or me, I am going to overcome. How do we gain this mighty power?
By faith.

The next passage I want to call your attention to is Romans, chapter
eleven, verse twenty: "Because of unbelief they were broken off; and
thou standest by faith." The Jews were cut off on account of their
unbelief: we were grafted in on account of our belief. So notice: We
live by faith, and we stand by faith.

Next: We walk by faith. Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seven:
"For we walk by faith, not by sight." The most faulty Christians I
know are those who want to walk by sight. They want to see the
end--how a thing is going to come out. That isn't walking by faith at
all--that is walking by sight.

I think the characters that best represent this difference are Joseph
and Jacob. Jacob was a man who walked with God by sight. You remember
his vow at Bethel:--"If God will be with me, and will keep me in this
way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the
Lord be my God." And you remember how his heart revived when he saw
the wagons Joseph sent him from Egypt. He sought after signs. He never
could have gone through the temptations and trials that his son Joseph
did. Joseph represents a higher type of Christian. He could walk in
the dark. He could survive thirteen years of misfortune, in spite of
his dreams, and then ascribe it all to the goodness and providence of
God.

Lot and Abraham are a good illustration Lot turned away from Abraham
and tented on the plains of Sodom. He got a good stretch of pasture
land, but he had bad neighbors. He was a weak character and he should
have kept with Abraham in order to get strong. A good many men are
just like that. As long as their mothers are living, or they are
bolstered up by some godly person, they get along very well; but they
can't stand alone. Lot walked by sight; but Abraham walked by faith;
he went out in the footsteps of God. "By faith Abraham, when he was
called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an
inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By
faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of
the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations,
whose builder and maker is God." And again: We fight by faith.
Ephesians, sixth chapter, verse sixteen: "Above