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Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P101 (05-06-24)

Faith Comes by Hearing the Word of Christ Jesus

~ But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” ^{Romans 10:16-18}

We are to tell people about Jesus. And the message is that Jesus took away the sins of the world, so that who so ever believes in Him shall have eternal life. As we have said in the past, eternal life begins immediately upon accepting Jesus, as God in the flesh, and having done on the cross what He said is Finished. And at that very moment in time, a person has eternal life, through the Spirit of God giving eternal life to the new believer in Jesus. He takes up permanent residence with your spirit and begins to renew your mind at that very moment in time. It is not some future event for eternal life. “I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” 1 John 5:13 Yet there are those that teach that you get eternal life in the future. This is a subtle form of the lie of Satan, telling people they don’t have eternal life now, because they don’t even understand what eternal life is. Hence they believe you can lose something that you don’t yet possess. And the subtle form of this teaching is that the blessings are later, if you somehow endure to the end, based on some arbitrary form of not sinning or when you do sin, getting those sins confessed (asked to be forgiven) by God. Don’t fall for the fake agents of righteousness that work for the devil. For Satan has many many fake agents of righteousness everywhere in order to try and trip you up into believing his lies, instead of the Truth of the word of God.

Pray to God:

“Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today. Thank you God.”

~ "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith."

By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went out, not knowing where he is going. By faith he sojourned in the land of the promise, as in a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise. For he was awaiting the city having foundations, of which the architect and builder is God.

By faith also Sarah, herself barren, received power for the conception of seed, even beyond the opportune age, since she considered the One having promised faithful. Therefore also were born from one man, and he having been as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in multitude, and countless as the sand by the shore of the sea.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having embraced them, and having confessed that they are strangers and sojourners on the earth. For those saying such things make manifest that they are seeking their own country. And indeed if they had been remembering that from where they came out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they stretch forward to a better one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. Even the one having received the promises was offering up his only begotten son, as to whom it was said, “In Isaac your offspring will be reckoned,” having reasoned that God was able even to raise him out from the dead, from where he received him also in a simile.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things coming.

By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, dying, made mention concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions concerning his bones.

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw the little child was beautiful, and they did not fear the edict of the king.

By faith Moses, having become grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, having chosen to suffer affliction with the people of God, rather than to have the fleeting enjoyment of sin, having esteemed the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward.

By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the anger of the king; for he persevered, as seeing the Invisible One. By faith he has kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one destroying the firstborn would not touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians, an attempt having made, were swallowed up.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those having disobeyed, having received the spies with peace.

And what more shall I say? For the time will fail me, telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, also David, and Samuel, and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises; shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouths of the sword; acquired strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight foreign armies.

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others received the trial of mockings and of scourgings, and in addition, of chains and imprisonment.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were killed by slaughter of the sword; they wandered in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, being oppressed, being mistreated; of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.

And these all, having been commended through the faith, did not receive the promise, God having planned something better for us, so that not apart from us, they should be made perfect.^{Hebrews 11:1-40}

~ “Now folks we live in a day and age where it is popular and profitable to teach lies. That is life. I’ve said so many times that knowing what I know today. And I known what I know today. 25 years ago before I was a Christian, I wouldn’t have been out trying to make my millions in the floorcovering industry I would have gone into religion. It’s faster and much more profitable. I’ve said before indwelling sin is that thing that was stuck in man. And he decided not to believe God and to believe Satan that sin that stuck in man that gives you a propensity to believe a lot. And we will believe anything except the truth. We are living today and in this day and age where through the popularization of television and radio and all of the other mass media’s and not only there but it just gets perpetuated. People are being taught that if your faith is big enough, you will just have the neatest life have it all coming your way. Do you know what folks the only people that can be conned? Is someone looking for a quick buck. You know you couldn’t con someone unless you’re looking for a quick buck. I’m not going to spend all my money on the lottery. Unless I’m looking for a quick buck. I’m not gonna get sucked into the scams of the world unless I’m looking for a quick buck. I’m looking for something for nothing. I don’t want to work on it to earn my living. I want to get something for nothing quick. You can only con someone who’s conable you know why we’re flying? Looking to this religious stuff, the way we are looking for a quick buck, looking for a way to be wealthy without having to work, looking for a way to never be sick in that ridiculous looking for a way maybe to never die. In other words, I deserve the good life. I’m a Christian, and I deserve good. Is that true? Is it true? No. What about these people? That a good life? What are you going to do day get sawn in two, praise God.” ~ Bob George

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So the emphasis is never on me and what I’m doing. It’s always on him and what he’s doing. So we talked about the walls of Jericho and then we talked about How’d she get in here? But that’s what we ought to write a book entitled How’d she get in here? Rahab, the prostitute in the lineup of Gods Hall of Fame. There she is right in the midst of it. How’d you get in there because she believed God. Now we’re going to pick up in verse 32. And what’s your what more shall I say that? said, My goodness, you got all of these examples? What more should I say too? He said I don’t have time to talk about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jeff F. David, Samuel and the prophets by faith, conquered kingdoms administer justice and gained what was promised. See, boy, we look at this oh man at my God look what we’re doing in many instances with all these people have such big faith. What did Jesus say about the size of our faith? Said if any of us had faith the size of a mustard seed what could we do? Move mountains. And now any of you moved into those lately? Most of us can’t even move our body off the couch watching television let alone a mountain. So what does that show us according to Jesus, the size of our faith? Somewhat smaller than that of a mustard seed, which is not something to really be writing books about. So the issue is not in the size or how big these people’s faith with these people had an encounter with God. They knew their God and when their God told them something, they moved on that and God said It’s credited his righteousness they knew their God. And so we sit down and we look about these people who knew their God and we say by their faith in God and that’s what all of this is about faith in him that’s the answer is not faith in him, It’s my faith in Him and we look at this whoo hoo boy this is claiming this is great. Why we could conquer kingdoms and let’s all come to God and get together and conquer kingdoms were a big stuff a really big stuff. Why America if we just had enough faith well we could just make America wonderful let’s all march to America wonderful big faith. We Christians are going to take over if we could just get all Christians senators and all Christian congressmen and get a Christian elected as president what this country would be said brother you hadn’t been to a deacons meeting. We’d love to hear this this stuff it’s conquered kingdoms administer justice just people gained what was promised shut the mouths of lions yes go ride out to the zoo and climb in a cage and say Shut your mouth and they obeyed quench the fury of the flames just did right in the middle of it didn’t nothing to escape the edge of the sword whose weakness was turned to strength oh man it’s strength who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies man just got faith enough we just conquer the world that’s my kind of faith. Women receive back to their dad raised the life again so we got some people that don’t even the reason they fade Oh, I just do all things with big faith.

Then we go on. Others were tortured, refused to be released well, they must have had unconfessed sin in their life. Some face jeers flogging, while still others were chained and put into prison. They were stoned. They were sawed in two there’s a pleasant prospect for the day. They were put to death by the sword. They went about and sheepskin and goatskin look like some of you today. They were destitute, destitute, not just poor, destitute, persecuted, mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and in mountains. Can you folks have ever been in a desert? First of all, it’s hard to walk and it’s hot and there’s no shade. It is not a desirable environment wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves that had holes in the ground. Now where are these people also walking by faith in their God? Absolutely. The same God, that the people were walking by faith in whereby they were made, routed room, armies, made into all kinds of powerful warriors are the same group of people walking by faith in the same God who walked in desert destitute. Now, is that not or is it? Or is it not a far cry from if you have faith, you will be wealthy, you will be healthy, you will have no problems. You just send me some money and God will bless the socks right off of you, and give them to me if you just have faith in it. In other words, the reason that you and I live on this level that’s a little less than desirable is because your faith just is not negative.

I had a young man that the first conference that we held here at Sunridge guy named George Attwell sat in the back of the room and at the end of the conference up there with tears streaming down his face. As George, as we obviously knew, was blind, said that in the church that he had sat in, and every Sunday of his life, somebody put a hymn book in front of his face and said today, maybe you will have enough faith. I have been feeling guilty for 30 some years. Because my faith is not big enough to enable the healing. Probably the guy who called him that was wearing glasses that he thought obviously wasn’t big enough give him 20/20. Isn’t it amazing someone standing there with glasses on salespeople, they’re faith isn’t big enough than they could see. Realize how easy it would be to give you perfect eyesight. It’s just just a little tiny manipulation. Why don’t we all say that what’s wrong with it? Or is there a natural deterioration to the human body? That is inevitable.

Now folks we live in a day and age where it is popular and profitable to teach lies. That is life. I’ve said so many times that knowing what I know today. And I known what I know today. 25 years ago before I was a Christian, I wouldn’t have been out trying to make my millions in the floorcovering industry I would have gone into religion. It’s faster and much more profitable. I’ve said before indwelling sin is that thing that was stuck in man. And he decided not to believe God and to believe Satan that sin that stuck in man that gives you a propensity to believe a lot. And we will believe anything except the truth. We are living today and in this day and age where through the popularization of television and radio and all of the other mass media’s and not only there but it just gets perpetuated. People are being taught that if your faith is big enough, you will just have the neatest life have it all coming your way. Do you know what folks the only people that can be conned? Is someone looking for a quick buck. You know you couldn’t con someone unless you’re looking for a quick buck. I’m not going to spend all my money on the lottery. Unless I’m looking for a quick buck. I’m not gonna get sucked into the scams of the world unless I’m looking for a quick buck. I’m looking for something for nothing. I don’t want to work on it to earn my living. I want to get something for nothing quick. You can only con someone who’s conable you know why we’re flying? Looking to this religious stuff, the way we are looking for a quick buck, looking for a way to be wealthy without having to work, looking for a way to never be sick in that ridiculous looking for a way maybe to never die. In other words, I deserve the good life. I’m a Christian, and I deserve good. Is that true? Is it true? No. What about these people? That a good life? What are you going to do day get sawn in two, praise God.

Worldwide worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, mountains, caves and holes to the ground. And it says these were all all of them were commended for their faith. Why they were believing God when they were in the desert. They were believing God when they were in the mountains. They were believing God when they were being sawn and sawed in two destitute sheepskin goatskin they were trusting the Lord trusting Lord. There is a faith that when things aren’t going to well down here aren’t we told don’t love the world or anything in the world? Because it’s temporal. It’s fleeting. It’s going away. It’s going away. What the world’s about sometimes it’s rough down here. But we’re not gonna be here forever. How do you walk by faith in the blessed hope that one of these days I’m gonna, I will be out of here. So yes, I’m having some tough time. But it’s temporal. One thing about it, it’s temporal. It’s not gonna last forever. It’s Faith folks.

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I was reading the other day, it’s like when the prodigal son came back from wallowing in the pigs to his father. It said they threw a party and they gave him shoes. We say, what’s the significance of that? What’s the significance? Well, because slaves are an issue choose just sons just sons. They didn’t give slave shoes. So when the son came home thinking that he was just going to be a slave, so he said my father’s slaves are living better this he just assumed so obviously, no you’re a son, give him some shoes. Slave with no shoes, not a very desirable situation. That’s what happened back in slavery. In America. Same type of thing. They didn’t get shoes. They weren’t allowed to have shoes. That’s what differentiated you. That’s how you can tell for sure whether you were a slave or not. Tough times. Oh, yeah. The world wasn’t worth of them destitute, persecuted, mistreated the world wasn’t worthing of them. I want to tell you Those people who sang and we passed on their how they live like that? They made up songs. I got shoes. You got shoes. All God’s children got shoes. When I get to heaven to put on my shoes, I’m gonna walk all over God’s heaven. I’m gonna walk all over God’s heaven. They have shoes today? No. But their faith is one of these days, I’m going to have shoes. When I do, I’m going to walk all over God’s heaven. That’s faith. They were commended for their faith. Got it some planned better for us. Some better for us. So that only together with us. They would be made perfect.

Now chapter 12. Therefore, therefore, what’s it therefore? What’s its just been talking about? Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin and that’s not talking about the filthy five and the Dirty Dozen. Sin is what? Unbelief, this unbelief that so easily entangled. Let us run with perseverance, this race that was marked out for us. Let’s run this race. Let’s finish it. And guys, you can’t finish the race if you don’t understand what the race is all about. And, and in this race that we live in today. If you’re going to walk by faith, in God, as I said, sometimes things are gonna go great. Sometimes it’s not gonna go great. But you see, it’s all part of God’s plan. And we don’t know what that plan is. And when things aren’t going so great the thing that we camp on is that hope that’s what we’ve said, we’re gonna get some shoes at home. And then meantime, I can love each other. The opposite of that is worlds philosophy that we’ve got rights. And we we this is due to us and this this is I deserve this. Guys, if we got what we deserve from God, we go to hell. Isn’t that true? And so we don’t deserve you see until we begin to form the attitudes that God has told us about we’ll never understand what it is to be able to walk by faith. God’s attitude is no Bob, you don’t have any rights you got a lot of privileges I’m going to, rights no. Quit trying to claim your rights. I don’t have a right to live. I am privileged to live I don’t have a right.

So he’s saying to throw off this sin, that hindrances what is that sin that hinders? Buying with philosophy of the world instead of listening to what God has to say. That’s why it says Don’t be conformed to the world, but be transformed how? By the renewing of your mind. Then he says, and then only will you be able to discern the perfect will of God. Let us run this race with perseverance, this race that is marked out for us. And let us fix our eyes on Jesus. That doesn’t mean to get a visualization act going. Nobody knows what he looks like. So that doesn’t mean to sit there and visualize Jesus. Or to try to wonder what color he was or whether he had a big nose or a little nose or whether he look Jewish or not. When you’re fixing your eyes on Christ, you’re talking about the one God himself who took upon himself temporarily our flesh and blood, who is the author and perfecter of our faith. He’s the one who gave it to you and he’s the one that’s going to profect it. He’s the Pioneer. He’s the perfecter of our faith, and who for the joy that was set forth before him endured the cross, scorning its shame and sit down at the right hand of the throne of God. And folks, he said, he’s a first born from among the dead. And when you’re talking about for our, the perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set forth before him endured the cross, is a picture of the endurance that a woman goes through in childbirth in order for the joy that is going to be set forth at the delivery of that child. When I look to see what a woman has to go through, in delivering a baby, I look at that and say, I don’t know how there’s ever a second child. I mean, if that was me once enough would be it. But there is a joy that is set forth through giving birth to that child that is greater than the pain that it costs to deliver. And in order for you and me to be born again, he went through the pain of birth for us. And for the joy that was set forth beforehand, scorned the shame. And he sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. Why did he sit down? His work was over. It’s finished. He’s done it. He’s faithful. He’s shown himself to you. And now he says, walk in it. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

I have some times people who say why I have been so mistreated? Have I ever received opposition from sinful people? They really been on my case. Why even had a dysfunctional family. I’ve been mistreated, endured a lot of opposition from sinful men. I ask people sometimes a question Has anyone ever come up to you and strapped you to a steak and ripped your clothes off of you and taken a whip for the bone ended about that big and lacerated your back to the point where you’re very bows and sinews are exposed to human exposure. And then put your clothes back on you. And later on after the blood dries, rip it off again. And do it again. Has anyone ever come up to you and plucked out your beard? So when ever come up to put a sack over your head and then gather about six guys about the size Guy Brown over there and beat the daylights out. And as a punch in the face, say which one hit you this time prophet? And to be beaten as it says no man? Ever had that done to you? You ever have anybody cram a crown of thorns down on your head and it didn’t take a club and beat on it so that it sticks into your skull even more. Face is covered with blood. Ever have that happen to you? Have anyone lay down and drive stakes in your hands and in your feet and then stick it on a cross and let you there suffocate half to death. And when you’re there stick a spear in you just to see if you’re dead. And look down to see how sorry people are that their gambling for your clothes. Or to the one who had all of those things happen to him. He looked down from the cross and said, Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing.

That’s a far cry, isn’t it from vindictiveness that I’m going to get even that I’ve had my rights stripped away from me therefore I’m going to try to get them back. It’s a far cry, isn’t it from I’ve been insulted and I grew up in a dysfunctional home. So therefore I’m gonna feel sorry for myself for the rest of my life because I was such a victim. It’s a far cry from looking at yourself as a victim. Instead of Father they didn’t know what they were doing. You see my friends when we began to see things from God’s perspective. That’s what walking by faith is. Because the world is constantly bombarding our minds to try to get us to see that the world owes us a living. That we deserve to be bitter that we’ve been abused and mistreated probably so So are these people. So are these people. Did it say retaliate? It say they probably don’t need a little counseling because obviously they little dysfunctional what you went through here. Did it say to sit around and think about your past? And analyze your past and analyze why you’re the way you are and think about it and analyze it and dig it up? And if you can’t remember, let’s try to remember. Did it say anything about that any of these? I mean, these people were pretty, it’s pretty bad in it. I mean, that’s worse than being a child of an alcoholic, an adult child, which is worse. Folks what in the world are we thinking about today? As Christians? How deep have we sunk into the mire of humanism? I mean, how far have we gone? To those who named the name of Christ, who think with a mindset that is totally contrary to the mind of Christ, how far have we gone? Fix your eyes on Jesus. What’s the opposite of having your eyes on Jesus? Having them on me? It didn’t say fix your eyes on you and analyze yourself and said fix your eyes on Jesus. He’s the author and perfecter of your faith. The only thing you need to do is believe in him, not being yourself out. Paul couldn’t even him figure himself out he said I don’t understand myself. So good, me either. Things I want to do. I don’t do on things that don’t want to do I do anyway. Do you realize that’s why everybody goes to counseling. That’s why you go there things want to do certain things and not things you want to do or don’t do. They don’t want to do anyway. Oh, you got a problem. And after you pay 100 bucks an hour, you’re gonna have a bigger problem. He said, keep your eyes off yourself. It’s dark in there. And put your eyes on Him who is the Light of the world, and you’ll have victory in this life.

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