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Because if you believe in faith for the Coming up on the Botterstetch.

Because if you believe in faith for the sake of faith apart from God,

then you believe that you can will things into being by thought.

That type of manipulation is not what I came to teach about. Jesus

didn't just say have faith, he said have faith in God. So the faith has to be grounded. Are you following what I'm saying? The Hallmark Church.

The Book of Hebrew is the 11th chapter is considered the hallmark of faith, the Hall of Fame, the Hall of Faith, filled with

different men and a few women out of different eras who had notable accomplishments by faith.

The phrase by faith permeates the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews so that we will have a deep respect for faith.

We are living in a day at a time in the church that we do have a deep respect for praise.

And because we sing songs about praise being a weapon and sometimes it is.

Sometimes we do not emphasize faith because faith is not tangible, touchable, does not appeal to the census.

We can't hear it or see it.

We have to believe it.

And yet the book of Hebrews tells us, no matter how talented we may be, orators as speakers as singers as musicians

as technicians as producers that's whatever we are no matter how many degrees we have, no matter how many good deeds we do,

no matter how how ingratiating our personality might be. The Bible is clear about this, that without faith,

it is impossible to please God. And that one verse alone should make us really hone in on

the significance of faith because if we do everything else and we get everything else right and we have

wonderful services and we bring cookies over to our neighbors and we say prayers every

night and we do good deeds to people and we forgive

people and we fail to believe God it is impossible to please him.

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