PlayStop Popout X The path of faith is constantly beset with dangers and every believer needs to be so careful. Each man must watch himself, of course, but the application here may be broader than that. It may be that each of us should watch with care for others. The word rendered “looking diligently,” is…
PlayStop Popout X The path of faith is constantly beset with dangers and every believer needs to be so careful. Each man must watch himself, of course, but the application here may be broader than that. It may be that each of us should watch with care for others. The word rendered “looking diligently,” is…
PlayStop Popout X The fact that these Hebrew recipients had suffered much could not be denied. The writer has already recalled the persecutions of those earlier days when they had endured so much. (10:32-34) He would not minimize what they had suffered but it must all be kept in context. They had not yet been…
PlayStop Popout X We have just studied the chapter describing how faith works and were manifested in the lives of some great servants of the Lord. We must not suppose that such faith belonged only to the record of the past. It is to be a present continuing thing, spanning the ages and knowing no…
PlayStop Popout X We have studied earlier of those saints that “these all” died in faith. (vs. 13) However, “these all” of verse 39 is much wider. All these saints of OT times, from Abel through until the last believer of this earlier dispensation, had this testimony before God. The world was not a fit…
PlayStop Popout X There is a tender phrase in Exodus 2:6: “The babe wept.” Those tears touched the heart of the daughter of Pharaoh. She had compassion on the babe and in the plan of God he became her adoptive son but was nursed by his own mother who was, in turn, paid wages for…
PlayStop Popout X By faith Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, knowing exactly what he was doing, as he pronounced the greater blessing upon the younger son, Ephraim. Here again, the first man is displaced and the second man is being brought into blessing. Much like the first man Adam has been displaced with the…
PlayStop Popout X Faith is not hereditary; it is not naturally transmitted to children; but God does often graciously permit parents to see the development of faith in their children and grandchildren. Faith in God’s word produces a great blessing; and focusing on this world will produce sorrow. Timothy, a son and grandson, was the…
PlayStop Popout X It is a true principle that God does not tempt His children. However He does sometimes test and try the faith of His children with the purpose of proving the quality and caliber of our faith. For Abraham, the greatest trial of his faith came when asked… “Take now thy son, thine…
PlayStop Popout X They “died” in faith. There is a double lesson for us in this word “died.” First, they died in faith, having only the verbal promise but not the actual fulfillment of it. They lived in patience waiting but died not having received the fulfillment of the promise in which they trusted. Secondly,…