Okay, again a very good morning to all of you. Perhaps I also should say a very good afternoon perhaps to some of you, or maybe even good evening. So again, I welcome all of you to this Lord’s Day live-stream worship service. Now this morning or this day, I’m going to begin a series because I was just wondering when this live-stream will come to an end. Now perhaps it is soon; now perhaps it is a little while longer. And so I’ve decided to do a series on Hebrews chapter 11 alright- Hebrews chapter 11. And again I’m excited actually about this chapter and excited that many of you can join us to study Hebrews chapter 11. And let me again just read the first three verses of Hebrews chapter 11, and then I shall pray, and then we shall look at this together.

Alright Hebrews chapter 11, the first three verses says: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. Now by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” Now let me open again with a word of prayer.

“Our Father in heaven, again we want to thank You for this day that we are able to gather together as Your people from different places. Now we again acknowledge that it is indeed Your grace that You have brought us together; it is by no accident. Therefore we pray Lord that as we come together and draw near to You, You might be pleased to do good to our souls. We want to thank You for the people all over the places. Now we do pray for Your people gathered in different parts of this world and in this period where we are faced with some great danger. Lord, help us indeed to know that this world is always a dangerous place to be in, for God, because we live in a fallen world.

But we are thankful, O Lord, for Your mercy and Your grace that You have not left us alone, but You have called us unto Yourself and gathered us and adopted us to be Your children. O Lord, what a blessing it is to be part of the family of God and to have You as our heavenly Father and to care for us each day. And help us never to forget this, but to come in confidence unto You and to constantly bear the testimony that we are Your people and that we are cared by You. And therefore help us to deal with fear in the right way and in the biblical manner as people who have God on our side.

Lord, we do pray that during this time where fear has gripped many people, we pray that You will help us to seize every opportunity now to give to people that hope that is in us. And Lord, we, therefore, pray that You’ll give us a gospel opportunity to declare to them indeed the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now Lord we pray as we come to study Your Word, we once again pray for enlightenment, pray that You’ll grant understanding. We also pray that You’ll deal with our hearts, that our hearts might not be hardened and stubborn, but that would bow before Your Holy Word. And so we pray that You’ll deal with us graciously. So bless our time, O Lord, for we pray and ask all these in Jesus’ name, Amen.”

Alright, this series on Hebrew 11 is a series on faith. And today we are going to look at what is faith alright- what is faith? Now I want to talk about this subject of faith because it is an immensely important topic, immensely important subject. I believe that that is also the reason why now the writer to the Hebrews deals with this subject. And so why is faith important, now such an important subject? Now I hope that you’ll also open your Bible this morning to follow me because I have not printed alright the cross-references in your bulletin. And so you have the main text in your bulletin, but follow with me in your Bible.

Now before Hebrews chapter 11, you might have noticed that the author, the writer to the Hebrews mentioned in the very last verse of chapter 10, now the very last verse of chapter 10 saying: “But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.”. And so you can see that the author or the writer to the Hebrews was already touching on the subject of faith. And he is trying to impress upon the readers now why faith is so important, that faith is important because as he says in verse 39 that faith saves us. So it is to “those who believe to the saving of the soul”. Now I know that in some of your translations, whether it’s ESV or others, the word ‘saving’ is ‘preserving’.

Now it has the same meaning. It is the opposite of “those who draw back to perdition”, means to destruction. Perdition there means ‘destruction’. The opposite of destruction is ‘salvation’. And so what makes the difference between destruction and salvation? It is faith alright- it is faith. And we also see that the writer to the Hebrews is not the only one who underscores or who emphasises the importance of faith in this connection. Now you can also think of other passages in the Bible alright.

For example, you look with me to what Paul himself said in the book of Acts chapter 16 alright- in Acts chapter 16. And here we have an important, now very important question alright asked by the Philippian jailer in Acts 16:30. Now it says here in verse 30 (3 0): “And he (that is the jailer) brought them out and then he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?””. Now that is the question, and that is the question that is raised again and again in the Bible. And that is the question that perhaps I want us to ask ourselves this morning. Do you know the answer to that question: What must I do to be saved? And the answer of the Bible is clear alright in verse 31: “So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved”.

Yes, not only you, if your household also, “you and your household”. If you and your family believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be saved. So faith is important because it is about salvation. It is about salvation. Now for those of you who are familiar with the Bible, you can immediately think of many other passages. In John 3:16, John 3:36 and so on. Alright so then I have given you at least a reason why we should consider this subject and also the reason why the writer here kind of devote a whole chapter. And it is quite a long chapter here (now forty verses), but a whole chapter on this subject of faith. Now that then begs the question: What does it mean to have faith? What does it mean to have faith?

If faith is so important, now surely we want to know the answer. Surely we want to know what is faith. So that is what we are going to consider today. So what is faith? And here, today I’m just going to kind of do a general overview of this chapter in answer to this question. I think the whole chapter in a sense answers this question, and the writer here answers the questions in two ways. Now firstly, by defining it. And secondly, by describing it alright. So let’s consider the two parts here. Now firstly, faith defined alright- faith defined. Now so let us look at verse 1 and see how faith is defined. That is how the writer begins. Now in verse 1 of Hebrews 11, it says: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”.

So let us pause here for a moment and think about this definition. So that is how he begins. So he gave us a definition. Now he says that now this is how faith may be defined: “Faith is the substance”. Now the word ‘substance’ here is actually a difficult word to translate. And that’s the reason why if you read in your Bible in different translations, you’ll notice that there are different English words used to translate that verse. Now here in our New King James Version is translated as ‘substance’ alright- as ‘substance’. And in the other translation, like ESV is called ‘assurance’, and NIV I think it’s called ‘confidence’ alright. Now so let us try to understand the definition here. So “faith is the substance”. Now substance in what sense?

Now I think it is in the sense of faith is the confidence or the assurance. I think the word ‘assurance’ or ‘confidence’ would help us understand what this writer is trying to tell us about faith. He said: “Faith is the assurance”. So I think ‘substance’ is in the sense of the way it is translated in Hebrews 3:14 alright. This same word actually appears in Hebrews 1, and then in Hebrews 3, and then appears here alright. So look at Hebrews 3:14, and you’ll notice that same word there in verse 14 of Hebrews 3. Now verse 14: “For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end”. So you see, “we hold the beginning of our confidence”. Now that word ‘confidence’ is the same word as the word ‘substance’.

In fact, there’s another word translated. I mean, another English word for it is the ‘foundation’. So faith is the foundation. Faith is the assurance. Faith is the confidence. Alright, now that’s the first thing about the definition. So the writer says here faith is something that we are very sure of. Now faith is not like some people say blind faith, now something that you are not certain of. No! The Bible says that faith is something that you are very certain of. You are very sure of. Sure of what? What is it that you are very certain of? Well, it says here. It says faith is the assurance or the confidence of the things hoped for. And then it says it is the “evidence of things not seen”.

Now evidence here is like the proof right, that means you are so sure. Or in some translations the word ‘evidence’ there is translated as ‘conviction’. Okay, let me put it in this way. So faith, this is the definition alright. Faith is the confidence or is the certainty of the things that you hoped for and it is the conviction, the evidence there means conviction of things not seen. It seems that the writer here is kind of repeating himself, but no! He is actually trying to emphasise the fact that faith is not something wobbly as it were, something that you know you’re not very certain of. And that’s how a lot of people speak of faith. But that is not the Christian faith. The Christian is very sure. Now question is: Sure of what? “Things hoped for” here refers to the promises of God.

So God made promises, and we believe that these promises were true. They are true, and we have this great confidence that these are true, although these promises are not yet seen. And so you see the last part, the convictions of things not seen. So what is it that a Christian is so sure of that are not seen? Well, we are very sure of those promises of God that we haven’t seen such as salvation through Jesus Christ alone. Alright there’s salvation only through Jesus Christ alone that it’s only through Jesus, where Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”. It’s only through Jesus that we gain eternal life. It’s only through Jesus Christ that we will enter into heaven. Only through Jesus Christ.

Have you seen heaven? No, we have not seen, but God has made that promise of heaven. And God has also told us that there will be a day called a Day of Judgement. Now you see, these are things that God has revealed to us, the truth that God has revealed to us, but things that we have not yet seen or witness, but we are very sure of these things. Now that is the definition of it. Now then that begs the question: Why? Now why is it that a Christian is so sure of these things that God has revealed to us, these promises that God has made to us, why are we so sure of that? Now the reason is this. The reason is that God has revealed them. Or in other words, the reason is because God said so.

Now that is the ground of the Christian faith. In other words, the revelation of God or the Word of God is the ground. It’s the foundation. And that’s the reason why the word ‘substance’ can also be translated as the ‘foundation’ alright. So you see, here is the foundation. Here is the Word of God. We believe completely that the Word of God is true, and we are so confident of it. So, our confidence rests in the Bible, and that’s why we are sure. Now so this is the important thing to note alright- this is the important to note. Faith is believing something simply because the Bible said so.

Now you might, some of you might remember the little song that we perhaps used to sing, maybe during your Sunday school days: “Jesus Loves Me”. “Jesus loves me, this I know”. How? Why? “For the Bible tells me so”. Now that is, it is in a sense the definition of faith alright. I believe so because the Bible said so. Now then the writer here gives an example alright to kind of illustrate this. An example to illustrate this principle that faith is believing something because God said so. Now that is faith. Now the example he gives is in verse 3. He says: “By faith we understand that the worlds”.

Of course, this refers to the creation, the universe alright, all the creation. “The worlds were framed”, or were created, “by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” So this is a clear reference to Genesis 1, where we are told that it was God who brought the whole universe about. Everything in this world was made by God. Now, so that is what verse 3 says. Now question is: Why do we believe that it was God who made the world instead of believing that this world came about through just natural evolution? Why do we believe that this world was made by God? Well, the reason is this. The reason is because the Bible said so, or God said so.

Now that is what the Christian faith is about. We believe simply because the Bible said so. Now so let me now ask you: Why do you believe in life after death? Now, there are people. There are people, you see, who would try to convince us that there is life after death by trying to tell you that he or she has been to heaven and came back, and so now he has the proof. He has the proof. Now that is not faith. If you need someone to go to heaven and come back and then tell you what heaven is like and tell you that there is actually a heaven, now that is not faith. That is doubt looking for proof. Now that is not the Christian faith.

The Christian faith would just believe because I believe in heaven. I believe in all these things because I read them in my Bible. So why do you believe in heaven and hell? Why do you believe that Jesus is the only way? Why do you believe that judgement is coming? What is the evidence? What is your confidence? It is the Bible- the Bible. Alright, so that is faith defined. So that is the first thing alright the writer is doing here is as he tries to help us understand what faith is. And then after that, we have the description alright or we say faith described alright.

So in order to help us kind of fully grasp what he is trying to say or what he has here defined, he now gives us a description. Or in other words, he gives us one example after another so as to illustrate this principle. Now, what is the principle? Now I want to repeat this because you have to get this right at the very beginning. What is the principle? The principle is this, that faith is believing something simply because God said so. That is the principle. Faith is believing something because the Bible said so. Alright now he said I’m going to give you illustrations of this principle alright- illustrations of this principle. So let’s look at the illustration.

So verse 4, now he brings up the example of Abel. In fact, he now, he’s going to kind of scan the whole of the Old Testament, survey the whole Old Testament, and tells us that in the Old Testament, there were these men and women who had faith, who believed. And he’s going to tell us now. Now let’s look at them and see how their faith alright showed this principle. So Abel, how does Abel shows that he has faith? Verse 4 says here: “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness (or approval alright)”. Witness there means acceptance, or approval, or favour “that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.”.

So the question is: What is it about Abel that showed that he had faith? Now the answer in verse 4 is in the word alright, in the verse there. He said it’s because “he offered to God a more excellent sacrifice”. Now if you remember your Bible (the story of Cain and Abel), now you remember both brothers alright, they came and brought offerings to God, but they did not bring the same offerings. Now Cain came and he brought offerings from his farm so to say, you know produce of the land. But Abel, he came and he brought an animal offering, animal sacrifice as an offering to God. So the more excellent sacrifice here refers to that gifts. That’s why he went on to say that “God testifying of his gifts”. And so Abel demonstrated or showed his faith by the offerings that he brought to God.

Now then you might ask: How does that show that Abel had faith in God? How does that show that Abel had faith in God with that offering? Now, in this way. Now we must remember that they were children of Adam and Eve, and Adam had this revelation from God as to the way of salvation when in Genesis 3, God brought to Adam the animal skin and already indicating that that was God’s way of salvation and through the sacrifice of an animal, pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now Abel and Cain would have known that, but only Abel believed in that. And so when he came to God, he approached God. He approached God, in other words, in the way that God had ordained. So that is the God-ordained way of coming to God or approaching God.

Now Cain did not believe that, and so he did not do that. But Abel believed. But why did Abel believe or what is Abel’s belief about? It’s because it’s based on the revelation of God. God has revealed that that is the right approach to God, and he trusts that. He believed in that, and his actions showed that he believed in that. Now then we look at a second example, another example. So the writer just goes on and on after another. We just go through. In verse 5, now he says, and what about Enoch? What about Enoch in verse 5? Well, it says here: “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, and was not found”. Why? “Because God had taken him; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”.

Now you see, all these phrases here that this testimony, this witness, this pleasing God is a reference to these people’s action being, you know, by what they did- by what they did showed their faith. And because of that, they were acceptable to God. They gained favour from God alright. So that is what pleasing and testimony and witness here means. And so Enoch here pleased God. The things that he did, in other words, shows that “pleased God” here means shows that he had faith. The question is: How? How? In what sense Enoch illustrate faith? Now turn with me for a moment to Genesis chapter 5. Genesis chapter 5, and look at verse 21. Alright Genesis chapter 5, now read from verse 21 about Enoch.

It says in verse 21 that “Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.” Verse 24: “And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”. So the author to the Hebrews was referring to this section of the Bible alright about Enoch. So the reason, I mean, the way that Enoch demonstrated his faith is in the phrase there: “and Enoch walked with God”. Enoch walked with God. And there of course it means that Enoch was following God. Following God means he was obeying God. He was doing what God tells him to do.

Now that is faith. That is faith. You do what God tells you to do. You live a life of obedience to God. And so faith is demonstrated in Enoch. And then we have another example in verse 7 of Hebrews 11, and that is Noah. So in verse 7, now the writer here now brings the example of Noah, say: “By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”. So Noah had faith. Again the question is: In what way? How do we know that Noah here had faith? Well, again it is in his action. We are told here that “he moved with godly fear”.

What? He prepared an ark. Meaning to say he built an ark “for the saving of his household”. Now so that is how we can see faith in Noah by his action of building the ark and also his past perseverance in so doing. Now he would have given up if he had not believed in the revelation of God that judgement is coming, that the world will be destroyed. If he had not believed in the Word of God, he would not have built the ark in the face of oppositions, in the face of mockery and being laughed at, and also to persevere for hundred and twenty years. Now he would not have done that if he had not had faith.

And I must say here that in the case of Noah here, it is indeed an amazing demonstration of faith because when God told him that this world would be flooded with water, that God would send rain and water to this earth, Noah had never seen rain in his life. And there was no indication how this world could be flooded. But as that takes tremendous faith or amazing faith as it were to believe in what God has said. But that is faith, believing what God has said. Now then the another example alright, the next example is the example of Abraham. Example of Abraham in verse 8. Now the writer says here now Abraham, “By faith he obeyed when he was called to go to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.”.

Now again the writer is saying that can you now not see what an amazing thing this is? Now, this is faith. Just as in the case of Noah, now here Abraham was called by God to go to a place, and he didn’t know where that place was. But he nevertheless, he went out. Why? Because he believed in the Word of God alright- he believed in the Word of God. And not only that alright, in going out, what happened to him? He had to leave behind his family, his household. He had to leave everything behind in order to go. Why did he do so? Why did he do so? Again because he simply believed that what God said were true.

Now the next example is in verse 11 alright- in verse 11. Now here the writer brings up the example of Sarah. “By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child and she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.”. Now here is again something important to note alright in verse 11 here about Sarah here, and how again the writer here tried to help us understand or grasp that principle that I mentioned earlier on. And so what is faith? Now in the case of Sarah here, he said: “when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised”.

Meaning to say she believed because she believed in the promises of God. If God has said it, it must be true, even though she could not understand how she could bear a son or a child. And so she simply believed in the Word of God. So, how well she demonstrates this principle. So what is the point of all these things? What is the point, as he brings up one example after another? Now the point is this in verse 13 alright- in verse 13. The point is that “these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”. Now again it’s kind of a not so much a repetition but kind of an emphasis on the principle.

So the point the writer is making here is this that these people who have faith, they never received those promises made to them alright- never received those promises. They only see them from afar alright- they only see them from afar, but they believed. They believed. Now they believed even though alright verse 17 alright- verse 17. They believed even though, it said: “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered his only begotten son”. In other words, the writer is saying here that these people believed even when it seemed unreasonable to believe. So in the case of this example here in verse 17, it appears that Abraham believed in the promises, and yet Isaac had to be killed. In a sense, it’s not kind of reasonable. It’s not rational.

But you see, it’s not about being reasonable or rational. A lot of things that God had promised may not appear reasonable in our human mind, but you see we don’t trust in our reasons. We trust in the revelation of God. So we do not trust in our reasoning, but we trust in God’s revelation. And so that is why he mentioned verse 17 here. Why? Why did Abraham believed or did, you know sacrificed his son, Isaac, even though it seems unreasonable? Well, verse 19 says because he “concludes that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.”.

In other words, he believed that God is able to do the impossible, that God can raise his son Isaac up alright; maybe even in the figurative sense alright. So God did raise now Isaac from the dead. And so you see that that is the reason now why Abraham believed. And then he gave a series of other examples in verse 20 alright. So in verse 20, it said: “By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.”. And then he says: “By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff.”. And then he mentioned Joseph in verse 22: “By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.”.

Now he’s saying that all these showed that they had faith. All these people showed that they had faith. How? In the case of Isaac, he said it is by being concerned about the things to come. Alright they are people of the future. They look forward to the future. They are seeing things. And in the case of Jacob alright- in the case of Jacob, it says here that he worshipped. He showed his faith by a life of worship. In the case of Joseph, now how does he demonstrate faith? He says that “when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instruction concerning his bones”.

Now what does that mean? It means that when he was dying, now he gave instruction to the people of God that when they had arrived at the Promised Land, he wanted them to bring his bones there and be buried in the Promised Land. Now remember, at this point they were not yet in the Promised Land, but he believed that they will be in the Promised Land, and he wants to be there. How does he know? Again because of the revelation of God. God gave that promise. God has revealed to them. So all their actions showed, again and again, alright that their faith is simply because of God’s promises or revelation. Now in verses 24 through 28, now he gives the example of Moses. Again the question is: How did Moses showed that he had faith?

Now that surely is the question he wants us to ask every time he mentions a name here in this chapter, whether it’s Abraham, or Noah, or Jacob, or Joseph, and now Moses. The question he wants us to ask again and again is: How do these people show that they had faith? So Moses. Now Moses showed that he had faith, he says here firstly, by turning away from earthly things to heavenly things. From turning away alright, he says here in verse 24: “By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin”.

Now it is shown, his faith is shown by his choice. Now turning away from sinful pleasure, turning away from the treasures of Egypt in verse 26: “esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt”. Why? “For he looked to the reward.”. Now again why did he do this? Because he knew something alright- because he knew something. He knew that these things here were temporary. He knew that this world is just transient. He knew that they were far greater riches to be had. He believed in what Jesus said about laying up treasures in heaven rather than treasures on earth. He believed that.

He also showed his faith alright- he also showed his faith in verse 28: “By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.”. Now, why did he keep the Passover and sprinkle blood on the door? Why did he keep to that? The reason, because he knows that that is the only way to be saved. He believed in the revelation of God. Now then the writer comes to this question: Now did these people stop believing when they were up against the wall? Now we say, okay this is what it means to believe, believe what the Bible says. And so this is what the Bible says, we just believed them.

But then, he says, what about as you believe these things, and then you find it difficult to believe? What happens when you find it difficult to believe? Verse 30: “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had encircled for seven days.”. They were in as it were up against the wall. Now here is the wall, they’re supposed to get in, they could not get in. What were they supposed to do? Well, we are told here that they went round the wall alright, they encircled the wall seven days. And why did they do that? Now it may seem something so simple, it seems something so foolish to do. How could they break down the wall by simply circling it seven days?

Well, they did it because they believed it. They believed it because God said it, now again illustrating the principle why they did it. Now verse 31, now what about Rahab? “By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she received the spies with peace.” Now, why did Rahab changed sides, and then she changed her lifestyle? Why did she do that? Well, again it’s because she had faith alright. She believed in the Word of God. Now verse 32 alright- verse 32, and the writer when he comes to the point it’s almost like saying that there’s just so much more I could say alright- there’s so much more I could say.

So he said in verse 32: “And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets”. In other words, he is inviting us to go and do our research in the Old Testament. Go back and read your Bible as it were. Go and read the Old Testament and read the men and women of faith, and you would say and you would come to realise that again and again they all demonstrate or prove the principle that he is stating here about faith that all of them showed that they have faith because they trusted in the Word of God. These people did not have it easy.

Verse 33: “who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 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. Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others (verse 36) had the trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented”.

In other words, now to have faith doesn’t mean that you’re going to have an easy life. But he says that these people persevere. These people were ready to go through all these experiences all because- all because they believed in the Word of God. And so I want to ask you this morning: Do you have faith? Do you have the faith that is described here in Hebrews 11? Do you have faith in the sense that you believe in something simply because, not because you have seen these things, but simply because God said so?

So I want to ask you: Do you believe in God? Is God real to you? Or will you say, I will only believe in Jesus if I can see Jesus? Do you believe that there is no other way to heaven except through Jesus Christ? If you ask me, what is the proof? How do I know that Jesus is the only way to heaven? Then I will say this to you: The Bible said so because faith is believing in the Word of God. In fact, I will ask you: Do you live as if God exists? Do you “remember your Creator in the days of your youth”?

You see, our faith is evidenced by how we live our lives as we see here in the examples given in this chapter. By seeing the changed life of Rahab, by seeing these people as they went through these difficulties in their life and how they faced them, we see faith in them. Do you have faith? Would you leave everything to follow Jesus Christ, like Abraham who left everything in order to follow God? Why did Abraham do that? He trusted in the Word of God. Will you forsake the treasures of this world as Moses forsake the treasures of the world or of Egypt, and choose rather the rewards in heaven?

Now you see, all these questions we have to ask in order to answer the question if we have faith in God and in the revelation of God. Alright with that, we end our study today. May God bless your day, and we hope that in the weeks to come we are able to continue our study of Hebrews 11, on the subject of faith.

This transcript has been lightly edited for readability.