(Ephesians) the Incomparable Wonder of Being a Christian — Jeff Noblit

Ephesians 1: The Wonder of Being in Christ

Ephesians chapter 1, let's turn there this morning as we are studying through this wonderful New Testament epistle. The word epistle means letter. Most likely the Apostle Paul when he wrote this letter to the church in the city of Ephesus, he was in a Roman prison.

And he's writing to them to follow up the work that he and his associates Aquila and Priscilla had started there in the city of Ephesus. He spent about three years with this congregation, which was very unusual, which makes it a very special, special congregation.

And it begins in verse one, giving us some introductory things. And I've been looking at that with you. Before I read the text, let me just share this with you. One of the shows or movies that my girls seem to like the most is the movie Beauty and the Beast.

Have you been through that yet? And we watch it over and we watch it over and we watch it over and we watch it over. They even, I didn't get to do this part. They even loaded up and went to Atlanta to see the play Beauty and the Beast.

I hate that I missed that, but they got to do that without me. But it really, the wonder in that little story is, is, is, is magnificent, isn't it? I mean, here you have this, this prince and he lives in this marvelous castle palace back in the woods and he's been cursed because he did something wrong and he's been turned into this awful, mean, ill-tempered beast.

And then here comes the lovely Belle, the damsel in distress, and she gets ushered into this castle and, and then the relationship begins and lo and behold thing after thing happens. And finally he's transformed back into the beautiful young prince and he and Belle are wed together.

And then you have them living happily ever after. And I guess for a child's mind, that's a, just a wonder of a thing, but that's the stuff that fairy tales are made of. But you know, as a Christian, there's an incredible, unfathomable wonder of what we have in our Lord Jesus Christ.

And that's something of what Paul wants to bring out to us. And that last phrase of verse one, as he's writing this letter to the saints in Ephesus, he says this, let's look at all of verse one again, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God to the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in, in Christ Jesus.

Now, just a casual reading, you'd miss a whole lot there, but it's very important for us this morning to grasp all the wonder that is in that last phrase. He says, you guys at Ephesus, you're saints and you are in Christ and you are faithful.

There is a world of exciting and wonderful truth in those three concepts. And by the way, this isn't just true for the saints in Ephesus. We are saints. We are in Christ and we are God's faithful. And I want us to look at this together today.

And I've entitled this message, the incomparable wonder of being a Christian. The incomparable wonder of being a Christian. There is nothing more awesome, more wonderful, more awe-inspiring than grasping what we have as Christians and what we are in Christ.

Now we're certainly not going to do an exhaustive view of all that it means to be a Christian. We're going to take these terms that Paul uses and lay out for us some of the great wonder of being a child of God.

Christians Are Saints Set Apart for God

Now, first of all, he says there to the saints, and that makes our first major point. That is Christians are saints. We're set apart by God for God. It's going to be very important before we go any further to spend quite a bit of time talking about what it means to be a saint.

Because what the world says ain't a saint. What the world's view is wrong. The world's view is unbiblical. Let me just give you this statement. Every saint is a Christian and every Christian is a saint.

Now, but we need to define that concept further and find out what makes one a saint and then contrast that to two leading or major misrepresentations or false concepts of what a saint is. Here's the first one that we want to talk about, the first wrong concept, and that is you are not a saint because you are an exceptionally good person in man's eyes.

That has nothing to do with the biblical concept of sainthood. You are not a saint because you are exceptionally good in man's eyes. Now, we use this all the time. It's something of a figure of a speech.

We'll say, boy, he's a saint. Man, she is a saint. Or boy, she's a saint, and if anybody gets into heaven, he's going to get into heaven. But everything about that viewpoint is from man's perspective and not from God's perspective.

And that's the problem, and we're so prone to do that. We are so prone to put ourselves in the middle and view things from our perspective instead of with a diligence and a discipline going to the Word of God, kicking out our viewpoints and implanting in our minds God's viewpoint and God's perspective.

And in this area of being a saint, and I'm telling you, it's been greatly used of Satan to beat up, to discourage, to cause Christians to be downcast and doubtful and wondering and anxious about the security of their salvation.

It's just another area Satan has used to defeat and hinder God's people. Well, it's a figure of speech, and it's based on a man-centered view. Let's look at some things that refute that viewpoint of man looking on the outward appearance and man saying, well, that's a saint because he's good.

First of all, 1 Samuel 16, 7. In 1 Samuel 16, 7, the Bible says, But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not look at his outward appearance, or the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For God sees not as man sees.

For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. Now, this person had everything outwardly going for them, and God said, well, you've got to remember, as my child, you stop looking at the mere outward appearance and look as I look, and that is on the heart.

As a matter of fact, God is the only one who can look on the heart. So often when we judge and evaluate things, we judge wrongly because we're prone once again to look just at the outward appearance. And from some person's perspective, looking at a person from an outward appearance, you might say, well, now that's a saint, but that's not at all what the Bible means when it calls us saints.

Second Corinthians 10, 12. Notice how Paul is dealing with these false teachers who are running him down and criticizing him and saying he never measures up, and here's what he says about those guys. He says, For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves, but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

He said this common thing that we all are prone to do to say, well, now I'm better than this guy, so I'm pretty good, or I'm better than most people. I'm a saint. This is this common approach to life whereby we're constantly comparing ourselves with others to make ourselves feel good is false.

The Bible says if you're doing that to believe that that gives you some sort of status or standing you're without understanding. So here these Judaizers were telling Paul he didn't measure up because they, what they did was they set themselves up as the standard.

And so they always measured up and then all Paul always fell short and so they could always make Paul look lesser than he really was. And have you noticed, I guess to some degree, every single one of us have that tendency to always sort of set ourselves up as the standard.

That way we always achieve. That way we always meet the standard and everybody else kind of is a little bit lower. But that's man's viewpoint. That's the way man would analyze. That's man's perspective.

But the only true perspective is God's perspective. The only standard by which all should be and will be measured is by God's standard. Now listen to me. And when we compare ourselves with God's standard, we all fall woefully short.

Human Sinfulness Falls Short of God's Standard

Now let me just touch on this a little bit because I just don't believe in this day and age of shallow, mild, weak, anemic Bible preaching that we can get enough of these truths out there because about the time I preach it with this world and even maybe through some other ministers you'll get a contradictory message.

So let me hit on a couple of things about us again that reminds us we all fall woefully short of God's true standard. Number one, our behavior is evil. Our behavior is evil. Romans 3 .12 says, all have turned aside.

Together they've become useless. There is no one who does good. There's not even one. So if we're prone to look at somebody and say, now they're a saint. God looks at them and says, there's not one that does good.

Not even one. Even all of those that you would say, now that's a saint. God says, no, not in my eyes. Not from my perspective. You're all fallen short. Turn over to Ephesians chapter two. We'll get there in a couple of years, maybe.

Look at verse three, among them we all, how many of us all formerly live, that's before your conversion, in the lust of our flesh, indulging in the desires of the flesh and of the mind. And we're by nature, children of wrath, even as the rest.

What a state we are all in. But not only is our behavior evil, secondly, our hearts are evil. Our hearts are evil. Jeremiah 17 .9 says, the heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick and who can understand it?

So God says, from my perspective, I look at all your activities and all your behavior. That is the activities and the behaviors that we do out of our own ability and our own strengths to try to please God.

And he says, you all fall woefully short. None of you measure up in my sight. Then God says, then I look on the heart and when I examine man's heart, I find that every man's heart is desperately wicked and deceitful of beyond all things.

So you know, like Isaiah 64, six says, for all of us have become like one who is unclean and all our righteous deeds are like filthy garments. Now, this is not self-esteem preaching today. This is not build you up today.

Matter of fact, God's word tears us down so that Christ might come in and he brings us up. We don't get up in our own strength and ability in our natural natures. We get up in Christ. So God's standard, the only true standard, listen, eliminates even the possibility that any man in his heart or in his deeds could be considered a saint.

We can't be. So banish the thought that a saint is someone who's an exceptionally good person from man's viewpoint. That's not in the biblical sense. What a saint is at all. Now, number two, another thing that a saint is not be, you are not a saint because the Roman Catholic church declares you a saint.

You're not a saint because the Roman Catholic church declares you a saint. Now, you know, they have a, an elaborate ecclesiological service. And in this service, they a deem one in the sainthood. And basically how it goes is this.

They find some exceptionally good person. And I think I'm correct on this. That must be dead. They're dead and they've been real good. Then they may call a service. And then when they call this service, they'll have a nomination and this person is officially nominated within the church.

And then they'll have either another service or an extending of that same service. And they'll have one person who will stand up and plead the virtue of this man or woman. And then another person will stand up and he's called the devil's advocate and he'll try to tear the person down.

And if after that is completed, then if it is established that they are indeed worthy, then they are then declared officially a saint by the Roman Catholic church. Now according to scripture, nothing could be further from the truth.

Listen to me. Being a saint is a real and true and exceedingly important thing, but it has absolutely nothing to do with what may happen during a church service. Now it may have happened in a church service or it may have happened in a car or it may have happened in your home or it may have happened a thousand one different places, but it's not something that's bestowed by an ecclesiastical body during a church service.

Becoming a saint has nothing to do with that. Listen, becoming a saint is the exclusive activity of God toward us. Did you hear that? Becoming a saint is the exclusive activity of God toward us. Now what have we all of a sudden done?

We've taken man out of the center of this thing and we've put God in the center of it. I said, okay, God, who do you say a saint is and how does one become a saint? Well let's go to our third point. We've seen the two misconceptions about what a saint is.

Let's talk about now the truth. See, you are a saint if God has set you apart as his own possession. You are a saint if God has set you apart for his own possession. In other words, this is completely the action of God toward you.

It's not God doing something and you doing something. It's not God meeting you halfway and you meeting him halfway. This is the activity of Almighty God. It's not based on a change of nature. In other words, you didn't say, okay, God, watch me.

I'm gonna change my attitude. I'm gonna change my motivations. I'm gonna change my heart about things. I'm gonna clean myself up. And so God, can I then become a saint? That's not what it means. It doesn't mean, okay God, not only am I gonna change my heart.

God, I'm gonna change my behavior. I'm gonna stop cursing. I'm gonna stop smoking. I'm gonna stop chewing. I'm gonna stop dipping. I'm gonna stop drinking. I'm gonna stop being cruel to my wife and my family.

I'm going to stop missing work. I'm gonna change my behavior. I'm going to clean up my act and then God, can I be a saint has nothing to do with that? And I just want to say that about a hundred times because we're just Indoctrinated with the opposite now.

I'm not saying that it's sinful or wrong to you to use that phrase. Well, he's a saint. I'm not saying that sinful as long as you have the maturity in Christ to understand that has nothing to do with biblical sainthood.

That's what's important and we we ought to be more careful. I think it's the people of God not to throw around biblical terms and unbiblical ways. Because Satan I use that to start muddying our thinking and get us off track again.

Get us into that man-centered Changing of nature our man-centered changing of my behavior or my merit before God and that makes me a saint now. Here's some proofs of this first of all Exodus chapter 13 verse 2 Where the Bible says that the firstborn of every family of the nation of Israel now, this is the old dispensation.

And the firstborn of every family was to be holy or appointed set-apart. That's the same Greek. It's the Hebrew word that corresponds with the Greek word for saint and it means holy or become a saint.

So they were to take the firstborn child in a special way. That child was set apart for God. It was a saint or a holy one. Now did that child change his nature? Absolutely, not child can't change his nature that child changes behavior all the sudden.

No child can't change your behavior. It was just that he was set apart in a special way to be a servant of God the firstborn of Israel. Well secondly Exodus chapter 40 verse 9 referring to the oil and the temple furnishings these instruments and utensils and metal.

Utensils and some were made out of stone. Perhaps all these things were used in the Old Testament temple and they were considered saints. Same Hebrew word. Now when the priest was to take the the items or articles that were made of gold and silver.

Some were made of wood some were made of stone or marble. And he was to say now these are set apart for God's use. Did any of those things change their nature? Did any of those things change their behavior?

They can't change their behavior. No, all it meant was they're the same wood. They're the same metal. They're the same stone that they were. They're now set apart for God's special use and. And that's the same Hebrew word that is used there when it says they're consecrated or considered as holy or a saint and Then John 17 verse 9.

Here's our Lord Jesus talking and our Lord Jesus in his high priestly prayer says that for our sake Sakes rather he sanctified. Same Greek word is to become a saint. It sometimes can be translated to holy or sanctified or saint and he says I'm gonna Make a saint of myself or sanctify myself or set myself apart.

Now. Let me ask you something. Did Jesus change his nature? He couldn't become more holy. He was already as holy as you can get. Did Jesus make his behavior more honorable to God or more holy? He couldn't do that.

He was already honoring God and pleasing God. He's just simply saying now I set myself apart for the main part of my ministry here on earth. That is to go to the cross and die for the sins of our people.

So had nothing to do with changing nature had nothing to do with changing behavior in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 2 one of the many many times the entire church are called saints. Just like it is in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 1.

They're all saints. So it has nothing to do with a change of heart a change of nature. It has nothing to do with a change of behavior. It's the activity of God whereby he Sets you apart. It is as his own special possession and There's strong biblical foundation.

Are you with me? You're listening. The strong biblical foundation to conclude that he did this before the foundation of the world. Let's get God in the center of this thing and quit thinking that man is the center of all things by for a friend I'll tell you something man is not the center of anything.

God is. Everything is about God. Everything is for God. Everything is to glorify God and like Paul Washer reminded us when he was here with us. And he said, you know, I would pray about my little baby and I would say God.

God. I pray that this little baby will glorify you. And he said it's as if God through his word spoke to my heart and said I will be glorified by this little boy. I'll either glorify myself by judging him for his sin.

I will glorify myself by saving him through the blood of my son, but I will be glorified in this boy. My friend you just better Write it down on the tablet of your heart. Everything is about God. Now listen and everything about God is about God's glory not about man.

A God-centered viewpoint is what we so desperately need in Christianity today. And as I read church history, I find that this was common a couple of centuries ago. And then we drifted along in humanism and self-centeredness and self-consumption kept coming into the church until today.

There's a prominent man-centered view in the church. That's that's permeating everything and we're so accustomed to it and we're so used to it. We think it's normal Christianity and it's not. We need to keep divorcing ourselves from a man-centered perspective and keep committing ourselves to a God-centered perspectives.

Here's what God says. God says and Paul writing to the church at Ephesus says you guys are God's saints. God in his sovereign purposes and by his own divine activity has set you apart for himself. That is an awesome thought.

Well, that's just because I'm so special and I have so many gifts and I'm so unique and God can do a lot through me. No matter of fact God often picks the less desirable so he can show how mighty he is in changing the less desirable into something more desirable.

But if you're a child of God and you're truly saved and you belong to him. You are someone that God has chosen in his own sovereign will to reach down and grab you in a sense and set you apart. And say that one's mine.

My own that's a saint. Nothing you did had anything to do with it. That's a saint. Well, when and how does one become a saint? Well, I've been talking about that. Let me read from my notes a little statement when the sovereign Holy Spirit Regenerates the heart and draws that person into the company of God's Church.

That's when you become a saint. When the work of God through the preaching of the gospel works on the heart and there's the birthing of spiritual life in your heart. Then at that point you're set apart as God's.

You're a saint at the moment of regeneration at the moment of new birth. We immediately become a saint of God now listen to this. As a saint. Everything has now changed now. You can imagine. You've been plucked out of the kingdom of darkness out of the kingdom of Satan out of the kingdom of this world.

Now listen and you've Been placed into the kingdom of light and into the kingdom of God which lasts for forever. That means everything now is radically changed for you. Everything is radically changed.

You've been set apart over there for God in his family for his glory and it's going to be wonderfully for your own good. Now listen a saint possesses a new nature. You're given a new nature when you become a saint.

A saint now has a new Lord. Now we're everyone is under the Lordship of Christ before you're saved. You're at enmity with the Lord once you become a Christian. You're in harmony with the Lord. You have a new Lord you have a new purpose.

That's why you sit into the preaching of the Word of God and have your quiet time and study the Word of God so from The Word of God you can begin to understand and comprehend the glorious new purpose We have in Christ as his saints as his set-apart ones.

We have a new family. That's why God puts a high premium on joining a local congregation. You're to sign up with join up with these pilgrims these strangers these aliens. These are Bible words these People according to a new way.

These people that live in the world, but not of the world. They're strange and weird to the rest of the world. Maybe some of those things they say about us. They're really true. We are weird. We are strange.

We are different. And all I can tell you this is this as I look at the world and the status of professing Christianity. I'm glad we're different. And I'm glad people notice that we're different. God forbid we get proud and think we've arrived.

We're just pilgrims journeying onward for God's glory. Well new nature a new Lord a new purpose a new family. What about a new destination? Amen a new destination. Right now I'm still so journeying in foreign territory.

But I have an ultimate home waiting for me a new destination waiting for me. Now listen new nature new Lord new purpose new family. New destination now these things do not make me a saint. These are mine because I am a saint and I became a saint by the activity of God setting me apart for his own possession.

But Jeff I can't comprehend all that you see it's God sinners not man-centered. You're not supposed to comprehend all of it. You're supposed to by faith rejoice in it and glory in it. Now listen to this all Saints are not necessarily good people, but Jeff I could have told you that I've dealt with some of them Saints.

All Saints are not necessarily good people, but listen, they are better than they would have been if they'd not become one of God's Saints and Also, they will increasingly mature to show the character of Christ in their lives.

And that's why assurance of salvation and evidences of salvation is not based on something that you did at some little point. It's based on a pattern of evidence in your life as time goes by. Our Puritan fathers would teach us to always continually examine yourself to see if you're in the faith.

Continually look at the Word of God and look at your heart disposition look at your lifestyle look at what you can get by with and what you can't get by with concerning sin and. Find out if there are actually the marks and the evidence is you know, I'm one of his.

Now that's not to cause doubt and it's not to cause anxiety. It's just a healthy biblical exhortation. You continually look at your life. To see if the marks of true regeneration of there. Again, that's a God-centered view of the thing not a man-centered view and that's what we so desperately need.

So all Christians are Saints now listen and all Saints must increasingly become saintly. But becoming a saint was the activity of God whereby he set you apart for his own now. You see you and I have 2 ,000 years of Christianity under our belts in a sense.

And in addition to that we live in the Bible belt in addition to that. We've been in evangelical churches and there's wonderful good things and wonderful blessings about that but there's also some curses to that and the curse is that we can fall into certain patterns and viewpoints and Conceptions about things that aren't really biblical.

But you know when Paul wrote to the church at Ephesus these folks just came out of raw paganism and. So when Paul wrote to them and said you're a set-apart Saint for God's own position. They didn't wonder about it and debate about it.

They didn't think well. Don't I have to work and don't have to perform? No, they just gloried in it. Hallelujah, that's what it is. That's what we are. So he starts off into these guys and said you're Saints who are at Ephesus now, let's go to the second thing here.

Christians Are Faithful Through Saving Faith

Not only are we Saints and that's one of the Incomparable wonders of being a child of God is that we are set apart as God's own possession. We're Saints. We're holy ones unto him. He also says who are faithful.

Who are faithful so and really this word has two meanings and so I'll word it this way Christians have faith and will continue in faith. That's all bottled up in that word faithful there. Christians have faith in God in the gospel particularly.

Secondly, they're those who continue that walk of the lifestyle of faith. That word pistos is the Greek word for faith there pistos means both. That faith in the gospel to be saved in both that trusting lifestyle faith that I live now that I've become a child of God.

So it means both exercising faith in the gospel that is believing the gospel being saved and then continuing in faith our perseverance. To walk with God through the ins and outs ups and downs of this life.

Let's take a look at both of these and I'm going to spend a little time here because it demands a little time. And that's the first sub point that is Christians possess or have faith in the gospel. Christians possess or have faith in the gospel and I want to share with you three parts of saving faith.

When we exercise this saving faith, it's faith that saves. What is it composed of. And let's look at this number one. There's the mental part our intellectual part of saving faith the mental or Intellectual part but I want to turn to Romans chapter 10 look at verses 14 through 17.

Romans chapter 10 verses 14 through 17. Now Paul is giving something of a summary of how people come to saving faith and notice what he says here. Verse 14 of Romans chapter 10. How then will they call on him and who they've not believed?

How will they believe in him and whom they've not heard? There's got to be hearing intellect mentally. You've got to hear it. And how will they hear without a preacher? It's not saying that the only way you can get saved is hearing preaching but that is God's basic Primary means of spreading the gospel.

Verse 15, how will they preach unless they are sent? That's a good missionary emphasis there. We've got to make sure the funds and the prayer support are there so we can send preachers to proclaim the gospel.

Just as it is written. How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things verse 16. However, they did not heed the good news for Isaiah says Lord who has believed. I report. So faith comes from a hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ are hearing the word about Christ.

Faith comes from Hearing there is a mental or an intellectual part of faith. In other words, listen, it is not faith that saves its faith in Christ that saves and there has to be the mental Intellectual understanding of who Christ is what we are and what he's done in order that we might place faith in those things.

And it's been my conclusion looking at things for a while that we have often in sincerity sort of dumbed this thing down and sort of remove the intellect out of it and if someone just sort of throws a little faith towards some concept of God or Jesus we call that salvation and That's not necessarily so I don't know how much a person has to know to be saved but I know the Bible emphasis is Teach and preach and God and instruct them in the word the more intellectually they understand the truth of the gospel the better off.

They're gonna be. Don't ever just say well, it didn't take much. So I'm not going to be involved much. That is not God's method of spreading the gospel. Jesus for example in Luke chapter 24 verse 27 says then beginning with Moses Moses and with all the prophets he explained to them the things concerning himself and all the scriptures.

Here he is on the Emmaus Road talking to these two disciples and Jesus goes to great lengths to start with the first five books of the Old Testament and Exegeting and explaining all the truths in those first five books so that these folks on the Emmaus Road could mentally or intellectually grasp who he was and how he was the fulfillment of all those things.

A Great emphasis on the mental understanding of the gospel in Acts chapter 8. We have the Ethiopian eunuch. He was leaving Jerusalem. He had been there for a feast and he's reading the prophet Isaiah and Philip joins the chair with him and begins to explain To him what this means.

The intellect is involved mentally. You have to understand and he was gloriously saved. If I had to put it in a nutshell of what one must grasp and I'm not talking about certain depths of these particular areas.

But these particular areas must be grasped. Number one is sin. We must know and understand what sin is and that we are sinners and Then therefore we must know and understand who Jesus is and what he's done to be the Savior.

Mentally and intellectually those things need to be taught and communicated. Also, we need to understand what it means to be lost. That we are without God we without his wisdom we are without his guidance we are without his presence we are lost we're separated from our Creator and Therefore a person must also understand something of him being Lord.

I want to say something to you a person that believes that they've come to saving faith. With little concept and no commitment to his Lordship has not exercised saving faith. Matter of fact, the word Lord is used a whole lot more in the Bible than Savior.

And I'm not saying you have to have this deep concept of Lordship. But there has to be some concept of I'm losing control of my life. It's given over to him. I'm surrendering my Lordship and I'm yielding to his Lordship and So there must be the preaching of the Word of God to communicate that's an essential part of conversion.

So there is they the mental part of conversion now I want to spend a little time here talking about well Why does the Bible say if you can come like a little child you can enter the kingdom of heaven?

I? was curious about that and it seemed like God stirred my heart about that as I was studying this and. And you know I found out the Bible does not say if you have faith as a child you'll be saved. Didn't say that at all.

But haven't we heard that it really in one sense or another over and over again. If you have faith like a child you go to heaven. That's not what the Bible teaches. Let's look at some of those texts together right quick and will not be long but look at Matthew chapter 18.

Would you turn there? Now I'm not saying children cannot be saved. Don't put words in my mouth that I'm not saying. But a child must gain some understanding before he can intellectually know what he needs to know to be saved.

Matthew chapter 18 and look at verse 1 at that time the disciples came to Jesus and Said who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven now. That's very important stop right there and get the context. He's not talking about how you get into the kingdom of heaven.

He's talking about these guys who are already in it, and who's the greatest once you're already in it. These are fellows who are already converted. They're already saved and they're in the flesh right now arguing about who's superior in that context.

Jesus uses the analogy of a little child Verse 2 and he called a child to himself and said sent him before them and said Truly I say to you unless you are converted. That's first and Become like children that's after conversion.

You will not enter the kingdom of heaven in other words. You must have the understanding of the gospel in your mind and you embrace that by faith now. Listen after you embrace that by faith, then you say like a little child would yield to his parents.

I yield to my Lord. All right. He's not saying Childish faith here. He's saying a humble dependency on God like a child not a child like Understanding in your mind. Now listen to me wouldn't listen to me.