January 28, 2024
35 “Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
Hebrews 10:35-11:1 (ESV)
The Idea:
Unshakeable faith is learned by the experience of learning it.
1st Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Offers My First and Best
“By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice … “
Hebrews 11:4 (NASB1995)
2nd Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Learns to Walk Everyday with God
“Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him”
Genesis 5:24 (NASB1995)
“By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up”
Hebrews 11:5 (NASB1995)
3rd Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Works to Obey Day-By-Day
“By faith Noah being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark … “
Hebrews 11:7 (NASB1995)
4th Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Just Goes When God Says Go Without Needing to Know
“By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive … and he went out, not knowing where he was going. “
Hebrews 11:8 (NASB1995)
“Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.”
1 Thessalonians 5:24 (NASB1995)
5th Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Learns the Power In Waiting
“By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.”
Hebrews 11:11 (NASB1995)
6th Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Expects to be Tested
“By faith Abraham, when he was tested”
Hebrews 11:17 (NASB1995)
7th Lesson of Unshakeable Faith:
Faith Learns to Live For The Eternal
[they were] “looking for a city whose builder is God … a heavenly one.”
Hebrews 11:10-16 (NASB1995)
The 7 Lessons of ‘Unshakeable’ Faith
1st Lesson (Abel): Faith offers my first and best
2nd Lesson (Enoch): Faith learns to walk everyday with God
3rd Lesson (Noah): Faith works to obey day-by-day
4th Lesson (Abraham): Faith just goes when God says “go,” without needing to ‘know’
5th Lesson (Sarah): Faith learns the power of waiting
6th Lesson (Abraham): Faith expects to be tested
7th Lesson (all of them): Faith learns to live for the eternal
“Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God.”
Hebrews 11:16b (NASB1995)
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