Hebrews 11:8-10 

📖  Galatians 3:7 ESV Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

Abraham models faith that goes beyond the . 

Faith in the waiting understands:

1. is more important than .

📖  Hebrews 11:8 ESV 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. 

Faith must be rooted in we follow, not just we are going.

📖  Genesis 12:1 ESV Now the LORD (had) said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”

📖  Genesis 12:4 ESV So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him.

Forget yesterday, .

Faith in the waiting understands:

2. does not mean I’m in the .

📖  Hebrews 11:9 ESV 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.

📖  Romans 8:22–25 ESV For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

📖  Philippians 3:20–21 NLT But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. 21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.

Faith in the waiting understands:

3. God’s will my along the way.

📖  Hebrews 11:10 ESV For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

📖  Revelation 21:1–3 ESV Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.”

Sermon in a Sentence:

Faith in the waiting God through the of the present because it’s on a future.

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