 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hi, John. Welcome everybody to unfiltered or random moment with Pastor David. I'm Pastor as audience, friends and family. We on Tuesdays we talk about current events. What I want to start doing on Thursdays is teasing out the message that you'll be teaching on Sunday. And so today I want to tease, I want to tease out a little bit the message that you're going to speak about with with unbelief. And one of the things I was looking at is in your notes, I was privy to see them, is that there's a phrase that we all know seeing is believing, right? And people can feel in the blank on that one. For Christianity, it's turned away. It's opposite. It's believing is seeing. And a lot of times, pastors, even with me, sometimes it's just hard to believe. You know, we put our faith in practice and sometimes we can struggle with the unbelief. Well, we're going to see a man on Sunday who's frantic about his son, who suffers severely, and he has an encounter with Jesus. And one of the things that Jesus says to him is if you can believe. Yeah. Yeah, if you can believe all things are possible to the one who believes. Yeah, that's one of my favorite passages. When I share it this Sunday, there will be emotion. You know, I'm already praying that the Lord will help me to control them because it's one of those passages that I I've been personally moved by. And so the whole Christian, the whole Christian walk, you know, is based on on faith. The most common word that is used in reference to a Christian is a disciple. We were mentioning that recently in one of the studies. So we're a disciple is the common word that is used to to to define a that's the word to to speak of a follower of Christ. We're called disciples, but we also are called in scripture believers. And the reason that we're called believers is because we are to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. And so the word believers is used many times and the word is translated believers. It's the same basic Greek root, as I understand it, that would refer to also faith and also trust. So if you added words of those who trusted in Christ or have faith in Christ, and it's the same basic word and we as believers, those who have put our trust in Christ or faith is in Christ. Well, the way we became Christians and refer to as believers is because we believe, right? It's that simple. And we'll look at that in more detail this upcoming Sunday. Because as you just mentioned, you know, the old saying is seen as believing. But in John chapter 11, when Martha was speaking to the Lord Jesus Christ, we, you know, in reference to the death of her brother Lazarus, and Jesus had spoken concerning the fact that he'd be raised from, you know, the dead and this and that. He said to her, did I not say to you, if you believe, then you will see. And so for us as Christians, it is the trust that actually results in the expression or experience of seeing the Lord move. And so in this particular case, you know, the disciples and the Lord have been on the mountain three of the men, Peter, James, and John, were witness to his transfiguration. And so he comes down from that that mountain to the base. And there the scribes are, and there's a multitude of people, a growing crowd when the man cries out from amongst those in the crowd, you know, that he needed help because of a son, his son who was suicidal, a son who was throwing himself into water and throwing himself into the fire. And he's desperate and needs help. And haven't we been there ourselves in many ways, never perhaps as severely as this man who wants to child from infancy suffer and be tormented in this way. Not many people have experienced that kind or that level of suffering. But can you imagine the, the brokenness of the father as he came and said, I brought him to my, I brought my son to your, to your men, they weren't able to do anything. And then he says, but if you can do anything, show us compassion and help us. And that's when Jesus said to him, if you can believe, it's not that I can't do is can you receive in faith what I can do. And so to me, that's a very deep lesson. And that's when the father with tears says, Lord, I believe help thine my unbelief. It's not the areas of the things I believe in, Lord, I'm fine with those things. You know, for me, a life of catechism, Bible studies or whatever has been, has been fine. But to put those things into practice to actually see what is not as if it is, is beyond my pay grade at this moment, because all I see is a broken son. All I've seen for years is a broken son, a scarred son from the fire and a son that I can't allow to be out of my sight because he's thrown to the ground in bruise. He gnashes at his teeth, his gums and his mouth is bruised and sores, probably started gnashing away his own teeth. How can I believe when the only thing I've ever seen is what's in front of me? So yeah, I'm looking forward to sharing that story with our congregation, with an encouragement for us to realize that faith is being aware that God can do that, which we really can't easily understand. It puts us in the realm of trusting him in all things, because faith is not just for the times that are easy, and it doesn't make things easy. You know, faith doesn't make our life easier, it just makes impossible situations possible. And through Christ, we can go through these impossible situations and see the possibilities, because he's always faithful. He never fails us. And so yeah, I'm looking forward to sharing that this upcoming Sunday. You know, as you're sharing this pastor, you know, I always think about unbelief in my life and sometimes it will lead to hopelessness. But when we have our faith in Christ, I mean, imagine Jesus, as you're sharing, I was getting a little misty because I could imagine his father, you know, our children going through this from for a long time and the hopelessness he probably had through that unbelief, that he'd probably tried everything. He did. And even bringing him to the disciples, he, you know, Jesus wasn't there, so he did the best thing he could. He took him to the ones that spent time with him. They had already cast out demons. They had already done miracles. They had done things, but they couldn't in this case. And their failure caused his faith to even go lower. It even made it more difficult. And so yeah, I do believe that that this Sunday will be a good Sunday and I won't go beyond that right now. Yes, yes. You know, so if they're not going to be able to be with us, perhaps they can watch it online. If they can be with us, if you can be with us, it probably be worth your time. It would be. So please invite your friends and family to come out and join us. This is going to be a good study. I know it is. Services are at 8.30 and 10.45. And then we stream it again at 2pm online. But there's nothing better than just coming to church and worshiping the Lord. Well, we can. We should. Right. And so, Pastor, thank you for this. And this is a good teaser. You guys, you come on out and join us. We look forward to having you join us again. Services are at 8.30 and 10.45 AM. Amen. Pastor, thank you so much. God bless you guys. Thank you for doing it.