Panel on Hebrews 11:32-40

Persevering Faith Hebrews 11:32-40

Opening/(P)review

Mark 4:35–41 NKJV

35 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” 36 Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. 38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” 39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

The 12 were all in. Fear is real even in lives of those who are all in with Jesus

How much of God’s word is part of my life showed how I response when COVID hit

The path we are in is largely due to how much of God’s word is part of my life

Romans 10:17 NKJV

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

3 D’s

God Declares

Satan Denies

But it is up to us to Decide who we are going to believe

(Hebrews 11:33-40) - If this was our charge would we say I am in?

Hero status of the 17 is not because of their natural ability but because of what God had done in and through their lives - Jesus is the hero of this story!

Hebrews 10:7 NKJV

7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”

Psalm 40:7 NKJV

7 Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

Hebrews 11:32 NKJV

32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets:

Gideon - Freighten farmer

Gideon was a farmer and in his time did not know God and his works. The book of judges is this pattern of Israel moving towards the practices of the pagan nations around them and God giving them over to those nations and they crying out for help and

When we do what God asks us to do which is humanly possible in faith He will do what we can not do.

Barak - relied on a woman’s faith

Debra

Samson - compromiser

Godly parents

People did not know where his strength came from

Jephthah - outcast

outcast

Why in the hall?

Any person that will listen to God and surrender their will to follow God

David

David and Goliath

Samuel

Parents dedicated him to the LORD yet him was a bad parent

Prophets

Hebrews 11:33 NKJV

33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Hebrews 11:34 NKJV

34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Hebrews 11:35 NKJV

35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Hebrews 11:36 NKJV

36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 11:37 NKJV

37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

Hebrews 11:38 NKJV

38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

Hebrews 11:39 NKJV

39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,

Yet we have the promise already how much more should our faith be a persevering faith

Hebrews 11:40 NKJV

40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

Faithful shadows looking forward we look backwards because the promise is already fulfilled

Hebrews 12:1–2 NKJV

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.