The Great Hall of Faith. And so, each week of this series, we are going to take just a moment and look at a different character, and look at what we can learn about faith from their life. And as we get in, this is kind of the big idea because it's easy for us to become so infatuated with the individuals in the stories, and I want you to be more infatuated with the God that they serve. And so, Hebrews chapter eleven, the Big idea of the whole series. It's not about how great these people were.
It is about how great the God they trusted in is. In fact, we haven't done this so far in the series, but can we say this statement together out loud and declare it? Because I want you to understand this. And so Hebrews eleven. It's not about how great.
You guys can say it with me. By the way, let's start over.
Okay. And Hebrew, all right, on three. Here we go. I got to count it down. All right, you guys do not look ready.
You're asleep in your mind. You're dreaming about what it would be like to be watching online in your pajamas at home. And so let's say it together: one, two, three. Hebrews eleven isn't about it's about how great the God they trusted in. Is all right.
Do you believe that? All right, there we go. Good, good, because I wasn't sure you believed that at first. All right, and so we're we're slowly working through this.
So we've seen Abel, we've seen Enoc, and and today we are going to look at Noah. We're going to look at Noah. It's interesting, you know, when you plan these series out, you don't really realize what's going to be happening in our world. Have you guys been watching the news this week about?
Some of the possibility that they, you know, think that they found Noah's Ark, and that's happened several times in the past, and so. But it's interesting that that was kind of one of the main headlines in the news this week. And as we were kind of getting ready to dive into this, no pun intended, we it was kind of funny how that kind of worked out just in our world here today. But today we're going to look at the life of Noah and what we can learn about with with faith from. From his life, so Hebrews chapter eleven, verse number seven, the Bible says this: By faith, Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world, and he became heir of the righteousness which is by by faith.
If you had to name, you know, say three Bible stories that everyone in America could talk about, Noah's Ark would have to be on the list. This is one of the most famous stories in all of the Bible. You don't have to have grown up in church to be familiar with the story of Noah's Ark, and and most associate the story with somewhat of a a feel good picture that they saw as a child of you know these beautiful animals you know two by two going into the ark and and different things like that. And that is true, but I want you. To know that this story comes at one of the darkest points in in history, and and so although it does have that element, that beautiful element of salvation and rescue, it also is a very dark time.
And before we dive into the story, I'll give you a little bit of background about Noah, just to kind of give you a refresh, and so a little bit of background about his life. First, the name Noah. In Hebrew, it means rest or or comfort. In Genesis chapter number five, and we'll go to Genesis here in a minute. But in Genesis five, you find a chapter that is dedicated to genealogies.
And when you read the Bible, you you know you're kind of reading it straight through. When you get to those chapters, it becomes incredibly boring. You kind of a lot of times skip over it. And so in Genesis five, during those genealogies, it goes through ten generation. From Adam all the way to to Noah, and if you calculate the time, it is believed to be from Adam to Noah about sixteen hundred years have gone by.
Sixteen hundred years for humanity to to get to from Adam when they were created to where they were at the time of Noah. Noah was described in Scripture as a righteous and a blameless man. It also is said about Noah that Noah walked with with God, and in Scripture he and Enoch, who we looked at last week, were two that specifically were stated in Scripture that they walked with God. He was married; he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and and Japheth, and he lived to be nine hundred and fifty years old. And when we look at his life, the question is: What do we learn about faith?
You know, he's he's listed here in Hebrews chapter eleven as one of the characters of the of the Hall of Faith, and so clearly there's something that we can learn from his life about about faith and how we can apply it. and And I want to give you several things. I got several points for you today, so if you take notes, I encourage it'll help you stay engaged. But but number one, the first thing we Learn about Noah's faith. Is this faith believes what God says instead of what we see?
When you think about faith in your life and living by faith, and you know it's a little different than saving faith, and we'll get to saving faith here in a moment. But in week one of our series, we kind of define out saving faith and living by faith are different. And so, when we talk about living by faith in your life, here's what it is: it's believing what God says and trusting who God is above what you can see with your eyes. Because a lot of times you're not able to see things as clearly as you would like for them to. But if God said it, faith is believing that and stepping out and moving in your life based on who God is and what He said, not based on what you can see.
And you see that in the life of Noah, right here in our text Hebrews eleven seven, it actually says this. You know, by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen of yet. Not seen as yet. In other, in other words, what what we know about Noah's life, the things that he experienced with the flood, with the rain, those things had never happened up to that point. And so, so for him, everything that he saw, we have the entire picture.
So we have the end of the story. But you forget that when when God told him to go build an ark. He had never seen a flood and rain and all this stuff, and yet he steps out and and starts to build the ark. If you have a moment, go to Genesis chapter six. We're going to look at his story for just a moment.
This is not going to be up on the screen here today, but in Genesis chapter number six. You find this story, and I want to kind of paint the picture of what the world was like. And I know every one of you could get up and talk about Noah's Ark today, and and and give a lot of commentary about what was going on. But it's good to have us have a little bit of a refresh on what the world was like during this time.
So in Genesis six, verse five, here's what it says: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth." And that every everybody say the word every with me every every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually everybody say the word continually, all right. And verse six, and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of of the Lord." I want to show you a couple of things here because it'll make this point make a little bit more sense for you today. But you have to understand what was wrong with the world at this time.
So, sixteen hundred years had passed since creation to this point, and for those years, man just completely rejected God. If you look deeper and follow Genesis chapter six, you'll see in verse number two of chapter six that the world was filled with sexual immorality at the time of Noah. In verse eleven, the world was filled with violence. In verse number twelve of Genesis six, the world was corrupt. In verse five, it was wicked.
In verse twelve, the whole world was described as evil. In fact, I had you read or say out loud a couple of the words that describe the evil, the corruption, the sexual immorality, and the violence. And it was the words "every" and it was the words "continually." What you have to understand is during the time of Noah, every thought, every behavior, every action, all of it was evil. It was a terrible world to have lived in, and and because of that, God was angry at the state of humanity. In fact, there's a phrase that we just read in Genesis chapter number six that just jumps off the page at me, and it's in verse number six when it says it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved our Lord in his heart.
The phrase "grieved him at his heart" it's especially strong. If you follow the the Hebrew, the the phrase "grieved him in his heart" it is the same phrase used in Isaiah fifty three or of Isaiah fifty four. In Isaiah fifty four, Isaiah is describing how our sin and how our rejection of God makes him feel, and Isaiah paints the picture. He uses the same word in Isaiah fifty four, and he paints the picture. Of a bride being rejected on her wedding day.
So if you think about it, how devastating! You know we've all been to a wedding at some point, right? And could you imagine going to a wedding and and there's a bride who has planned this special day and she's looked forward to this day, she's longed for this day since she was a young girl, and and she comes to that wedding day, something that she has anticipated her entire life. And family and friends have gathered that day, and when all of us gathered that. Day at the at the church or or the chapel or if it was in 2026 it wouldn't be a church it would be a rustic barn the most coolest rustic barn you have in town right and we've gathered and we've gathered for this special wedding day only to find out that the the groom had ran off with the bride's best friend could you imagine the devastation that all of us The grief that we would feel in our heart—that is the same word in Isaiah fifty-four that we have here, grieved in him in his heart.
That is what God is feeling at the rejection of him by the entire state of humanity during the time of Noah. It grieves him. One thing that's interesting and really difficult for us to understand. I was having a conversation with somebody even this morning about the emotions of God. What you have to understand is our God is holy and our God is perfect.
Our God is righteous, and because of all that, our God is just. But our God still has emotion. And it's hard for us to understand these type of emotions. Like, how could God, you know, be this grieved in his heart? His heart is literally like breaking here.
But at the same time, he's he's perfect and he's holy and he's righteous, and and so it leads him to respond in such a way that a lot of our world can't comprehend. That God literally is going to wipe the face of the earth off because of of their sin and their rejection of Him. I know that's difficult because if you're kind of newer to church, you might ask a question like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Pastor, how could you say God is love?" But yet, what we see here in this story is that he's going to wipe the face of the earth. They're going to go, you know, he's going to kill everybody. Like, how in the world could a loving God do such a thing?
Well, let me tell you this. Could you imagine if someone that you know, like, murdered their entire family? And what you said was, "Hey, you know the murderer. Hey, that murderer. Listen, he just had a he had a bad moment.
You know, he lost his cool, lost his temper for just a moment or whatever. And and you begin to just say, 'Hey, this person. Hey, listen, you're good. We understand you. We are not going to do that again.' And you let him go free, right?" Would you you would think that would be a crazy response, right?
Here's why: is because deep down in every one of our hearts, we long for justice. Right? We long for justice. We want justice. And sometimes the most loving thing we can do is seek justice.
And what we have a hard time understanding here is that our God, yes, He is perfect, yes, He is righteous, yes, He is holy, and because of those things, He He has to also be just. He has to punish sin. You see, here God did not just lose his temper. What he did during Noah's day was he confronted the evil that existed in the world at that time. You see, God responded with righteous anger, and his righteous anger was his loving response to the evil that existed in our world.
And so, what he sees, he's he sees the world in the state it was in, and so he's going to literally kill all of mankind. But Noah found grace in the eyes of our Lord. This is the first time the word grace is mentioned in your Bible here in Genesis chapter number six. The word can literally be translated favor. Grace and favor is receiving something that you do not deserve.
Grace is unearned. Grace is unmerited. Noah here, he didn't receive it because he deserved it. He received it because our God is is good. And what you see here is Noah.
When you when the Bible describes Noah, he was a just man. He was perfect, not not perfect in terms of being sinless. He was mature, and and he was his life aligned with God in a lot of ways. And so, God, in the midst of His judgment, decides to demonstrate His grace to Noah and his family. And so, because of this, Noah, as well as his family, were saved, and the rest of humanity.
Were destroyed by a worldwide flood.
So you say, what does this have to do with faith, Josh?
Okay, you just gave us a little bit of a history lesson of what was happening here in Genesis chapter six.
Well, what you have to understand here is God tells Noah to build an ark so that he could be saved—a gigantic boat. All right.
Now, up to this point. You know, it hadn't rained, and so the the mist and the dew of the morning was enough to you know protect the plants and different things like that. And so, so they'd never seen anything like this. And God tells them that He's going to send this incredible flood that you know rain and is going to come from heaven, and and it's going to cover the entire world, and all of humanity will be completely destroyed.
Something that He had never seen. Before, and so God said, Noah, for you and your family to be saved, you got to go out and you have to build an ark. Can you imagine how ridiculous of a task this would have been? How long of a task? Most people say that Noah had to build this for well over a hundred years to to to get this prepared for the moment of the of the flood.
Noah, who's in the middle of the desert, miles away from the nearest body of water, is told there, "Hey, build an ark." Can you imagine how humiliating this would have been? For you and I, we don't understand it as much as he did because we see floods. Right, North Carolina. You drive, you know, to the western part of our state, you're still seeing us recovering from the floods that came through a couple of years ago. And so we see floods.
We've seen it. We've experienced it. We know what they can do.
So if I was to say, "Hey, it's going to come a flood this weekend," you wouldn't be like, "Oh man, I've never seen anything like that." For Noah, he'd never seen, never experienced anything like this. And so God said, "I want you to build this ark, this gigantic boat, and I want you to take two of every kind of animal, and I want you to put them on this boat with you." It's a humiliating task because you can imagine, and we do have record in Genesis that people just mocked, mocked Noah and his family. Every day they'd show up and they would laugh at him. They would mock him. They probably say things like, "Noah." You gotta, you got a boat trailer big enough to take that to the nearest body of water, right?
And they would, they would make all these statements because this was the most ridiculous task that you could ever imagine.
So when we think about this, faith believes what God says instead of what you can see. What's the point? And what do we learn about Noah's faith? The fact that he stepped out and he went and and built this, no matter how dumb this looked, no matter how humiliating this was for his family, he stepped out and he started building. You say, what does this teach us about his faith?
It's this, and this can be true in your life as well. Noah's confidence was not in what he could see; it was in who had spoken. And this is super important for you to understand the story, because it wasn't in what he could see. He never seen a flood before, never seen rain. The things that God told him had never happened before.
And so, what we see from Noah is that he was not stepping out every morning for those many years. Every single morning, he was not going out there, you know, carrying his lumber and and you know grabbing his tools and doing whatever he used to build the ark. He wasn't going out there with his family every single day because he had seen anything. He wasn't going out there, you know, because he had seen or, or you know, somebody gave him the inside scoop or whatever. No, all it was was he believed that God.
Is a God who will keep His promise. If you believe God keeps His promises, can you say Amen this morning? Listen, he believed and he stepped out on faith, and he moved and he showed up every single day, not because of something he had seen, but because God is trustworthy, and that's what you have to understand. You see, because here's what I'll tell you about you and I, because I'm just like you. A lot of times, when God tells us to do something, we want Him to to show us everything before we trust them, before we step out on faith, before we move.
You know, if if we can say it contextually, I think some of us want to see rain before we move.
Some of us want to see a flood. Before we take a step of faith, and he had never seen a flood, he'd never seen rain, and yet Noah moved anyway. You see, that's what what faith is. When you when you think about living by faith, it doesn't have to see it. You it just as if God says it, you believe it, and you trust Him.
Faith doesn't ask, "Can I see it?" Faith asks, "Did God say it? And if God said it, then you can take it to the bank. It's true. And whatever He's asking of you, He will deliver every single time." Number two, faith fears God. In Hebrews eleven seven, back in our text, it says that Noah moved with fear.
Noah moved with fear. And the fear mentioned in our Bible is is not like a lot of times what we think of with fear. Like we we hear fear and we think a frightful fear, right? And that's not what it means in Scripture. When you see a healthy fear of God, it's talking about a respectful and weighty type of fear.
In other words, it recognizes that you realize how important or weighty a thing or a person is.
So when it says that Noah stepped out, he had a fear of the Lord. What he's saying is, is that when God speaks, it's weightier in his life than when anybody else in his life speaks. In other words, when God speaks, we listen and we take it to heart, and we take it more respectfully because we trust Him. We know His character; He cannot lie, right? He cannot make a mistake.
He cannot go back on His promises. And so, when God speaks to us, it's a weightier speaking. You see, living by faith, it moves because of who has spoken to you. You see, if God's calling you to something, whatever it may be, it could mean it could say, "Hey, you need to go across the street and invite somebody to church." Or you need to go visit somebody, or you need to go send a letter to somebody, or a card, or hey, you need to go into the ministry, or you need to take a step, and you need to sign up to serve at Trunk or Tree, or hey, you need to you know start teaching a class, or hey, you need to jump into a community group, or or whatever. When God nudges you and leads you to something, here's what a healthy fear is: a healthy fear takes that nudge.
Way more seriously than anything else in your life, it's weightier for you. But a lot of us, you know, what we do, we take the nudging of what he's nudging us to do, or leading us to do, or guiding us to do, and we just kind of chalk it up to just like anybody else gave us a suggestion. And here's what Noah did: Noah moved with fear because of who had spoken to him. Number three, faith obeys before it understands. In Genesis six, verse twenty-two, it says, "Thus did Noah, according to all that God had commanded him.
So did he." Now, when we get to heaven, and I don't know how this is going to look or whatever, we say this all the time. But you know, I would love to have a conversation with Noah. I would love to talk to Noah for just a moment. Just about this, like, hey Noah, did you have questions, or did you just jump right into it? Because if it was me, I'd have a lot of questions, right?
And any of you have a child at home that asks you a lot of questions, like you're just kind of why, you know, how, and and you're just like, stop talking for just a second. And that's how I am with the Lord. God tells me to do something, I begin to question. I begin to think. I begin to process, and it leads me to want to ask all these different questions, and and so I'm constantly asking him questions.
And so here, I'm just curious because we don't really have a whole lot of dialogue between God and and or between Noah and God, and the questions that he he asks. But I imagine because he was a human being, just like you, just like me, that he asked some questions. That they had a conversation, but nevertheless. He obeyed. He obeyed.
He obeyed day after day. He obeyed. Most say that this would have taken him about a hundred years to build the ark. For some of us, God tells us to do something, and if it doesn't happen just like that, we stop. Right?
We're just like, hey, okay, it didn't happen the first time I prayed for it, so we're over. Can you imagine? You know, a hundred years. A hundred years, day after day, month after month, week after week, you know, year after year, like just showing up with your family. Can you imagine Noah's kids?
They're just like your kids. They'd be like, "What in the world are we doing?" This is the most unproductive thing. This is not worth it, Dad. Like, why are you telling us to get up early in the morning to go build this so that one day a flood, water from heaven's going to come? Like, what in the world?
We've never seen anything like this, Dad. This is the most ridiculous thing. And Noah, every day, is like, Son, keep going, keep going, because we trust in what God said, and He's trustworthy. And if He said it, it will come to pass, because what He says. Is weightier and means something to us way more than anything else, and so no matter how ridiculous this is, we're doing it.
And so, what we learn though with with Noah's obedience is that faith is more than just words. Living by faith is more than just words. For some of you, you know, you might have said, or Noah could have said, "Hey, I believe a flood's coming, but not really build an ark." And and so a lot of us would have fallen in that. Oh yeah, I heard a flood's coming, you know, but this whole ark thing, man, I'm just not going to step out and do that. I'm too busy, got too many things going on.
It's not worth it. I can't handle it. No, I don't know what I'm doing. Maybe somebody else will build an ark. I'll jump in theirs or whatever.
And so here's what I'm telling you: It's exactly what James said in James two twenty six. Faith without works is dead. Works don't produce saving faith. We know that, but works reveal genuine faith. And so, a faith that you say that is only by word and never by movement and never by action is just words in your life.
Because faith actually takes a step. Faith moves. You can say you have faith all day long, but if you never pick up a hammer and obey, it's just words. It's just words in your life. You know what's amazing to me about this story is that Noah didn't wait for all of the details and the outcomes to be revealed.
Noah took a step of obedience because he trusted in the God who knows all of the outcomes, and that's what what we when we think about faith. That's how we need to live our life. Number four, faith takes a stand for God when others walk away from Him. Faith takes a stand for God when others walk away from Him. In Hebrews eleven seven, our text verse, it says, "By faith Noah condemned the world." Now, this doesn't mean that he walked around like an angry person beating people up all of the time.
All right, it means that the life that he lived, the decisions that he made. The obedience that he walked in condemned the world. Here's what that tells me: Noah's life preached a sermon to the world. You realize that. Like every day that Noah, you know, got up and and did that, you know, and started building this ark because it took so long.
Every single day, it was like this sermon he was preaching to the world. That's what he means by Hebrews eleven seven. He condemned the world by his actions, by his behaviors. He condemned the world. He took a stand for God when when everybody else had rejected him.
Everybody else was mocking him. Everybody else was laughing at him, and and just humiliating Humiliating him, he still took a stand because of his faith in God. You see, the culture around Noah, and we saw that in Genesis six of the state of of the world at that time. The culture around Noah was moving in one direction, right, and Noah was completely going another. You know, when you think of faith, and you think of Noah's faith, Noah did not have to make sure that the cultural conditions around him were good for him to live by faith.
Right? Noah didn't care what the culture did around him. He was still going to live by faith. He was still going to obey God. He was still going to walk in obedience.
He didn't care. He didn't have to have perfect conditions around him.
Okay, Noah, you build an ark, and him say, "Well, listen, God, I'll build an ark as long as I have a lot of support around me." As long as people show up and encourage me and edify me, then I'll build this ark. I'll stay faithful to you. As long as nobody laughs at me, God, as nobody humiliates me, I'll I'll build the ark. He didn't have that. No, everybody around him, according to Scripture, they were evil continually.
Every imagination of their thoughts were wicked. And that didn't stop Noah. Noah said, "I'm going to obey because of who I trust in, no matter what is happening in culture around me." He said that when everyone else says compromise, Noah says obey the Lord. When everyone else says live for yourself, faith says live for for God. When everyone else is living an immoral life.
Faith says, "Live in holiness." And when everyone else is saying, "Hey, everybody else is doing this," faith says, "But what has God said?" You see, that's the difference, and that's what we learn from Noah. Faith takes a stand for God when everybody else is walking away from Him. And finally, is this, and this is the most important for you. All of those deal with walking by faith. But this last one deals a little bit more with saving faith.
Faith ultimately trust in God's rescue plan. Faith ultimately trust in God's rescue plan. Listen, what you have to understand if if anybody you know says, "How could a loving God send a flood?" You might have somebody, a skeptic, around you that just asks that question. Like, "Man, I can't believe that a loving God would ever send a flood." To wipe all of humanity off the planet, right? And and you might have heard that from time to time from somebody.
Always respond this way.
Well, he provided an ark. You ever think about that? Like he provided a way of escape. He literally provided an ark for humanity. I mean, Noah preached to the world for years about the coming flood, and people still rejected who God was.
And so, God sent a flood. You see, the flood it reminds us of a few things: God is holy, sin has consequences, and judgment is real. But in all of this, Noah found grace. In the eyes of the Lord, that's an important, important verse. Because here is what I'll tell you: grace came before the flood; it came before the ark.
Noah didn't earn it; God initiated it. Noah didn't invent God's rescue plan; God did. And what we learn from this is this: just like in Genesis six. God told Noah to build an ark, and He provided a way of escape. He provided an ark.
He provided rescue. Anybody on the face of the planet, if they looked to the ark and they looked to God's word for salvation from the flood that was coming, they would have been welcomed into the ark. But you know what happened? They rejected God. They rejected the rescue plan of God.
They mocked the rescue plan of God, and that one day when the rain started, you know, flowing from heaven, and the door was shut. Can you imagine the screams? Can you imagine the terror? That existed around that art. People wanting in, but it was too late.
It gives us an incredible picture that when Jesus one day comes back to judge the world once and for all, there's going to be the same level of terror. People are going to say, "God, God, God!" You know, I I I did miracles in your name. I I tried to preach. I tried to do right. I tried to live a moral life, and He's going to say, "Depart from me!
I never knew you." Think about the terror that is going to be, and you might be asking, like. Like how could a loving God ever do something and ever destined someone to hell? Listen, here's what I'm telling you: He hasn't. He's given us every one, all of humanity, the entire world. He's given us a rescue plan, but the problem is people have rejected the rescue plan of our God.
From the very beginning, from the ark, they rejected it. And one day, what you're going to see is there's going to be a lot of people that are going to die without Jesus and live for the rest of their life in a place called the Lake of Fire. Why? Because we don't have a loving God. Absolutely not.
A loving God is on display every single moment that He gives humanity another second to breathe a breath. That's what we have to understand. He has given us a rescue plan, and what we learn from Noah's Ark is this: is that the rescue plan of the Ark it points us to the final rescue plan for us, which is Jesus Christ. And here's what I want you to know about this: because if you're in here and you don't know Jesus, you're on the outside of the Ark looking in. You don't know Him.
And what I want you to know about the ark is that the ark—it's not a gopher wood ark. It's a wooden cross. It's a wooden cross that our Savior, thousands of years ago, hung on, bearing the weight of our sin. You say, "What do we learn about the ark?" Listen. There was one ark.
There's one Savior. There was one door to the ark. Jesus is the one and only door to salvation and to heaven. And in Jesus, you are safe, just like Noah and his family were safe within the ark. In Jesus, you are safe and secure in Him.
But on the outside of the ark, people were destined to die. And here's what I want you to know. On the outside, looking in at the salvation, listen. You are destined to die without Jesus. You say, "What does this mean for me?" Listen, two things.
You have to ask yourself: Do you have saving faith? Have you trusted? Have you placed your faith? Have you placed your trust in God's rescue plan for your life? You see, you were born into sin.
Every one of us, myself included, we were born into sin, and because of our sin, our relationship. You see, way back in the beginning, God created mankind for one purpose. Don't complicate it. You had one purpose. Here is what it was: to have a relationship with a perfect, holy, righteous God.
And in Genesis three, sin entered into the world, and the problem with that, and what that did, was it broke the relationship that we have with Him, so that all of humanity. Is born into this world, distant from God, not because of anything He had done, but but because we had rejected His commandments, we'd rejected Him, and you know what that does? It grieves Him. It grieves Him in His heart, and so you know what our God did. He sent Jesus to be the rescue plan for all of humanity, so that you wouldn't have to live in your sin, so that you wouldn't have to die without Him, so that you could have a relationship with perfection, our Savior.
And it took the blood of Jesus coming and being shed on a wooden cross for you as your rescue plan. Say, what does that mean for me? Here's what it is. Have you placed your faith in that? Your good works, if your faith is there, your good works will always fall short.
No matter how good you think you are, you still fall short. No matter how moral you think your life is, you still fall short. No matter how good of a dad you think you are, you still fall short. And so, we need the rescue plan that God has delivered for us. It's free.
It's free. And all you have to do is place your faith in Him. That's saving faith. But then I want to ask you: Are you living by faith, Christian? Are you living for Him?
Because living by faith believes what God says instead of what you see. Living by faith it fears God. Living by faith obeys before it understands. Living by faith takes a stand for God when others are walking away from Him. Living by faith ultimately trusts in God's rescue plan for our life.
