanne, in this case, if you looked on it, apparently looking, looking at his believing, or you may be able to say that you had to look on it, because it'd be kind of hard to imagine that you just put it up, that you just, you put a serpent up, you put anything up, we're going to glance at it. But I believe it's just looking on it and trusting it, because it's still giving the same issue about faith. It's still bringing out faith here. And so the same way that Jesus is lifted up, if you're believing in him, you will never perish. That's the point. That's the point. Faith in what God is, faith in God, faith in what he's done. It's always been this case that whatever God has done, if you had faith in that, whatever God is doing, you were, according to Hebrews, those people have been considered righteous. Those people will be considered righteous. Now, and I see what you said, Carlos, here's the problem with mankind going forward. God didn't part. God doesn't seem to be parting Red Seas anymore. He doesn't seem to be calling down fire from anything. He might. He doesn't seem to be, now by the way, all these things that happened, these didn't all happen, like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, but they happened over a course of time. Like there was some time in between, we have the benefit of having them written for us and put in a night, nicely contained collection, which we call the Bible, so we can look at it and see, it looks like this happened, then this happened, then this happened. Now there were years that happened, years apart, and in different reasons and so forth. And so maybe he still is, I don't know, but we don't see it. We don't seem to be seeing it as much, but even in that, what did man's heart demonstrate? That man still had a wayward heart, which is why a lot of them perished, why a lot of them were scattered abroad, thrown out of the land. Why? Because they have a wayward heart. So now, what God is going to do is now this where God, remember I said, our salvation is basically one big old God sandwich. It's a God-faith, God-faith God. So what is God going to do? Seeing that not one of you is going to believe and stay believing. And it's what Jesus says in the parable of sores, I believe until something happens, until that happens, until that comes to, I believe, I believe, I believe until I've got a problem. So now what is God to see? We're going to fix that. And that's the point that God keeps bringing up. You guys who say you're my people, you're not faithful. You're not faithful. Another reason why I don't believe that our hearts were regenerated. I'll keep throwing that back in because folks are going to keep wanting. Another reason, because if they were, if they were two things, there would be no need for God to say that he's going to regenerate in the future. And two, there'd be no issue with their wayward hearts because he's working in them, giving them something new in them that's going to cause and compel them to move. And so what's God's remedy? I'm going to do something with the heart. I saw someone put up John 644. Yeah, he is going to, I'm going to initiate this and then I'm what? I've got a new, I have a new spiritual disposition. That makes sense. And I want to do what makes sense. God, you did that for me. So now my, my, my chief desire is to please him ultimately versus pleasing myself. Now, there are times where I do want to please myself and that kind of gets in the way. That gets in the way sometimes of me pleasing him. But now I've got this something new. I got, I got a new heart. I got, I got a brand new heart. I got a brand new heart. And because I got this brand new heart, it's doing what God says is going to happen. It's going to bring me to him. Even when I stumble and fall, it's going to keep me getting up, dust myself off and keep going. Why? Because I have full faith and confidence in him. I believe him. I'm going through something. So my faith was never in the something I'm dealing with some problems. So my faith was never in the primary or the, or the solutions or the remedy for those problems. I am in need of something. So my faith was never based on me having something. Whatever I'm going through, whatever I'm dealing with, my faith was never, was never the result of having or not having by faith. Cory has followed God because God has been God in his life, whether he was blessed or not, whether he was homeless or had a lot, whether he was in prison or whether he was free by faith. Let it be said that by faith, Carlos love God by faith. I'm living some of your names by faith. Let's just attach some of your names to it by faith. Mona pursued God by faith. Cephas didn't care about the world by faith. Dutch and his mother showed their love and affection for God by faith dog on it. Feel spread the gospel by faith. CG will let the world know who God is by faith. Faith in what the things know in him. It's what faith is. It's what faith is. Faith is focused on an object. In this case, the object is him. Not what I'm going through, not what I'm going to go through, not what the end result. If I thought that faith was dependent upon me being blessed, I never problem because I got a lot of times where I've shown or been shown that I'm not as blessed as I want to be. I didn't get the car that I wanted. I didn't get the house that I wanted. I didn't get the job that I wanted. I didn't graduate from college I wanted to. I didn't get out of prison early enough. I went to prison. All these different things. If faith is based on them, then I have no reason to be faithful. But it's based on him who created all of this. And so that's it, guys. That's it. God has always, and you know what God did, if you go back and look in the Old Testament, you know what the lesson that we can learn is that when God did these things, that even the people from the distance look and say, okay, but then the things that they even, some folks place their faith in those things and didn't see it through. But those people that believe God, not believing in God, but believed God. Believe God for whatever he says, whatever he wants. I believe you. It's like that. It's almost like the coming to America where she says, well, what do you want, whatever you want? Whatever you like, whatever you like, because it's God like Peter. Nevertheless, Lord, because you say so, I'll push out in the deep and cast his net. And so we do God. I'm not worthy because I promise you this though, I promise you this, not every time, not every time that you put your faith in God, will it result in you getting what you want? No, because God, remember the Old Testament saints, they didn't receive their reward. We're going to receive our reward. Now the issue is this, the issue is going to be this. Matter of fact, I had a, what was it? I thought I had a note to tell myself. Okay, I didn't. Sometimes what I do sometimes is I'll cover something and I'll say, I want to make sure I mentioned this. And then afterwards, I forgot to say what I wanted to say. I forgot to say what I wanted to say. But God has shown us without him, we will fail. And without our faith in him, we are going to always, not only fail, but we can never, we can never, let me say this guys, if your faith isn't in him, you can't believe, you can't, you can't please him. Why? Because he says it in the statement. If you come, if you, if you do so, you must first believe that he is God. You must first believe that he is God, misfit king. Amen. It is unstoppable faith. Why? Because in this case, there's something working in us. Because you know what God didn't, you know what God never says about a New Testament believer that he does about an Old Testament believer? He talks about their lack of faithfulness rather than ours. He focuses on himself as the reason why we're going to make it. Because remember what he says in Philippians? He, God, God is perfect. He who began a good work in us, he is going to see us through. He is going to complete it. Why? Because he alone is faithful. That's who we put our faith in. Not us. No, no, it's in him because he loved us. Amen. So thank you guys. I wanted to give that. Let me also say this real quickly before I, before I close down, we're going to start, this is, what is this February of March? So April is when we're going to start the the Bible survey. Probably the middle of March, probably, is when we'll start the Bible studies back up. Probably. I'm waiting on a few other things. So things are going, you're going to see some changes really, really relatively soon. There's also some more interviews, some more guests coming on. I'm going to try to have more little interactions, not too many. Thank you, Lisa. I like to set, I like to set up to, I'm still, we're still tinkering with the, with the lighting and so forth. You guys keep thinking that, that I'm sweating. Is he sweating? No, it's just, it's something with the light placement and so forth that just makes me look like I'm not sweating. See, I'm not, I'm not sweating. Nothing is just, it's just me. It's just, it's just me. So, but that can be fixed because the old setup, it didn't, it didn't look like that. So we're still working with that. I'm one of the audio will be changed a little bit differently. There's just some work that's, that's still being done. And then obviously the main thing is the website as well as I told you before that you guys being involved in the ministry to get the word out to other people, to where other people, especially in prisons and other places that don't have access to good sound teaching, not just from here, but from other teachers. So it won't be that your glory glow. Thank you, Angela. So not that it's just, it won't be if you have a, if you want to have a question answered about tongues, it's not just my answer. It'll be this person's answer, this person. And you'll also hear and see from time to time an answer that I disagree with, but it's not about what I believe. It's not about what I think. And so I want to give you what others say and then let you judge for yourself. But if they do so in a sound, in a thoughtful fashion and concise fashion, then then we'll have it as well. So if you go to the site and you type in, I don't know, tongues, you'll hear what I believe and maybe someone else as well. Same thing about baptism, those kinds of things. And then also the church search, but then also it's going to be a community, a community forum to where you guys, you guys are like, we're like a family. Guys say, hey, so and so, hey, so and so, how's the family? And so on the site, there's a forum where you guys just sit and talk, there'll be topics at hand either for the day or for the week and we'll come. You guys are horrible. It's that shade, but I don't have any shade butter on it. Yeah, I lost my train of thought. But you guys, there's a little community forum where there are different topics that you guys sit and talk about and so forth. There will be moderators on there as well to make sure that everything is, is that no one comes in and is throwing explicit language and so forth and that things kind of stay on top. I can't, you know what? I need to, I need to close, I need to close the chats down over here so I can't see you guys. Leave it in my hand right here because I can't, so I can't see you guys. What's she saying? Anyway, you all will throw me off. But anyway, so you're going to see, and I mean in the next, literally the next few days, you're going to see a whole lot of just teaching. Here's a doctrine topic. Here's a topic, here's a topic. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, a bunch. A lot of the videos that were taken down are being remade. There's some editing in that, which means there's an editor in this as well. So things will be a little bit better, a little bit more professional, a bit nicer. I'm going to have to work on this, this, this, my soul glow. I guess is what it is. So anyway, you guys are bad. You know what? I got to go. I got to go. Y'all got me thinking. I got a complex about myself now, like I'm shining, like I'm Moses, like I've seen this. But I'm going to fix this. I'm going to fix that. They have these, I may have to add a lot. A lot is like these little light things or what it's kind of fixed. So I may have to do that as well. So we'll see. Anyway, bye guys. I want to thank you so much. You guys have a blessed rest of your day.