How Do You Know Who Your Savior Is?, 1 Samuel 11, Dr. John B. Carpenter

The Obvious Answer to a Question About Salvation

First Samuel chapter 11 be reading the entire chapter. Hear the word of the Lord. Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash Make a treaty with us and we will serve you.

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them on this condition I will make a treaty with you that I gouge out all your right eyes and thus bring disgrace on all Israel. The elders of Jabesh said to him Give us seven days respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel.

Then if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you. When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul they reported the matter in the ears of the people and all the people wept aloud. Now behold Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen and Saul said what is wrong with the people that they are weeping.

So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh and The Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words and his anger was greatly kindled. He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and Sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers saying whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel.

So shall it be done to his oxen. Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people and they came out as one man. When he mustered them at Bezek the people of Israel were 300 ,000 and the men of Judah 30 ,000 and they said to the messengers who had come.

Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh Gilead tomorrow by the time the Sun is hot. You shall have deliverance when the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh. They were glad. Therefore the men of Jabesh said tomorrow.

We will give ourselves up to you. And you may do to us whatever seems good to you. And the next day Saul put the people in three companies and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and Struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day and those who survived were scattered so that no two of them were left together.

Then the people said to Samuel Who is it that said shall Saul reign over us bring the men that we may put them to death. But Saul said not a man shall be put to death this day for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.

Then Samuel said to the people come let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom. So all the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul King before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrifice peace offerings before the Lord and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoice greatly.

May the Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Holy Word. Jeopardy had a category called stupid answers. You Jeopardy Watcher like us. It's it's called that because like a stupid question. The answer is so obvious.

It makes you feel stupid if you can't see it and not really smart if you do see it for example. It was established by an act of Congress in 1800 as a reference library for Congress. Can you guess? The Library of Congress or.

It's the one-word name of the Ben and Jerry's flavor described as vanilla ice cream with vanilla bean specks. Vanilla right. Or the logo of this brand depicts an arm holding a hammer. Yes arm and hammer.

Or it's the First Amendment to the US Constitution that mentions religion. The First Amendment. Or. Here's another one. I have to say a Chinese word for this one. China's Song Dynasty was noted for his contribution to the Sioux.

So how you say it? I don't know a form of this song. Or. Just before serving this Chinese soup drop some beaten egg into it. Egg drop soup. Or. Finally last one Leonardo da Vinci was born near this small Tuscan town in 1519.

Vinci right now. Sometimes the answer to a question is so obvious. You can miss it. So. Because there's got to be more to it. But no, it's right there. Like how do you know who your Savior is? You might think it's a it's a stupid question because we all know the answer.

But I'm not asking who is your Savior? But how do you know by what way did you learn who the Savior is? Did someone tell you and you just kind of trusted them. There's some authority, you know certify.

This is this is the real Savior and you accept their pronouncement. Or maybe did you you reason your way to it? You took on all the available information? Examine all the candidates may be comparing Buddha and Confucius and Muhammad whoever else to Jesus and then come to your conclusion.

Is that how you came to know who your Savior is? Or did you experience it? How do you know who your Savior is? Of course, it all depends on on. What you think you need saving from if you think poverty is what you need saving from your Savior is whoever gives you money so the customer is king because.

The customer pays you or your business your career is your Savior. It pays the bills it keeps a roof over our head this kind of thing. But all of that seems unsatisfying especially people once people have taken care of their basic needs.

You know once you've been fed and housed you realize what was really true all along that you need saving from more than just hunger and weather. For a generation is now in our culture. We've been told that through novels the poems the songs.

Who plays through movies? There's a whole genre of such things called romance that our Savior is the soulmate now called. You know the relation the soulmate that one he or she is the in the words of Jerry Maguire will finally Complete you it sounds an awfully lot like save you if you're incomplete the one who completes you is your Savior.

So in the 19th century the the Bronte sisters wrote about romance as if it were the secret to fulfillment. To yourself your salvation even if it was often elusive even if you never fully got it. Of course if your soulmate is your Savior, then how do you know who your Savior is?

The cult of romance just teaching us that That relationship is is what we need which means You better find the right one. In the eyes of the cult of romance getting the right relationship is so important.

It is Salvation it justifies then dissolving. The old relationship, you know, I fell out of love. It's a new one. And so divorce becomes common. There's the irony in the cult of romance. Divorce is more common and So frequent the frequent young person's question was maybe still is.

How do I know if I found the one, you know, my one true love? It's got to be the one. How do I know and the answer the stupid answer, of course. You'll just know. It's a mystical experience kind of like salvation.

From its inception in the early 20th century Hollywood joined in this cult of romance telling us in movie after movie until very recently. That our greatest need is that one true? Meaningful relationship the romance.

If so That's if that's true and this cult of romance that Hollywood's been selling us for so long then your Savior is. Is that one the one? So life is about finding that special someone and then and only then.

Can you live happily ever after? But then in 2016 in In La La Land an extremely charming well-done movie and what appears to be a romance movie. It starts out that way that the couple finds their soulmates.

You think this is happily ever after. But then it ends by saying that sometimes You have to sacrifice the romance the relationship for success for the career. Consumerism has finally managed to consume even the relationship and despite all the smiles and the charm.

In that movie, it's tragic. Because they don't know who their Savior is. It's not romance. They're right about that, but it's tragic because they'll find that consumerism is an even harder taskmaster so Do we know who our Savior is.

Again, I'm not asking who is your Savior, but how do we know? Not who but how here in 1st Samuel chapter 11, we see that the stupid answer we see that here in four parts first the provocation second the inspiration then the salvation and finally the coronation.

The Provocation: Nahash, the Serpent, and Israel Under Siege

At the end of chapter 10 remember left at the end of last time Paul was selected to be king by lot King of Israel, but some worthless fellows. Scoffed how can this man save us and they despised Saul worthless fellows literally the sons of Belial.

Is the same term used for them those Bob of rapists remember that a couple of months ago and Gibeah? Come they go the Levi comes into Gibeah. He said a band of Bob or worthless fellows. They called him surrounded the house demanding that the traveling Levi come out.

It's easy to see how that kind of perversion Makes one a worthless fellow but here the end of chapter 10 getting into chapter 11 being a worthless fellow is being a scoffer. Scoffers despise authorities despise leaders.

They mock them and they assume the worst of them and here they ask at the end of chapter 10 How come this man this pretty boy? He's too good-looking. He's too shy hiding out in the baggage. He's a spoiled rich kid.

How can this man? Save us now in this country in America. We're too full of that kind of worthlessness often thinking that scoffing is a virtue since it's a legal, right? Some people become here in our culture come just deranged or obsessed.

Constantly pouring out insults on on our leaders now sure the Constitution protects the right our right. To be a mocking worthless fellow. We have a First Amendment right to be a mocking worthless fellow if we want to be.

But we also have a First Amendment right to use to say hey that's worthless, you know get help and then we take the advice of Psalm 1 and not sit in the seat of scoffers not associated with them, but delight in God's Word and Meditate on it.

Now here the scoffers despise Saul. At the end of chapter 10 it despise Saul and they and but he said nothing. He wasn't provoked by their insults then after that Nahash the king of the Ammonites just east of Israel attacks a border town.

Most of their trouble in the days of Saul and David came from the Philistines Who were just just west of them on the Mediterranean coast, but here they get attacked by the Ammonites from the east. Showing again what they said in chapter 10 Israel is surrounded by enemies.

Nahash doesn't name me serpent. He was a serpent to Israel. He was a serpent to Israel biting at Israel's Heels, he laid siege to Jabesh Gilead a city east of the Jordan the area of Gilead the people of Jabesh are so are so Desperate they're being besieged by the Ammonites by Nahash.

Mr. Serpent and They plead let's make a treaty. We will serve you. Which means in other words, we'll pay you taxes. We'll do what you say make a treaty and we will serve you. They're asking for terms of surrender literally to cut a covenant.

The word treaty here translated ASV means a covenant. Cut the covenant may cut cutting the covenant with a serpent Rather than be killed there. They're willing to to be servants of the serpent and here the stipulations of serpents covenant Are pretty severe.

The stipulations of the Lord's covenant Is to love him with all your heart. Serve him with all your life. But the serpents terms in verse 2 he says on this condition I will make a treaty with you. Here's what you have to do.

I Will gouge out all your right eyes and thus bring disgrace on Israel on all Israel. Now that's his stipulation of his covenant. I'm going to gouge out your right eyes and then I'll let you live. That's that's your choice.

Either have your eye gouged out or you die. Now first there's a practical military reason for gouging out the right eyes. When I you lose all depth perception. Which makes you inaccurate for clinging weapons like bows and arrows or slingshots, so you're not gonna be a very good shot.

They fight again later at another time. Also most most people are right-handed. So infantry troops would carry their sword in their right hand and in their left hand. Frequently carry their shield. Used for blocking right now for blocking they frequently cover up the left side of their face their eye.

And if the right hands gouged out either they carry their shields with their they have no right eye. Either they end up carrying their shields with the right hand and their swords at their left hand. Which they're not very good at.

I'll be horrible at that or they have to. They're limited to what they can do with their shields. They can't raise it up higher. Otherwise, I can't see anymore. So it incapacitates them militarily. But the main reason for this stipulation as he admits is to bring disgrace on all Israel.

He wants to show that Israel and thus the Lord is so weak and helpless That it or he the Lord can't protect One of their cities from being so subjugated So much under the thumb of a pagan king named serpent that they'd choose to have their eyes gouged out so the serpent Wants to prove that the Lord Can't protect his people.

The serpent wants to show that he will not hold you fast. Now the elders of Jabesh asked for seven days to see if anyone could save them likely. They has figured that they could hold out for seven more days.

So a siege of a siege and so he granted that so they allowed messengers to come in and out. So there's a truce for a week and Jabesh sends out his messengers. Their messengers throughout Israel and imagine, you know, they're so telling everybody they're so desperate.

We're willing to have our right eye gouged out. Otherwise, we'll have to be killed if no one can come save us. They tell Nahash If no one comes Mr. Serpent, no one comes. There's no Savior after a week.

Then we will give ourselves up to you now. Imagine how desperate you have to be To agree to that. To agree to have your eye gouged out. But that's what people agree to when the serpent makes a covenant with them.

They agree to have their eye gouged out. So they're unable to defend themselves. They can't protect themselves from the world, the flesh, the devil. They've surrendered to their enemy. Maybe the enemy will say it'll just be one eye.

But soon it becomes two and then they're blind and they can't see what is life and what is death. What is light or what is dark? Because they made a covenant with the serpent and if only they could know the covenant is if only we can keep our sin.

Then we'll serve you. But then they lose everything. They find out that the stipulations of the serpents covenant are very hard. And so the messengers go out to Israel with the news about the serpents covenant from Jabesh one of their covenant people.

So Jabesh is sending out these messengers throughout Israel. You know, we're going to surrender to the serpent. Israel is thinking there are they should be thinking there are covenant People our covenant brothers.

We're in covenant together with them and when they come to Gibeah. Remember Gibeah? We mentioned them already. Gibeah is the town that was wiped out because that the worthless fellows Tried to do to the traveling Levites and now it's called here notice here in verse 4 called Gibeah of Saul.

It's a new Gibeah. They should have named it new Gibeah. I guess Gibeah has been resurrected and now it's produced Saul. When they tell the news of the people of Gibeah, they're they're provoked To wail and to cry.

But they don't do anything. They're just grieving. How grievous it is to be a citizen of a country that can't protect itself. That's the provoke provocation grief tears. Desperation and Jabesh on the verge of surrendering to a covenant with a serpent next is the inspiration and.

The Inspiration of the Spirit and the King’s Holy Anger

And behold in verse 5 pay attention to this. Saul has been anointed King. He's commissioned to protect Israel from all their enemies around them. The anointed one protects God's people. From all their enemies.

That's what he's for. Remember that's what the anointed one does. He protects God's people from their enemies. He holds them fast and the rest of the people are crying and wailing. But Saul is different because he's anointed he's provoked to action.

He's coming from his field. Behind his oxen. He's still farming. This is interesting the being king of Israel is not yet a full-time job. He's not yet used his power. Remember what Samuel? Warned them about the king would make other go out and do his work for him so far.

Saul has not done that. It's not used his power to make others work for him. He's taking care of himself. When he asked, you know comes in from his work, why are these people weeping? Why are they wailing?

What's going on? And when they tell him to the people of Jabesh Their own covenant partners are willing to make a covenant with the serpent have their eye gouged out. So bring shame on all Israel and the Lord for being unable to protect them when he hears that then Saul is inspired in verse 6 the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul it says.

This is the spirit that empowered him earlier in chapter 10 and he prophesied with the prophets here in verse 6. He's filled with the Holy Spirit. He's empowered to do what God called him to do and The first effect of that what's the spirit duty you think here the first effect of the Spirit on him?

In this situation the fruit of the Spirit here Was to make him angry. That's strange to you. That the Spirit would make you angry. The Spirit would fuel anger. That's what it says. The Spirit of God rushed on him.

He's filled with the Spirit and his anger burned greatly but God's Spirit set it afire. That's a surprise to people who think that God's Spirit is is always calming always sweet. A still whispering voice like to Elijah in the wilderness the Spirit was calming and Refreshing to him then when he needed to rest in the Lord because that's what he needed.

But here With the king what the king needs is power. He's power to bring God's kingdom on earth to bring vengeance on the enemy of God's people the serpent. The Spirit of the Lord empowers the king. To bring in God's vengeance.

When we pray your kingdom come we're praying for its spirit to rise up. Inspire people to bring God's rule and that sometimes being his vengeance on earth. When the Lord Jesus first began his ministry in the synagogue and he opened it Isaiah 61 and he read.

From Isaiah 61 the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and Opening of the prison to those who are bound to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

He stopped there. Because in his first coming his ministry was all about all those things liberty freedom favor grace. The very next line says. Just before Jesus stopped Isaiah continues. And the day of vengeance of our God sometimes.

The Spirit anoints his king to bring vengeance. To loose the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword for Saul. That day had come. Saul is inspired. He's inspired to be angry because God's people should never have to suffer the stipulations of a covenant with the serpent.

And so he took his oxen his own. I assume his own oxen didn't quite say but he took oxen probably to cut them in pieces. Remember that story back from the Levite did to his concubine cut her in pieces center around.

He takes his oxen cuts them in pieces sends them out to Israel. Making a covenant was called cutting a covenant because it involved cutting an animal in half and walking between the pieces and Saying may what happened to this animal happened to me or happen to you and we break this covenant.

Israel had a covenant with the Lord and with each other to protect each other. Saul is reminding Israel of this covenant and telling Israel That we made a covenant with the Lord. Said to them by sending these pieces.

Remember we walk between the pieces we cut a covenant. And so if you don't respond Israel Saul demands it in his Inspired Anger in verse 7 whoever does not come after Saul in Samuel. So shall it be done to his oxen.

He's declaring. We're not going to ignore Our covenant with the Lord and with each other in the church today. Through burying in one another's burdens. Walking in together in Christian love the things we pledged in our church covenant sharing when necessary the church discipline.

Says we're not going to let each other be besieged and captured by the world the flesh of the devil. We're we're not just a here. We're not just here. It's a preaching center. It's not just a preaching shop and you go and you're kind of you're just the audience.

And you're no more attached to each other here than you are to other audience members when you go see a movie. No. You're you're the Israel of God. And so you're you're United attached to each other so you don't think like you might think about some other person in a movie.

Well, I don't know what's going on in his life. I don't think I hope it's fine. But if he's a trouble he's under siege from the serpent. Well, it's none of my business. I'm saying out of trouble. It's too bad for him.

I'm sorry for him, but I I'm not doing anything about it. No, that's not our attitude with the church. That's not the Lord's community if a member of our holy nation is under siege near to giving up. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Inspired maybe even sometimes inspired to be angry and challenge the church to take action. That's what Saul does here in the middle of verse 7 the dread of the Lord fell upon the people. I Means that they feared the Lord.

They get Saul's warning with the chopped up pieces magic get a package from Saul. There's a chunk of ox there and he said fear the Lord. Rather than Nahash they fear the Lord more than they feared the serpent and so they were inspired to gather together at Bezik.

Which is just west of the Jordan River. Across from the cross of Jabesh not far away. They gather under Saul the scoffers aren't stopping anymore and no one asked Why are we gathering? Because that would be a stupid question.

The Salvation of Jabesh Gilead and the Proof That the Lord Saves

Next the salvation. The serpent is threatening God's people wanting to capture a main part. So as to be a disgrace to all Saul is filled with the Holy Spirit and the people gather with the with the dread of the Lord moving them.

There were three hundred thirty thousand soldiers. That's a lot. There's enough to defend themselves against any invader. To actually to conquer their whole region and be the power there if they had a leader that they would follow.

That's why they wanted a king and now Saul is as much of them. He's organized them explaining the attack and they promised him in a Jabesh in verse 9 tomorrow by the time the Sun is hot You shall have deliverance.

Or salvation the word deliverance same word is for salvation so they send this message of salvation to God's people who were under siege by the serpent and when they get the message in Jabesh. You know God's people says in verse 9.

They're glad under siege. But they're joyful. They're celebrating the good news the gospel that your deliverance from the enemy is assured brings Gladness in this world that is in this present evil age.

We are sometimes Under siege or wondering if we have to make a covenant with the serpent to survive. But then God sends the messengers soon. You will be saved. That's that's the gospel. You will be saved no matter what the siege looks like.

Don't surrender. Don't give in and you respond with gladness the people of Jabesh. Tell me Hesh's army camping outside the city. Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you that you may do whatever seems good to you.

Right, that's that's to keep them at ease. Keep them unwary so that they'll be surprised by Israel's attack and Early the next day. It says the morning watch that means they're before big most of the soldiers.

They've been woken up the crack of dawn. Maybe even before that maybe it's still dark. So I'll divide his army into three groups and attacked right into Nehesh's camp. In other words The Ammonites they has just the serpents men.

They're so arrogant. They're so lax. So certain a victory the Jabesh is gonna give in but they apparently don't even have sentries out. Warning them guarding their perimeter able to give an alarm that Israel is coming and so Israel struck right into the Ammonite camp and Shut down the Ammonite soldiers from dawn.

It says to the heat of the day and Those who got away were so scattered that no two of them remain together. Salvation has come. Now Imagine you're able to go into Jabesh. Just as Saul is finished liberating the city.

It's got to be a great celebration. Tell us but you figure there's there's a parade and people are jubilant. He's riding through the gates of the city and people are celebrating him. He's head and shoulders taller than everyone else.

He's hailed for his brilliant leadership. His spirit inspired passion for Israel's and the Lord's honor. Everyone is celebrating that they've been spared from the cruelty of the serpent and people are shouting long live the king and.

Then you ask the people of Jabesh. How do you know who your Savior is? They would look at you like. You're weird. Just maybe baffled. I'll be repeat the question and credulously credulously. How do we know our Savior is?

That's a stupid question. It's obvious who our Savior is. He's the one who saved us. Imagine you're imagine you're at the lake or a beach. You go swimming. But you get cramps you get caught a riptide and you're struggling and you're waving your arms desperately.

During the few seconds you're able to get your your mouth above water. You yell out help me. And just as you're about to go down out of breath nearly blacking out. You feel arms around you dragging you up where you can breathe.

Carrying you to shore and then patting you on the back getting the water out of your lungs and then. Or T a reporter. The TV camera comes running up to you puts a microphone in your face and ask. How do you know who your Savior is?

You blink. Go, huh? How do I know? He's the one who saved me. It's not because he belonged to the lifeguard company. He had the right certifications. Maybe he did maybe he didn't. You don't care. He saved you and so he proved that he is your Savior.

I'll put the book of Judges over and over again. Saviors are proven by saving Israel. When they were oppressed. When Israel was oppressed God raised up a Savior. How did they know that off Niel and Gideon and Jephthah and Samson and the rest were Saviors?

How do they know they fit a criteria? No, they saved them. There wasn't any kind of certification or dynasty or election. It was only the simple fact that they saved the people now today. You know who your Savior is the same way sure.

You can make a rational case for Christ like some apologists do. Try to answer the scoffers hope to convince them He came from the right dynasty. He fulfilled the right prophecies. He rose from the dead even his enemies weren't able to produce his body to debunk claims of his resurrection.

He we can provide reasons that people should believe that Jesus is the Savior. But no one will really believe until Jesus saved them. Then the answer to the question How do you know Jesus is your Savior?

Then. It's obvious. Finally is the coronation at the end of chapter 10. Worthless fellows scoffed. How can this man save us? They couldn't lead Israel to save Jabesh. You know, none of those scoffers could lead Israel in that triumph.

They weren't capable of it. The Spirit of God would not inspire them. They wouldn't feel holy anger at the idea of God's people and so God's name being disgraced. They didn't really care but they scoffed at the idea that Saul would do it.

Worthless people are worthless because they refuse to recognize. What greater people are worth? You get that worthless people are worthless because they refuse to recognize what greater people are worth.

After Saul was selected before he proved himself the worthless fellows mocked the idea that Saul would would rule. Shall Saul reign over us. They asked sarcastically. The scoffers they couldn't rule over Israel.

They think they couldn't gather together the forces necessary for defending Israel. They weren't capable of that. They couldn't rule an army organize it. They couldn't even rule their own tongue and keep from scoffing the new king like the worthless fellows of Gibeah.

They couldn't even rule over themselves. They couldn't control themselves. Worthless people are worthless because they can't rule themselves and they recoil at the idea. They hate the idea of someone else ruling them.

So some people said to slap Samuel. Who makes his only appearance in this chapter? They tell Samuel let's put them to death. Let's execute those worthless fellows. And Saul responds like a statesman. Magnanimously.

He doesn't respond out of ego out of paranoia. You know, this is a good opportunity take advantage of the opportunity of the celebration of the triumph of my brilliant victory. To eliminate my enemies.

He doesn't think that way. He says not a man shall be put to death this day like Jesus in the synagogue. You know here After the victory after the vengeance on the serpent from now on. This is a day of favor of grace.

Because he says in verse 13 the Lord has worked salvation in Israel. Notice, he gives glory to the Lord. It's not as though you know, he's saying not as though I did it all myself. The Lord worked it and so, you know these.

These critics of mine. They can be excused for not believing in me. I can understand that. I don't believe in me either, but the Lord did it. That's what Saul is saying. And then Samuel speaks up. It's now that he's the old prophet.

He's the old judge fading away now says come let us go to Gilgal not far away and there renew the kingdom. In other words, let's have a Coronation, let's recognize the king. Saul was selected before like a president is selected on election day but here Saul the end of chapter 11 is coronated like a president is inaugurated a Coronation like an inauguration is the investing of authority in the selected person.

It is the official way of answering the question. Who gets to rule? How do you know? Who your king is? Well the coronation? says this one. The worthless fellow scoffed earlier at the selection show this man rule over us to them.

The coronation says Yes this man. Here in verse 14, they have the coronation they renew the kingdom. They made it official giving to this elected king the authority to rule. So in verse 15 They go to Gilgal and they're officially endowed Saul with the authority of the government.

The the government rests on His shoulders now. They did it nurses before the Lord. I was in his sight for his glory. They also sacrifice peace offerings. So, you know you sacrifice the fat the blood to the Lord, but the rest you get to eat.

So this is a big barbecue. They're celebrating their feasting before the Lord and so Saul and all the people that says at the end they rejoiced. Greatly. You know who your king is by whether authority has been invested in him.

Jesus demonstrated his rule by rising to the dead. Overcoming the last enemy and then announcing with his coronation at his resurrection. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. How do you know who your king is?

He's been coronated risen from the dead. Invested with all authority. How do you know who your Savior is? Arguments of apologetics. Can only inform you that he can Save you no matter how good the arguments are how ironclad the reasoning is scoffers will still reject it until They are saved.

You cannot reason someone into faith, even though that we have plenty of reasons for our faith. They'll still reject the reasons until God touches their heart. But what about for you. Hopefully, I'm pretty sure here you're not a scoffer.

I don't think there's any worthless fellows here. You know, who is your Savior? But how did you come to know that? Really? There's only one way. The answer is obvious. But of course, it's it's not a stupid answer.

It's a great one. How do you know who your Savior is? You know by him saving you and when he does You rejoice greatly. Along with him.