Faith in the Wrong Person
Illustration★★★How often we hear a man say, “There is a member of the church who cheated me out of five dollars, and I am not going to have anything more to do with people who call themselves Christians.” But if the man had had faith in Jesus Christ you do not suppose he would have had his faith shattered because some one cheated him out of five dollars, do you? What we want is to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. If a man has that, he has something he can anchor to, and the anchor will hold; and when the hour of temptation comes to him, and the hour of trial, the man will stand firm. If we are only converted to man, and our faith is in man, we shall certainly be disappointed.
The point
A warning that faith placed only in fellow church members will be shattered the moment one of them cheats or disappoints, but faith anchored in Jesus Christ himself will hold firm through every trial.