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Today, we bring our series called 50 Days of Faith to a Close.

Rick will bring it all together for us with a final look at the true meaning of faith

and explore ways we can strengthen it.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called

How to Keep On Believing.

Romans 4 and 19 and 20 says,

Without weakening in his faith, he, that's Abraham,

Faced the facts that his body was as good as dead

and Sarah's womb was also dead.

He's been pretty blunt here.

Yet he didn't waver with unbelief.

God's word translation says through faith he regarded the facts.

Abraham recognizes that he and his wife are beyond childbearing years.

He's 99. His wife is 89.

And it is a medical impossibility that they're going to have children.

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