A Word for Today | Hebrews 11:13-16 Hebrews 11:13-15 describes the life of faith as a pilgrimage in a foreign land: believers “acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from […]
Faith in the Promise
A Word for Today | Hebrews 11:11-12 God relates to His children in this world largely through promises. In the Old Testament, the Israelites were a people looking beyond the horizon for the promise yet to be fulfilled. That great coming arrived in the person in Jesus Christ, and yet Christians, too, are waiting for […]
Faith Working
A Word for Today | Hebrews 11:7 Noah shares the distinction with Adam that every single human being is one of his descendants, since God re-started the human race through him after the great flood. The events of Noah’s life have great theological significance. The words righteousness and grace first appear in the Bible in […]
Faith Pleasing God
A Word for Today | Hebrews 11:5-6 Hebrews 11’s second example comes from the life of Enoch, seventh in the line of Adam and Eve. Enoch is remarkable in that he “was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him” (Heb. 11:5). Enoch is […]
Faith Justifying
A Word for Today | Hebrews 11:4 Hebrews 11 describes faith through a series of Old Testament examples. Hebrews 11:1 says that faith makes present and real things that are future and unseen. Hebrews 11:4 now adds, “By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did,” the point of which is that faith […]
What Is Faith?
A Word for Today | Hebrews 11:1 Hebrews 11:1 is an oft-quoted definition of faith: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” According to this verse, faith takes place when things are hoped for but not yet possessed. Even when the present does not seem to contain […]
