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🗓️ 23 December 2019
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | New Testament People, we've 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. |
0:34.1 | This is why we'll be faithless someday like we talked about. |
0:37.1 | Because what we hoped for and were convinced of will be fully realized and seen and |
0:41.2 | experienced. This first also points out an important |
0:44.2 | distinction. Faith isn't some kind of vague feeling centered on nothing. Faith |
0:48.5 | isn't good vibes and positive energy. Faith has a definite object. The Christian faith is faith in Christ. He is who |
0:56.6 | our faith hopes for and is convinced of. He is who our faith points toward and rests on fully. |
1:02.0 | In verse 2, the other starts unpacking |
1:04.8 | information for us about how people in the Old Testament were saved by faith too. |
1:08.2 | It says for by it the people of old received their commendation. The former generations were commended |
1:15.1 | because of their faith in Christ too, even though they didn't know his name. They knew |
1:19.3 | Yawe, the one true God, and Jesus is God. The next several verses walk us down the hall in |
1:26.0 | chronological order starting with Abel and walking us through the stories of the |
1:30.0 | Old Testament and he even includes a woman for good measure. |
1:33.0 | Shout out to Sarah. |
1:34.3 | He says he could go on and on listing out the individual stories of faith, but he doesn't have |
1:38.0 | time to write them all out. |
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