V. 6.— But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. But without faith it is impossible to please God; for, in order to please God, we must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. It is evident that in coming to God we must necessarily believe his existence, and without the conviction that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him we can have no motive to serve Him. This illustrates both parts of the definition given. Hebrews 11:1. No man hath seen God at any time, but by faith we have a conviction of His existence. We believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, is the confidence of things hoped for. It satisfies us that we shall not seek His face in vain, that He will hear our prayers, and send us an answer in peace. It is true that men are inexcusable in not perceiving the Creator’ s eternal power and Godhead by His works; but such is the utter blindness and depravity of fallen man, that not only have they not discovered the true God by the works of creation, but when God had revealed himself in the seed of the woman, the incarnate Savior, they completely lost the knowledge of God, and changed the image of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. In the passage before us the Apostle not only speaks of our belief in a God, but in the living and true God, whom no man knows but as He is revealed in His Son Jesus Christ. Hence it follows that the character of the man who believes that God is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, must be confined to the believer in Christ who knows that God is a Spirit, and that they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.