Hebrews 11:4-7 

📖  Hebrews 11:6 ESV And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

📖  Hebrews 11:4 ESV By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

1. to God on His terms, not .

📖  Genesis 4:3–7 ESV In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. 6 The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it.”

📖  Hebrews 10:19–22 ESV Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

📖  1 Samuel 2:30 ESV for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Faith comes – for acceptance.

Faith comes – in worship.

📖  Hebrews 11:5 ESV By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

2. Faith God one at a .

📖 Genesis 5:22–24 ESV Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

Faith keeps with God when nothing is happening.

We by the and the flesh.

📖 Galatians 5:16–25 ESV But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh… 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

We in the and with God’s family.

📖  1 John 1:7 ESV if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

We in our , which is ours in Christ.

📖  Ephesians 4:1–3 ESV I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

We by and not .

📖  2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Faith us .

📖  Colossians 1:13 ESV He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son

📖  John 5:24 ESV whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

📖  Ephesians 2:4–6 ESV But God… made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

📖 Hebrews 11:7 ESV By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

3. Faith today for what God has for .

📖 Genesis 6:17–18 ESV For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Faith is not a , it’s an .

Sermon in a sentence:

Faith lives in the of Christ’s , the daily of God’s , and the God has placed on our lives.

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