By Faith (Pt. 4)
Hebrews: The Life of Faith • Sermon • Submitted
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Tension: How does the author of Hebrews seek to instill a lifelong faith in his audience?
Resolution: By mainly pointing them to the theological trajectory of those who trusted God, culminating in Christ, for examples.
Exegetical Idea: The author of Hebrews seeks to instill a lifelong faith in his audience by pointing them to the theological trajectory of those who trusted God, culminating in Christ, for examples.
Theological Idea: God has given his people a great cloud of witnesses, culminating in Christ, to understand and to imitate their faith.
Big Idea: Let us look to the heroes of our faith, and especially Christ, to strengthen our faith today.
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Introduction: What will make my life matter?
Heroes
Gideon
Barak
Samson
Jephthah
David
Samuel
The Prophets
Daniel (?)
Jeremiah (?)
Widows of Zarephath and Zannumah
Elijah and Elisha
The innocents of Gilead
Maccabees
The world was not worthy of them
Successes
Conquered kingdoms
Enforced Justice
Obtained Promises
Stopped the mouths of lions
Quenched the Power of Fire
Escaped the edge of hte sword
Made Strong out of weakness
mighty in war
put foreign armies to flight
Received the dead from resurrection
“Failures”
Refused to accept freedom so they could have a better resurrection
Suffered Mockings and floggings
Chains and imprisonment
Stoned
sawn in two
killed with the sword
Sawn in two
wandered in skins of sheeps and goats
destitute
afflicted
mistreated
The world was not worthy
They wandered about in dens and caves of the earth
Commended why? Because of faith
All these were commended? Why? Because of their faith
They did not receive their promises
God provided their promises
They would only be perfected with us
They were asked to believe that he who promised was faithful and that one day they would indeed be made perfect (Heb 4:9-10)
They looked forward because of their faith (Heb 11:13-16)
Some of them received a foreshadowing of hte promises, but none of them received all that God has for his people in their lives. Their expectations remained unment.
At the end of the day they had nothing to show for their endurance, except their faith. But luckily for them, that was all they needed.
Christ was what they were looking forward to, and Christ himself endured that he might receive the joy that was set before him (Heb 12:1-2)
Application
When the balance sheet is tallied, what will make the difference for you is whether or not you have faith
That should be convicting, because all of us would really like to stack our success up against our failures
That should be comforting, because all of us have a whole list of failrues
At the same time, if you and I have faith, we ought to step out in faith and take risks for the sake of the gospel.