The Definition of Faith
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· 2 viewsChapter 11 begins with one of the most famous and oft quoted passage. This definition of faith sets up the remaining of the chapter as the writer gives us various examples in Israel’s history of those who were faithful and lived out this definition. How do we live in faith as it is defined here?
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1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
1. Faith is the belief that the ultimate reality is yet unseen. (vs. 1-3)
1. Faith is the belief that the ultimate reality is yet unseen. (vs. 1-3)
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2. We must have a vision of faith. (vs. 8-12)
2. We must have a vision of faith. (vs. 8-12)
13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
3. Those who have gone before us give us the example of true faith in God. (vs. 13-16)
3. Those who have gone before us give us the example of true faith in God. (vs. 13-16)
6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.