This is a list of men who never believed that God was on the side of big battalions.

They were willing to risk everything because they believed God.

It's a list of people who cheerfully and courageously and confidently accepted God's commands and stood absolutely alone

face to face with apparently undefeatable hostile hordes for the sake of

obedience to God and in every case they came out on time. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Well you've probably had a day when you didn't get the job you wanted or your child

reached a new level of rebelliousness or your doctor gave you bad news when you faced any

number of trials. In those difficult moments how do you demonstrate a firm and

genuine trust in the Lord.

Well, John MacArthur is going to help you with that today as he continues his study

titled The Power of Faith.

Today's lesson looks at a group of Saints in the Old Testament who faced trials of all kinds and yet remained

faithful, providing excellent examples for you and me to follow today.

So follow along with John as he begins today's message.

Hebrews 11, verse 32, and what shall I say more for the time would fail me to tell

of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephth of David also and

Samuel and the prophets he's I could just go on and on and on see.

Verse 32 he starts naming various people, great heroes of faith.

And they're not in chronological order incidentally, but they're all rulers.

Four of them are judges.

Samuel was both a judge and a prophet and so forth in the transition and David was a king.

They're all great rulers and you you know these men of faith for the time would fail me to tell

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