These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. - Hebrews 11:13.
We put a lot of stock in what we know. What we believe. Human beings in the world will die for what they know. That is a strange phenomenon! To die for what you believe. Put that in a spiritual since. Those of faith - in the old testament.. lived and died by faith.
Read our text verse clear, it says:
NOT having received the promises - but having seen them afar off. What did they see. Good question. What were they seeing? Ask yourself what they were seeing, yet not recieving - and why. Why did they not recieve what they seen. They loved God it appeared, they did all in faith - believe God.
* What was it they saw? Can we give an answer to man - to humanity.. do we have the answer *
Scripture says you will live and die by faith. After all there should be an explanation for such living! What should that life be - what would possess it to give itself to the substance hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1.
Have you ever looked at faith in a study method. Such as give yourself to understand what faith is. Some of the greatest preachers and teachers of our time, have peached and taught - what faith is. With great results.
Have you been to the seminars, and read the books, or been privileged enough to sit and listen to the greatest of our day. Yet it seemed to slip away. Move on is a better term. Men and women all over the world, have moved on from their faith being something as we were taught.
Why does God do that? another good question we should ask - why do movements come and go. God movements! God moving among the church. Doing something - moving men and women up and out. Always moving.
Yet we will ask questions such as; where is God in all this. All that is going on in the world. Oh - but where is my faith! What is faith? You will live and die for what you believe. It shouldn't have to be like that - not in our day.
Why is that? we live in the day they could see. How much more (Romans 5) we should be persuaded - confessed strangers and pilgrims in the world! We have and are the things they could see, by faith.
NOW - faith is. You can only believe it. It is here and it is believed. To those that will believe - they receive the things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen!
Coming to an end of self - and seeing your true self takes a different faith. The faith Abraham hoped for. Faithful Abraham had evidence.
We put a lot of stock in what we know. What we believe. Human beings in the world will die for what they know. That is a strange phenomenon! To die for what you believe. Put that in a spiritual since. Those of faith - in the old testament.. lived and died by faith.
Read our text verse clear, it says:
NOT having received the promises - but having seen them afar off. What did they see. Good question. What were they seeing? Ask yourself what they were seeing, yet not recieving - and why. Why did they not recieve what they seen. They loved God it appeared, they did all in faith - believe God.
* What was it they saw? Can we give an answer to man - to humanity.. do we have the answer *
Scripture says you will live and die by faith. After all there should be an explanation for such living! What should that life be - what would possess it to give itself to the substance hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1.
Have you ever looked at faith in a study method. Such as give yourself to understand what faith is. Some of the greatest preachers and teachers of our time, have peached and taught - what faith is. With great results.
Have you been to the seminars, and read the books, or been privileged enough to sit and listen to the greatest of our day. Yet it seemed to slip away. Move on is a better term. Men and women all over the world, have moved on from their faith being something as we were taught.
Why does God do that? another good question we should ask - why do movements come and go. God movements! God moving among the church. Doing something - moving men and women up and out. Always moving.
Yet we will ask questions such as; where is God in all this. All that is going on in the world. Oh - but where is my faith! What is faith? You will live and die for what you believe. It shouldn't have to be like that - not in our day.
Why is that? we live in the day they could see. How much more (Romans 5) we should be persuaded - confessed strangers and pilgrims in the world! We have and are the things they could see, by faith.
NOW - faith is. You can only believe it. It is here and it is believed. To those that will believe - they receive the things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen!
Coming to an end of self - and seeing your true self takes a different faith. The faith Abraham hoped for. Faithful Abraham had evidence.
