In the healing of the lunatic son, we confront again the problem of faith, its necessity to believe the Gospel of Christ, and how it is to be obtained. The disciples could not cast out the demon, Christ said, because of their unbelief. In a wider view, Christ chastised the Israelites and their rulers as a "faithless and perverse generation." Nevertheless, Jesus was determined to do good for this poor man and his lunatic son! What an example of God's salvation of a rebellious and unbelieving people! But the man had little, if any, faith in Jesus. His cry was this: If thou canst do anything, have compassion and help us! Here was Christ observing, in His humanity, with human eyes, the truth that God always knew, that lost men CANNOT BELIEVE God in their own natural strength and wills. Thus, Christ observed close up humanity's poor broken state in these people. He saw it plainly, even if modern heretics stubbornly deny the inability of lost men to trust in the Gospel on their own. But we all see that same unbelief in our lost family and friends. Try as we might, we cannot convince them to believe. Only the Holy Ghost can work that miracle, to regenerate their hearts, and grant them the faith to believe and be saved. Christ pointed out to the father, that all things are possible for them who believe. But we must notice that Christ did not explain how an unbeliever can acquire such faith. But the desperate man replied to Jesus, I believe, help Thou my unbelief! He wants to believe, to save his poor son, but he knows his faith is tentative, and perhaps non-existent. But then we note this glorious truth: Christ heals this poor man's son anyway!