100:00:00,880 –> 00:00:12,600Not yet are we free from sins presence or from its power. Not yet do we enjoy200:00:12,600 –> 00:00:20,120lives of perfect peace. Not yet are we free from sickness and from disease.300:00:20,120 –> 00:00:29,520Faith demands patience because of what we do not yet know and because of what400:00:29,639 –> 00:00:34,820do not yet have. Welcome to to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith I’m David500:00:34,820 –> 00:00:39,860Pick glad you could join us again today and Colin there is a lot we’re waiting600:00:39,860 –> 00:00:45,400for a lot that’s still unfinished so the question is how do we live while we700:00:45,400 –> 00:00:49,540wait. Yeah well that really takes us to the heart of what the Christian life is800:00:49,540 –> 00:00:55,320we walk by faith and not by sight and there are so many things that God has900:00:55,320 –> 00:01:00,840promised that we don’t yet have here we are we’re still surrounded by temptation1000:01:00,840 –> 00:01:06,500we don’t yet have justice across the face of the earth these things await a1100:01:06,500 –> 00:01:11,099time when the Lord Jesus Christ will return in glory and so when you ask the1200:01:11,099 –> 00:01:15,980question how are we to live with what we don’t yet have the answer is we’ve got1300:01:15,980 –> 00:01:22,019to have confidence that one day what’s not yet will be and we’re looking at the1400:01:22,139 –> 00:01:27,400of Abraham and he’s the most marvelous example of this the scripture tells us1500:01:27,400 –> 00:01:33,720that he was looking forward to a city that has foundations whose designer and1600:01:33,720 –> 00:01:38,339builder is God he didn’t see in the world around him as we don’t see in the1700:01:38,339 –> 00:01:42,660world around us the fulfillment of all the promises of God but he knew that one1800:01:42,660 –> 00:01:48,660day what’s not yet will be and that confidence and that faith is going to be1900:01:48,660 –> 00:01:53,440the basis of our perseverance and it’s the encouragement we need to live by2000:01:53,440 –> 00:01:56,980faith in this world in which God has called us to honor him2100:01:56,980 –> 00:02:02,099let’s stay with that join us if you can in Hebrews chapter 11 as we continue the2200:02:02,099 –> 00:02:08,960message faith obeys God here is pastor Colin grow in faith and you will grow in2300:02:08,960 –> 00:02:14,339obedience the more you believe what God has revealed the more you trust what God2400:02:14,339 –> 00:02:18,240has promised the more you will grow in obedience because that is what faith2500:02:18,240 –> 00:02:28,660produces by faith Abraham obeyed here’s something really important there for for2600:02:28,660 –> 00:02:39,779a healthy Christian life the obedience that faith brings second the patience2700:02:39,779 –> 00:02:47,440that faith demands notice verse 8 it begins by faith Abraham obeyed and then2800:02:47,440 –> 00:02:57,080it ends and he went out not knowing where he was going never he’s striking2900:02:57,080 –> 00:03:03,440when God called Abraham to a life of faith you didn’t tell him what that3000:03:03,479 –> 00:03:10,839would involve and tell him where it would lead he went out not knowing3100:03:10,839 –> 00:03:19,720where he was going God didn’t give him a map to show what he would go God didn’t3200:03:19,720 –> 00:03:25,399give him a brochure to say what his life would be like when he got there3300:03:25,479 –> 00:03:35,080so faith demands patience and it demands patience because we don’t yet know what3400:03:35,080 –> 00:03:40,960God has not revealed what will a life of following the Lord Jesus Christ mean for3500:03:40,960 –> 00:03:46,580you what does the future hold for you there isn’t a single one of us who3600:03:46,580 –> 00:03:54,600knows Jesus says follow me and when you step out in faith and in obedience to3700:03:54,600 –> 00:03:59,119follow the Lord Jesus Christ well none of us knows what that will involve or3800:03:59,119 –> 00:04:04,979where that will lead Luther said and I love this comment3900:04:04,979 –> 00:04:16,040this is the glory of faith simply not to know that’s what faith is the glory of4000:04:16,040 –> 00:04:18,619faith is simply not to know I mean if you knew4100:04:18,619 –> 00:04:22,100if you knew everything that’s gonna transpire you wouldn’t so much be4200:04:22,220 –> 00:04:25,839you’d be walking by faith you’d be walking by sight because you’d know but4300:04:25,839 –> 00:04:29,980we don’t know now we know in part one day we will know fully even as we are4400:04:29,980 –> 00:04:34,779fully known but right now we don’t know and faith demands patience because of4500:04:34,779 –> 00:04:43,459what we do not yet know and so sometimes we will find ourselves4600:04:43,459 –> 00:04:49,779asking the question why do I have to go through this what possible purpose does4700:04:49,920 –> 00:04:57,700have for me in this and we ask why and as we see from our Lord Jesus at the4800:04:57,700 –> 00:05:05,540cross the father is under no obligation to answer the question we walk by faith4900:05:05,540 –> 00:05:15,320not by sight and that demands patience because of what we do not yet know and5000:05:15,500 –> 00:05:22,119faith also demands patience because of what we do not yet have look at verse5100:05:22,119 –> 00:05:30,1409 by faith Abraham went to live in the land of promise that sounds wonderful5200:05:30,140 –> 00:05:36,679doesn’t it until you read the next line as in a foreign land living in tents5300:05:36,679 –> 00:05:42,000with Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the same promise5400:05:42,079 –> 00:05:46,739living in the land of promise I mean this sounds absolutely marvelous sounds5500:05:46,739 –> 00:05:51,920like heaven on earth but actually when Abraham gets to the Promise Land is5600:05:51,920 –> 00:05:58,320anything but heaven on earth he finds that it’s already occupied and so in5700:05:58,320 –> 00:06:05,519Acts in Chapter 7 and verse 5 we read this that God gave him no inheritance in5800:06:05,559 –> 00:06:12,239it that’s in the Promised Land not even a foot’s length give him a square foot5900:06:12,239 –> 00:06:19,980of it but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after6000:06:19,980 –> 00:06:27,000him though he had no child. Now those of you who know the Bible story will recall6100:06:27,000 –> 00:06:33,239this remarkable fact that God’s people actually had to wait 500 years before6200:06:33,440 –> 00:06:40,799God gave them the land it was only after Abraham and after Isaac and after Jacob6300:06:40,799 –> 00:06:47,559and after Joseph and his brothers and after 400 years in Egypt and after even6400:06:47,559 –> 00:06:52,679the death of Moses only then in the time of Joshua did God give the promised land6500:06:52,679 –> 00:06:57,559to Abraham’s descendants. The promised land was not actually given to Abraham, he6600:06:57,559 –> 00:07:02,440had the promise of it and when he was in the land he didn’t own a square foot6700:07:03,239 –> 00:07:09,279he lived by faith on the promise and in fact Genesis 23 just presses this point6800:07:09,279 –> 00:07:17,500home that when Sarah died Abraham though he was a very rich man it wasn’t that he6900:07:17,500 –> 00:07:25,959lacked money, Abraham had to go to the Hittites and buy a plot of ground to7000:07:25,959 –> 00:07:31,559bury his wife because he didn’t own a square foot. That’s the point of course7100:07:31,739 –> 00:07:40,059of Acts and chapter 7. It was only given years later. So, his whole life was lived7200:07:40,059 –> 00:07:44,100by faith and faith demands great patience because he died still not7300:07:44,100 –> 00:07:51,720having received the thing that was promised. He lived in tents, he lived on a7400:07:51,720 –> 00:08:01,260promise. He endured in the promised land knowing that one day God would fulfill7500:08:01,339 –> 00:08:08,140his promise. One day God would give him a child. One day God would give to his7600:08:08,140 –> 00:08:16,980descendants the land, but that day was not yet. So, do you see it was by faith7700:08:16,980 –> 00:08:25,859that Abraham journeyed to the land and it was by faith that Abraham lived in7800:08:25,859 –> 00:08:30,579the land all his life until the very day he died?7900:08:30,720 –> 00:08:37,419Only then was faith turned to sight for Abraham. Now, here’s an interesting8000:08:37,419 –> 00:08:45,260question. Which is harder? The journey of faith by which you go to the land or the8100:08:45,260 –> 00:08:50,679life of faith in which you live in the land? One commentator, Philip Hughes8200:08:50,679 –> 00:08:56,900answers that question. He says this the situation into which Abraham moved on8300:08:57,700 –> 00:09:05,599was a more severe trial of faith than was his call to leave home and8400:09:05,599 –> 00:09:12,280family. It was easier for him to live by faith as he journeyed toward the goal8500:09:12,280 –> 00:09:17,419than to do so on reaching the goal and finding that the fullness of all that8600:09:17,419 –> 00:09:26,559he had been promised was not yet. Now I think that is a marvelous picture8700:09:27,219 –> 00:09:33,719life. Coming to faith is like Abraham setting out on the journey to the8800:09:33,719 –> 00:09:41,099Promised Land. But the Christian life is like Abraham living by faith in the8900:09:41,099 –> 00:09:46,260Promised Land. And I expect that when Abraham set out on his journey to the9000:09:46,260 –> 00:09:50,119Promised Land he would have thought, oh this is gonna be some kind of heaven on9100:09:50,119 –> 00:09:53,239earth, and maybe when you became a Christian you thought well now all of my9200:09:53,659 –> 00:09:58,159are gonna be solved, all of my prayers are gonna be answered, all of my hard9300:09:58,159 –> 00:10:03,440days are gonna be behind me. But you see when Abraham got into the Promised Land9400:10:03,440 –> 00:10:08,539he had to live by faith because the fullness of all that was promised was9500:10:08,539 –> 00:10:22,099not yet. Not yet are we free from sin’s presence or from its power. Not yet do we9600:10:22,280 –> 00:10:31,520enjoy lives of perfect peace. Not yet are we free from sickness and from disease.9700:10:31,520 –> 00:10:40,039Not yet is the church without stain and wrinkle. Not yet have the kingdoms of9800:10:40,039 –> 00:10:44,780this world become the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, and so not yet do we9900:10:44,859 –> 00:10:52,260live in a world of righteousness and justice and peace. And faith demands10000:10:52,260 –> 00:10:59,419patience because of what we do not yet know, and because of what we do not yet10100:10:59,419 –> 00:11:08,460have. So, here’s the question. How do you find that patience? How do I grow in the10200:11:09,400 –> 00:11:17,619that faith demands, as I live as a Christian in this difficult world? Well,10300:11:17,619 –> 00:11:21,739that’s just to ask the question, how did Abraham have the patience? How did he10400:11:21,739 –> 00:11:26,440have the endurance? How did he have the strength? How did he manage to endure10500:11:26,440 –> 00:11:32,340going on day, week, month, year after year, living in tents, and knowing that he was10600:11:32,340 –> 00:11:38,320a stranger in a foreign land? How can you find the patience? How can you10700:11:38,320 –> 00:11:45,840find the endurance that you need in a life of faith, in which you will10800:11:45,840 –> 00:11:50,919experience many frustrations, many struggles, many disappointments and10900:11:50,919 –> 00:11:53,520losses too?11000:11:54,020 –> 00:11:57,039You’re listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith, and a message11100:11:57,039 –> 00:12:01,700called Faith Obeys God. We’ve got to pause the message briefly but we’ll be11200:12:01,700 –> 00:12:06,000back very shortly, so do stay with us. The message was originally part of a11300:12:06,320 –> 00:12:10,919series called Living by Faith and it’s now included as one of the most11400:12:10,919 –> 00:12:16,039requested and downloaded messages of the past 12 months. We’ve bundled them all11500:12:16,039 –> 00:12:21,320together under the title Listener Favourites 2026. Don’t forget, if you ever11600:12:21,320 –> 00:12:25,179miss one of our messages, it’s easy to catch up or go back and listen again by11700:12:25,179 –> 00:12:31,320coming to our website that’s at openthebible.org.uk or if you prefer11800:12:31,320 –> 00:12:35,739go to your favourite podcast site, search therefore Open the Bible UK and11900:12:35,739 –> 00:12:39,239right there you’ll find all Pastor Colin’s messages that have already been12000:12:39,239 –> 00:12:44,559broadcast. Back to the message now we’re in Hebrews chapter 11. Here again is12100:12:44,559 –> 00:12:48,719Pastor Colin. Well I wanted to look finally and very briefly at the12200:12:48,719 –> 00:12:55,159future that faith anticipates. Here’s here’s how Abraham did it. Verse 10. He12300:12:55,159 –> 00:13:05,599was looking forward. He was looking forward to what? To THE city that has12400:13:05,599 –> 00:13:15,500foundations, whose designer and builder is God. You see what this is telling us?12500:13:15,500 –> 00:13:24,020When Abraham got to the promised land he realised that God had more in store for12600:13:24,260 –> 00:13:28,500than he would ever experience in this world.12700:13:28,500 –> 00:13:33,780God had given him great success when he was still worshiping idols. He’d made a12800:13:33,780 –> 00:13:40,099fortune in those days. We know that from Genesis chapter 13 and verse 2. Abraham12900:13:40,099 –> 00:13:46,599was very rich in livestock, silver, gold, he’d been wonderfully blessed. A very13000:13:46,599 –> 00:13:51,859rich man. And then God had given him these marvellous promises that began a13100:13:51,880 –> 00:13:57,159whole new chapter of his life, a whole new journey of faith. Oh, it’s about more13200:13:57,159 –> 00:14:02,460than money. I’ve got to walk with God, I’ve got to listen to his word, I’ve got13300:14:02,460 –> 00:14:08,940to put down deep roots into faith in him, the God who has revealed himself to me,13400:14:08,940 –> 00:14:16,780and so he goes to the land and by faith he lives in the land. But every day of13500:14:16,799 –> 00:14:24,659his life in the land was spent looking forward and notice what he was looking13600:14:24,659 –> 00:14:36,080forward to? The city, not a city, the city whose designer and builder is God. And13700:14:36,080 –> 00:14:40,539just in case there’s any confusion, verse 16 makes it absolutely clear. What he was13800:14:40,640 –> 00:14:48,320for is the heavenly city. That’s what sustained him, keeping his eye on the13900:14:48,320 –> 00:14:53,219heavenly city. That’s how he found the patience to endure the world in which he14000:14:53,219 –> 00:15:02,880lived. I think if Abraham could come here today and take a look at our world I14100:15:02,880 –> 00:15:09,719think he would be astonished at the endless arguments that are tearing14200:15:09,799 –> 00:15:17,260people apart. Radically different visions of what life in our cities and in our14300:15:17,260 –> 00:15:23,479country and in our world should be. And I guess that he might say to us14400:15:23,479 –> 00:15:34,859something like this, you’re all arguing about how to build your own cities and I14500:15:35,380 –> 00:15:44,619was seeking the city whose builder and designer is God. The city that Abraham14600:15:44,619 –> 00:15:52,520was looking forward to is not created by human progress. He’s not thinking that14700:15:52,520 –> 00:15:58,200somehow we can shape a brave new world where all human dreams will be fulfilled14800:15:58,200 –> 00:16:03,419and all human desires will be satisfied. Only God can do that and it will only14900:16:03,559 –> 00:16:11,380happen in his city. All of us have goals in our lives in this world. All of us have15000:16:11,380 –> 00:16:18,200things we want to achieve to get to a certain point in your career. To be15100:16:18,200 –> 00:16:23,479married, to have a family. Get a certain amount of money that will give you15200:16:23,479 –> 00:16:29,200financial security or maybe you’re thinking more broadly that it’s to see15300:16:29,200 –> 00:16:33,520certain changes in this world or to see growth in the church or whatever. Whatever15400:16:33,520 –> 00:16:38,320it is, here’s what we learned from the life of Abraham the man of faith. When15500:16:38,320 –> 00:16:44,739you get there it won’t be what you thought. Listen to these words of C.S.15600:16:44,739 –> 00:16:53,419Lewis. If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the15700:16:53,900 –> 00:17:02,760only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. And I guess when15800:17:02,760 –> 00:17:08,339Abraham started out on his journey of faith he really thought that God’s15900:17:08,339 –> 00:17:16,160promise would be fulfilled in his lifetime, a life of joy and peace in the16000:17:16,160 –> 00:17:21,979Promised Land. That’s what I’m heading for. But all his life he was looking16100:17:21,979 –> 00:17:30,479forward to it and he died in faith. Verse 13. Still not having received the thing16200:17:30,479 –> 00:17:37,400that was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar. Brother, sister,16300:17:37,400 –> 00:17:43,219what we have in Jesus Christ in this life is a taste of what God has in store.16400:17:43,219 –> 00:17:49,420Just a glimpse of what one day we will see in all of its beauty and in all of16500:17:49,420 –> 00:17:56,920its glory and it is in looking forward that we are sustained in patience as we16600:17:56,920 –> 00:18:06,339live by faith in this world today. The Christian is always looking forward. You16700:18:06,339 –> 00:18:16,599were made for another world and the deepest thirsts of your soul cannot be16800:18:16,800 –> 00:18:23,939satisfied here, only they’re in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now to16900:18:23,939 –> 00:18:27,560bring this together in these last moments we’ve looked at the obedience17000:18:27,560 –> 00:18:32,060that faith brings, the patience that faith demands, and the future that faith17100:18:32,060 –> 00:18:38,040anticipates. Someone just might be saying well this is really a very old story17200:18:38,040 –> 00:18:43,239and you’re talking to us about something that happened three thousand years ago17300:18:43,260 –> 00:18:48,219You’re telling us that God appeared to this man, that God called him, that God17400:18:48,219 –> 00:18:52,280gave him these marvelous promises that he lived in tents and that he was17500:18:52,280 –> 00:18:56,180looking for a city, what in the world does that have to do with us living17600:18:56,180 –> 00:19:00,479today in the city and the suburbs of Chicago? Let me just try and press17700:19:00,479 –> 00:19:06,699this home in these last moments. Listen. God has appeared to you. God has appeared17800:19:06,719 –> 00:19:16,400to you. Titus says the grace of God has appeared. Bringing salvation to all17900:19:16,400 –> 00:19:23,880people. God didn’t simply appear as a man, he18000:19:23,880 –> 00:19:33,859became a man. The word became flesh and dwelt among us, he appeared! God has made18100:19:33,859 –> 00:19:38,420himself known to you in Jesus Christ more clearly than he ever did to18200:19:38,420 –> 00:19:46,900Abraham. And God calls you. Jesus Christ the Son of God calls you to a life of18300:19:46,900 –> 00:19:53,619faith and obedience when he says follow me. That’s for you, for each and every18400:19:53,619 –> 00:19:58,459one of us. He lays claim to your life, he lays claim to your love, and he lays18500:19:58,959 –> 00:20:07,040your loyalty, he calls you as clearly as he called Abraham. And God gives you18600:20:07,040 –> 00:20:11,339great and precious promises in Jesus Christ. If you will believe in the Lord18700:20:11,339 –> 00:20:15,300Jesus Christ, peace will be yours, forgiveness will be yours, his18800:20:15,300 –> 00:20:20,739righteousness will be counted as yours, the Holy Spirit will be yours, everlasting18900:20:20,739 –> 00:20:28,040life will be yours. And you do, by the way, live in a tent. In fact, the Bible19000:20:28,040 –> 00:20:31,939is very specific about that. That’s how the Bible describes the human body. It’s a19100:20:31,939 –> 00:20:41,660fragile structure, that one day will be taken down. And every time we get sick,19200:20:41,660 –> 00:20:47,800we’re reminded of the fragility of the structure in which we live. We live in a19300:20:47,800 –> 00:20:55,260tent! It’s what my body is. That’s what the human body’s like. So, thank God that if19400:20:55,300 –> 00:21:01,199you are in Jesus Christ, you can say with the Apostle Paul, we know that if this19500:21:01,199 –> 00:21:09,439tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a foundation from God.19600:21:09,439 –> 00:21:21,420A house, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, and God has prepared a city19700:21:21,939 –> 00:21:23,439for you.19800:21:23,439 –> 00:21:28,420Hebrews says, of people who believe what God has revealed and trust what God has promised,19900:21:28,420 –> 00:21:33,300that they desired a better city, verse 16, a heavenly one.20000:21:33,300 –> 00:21:41,000Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God for he has prepared for them a city.20100:21:41,979 –> 00:21:44,339Which is why Jesus says,20200:21:44,339 –> 00:21:48,079Let not your hearts be troubled.20300:21:48,079 –> 00:21:49,579You believe in God?20400:21:49,579 –> 00:21:52,319He says, believe also in me.20500:21:52,319 –> 00:21:53,520Here’s why.20600:21:53,520 –> 00:22:03,339I go to prepare a place for you and I will come again to take you to be with myself.20700:22:03,339 –> 00:22:09,599So that where I am, you may be also.20800:22:11,319 –> 00:22:13,040That’s an uplifting thought, isn’t it?20900:22:13,040 –> 00:22:20,359That God has prepared a city for us and invites us to come to receive his love and forgiveness21000:22:20,359 –> 00:22:23,699and to join him in eternal life.21100:22:23,699 –> 00:22:27,579You’ve been listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and a messages called Faith21200:22:27,579 –> 00:22:29,500Obeys God.21300:22:29,500 –> 00:22:36,380Originally part of the series, Living by Faith, and now included in our top ten listener-favourites21400:22:36,380 –> 00:22:37,579for this year.21500:22:38,000 –> 00:22:43,060Don’t forget if you ever miss one of the messages, you can easily catch up or go back and listen21600:22:43,060 –> 00:22:45,780to them again by coming to our website.21700:22:45,780 –> 00:22:49,180That’s at openthebible.org.uk.21800:22:49,180 –> 00:22:53,579And also if you prefer that way of listening to Pastor Colin, you can find them as a podcast21900:22:53,579 –> 00:22:56,859and then you can listen at any time that’s convenient to you.22000:22:56,859 –> 00:23:02,099Go to your favourite podcast site, search there for Open the Bible UK and you’ll find22100:23:02,099 –> 00:23:04,859all the messages that have already been broadcast.22200:23:05,439 –> 00:23:08,459And just a reminder about Open the Bible Daily.22300:23:08,459 –> 00:23:14,000That’s our series of two to three minute reflections, a new one every day based on Pastor Colin’s22400:23:14,000 –> 00:23:17,219teaching and specially read in the UK.22500:23:17,219 –> 00:23:22,660You can find it on our website and also as a podcast, Open the Bible Daily.22600:23:22,660 –> 00:23:29,199Well, as regular listeners will know, Open the Bible is supported by our listeners financially.22700:23:29,199 –> 00:23:33,739If that’s something you already do then thank you so much for your support.22800:23:33,739 –> 00:23:38,319If you’re considering beginning to support Open the Bible in the future this month,22900:23:38,319 –> 00:23:42,339we’d love to say thank you by sending you a copy of Pastor Colin’s23000:23:42,339 –> 00:23:46,439brand new 30-day devotional book, Growing Love.23100:23:46,439 –> 00:23:49,180Colin, why did you write this book?23200:23:49,180 –> 00:23:54,579Well, this is the third in a series on faith, hope and love.23300:23:54,579 –> 00:23:59,959And of course the Bible says that these are the three things that are going to remain.23400:23:59,959 –> 00:24:04,500It’s very striking. Paul says everything else is going to pass away.23500:24:04,500 –> 00:24:08,180But faith hope and love, they’re going to abide.23600:24:08,180 –> 00:24:10,099and the greatest of these is love.23700:24:10,099 –> 00:24:14,280So, I’m absolutely convinced that the greatest need23800:24:14,280 –> 00:24:20,219of the Christian church today is a fresh outpouring of faith and of hope and of love.23900:24:20,219 –> 00:24:21,719I mean, think about it.24000:24:21,719 –> 00:24:23,739Everybody is looking for love.24100:24:23,739 –> 00:24:25,339Everybody wants to find hope.24200:24:25,339 –> 00:24:28,300Everybody needs someone to believe in.24300:24:28,660 –> 00:24:31,920And God has given us these things in Jesus Christ.24400:24:31,920 –> 00:24:36,380And the more we grow in faith, the more we grow hope, and the more we grow in love,24500:24:36,380 –> 00:24:37,660the more effective24600:24:37,660 –> 00:24:41,119we’re going to be in the world, and the more we’re going to be like our savior.24700:24:41,119 –> 00:24:45,079Well, we’d love to send you a copy of Pastor Colin’s book, Grow in Love,24800:24:45,079 –> 00:24:48,739when you set up a new direct debit to the work of Open the Bible24900:24:48,739 –> 00:24:51,540in the amount of £5 per month or more,25000:24:51,540 –> 00:24:55,359or a one-off gift of £60 or more this month.25100:24:55,400 –> 00:24:59,420Full terms and conditions and to give online come to our website25200:24:59,420 –> 00:25:02,319openthebible.org.uk,25300:25:02,319 –> 00:25:07,420and don’t forget to leave your full name address so we can send you your free gift.25400:25:07,420 –> 00:25:11,239For Open the Bible and Pastor Colin Smith, I’m David Pick,25500:25:11,239 –> 00:25:14,280and I hope you’ll join us again next time.25600:25:19,880 –> 00:25:23,699Many of us would hesitate to say I’ve been changed,25700:25:23,699 –> 00:25:26,359yet it’s true of every Christian.25800:25:26,359 –> 00:25:29,619Find out how next time on Open the Bible.