Jesus and the Saints

Story of Grandma and Grandpa maybe story of writing about Grandpa and the definition?

Writing about about Grandpa. Starting off the paper with the webster dictionary

Tell the story of grandma and grandpa and praying every night together

Read defination of a hero.

Talk about how Grandpa was.

Tell the story of grandma and grandpa and praying every night together

Tie it into the reality that we are made and shaped by some that are no longer with us.

Who was was one of those people for you? One of those people that have helped shape you into who you are today?

These are the saints that come before us those that were an extenstion God’s will, working through them to show us God’s love and grace.

Paul is wiriting to the Hewbrews and is reminding them of the saints that have come before. That helped shape our understanding of who God is and how God interacts with his people.

He starts off real simple. He basically gives us the equivalent of the webster dictionary.

The New Revised Standard Version The Meaning of Faith

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

The New Revised Standard Version The Meaning of Faith

11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Now faith is He has just said that “we are of faith” (10:39), not of apostasy. Now he proceeds in a chapter of great eloquence and passion to illustrate his point by a recital of the heroes of faith whose example should spur them to like loyalty now.

The assurance of things hoped for what stands under anything (a building, a contract, a promise). See the philosophical use of it in 1:3, the sense of assurance in 3:14, that steadiness of mind which holds one firm (). It is common in the papyri in business documents as the basis or guarantee of transactions. “And as this is the essential meaning in we venture to suggest the translation ‘Faith is the title-deed of things hoped for’

The proving of things not seen for “proof” and then for “conviction.” Both uses occur in the papyri and either makes sense here, perhaps “conviction” suiting better though not in the older Greek.

Challenge: Take time this week to tell each other stories about a saint that helped shaped you. If you can frame it with this definition of faith. Of how they helped shaped you in “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

This is why i love funerals and it is such an honor to be apart of: the story telling. Telling the best stories of who they were and the effect they had on their life. We then get to let them shape others in the telling of their story. For me that story about my grandprents was them teaching us the lord’s prayer and then praying with us almost every night for three years. For my dad he shared at their funeral that it was watching them wrestle with scrutipure. How they would read numbers and take the time to read the names and study them to see what God might have for them in even that part of scripture. Every time i skip over names now i think that Grandma and Grandpa would of read them. But i did not know they did that and would not know if Dad had not told the story. This is what Paul is doing. He is telling us the story again so we can be shaped yet again by those that came before. By the testominy of their lives. In the tell we honor them and at the same time allow God to work through them afresh and anew. A feeling that they live on with us even now and the glisp of the hope that we will live with them again, for eterinty.

So here the challenge one more time:

Challenge: Take time this week to tell each other stories about a saint that helped shaped you. If you can frame it with this definition of faith. Of how they helped shaped you in “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

Challenge: Take time this week to tell each other stories about a saint that helped shaped you. If you can frame it with this definition of faith. Of how they helped shaped you in “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”