HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 part 5

SLIDE 1 “SUMMER IN THE SCRIPTURES”

Is our most important desire to have faith?

Any encouragement you would like to share what Hebrews 11 has spoken into you?

It does seem to have shown us keep going and keep trusting the Lord

SLIDE 2 “FAITH & GOD SLIDE”

Last time I let myself overwhelm myself and need to apologize

the first part of the verses we read was telling me I wouldn’t have time to get it all, went right over my head!

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Hebrews 11:32 (NASB95)

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

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Hebrews 11:33 (NASB95)

33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

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Hebrews 11:34 (NASB95)

34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

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Falter (Hitpael)

progresses in this order (Bible Sense Lexicon)

to grow slack - to wait - to hesitate - to waver - to stop

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GIDEON & BARAK

*example steps of growing faith*

*key -continue to take those steps in our faith*

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GIDEON’S FAITH - faltered but still continued with Lord’s help

1) greeted by angel of the Lord “The Lord is with you O valiant warrior”

2) if the Lord is with us, why abandoned us and given us in the hands of Midian?

3) I am the least and the youngest in Manasseh

4) the Lord- “surely I will be with you and you will defeat Midian”

5) If I have found favor in your sight show me a sign that it is really You

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GIDEON’S FAITH - faltered but still continued with Lord’s help

6) prepared the Lord a meal (meat, unleavened bread, broth)

7) the Lord consumed meal, “alas O Lord for I have seen you face to face!”

8) “peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die”

9) instructed by the Lord that night - pull down Baal altar / cut down Asherah

build altar for the Lord

10) Gideon fears father’s household and city - goes at night instead of day

SLIDE 10 “GIDEON PULLING DOWN BAAL ALTAR SLIDE”

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GIDEON’S FAITH - faltered but still continued with Lord’s help

11) Midianites muster - Spirit of the Lord upon Gideon / tribes gather

12) “if you will deliver Israel through me” fleece test

13) “Lord do not let your anger burn against me” fleece test again

14) “too many people for Me to give Midian into Israel’s hand, you might boast”

15) “whoever is afraid return back” 22,000 returned / 10,000 remained

SLIDE 12 “FLEECE TEST SLIDE”

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GIDEON’S FAITH - faltered but still continued with Lord’s help

16) The Lord says to Gideon, “The people are still too many” (300 left)

17) “Arise go against the camp, if afraid, take Purah go down to the camp”

18) Gideon heard dream, bowed and worshipped, “Arise for the Lord has given Midian into our hands!”

19) the Lord set the sword of one against another / rest fled

20) tribe of Ephraim contended with him - “not calling us to fight”

SLIDE 14 “GIDEON VS MIDIAN BATTLE SLIDE”

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GIDEON’S FAITH - faltered but still continued with Lord’s help

21) men of Succoth would not give them bread as they pursued rest of Midian

22) men of Penuel no bread either

23) Gideon and his men defeat rest of Midian and kills kings

24) Midian takes Midian gold earrings and makes ephod / became snare to his household

SLIDE 16 “GOLDEN EPHOD TRAP SLIDE”

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BARAK’S FAITH - faltered / continued with help of others provided by God

1) summoned by prophetess Deborah - go up against Jabin / Sisera of Canaan

2) Deborah -“I will draw him out, I will give him into your hand”

3) Barak - “I will go only if you go with me”

4) “the honor will not be yours, but the Lord will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman”

5) Deborah - “arise for this is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands”, “the Lord has gone out before you”

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BARAK’S FAITH - faltered / continued with help of others provided by God

1)The Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak

2) Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled on foot, Barak pursued the army of Sisera and they all fell by the sword, not even one was left.

3) Sisera fled to the tent of Jael, she gave him drink and covered him, drove a tent peg through his temple. Told Barak, “Come I will show you the one you are seeking”

SLIDE 19 “JAEL DRIVING TENT PEG INTO SISERA”

SLIDE 20 “JAEL SHOWING BARAK WHERE SISERA IS”

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SAMSON’S FAITH - a godly man?

1) Dedicated as a Nazirite at birth (never cut hair or drink wine)

2) he yielded to his fleshly appetites

3) warred against the Philistines

4) captured with help of Delilah / eyes gouged out and work milestone to amuse the Philistines

5) asked the Lord to deliver him as Philistines sacrificed to their god Dagon

SLIDE 22 “SAMSON PUSHING PILLARS”

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JEPHTHAH’S FAITH - the unwanted brother but unopposed leader

1) one of Gilead’s sons but the only one of brothers born of a prostitute (unwanted)

2) drove out by his brothers / worthless fellows gathered themselves to Jephthah

3) Ammonites fought against Israel / Gilead’s elders ask Jephthah to be chief and fight for them

4) Accused by the Ammonites for Israel driving them from their land (passing through in journey from Egypt)

5) Jephthah tries diplomacy with Ammon / his message disregarded by Ammon

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JEPHTHAH’S FAITH - the unwanted brother but unopposed leader

6) the Spirit of the Lord comes upon Jephthah - “if You indeed give Ammon into my hands, what ever comes out of my house to greet me when I return, it shall be the Lord’s. I will offer it up as a burnt offering”

7) The Lord gave Ammon into his hand and struck them and subdued them before Israel

8) Returning home the first to greet Jepthah was his daughter and only child

9) Jepthah kept his vow, became a custom in Israel

SLIDE 25 “JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER GREETING HIM”

SLIDE 26 “HEROES OF FAITH”

The writer of Hebrews stopped citing names after David and Samuel

Would anyone like to say a few words of either David or Samuel? Anything that fascinates you about their faith?

Samuel and David were great men of faith. Did they have perfect children?

David’s was a result of his son / Samuel’s was not

The transition into the final verses are important also even though names not mentioned, let’s look

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Hebrews 11:35–36 (NASB95)

35 Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

36 and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.

others here is allos - means others of a different kind

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others (allos) - different kind or class

Let’s read on about these of a different kind, also to note as we read that God did not see fit to deal with these in the same way He dealt with Moses, Gideon, David etc.

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Hebrews 11:37 (NASB95)

37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

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Hebrews 11:38 (NASB95)

38 (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

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Hebrews 11:39–40 (NASB95)

39 And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

Man’s estimate of these heroes of faith is a low one, so men persecuted them, arrested them, tortured them and in some cases killed them.

But God’s estimate is entirely different, He says the world was actually not worthy of these people!

SLIDE 32 “HEROES OF FAITH”

As Paul said in 1st Corinthians 4 thirteen

1 Corinthians 4:13 NASB95

13 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

Faith enables us to turn from approval of the world and seek only the approval of God

We must never conclude that the absence of deliverance means a lack of faith on the part of God’s children

We should give thanks for these saints of old, for they were faithful during difficult times and yet we have received the better blessing” They saw it from afar off but we enjoy the blessings through Jesus Christ

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