Hebrews 11:33-40

Question: How do I know if I have true faith in Christ?
Answer: True faith .

Enduring faith says:

1. I will trust God regardless of the .

The :

📖  Hebrews 11:33a ESV who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises… 

The :

📖  Hebrews 11:33b-34 ESV stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

The :

📖 Hebrews 11:35–37 ESV Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—

📖  Hebrews 11:38 ESV of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

Enduring faith says:

2. I will trust God without .

📖  Luke 14:28 ESV For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

📖  Acts 14:22 ESV through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

📖  1 Peter 4:12 ESV Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

📖  James 1:2 ESV Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

📖  Revelation 1:9 ESV I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus

📖  1 Peter 1:6–9 ESV In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Enduring faith says:

3. I will trust God without having .

📖  Hebrews 11:36 ESV Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, (*they were tempted), they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated

📖  Job 13:15 ESV Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.

Enduring faith says:

4. I will find my in Christ Himself.

📖  Hebrews 11:39–40 ESV And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

📖  Romans 5:5 ESV and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

📖  Ephesians 1:7 ESV In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Sermon in a Sentence:
Enduring faith trusts God beyond what I , , or because Christ is .

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