PROVING GOD
A Sermon
In behalf of the Christian Instruction society,
Delivered On Wednesday Evening, June 19, 1850,
BY THE REV. PROFESSOR FINNEY,
OF OBERLIN COLLEGE, UNITED STATES,
AT THE TABERNACLE, MOORFIELDS.
“Bring all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me
now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of
heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to
receive it.”
(Malachi 3:10)
In speaking from
these words, I propose:
1)
To notice the fact that it is our duty to prove God.
2)
How we may prove God.
3)
What is implied in the injunction, “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
that there may be food in my house”.
4)
What is implied in obeying the spirit of this injunction.
5)
The meaning of the phrase, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven”.
I.
IT IS OUR DUTY TO PROVE GOD.
First, God
establishes and manifests His own truth to make man know and see that He is the
God of truth, by coming out and demonstrating it by His conduct. He has limited His operations; certain natural
laws and laws of grace control them.
God has wisely limited Himself to a certain order and way of doing
things. Next, let me say that God
rebukes infidelity. His heart is highly
devoted to the results that He has promised to those things that must result
from His coming forth and demonstrating His truth. He holds us responsible for placing ourselves in a position to
meet certain conditions. These conditions must be fulfilled so He can some
forth in the established and revealed order of things, to establish His truth
before the world.
II. HOW ARE WE TO
PROVE GOD?
That is, how can
we to put God's truthfulness to the test, so that we can see for ourselves, and
demonstrate to everybody else, that His promises are true?
1.
To prove His truthfulness, we must fulfill certain conditions from which these
promises will be fulfilled. These
conditions are revealed, or implied, in His universal rules found in the
Bible. Fulfilling these promises will
not display God’s truthfulness if the stipulated conditions are not complied
with. Instead, it would tend to prove
Him untrue. For example, if God has
proposed certain conditions, and informed us that unless we comply with these
conditions, He will not fulfill the promise, why, if He would, under any
circumstances, do away with the conditions and fulfill the promise anyway,
instead of proving His truthfulness, He would prove that He was a liar. For example, God said that He will be asked
by the house of Israel to fulfill the promise for them. He will be asked in faith, and nothing will
be received without faith. There are
many declarations like this in the Bible, which affirm that He will do certain
things under certain conditions, and that He will not fulfill a promise without
these conditions. If, therefore, God
must prove that He is true, He can’t fulfill these things until we have
fulfilled the conditions, otherwise He would prove that His own Word is false.
2.
This leads me to say that in the world, to prove that He is true, God must deny
us unless we ask in faith.
God
has told us, that certain conditions, such as the use of certain means, are
conditions on which He will do certain things.
For example, God commands us to repent, and promises to forgive us if we
truly repent. Now suppose He should
forgive one of us without repentance?
Anyone, who prays for forgiveness without repentance, is tempting
God. They are asking Him to do
something that He has already said He won’t do. Therefore, when people ask God to bypass any revealed condition
upon which He has promised to do or not to do something, notice, in order to
prove His truthfulness, He must refuse to do these things, because the
conditions are not fulfilled. Before I
was converted, I often wondered why God did not answer prayer (for I was in the
habit of going to prayer meetings as often as I could, even before I was
converted. I have no doubt God led me to do so). I heard so much prayer, that I wondered why so many prayers
remained unanswered. I wondered if
God’s promises were false, or whether the people weren’t Christians. It never occurred to me, that by the very
truth of these promises, God was pledged not to answer those prayers unless
they were offered under certain conditions.
The very fact that they were not being answered, proved that the
required conditions were not met; and therefore, God was not untrue, because
the Bible taught that the prayer would be answered only under certain
circumstances.
It
is remarkable, that the same things that cause unrepentant men, as well as
professing Christians, to stumble, when seen from the right point of view,
provides a demonstration of the truthfulness of God. For example, under certain circumstances God has promised to
withdraw His blessing: under other circumstances, He promises to give it. Now, suppose we see Him withhold His
blessing when we have not complied with the prescribed conditions. Suppose, again, that we fulfill the conditions
and then see that Him fulfill the promise.
I don’t mean that it is our duty to prove God by disobeying Him, so that
we may see Him fulfill His promise by withholding His blessing. On the contrary, we obey Him so that we may
fulfill the conditions on which He will surely give us the blessing. But if, in fact, we fail in our obedience to
fulfill what He requires, He withholds the blessings. Therefore, comply with
the conditions, and then see whether He will not fulfill His promise.
We
are to prove God by using the appointed and revealed means. We should do this even in obtaining our
daily bread. Who believes that if He
depends on God, in using the appointed means for procuring His daily bread,
that He will not get it? If we use the
appointed means in an appropriate manner, then we prove God, and see whether He
will truly fulfill His promises. “Trust
in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His
faithfulness”. Now, suppose a person
neither “trusted in the Lord”, nor “did good”, in the sense meant here, who can
wonder why he does not “dwell in the land”? This especially applies to
spiritual things, the greatest and most important blessings.
When
I use the term “by the appointed means”, I mean those things to be done that
God requires, and done in the manner in which He requires them to be done. We are not only to pray, put pray in the
spirit that God requires; it is to be a prayer that God promises to answer. Efforts are to be made in the spirit God
requires. Men must preach the truth,
but they must preach it properly, in season and out of season, and adapt it to
the understanding of the hearers. They
must live it as well as preach it. The
declaration of their lips must not contradict their lives. This applies not only to preachers, but to
everybody. The proper means are to be
used. In faith, and perseveringly, they
must do the thing that God told them to do.
Pay attention to what you are doing.
See that you do all things according to the spirit and meaning of His
Word. Now, certainly, unless people do
this, unless they really comply with the spirit as well as the letter of His
injunction, how can they expect to obtain the blessing?
We must depend on
God. For example; this is how the Bible
presents the subject: everything must be done with the same heartiness,
perseverance, and with the same spirit that we would do it if we were expecting
to accomplish it ourselves, without God having anything to do with it. The same language that is used in this
passage, is used in commands and requirements throughout the Bible. God commands just like human lawgivers, commanding
men to do certain things, in a certain manner, and with a certain spirit. Now, observe; God everywhere insists that
they do these things; they must, therefore, go about the work as if they were
expecting to accomplish it by their own strength; yet, unless we do it in
faith, throwing ourselves on God, we will not succeed. These two truths stand out together
throughout the Bible. Just as the
farmer goes and sows seed as if God has nothing to do with it, but with the
understanding that, without the blessing of God, He cannot raise anything. We must be in this same state of mind. We must be willing to trust Him for His own
blessing, knowing assuredly that unless He makes our efforts successful, no
good will result. It is in this respect
that the Bible places temporary and spiritual things precisely upon the same
footing.
“Except
the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” (Psalms 127:1) Now, the watchman guards the city, as if God has nothing to do
with it. The watchman would tempt God,
if he lies down to sleep, and leaves the security of the city to God. Therefore, he must keep watch over the city
as thoroughly, honestly, and earnestly, as if God paid no attention to it; and
yet he must realize that unless God watches it also, everything he does is in
vain. Everything concerning life,
health, and property, everything worldly and spiritual, God places on the same
footing, declaring that without His blessing we can do nothing; yet telling us
to do the thing precisely as if we could do it ourselves. Now, people generally do not understand
this; they tempt God in these things, for they apply what God says only to
certain worldly things, and, instead of complying with the conditions that God
offers to bless them, they are laying a stumbling-block before their own feet.
In order to prove
God, we must abstain from whatever tends to hinder and prevent success. Everybody knows this is true concerning
earthly things. Everybody knows that if
they take poison they will poison themselves.
Concerning earthly matters, they clearly understand that if they throw
obstacles in their own way they can blame themselves for the lack of
success. Yet, in spiritual things, it
is strange that multitudes throw obstacles in their own way; and yet how do
they account for the lack of success?
They account for it just like the slothful man in business. They should blame themselves just like the
man who makes an error balancing his checking account. The fact is, when people don’t abstain from
things that tend to hinder their success, it’s their own fault. And if they don’t want to tempt God they
must blame themselves just as much as if they had failed in some earthly scheme
by using means to prevent their own success.
Suppose
parents want to convert their children, and yet they place their children in
such situations in life that it almost ruins them. I knew a gentleman in the city of New York, who had a son who was
going down to destruction. He had
prayed a lot for his son, and urged me to pray for him; for his son was getting
into very bad company and displayed so many immoral habits that he was afraid
he would be ruined. I asked where the
young man was working, and was told he worked in ____ 's store. In _____ 's store! Now, I knew the character of that store well; the young man was
employed in a liquor store! I then made
the father clearly understand, that unless he removed his son from such temptations,
I could not think of praying for him under such circumstances. “Get him out of temptation’s way, as much as
you can”, I said, “and then I will pray for him, but as long as he is in such a
hotbed of temptation I will not tempt God by praying for him”. Now, how many of you are doing this? How many of you are sleeping over the conversion
of your children, and you will probably continue doing this until they are
plunged into the depths of hell? How
many of you are complaining that your children are not converted, while you
yourselves are placing stumbling-blocks in their way? What does this mean?
I have often
questioned people; wives, for instance, who wanted their husbands
converted. They say their husbands
ridicule their religion, and so forth.
“Well, sister”, I said to one of these, “how do you live before your husband? Do you display a temper designed to make him
see the true character of religion?
What are you doing? Do you, in
your life, display evidence of the truth and value of religion as you hold it
before his eyes? Or, do you contradict
it every day? Are you a living
epistle? Are you a living illustration
of religion before his eyes? Or, are
you a living and perpetual denial and contradiction of it?” Now, I have often found the obstacle was the
wife; she had been more in the way of her husband’s conversion, perhaps, than
the devil himself; for, if she was out of the way, or living as she should, the
devil would not find it so easy to persuade the husband that there was no truth
in religion.
You
can’t help seeing that these same people are often, themselves, the means of
preventing the object they seek after.
I have often had to tell fathers and mothers that they are the obstacles
by the spirit they display, by their manner of life, and by their selfish and
worldly reasons for doing things. As
long as they continue like they are, they shouldn’t expect their children’s
conversion. They are living denials of
the Gospel before them. They take the
strongest means to prevent their salvation!
I have often thought what wonders we see in society. Look wherever we want to, how many people
seem determined to prove that Christ lied when He told them the solemn truth,
“You cannot serve God and Mammon”! They
claim to serve God; yet, they really serve Mammon.
Christ
told us that it is almost impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of
God; but many seem to read it like this, “How surely shall a rich man enter the
kingdom of God”, as if salvation depended on their being rich!
They
seem as anxious to get riches for their children as if it were written, “How
surely shall children enter the kingdom of heaven if they are rich”. Christ represents the salvation of rich
people as almost impossible; and if it weren’t for the wonderful power of God,
it would be impossible. He compares it
to a camel passing through the eye of a needle, which certainly appears
impossible. People who are laboring and
toiling for riches for their heirs, appear as if they are laboring to send
their children to hell. It’s as if they
are trying to prove that the Bible is untrue, or that there was no problem with
them being rich and saved also. These
are only illustrations; if I had time I could go into plenty of detail about
certain individuals, who have done things that stood right in the way of their
salvation; but what I have said is enough to show that the problem is not with
God. God is doing just what He
promised, under such circumstances, to do; and the result will be just what He
says it will. They will lie down in sorrow.
I once knew a
father who wanted his four sons to give up smoking. He told me that he had always warned them, and sternly talked to
them again and again about smoking and tobacco, but it didn’t seem to do them
any good; his reproofs were all in vain.
Once, when speaking to them, one of his sons said, “Father, you are a
smoker yourself! Example is said to be
a better teacher than precept”. Now,
what do you suppose the father said?
Why, nothing, of course. He
stood terribly rebuked. I have seen the
same thing many times, where the people were actually teaching by their example,
what they blamed in others, and thus placing a formidable obstacle in the way
of the conversion of their friends and families. And yet, they still expected that their friends and families
would be converted.
We must not object
over little things. For example, Jesus
said, “If your right hand offends you, cut it off”. Jesus never said that we must be saved with it on. We cannot say, “God must save us with our
right hand”. The idea is this, that the
most useful thing, those things which are important to us; if, after all, they
become such a stumbling-block that it will cause us to fall, we must get rid of
them. The right hand is certainly most
useful; but even if it were “the right eye”, we are told “to pluck it
out”. What then, is the principle
involved here? We can never expect God
to grant us blessings promised on condition of any sacrifice or self-denial, if
we neglect the conditions imposed upon us.
“And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from
you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than
for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
(Matt 5:30) Now, what is God
saying? Why, “if even your right hand
offends you, cut it off, or I must let you go to hell; for don’t think that if
you refuse to make this self-denial I will save you anyway”. While you hesitate, and will not take a
stand, and undertake this self-denial, which God makes the sole condition of
blessing you; as long as you won’t do this, you labor in vain. He will not bless you and He will not
prosper you. Now, this may be applied
to a thousand things. The fact is, that
if a Christian, or anyone, wants God’s blessing, he must not object to any act
of self-denial required as a condition.
He must strenuously avoid anything prohibited, or anything that would
stand in the way of his obtaining the thing promised; and if we do not regard
these conditions, the fault is our own if we do not obtain the blessing.
Another condition
indispensable to proving God, is, that we really enter into God’s motives, and
do what we do for the same reasons that motivates God. We must be benevolent, not selfish. If, for example, we pray for sinners, we
must regard sinners as God does; and desire their conversion for the same
reason that He desires their conversion.
If we seek blessings for ourselves, we must ask them for the same reason
that He would be able to grant them.
“You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss”, (James 4:3) that is,
your motive is not right. You do not
sympathize with God’s motives. You do
not ask the blessing for a reason that would be honorable for God to grant it.
But this leads me
to pass from this part of the subject and to proceed to inquire.
III. WHAT IS
IMPLIED IN THE INJUNCTION OF THE TEXT?
“Bring”. The prophet asks in the ninth verse, “Will
men rob God”? What is the spirit of all
this? The Jews neglected their duty. They had been selfish. They had refused to bring to God the offerings
He required them to bring. They had
gone astray, turning away from sympathizing with Him. They had gone their own ways, and had not brought the offerings
to God’s house. They had not paid their
tithes. In short, they turned away from
His commandments. Now, what did God
require of them? God required that they
return to Him, and He would return to them.
Now, a spiritually minded Jew would have understood these requirements
to mean not merely the outward bringing of certain tithes and offerings; but a
returning of their hearts to God in the true spirit of obedience. Then they would prove Him, and see if He
would not be as good as His word, and give them the blessings they sought.
The true spirit of
obedience begins here; first offer yourself to God. If you refuse to offer yourself to God, whatever else you offer
is an abomination. Your are the first
great offering; offer yourself as a living sacrifice. As a perpetual offering, offer yourself up to God. What is true devotion? I have often thought that many people
completely miss the Gospel idea of devotion, seeking to be, and believing that
they are devout, without being or even pretending to be pious. They work themselves up into an excited
frame of mind until they’ve produced certain feelings, and this they think is
devotion. But, what are they devoted
to? What does it mean when a man is
devoted to his business? It means that
he is diligent, his heart is in the undertaking, and he gives all his energies
to the work, this is what it means to be devoted to one’s business.
What
is a man’s devotion to his wife, a wife’s devotion to her husband, a mother’s
devotion to her children? Now, what
would you think of a mother who sat down and neglected her children, who sat
down and worked herself up into a state of devotion to her offspring, and
allowed them in the meantime, to go without their dinner? What would you think of a businessman who
let his business go to ruin while he was engaged in these devotional
feelings? What would you think of the
farmer who indulges in these devotional frames of mind, and neither ploughs his
ground, sows his seed, nor takes care of his hedges? Now, I have known people so completely wrong on this question,
that they’ve tried to be devotional without possessing one particle of
piety. To be devoted is to willfully
give your mind up, and expend all your energies on some particular object. To be devoted to God is to give yourselves
up to Him, to be devoted to His glory, to give up your body, your mind and all
your energies to the great work He calls us to do. Remember, your first offering is yourself. Many have withheld this offering. They have given tithes and all other
offerings, but have withheld the most important offering: themselves.
I know so many
people, whose characters are not on God’s altar! They won’t do anything that will humiliate them in the eyes of
the world. They refuse to stand in the
gap, no matter what anybody says. They
don’t come nobly forth, and say, “Lord, here is my character; it is no use to
me if it can’t be of any use to You. If
You tell me to do something for which men will despise me, You know, my God, I
will do it, and I’ll let my character to take care of itself. I’ll leave it to You.” This is the spirit! If God should tell them to do anything that
would bring the reproach of mankind on them, they would do it. If they refused to do it, it would show that
their character is not given up to God.
Suppose a minister refused to preach anything that he knew was so
unpopular that it would bring reproach on him.
I
have known pastors who, if they were about to rebuke any sin which they knew
was rife in the community and a great many influential men were addicted to it,
would either bear silent testimony against them, or give notice that they were
going to preach about it, so those who would feel condemned could stay
away. Now, who does not see that no one
can ever expect victory over sin if, fearing they will lose their reputation
with men, refuse to come out and rebuke it.
Suppose a minister is afraid to rebuke the sin of intemperance? Suppose, in America, we refuse to expose the
sin of slavery, will we ever get rid of it?
Never! God commands us to come
out and rebuke sin. Suppose a minister
has seen things that call for a rebuke, but because it is a sensitive subject,
he is afraid to rebuke it. How can
anyone, who withholds this testimony, ever expect to get rid of that
iniquity?
Such
evils are always likely to exist until their opponents lay their character on
the altar, and do what God tells them to do, no matter what others say, until
they hunt it out, expose it, and rebuke it.
Do they expect God will get rid of it, if they don’t use the revealed
and appointed means? God has commanded
them everywhere to expose sin, both public and private. Now, suppose there is a sin that is so
delicate in nature, that the ministers and the Church bear no public and
pointed testimony against it, can they expect ever to get rid of it? Never.
They must march up, and lay their characters on the altar, and Say to
God, “If You require me, O Lord, to do that for which all men will curse me, I
will do it. If You require me, O Lord,
to do that for which men will crucify me, I will do it. If You say, ‘Speak; reprove iniquity’, I
will do so, if I die for it.” Now,
unless the Church does this; unless the individual member as well as the pulpit
does this, how can they expect to reform the world? The church is the society that God has appointed to reform the
world, to take the lead in every reform, and by precept and example to show men
what they should be like. Now, if the
Church is afraid to oppose iniquity, can anyone wonder why many deadly evils
roll their desolation over generation after generation? Isn’t it true that the lack of this
testimony in precept and example on the part of the church, accounts for the
fact that the world is not converted?
The Church tempts God by pretending to find an excuse for all this in
the sovereignty of God. Why, they might
as well neglect every earthly activity, become paupers, and blame that on the
sovereignty of God. God allows evil to
exist, and will do so until generations after generations shall have gone to
hell, because the appointed means are neglected. There cannot be too much stress laid on these truths. It’s time the Church should understand that
unless they devote themselves to the reformation of the world, first reforming
themselves and giving themselves up to every good word and work, things will go
on as they have always done. But on
whose skirts will the blood be? “‘Bring
all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and
prove Me now in this’, says the Lord of hosts, ‘if I will not open the windows
of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive
it’.”
This leads me to
say, in the next place, --but I can’t discuss it here, because my time is so
nearly exhausted, and I must, therefore, skim over the last section of our
discourse, which is
V. TO DETERMINE
THE MEANING OF THIS PASSAGE.
“If
I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that
there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
This language was designed to convey a revealed principle to us that is
worthy of all approval. In many of the
promises, God has revealed the great and fundamental principles of His
government. What is true of God under
one set of circumstances is always, under similar circumstances, true of
Him. What He does under one state of
circumstances; He will always do under similar circumstances. The principle here is often expressed or
implied. It is this: that where His
requirements and the conditions that He is pledged are fulfilled, He comes out
and fulfills His promises. “Prove me…”
Now, this is equivalent to saying, “If you prove me, I will surely pour
out…”
A few remarks must
close what I have to say.
I
have already hinted that the common talk about God’s sovereignty that is
applied to the existing evils in the world today, and the lack of reformation
that has resulted is because the way that this is talked about tempts God. God’s purposes don’t extend to spiritual
things any more than to earthly things; Divine purposes, foreknowledge, agency,
and so forth, extend equally to both.
Even the grass won’t grow without God’s blessing. On the subject of religion, people are
forever talking about Divine sovereignty, election, and such things, as if God
had foreordained certain things concerning religion in such a way that it
interferes with man’s freedom, and sets aside his voluntary action in a manner
completely different from his conduct in earthly matters. Now, this is wrong. The Bible denies it. God does not ordain anything, in any such
sense. There is not one word in the
entire Bible that really favors the idea that any election of God’s at all
interferes with our liberty and free agency.
I have as strong and as high views of God's sovereignty as any man. I know this, as far as the Divine mind is concerned,
there is nothing new or old to Him; the judgment day is as present to God as it
ever will be.
If
someone asks me, “Do you believe in the sovereignty and foreknowledge of
God”? I would reply, “Yes”. “Do you believe God knows the very hour I
shall die?” “Yes.” “Can I change God’s purpose so as to change
His foreknowledge?” “Certainly
not!” “Then I might just as well not
eat any food, or maybe I should poison myself, since I can’t die before my
time.” They never will die before their
time comes; nor will they go one moment over it. What, then, has this to do with their free will? Who does not know that God
has appointed boundaries to their lifespan, yet all the circumstances must
agree to keep them alive, or they would die before their time. They will not die before their time, because
they will not reason in this way; but they will use the means, and do just what
common sense would have them do, just as God foresaw what they would do. They will not jump off a cliff, or throw themselves
over London Bridge; or anything else of the kind, and then say, “I will not die
before my time”! Oh! If men would use common sense in religion,
like they do in other matters! Men know
the human mind is left free, responsible, and active. Therefore, men go on, taking care of their property, their
health, and their lives, laboring for the results they want to bring
about. But on religious subjects men
talk as if they were insane. “If God knows how it will be, what’s the use of my
doing anything”? Do! Why, act just as you are acting in everything
else, or you will go to hell, that’s what you will do. Just as a man will die who does not take
care of his health, no sovereignty of God in the universe will prevent a man
from going to hell who does not repent.
Now, let me ask,
what are you doing to secure the salvation of your souls? Are you using any of the prescribed
means? How are you living before your
families? Are you doing those things
which should to be done, and must be done, to promote religion around you? Do you live, act, and talk, using the means
in the manner you should? If not, how
do you expect people to be converted?
Are you trying to remove the evils you see around you? Do you mean to do this? Or are you simply satisfying yourselves with
a negative testimony? I have known some
ministers who would not preach on slavery except with prior notice, so that
those who held the wrong views might remain away. And I have known others who only preach on it once a year, or
only once in their life. Now, suppose
all the ministers in the United States would simply come out and preach against
slavery, and not just once and think they’ve done their duty, but to lay
themselves on the alter to put an end to slavery. Why, they are not going to do anything like that. Iniquity must be rebuked through the press,
in the pulpit, on railway cars, and wherever it may be supported; and unless
men will do this, the evils will not be removed.
I ask you, before
God, have the Christian people of London taken a stand for the removal of the
iniquity of this city? Have they borne
steady, energetic, yet benevolent testimony against all these evils in every
way? Or, have they kept silent, and
cowered down before the world? Rely on
it, beloved, that if you seek the conversion of this great city, every minister
must lay his character on the altar.
Every Christian must put his shoulder to the work, and command this
great iniquity to depart in the name of the Lord.
What are you really
doing as individuals? Are there
ministers here? Brethren what are you
doing? Are you satisfying yourselves with an occasional testimony against such
an such an evil without continually pursuing it? If you want to put them away, you must pursue these evils, or
they will pursue you. You must hunt
them out, or they will hunt the piety out of you. The natural tendency of things is to get worse, instead of
better.
And what are you
church members doing in this great work?
Are you on the altar? Are you personally talking, laboring, and setting
a good example; laying your all on the altar?
If you are doing this, we will soon hear about it because Jehovah has
pledged Himself before the universe, that if you do your duty, if you lay your
character, time, talents, property, your all, on the altar, He will pour out
His blessings in such way that there won’t be enough room to contain them, even
in this great city. Yes! The righteousness
of London shall be like the waves of the sea.
Do you believe this? He tells
you to prove Him. Will you do it?