safe. Not the knowledge. A great many people say, "I believe
Christ is able to save." They give their assent, and say, "I believe"
but that does not save. It is the last clause, the laying hold, that
saves, and that is what we want to press upon you.

Faith has an outward look, not an inward one. Hundreds of people spend
time in looking at their own hearts, but

FAITH IS AN OUTWARD LOOK.

We are to have faith in God, and not in man. A great many people place
their faith in men, and they pin their faith to other people's
doctrines and creeds. Not long ago I heard of a man who was asked what
he believed. He said he believed what his church believed. "What does
your church believe?" "The church believes what I believe." And that
was all they could get out of him. There are a great many in that same
state of mind. They believe what the church believes, but they do not
know what the church believes. If their church teaches it, they
believe it. All the churches in the world can't save a soul. It is not
to have faith in this church or that church, this doctrine or that
doctrine, this man or that man, but it is to have faith in the man
Christ Jesus at the right hand of God. That is the only faith that
will ever save a soul.

PUT NO CONFIDENCE IN MAN.

Let me call your attention to a few verses where God has warned us not
to put faith in man: Jeremiah xvii. 5: "Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be
the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose
heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the
desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the
parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord
is." You will find some men have not faith in God; they are like a
tree that is withered and blasted. And there is a man perhaps right
along next to them who has strong faith in God; "he is like a tree
planted by the rivers of water; his leaf also shall not wither." Why?
He trusts in the living God. "Happy is the man that hath the God of
Jacob for his help." Cursed is the man that leaneth upon an arm of
flesh, and trusteth in man. The same thought is brought out in Isaiah
xxx.: "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my
Spirit, that they may add sin to sin: that walk to go down into Egypt,
and have not asked at my mout