Hebrews 11
What does it mean to live by faith?
What kind of faith makes us saved?
Does living by faith preoccupy our mind?
Do we look like the old or the new kind?
Is it possible to have a strong faith of God and a weak understanding?
Knowing the Bible but with faith hardly standing?
Do our eyes shift focus are we weary for encouragement
Looking at our lives our desperation do we bury it?
This mornings passage is a description of faith
The endurance of these men they completed the race
Some say the hebrews one through three is inclusive
They are wrong the rest of hebrews they excluded
Read it in context it extents from chapter ten
Don’t read it isolated read it again
Where does faith originate
Read ephesians two verse eight
God alone assigns a measure of faith
You’ve been saved by faith and that by grace
And It’s not your own doing but from God a gift
And held by Christ your soul Satan won't sift
Read it theocentrically
Read it christologically
the Bible is the Truth unappoligitcally
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for
Like were in Oklahoma?
A beautiful morning and day don’t make faith for a man
We aren’t hugh or the greatest showman
I’ve got have faith like George Michael
But that faith has a rival
Faith is not subjective
Its unchanging and objective
Assurance means solid something you stand upon
It’s a solid bedrock call me fred flintstone
Gods promises comprise our hope
Without it we can never cope
Do we struggle with fear, like Peter do our eyes blink
Walking out on water then we start to sink
The conviction of things unseen
I’m not meaning a dream
Conviction and assurance are very similar greek
But it is slightly different and nowhere else in the bible does it speak
It has to do with evidence and proof something you can see
So faith being conviction seems contradictory
Noah built a boat based simply on Gods word
He built before rain simply because he heard
Faith goes above and beyond sensory objection
We have to see beyond our physical perception
Hebrews eleven is meant to clarify faith
It’s meant to encourage us to run the race
Men of old by faith received their commendation
Faith results in God exultation
Verse thirty four rack shaq and abednego
Quenched the fire God saved their lives let them go
Were they heroic? Did they do something great?
They’d redirect attention to the Jesus Christ's estate
If God is the giver of faith and the commander of faith
He glorifies Himself through His work in their place
God may deliver or He may let us suffer here
Living by faith means we trust God and do not fear
Faith means we rest in Gods ways not ours
If by death or by life it’s His way not ours
understand God created the universe
everything is His turf
It’s a small glimpse of his power and majesty
Only a sliver of Gods great immensity
Everything we see's made by the invisible for the invisible
Everything tested to make sure it is biblical
How do we respond when our children defy
When our coworker speaks lies
When our spouse argues
And our lusts wont die
Lack of faith makes our reaction by worldly sight
Living by faith makes us look Christlike
Lack of faith makes us suffer loss
Faith keeps our eyes on focused on the cross
