All right, good morning and welcome to our second service on Sunday mornings. We have two

services, the first of which is our Bible prophecy update that we do weekly, and now second

service, which is the sermon, where we're going through the book of Hebrews, verse by verse.

And today's text will be chapter 11 and will begin in verse 8, and Lord willing make it through to verse 19.

So I'll ask you to turn there if you're not there already and once you do if you're able,

I'll ask you to stand. You can follow along as I read. If not where you're seated is fine.

The writer of Hebrews by the Holy Spirit, verse 8, writes, by faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where

he was going. By faith, verse 9, he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a

foreign country.

He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, his son and grandson, who were heirs with

him of the same promise.

For verse 10, he was looking forward to the city with foundations whose architect and

builder is God. And verse 11 by faith, even Sarah who was past childbearing age

was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful

who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the

sand on the seashore. All these people, verse 13, were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive

the things promised. They only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that

they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for

a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would

have had the opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better

country, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God.

For he has prepared a city for them.

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