Part 5 | Dying in Faith
Hebrews 11:13-22
Part 3: Faith God when you don’t know the .
Part 4: Faith God when you don’t understand the .
Today: Faith God when the is out of this .
📖 Hebrews 11:13 ESV These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Dying in Faith:
1. without .
📖 Hebrews 11:13 ESV These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar
📖 Philippians 1:21–24 ESV For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
Faith doesn’t need to the to in the .
Dying in Faith:
2. of another .
📖 Hebrews 11:13b–14 ESV and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
📖 John 15:19 ESV If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
📖 Romans 12:2 ESV Do not be conformed to this world…
📖 1 John 2:15–17 ESV Do not love the world or the things in the world. … 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
📖 1 Peter 2:11 ESV Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Dying in Faith:
3. about the , not the .
📖 Hebrews 11:15 ESV If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
📖 Genesis 24:4 ESV “go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
📖 Hebrews 11:16 ESV But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
you’re shapes how you it.
A. your .
📖 Hebrews 11:17–19 ESV By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
B. those who will you.
📖 Hebrews 11:20–21 ESV By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
C. how to be .
📖 Hebrews 11:22 ESV By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Faith lives differently because it has something better .
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