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Breaking Free From Sin: Faithlessness to Faithfulness | Numbers 13
What if the key to overcoming your deepest struggles lies in a simple yet profound truth? In this episode of "Breaking Free from Sin," we tackle the pervasive issue of faithlessness, exploring how trusting in God's promises can transform your life. Through heartfelt personal stories and insights from the book of Numbers, we illuminate the vital role of faith as the foundation of a righteous existence. Beginning with a humorous childhood confession, we highlight how vulnerability and transparency can lead to spiritual growth and deeper faith.
We then turn our focus to the powerful narrative of Numbers 13, where Moses sends spies to scout the land of Canaan. This story serves as a mirror to our own lives, revealing the tension between faith and hesitation. Drawing parallels to Jesus' Great Commission, we explore how our reluctance to act on God's commands can hinder our spiritual journey. Through relatable anecdotes, we challenge you to embrace faith-driven obedience, moving past the need for constant reassurance and stepping boldly into God's promises.
Finally, we spotlight the inspiring faith of Caleb, whose unwavering trust in God contrasted starkly with the fear and doubt of the other spies. Caleb’s story is a powerful reminder of how faithlessness can spread through communities, but also how one person's steadfast belief can inspire and uplift others. We offer practical steps to combat faithlessness, encouraging a mindset rooted in trust and conviction. For those ready to take a leap of faith, we conclude with a guided prayer, inviting you to commit your life to Jesus and experience the freedom that comes with true faith. Tune in and be inspired to break free from the chains of doubt and unbelief.
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hour sermon time this morning. Again, I just want to thank you for being here. We're starting a brand new series this morning called Breaking Free from Sin. Breaking Free from Sin. Just look at somebody next to you and say the word sin. Just say the word sin. It feels weird, doesn't it? It just feels strange just to even say it.
Speaker 1:I think it's only appropriate that I tell you a little bit about one of the deepest, darkest sins, seasons of sin in my life. It is a time of my life that I'm ashamed of. It's a time of my life that I don't even want to talk about, but I believe that confession is good for the soul. I think you need to know about my life. I think you need to know about my past because I'm your pastor. I need you to know that one of the hardest times of my life this is. I mean, my family was ashamed of me. I wasn't sure if they were going to disown me. It was a very dark time. I was very confused. It was a time when I was in sixth grade and I started cheering for the Auburn Tigers. It was crazy, I mean, I couldn't believe what had happened in my life, and I grew up in Tuscaloosa and my dad was a graduate of the University of Alabama and for some reason I just thought Pat Dyle was the best coach on the planet and Reggie Slack was the best quarterback at the time that I had ever seen. And for a year I fell into the dark side and I started cheering for Auburn. And then I repented and I gave my life back to God. And here I am today, and if you're an Auburn fan, you're not sinning, but I was, and so I think it's just so important for us to be honest and real and transparent about our sin.
Speaker 1:But we're looking at this series called Breaking Free from Sin. Why? Because we all have a sin struggle in your life. I promise you that I will never fake or play like I'm a perfect pastor, because I'm not. I always want to be transparent about my life. I always want to be transparent about my struggle, transparent about my sin, and we need to break free from our sin because God has given us power to break free from our sin.
Speaker 1:So this morning, the sin that I want to talk about is the sin of faithlessness. The sin of faithlessness. I believe that all sin, the cardinal sin, the key sin, the cornerstone sin, if you will, in our life that it all comes down to faithlessness. When we struggle with faithlessness is when we struggle most with sinfulness. We're going to look at this from the book of Numbers.
Speaker 1:So we started just a while back in Genesis, right. So we were going through Genesis together. This was in January, I believe and we walked through Genesis when God created the whole world and he called a family to himself, abraham's family, and then that family became the nation that God had promised. And we moved into the book of Exodus, where we got to see this family become a nation and how they fell into the slavery of Egypt and how God rescued them. God delivered them and he was sending them out to the promised land and he stopped them at Mount Sinai where he was revealing himself to them so they could see who he is. But also he revealed his holiness to them and even gave them his laws, his nature and how they could know him and how they could live like him. And here we are in the book of Numbers, and this is where God is releasing them from Mount Sinai and God is taking them into the promised land.
Speaker 1:And in this passage we see this struggle, this tension, in the wilderness of faithlessness and faithfulness, and it's much like our life, it's much like your life, it is much like my life. Our life can feel like the wilderness. Your life can feel like the wilderness that we're going through life. Often we're wondering. Often we don't know where we're going, we're not exactly sure where we're going to end up, we don't know what's going to happen next, and there are trials and there are difficulties that are completely unexpected All along the way. We are all walking throughout the wilderness of life.
Speaker 1:Can I get an amen? And here they are. They're walking through the wilderness of life and we get to see these seasons of faithlessness and faithfulness, and so we need to talk about what does faith even mean? I would submit to you that faith means that we believe that God is who he says that he is, that God does what he says that he is, that God does what he says, that he does, that God promised what he said that he promised and that God will do what he said that he will do. Can I get an amen? Faith is simply believing God is trustworthy and believing that God is true. So what is faithlessness? Faithlessness is when we don't believe God, when we don't believe he is who he says he is, when we don't believe that he does what he says that he will do or did what he said that he did.
Speaker 1:If you look in the Bible we see some different verses that really help us with faith. John, chapter 16, verse nine If y'all just saw me make eyes of that woman, that's my wife, just so everybody knows in this room, in case you're new, that's my wife and welcome to church, babe. John, chapter 16, verse 9, says Jesus said concerning sin, because they do not believe in me. In other words, what is the cardinal sin, what is the key sin, what is that cornerstone sin? It is unbelief. When we don't believe, when we don't have faith, it is the key that unlocks the door to all kinds of different sin, all kinds of different hurt, all kinds of different evil coming into our life. Jesus said concerning sin, because they don't believe or they don't have faith in me. Hebrews 11, one.
Speaker 1:What is faith? Now? Faith is the assurance or the confidence of things that are hoped for, the conviction of things that are unseen. So what is faith? Faith is assurance and faith is conviction of those things that we hope and those things that we do not even see yet. So that means we don't just have faith in what God has done in our life. You are called, and I are called, to have faith in what God has yet to do in our life, what God has not yet done in our life. Faith is saying God, no matter what I see with my own eyes, I believe in you and I trust you, and I trust that you said that you are good and that you are all powerful and that you love me and that you're for me. Faith says God, even when it doesn't look like it, even when it doesn't feel like it, even when it doesn't look like it, even when it doesn't feel like it, even when it doesn't seem like it. My trust and my faith and my belief is in you, because you are who you say you are and you will do what you say that you will do. Can I get an amen this morning? That is what faith is all about.
Speaker 1:Now check this out a couple other key verses on faith before we dive into numbers. Hebrews 11, 6 says and without faith, without faith, it is impossible to please God. So if we're not believing in God, then God is not pleased by our life. But let's spin the verse around. If you have faith in God, then God is possibly pleased in you. If you have faith in God, then you can please the Lord in your life. It says so faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. In other words, we even read this last week. If you are like me and you still struggle in your faith and you still want your faith to grow, the only way that we can have our faith grow is not saying God, I'm just gonna believe more in you. No, it's getting into the word of God and believing the word of God and letting the word of God do the work of God for the faith of God in your life. Faith doesn't come from us, it comes from him. Can I get an amen this morning? Faith comes from the Lord.
Speaker 1:So let's go ahead and look at. Here's what the Bible says in the book of Numbers. You can open up with me to Numbers, chapter 13. Numbers, chapter 13,. We're gonna look at a fascinating passage to me, one of my favorite passages in all the Bible, as we see, and I can connect with these people that are faithless and these people that are struggling through faithlessness and faithfulness Numbers, chapter 13, verse one. If you're there, if you're already there in your Bible, say word, here we go.
Speaker 1:Numbers 13, one says the Lord spoke to Moses and he was saying send men to spy out the land of Canaan which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one, a chief among them. So here's what we see is they are traveling now through the wilderness. They are probably just a few days away now through the wilderness. They are probably just a few days away from the promised land. They're probably just on the outskirts of the promised land. They are very close. And God says hey, we're close.
Speaker 1:And so it looks like that God is saying I want you to send spies to go and spy out the land. But that is actually not what's happening. In fact, if you turn over, you don't need to go there. In your Bible I'll just show it to you on the screen. Deuteronomy 121 says see, the Lord, your God, has set the land before you. So I want you to, I want you to go. Everybody say go, I want you to go.
Speaker 1:Notice that God did not say I want you to go spy out the land. I'll show you. God told them to go take possession, as the Lord, the God of your father, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed. In fact, god wanted them to just go blindly in and just go take the land. God wanted them to trust him. He didn't want them to scout it out, he didn't want them to spy. Trust him. He didn't want them to scout it out. He didn't want them to spy it out. He didn't want them to check it out. He didn't want them to be calculated, he didn't want them to be strategic, he just wanted them to be obedient. Can I get an amen? That's what God often wants us to do in our life. He just wants us to obey. He told them to go. It's fascinating to me, as that is exactly what Jesus has called us to do.
Speaker 1:In Mark, chapter 16, verse 15,. Jesus said to go. Everyone say go. Jesus said to them go into all the world and preach the gospel.
Speaker 1:One of my favorite verses that I've just committed, lord willing, just to recite over you every single Sunday morning, is the great commission that Jesus has called us to go, therefore, and make disciples of every nation. That means all ethnicities. Why all ethnicities? Because God has created every single ethnicity, every single person, every single race as equal in his image. Can I get an amen? And God has called us to go to all nations, to go to all peoples, to go to all ethnicities and to make disciples. He said, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded. And Jesus said I will be with you even into the end of the age. Did you know that? That is a command for your life? That is Jesus' commission for you and that is also Jesus' commission for our church. We are called to do one thing and we are called to. We're called to go.
Speaker 1:The problem is is that Jesus calls us to go, god calls us to go and we like to say whoa, god, why don't you slow down Whoa with this go stuff? Deuteronomy, chapter one, verse 22,. Moses tells us what really happens. He says then all of you came near to me when God told us to go and take the land. He's recounting what happened in Numbers. He said you came to me and y'all said let us send men before us that they may explore the land that is for us. Bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which that we shall come. God said to go. The people said whoa. They said we gotta check things out first. We need to know what we're up against. We need to be ready. We need to be prepared. We gotta draw up a strategy. You know what God did. God allowed it. He didn't command it, but out of his grace and out of his patience, god allowed it.
Speaker 1:It can be like times in our life where God calls us just to go and to do something for him, and we know what God's calling us to do. But we say, god, I think I'm just going to pray about it for a little bit longer. You know, maybe God has called you to get deeper into his word on a daily basis. You say God, whoa, I'm gonna start with one verse. Maybe for some, god is man. I want to call you deeper into prayer. God, I'm gonna give you one minute in prayer. Maybe for some, god has called you to serve in his church. You say, god, I'm gonna shake one hand. Maybe some of you, god has said I want you to go and I want you to spread my name and speak of the gospel to people. God, if someone sneezes, I'll say God bless you. That's all I'm gonna say. Right, there are different things that we are going through in our life that God says go, but often the sinfulness of my heart and the sinfulness of your heart says whoa See, often we like to test the waters before we get in.
Speaker 1:When I take my little boy, cruz, one year old, turning two this month, when I take him swimming, I put on his puddle jumper, I take him down the neighborhood pool, I pull him out of his wagon puddle jumper on fastened up. Why? Because as soon as I let go, cruz runs as fast as he can toward the pool, jumps in the air supermans, all by himself, and just dives in headfirst. Right, he's not checking the temperature of the pool, he's not seeing if anything's below him, he's not checking for sharks, he's not checking for anything, he's just going headfirst into the pool. What do I do? I go around the side, I go to the stairs, I dip my toe in I wanna see how cold this pool is right and my toe in I want to see how cold this pool is right. And then I get in ankle deep and then knee deep and then waist deep and then I have to, like, hold my breath and count to 10 and go underwater. So my bald head gets cold underwater, right, and it just takes a little while.
Speaker 1:And I pray that you are more like Cruz and less like me. I pray that we're a church that we're just faithful to when God calls us to go and that we go and do what God has called us to go and to do. So they go, the spies. They send 12 spies into the land for 40 days and the spies come back and they give a report. They say there's good news and there's bad news, right? How many of y'all, when they say, if you want the bad news first or the good news first, how many of y'all want the good news first? Raise your hand, good news first. How many of y'all like the bad news first? Just get it out of the way, say that's me right there, that's right. Just save the good news for last.
Speaker 1:In Numbers, chapter 13, verse 27, it says and they told him we came to the land which you sent us and we noticed the land, we checked it out. The land flows with milk and honey and this is its fruit. What was the fruit? The Bible says that they had one. They had brought back one cluster of grapes and the one cluster of grapes was so big, it was so heavy. They had to put this cluster of grapes on a pole and two men had to put it on their shoulders just to carry it back.
Speaker 1:They were saying look at how fruitful the land is. They're saying it's a land that flows with milk and honey, meaning the land is good for cattle, for cows and for goats, for sheep to graze that is the milk. The land is good for honey, that is, the land has lots of plants, it is flourishing, so that the bees can make honey. The land is good. They had good news, but they said but there's also bad news. The bad news is Numbers 13, 28,. They said well, the people are strong, the cities are fortified and large, the descendants of Anak giants are strong, the cities are fortified and large. The descendants of Anak giants are there. The Amalekites are present in the Negev, the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites are all in the hill country, the Canaanites dwell by the sea and all along the Jordan. You can tell that they're not just sharing this factual report, but they're starting to reveal their fear in what God has called them to do.
Speaker 1:Can I just ask you if you're like me at times, do you spend more time thinking about, stressing over and talking about your problems in life, more so than God promises his promises over your life? Do you often see life more for its difficulties than for its opportunities? Do you look at your life through the lens of faithfulness, or do you typically look at things through the lens of faithfulness, or do you typically look at things through the lens of faithlessness? And how does it affect your attitude? How does it affect the way in which that you speak, the way in which you talk, the way in which you act, the way in which that you project? How does it affect your own heart and how does it affect your own heart and how does it affect those around you? Well, as they were sharing that negative report. Man, we love it.
Speaker 1:There was a faithful response and it was by Caleb. Numbers 13, 30, caleb, right after that negative report. I just love Caleb. Just stands up right and Caleb is so courageous and he quiets all the people. Everybody quiet down. I know what you just heard. He quiets all the people, everybody quiet down. I know what you just heard. He quiets all the people before Moses and he said but let's go. God called us to go. He said let's go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.
Speaker 1:I don't think that Caleb is saying that we are awesome and we can do this and we can take them and we can win this war. I think that Caleb is saying let's not forget what God has done in our life. Let's not forget that God sent 10 plagues on the most powerful empire of Egypt and delivered us and rescued us. Let's not forget that God parted the Red Sea and we walked through miraculously, safely, and then he closed the sea back on the Egyptians. Let's not forget, in the wilderness, when we were hungry, god brought up manna from the ground and dropped quail from the sky. Let's not forget, when we were thirsty, that God provided water out of a rock and God turned the bitter water sweet just by throwing a log into that water source.
Speaker 1:Caleb is like it is not about what we can do, it's about what God can do. He's done it before and he can do it again. The question is not what we see. The question is what has God called us to do? But there was a faithless response even to Caleb's faithful response. Numbers 13, 31, the 10 spies spoke back up. If you can just feel their fear and their doubt and their faithlessness, we're not able to go up against these people. We're stronger than we are. This is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people that we saw in it are of great height, and there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, and we seemed even to ourselves like grasshoppers, because they seemed like giants.
Speaker 1:The problem was that they were comparing their problems to themselves. If you're here today and you're like me you're watching online and you're like me you're watching online and you're like me and you feel like your problems are bigger than you, I want you to know this morning that you are right. All of our problems are bigger than us. All of my problems are bigger than me. All of your problems are bigger than you. The problem isn't that our problems are bigger than us. The problem is that we are comparing our problems to ourself and not comparing our problems to our God.
Speaker 1:The issue is that we are allowing the majority to be the loudest voice, and here's the deal. Hear me today. This is very important for your life and who you're around and the crowd that surrounds you and our country and our politics and everything that's happening. Listen, the majority is not always right. The 10 spies were faithless. The two spies were faithful. We can't just listen to the majority. Instead, we've got to listen to the message of the word of God Even when the majority. Instead, we've got to listen to the message of the word of God Even when the majority is convinced. The majority is all in agreement. The majority is fearful. The majority is loud. It doesn't matter what the majority says. It matters what God says, and what God says is found in his word. Can I get an amen? So I see this. How faithlessness is contagious. So they said here's the report, the good news, the bad news. Caleb stands up and says but we can do this. They stand back up and say the Zen spy says no, we can't. And look at how contagious faithlessness is. Then all the congregation, that is, over a million people, raised a loud cry and the people wept that night. Our faithlessness, our attitude, our perspective, our outlook on life, our perspective, our outlook on life, on God, affects other people. Those 10 spies affected over a million people.
Speaker 1:I remember being on a mission trip in San Diego, california, and during the mission trip. One night we just went to Petco Park, which was the Padres ballpark. We went and watched the Pad trip. One night we just went to Petco Park, which was the Padres ballpark. We went and watched the Padres play. That night and I remember a girl in our group her name was Sarah, she was 15, 16 years old and Sarah started doing this in her seat and then she went down to the little row below us where she could run back and forth and she was doing this and she started getting our little group of 40 people just doing the wave. We were just having fun as a church doing the wave and then she started running to the next section, running back and forth, and she got our section and the next section to do the wave and then she went to the next section and then to the next section and within 10 minutes, all of Petco Park, the San Diego Padres ballpark, the entire stadium was doing the wave because of one girl from our church who was 16 years old.
Speaker 1:It is all to show us is that God has given us influence. The way that we live and what we do is influencing other people. Now we may not be influencing millions. We may not be influencing thousands in the stadium, but the question is who has God given you influence over and how is your faithlessness, or faithfulness, contagious to them? How is the way that you talk, the way that you respond, the way that you react, the way that you believe, the way that you interpret what is happening in life, how is it influencing others? Because faithlessness is contagious, it says.
Speaker 1:All the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. They said would that we had died in the land of Egypt or would that we have died in the wilderness? They go on to say why is the Lord bringing us into this land? Notice how faithlessness not only is contagious but it's viral. Notice how it grows. It's exponential. Now they're questioning God why is the Lord bringing us into the wilderness to fall by the sword? Now they're saying God just wants to kill us. Our wives and our little ones will become prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt. It just went from there are giants in the land to what are we even doing here? What is God doing? Does God care? Does God love us? Notice how faithlessness unravels into sinfulness, how faithfulness just unravels and it grows and it's like a virus and it affects, as it's contagious, to so many other people. Why does Satan often tempt you and me with faithlessness? Because faithlessness is the key to sinfulness.
Speaker 1:I remember being in high school. It was my senior year in high school. My favorite sport was basketball. I was on my basketball team. We had just won the state championship the year before. The problem was we had graduated seven seniors off of our team. They're about the first seven people in the game. And so here we were, standing before our coach the next season. Now we're seniors, now it's our time. It was our very first practice. We were waiting to get pumped up by our coach. And our coach looks at us and he says well, guys, we're not going to be very good this year. We said what are you talking about, coach? We just won the championship. He said, yes, we did with that other class, but you're not gonna be very good this year. And we said coach, you're wrong. We're gonna prove you're wrong. We're gonna show you that you're wrong. Listen, had we believed our coach we are not gonna be very good this year, we'd have not even tried. But good this year, we'd have not even tried, but we believed. We're the seniors, now it's our time, it's our turn. And we went 17 and four that season and we won the state championship.
Speaker 1:Why? All because of belief, all because of faith, all because of hope. Your faith changes things, your hope changes things. I want you to know if faithlessness is contagious. My last point is faithfulness is courageous. Everyone say courageous, faithfulness is courageous. Watch, then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly. If you're like me and you struggle with faithlessness, the way in which that you grow in faithfulness is by getting on our knees and just asking God. God, would you increase my faith, god, would you build my faith, god, would you grow my faith In?
Speaker 1:Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, said the land is an exceedingly good land if the Lord delights in us. That word if, in the Hebrew language, the son of Jephunneh said the land is an exceedingly good land If the Lord delights in us. That word if, in the Hebrew language also means since, since the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and we will give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only he said do not rebel against the Lord. So what do we see them doing? How do we break free from a life of faithlessness to a life of faithfulness? Number one we pray. Number two we believe in the promises of God. Number three we resist and we repent of all sin. And then he says do not rebel. That is our repentance from sin. Do not rebel against the Lord and don't fear the people. Number four don't fear, for they are bred for us. Their protection is removed from them. The Lord is with us. Do not fear them. Number five remember the presence of God.
Speaker 1:I wanna encourage you. If you're like me and you struggle with faithlessness, I wanna encourage you to take it to the Lord. Say God, I pray that you would help me. God, I pray that you would increase my faith. I want to encourage you to get in the word of God and I want you to believe the promises of God. I wanna encourage you to repent and to resist of sin in your life, because faithlessness is the key to sinfulness.
Speaker 1:And just to say devil, I'm not gonna listen to you. I'm not gonna listen to the way that I feel. I'm not gonna listen to the way that I feel. I'm not going to listen to the way that I think. I'm not going to listen to the way that you're tempting me to doubt, to question, to fear the things in life. Instead, I am going to listen to God. I am not going to fear, because fear is the opposite of faith. Can I get an amen? I'm going to believe in God, amen, I'm going to believe in God. I'm going to believe in the presence of God, that God is with me, and I need you to know that we're not some Pollyanna pie in the sky church. I'm not saying that if you believe it and if you pray it, then God's going to do it, because God doesn't answer every prayer with yes, but God can do all things. God can work all miracles. He's all powerful. There's nothing that he can't do in your life. Just because he didn't do it didn't mean that he couldn't do it. And because he can do it is the reason that we go back to him over and over and over again. But listen to me, the reason that God can do it is because he is all powerful. The question is is if he doesn't, because God is also all wise and God can and only will do that which is best according to his will. He's working out his plan.
Speaker 1:There was a story in the Bible, mark, chapter 9. There was a story in the Bible, mark, chapter 9. A dad brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus. He said Jesus, is it possible that you heal my son? And Jesus looked at him and he said is it possible? Jesus said for those who believe, all things are possible. And the dad looked at Jesus One of my favorite verses in the entire Bible because I connect with this.
Speaker 1:The dad said I believe, but help my unbelief. See, you may be here this morning and you may be a Christian If you believe in God. You believe in Jesus. You believe that he has died for your sin. You believe that he has risen from the dead. You've called him to be the Lord of your life. You believe, but that doesn't mean that you don't struggle with unbelief at times, like me. So what do we do with our unbelief? We pray, we believe the promises of God, we repent and we resist of sin. We don't fear the future, we don't fear man. We believe that God is with us. We live lives of faithfulness because of Jesus. I'm gonna ask us just to close our eyes and bow our heads here in this moment and I just wanna give you an opportunity just to connect with God right here, right now.
Speaker 1:And maybe you are a believer, maybe you are a Christian, maybe you are a child of God. You've given your life to him through the gospel, believing in Jesus, his death, his resurrection, calling on him to be the Lord of your life. But maybe, like me, you have areas of your life that you're struggling with faithlessness and you need to break free. And you need to break free and you need God to help you to believe him in those areas of your life again. And maybe you're here this morning and you have yet to give your life to him, but this morning it feels different. Maybe you heard it differently. If it feels differently, if you heard it differently, that means that God is working in your life. God is calling your name, he is calling you to him because he loves you, he sees you and he wants to be your life.
Speaker 1:And I can't pray this prayer for you and I can't save you, but I can lead you through a prayer where you give your life to him, you place your faith in him and he will be your God, right here, right now, from your own heart and your own words, you can say dear God, I believe in you, I have faith in you, god, I believe I have faith that Jesus, your son, died on the cross for my sins and I ask you to forgive me of all my sin.
Speaker 1:And, god, I believe I have faith that Jesus rose from the dead, he's alive and he's real, and I turn from my sin and I turn and I follow Jesus with my life. And the Bible says if you confess with your mouth that Jesus, you're my Lord, I believe in you as Lord, I have faith in you as Lord, jesus, my Lord, and, with your heart, believe that God raised him from the dead. God promises you will be saved, so call on Jesus right now. Jesus, be my Lord, be my Savior, be my God and Jesus. We believe that and we pray these things in Jesus' name. And all God's people said