today on Summit Life with JD Greer. If you require earthly validation of your faith in any form,

you're not going to make it because the life of faith requires a confidence in a God that you can't

see and promises you can't always feel. So that's the question. Can you lean back on? Can you risk

it all on what is invisible?

Welcome back to Summit Life with JD Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.

You know, in many parts of the world, faith in Jesus means losing your job,

your family, and maybe even your life. But in the United States, most of us never have to face

that choice. And because it's so easy to call yourself a Christian here, it's also easy to have

superficial faith. I mean, it's not hard to say that you trust God until trusting him becomes a

matter of life and death. But as we'll learn today, faith is always a matter of life and death,

whether we realize it or not. Here's Pastor JD with today's message from Hebrews 11 titled

Impossible Without Faith.

And I mean this to be overly rude or overly blunt, but I am convinced that many of us

squeak out a Christian life without ever really being confronted with the hard questions of faith.

And I'm sorry if that sounds rude, but it's just the truth. But the writer of Hebrews makes it clear.

Listen very carefully. Verse six, without faith, it is what's that word, church?

Impossible to please him for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists.

And that he rewards those who give up everything to follow him. So you can only go so far without faith.

Many of the people that the writer is addressing are starting to lag behind in the faith.

And so the writer tells them that there is no way, no way. They're going to make it if they don't

honestly and truly believe that God exists and that following him is worth it.

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to walk you through the last half of Hebrews 11.

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