Amen. What a wonderful time of worship we've had today. And I pray it has prepared us to come to the Lord's Word. and to consider what He tells us in His Word. We are back in Hebrews 11 this morning and we are looking at verses 27-29. We've spent a couple of weeks now looking at the story of Moses. We have seen the patriarchs in general and then we came to Moses over the last few weeks and we've seen his life really in three episodes, or we will have seen his life in three episodes. The first one is really the faith of his parents. We've spoken about that. His parents were the ones who looked upon him and believed that God would have him delivered and therefore they hid him. And what an amazing thing it is that they took that risk realizing the king's command that all the Israelite male children should be put to death. And yet God delivered them through his parents' faithfulness in hiding him for three months. And then they came to the point where they realized they couldn't hide him any longer. And so they took him down to the Nile River, placed him in an ark, a basket, and they basically handed him over to God's providence and said, Lord, we've done all that we can do. let your will be done." Believing that He would be saved, He would be delivered, and He was. And we've spoken about the irony of that and the importance of the way God often works in these mysterious ways. We have a song we sometimes sing, don't we? God moves in a mysterious way, and He certainly does. The second episode really refers to Moses himself and the faith that he had, because you'll remember it dealt with his identification. Who did he identify with? because he is a Hebrew by birth but he grew up in Pharaoh's palace amongst the children of Egypt. He could easily see himself as a child of privilege and of the Egyptian royal family and yet he always identified with the struggling children of Israel. In fact in the text that we were looking at last week he goes out to his brethren, to his people, to his kinsmen according to the flesh and he goes out and identifies with them and in fact comes in this moment that sums the whole thing up. There's an Egyptian who's beating an Israelite and he has to choose who am I with? Am I with the Egyptian or am I with the Israelite? And we know how that ended. Finally there is a decisive moment in which he is clearly to all identifying with his own people, with the Hebrew people. And of course we saw last week that that causes a huge change in his life as he has to flee Egypt. and in fact leave the royal household of Pharaoh. We might wonder what great cost that was to him and yet the text tells us it was really no cost at all. The things he gave up in Pharaoh's household were nothing compared to the riches that he esteemed in Christ, the riches that were in the gospel and the message of salvation that God has given to his people. So in other words, Moses was looking forward to the reward. He was looking forward to the promise of redemption for his people. I think that could mean narrowly or temporally near the deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt, certainly. But I think even in the days of Moses, there's a realization that even that is just a picture of something greater that God intended to do. All those promises that we've referred to that are found throughout the book of Genesis that are pointing to a redemption of the people of God through a Redeemer. And so again, All this leads to Moses faithfully being identified with his own people, even where by worldly eyes it would seem it was a loss, he realized it was not. Today we come to an important part of the story. We know, in fact, it's the one we usually associate with the Book of Exodus, the Passover and the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt. And so we want to look at that text. I'm just gonna read it here one more time. It says, By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. Amen. That's really kind of a summation of the first, I don't know, 14 books of Exodus or so, isn't it? Right there in just a few verses. But it is an important text and one that we should consider as a statement of evidencing the faith of Moses. What does it look like to be a person of faith? Well, let's look to Moses. Let's look to these great men and women of Scripture. Let's look now to Moses. What did he do? And so in looking at this text, I want us to look at three points. First of all, faith to endure in the wilderness. Second of all, faith to believe in the promise. And lastly, faith to believe in the Deliverer. And so let's go to the Lord with a word of prayer. Father, we are now asking for your help as we come to your word. Father, help us to understand the importance of these verses. Help us to see how they tie to the history found in Exodus. Help us to see that as Moses was a person of faith, we too are called to be people of faith and to have faith in the Deliverer, Jesus Christ. It's in his name we pray and for his glory. Amen. We come first to this point on having faith to endure in the wilderness and it brings us really to the first statement, the one found in verse 27 and a difficult issue of interpretation in the text. Immediately our author says that Moses forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as one seeing him who is invisible. And you might say, well, what is the author here referring to? I think the natural way to read this is, since it follows right on the heels of what we looked at last week, is this is when he fled Egypt. He did so in faith. But of course that presents some problems, doesn't it? Because many commentators have noted that, you know, it seems like he is fearing when he flees from Egypt. He does fear the king. And so how are we to understand this? In fact, John Owen said this has to be the Exodus that's being referred to. when he leaves Egypt. But the problem with that is the language doesn't really seem to be the Exodus. And we can speak about that for a few reasons. First of all, it's a personal forsaking of Egypt for Moses. It doesn't say the children of Israel or the nation of Israel. It says Moses himself forsook Egypt. So it's not a national departure, but it seems to be a personal departure. And also it follows right on the clear and personal identification of Moses with the people of God and not the Egyptians. And that all happens in that moment where the Egyptian is killed and Moses realizes, I have to get out of here. I have to leave. And third, it speaks of Moses enduring by faith. And I think that'd be the perfect way to express what Moses did for decades in the wilderness in the land of Midian. Moses went somewhere kind of in the backside of the wilderness and lived there for 40 years. This is not a short period of time that Moses has called to endure living what would seem to be on the sidelines of God's plan. And we know he had to think this. because again I would call to mind last week we looked at Acts chapter 7 and Stephen's sermon and Stephen says clearly in that sermon that when he struck down the Egyptian he expected that his brethren would recognize that he was God's means of delivering his people. Now how we're to understand exactly what Moses was thinking was the acting saying this will be the first blow struck in the deliverance of our people, I don't know. But it does seem like Moses is surprised that none of the people recognize him as a deliverer. In fact, their answer is what? Or their response is, are you now going to murder us? Are you gonna kill us? Is that what you're going to do? And who put you over us anyway, Moses? Which will be a recurrent question throughout the ministry of Moses. But again, it does seem like Moses would expect that the people would recognize who he is and would follow suit. Certainly Moses seems to recognize God's mission for him. Somehow God has revealed that to him. He expects through providence the people would recognize it. And now Moses goes to the sideline. 40 years as a shepherd in Midian. Have you ever thought how confusing that must have been? I mean, it's easy for us to be hyper-spiritual having read the entire narrative and say he had to know even after 10 years and 15 years that God was still going to use him. But I wonder what you would think if God had declared to you a promise and you're waiting. It's very much like what Abraham had to do, a promise given and a long wait. And yet it seems that Moses is faithful. He believes that God will fulfill the promise. In fact, even when God comes to him and Moses thinks, maybe I'm not the person to do it. I have some qualities that might make this difficult. It doesn't seem he doesn't believe God can do it or God isn't a purpose to deliver his people. He just wonders his part in that. Maybe over the years, Moses began to doubt if he was the deliverer. I don't know. We don't know. The Bible doesn't tell us. But Moses faithfully is waiting in the wilderness for God to deliver his people. And I think when you think about it for a moment, as you look at this, you begin to see maybe that's what it's talking about. Because as you reconcile all these passages together that are given to us and create a biblical theology around them, we have to say that the Bible does say that Moses feared what he did being found out. and therefore he fled Egypt. So that's that word fear, right, that comes in. He feared. But it doesn't say that he feared, right, the wrath of the king. It says he feared it being found out. When we look at and try to put that in line with what's said here, it says that Moses did not fear the wrath of the king. In other words, what I think the author of Hebrews is telling us is his reason for fleeing was not personal harm to himself, in a sense. Now, sometimes it's hard to talk about these things because they're all so wrapped up together. Like we've talked about the promises that Cox is identifying in our covenant theology on Wednesday nights and how they're so tied together that sometimes it's hard to talk about one aspect of the promise without dealing with the other. I think the same thing is true here. Moses recognizes, I can't die in Egypt right now or the promise of deliverance ends. God is going to use me to do it. And therefore, it's faithfulness by which Moses flees into Midian, not fear for his own self. I know these things are very closely tied together, but more he left because he recognized that it wasn't God's timing in that moment, that he must go until it was God's timing. And so he left Egypt, not in fear of the king, but out of faith in the promise and God's timing to call that promise. That's the only way I can see these things being reconciled. But regardless, but regardless, we know that he did go into the wilderness and he waited many, many years. When he struck down the Egyptian thinking this might be the initiation of this deliverance, it wasn't God's time. God had 40 more years until it was the proper time. And he tells us that in the text. It says in Exodus that the king died and the people cried out unto the Lord, And he heard them and remembered his promise. And it's then that he calls Moses. So Moses wasn't wrong. I think we'd be better to think about what's happening here with Moses in keeping with the other stories we've been looking at in Hebrews chapter 11. Like Noah. Noah's given a promise of God and it doesn't happen quickly. I don't think Noah expected it to happen quickly. I think he knew he had to have time to build an ark. and to bring the animals on board and all those things before it would take place. But he worked and he worked believing the word of God, right? There was action that demonstrated his faith. What about Joseph? Joseph was given a promise in a dream by God and Joseph believed it. But it didn't seem to come to pass very quickly, did it? The more he talked about it, the worse things got. He gets sold off into slavery. He's in Potiphar's house. If that's not bad enough, he goes into a jail cell. but he always believed that God would keep his promise. And I think what it's telling us is Moses did too. Maybe not understanding the timing of the promise, maybe not understanding fully the way God would do it, but he never disbelieved the promise. He always continued by faith to believe in the promise. And that in fleeing, it wasn't that he so much feared Pharaoh as he kept his eyes upon God. the one who's invisible, the one who was ruling this story and had appointed him to have an important part in it. Well, that brings us to our second point this morning because we can see that he is very much believing the promises of God. If you think about the book of Exodus, it is about God's promises. In fact, the entire story of Exodus comes out of something God promised Abraham in Genesis, isn't it? God told Abraham that this land that you have now surveyed and walked on and possess in a sense by faith, you won't directly possess it in terms of owning it and building something upon it. Neither will your son or your grandson. In fact, they're going to go into a foreign land in a few generations and live there for 400 years oppressed, but I will bring them out and I will bring them into this land and give it to them. Now, again, the story of Exodus is how God does that, right? We read about how God keeps His promise. That's exactly what Exodus is all about. It's about God keeping His promise. And so we see here that Moses has always believed that God would bring that promise to pass. When he's young and strong, he strikes down the Egyptian thinking that God would make it clear to everyone that he is the deliverer and that that is what God is going to do. As I said a moment ago, Stephen makes it clear that it was surprising the children of Israel didn't recognize it. But they didn't. But they didn't. But he continues to believe that the promise will come to pass. And in the fullness of time, God does act. Stephen reminds us of the meta-narrative of Exodus in his sermon. Here's what he says. And when 40 years had passed, meaning from the time of the event of the Egyptians, which is usually marked, you know, Moses' life in like three series of 40 years. The 40 years up until the killing of the Egyptian, 40 years in the land of Midian, and then the 40 years in which he comes back and delivers the people and leads them through the wilderness, even to the very edge of the land of promise. Here's what it says, and Moses trembled and dared not look. Then the Lord said to him, take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt. Now that is sort of the metanarrative to remind Israel in a later date that God keeps His promises. He works as He said He would. And so we know that there are a lot of details to Moses' calling and him going back, but he does ultimately go back to the land. And if we were to continue that metanarrative, God works miraculous wonders through Moses. These plagues that bring Egypt to their knees time and again And yet the hardness of Pharaoh's heart is such that he doesn't do what God commands and so they continue. Well again, we remember that there is a final plague, one that is unquestionably powerful and significant. As we're turning there in Exodus chapter 12, I would remind you we've gone through these things before. You could argue that really what's happening in this narrative is God is putting the gods of Egypt under attack. He's picking them off one by one by these plagues. One by one the pantheon of the major gods of Egypt are finding themselves unable to stop the power of Israel's God. And so we see again, as it comes to this final plague, there is an important thing said here. In Exodus 12, here's what it says, beginning at the very first verse. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be your beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, on the 10th of this month, every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of persons. According to each man's need, you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they shall eat it. And then they shall eat the flesh that night, roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. and thus you shall eat it. With a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand, you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. Amen. Now, he gives many instructions here on how to participate in the Passover, even as we were to read the fullness of it, how to teach the children about the Passover, what to do, even how to eat it. Right? Let none remain. Burn up whatever would remain. Even how to eat it in terms of being prepared to get up and walk out. Don't sit at the table with your shoes off your feet. Have a staff in your hand. Be ready to go at a moment's notice because what all this is tied to is God keeping His promise to deliver His people. And they need to be prepared because preparation is a sign that you believe the promise. I know many of you have heard that old illustration where there was drought in a town and the preacher and the church had been praying for rain. And one morning, it's still in the midst of drought, he said, how many of y'all have been praying for rain? And every hand in the congregation went up. And he said, how many of you brought umbrellas with you? And nobody's hand, everybody's hands went back down. And though it's a apocryphal story or a joke, the illustration there is that we are to pray in faith, right? We are to pray believing that if it's the promise of God, he will do it. And so when we think about this for a moment, as they were eating, as they were eating this meal, and God was saying, I will call you out in a moment's notice, be ready at a moment's notice, to not be ready to leave was a sign you didn't believe. was a visible display of what was in your heart that you didn't really believe the promise that God might call you out in an instant. And so again, there's an important thing to remember here in the way they observed all these things. And yet it tells us that Moses did all those things that God commanded him. If we turn back to Hebrews for just a second, you'll see that. It says in the 28th verse, by faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Now we're talking about the Passover meal, but there's a very important picture here, isn't there? And they were to take the blood of the sacrifice of that lamb and were to put it over the doorposts of their home. And whatever the blood was covering, death would pass by. And Moses believed that promise. That promise, if I told you to do it, would seem crazy. But they knew it came from God. Moses knew the one who'd instructed this. And so it says that he did these things. He believed these things. By faith, he kept them. See, my friends, this is shown to us over and over again. We are not saved by our works. But as James and as Hebrews is trying to tell us, sometimes our works are a visible token of our faith. They show what it is we believe. They aren't itself faith, but they're outward demonstrations of that faith, because true faith should work out that way, in a sense. And so, my friends, as you look at this, you see that Moses believed the promise of God. He did what God called him to do, and the children of Israel were delivered. And that very night, the firstborn son of Pharaoh died. And Pharaoh, overcome by grief and devastation, allowed the children of Israel to go. And that will bring us to our third and final point this morning. Faith to believe and the deliverer. Because we recognize that in this great moment of God's delivering hand, much happens. There's much to this story, isn't there? About the children of Egypt giving gifts, as it were, paying the children of Israel to take all these things that God will later use for the building of the tabernacle, to give them to them on their way out. They believed that God would deliver them and he did deliver them. But there's a greater test coming, maybe a more palpable moment of testing coming because they leave Egypt and it all seems to be going well. And if we were to turn back to Exodus chapter 14, and you probably know this account pretty well, but if we were to turn back to it for a moment, we find that something happens. It says, beginning in verse five, Now it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people. And they said, why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him. Also he took 600 choice chariots and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And he pursued the children of Israel, and the children of Israel went out with boldness. So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his armies, and overtook them, capturing by the sea beside High Hathoroth. which is before Baal, Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us to bring us out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt saying, let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians for it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. So here's a moment of testing, isn't it? Kind of a summation of all that they've been through. In one moment, they think they're home free and they get to the Red Sea and then they realize we have enemies chasing after us. Pharaoh has come after us. And so they've got the sea on one side, and they've got a giant army coming after them on the other side. And they say what maybe we would say in that moment. I would pray that we would be faithful, but you can almost imagine. Oh, here it is. Here it is. We thought we were free, and now we'll die here in the wilderness. This is what's going to happen. My friends, I don't know, sometimes if you've been through some bumpy times in your life, sometimes it's when you feel like you got through one bump and then another one hits, that it just sucks the wind out of you. And I think in one sense, that's what's happened here, right? It's just, they finally had some good news. Finally, it looks like the Lord is delivering us. It looks like Moses has been right. It looks like now we'll go out. It looks like we'll go into this land that we've been promised. And now it looks like death. And the children of Israel are afraid, and they don't have the faith that they should have. We don't want to, you know, we understand this, but we don't want to compliment it here, right? It is a moment of a lack of faith. And we see that most assuredly because of what Moses says. How does Moses respond? Do they say, oh, you're right, I should have listened to you? No, listen to what Moses says in the very next verse. And Moses said to the people, do not be afraid. Now that is a statement of faith, isn't it? God didn't deliver us to bring us here to the edge of the Red Sea and have us destroyed here. If God brought us here, we can take and know that He will deliver us. Now, how did Moses think this was going to happen? I don't know, but he had confidence it would happen. However God would do it, God would do it. If God had just said the word or something and they dropped dead in the wilderness, the enemy armies, certainly that could have happened, but that isn't the way God chooses to do this. And I think it's important for us to see what God does do. It's a passage we know, but it's good to hear it again. It says, and the Lord said to Moses, why do you cry to me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. Faith means move forward. The same thing happens when they come to the River Jordan, doesn't it? And they're going to cross it. They need to step into the water for it to stop flowing. And here again he tells them, move forward, trust in the Lord. But lift up your rod, Moses, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over the Pharaoh, and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gained honor for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the angel of the Lord who went before the camp of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them. And so it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. There was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night. And then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea into dry land. and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on that dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them, to their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. Now it came to pass in the morning watch that the Lord look down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud." And he troubled the army of the Egyptians and he took off their chariot wheels so that they drove them with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, let us flee from the face of Israel. For the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians on their chariots and on their horsemen. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. and then the waters returned and covered the chariots and horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, not so much as one of them remained. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt. So the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his servant Moses. Brothers and sisters, that is a text that we should know well, a text that is meaningful to us, a text that demonstrates when God will later say, I delivered you out of the land of Egypt by the might of my arm. What he means, he did a great work, a work that makes it clear. Through the same waters that he brought Israel through into salvation, he brought Egypt into destruction. Philip Hughes, the great commentator on Hebrews said, it's interesting how often God works this way. That the means by which he brings judgment is also the means by which he brings deliverance at the same time. We see it as it were in the days of Noah, that the same water that flooded the earth lifted the ark to safety. We see it in many places in the scriptures where things happen in this way. It's one of the things that St. Paul says in the New Testament about the gospel. He says if we go out and preach the gospel, we are the savor of Christ, the smell, the aroma of Christ. It's an amazing thing to think about. There's the smell of the gospel, if you will, upon the people of the Lord. And it's an aroma that is of life and death. It's what Paul says. It's the aroma of death to those who are dying. It's the aroma of life to those who are living. Meaning the gospel has the savor or aroma of life to those who are being saved by it. And it also has a foul distasteful aroma to those who are condemned through it or by it. And we see that over and over again. It's the reason why we can see one person hear the message of the gospel and say, that is my every hope. And another person can say, what a bunch of garbage. What a waste of time. It's how it can be to Paul, the power of God unto salvation do all who believe, and to the Greeks foolishness, and to the Jews a stumbling block. My friends, so often God works in just this way. So what do we consider about this example as we are closing? What were the original recipients to consider? I think it's pretty clear here they need to be like Moses, right? They need to have patience. They need to patiently endure the moment they're in, as Moses had to. In Midian, it wasn't clear what's God doing? What's he at work to accomplish? Stand fast. What about when they're at the Red Sea and all seems difficult? It's a moment of pressure, a moment of fear, stand fast. See, what makes Moses an example for us is, though he's a human being, he had the ability at those key moments to think, I don't know what God's doing with this, but he's doing something. And we're just going to stand fast and see what he does. Faith means we can't always see everything as it's laid out, but we can trust that God knows it all. and that He ordains the steps and we trust Him. Even we can't see how it will all work out because we have a confidence in the larger promises of God. As Moses came to the Red Sea and said, well, there's two options here. We can be annihilated and the promise ends or we can be delivered and the promise continues. I'm going to bet on the promise continuing because God's the one who gave it to us. It's the same thing that happens with Abraham, right? And the moment when he is called to sacrifice Isaac, he says, okay, two things can happen here. I can sacrifice Isaac and he dies and the promise dies with him. Or I can sacrifice him and God will keep his promise and he'll raise him from the dead. Now, he didn't see that third option, which was God would stop him at the last moment. But again, that steadfast commitment, faith in the promise of God to be fulfilled is what we see in these people. That's what faith is, a steadfast belief in the promises of God. And we see this in the life of Moses. And so we need to realize that while this was written to a people 2,000 years ago who were in difficult circumstances and they were being asked to look beyond their momentary circumstances, So are we. So are we. Jacob so beautifully said in the prayer this morning about many people in our church that are going through some tribulations and trials and difficulties. Those things are common to life, right? If you're not in it now, you'll be in it, right? Or you've been through it, but you're going to deal with these things in life. I remind us all the time, Jesus didn't say, if the storms of life come. He said, when the storms of life came. And again, it's a reminder that we will deal with difficulties. And so how do we face them? We need to face them with faith. Saying, I don't know exactly what God is doing here. Maybe you have an idea, maybe you don't. He often surprises us. But we face it and say, let's trust in God's providence. Let's trust in his goodness. And let's just continue to walk by faith and see what the Lord will do. My friends, that's how we are to live.