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🗓️ 23 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. New Testament People, we finished our 20th book today and if you've been with us |
0:16.4 | since Genesis you just checked off book number 59. Today we read the chapter |
0:20.8 | some people affectionately referred to as the Faith Hall of Fame or the Hall of Faith, Hebrews 11. |
0:26.0 | The author starts out by defining faith for us in verse 1. |
0:29.5 | Faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. |
0:34.0 | This is why we'll be faithless someday like we talked about. |
0:36.9 | Because what we hoped for and were convinced of |
0:39.2 | will be fully realized and seen and experienced. |
0:42.6 | This first also points out an important distinction. |
0:45.2 | Faith isn't some kind of vague feeling centered on nothing. |
0:48.4 | Faith isn't good vibes and positive energy. |
0:51.0 | Faith has a definite object. The Christian faith is faith in Christ. He is who our |
0:56.7 | faith hopes for and is convinced of. He is who our faith points toward and rests on, fully. |
1:02.8 | In verse 2, the author starts unpacking information for us about how people in the Old |
1:06.5 | Testament were saved by faith too. |
1:08.8 | It says, for by it, the people of old, received their commendation. |
1:13.4 | The former generations were commended because of their faith in Christ too, |
1:17.0 | even though they didn't know his name. |
1:18.9 | They knew Yawe, the one true God, and Jesus is God. The next several verses walk us down the hall in |
1:25.9 | chronological order starting with Abel and walking us through the stories of the Old |
1:30.0 | Testament and he even includes a woman for good measure. |
1:33.0 | Shout out to Sarah. |
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