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Introduction:
The book of Hebrews has extended an invitation for us to appreciate the nature of living by faith.
The recipients of this letter like you and i, find themselves at the proverbial crossroads struggling with whether to stay with Christ or retreat into judaism.
The occasion of document suggest a current persecution that has not yet reached its pinnacle.
The Hebrew writer picks up his pen of inspiration and begins to articulate the theological truth that Christ is a superior law giver that in every way is better than the old covenant system.
Through 10 carefully crafted chapters, he argues the superiority of Christ over the prophets, the sacrifices, and the priesthood.
It is in the latter part of chapter 10 then the author transitions into the practical admonition rooted in , the just shall live by faith.
Life has a way of challenging our faith, in which we must have a constant discipline of increasing our faith.
We are saved by faith, shaped by faith, and sustained by faith.
If faith is crucial to these three things, then faith must be nourished.
When we speak about faith, we are not simply dealing with faith as concept, but faith relative to the legitimacy of an object.
We do not place our faith in faith, but faith in God.
One’s faith is only as valid as its object.
A person ought to test the strength of its object before you trust it.
Illustration:
There was a man one day whose wife was very ill.
It was in the frontier days and he had to get to a place that had medicine to save his wife’s life.
The only problem was that it was wintertime and in order to get to the person with the medicine, he had to cross a lake.
The lake had been iced over.
His wife’s life depended upon it, so he had to get up and cross this cold lake that had now been covered with ice.
He was terrified.
He was concerned that the ice would break.
Scared to death but spurned on by love for his wife, he got down on his hands and knees and inched along, ever so carefully.
All of a sudden, he felt a rumbling on the ice.
He was even more terrified.
Maybe the ice was cracking.
The rumbling got louder.
It became thunderous.
The man was living in terror.
But as the noise got closer, he looked up behind him and saw a man driving a team of horses across the ice.
The horses pulled a carriage that was loaded with a bunch of boxes and it just went thundering across the ice.
All of a sudden, the man stood up, started walking, and then running.
All of a sudden, this man that was full of fear became a man full of confidence.
He learned something about the ice.
He learned that if it could hold a team of horses thundering across it, it could certainly hold him.
If you want to have more confidence in God, then hang around and see who else God is carrying.
He has carried sister jones with her sickness.
He has carried brother kenny since he has lost his job.
If God can carry others then surely.
But today is not about the object of faith, but the quality of faith.
The 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews provides us with a look at the nature and quality of faith.
Today we will look at the quality of Noah’s Faith.
What kind of faith did he have?
The Kind of faith that would build a boat in a dry place.
Let us consider three things:
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The Absurdity of his Faith
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The Activity of his Faith
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The Approval of his Faith
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The Absurdity of his Faith
The absurdity of his faith is in his response to God’s word.
Being warned by God, Noah moved.
He recieved divine instruction from God.
The term for “warned” is used to describe receiving a message from God. God communicates to Noah a flood is coming.
Rain will pour down from heaven.
An Unprecedented event is going to take place to which you have no prior frame of reference.
I want you to preach rain to a culture that knows nothing about rain.
Preach until it comes.
When Noah heard it, he moved with fear (reverence).
There was an urgency to his movement.
When God speaks, faith responds even in the absence of sight.
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The Activity of Faith
Faith prepares in the midst of unbelief and mockery.
Faith determines to trust God in-spite of looking unreasonable.
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