# Are you going to please God in 2022

Key Passage: Hebrews 11:1
Date: June 7, 2024

Would you turn your Bibles, please, to Hebrews chapter 11, Hebrews chapter 11 in God’s Word today?

Hebrews chapter 11. The title would be, are we going to please God in 2022? Are you?

Are you going to please God in 2022? Hebrews chapter 11 is known as the chapter of faith, the Hall of Fame of Faith. It is very interesting. Just 40 verses in this one chapter; 23 times the word “faith” comes up, just over and over again: faith, faith. Sixteen times it will say “by faith.” Five times it will say “through faith.” Many of these Old Testament heroes we know of—Noah, Moses, Abraham—it will mention how they did so much for God by faith, by faith, by faith. And faith, what a key thing. We are going to start in verse number one, Hebrews 11 and verse number one.

If you are able, would you please stand as we show the Word of God respect? If you are in your living room or bedroom or wherever, would you go ahead and stand with us? Go ahead. It would be all right. If you are driving down the road, do not try to stand. Hopefully, you are somewhere just tuned in and listening to God’s Word. We want to have church wherever you are. Amen.

Hebrews chapter 11, verse number one. The Bible there says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The biblical definition of faith. Would you read that verse one more time? During the message, we will try to explain it. Just look at it. What does God say faith is? “Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Good, good.

Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

Dr. Lee Robertson. How many have ever heard of a man named Dr. Lee Robertson? If you have, would you raise your hand? It looks like maybe over half of our people here have. Let me just say a word or two about Dr. Lee Robertson. He pastored for over 40 years at Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was just a stalwart of a man of God and a man of faith. Very well known. In fact, God used him to start what was called Tennessee Temple University. It is not around anymore, but it was just a great, great Bible college, Bible school. Many of the older preachers who are nearing the end or have just passed off the scene—I am talking about men of God across the way, not these watered-down, don’t-stand-for-anything preachers—many of them back in the day went to Tennessee Temple University. Brother Dylan, who pastored here for twenty-something years, went to Tennessee Temple back in the day. My dad went to Tennessee Temple back in the day. Dad was going to Bible school there when I was born. My preacher when I was a teenager, Dr. J.B. Buffington, his old warhorse pilot, he went to Tennessee Temple University. That is where he got trained. And Bob Kelly, some of you know, down Franklin Road for years and years, he was there; he went to Tennessee Temple. So many great men of God are passing off around this time. Back in the day, they got their training at Tennessee Temple under Dr. Lee Robertson.

God used him so greatly. They had a nine-week-old daughter. Her name was Joy. She passed away, and it just broke their hearts. He latched onto Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.” They claimed that, and from their daughter’s passing, they bought acres and acres of land and started a camp called Camp Joy for junior-age boys and girls. The theme of it was where boys and girls begin to live. I went many times as a junior-age boy. Thousands—I mean literally thousands—of boys and girls have gotten saved at that camp. I mean, thousands. I remember one year going—this was a junior-age boy—and during the invitation time, they would sing, “Into my heart, into my heart, come into my heart, Lord Jesus, come in today. Come in to stay, come into my heart, Lord Jesus.” It seemed like we sang that a thousand times in one invitation. It still sticks in my head all these years later. I do not know, but it seemed like the invitation went on for an hour or two. There is a large camp, and maybe possibly 50, 60, 70 kids were saved during that one invitation. They just kept coming forward, and thousands were saved at that camp.

They had started it by faith. I love to hear him tell about buying the land by faith and so on. Just talking about a man of God, they started a Christian radio station there back in the day in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Several mission boards were started out of the work there. My dad was a part of Baptist Mission to Forgotten People; it was started there. A Jewish mission board was there, and B.I.M.I., the headquarters there, was literally sending out hundreds of missionaries. I am just talking about how God used this man; he always had something going on. Sometimes the people got a little weary of it—he had so much going on—but God just kept blessing. My dad, as a boy, we traveled to small churches and helped him get small churches going and start visitation and soul-winning efforts. We lived in a camper as we traveled to these churches. I remember as a little boy, Dr. Robertson had a parade through Chattanooga. He wanted to show off all of God’s people, if you will, and just try to show some support. I remember we took that camper and draped it with large sheets, or something that seemed large to a boy, that we had painted with information about the mission we worked at and whatnot. We drove that camper down in the middle of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in a parade. There was just always something going on there for the Lord at Highland Park Baptist Church back in the day, and God used him so greatly.

Now, Dr. Lee Robertson—I hope you have grasped a little bit how God used him back in the day. I am not trying to lift up a man, by the way. There are great men. One man said there is no such thing as great men. No, Jeremiah 5:5 says, “I will get Me to the great men that have known the way of the Lord.” There are great men that God uses in great ways, and he was one of those, praise the Lord for it. God had used him so mightily and put His hand on him.

Picture it: he is nearing the end, he had resigned, and he preached still, but he was not pastoring. He is older and up in years, about to pass, and someone asked him, “Dr. Robertson, do you have any regrets? Do you have any regrets?” Think about all God had used him to do for the Lord. Do you have any regrets? He said, “I do. I do.” “Well, Dr. Robertson, what is the one thing? What do you regret?” He said, “I wish I would have believed God for more. I wish…”

My goodness, after all God had used him to do, he says, “I wish I would have believed God for more.” I wish I would have had more faith that God could work through me. I do not know about you, but as I look at this life and how God used me, and I look at my life and think, “Whew! If he said, ‘I wish that I believed God for more,’ well, how much more for me?” God has a different will for every person. I am not trying to compare or compete in all that. But friend, this thing of believing and having faith in God—let us do this first off the bat. Let us just find out what the Bible defines as faith. What does it mean to have faith? That is so important. If it is just a feeling, some of you might say, “Well, I do not have that feeling very often, and there is no way I can have faith.” Can I say it is much more than a feeling? Let us look and see what God says about it. Verse number one, we have already read it: Hebrews 11, verse number one. Are you there? Would you say amen? Where are you at? Would you say amen? Good deal. I could not hear you in your living room, but I take it that you said it.

Look what he says. He says, “Now faith is the substance.” Let us just stop there for a moment. It is substance. Just like this pulpit here; it is made out of a substance. It is wood, and praise God, Miss Brenda years ago surprised us and had this pulpit made by some of her relatives for me, and I love this pulpit. It is substance. Now, faith is the substance. It is almost, if you will, something tangible. You say, “Well, it is just a feeling you get?” No, no, friend. Feelings are fickle. If I have pizza too late in the day and some Dr. Pepper to go along with it, I do not have a whole lot of feelings the next morning. If your spouse just got mad at you and yelled at you a little bit, you do not have real strong feelings right after that. All feelings are up and down. No, faith is much more than feelings. It is substance, something tangible.

Notice what it says. “Now faith is a substance of things hoped for.” All right. Let me just read a little bit, maybe this thing of hope for. Romans 8:24, just a portion of the verse, but it says, “But hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?” So you are talking about something you cannot see. You are hoping for. You cannot see it, but now substance. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for. You cannot see it, but it is something you are hoping for. It is the substance of things hoped for. Let me try to put it in our everyday shoes, shoe leather, all right? Here it is. Let us say you hope for someone to get saved. In fact, maybe this is what you say: “I hope that the Lord would let me lead at least one person to the Lord Jesus Christ in 2022.” That would be a great desire, a great thing to hope for. Maybe everyone, whether here or wherever you may be, you say, “I am going to hope that the Lord would let me lead at least one person to the Lord Jesus Christ in 2022.” All right, understand. That is the thing you are hoping for. I hope you are all on board. I am hoping to lead one, just one, at least one person to the Lord Jesus Christ in 2022. Now that is the thing hoped for. Now here is the substance. It is you every day getting on your knees praying, “Lord, would you use me? Lord, I sure would love to see someone get saved. Lord, I am praying, Father, would you lead me across her path? Would you let me be prepared and ready to go? Lord, would you let me see someone saved this year?” Now, there is substance right there. Understand. Not only that, faith is a substance of things hoped for. Not only that, but all right, you say, “I am going to get me some gospel tracts.” You go back to the back there, maybe on the table or in the little tract rack on the wall, and you get you some gospel tracts. You say, “All right, I am not just hoping for this, but I am putting some substance to it. I am going to get me some gospel tracts. I am going to be armed and dangerous. I am going to lock and load. I am ready to go. I have my gospel bullet, you know, and ready to shoot.” And you say, “All right, now there is some substance to that.” See?

Not only that, but you say, “All right, if I am hoping for someone to get saved and I have been praying about it, and I am getting my ammunition ready, and I need to learn to talk to someone.” Perhaps you lead your invisible friend to the Lord every day as you go to work. Every day you lead your invisible friend to the Lord. Well, you are getting ready. You are prepared. You are practicing getting the gospel out. Now, friend, there is some substance there. See? Faith is the substance of things hoped for. It is those prayers. It is those gospel tracts. It is the preparation. You say, “I am going to put some substance to this thing. I am going to put some faith in there.” And you start witnessing. You go to your relatives. It is always hard to witness to family. Anybody want to testify right here? You get that lump in your throat. You have to swallow real hard, and you go to them. I am not talking about trying to force it on them—that will never work; it will turn them off. But in love, you go to them and say, “Hey, Uncle Joe, I love you, and I have never really just came out and asked you about this. I go to church and so on, but more important than that, Uncle Joe, I want to make sure you are going to heaven one day. Can I ask you about it? Are you saved? Are you going to Him?” You put substance to it. Your co-workers… Maybe when you start Saturday soul-winning, you just cold turkey go up and try to win some to the Lord Jesus Christ, or your neighbor that you have been burdened about, but you are putting substance there. Now, faith is a substance of things hoped for. It is substance. I have been praying every day all year long, and there is some substance I can touch. I have gospel tracts ready to go. Maybe, as someone—I have heard someone who put a gospel track in every bill they paid when they used to pay bills in the mail. I do not know what all the substance would be for you. We had several folks putting gospel tracts in beer cases at a certain store in town, and we got some people mad at us over that. Hey, they were just convicted about what that was about, friend. That is all it was. One said, “I felt bad. I was so sick the next day because I had seen that gospel tract.” I did not tell them, but I thought, “You just had a hangover the next day.” Somebody was putting substance in there. See? That is faith. It is not always going to look the same. It may be that Mom for 30 years gets on her knees every morning saying, “God, would you get a hold of my son’s or my daughter’s heart? I love them, and would you change them? Would you turn them to you?” That has substance: 30 years praying for that child. That is faith. Faith. It is not just an intangible feeling you have inside. No, there is some substance to the same.

Faith is a substance of things hoped for. Notice the last part of that verse, if you would please. Look what else he says. He says, “Now faith is a substance of things hoped for… Watch this… the evidence of things not seen.” Evidence. Miss Stacy was just on jury duty a month or two ago. In those jury duties or court cases, people bring up evidence. “Can I enter this as evidence?” Now faith is substance; it is evidence. It is something you could enter into court. I do not know if this story is true or not, but it makes for a good story either way. I am going to tell it, amen. I have heard it is true, and I do not know that it is, but the story is told of a church that was trying to close down a bar very close to it. They tried everything to close the bar down; they did all the legal things, and they tried to fight it and battle it, and they just could not stop it. It was right outside the city codes and so on. They could not put an end to it. Finally, some of the people in the church said, “We are going to pray that that bar burns down.” They said, “We are going to pray that.” Sure enough, it burnt down. This is not the story where somebody put feet to the prayers and they went and burned it down, all right? They did not do it themselves, but it burnt down. The people at the bar were mad, and they said, “That church burnt our bar down.” They actually sued the church. The court trial was on. It is funny; the story is told how many of those church members were trying to convince people that the prayers were not effective. They say at the end of that court trial, there was not enough evidence that the church prayers were powerful enough to have burned the bar down. Now, friend, I am just saying there is evidence. Is there evidence that you put toward things not seen? Is there any kind of evidence there that I have been praying and seeking God to do this? And I have been trying to have some evidence that I believe God is going to work.

I listened to a preacher—R.B., oh, I am getting his name mixed up. He is an older preacher now in heaven—but he said years ago there was a meeting where a lady said, “I want to pray that my husband will come tomorrow night. Let us all pray that that happens.” The next night came. B.R. Lakin, that is the preacher’s name. The next night came, and someone came up to the preacher and said, “Well, so-and-so’s husband is here,” and he said, “No, not right now.” They said, “Well, I did not believe he had come.” The preacher said, “Well, you sure did not help the matter at all. You are probably the reason why he did not come—lack of faith.” Actually, the husband did come and get saved. But evidence. Evidence.

Now, faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith. Now, let us look down, if you will, in this chapter number 11. Would you look in verse number five? Let us learn something else about faith. We have learned what faith is. It is substance. There is some evidence there. It is substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. Now look down verse number five, if you would please. Hebrews 11, verse number five. “By faith, Enoch…” Remember Enoch, I believe Genesis 5 in the very beginning, Enoch walked with God, and he was not… “By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Oh, I hope you have that desire. I want to please God. I hope something inside you says, “I am not after money and all that, but I am after pleasing God.” I hope you have something inside your heart and your mind that says, “I do not care what my neighbors or everybody else thinks about me. I am not trying to please my family or get a pat on the back from everybody, but I sure would like to please God.” I hope you have that burning desire: I like to please God with my life. Enoch, he had this testimony: he pleased God. Well, I hope that is your desire in 2022. I want to please You, Lord. I hope if You look down from heaven, You say, “I am pleased.” I hope you have that desire in your heart.

Now, watch this, would you please? Verse number six. “But without faith it is impossible to please Him.” Friend, is that what it says? No. It does not even say without faith it is just so hard to please. No, it does not. But without faith, it is impossible. Wow. There is no possible way to please God without faith. “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Friend, it is impossible for you and me. We can look so good to everybody, and everybody thinks we are just hunky-dory, but if we are not living by faith, it is impossible to please Him. You cannot do it. There is not a possibility there. That is my question: Am I going to please God in 2022? Are you going to please God in 2022? Now, it can look so different. Nobody really knows if you are living by faith or not besides you and God.

Think of Job, when he lost his kids and he lost his finances, and he probably could hardly get enough food to feed himself and his wife. He was bankrupt, and his health was shot. His most trusted counselor—his wife—believed in him. She was grieving over the loss of the kids, but she did come to him and said, “Hey, why don’t you just curse God and die?” I am saying that for that year or year and a half, however long it took him to go through that trial—Job—I do not think his Sunday school class broke any records here or not here. I do not think he gave; he did not have anything to give. His offering plate did not look very good. I do not know that he was on any soul-winning campaign during that year and a half. He may have just been trying to survive. But think about the faith it took for him just to put one step in front of the other and another step, just keep stepping for the Lord in the midst of that great trial. Friend, I promise you, it probably took more faith than I have. He had no more faith in his little pinky finger than I have in my whole body just for him to keep going during that year. So be careful. I do not know if somebody is living by faith or not. You do not know. In fact, I would recommend that you go to God for yourself and say, “Am I living by faith or not?” It does not always look the same.

We talk about this Hall of Fame of Faith, Hebrews 11, and these great Christians you know of. How many of you know of Moses? I think every person in the room here does. How many know of Noah? Gideon? These are all great, known Christians. I love to hear what God did in their lives. But can I say, I do not think those that are just mentioned are the greatest Christians in Hebrews 11. I think the greatest Christians in Hebrews 11, their names are not mentioned. Look down, if you would please, at verse number 36. He just mentioned all these great Christians that we know of, for whom it turned out well when they lived by faith. But watch this: “And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonments: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder.” Tradition says Isaiah was sawn asunder; he was put in a hollow tree, and then they cut the tree in half. “They were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goat skins.” What is that about? They would torture these Christians and chain a goat or a sheepskin to them. They could not get it off, and yet the lions and different beasts would smell them out and attack them because those skins were chained to them. “They being destitute, afflicted, tormented.” I think they lived by faith. I believe they pleased God very much. But on the outside, it did not look like they had a lot of faith, or at least it did not turn out like they wanted. Yet, you know what God says? Did these people please Him or not? Let us look at the next verse and see what God’s opinion of these people is. Verse number 38: “Of whom the world was not worthy.” God said that old world is not worthy of those great Christians. They so pleased Me. I think God said, “I am just going to take them on home through that tragedy, being martyred for Jesus Christ. They are so worthy of My love and My teaching, all My blessing. The world is not worthy of them anymore. I am just going to let them come on home.” God’s estimate: the world is not worthy of them. They are great Christians who please God. I think one day they will be in the front of the line, and we will be behind them—those who are martyred and suffered and tortured for the Lord Jesus Christ. How? By faith. And that pleased God. God’s estimate of these people: the world is not worthy of those Christians right there. They are so pleasing to Me. Now, friend, I am just saying the world might not know, and nobody else might not know if you are living by faith or not. But I would recommend you pray, “Lord, am I? Am I?”

It is impossible. I cannot please God. I might look good to everybody else, and everything is wonderful, but if I am not living by faith, I am not pleasing to God. They can ask you, “What do you believe in God for in 2022?” It has been a little while since I have had the privilege of seeing God change an alcoholic’s life and make him sober. I believe in God for that. Do you believe in God that maybe through the Spirit of God working through you, your workplace will have a different atmosphere—from meanness, hate, gossiping, and backbiting to being sweet—because God uses you a very little bit? I do not know what it might be for you. What do you believe in God for? What are you going to believe God for in 2022? Are you going to be pleased? Am I going to please God? Maybe God is leading you to have faith that a child’s heart will be turned to God in a special way this year. Maybe they are young; you can see their heart already wandering, parents. Watch your child’s heart, not just their actions, but their heart. And you say, “I am going to pray that God would turn the heart of that child to Him.” I do not know what it may be, but what do you believe in God for in 2022? If I am going to please Him, it is impossible without faith.

Can I say this? Sometimes we get into a good routine: I go to church, and I love the church. The church loves me, and things are wonderful. It is just getting a good routine, and I am for that. Routine is so important for the Christian life. But if I am not careful, I will get into just a routine, and I am not really doing anything out of faith. I am following a routine, but I am not living by faith. Our teens went to camp this summer down in Shafter, a great camp. The preacher there preached, and he told a story about a man who loved his church, and the church loved him. It was a wonderful, comfortable situation at that point in his life. He said, “But God has led me to be a missionary to the Muslims.” Muslims—half of them hate my guts—yet I believe God is leading me to go try to spread the gospel among the Muslim countries. He is leaving his comfort zone. I know what God wants me to do, but I am just saying sometimes God leads us beyond just the routine. God leads us to live a life of faith in a greater way. I think about some of these great Christians, like Brother Fontaine, who have witnessed everywhere they went for years. I have had some of them say, “Preacher, I wish I had someone in church.” Someone comes forward, gets baptized, grows, and gets in church. I always say the same thing: Friend, the Christian life is faith. You keep witnessing and trying to lead the Lord every chance you can, and yes, try to disciple them. But, friend, nobody has the corner market on that. You have faith; you obey out of faith, and you seek and you pray for that fruit that remains. Those who have done it over the years, I have watched God bring the increase through the back door in a way nobody can put a tag on. God is the one that brings increase; it is out of faith. Maybe God is encouraging and challenging you: “Are you in a routine? I am not living by faith anymore.” Are you going to please God in 2022?

Let us get a couple more thoughts. We have got to move on very quickly. Would you look at verse number seven very briefly? I just want to show one or two things, and then we are going to move on and be done today. In Hebrews 11, would you look in verse number seven? I want you to notice something about this faith: Faith is not just some old foolish thing. God leads in faith. What did you notice in verse number seven? “By faith Noah, being warned of…” What is the next word? God. God led Noah. God spoke to Noah about this coming flood. “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house…” Now notice how God spoke to Noah; that is how Noah had that faith. Verse number eight: “By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed…” You see, God led Abraham to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, and he obeyed. He went out, not knowing whither he went.

Here is what I just want to get to: God leads, and God gives faith. That is why I have already mentioned several times: Would you pray? What is God leading you to do in 2022? It is not you just kind of going, “I want to do this.” No, no, no, no, no, no. God leads in it. He leads to His Word, first of all. Preacher, “I don’t have much faith.” Well, let me ask you how much you are in the Word. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. When God speaks through His Word to your heart, and if you say, “I like to live by faith,” then be in the Word. Get in the Word. It will be a great challenge for you to read through your Bible this year or use some other plan, but just be in the Word, in the Word, every day in the Word, however God leads you. But you say, “I wish I had strong faith like so-and-so has.” Well, I do not know about so-and-so, but I know if you want to have strong faith, you must be in the Word. God will speak to you through His Word and give you faith.

Then let me say this: God leads, and He gives faith. He leads to His Word, and He leads by His Spirit. Look over here in Galatians chapter number five. Galatians 5 is an amazing chapter talking about how the spirit and the flesh battle each other. It gives the works of the flesh, but then it gives the fruit of the Spirit right here. Verse number 22, Galatians 5:22: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness…” What is the next word? Faith. Faith. I just want you to notice it is the Holy Spirit. It is part of the fruit of the Spirit; it is faith. It is amazing as I yield to the Spirit of God, as I walk in the Spirit. It has to do with me being in step with the Spirit. He leads you to do something, and you do it out of faith, and then He gives you more faith. You are in step with the Spirit of God. He can lead you and tell you to forgive them and have a different spirit, and He wants you to love them, and you walk in the Spirit. As you do that, He gives you faith; He gives you leadership.

I cannot help but think about this illustration, which is always so real for me. Years and years ago—maybe 2006 or 2007, I am not sure—we were making our budget. I do not know what our budget was at the time, but we had a mortgage payment here, and we owed maybe $104,000 on this property. One of our visions was—the Lord gave me the faith for it; I would never have the faith for this any other time, but God gave it to me—and I said, “Hey, we are going to pay off the mortgage. We are going to make budget, and we are going to pay off that mortgage. We are going to pay off the property here, $104,000.” A deacon told me later on, after God had done that, “Pastor, I thought you were crazy.” I will be honest with you; I said, “Brother Duane”—he is in heaven now—“I thought I was crazy too.” If I tried to generate that much faith on my own, I do not have it in me. It was not from me; it was from the Spirit of God, and He gives you faith. Now, you still have a choice: Are you going to follow that? Are you going to put some substance in there, some evidence in there? Are you going to turn it aside? Friend, faith—God gives and God leads in faith. Hey, what do you believe in God for in '22? Are you just going through a ritual? Are you going to please God? Without faith, it is impossible.

Maybe it starts by this: You have never truly been born again. You have never been saved before. Now somebody says, “Well, I have always had faith in Jesus.” No, no, no, no, no, friend. There needs to be some substance. You are interested in Romans 10: “If you believe in your heart… and with your mouth confession is made unto salvation.” It is not that prayer that saves, but that prayer may be a sign: “Hey, I actually did put my faith in Jesus Christ. I did actually believe on Him.” No, it is not a matter of, “I have always been saved. I have always believed in Jesus Christ.” No, friend, you need a time when you are born again, saved, washed in the blood of the Lamb. You might never remember the date, but there was a time you can go back to when you called on Jesus. I put my belief totally on Jesus Christ to pay my sin debt, to save me from death and take me to heaven. Being saved. Where are you at? Have you been saved? You said, “Maybe I need to start off. I need to make sure I am a born-again Christian. I am going to have Him save me today.” That will be a great day. Take care of that.

And then beyond that, are you believing God? Are you trusting? It is amazing how quickly time flies. This is the second Sunday of the year. We only have 50 Sundays. Before we know it, it will be the end of '22. It will be like, “Where did it all go?” And will you look back and say, “You know, I was far from perfect, but I truly lived by faith this year. I believed God. I trusted Him. I tried to put some substance, some evidence in there,” and I truly, Lord, I hope You look down—and I hope the Lord does look down at the end of the year—and say, “Wow, that man, that lady, that teenager, they were pleasing to Me this year. They lived by faith.” My faith.

Original File: Are you going to please God in 2022 - Pastor Paul Chisgar Sunday AM 1922