"This man
is about to be commended for, and rewarded
by his faith. Please hear this: faith always
begins with an understanding of who God is
and who we are. He understood something that even the Jewish
elders speaking for him did not understand—
the same thing many of us don’t understand
today—that none of us deserve anything
from God! It’s just the other way around—
God deserves everything we are, everything
we’ve got. But we deserve judgment. This
man knew the truth about Jesus and about
himself ."