Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Have you run the experiment and discovered faith that saves? Do you have your evidence? Have you collected your substance? Are you satisfied? Do you think you have met the criteria pf Psalm 17:15 and you are done with the experiment?

Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

The English language can be very confusing, translations in English do not always carry the original intent of the scriptures. Allow me to rephrase the opening psalm for more clarity/

Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be DONE, when I awake, with thy likeness. Altered KJV

The Hebrew word for satisfied is saba` which means satiated, filled with what is described next, in this case Christ. In relationship with saba` allow me to relate this idea to Christ instructions.

Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

In this life we can never be filled enough to contain the fullness of Christ. When He says “when I awake” in Psalm 17:15, He is referring to waking up after the long sleep, when we are collected together in paradise.

Galatians 3:13-14 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The flesh hopes for many things, but since we are talking about an experiment in evidence of faith related to hope, then hope also must be God’s hope and not of the flesh. Since God sent His only Son to die on the Cross, hung on a tree, then the blessings of Abraham are connected to receiving the promises of the spirit through faith.

When we began this experiment I said that the substance of faith was qualitative. The promises of the spirit through faith are qualitative. Qualitative in an experiment indicates characteristics which identity the element being studied. They act and react in a predictable manner which allows us to label them as being of a particular order.

Galatians 5:22-23a But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:

These are qualities produced in believers by the Spirit. They are not instant, they are grown, like fruit, to be matured, ripened over time.

I can look at each trait and declare that man can manufacture each trait by force of will, in accordance with his understanding. If we decide this is what we need to prove our faith is real, by human effort, its production will be instant and will fail the same way that fruit rots on a tree and is never harvested. Human will is vanity trying to duplicate spiritual production.

Duplicitous actions are Satan’s tools, the anti-christ, supplanting the promises of God with the promises of the flesh.