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Gods Acceptance of Faith

Hebrews 11:116

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The Epistle to the Hebrews

Go on to maturity in Christ, our heavenly Priest

1:1-2

1:32:18

3:14:13

4:1410:18

10: 19-39

11:113:25

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Living Practical
Hebrews 10:2224
10:22 Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith Let us hold the confession of our hope without wavering Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds

Hebrews 1113
By faith in the unseen Let us run with endurance the race set before us chapter 11

10:23

chapter 12

10:24

Let love of the chapter 13 brethren continue

Attaboys and Guardrails

Heb 10:1939

The basis of positive

The warning against despising

exhortation God

1921 1920 21

Christs sacrifice

2631

Jesus new and living way to Jesus our great high priest

Willful sin leads to judgment Disdainers of Christ will be

judged
Sure and fearful judgment The exhortation to endure as in

The Let Us patch

2225 Draw near with assurance

Maintain our confessed hope Meet together to provoke

their past
Remember Prioritize

3239

each other to love and good deeds

Endure confidently by faith

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Hebrews 11

Hebrews 11

Witnesses of Faith
Hebrews 11:116 The Undiscovered Country
Faith is explained 13 Faith is approved 412
Creation Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Sarah

The Divine acceptance of faith

Faith anticipates 1316

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Heb 11:13

Faith is Explained
True faith always involves the unseen. (John 20:29; 2 Cor 5:7; John 4:4654) It is an assurance or conviction (1). It is not ephemeral. It is based on Gods revelation. (3; 89; Rom 10:17) Faith brings Gods approval (2, 39) (= acceptance with God, divine sanction). The only guaranteed result of faith is Gods approval.

Heb 11:47

The Antediluvian Faithful

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Heb 11:6 [NET]

How to Please God

Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, for the one who approaches God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.

Heb 11:89

Abraham the Sojourner

Called => obeyed Going out to a place

promised as an inheritance
Not knowing where he was

going
Lived as an alien Dwelling in tents with Isaac

and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise

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Heb 11:11

Sarahs Baby Shower

Sarahs impossible condition The ability to conceive Why? Because faithful she/he regarded the One who promised

Heb 11:12

Abraham the Forebearer

Born out of a dead

man
Descendents as the

stars of heaven in number

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Heb 11:1316

Faith Anticipates
13 They died in faith, but they saw the promises and welcomed them from a distance 14 Those who confess being strangers and exiles on the earth are making it clear theyre seeking a country of their own. 15 The indirect proof: if they had not been seeking another country, they could have returned to Ur from where they started. 16 Better = heavenly. Therefore, God approved (not ashamed to be called their God) and prepared them a city.

Heb 11:1316

Seeking the Better Country

The choices of Abraham and Sarah The choices of the Hebrew Christians The choices of you and me: the warning of Demas 2 Tim 4:10 (2 Tim 2:34)

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Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen. J. Oswald Sanders