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🗓️ 23 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:12.7 | New Testament people, we finished our 20th book today, and if you've been with us since Genesis, you just checked off book number 59. |
0:19.8 | Today we read the chapter some people affectionately referred to as the Faith Hall of Fame |
0:23.8 | or the Hall of Faith, Hebrews 11. |
0:26.2 | The author starts out by defining faith for us in verse 1. |
0:29.7 | Faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. |
0:33.8 | This is why we'll be faithless someday, like we talked about. |
0:36.8 | Because what we hoped for and were convinced of will be fully realized and seen and experienced. |
0:42.4 | This verse also points out an important distinction. |
0:45.1 | Faith isn't some kind of vague feeling centered on nothing. |
0:48.3 | Faith isn't good vibes and positive energy. |
0:50.8 | Faith has a definite object. |
0:53.2 | The Christian faith is faith in Christ. He is who our faith |
0:57.0 | hopes for and is convinced of. He is who our faith points toward and rests on, fully. In verse two, |
1:03.5 | the author starts unpacking information for us about how people in the Old Testament were saved by |
1:07.6 | faith too. It says, for by it, the people of old received their commendation. |
1:13.3 | The former generations were commended because of their faith in Christ too, even though they didn't |
1:17.8 | know his name. They knew Yahweh, the one true God, and Jesus is God. The next several verses |
1:24.6 | walk us down the hall in chronological order, starting with Abel and walking |
1:28.5 | us through the stories of the Old Testament, and he even includes a woman for good measure. |
1:32.9 | Shout out to Sarah. He says he could go on and on listing out the individual stories of faith, |
1:37.3 | but he doesn't have time to write them all out. He talks about the incredible things they received |
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