Did anyone inspect their chair before sitting down in the meeting?
No. Not a single person in the room analyzed or inspected their chair to see whether it would hold them before sitting down. They simply trusted it. The chairs were faithful and held them, just as faith rests in something or someone faithful.
Les teaches that when people came into the room, not one person analyzed or inspected the chair to see if it would hold them. They sat down without examination because of their faith in the chair. He says if you place your faith in the chair, the chair in turn must be faithful; if it were not faithful, you would go to the floor, but it was there and it held you. That is faith. Les applies the same pattern to Christ: He claimed to have done everything necessary, and Les has put his faith in that. Someday in the eternal abode God will not say it was not what it seemed; He will say the blood of Christ is faithful. He is faithful, and that is why we can trust Him. Les says this is what Paul is driving at: it is through the faithfulness, His faith in the One who is faithful to keep us, because He loved me and gave Himself for me. He also notes it is not how much we love Him but how much He has loved us.
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Why didn't anyone in the room examine their chair before sitting down on it?
People in the room did not analyze or inspect their chairs before sitting down because they simply had faith that the chair would hold them.
Why did no one examine their chair before sitting down in it?
Nobody inspected or analyzed their chair before sitting in it because of their faith that the chair would hold them.