Faith: Step by Step Hebrews 11

Faith verse Hope

Faith

3 Dimensions of Faith

Covenantal Faith - To have faith in God or Jesus is to be faithful to a covenantal bond, which is initiated by God and bound according to appropriate promises and expectations on both sides. The command for Christians to have faith is not merely a cerebral exercise or eager wish, but a command with the expectation of fidelity and trust.

Nijay K. Gupta, “Faith,” ed. John D. Barry et al., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

2. Epistemological Faith: Faith as Spiritual Perception

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Epistemological Faith: Faith as Spiritual Perception

With this phrase, he refers to Christians’ capacity for a kind of spiritual perception that allows them to interpret the world in a godly way. God’s people are able to see and perceive His work in the world, while the rest of the world ignores or rejects it

3. Eschatological Faith

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Eschatological Faith: Faith as the Living Eschatological Expression of Christian Hope

Part of Christian faith, according to Scripture, is living in light and anticipation of that “day of illumination.”

Hope

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Hope

The confidence that, by integrating God’s redemptive acts in the past with trusting human responses in the present, the faithful will experience the fullness of God’s goodness both in the present and in the future.