our father in heaven you are the source of our faith you say that in your word that that apart from faith it’s impossible to please you lord uh we forfeited the ability to love you and to to obey you and to understand you and to be friends with you way way back in the garden of eden when adam decided that he knew better than you and lord we’ve been uh trapped and imprisoned with this rugged selfish streak and this this unbreakable pride until you sent your son and until faith came until genuine humble joyful repentant

obedient believing faith came to save us so lord we ask you to give us more of that faith tonight lord please extinguish our doubts and and help us to believe and to live not by sight but by genuine faith we ask this in jesus name amen these uh georgia mosquitoes are like they’re like southern pterodactyls is what they are well if you were with us last night uh you’re familiar with this monument and it’s pretty amazing it’s actually the largest granite monument in america and it’s sitting on a hill in massachusetts hidden in a forest and

nobody knows about it i know this is like out of the lord of the rings or something and and in fact i actually hired the lord of the rings sculptors to sculpt this replica now the real one’s 90 feet tall and if you were to stand next to it you would come up to this high right down here and it spells out our forefathers secret sauce recipe to building the freest most prosperous strongest healthiest nation the world has ever known sending the liberating message of the gospel out to more places on earth and any other nation in the history of the

world and i want to i want to decode it for you we talked last night about how the very largest and central figure here is faith that’s her name right here now uh on this version of this monument which is my large sort of museum monument it’s larger than the personal size monument which i i have which is about half this size faith detaches so that i can fit it in a box and take it with me but um the central figure is faith and if you look at faith faith has her finger pointed to heaven and she has a star on her forehead

and if you notice she has a book in her hand and that book is the bible in fact it’s the geneva bible brought over by the pill the pilgrims on the mayflower and it’s being blown open by the the wind of the spirit the holy spirit so that they could actually read it in their homes and study it it even had study notes in it and it gave them a particular kind of faith that changed the world i dropped my glasses here i’m gonna grab these and so i want to talk with you about this kind of unique faith you see if you think about it those who were