"ENCOURAGEMENT TO FAITH PART 1" with Michael Montoya

Encouragement to Faith

 

PART I

Hebrews Chapter 11

This chapter deals with the vision and endurance of faith.

It introduces us to men and women of the OT who had 20/20 spiritual vision and who endured tremendous shame and suffering rather than renounce their faith.

 

Verse 1 is not really a formal definition of faith; rather it is a description of what faith does for us.

It makes things hoped for as real as if we already had them, and it provides unshakable evidence that the unseen, spiritual blessings of Christianity are absolutely certain and real.

 

In other words, it brings the future within the present and makes the invisible seen.

Faith is confidence in the trustworthiness of God.

It is the conviction that what God says is true and that what He promises will come to pass.

 

Faith must have some revelation from God, some promise of God as its foundation.

It is not a leap in the dark.

It demands the surest evidence in the universe and finds it in the word of God.

It is not limited to possibilities but invades the realm of the impossible.

 

Someone has said, “Faith begins where possibilities end. If it’s possible, then there’s no glory for God in it.”

 

Faith, mighty faith the promise sees, and looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities and cries, “It shall be done.”

 

There are difficulties and problems in the life of faith.

 

God tests our faith in the crucible to see if it is genuine (1 Peter 1:7).

New International Version

7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

 

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