Saving Faith — David Valderrama

Believing Jesus Rather Than Merely Believing in Him

So many believe in Jesus. I mean, there's millions, if not billions of people that believe in Jesus. But few believe Him. There are millions, if not billions of people that believe in the One who died for their sins.

But few actually believe the One who died. The One who died is Jesus. And He said, for example, that if a man doesn't forsake all that he has, he cannot be My disciple. He said, you've heard it said by them of old time, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

But I say unto you, resist not an evil person, but whosoever would smite you on your right cheek, offer him the other also. Jesus said, the One who died said, if we look upon a woman with lust, we're guilty of adultery.

He said, don't lay up for yourselves treasure on earth, but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven. He said, don't seek anything else first other than My kingdom and My righteousness. Many believe in Jesus, but few actually believe Him.

Few actually live their lives in a way that makes sense of what they profess with their lips. And then there's some other people, you know, like they're more impacted by what He said than what He did.

They focus more on His teaching, on His doctrine, on His words, on His example, rather than what He provided through the cross, through His death, burial and resurrection. But I would say that if you're not overwhelmed and impacted and your heart isn't filled with adoration for what He did for you and provided through the cross, you're more than likely trying to obey His words and forsake everything to follow Him in your own strength.

And the more that you perfect that and grow in that, the more you will become like a Pharisee, trusting in yourself that you're righteous. The more that you'll have this despising of others in your heart.

The One Faith That Overcomes the World

But the title of this message is Saving Faith. I have a lot of Scripture. This is just going to be a teaching. I want to go through all these Scriptures to help establish you in what a saving faith is.

And I have several different types of faith that I want to cover. Probably about 20, I haven't counted, but lots of different types of faith. But there's only one faith that saves. 1 John 5. This is the disciple whom Jesus loved, the Apostle John.

He says in chapter 5, verse 1, he said, "...whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.". And then verse 4 says, "...for whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world.". And this is the victory that overcomes the world.

Even our faith. So according to John, if you combine these two Scriptures together, "...whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world.". You see that?

Now, like I said, there's millions, if not billions of people all over the world who claim to believe that Jesus is the Christ, but they have not overcome the world. They're overcome by it. The same Apostle says in chapter 2, "...for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world is passing away in the lust thereof. But he that does the will of God abides forever.". So there's a victory that overcomes the world, and it's called our faith. Our faith in Jesus as the Christ.

If we truly believe, like for John, to truly believe that Jesus is the Christ, it's something that is birthed inside of you by the Holy Spirit. It's not just something you decide to do one day, apart from any prevenient grace or work into the Spirit of God in your heart convincing you that Jesus really is the Christ.

And without that, you will not overcome the world. You will not walk in victory. So the title of this message, again, is Saving Faith. I would say that perhaps millions, if not billions of people all over the world that claim to believe Jesus is the Christ don't really have a saving faith yet.

They have a faith, but it's not a saving faith. It hasn't saved them from their sin. It hasn't saved them from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of this life. It hasn't saved them from themselves, like just exalting self, promoting self, living for self.

It hasn't effected a death to self. But the faith that overcomes the world is born of God, and that is what we need to overcome the world. It's something born of God. So there's this first faith that I have listed here.

Patched or Troubled Conscience Faith

It's a patched or troubled conscience faith. Patched or troubled conscience faith. There's a lot of people that have a troubled conscience. You know, it's like, I remember in school or just different times, people just felt like they had to be in church.

They felt like they had to go to church. They felt like they had to pray. And so they would go to church and they would pray because their conscience, you know, is troubled. And in order to kind of patch it, you know, and feel a little comfortable about their life and a little more secure and whatever it is that they think might happen to them after they die, they go to church and they pray or they participate in religious activities.

That's called a patched or troubled conscience faith, but it's not a saving faith. It's not a faith that overcomes the world. It's a faith that still leaves you dead in your sins. It's a faith that still leaves you defeated and overcome by this world.

It's a faith that will just kind of like wither away when the scorching heat from the sun or from persecution comes or when trials come. You'll just kind of fall away like the parable of the sower. It's a faith that sprouts up and has abundant joy for a time, but then it withers away.

Traditional Faith and Cultural Christianity

It's not a saving faith. A traditional faith. A traditional faith is like I'm born in the United States of America and maybe 30 years ago, about 90 percent of Americans professed to be Christian and most of them owned a Bible.

And the reason why is because they're born in the United States of America. But if these same people would have been born in India or Thailand where there's Hinduism and Buddhism or Iran where there's Islam, they probably wouldn't own a Bible and they probably wouldn't be going to church.

They probably wouldn't be calling themselves a Christian. So what they have is a cultural or a traditional faith. God has no grandchildren. You're either born again by his spirit. Like your parents can't pray your way.

They can't be born again for you. They can't save you. Your family can't save you. Your country can't save you. It doesn't matter what faith you're born into. If it's not a saving faith in Jesus as the Christ, it will not be the victory that overcomes this world.

It will leave you dead in your trespasses and sins. You won't be quickened together with Christ and made alive. You won't become a new creature. You won't want to devote your entire life regardless of what it costs you to Jesus Christ.

You won't want to rot away in a prison cell somewhere with the bread of affliction and water of affliction. You know, just rotting away with the rat and the mice gnawing at your putrefying body with all the sores that you acquire in these rotting cells.

For your faith in Jesus Christ, you won't be willing to suffer, to live and to die for Jesus Christ if all you have is a traditional faith or pastoral, charitable conscience faith. Only a saving faith overcomes.

Fearful Faith

The third type of faith is a fearful faith. A fearful faith. You say, how can that be? That's an oxymoron. No, it's the truth. A lot of people, their faith is based upon fear. It's, I don't want to go to hell.

I don't want to go to hell, so I'm just going to believe in Jesus as the Christ. Other people believe in Jesus as the Christ and they don't fear going to hell. They have the hope of heaven. So I'm so afraid of dying and going to hell.

I'm just going to live for Jesus. Other people do it and I think it would be safer if I did the same thing. That's called a fearful faith. It's not a saving faith. When times of trial or persecution come, you fall away.

It's not a faith that literally mortifies and puts to death the works of the flesh. Adulteries, fornication, thefts, murders, hatred, variance, envy, drunkenness, revelries, witchcraft, any bondage that we're in inside of our heart, it doesn't purify the heart.

Process-of-Elimination Faith

It doesn't set us free. All it does is make these external changes when with no inward reality. It's a fearful faith. There's a process of elimination faith. Process of elimination faith. One of the things I like to share with people out in the streets is I'll just walk up to people out in the streets.

We either we go out witnessing on the weekend or if I'm at the hardware store, grocery store, wherever I'm at, it's a really interesting way to share Jesus with people, to open up the door to sharing Christ with them.

And it's, I'll say, hey, was there ever a point in time when absolutely nothing at all existed? No gluons, no quirks, no subatomic particles, no space, no time, no matter, nothing whatsoever. And they're immediately like, whoa.

And some of them instantly see where I'm going with this and say, are you a Christian? Or they say, oh yeah, yeah, there was a time when nothing existed. And then I'll say, well, what's zero plus zero?

And it'll be zero. The lights kind of come on sometimes. Some people just are utterly nonsensical. But this is what you call a process of elimination faith. It's like, well, zero plus zero is zero. So there must've been something.

So was it, did mind create matter or did matter create mind? And you can get into physics and science and biology and all these different things and reason with people about how mind, there must be this eternal mind or this eternal life that existed before all things was, in fact, created all things from whom are all things.

And Jesus is actually called the eternal life in the Bible. That's how John described Jesus. He said, that which we have seen with our eyes, which our hands have handled of the word of life. That life was manifested and we have seen it bear witness to be clear unto you.

That eternal life, which was with the father was manifested to us. First John chapter one. First John chapter five said, this is the true God and eternal life. The true God and eternal life. So Jesus is the eternal life.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that was made. And in him was life. And that word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth. So there's this process of elimination faith.

And you know, the lights come on and I'm able to share Jesus and I'm able to talk about his teachings and I can see some type of faith being created. Like oftentimes countenances, like the countenance of the people I'm talking to brightens up, but you see a little illumination happening, but mere words cannot save anyone.

Only a saving faith can save anyone. And God can use the process of elimination to help create that, to help inspire that. But nobody can be saved, but by this process of elimination, part of process of elimination faith is a conspiracy faith.

I've met a lot of people over the years. Just the other day, I met somebody. They started seeing all the evil in the world. And I just heard this the other day by someone else. It was just like, they started seeing all the evil in the world.

And so they were convinced that there must be a good and that ultimate good must be God and Satan must be the ultimate evil. And so this process of elimination, you know, like the whole, all the world powers and the governments and the principalities, you know, they're evil and the God of this world, you know, controls everything.

You know, God, the creator of all is trying to shine light to the hearts of men. And so therefore they decided to become a Christian. It's a process of elimination faith. God can use that, but that faith alone will still leave you dead in your trespasses and sins.

That faith alone will not be the victory that will overcome this world. It will not endure trials and temptation. Acts 17, verse 27, Paul's reasoning at Athens. He's conversing with men in Athens that were very superstitious and religious.

And in verse 27, or verse 23, he says, for as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription to the unknown God. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands, neither is worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything. Seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things.

And he has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth and has determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation that they should seek the Lord. If happily they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.

For in him we live and move and have our being. So Paul uses this word to feel after him. Like how do you feel after God? Process of elimination. You kind of just, well, yeah, there's light, there's darkness, there's good, there's evil.

You know, every house has its builder. Like men build homes, they build cars, they build bridges, but you know, who built the mountains, the stars, the trees, the seasons, the change? Like who did this?

Well, every house has its builder, but he that built all things is God. And so there's this process of elimination phase. There's this conclusion that they come to that's very convincing and compelling to them to believe that there's a God, but not really to lose their life for that God.

What-If-You’re-Wrong Faith

Another type of faith is, what if you're wrong, faith? What if you're wrong? I have encountered many atheists on the streets witnessing, and I have used this myself. It may not be the best thing to do, but you know, it does kind of get some atheists to think about the choices they're making.

But the atheist kind of reasons with me is like, how do you know that there's a God? How can you prove? For me, there's, I'm proof. I was a slave to sin. I was addicted to drugs, horrible drugs and all that stuff.

And faith in Jesus set me free, put a new heart within me and a new mind and new affections and desires and totally transformed me. I have enough proof in my own testimony. I have enough proof that like, I can just watch the snow fall from heaven and the waves only come upon the earth so far and the mountains, you know, with all the trees and all the butterflies and a baby being formed in the womb.

All these things are miraculous. It's not just the laws of physics that eternally existed, but it's an eternal God that created the laws of physics and holds all these things together by the very power of his word, according to Hebrews chapter one.

But what if you're wrong, faith? So like the atheist, so just to kind of like humble myself in his sight or just to like condescend or just to just kind of admit, okay, okay. So I don't have any proof like to the natural senses.

I feel like I do, but he doesn't. So as well just to be like, okay. So if I'm right, there is a heaven and there is a hell. There is a God and there is the devil. There is eternal life and there is eternal torment based upon our works and how we lived.

If I die, I'm blessed. If you die, you're cursed. So like, what if you're wrong? But the question, what if you're wrong? And even like if that light does put some fear in his heart or cause him to really reconsider his position as an atheist or make a few changes in his life, it's not a faith that can save him.

Double-Minded Faith

It's just a what if you're wrong faith. Another type of faith, a double-minded faith. Well, I really think I should be going to church. I think I should be more devoted. I think I should be doing this.

I think I should be more involved in this work or maybe this charity or this business, but it's not really written on the heart. That's not a faith that overcomes this world. It's not a faith that will endure.

It's a double-minded faith because you go back and forth, back and forth. You know, you're tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, by family opinions, employee opinions, by just this world's opinions, by the news, by information, by science, you're tossed to and fro.

You don't have an anchor for your soul. It's a double-minded faith. And here's a really interesting faith right here. Y 'all will probably recognize this. I've heard it several times. Well, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here faith.

“If It Wasn't for Him, I Wouldn't Be Here” Faith

Y 'all ever hear anybody say that? You're trying to talk to them about Jesus and like they most instantly say, well, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here. I had a heart attack. I was dead for like two minutes and like they revived me and he's had mercy.

He's been good to me. I was in this car wreck, you know, and my body was thrown to the windshield and I went through that glass and I barely came out of there with a scratch. Y 'all ever heard anything like that?

And they're still living in sin. They still watch porn. They still go to the nightclubs. They're still very selfish. They get all they can and they get all they can. They greedily covet all the day long and are never satisfied.

They don't even share their faith about Jesus. They're cowards. They live for the weekend, you know, to go play hockey and volleyball or golfing or bowling or just all these worldly activities, but they don't live their life for Jesus.

And they say, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here. That type of faith will not save you. I think there's many people that are gonna wake up in hell who had a patch of trouble conscience faith, a double-minded faith.

If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here faith. There's another type of faith. It's worth a try faith. It's worth a try. I guess it's one of the many options available and it's worked for other people.

It might work for me too. And so you try Jesus. Not a bad idea to try him. There's nothing wrong with it. But if it's not the Holy Spirit of the living God compelling you, persuading you, convincing you, it's not a faith that will endure.

Social and Moral Faiths That Do Not Save

There's another faith. It's a safe for my family faith. It's a faith that has good morals, good people. And it's safe for my family. And so church is more of a social club rather than something that Jesus is building rather than a military that Jesus is assembling to like he has this plan and this agenda to seek and to save that which is lost, to go into the highways, the byways, to go into broken homes and families and build them up and preach the gospel and deliver the captives and set them free.

It's just a safe place for their family. That type of faith won't save you. It'll leave you dead in your sins. It'll make you maybe perhaps a more moral person, a less selfish person, but it won't form the image of Christ inside of you.

There's an unprofitable faith. If you go to Hebrews chapter four, Hebrews chapter four says, let us therefore in verse one, fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. So there's an unprofitable faith. There's people that hear the gospel, that hear the word, but they don't truly believe it with their heart.

They believe it with their intellect. There's a culture or a tradition or a familial opinion, or some other type of power at work inside of them, compelling them to believe the gospel. It's not because the spirit of the living God is birthing it on the inside of them.

It's an unprofitable faith. And the implications of hearing the word, but not believing it, is you hear the word, but you're not a doer of it. You're not obedient to it. There's an imperfect faith. James 2, an imperfect faith.

An imperfect faith will leave you dead in your sins. An imperfect faith is a dead faith. James 2. It says, verse 19. Let's just go to verse 17. Even so, faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

Yea, a man may say, you have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God, you do well. The devils also believe and tremble.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, referring to Abraham, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled, which said, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.

Verse 24. You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Verse 26. And he says, for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. And he's not referring to dead works, he's referring to obedience.

Faith without obedience is dead. It's an imperfect faith. Little faith. Many times throughout the scriptures, Jesus says, O ye of little faith, why did you doubt? Like here's Peter walking on the water, right?

He's the only one that gets out of the boat. He's like, Lord, at your word, I will come. Jesus said, come. He gets out of the boat, there's a storm, there's large waves on the Sea of Galilee, and he literally walks out of this boat, and steps onto the water without sinking, and he's walking.

But then he becomes fearful, and he begins to sink. And he says, Lord, save me, and Jesus immediately reached down and pulled him up out of the water. So Jesus says to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt?

It's little faith to walk on water. Can you imagine that? If Jesus said to Peter, O you of little faith, and he's the only one out of the boat that actually walked on the water. He's the only one that we know of other than Jesus that walked on water.

Jesus said he had little faith. How in the world can we boast and be puffed up and so proud of our efforts and our obedience and our living by faith and forsaking all and all these things in our minds that are just really big?

They're so small. We haven't walked on water yet, friends. Jesus has a way of speaking to his disciples, to his sheep in a way that just kind of keeps them low. And I think that's really safe. That's really good, and it's really kind of him.

Mustard-Seed Faith and Victory Over Sin

Oh, so there's a little faith, a little faith. And I would say this, like Jesus said, that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, right? You didn't, like something really small. Basically, if you just have little faith, if you just have a little faith, you can say to this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea and it will be done.

He didn't say, hey, if you have a mountain of faith, you can move a mountain of sin. It just takes a little faith to overcome the world. It just takes little faith, but the size of a mustard seed to move a mountain.

Can you imagine trying to move a mountain and there's a sin in your life that has kept you in such bondage and such despair and such humiliation, and it's just like a mountain. Can you imagine walking up to a mountain?

I don't know if you've been to a mountain. I know everybody else in here has. I don't know about Connie, but it's like, we've been to these mountains, they're big. Can you imagine trying to move a mountain, Joseph?

That would be crazy. Yeah. And that's what sin is like in our life. It's like this impossible thing. There's no way we can do it. But Jesus says, if you just have faith this big, you can overcome it. Our ability to overcome the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of this life, to overcome this world, to overcome sin and self, it's a matter of faith.

It's a matter of faith. It's a matter of what we believe and where that, like the origin of that faith. Is it a traditional faith, a culture of faith, process of elimination of faith, or is it something that's birthed by the Spirit of God, compelling us, persuading us, convincing us?

This is the truth, the way, and the life. Jesus really is the Christ. I'm gonna live for Him. I'm gonna die for Him. I'm gonna devote everything to Him. And it produces, like the effects of it is a life-giving power on the inside of you that kills vain, carnal, worldly, sensual, devilish desires.

It kills that envy, that pride, that bitterness, that hatred. It transforms all these works of the flesh into the fruits of the Spirit because you really believe Jesus is the Christ and there's a mystery there.

There's something, like literally, our faith connects with heaven. Our faith connects with Christ. It's our access into everything that Jesus provided us through the cross. So Jesus clearly says that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can command this mountain to be moved and cast from the sea and it will obey you.

If there's a sin in your life, it's a matter of faith. The reason why people today don't overcome sin and this world is because they don't believe that they can. It's impossible. They're looking to themselves.

They're not looking to Jesus. They're trusting in themselves, their own ability. They think, well, I've been struggling with this thing for years and my victories only last for a week or two. And it's just been going on and on and on.

It's an issue of faith, friends. Do we really believe? And if we believe, what is the origin of that belief? How is it produced? Where did it come from? Is it a conspiracy faith, process of elimination faith?

Is it an unprofitable faith? Is it a safe for my family faith, worth a try faith? What if you're wrong faith, fearful faith? What kind of faith is it? Is it the faith that John said is the victory that overcomes this world?

Is it born of God? Another type of faith is great faith. Jesus said of the centurion, the centurion, you know, his servant or his son, I don't remember, just he was sick. He was gonna die or something.

And he comes running after, or he sent a servant. Yeah, the centurion sent a servant after Jesus or something like that. Y 'all know the story. But he didn't feel worthy to have Jesus to come under his roof.

Jesus immediately said, hey, I will come to him and heal him. And the man plainly said, I'm not worthy for you to come into my home. And Jesus marveled. He said, I'm a man under authority, having people under me.

I say to them, do this and they do it, to don't do that and they don't do it or whatever. And they obey me. This centurion, there was something inside of him that recognized Jesus is unlike anybody else in the face of this earth.

His word has power. His word transforms. His word causes bodily limbs to grow back and eyes that can never see to see. He causes demon-possessed people that are just cutting themselves and tormented and afflicted to have a sound mind and be fully clothed and have peace and joy unspeakable and full of glory.

His word is with power. And that Roman centurion saw that and he believed it. So much so that he knew there was something very holy, something pure, something divine, something different than man in Jesus.

And he did not feel worthy for him to come under his roof. And then there's millions of people today that claim to believe Jesus is the son of God, that he's the creator of all things and they think that he lives on the inside of them and they just feel totally entitled to all of his gifts and all this stuff, but they rebel all the day long.

They greedily covet all the day long. They serve themselves. They live for themselves. They don't take up their cross. They're not denying themselves. They're not looking for the print of a step throughout the pages of scripture to follow hard after them.

As the psalmist said in Psalm 63, he said, "'My soul follows hard after you.'". But this centurion, his faith in Jesus was so great, he didn't even feel worthy for Jesus to enter his home. What kind of faith do we have if we feel like we're friends with Jesus, that we have a relationship with Jesus, that Jesus actually lives on the inside of us and we just live in sin?

And we sing songs about a sacrifice. We honor him with our lips, but our hearts six days a week are far from him. What kind of faith is that? Like the centurion had great, his faith was so great in Jesus that he didn't feel worthy for Jesus to even enter his home.

But there's so many, y 'all understand what I'm saying here? Like that if we have faith in Jesus, we ought to feel unworthy for him to come and make his home inside of us. He said, "'He that has my words and keeps them, "'he it is that loves me.

"'And my father will love him and I will love him "'and will make my abode or my home inside of him.'". There's the weak in the faith faith. This is Romans chapter 14. A weak in the faith faith. Some people believe that eating herbs is wrong or having our Christian get together is wrong to have it on Sundays.

It needs to be on Saturday, that we gotta keep the Sabbath and there's all these divisions and the church is about it and so many opinions. And Paul says that we're weak in the faith when we divide over these subjects.

We're weak in the faith. And so there's a weak in the faith faith in, yeah. Then there's a partiality faith. James chapter two. James chapter two says, "'My brethren,' verse one, "'have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, "'the Lord of glory with respective persons.

"'For if there come unto your assembly "'a man with a gold ring and goodly apparel, "'and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, "'and you have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, "'and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place.

"'And say to the poor, "'stand thou there, sit under my footstool. "'Are you not then partaker, partial in yourselves, "'and are become judges of evil thoughts? "'Hearken, my beloved brethren, "'has not God chosen the poor of this world, "'rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, "'which he has promised to them that love him, "'but you have despised the poor.'".

I've been around different churches and stuff. You know, we're like, if there's somebody visiting their fellowship, and it says like here, it says, if it comes into your assembly, a man with a gold ring and goodly apparel.

And so this is a self-sufficient family, somebody that would really be a great addition to our church, and they really have a lot to offer, and their children are such a blessing. You know, they don't have really a lot of problems.

They don't have a lot of baggage. They need a contribution rather than a subtraction of the church. And then there's somebody that just is really poor and needy, has a lot of problems. They need a lot of help.

How do we treat people like that? Do we have as much joy? And their fellowship and the poor man's fellowship as the rich man's? If not, then we have what's called a partial faith. And we may not have a saving faith at that point, because the saving faith will purify us of that partiality.

Futile, Agnostic, Blind, and Bible Faiths

There's a futile faith. There are some in the church of Corinth, according to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, that did not believe in the resurrection. And Paul says, if you don't believe in the resurrection, your faith is vain, it's futile, it's worthless.

And why do we stand in jeopardy of our lives every day? If there's no resurrection, let us eat, drink, and die for tomorrow. Let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die. If there's no resurrection from the dead, if we really don't believe in a resurrection from the dead, if this faith in the resurrection from the dead has not caused you to walk in newness of life, if it hasn't given you the victory over this world, because there's tremendous power when we believe in the resurrection of the dead, that there will be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.

And they all will be judged according to their deeds, whether they're good or evil. That will purify you. You can believe what you want to believe, faith. That's an agnostic faith. I don't know how many times we encounter this.

It's like, don't all religions kind of teach the same thing or just do unto others as you would have them to do unto you, love your neighbor as yourself. And you can believe what you want to believe. You know, there's really no moral absolutes.

There's really not right or wrong. It's just a matter of opinion. And you ask these people, would it be wrong if I took that child over there and just chopped off its head? Of course that's wrong. Okay, well, who says so?

There's something written upon our hearts where we know that it's wrong. And so you can believe what you want to believe, faith. That faith embraces everyone and anyone. It has no absolute moral standard.

That faith is dead. And that faith is really flooding the churches these days. Nobody wants to judge. Nobody wants to uphold the righteous standard of Jesus Christ. There's a blind faith, a faith where people really don't have any foundation for.

Their heart just tells them this is the truth or that they're saved or that they know God, but they really don't. Like John said this, he that says I know him and doesn't keep his commandments is a liar.

The truth is not in him. There's so many people that say I know him, but they despise those that teach his commandments, much less perform them. There's a Bible faith. People just believe that if they believe this Bible is true, then they're saved.