Thank you for listening to the media ministry of the Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church in San Diego, California. If you are blessed by what you hear and would like to help keep our little church going as a ministry partner with your cheerful gifts, please listen for instructions at the end of this message. Hear now the word of the Lord, Hebrews 3 verse 6. But Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are we? If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. I'd like to read that again and I'll read another time what I want to emphasize from the verse this morning. But Christ is a son over his own house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. I want to share with you a small statement in a Puritan prayer from the book Valley of Vision. And we have a number of copies in our library. I know many of you have your own personal copy, but I highly recommend it to be prayers for you and guide prayers. And here's something I've highlighted from one of the prayers. I want to think about as we think about this text. Usually these prayers are not credited to a person, so I can't tell you who said it, but this is what was said. Keep me from fluttering about religion, but fix me firm in it. This is a request. From the Lord supplication Lord, please keep me from fluttering about religion But fix me firm in it that that idea that illustration or at least it seems to be alluding to alluding to You know you ever seen a bird flutter about? especially if it's in a certain place, it kind of wants to go, it flutters all about, you can't keep it still, won't stay still, has to move about back and forth, back and forth, can't stay for one place in very much time. Keep me from being like that in religion. By the way, if one is to object, I know you've heard this before, but the term religion is a biblical term. James uses it. He talks about the true, pure religion. So we're talking about keep me from fluttering about in Christianity. Keep me from fluttering about as a Christian. Keep me from fluttering about, but instead fix me firm in it. Fix me firm in the true Christian religion, the true Christian faith. Fix me firm. This is not the heart of too many, I think, even teachers. Preachers and not the heart of so many even in church today. We we love the idea well some very well Respected men have said and then we're gonna and did God really say and you know we just bring down scripture instead of Standing firmly on it with what it clearly says not that there aren't places for a variety of interpretations to be tolerated but we almost get to where we think that that's all that matters and at some point you have a It's all watered down. We have to be fixed firm in the faith. This is why we have confessions. This is why we have creeds. To be fixed firm. To know what we believe. How we know it. Here's what the text teaches. Christ, who faithfully watches over his own father's house, calls on Christians who are his house, to thus hold fast in confidence and be fixed firm in hope until his return to fully inhabit it. That's the way we would be living. I know that my Redeemer lives. I know on whom I have believed. I know what the Bible says. I know what I believe. I know what it tells me to do, how to live. See, skepticism is what rules the day. We act like we're wiser when we aren't willing to make a commitment. And we like to sit on the fence with a foot on either side, but that is not firmly fixed on the rock. That is tottering about on the fence of indecision and pretending it's something that the Lord countenances. Instead, what the Lord says that we should say to one another, may we be fixed firm in the faith. May we be fixed firm in the faith. That's what Christ calls you to be. Fixed firm in the faith. And of course it needs to start with the assurance of your salvation. Or you could say, Calvinism. Because the assurance of your salvation is based on Christ and based on God's sovereignty. Be fixed firm in the faith. It's the difference between shadows and a body, right? A shadow flutters and moves and changes. The body is what stands firm and remains as solid and reliable. We have scriptures that talk about God is the giver. He's the true giver of heavenly lights. He doesn't flutter about like shifting shadows. That's why we trust in Him and trust in Him alone. But there's an idea of shadow compared to the reality of what casts the shadow, the firm reality in our text. But, you see, he says. And Christ is being compared to Moses, who's being discussed earlier. Moses is a shadow of Christ, a type, a prefiguration of Christ. He has things that are similar by typology. He is not perfectly what Christ is perfectly. And Hebrews talks a lot about these different shadows that show us the reality, the firmness of Christ. And unlike Moses, who's a servant over God's house, is the direct discussion, Christ is God's Son. the firm reality in the flesh. Do you see that? Christ, but Christ as a son over his own house. Moses was a servant over God's house. Christ has come in the flesh as God's son over his own house. Therefore, it's even more sense of security God's own son is going to take care of his house for his father, and perfectly so in himself. He is God's son, the incarnate son. Look back to Hebrews 1 verse 2. Well, let me read verse 1 to inform verse 2. God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds." So, as you go from there, Christ is being compared to all of these other things. The prophets, Aaron the priest, much is compared to the tabernacle ceremonial system fulfilled in Christ. These are all shadows and types until Christ has come in the time of Reformation and when the true thing being Reflected by the sign comes you have the full reality to grasp the rock-solid truth to hold on to the son Jesus Christ It is his father's house. So he is more faithful and sure with it than Moses a hired servant We see even Moses doesn't get in to go into the promised land because he isn't perfect. Jesus is perfect and gets us into the promised land. He truly does. Now notice also we are the house. Christ is a son over his own house whose house are we. So Christ is a surety over his own house and we are his house. Well that's further assurance, that's further rock solid assurance to be fixed upon. He's the son over his own house, so you can count on him and we are his house. Or as the scriptures tell us elsewhere, such as 1 Corinthians 3.16, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is how He handles us, so we should handle ourselves by holding firm with confidence and rejoicing. This is the application here of how we're to respond. If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Do you see that? Firmness. Being fixed. This is the calling on our lives in Christ, who is our rock. As we build our lives and our houses on Him as His house. Fixed faith. Confident hope. In the midst of the storms and Satan's attack on our church, on our families, on our means of income, on our raising of our children, and being a witness to the world, in all of those things, we need to remain firm. Not in ourselves, but in him. Firm. Confident in his promises. Until the end. What end are we speaking about? Well, the Greek word is telos, which has the idea of a purpose or a plan, or could be translated goal, until the end game, you might say, as it's often spoken about. God has his end in view, Christ's return, and the resurrection, our new bodies in the new heavens and earth forever. He's calling you to hold firm in hope. unto the end, the perseverance of the saints, not giving up on Christ, not giving up on yourselves as Christians, trusting in his rock solid promises and standing firm, including when you might say, according to Psalm 61, I believe, when my heart is trouble and I'm overwhelmed, take me to the rock that is higher than me. You keep going to the rock. You are firm in the rock of Jesus and you stand firm with hinds feet on high places. But that's the calling, notice. Be firm. Again, hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing. There's a rejoicing as if you already are what? More than conquerors. You already have what in Christ? The victory. Rejoicing of the hope. Firm. And to the end, again, the prayer is fix me firm in the Christian religion, fix me firm in it. This is the calling upon our life, not to be double-minded, not to be back and forth, not to think that we seem more sincere by avoiding making a decision about what God says in his word to believe or to do. He calls us to certainty. Look at chapter 3 verse 14. For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast. until the end. And then there's a warning, citing Psalm 95, don't miss out on entering God's rest, because what did they do? The people in the wilderness, they didn't believe God, they didn't hold fast on his promises, and they died in the desert because of their unbelief. They wavered. Oh, maybe we should go back to Egypt. Think about what we just read in Leviticus today. Don't go back to the ways of Egypt and don't go to the ways of Canaan. Live my laws, my rock solid truth. Hebrews 4 verse 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You need to be reminded of that. Come boldly before God, not without humility, but boldly in and with Christ, in your unity with Him. Your boldness in Christ, who is divine, abiding in Him. Come boldly to God, for what? For more mercy, for more grace. Come boldly for that. Don't stay away from Him. I don't know. That's exactly what Satan wants you to do. Dilly-dally. Doubt yourself, which is ultimately doubting Christ. Don't doubt. Come boldly. Look at chapter 6, verse 11. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. Be diligent with full assurance of hope, again, unto the end. Fixed on the truth of the resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15, remember, Paul really emphasizes. We have no hope if it's not true. But it is true. Christ is raised from the dead. You will be raised from the dead. continuing to the end with full assurance, full assurance. Our confession of faith talks about assurance, there's a chapter on it. And even in another chapter related to good works, there's discussion of how to have more assurance of faith, and we're told that we should be trying to have more assurance. more confidence. And sadly, there are some, it seems like, that's the only thing they want to be firmed with is a lack of confidence. Somehow that makes them feel more assured as they continue to be like on a raft running out of water on the waves of the ocean. You know, instead of the gospel ship of the Lord Jesus Christ, we need to be looking for more assurance, seeking to be firm in it. It's not arrogant to completely put all of your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and His sovereign call over your life. It's arrogant to make it about you and the potential of losing it or not sure if you can come to it. You know, sometimes certain people ask for advice about, well, how do I know if I'm elect? And you spend all this time wasting. The Bible doesn't teach you to think about it that way. It says, come to the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall be saved. And in your salvation, you can express that God has sovereignly, graciously given Christ to me. It isn't faith to be of fear. Rather, we have a sound mind and power in Christ. Look at verses 8 through 20 of chapter 6. That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. A strong consolation. who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope. set before us, which hope we have has an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." Now here's another type that the writer of the Hebrews spends a lot of time discussing, right? The context is Genesis 14. The scripture he's referring to is Psalm 110 verse 4. Christ is a priest after the order of Melchizedek. How he develops this is, all those priests in the Old Testament were signs and types, but not the reality. Christ is the true high priest, not after Levi, after the order of Melchizedek out of the tribe of Judah. He is the for sure high priest with an unceasing ministry who said, it is finished. You will be with me in paradise. All these things to give confidence looking ahead. Notice, lay hold, hope. It doesn't disappoint like an anchor for the soul. Now think about, we know what an anchor is with a boat. If you don't use an anchor, what can happen? Not only you kind of go back and forth in yourself like James talks about, but that boat, next thing you know, you're in a place you had no intention of being. That anchor is what you drop because it keeps you there, fixed and firm in the Christian faith. We've been given hope in Jesus, hope in salvation, hope in all his promises as an anchor for the soul. It's supposed to have that kind of rootedness. Look ahead to chapter 10, verse 35. Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward." Be firm. Hold that anchor down. Don't cast away the anchor and be cast away. Don't cast it away, your confidence. It has great recompense of reward. We need a Christianity that believes Knows what it believes. Lives in what it believes. Confidence in Christ. Confidence in what He teaches us to believe about Him. Confidence in how He tells us to live for Him. If we live that kind of faith and express that kind of faith, not a doubting faith, but we know in whom we have believed, we know our Redeemer lives. We know these are the promises of God, and we don't entertain atheism, and we don't entertain doubt and skepticism. We know the word, we quote the word, and we call upon people to believe it and live it, and that they'd have us as the example. 1 John 2.28, and now little children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. John 14 verse 2, In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, Jesus says. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. Revelation 2 verse 7, kind of towards the end of the telos, the goal, the end of the story, this is a refrain, to him that overcometh, to him that overcometh, in each of the seven letters, there's a few refrains, let him that hath ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying, although Christ is preaching it. One of the common refrains in every letter to the seven churches of Asia, he that overcometh I'll reward you. Revelation 2-7, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Philippians 1 verse 6, being confident of this very thing. Be confident of this very thing. I'm confident to say this of you, of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, until that goal, until the end. Confident that God started it in you, so He will complete it with your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. Psalm 70, excuse me, Psalm 57, verses 7 to 11. May it be your response. Beginning with verse 7, my heart is fixed. Oh God, my heart is fixed. Not, well, I think so. I don't know, there's a lot of different ways to look at it. My heart is fixed. Oh God, my heart is fixed. I've studied to show myself approved. I've studied to be ready to give a witness for the hope that lies within me. My heart is fixed, oh God, my heart is fixed. And what comes of that? verses 8 through 11, I will sing and give praise. Not, well, I might, it depends on how I feel and how the day's going and my circumstances. No, I will sing and give praise, even with my glory, awake, sultry, and harp. I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people, and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. For thy mercy is great, above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth, that thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand, and answer me." May your response similarly be singing with conviction. Psalm 108 verses one to six, starting with verse one. Oh God, my heart is fixed. Thus it goes on to say through verse six, I will sing and give praise even with my glory. Awake, psaltery and harp, I myself will awake early. I will praise Thee, O Lord, among the people, and I will sing praises unto Thee among the nations. For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reaches unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth, that thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer me." Now, those are almost exactly the same words in those two Psalms. But my heart is fixed, so I will praise you. I'll praise you, what, for my certain salvation and deliverance. Or as he sang in Psalm 112 this morning, verses six through eight, surely he shall not be moved forever. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed. Trusting in the Lord, his heart is established. He shall not be afraid until he see his desire upon his enemies. The end. Notice his heart is established. His heart is fixed. So what's the result? you won't be afraid of man. What can he do to you? Psalm 56, similar expression. When your heart is fixed, you won't be afraid. Twice it says, I won't be afraid. What does Jesus call upon you so often? Oh, you have little faith, fear not. But what else is the result of your heart being fixed? You're not afraid and you will see your desire in the end. You will not be afraid of evil tidings. You won't be afraid of bad things that can happen, bad things that can be said of you and to you, because your heart is fixed. You won't be able to be knocked about by a false witness. You won't be able to be knocked about by a true witness, but not the end of it that you're forgiven. You won't be able to be knocked about. You will remain fixed in the gospel truth that Jesus is my saving Lord. And notice how those Psalms 57 and 108 proclaimed how high God's mercy is. I know I need more mercy. I'm not worthy of the least of all your mercies. Yet the Bible says that God's mercy is higher than the heavens. And then what is the result? I pray your glory is higher than the heavens, Lord." You see, ultimately, that's what Satan wants, is you lose a firm foundation, that you are not firmly fixed in your faith, because eventually you will be afraid and you'll let man do things to you, ultimately, in Satan's ultimate goal, causing you not to praise God, which is your chief end. A lack of firm foundation causes you not to fulfill your destiny, your purpose. Now remember, that's the first question of the shorter and larger catechism related to confession of faith. The statements to say, we believe this is true of what God requires of us to believe of him and do for him. We believe it, thus we will live it, thus we will praise him. But Satan will always say, but did God really say, are you sure you can trust this? He'll always take acts to the root of certainty by taking at the root of what God says in the word. To cause you to seek to focus on yourself instead of depending entirely on God for his glory. Seeking to rebel against God and not praise him. That's ultimately where skepticism leads. Unbelief and no worship. What does Jesus say to doubting Thomas? In chapter 20 of the Gospel of John, verse 27, be not faithless, but believing. Similarly to holding out his wrists and feet and look at my side and put your fingers in there, Thomas. Jesus holds out the Lord's Supper to you again this week and says, be not faithless, but believing. This is my body. This is my blood. Be not faithless, but believing. You are still and always are forgiven. You are still and always are called to holy living in Christ the Holy One by the power of the Holy Spirit who has made you holy. Again, it's called the Westminster Confession of Faith, like all of the other standard statements of faith in church history, against the knocking about of heresies. No, we know the Bible teaches this, and we proclaim and profess it to be so. We know it says to live like this. It's clearly what it says. We have put it down in writing. We remain firmly fixed upon it, God helping us. Similarly, by the way, it's basically systematic theology, which people have brought all kinds of uncertainty upon in too many Reformed seminaries today, which is a lot of why the Church is so lacking a firmly fixed heart on the truths that are there to be held on with hope as an anchor for the soul. Similarly, Calvin's institutes are systematic theology, teaching the main things of the scripture in a systematic, organized way. And his institutes are called what? The Institute of the Christian Religion. The prayer again is, keep me from fluttering about religion, but fix me firm in it. And don't you realize that when people say, Christianity is not a religion, Well, that's fluttering about right there. The Bible says it is. It's the true religion. But if we get rid of the idea that there even is a legitimate phrase religion, we've already started to flutter about. To stray from the scriptures and go too far on one side of the pendulum swing or the other. When we need to see firmly centered with the whole counsel of God and how it all connects. the consent of all the parts, which people give a lot of lip service to in the Reformed church today, in Reformed seminaries today, but then what they say next completely contradicts it. And we have a weak, fluttering about faith that we even call the Reformed faith. Most people barely know their Reformed standards, who say they stand to them. And if you talk with them about it, you'll hear them pretty quickly deny them, sometimes even openly do so. Hear what Thomas Watson has to say about that and being firm. Remember when we went through our membership class last time, I was going through the Body of Divinity and quoting him in most of our sections. In the opening of that book, the Body of Divinity, which is what? His sermons through what? The Westminster Shorter Catechism. and explains why it's so important and one of the things that firmly gets people firmly fixed on the Lord more than anything is the catechisms of the scripture, teaching the scriptures. And he has an introduction called a preliminary discourse to catechizing. And I want to share some of that with you. He says it's one of the most important ways to keep us fixed in the faith, which is why I'm thankful this church, before I was ever here, and I'm sure when I was in diapers and before I existed probably, was going through the Westminster Standards on a weekly base list together in the evening. Because it keeps us fixed. How quickly we forget, right? How quickly we forget the parts or forget the truths. And we need to be firmly fixed in the main things. We don't need to be fluttering about with all kinds of doctrines and vain philosophies and science falsely so-called. Letting it infiltrate what Christianity has stayed firm on and lasted on. A firm, fixed foundation in the gospel truth. And so he shares, it's so important in this first message to explain why he's going to preach the shorter catechism. He's challenging us to be firm in the faith, and he's criticizing too many people to be content in skepticism and avoiding committing. His text is Colossians 1 verse 23. If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, His emphasis is on being settled in Christianity. And he would have us look not to succor ourselves in suspended reservations, but to secure our resolve in the details of what the scriptures principally teach regarding our belief concerning God and his required duty of us. He writes this. Thomas Watson. It is the duty of Christians to be settled in the doctrine of faith. that they might not be meteors in the air, but fixed stars. Isn't that how Paul refers to us? In Philippians, I believe, we're stars against the backdrop of a dark universe. But what's a star? It's fixed, right? There's the North Star that people guide their ships by for history, right? Something that's fixed that you can count on. That's how you're supposed to be, Christian. But that can only be if you're pointing to the day star arising in your hearts. The Son, with righteousness in His wings, confidently looking as they who wait for the morning, knowing it will show up. He will show up, knowing His mercy is new every morning. Rather than be meteors, what are meteors? Oh, we like to talk about them. We like to say recently, I think we were talking about some people have seen them in different places, but here's the thing. They're here for just a brief moment and gone. You can't fix on them, they're always moving, and they fade quickly. You can't do anything with that. You can't be like that. Unfixed in religion. Again, it is the duty of Christians to be settled in the doctrine of faith, that they might not be meteors in the air, but fixed stars. He goes on, to be unsettled in religion argues want of judgment, a lack of discernment. If their heads were not giddy, men would not reel so fast from one opinion to the other. He argues, excuse me, to do so argues lightness. As feathers will be flown every way, so will feathery Christians. So there's another illustration. Remember, Lord, let me not be fluttering about, but firmly fixed in faith is the prayer. Well, you see feathers, what happens? If you open up something, a pillow that's made with feathers or something, or paper pieces, you do that outside in the wind, have fun, trying to clean that up, trying to get it all back, right? And he says, when we're light about knowing what we should believe, we're like feathers. You ever try to even grasp a feather, especially like a fluffy one? Go get a goose feather out of one of your pillows if you have them. You almost can't even hold on to it. It almost just can't keep its form in your fingers. He continues, thus, unsettled Christians are childish. Before I continue, that's really important. Because too many Christians, sometimes with too many degrees, or too many celebrities that they like to quote, who stray from the standards, think they're being mature. Today, again, the austerity, the quote-unquote authenticity and sincerity of, I don't know, as if I'm not sure, I don't know, is anything to fix upon. It's dishonest. The only thing it's committing to is not committing. It's like Jell-O rather than a rock. But we think it's maturity. Unsettled Christians are childish. I didn't say childlike, or to be childlike. Childish. Unsettled Christians are childish. The truths they embrace at one time, they reject at another. Well, I thought, I thought you, you've, well, I did confirm that, but I don't anymore. That was said to us a few years ago. Yeah, but we've always had this understanding. Well, now I don't. Why? Because of worldly influence. A lack of being fixed in confidence. Able to handle what comes at you, even from those closest to you. Isn't this constant wavering, in fact, to be the wayward man James exposes as always unsettled and thus, quote, unstable in all his ways. James 1 verse 8. Unstable. Well, I thought I believed that, but I don't think so. Well, I thought I believed that. Well, I was getting convicted, but now I'm going back to this. You know, just unstable. You can't build a home like that. You can't build a church like that. Not that lasts. Not that changes the world and saves people from darkness into light. Watson writes this, it is the great end of the word preached to bring us to a settlement in religion. Do you hear that? You're getting preached to right now, brethren. What's the purpose? He says, it is the great end of the word preached to bring us to a settlement in religion. Oh, notice he used the R word too, by the way, didn't he? To be fixed in the true religion. It is the great end of the word preach to bring us to a settlement in religion. This is the grand design of preaching. Not only for the enlightening, but for the establishing of souls. Not only to guide them in the right way, but to keep them in it. Now, if you be not settled, you do not answer God's end. Remember our text, the end in view. If you be not settled, you do not answer God's end in giving you the ministry. He continues with Colossians 1.23, Watson goes on to say that to be settled Christians, we must be well-grounded, settled and grounded. And he explains the Greek word intimates the building of a well-laid foundation. First, we must emphasize the fundamentals. We can never, he says, we can never worship God acceptably unless we worship him regularly. And how can we do that if we are ignorant of the rules and elements of, here it comes again, religion? What's that prayer again from the Valley of Vision? Keep me from fluttering about religion, but fix me firm in it. Understood from James, the true, the pure religion, Christianity, keep me from fluttering about. Help me stand firm in it. I want to read those two quotes again in part. It is the great end of the word preached to bring us to a settlement in religion. This is the grand design of preaching, not only for the enlightening, but for the establishing of souls. Not only to guide them in the right way, but to keep them in it. Now, if you be not settled, you do not answer God's end in giving you the ministry. We can never worship God acceptably. unless we worship Him regularly? And how can we do that if we are ignorant of the rules and elements of religion? So I close with these two questions for you. What will you do with the design of this preaching this morning? And how will you continue worshiping God at this moment? Beloved, may it be that you are fixed firm in the faith. May it be that you and I are going away with that prayer, keep me from fluttering about religion, but fix me firm in the faith, beloved. That's the heart of the Psalms we went through. That's what you're called, obviously, all through Hebrews, how you're supposed to approach Christ and the Christian faith. And dare I say that is the heart's cry of the Puritan movement. a special movement of the Holy Spirit in faith, doctrine, in practice, in living. And they were criticized as Puritans for it. They didn't like that name because they didn't believe they were perfectly pure. The concern was to keep growing as a church and as my own person, able to examine my own self, be easily entreated. William Perkins would complain, we don't like being called Puritans for that reason. We're not perfect. But it's stuck, and it is the heart of the Puritans. And as today, as always, as in the Scriptures, most of the church, let alone all of the world, will criticize you for it and try to knock you off your footing. Try to get you from feeling confident. Try to make you lose a sense of assurance of salvation. To take your eyes off Jesus, the author and finisher. of your faith, who is the way, the truth, the life, the resurrection. Beloved, may we be fixed firm in the faith. And may the Lord particularly put that on our prayers this week, for ourselves, for our families, for our churches. May we be fixed firm in the faith. That's the message for you this morning. Hebrews 3 verse 6. But Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. This is your chief end. Let us pray. O Lord God, with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, we beseech thee, keep us from fluttering about religion, but fix us firm in it. 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