This video concludes our series on lectures on faith. And the topic is trust in God. So we have uh gone over different aspects of faith, how it's a principle of power, how it's principle of action and what it means as well as what the point of the lectures on faith is and what uh faith really means in
the context of the plan of salvation. And we need to conclude with this topic. Trust in God because those who learn more about God and implement what they learn will increase in trusting God and trust in God is the limiting factor in your progress in this life. What you learn from God will always be
determined by your degree of trust in God, the less you trust Him, the less he can teach you in lecture four, we read, put your trust in God believing that he has power to save all who come to Him, to the very uttermost. Why should you trust God? Well, there are several reasons given in the lecture given
in the lectures on faith. You should trust God because of His knowledge. For inasmuch as God possesses the attribute knowledge, he can make all things known to his saints necessary for their salvation. You should trust God because of His power. He can control all things and thereby deliver His creatures
who put their trust in Him from the power of all beings that might seek their destruction. You should trust God because of His justice. He will deal with them upon the principles of righteousness and equity and a just reward will be granted unto them for all their afflictions and sufferings, for the
truth's sake. You should trust God because of his judgment. His saints can have the most unshaken confidence that they will in due time, obtain a perfect deliverance out of the hands of all their enemies and a complete victory over all those who have sought their hurt and destruction. You should trust
God because of His mercy. His saints can have confidence that it will be exercised toward them and through the exercise of that attribute to them, comfort and consolation will be administered unto them abundantly amid all their afflictions and tribulations, you should trust God because of his truth.
Realizing that truth is an attribute of the deity. The mind is led to rejoice amid all its trials and temptations in hope of that glory, which is to be brought at the revelation of Jesus Christ. And in view of that crown, which is to be placed upon the heads of the saints in the day when the Lord shall
distribute rewards unto them and in prospect of that eternal weight of glory which the Lord has promised to bestow upon them when he shall bring them into the midst of his throne, to dwell in his presence eternally, you should trust God. And if you haven't noticed each of these things, knowledge, power
, justice, judgment, mercy, and truth, these are all attributes of God. They're part of his character and the more you learn about God, so faith is learning more about or from God and reconciling your life to it, the more you exercise faith, the more you will come to know the character of God. And the
more you come to know the character of God, the more you will trust God and the more you trust God, the more you will obey him and seek more knowledge from him. In conclusion, this passage from lecture seven reads the knowledge which tends to life disappears with faith, but returns when faith returns
for when faith comes, it brings its train of attendance with it, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, gifts, wisdom, knowledge, miracles, healings, tongues, interpretations of tongues, et cetera. All these appear when faith appears on the earth and disappear when it disappears from the
earth. For these are the effects of faith and always have and always will attend it for where faith is. There, will the knowledge of God be also with all things which pertain there too, revelations, visions and dreams as well as every other necessary thing in order that the possessors of faith may be
perfected and obtain salvation. And he who possesses it will through it, obtain all necessary knowledge and wisdom until He shall know God and the Lord Jesus Christ, whom he has sent, whom to know his eternal life. Amen. If you exercise faith, you understand what it is and you get more of it, you will
come to obtain much more knowledge about and from God. And you will make those things part of who you are. You'll reconcile your life to them. And if you follow that path, the only end and the end in every case will be that you will know God and you will be like him and that is life eternal.