Let's turn there together. It is great to be here this morning. We are thankful that you are here, thankful for our visitors this morning, thankful for the Lord's provision that we might all come together and that we might have God's Word, the Word of God, His Word that He has breathed to us before us this morning. Hebrews chapter 11, As we continue our series, the hallelujahs of the Hebrews, looking at the things in the book of Hebrews that should cause our hearts to rejoice in our great God. It's interesting as we have been looking in this particular, in this 11th chapter, if you're keeping up with the things that faith produces, and that's what we're seeing here, that's what God has declared to us in this 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews, things that faith produces, things like Faith produces the demonstration of the greatness of God. No, the things that faith produces. Faith produces, as we have seen, the demonstration a demonstration of the greatness and the mighty works of God. Faith produces deliverance from this present evil world, a demand for compliance to the truth. Faith produces loving obedience to God. Faith produces a likeness of and to Jesus Christ. Faith produces a life of reward. Faith produces a lasting legacy. Faith produces belief in the inconceivable. Faith produces a continuing, communing conversation with God Himself. Faith produces a consuming fear of God, a condemnation of the unbelieving world. Faith produces a cornerstone for our righteous standing before God. Faith produces self-denial, faith produces hope, faith produces even a delight in this miracle of faith. That's what we've seen so far, that God's faith produces in human beings. And what's so interesting, what's so really wonderful about that as we walk through this, what is called the Hall of Faith in chapter 11, we are seeing these things and it's interesting as you study the lives of these people and the aspects of this faith that is mentioned here, we see bits and pieces of all of these things trickle down through this list. And then not only do we see those things, but then we see the Holy Spirit add more things that faith produces on top of those. And that's wonderful because it allows us to truly see that these wonderful things really are what God's faith produces in His people. And then when we see those things in us, It allows us to see that we really do possess this faith, this supernatural gift that God gives to His people. And especially we see, yes, that we possess it, but it allows us to praise God for giving us this thing called faith. What a great gift that God has bestowed upon us. What a great blessing of His free favor. God didn't have to give anybody any faith, but He does. He gives us people this wonderful, wonderful gift of faith, and it is truly wonderful. So let's walk a little further here today through this hall of faith. Last week we began to see the faith of Abraham and today we'll pick up again in verse 11. Through faith also, Sarah herself. Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged Him faithful who had promised. She judged God faithful because He had promised. Therefore spring there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable." Through faith, also Sarah herself, Sarah So ladies, it should encourage you this morning, as you read this passage, that God not only gives faith, His great faith, and faith's lasting legacy to men, but He gives it to women as well. Women like Sarah, Abraham's wife. So ladies, if God has blessed you, If He has caused you in and through and by His faith to be a truly godly woman, how thankful you should be. And men, if God has given us one of these godly women to be our wife or our mother or our sister, how truly thankful we should be. because the reality is we are truly and greatly blessed. We are. So as we look into the life of this woman, Sarah, who God has chosen to use as an example of what his faith produces, what do we learn this morning? We would ask, Lord, show us. Show us through Sarah what your faith produces. Well, as we look into the life of Sarah, we find something that at first may be a little unexpected. I've done a little research into her life, into the passages that speak of her life, and I have found out something that might be unexpected. It was to me, I didn't really expect to find what I found, and that was that Sarah was a strong woman. She was a strong woman. Even her name Sarai means princess. She was a strong, it helps us to understand, she was a strong, if we could say regal woman. That's who Sarah was. To be honest with you, in the culture she lived in, and to be barren or to be unable to bear children, that would either break you down or build you up. That one thing alone would either break you or it would make you strong. And she was a strong woman. She was a strong woman. And apparently, not only was she strong, she was an amazingly beautiful woman. amazingly beautiful. You remember when Abraham told Pharaoh, we looked at it last week or the week before, when Abraham told Pharaoh that Sarah, his wife, was his sister. When he lied to Pharaoh about that, it was because she was so beautiful that he feared that they would kill him so that Pharaoh's servants could take her to be Pharaoh's wife. They would kill Abraham to do that. And remember, she was 65 years old. 65 years old and still that amazingly beautiful that Abraham feared that she would be taken from him and he killed. She was a beautiful, strong, regal woman. You'll turn back to Genesis chapter 16. Hold your, you can put your mark there, we're going to be coming back. In Genesis chapter 16, we find that this strength of Sarah, sometimes that strength got her into trouble. Chapter 16, verse 1, Now Sarah, Abram's wife, bare him no children. She had a handmaiden, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarah said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing children. You understand, she said, look, Abraham, look, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. I pray, go in unto my maid. It may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt 10 years in the land of Canaan and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. Now, us men, we can kind of look at this passage and we could say, Abram, what are you doing, Abram? But I think we know what he was doing, don't we, men? Now, look, Abraham. And we can say we can wear the pants all we want to, but look, Abraham. The strong woman looked him in the eye and said, this is what we're going to do, Abraham. This is what we're going to do. And she, and he hearkened unto her voice. You know, the reality was, in this day, it was common that the men would have multiple wives, and evidently, up to that time, as far as we can see in Scripture, up to that time, and Sarah would have been 75 years old here, and I don't know how long they had been married, but we can assume for years and years and years. But up to this point, Abraham only had Sarah. I think that tells us something. I think she was enough. I think she was enough. And here, though this was a terrible idea that she had conceived, Abraham should have known better, but he hearkened unto his wife. She was a strong woman. Strong woman. She would have it no other way than to have a child through Hagar, and then in Genesis 16, the end of Genesis 16, she would have it no other way than for Hagar and that child to leave. Look over in the fifth verse and notice the strength. And Sarai said unto Abraham, My wrong be upon thee. I have given my maid into thy bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The Lord's judged between me and thee. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand. Do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. And the angel of the Lord found her, Hagar, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarah's maid, whence comest thou? And whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hand. I think that speaks all day long of Sarah being a strong woman. Strong woman. Then we all remember the account in Genesis 18. And I'll give you a little perspective here. This is about 25 years. About 25 years after they had left their family. 25 years now. They had been out in the wilderness living in tents. 25 years since the time that the Lord revealed Himself to Abraham. So Sarah here was about 90 years old. About 90 years old. And look at chapter 18, verse 9. And they, the three visitors that came to Abraham, and they said unto him, where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life. And lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son, and Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well-stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my Lord, being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child which am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laugh not. For she was afraid, and he said, Nay, but thou didst laugh. Now, I can just see it in my mind. You get a perception of a feisty Hebrew woman in the tent. And evidently, she'd come over kind of to the door of the tent so she could listen in to that conversation. And the Lord himself is really Christophany in those three people said, she's going to have a child. And she said, you know, you can just see her. You can see how animated she would be. I'm going to have a child. I'm 90 years old. I'm going to have a child. Strong woman. So what am I driving at here? What does this have to do with what faith produces? Well, we believe in God's order of headship, right? Yes, we do. We believe in the woman's place and the woman's role in the home and in the church, and that to be of submission. But is this headship, this woman's role, is it because she is inferior? Is it because the woman is weak? Is it because she's less intelligent or less able? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. I am so thankful for the women of this church. I'm so thankful for strong, intelligent women. Not women that are mindless, lifeless drones. Not women who blindly follow their husbands around like lost puppies. That's not biblical headship. I know some men that would claim that that's biblical headship, but the woman does not have a mind of her own, and she's not to have even a say of her own. That's not biblical headship. I know men that would put the woman in, you know, as long as she's barefoot and pregnant and clean in the house and doing everything that He wants her to do, that's submission. That's not God's submission. That's not biblical headship. To be quite honest with you, the woman's place in the house, in the home, do you know Scripture reveals it as a despot? What is a despot? King. Queen. She's the manager of the home, under the order of her husband. That's how strong it is. That's the words that are used. So this idea that the woman is supposed to be mindless and lifeless and not have any mind of her own, that is not biblical headship. Nor is it the role of the place of the woman in the home or the church. No, Sarah was this strong, beautiful, vibrant woman and she had a mind and a strength of her own and sometimes that got her and her husband in trouble and it will you too, ladies. It will. But do you know what God's faith produced in her? Number one, God's faith produced in her a model, a model of submission to God. A model of submission to God. It's seen in Genesis 21, if you look over there, Genesis 21 and verse one. Notice what she says here. Here she was 90 years old. And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah did conceive and bear Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bared to him, Isaac." That word means Isaac. That name means laughter. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as God had commanded him. And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, God, God made me to laugh. You know what that literally means? God made laughter for me. God made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age." We see an aspect of submission to God there. It's seen in the way that she honored and obeyed her husband throughout her life. If you'll remember, sometimes we miss this point, she agreed to go along with Abraham's plan to lie to Pharaoh, which meant she would go to be into the house of Pharaoh. She agreed, and by the way, if we continued on, you'd find out that that wasn't the only time. It happened again at least once and probably more than that because they kind of made an agreement between one another when they went into a place that would put Abraham's life in danger that they would tell the story, which was a half-truth. She did that out of submission to her husband and perhaps also to protect her husband as well. I believe we see it also when Abraham took Isaac to Mount Moriah. It's not revealed, but I just believe, knowing Abraham, Abraham being Abraham, Sarah being this woman that she was, I just believe that she knew where they were going when they left the house that morning. She knew. She knew what was going to happen. And that was her only child. That was her miracle. son of her old age, how she must have loved him, but yet it seems that she honored and bowed to the faith and leadership of her husband. Now, you might be thinking I'm reaching here, but listen to this. Listen to this. 1 Peter 3, 1. Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. By the way, that's the reason we believe in biblical headship, because God's Word teaches it. Be in subjection to your own husbands that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word, or apart from the word, the spoken word, be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation, conduct, coupled with fear, whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning or plaiting of the hair, of wearing gold or putting on apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. Now watch this. For after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God. What is that? It's faith. who had faith in God, adorned themselves in subjection to their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are." Whose daughters ye are. Whose daughters ye are as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement. That last means hysterics or anxieties. But the point I want you to see here, get this, when the Holy Spirit gives us an example in God's Word of a godly, submissive woman, who does He choose? And by the way, as far as I know, if you find another, you let me know, as far as I know, there is not another, not an example. When He points to a godly, submissive woman, who does the Holy Spirit point to? Abraham's wife, Sarah. And know this, faith, this faith, God's faith produced this submission in her. This faith produced this submission in this strong-minded woman. Faith did. But there's more to this than meets the eye. Because by now, some of you men may be saying, well, this sermon's for the women. I guess I'll just sit back here and go to sleep. And it is for the women, but it's also for us, men. It's also for us. Let me ask you, men, why do you think God has given women the place of submissiveness? Why do you think God gave that place to her? Why do you think God gave that role to her? Because she's weak and feeble and intellectually and spiritually inferior? Absolutely not. No. First, He's done it for Himself. First. But then also, men, He's done it for us. He's done it for us. Oh, so we can be the man of the house and we can run over and abuse and lord over them so they can be our slaves? No. No. No. No, we see here that God's faith produces in Sarah a submission to the Lord. demonstrated especially through her submission to her husband. But number two, number two, this faith also produced a miracle. This faith also produced a miracle. Look back at Hebrews 11. Go back there. And just listen to how this is worded. Verse 11, through faith also, Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered, bore a child when she was past age. Through faith did that. That's what the scripture says, isn't it? That faith did that. Faith caused her to bear this child when she was 90 years old, past the time in her own time of being able to bear a child. Even if she had before, she wouldn't have been able to in this time. Any way you slice it, that's a miracle. That is a miracle. Do you know, so faith produces miracles. Brothers and sisters, let us never doubt that our God does miracles. Our God does miracles. And by the way, He didn't do this because her faith was great, did He? You know, like it's taught, if you have great enough faith, anything, you know, that's how you get miracles, by having greater faith. That's how you get miracles. You just name it and claim it, and if you've got enough faith, you can grasp hold of it. Is that why God did this for Sarah? Because she had great faith. Well, I think we just read she laughed. I think we just read that she devised a plan in her own mind that was outside of God's plan to have a child, to give Abram a child. So it's not the greatness of her faith. No, God did this. God Himself did this miracle in her through faith, through His faith, through His faith that He gave to her. He gave her the faith. And understand, this was not just any miracle. Oh, I know the kind of miracles that the world clamors over. Somebody with a broke leg all of a sudden gets up and walks. You understand, in God's power, that's not a great miracle. No, the miracle that we see here is life itself. The greatest of miracles, life. Okay, now men, do you really want to know why God calls our wives and women, not just wives, women, to be submissive? Do you really want to know? Do you realize it is to declare the gospel to us? That is why. Men, so that our wives might declare, the gospel of Jesus Christ to us. That's why He's called women to be submissive. That's the reason He has given her the role that He has given her. It is first and foremost to declare the gospel. Whether it is in the marriage relationship, that role that she takes in the marriage relationship, if she will take it, if she will obey God, It is to declare the gospel to her husband first, and then to those around her, to her children, and then to others. It is to declare the gospel. That's the missive position and role in the Lord's church. You know what that's all about? It is to declare the gospel. You preach, ladies, when you take that role in the Lord's church. You preach the gospel without saying a word. Those coverings that you have on your head this morning, what is that? That's not just a cloth or something on your head. That's the gospel. That is a picture of what Christ did when He veiled His own glory. That's what it is. I know. I know you take abuse for that. You just take it. So did He. You take it. You stand with your Savior. You take it. You take it and you keep taking it because He took it. And count it all joy to suffer as He suffered. And when someone asks you for the reason of the hope that is within you, tell them, that's about my Savior. I'm just displaying my Savior without saying a word. Just displaying the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a demonstration of the submission of Christ. That's what a woman's place and role of submission is about, whether it's in the home or whether it's in the church or whether it's out in public. It is a display of the gospel, the submission of Christ Himself. That's what it is. You say, well, you've drawn that out of thin air. Am I really? You know me better than that. You hear what I just read to you? Listen again. Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, those husbands, those men, if they obey not the word, if they're unbelievers, they also may, without the word or apart from the spoken word, be won by the conversation, the conduct of the wives, the submissive conduct of the wives. so that they may be won by the submissive conduct of the wife." So we understand, don't we, that this is the gospel. That that submissive conduct of the wife must be the gospel, because the gospel is the only thing that can win a soul. The gospel alone is the power of God unto salvation to them that believe. Is that not what that verse is saying? That those husbands, those unbelieving husbands, unbelieving men, may be won by the submissive conduct of the wife. Then that submissive conduct of the wife, if they're going to win their husbands, it must be the gospel, because that's the only thing that can win us. It must be the gospel. So God uses the submissive attitude of the wife of the woman, not just the wife, the woman, to display the gospel before us, men, that can and does give life to us. This is the ultimate end of headship. Do you think God just told you to wear a veil and men to uncover themselves just because He wanted to? He could, but that's not God. You know, He always has a purpose. With everything that He commands and everything that He instructs us, there's always a purpose. And the ultimate end of that is the gospel itself, the gospel of His Son to give life to those that are dead. And that, understand, is the greatest miracle that man has ever known. Faith does miracles. Faith does miracles. What a dangerous thing it is to hate the teaching of submission. Is it not? The implications of it, I'm not saying that all that do, they don't understand, they've not been taught, that's preacher's fault, it's our fault. But the implications of that is to hate submission is to hate the gospel. To hate the truth of headship is to hate the gospel because the ultimate end of headship and the submissive attitude of the woman is the gospel. It is the gospel, we see it in Sarah. We see what the scripture reveals about Sarah about that. they may be won by the submissive attitude of their wives, and then the Holy Spirit says, just like Sarah. So then men, how blessed are we? How blessed are we to be able to live with a woman of this kind of miracle-producing faith? And by the way, this even shows us, it reminds us, it's what God intended. She can show us, men, how to submit to our God. That's what her submissive attitude does. It shows us how we are supposed to act as men who live on our high horses. It shows us what we're supposed to do. It shows us, it gives us a model of how we are to submit to God. Her submission is a model for us. The women are just given to us to be our footstools and our slaves. Shame on us men. Ladies, how blessed are you? How blessed are you to be given this faith and this position? If women could just see what a blessed position this submission is. Isn't it crazy? It is crazy. It's insane. It's like the insanity we talk about so often that meant that women would push so hard against that word and push so hard against that role and that position. Oh, it's nothing to be pushed. It's something to embrace. It's something to love. The Lord allows you, without saying anything, to demonstrate Him, to show Him and His greatness and His glory, His gospel. without even saying a word, a walking display of the gospel of grace. How blessed are you to be able to do that, to be able to be that? God did that for you when he gave you faith. Well, you're even more blessed than that because there's more. Yes, faith produces a model of submission to God, and that's in all of us. This illustration for the women, it's just showing us that yes, the Lord does provide the same faith to the ladies, and He does use it in many different ways, but this is not just directive to the ladies, it's for all of us. It is a model of submission to God in all of us. That's what faith produces, a model of submission to God in all of us. And faith produces miracles, even the miracle of the greatest miracle, life. And in all of us, that's the bigger picture of this. But number three, the reason it does produce that miracle is that faith produces a manifestation of the Lord Jesus Himself. Faith produces a manifestation of the Lord Jesus himself. Let me put it like this. What was the big deal about Isaac? What was the big deal about Isaac? Yes, he was the couple's only child. Yes, he was born to a 100-year-old man and a 90-year-old woman. Yes, it was a miracle, absolutely, absolutely. But that's not the biggest deal. It's not. No, there was a bigger miracle than that. Listen. Genesis 17, 19, And God said, Sarah, thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. In the 22nd chapter, verse 17, the Lord says to Abraham, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. Then in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul brings us to the heart of this glorious miracle of life. He gives us a clear and concise exposition of these passages. He says this in Galatians 3.16, Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He, God, saith not unto seeds as of many, but as of one. And to thy seed, that's what God said, to thy seed, that's what we just read, wasn't it? That's exactly what God, to thy seed. Which is Christ. Which is Christ. This miracle that faith produces was and still is, still is really all about Jesus Christ. Way back here, thousands of years before Jesus came in the body that He possessed 2,000 years ago, it was even then all about Jesus Christ bringing and revealing and manifesting the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Brothers and sisters, this faith that God gives us, by the revelation of the Scripture, we know that this faith is a free gift of God's sovereign grace. Yes? Yes, it tells us. We also know by the revelation of the Spirit that this faith comes by the hearing of God's Word. Yes, He tells us it does. It tells us in Scripture that this faith is given to us through the new birth of the Holy Spirit. It is the work of the Holy Spirit. And what is the job of the Holy Spirit? We know because Scripture tells us, He reveals it to us, to reveal, to make manifest, to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. That's His job. That's His work. That's what He does. And that is what He does when He gives us faith. He manifests, makes known, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ to us. He glorifies Him in us. He glorifies Him through us. Through this faith. Through this faith. Through Him, life comes forth out of death. Through Christ. Life comes forth out of, that's exactly Sarah's miracle. Life came forth out of death. So in this life of faith, in this faith of life, brothers and sisters, we go about in this world, and as we go about in this world, through our lives of submission to God that this faith produces, through our lives of submission to God, we show the death of our Savior. I am dead. I'm dead. We show that as we die, as we go forth, as we die to self and serve the Lord instead of ourselves, serve Him with joy and gladness, we are showing, we are declaring the great glorious power of Jesus Christ to save sinners. Jesus Christ can save sinners. You know what, that's what He does. And He can save us. Brothers and sisters, He has saved us. Great, great, great sinners. We show that. Is our lives, are our lives declaring His power to save? I'm not talking about our mouths. Are our lives, even our private lives, even our secret lives, are they declaring God, Jesus Christ's power to save? Are our lives declaring that Christ is mighty to save us from ourselves? Is that what our lives declare? What is He doing? What has He done in and to our lives? If we profess to know Him as our Savior, if He is our Savior, He's saving us, brothers and sisters. He's saving us. I'm going to tell you. If you're here this morning and your life is not being saved, you need to examine and see whether you be in the faith. Because faith produces life-giving miracle. And that life is the Lord Jesus Christ and He saves us, even from ourselves. I know there's failings. But are you even grieving over those failures? Are you even grieving about that sin? Do you even desire to be saved from your sin? Or are you reveling in them? Are you living in them and continuing to live? Do you want to be free? Because you know that sin God can't deal with sin. Oh yeah, He can deal with sin, but He won't allow us to come into His presence in sin. It breaks our communication with Him, but we want Him, don't we? If we have Jesus Christ, if we have the Spirit of God, I guarantee you, we want God. Because the Spirit of God wants God. He's the Spirit of truth. We're looking to be satisfied by God. Again, I know that's not perfect in us yet. I understand that. You understand that. But there has to be a desire there. There has to be that longing. If life exists in us, then we are being saved, brothers and sisters. We are not what we used to be. We're not. We've been changed. if we have life, if the Lord has given us life through this faith. We were dead, but through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, because of Him, because of His great glory, because of the gospel of Christ, now we are alive. We're alive. We have new life. All things are become new. We have a life that is above these physical, earthly things. Our desires are above these physical, earthly things. Again, I'm not saying we won't be, at times, even held captive by ourselves, by this flesh that is within us. But we don't want to be. We're looking to God's Word to be free, to free. Show us, Lord. Direct us how to live, how to live under the power of the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ. How do we live that? The life that Christ gives us through this faith, it is above and transcends anything of this world and He has given it to us and is glorious. He's bringing us to God. We were dead to God, but God in mercy and grace saved us. We were headed for the wrath of God and it was right, He was right. We sinned against our Creator. We've committed treason against Him. We said, we're God. You're not God. I don't want you to be my God. I want to be my own God. Highest crimes we've committed against our God. But He saved us. He gave us mercy. Sent His own Son to remove that sin from us that He might draw us to Himself. Because He cannot accept sin, but He can accept sinners in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. So He gave us the righteousness of His Son, His own Son, Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ took our sin to Himself and was judged under the wrath of God for them and bore the full wrath of God. God crushed His own Son because of our sin. But it is to set us free from it, brothers and sisters. It is so that we might know life where there was only death. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, is the Savior of sinners. Is that what our life professes? What our life professes? That He is, He does have the power to save. He is mighty to save. He is alive and He has risen over our sin and over our death. And He has put away our sin. He has given us eternal life. We're not who we used to be. We have the hope of glory. He is our hope. He's our expectation in our present life. This is the real, the greatest miracle that faith produces. Christ in us. Christ manifest. Christ made known in us and by us. So do you have this faith? Is it producing this greatest of all miracles in us and through us? Through faith, also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age. When she was dead, her womb was dead. God gave her life. That's what faith did. Do you have that faith? You say yes, but it's not as I would. So we pray and we beg God for our faith to be strengthened. But we desire that. We desire that our faith be strengthened. We desire that we might know more of the life of Christ. Is that our desire? If you do not possess this faith this morning, you might be looking at me this morning and say, I don't have an inkling of what you're talking about. Oh, that God might grant you in His mercy and in grace, that He give you this faith. His faith, He is the only one that can give it. Nothing you can do to earn it, nothing you can do to achieve it. He gives it solely by His sovereign mercy. solely by His sovereign pleasure. He's God. I'm not God. You're not God. He's God. But He does. Amazingly, He does give us, His creatures, this glorious gift of faith. Saving faith. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in the Savior of sinners, Jesus Christ. What does faith produce? Faith produces a model of submission to God. Faith produces a miracle of life. Faith produces a miracle life. And faith produces the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ. May God grant us to have, to possess His faith for Christ's sake.