Mike Balloun | THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:2-3

Mike teaches today. 05-09-2020
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:2-3

Verses: Job 38-41; Proverbs 18:21; Mark 8:34; Matthew 12:35-37; Romans 8:16-17

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Verse 2 “For by it the elders obtained a good report…”
“For by it (faith/trust in God’s Word and promises) the elders obtained a good report…” (Faith is the standard of their worthiness set by God)….why are the elders (heroes of Faith) of the Old Testament being brought out? Because they had obtained God’s favor. Overcoming Faith in the Old Testament consists of the same spiritual element as it does in the New Testament. And is now to be illustrated to the Hebrew Christians as the rekindling reminder to their waning faith and hope, that once was firmly set upon the Gospel Covenant reward of great recompense, at the return of Christ. And that they should not lose faith, faint or give up and turn back (“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” Galatians 4:9) lest they, as a consequence, would forfeit all the glorious promises of the future heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ.
And as a boost to their decreasing faith and hope, these examples to follow of God- approved men with like passions and circumstances are freshly set before them. These men and women who finished the race strong had now all passed into the afterlife having been approved to inherit the promises of God by the one differentiating factor from all others that lived at the same time they did: FAITH AND PATIENCE.

Paul had previously mentioned an example in passing on to God’s Oath in Hebrews 6:11“And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. This is comparative to having a title on something you haven’t seen before.)

Verse 3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
“Through faith (“faith” being an internal feeling caused by a firm trusting in the Word of God) we understand (we are told by someone {in Scripture} who was told by God, things only that can be known by God, since no man was present at creation or recreation, and then perceive through intuition and thought that it is truth. Romans 12:3) that the worlds (all the matter wherein we exist) were framed by the word of God (called into existence through His inherent power… not by “faith” construed to be a tangible substance released through His mouth, did He Create, as some have foolishly and recklessly reckoned to promote by twisting the Word to say: “We understand it was by faith that God framed the worlds.”… This is a non-Scriptural modern-day ideology that “faith” is a tangible substance, released by the mouth. And the line of error goes like this: Since we are created in His image, we also have this substance faith with the power of creation; or to bring things into existence as we “….calleth those things which be not as though they were.” And when you roll that string out to its conclusion, it is faith in your own faith, a subtle means by which the enemy moves the focus of faith in an all powerful God to a “faith” power resident in Self, released by the mouth; from faith in the One with the power to fulfill His promises to faith in oneself’s faith. And that being by believing and confessing “faith-filled words” based upon selected Scriptures that they have determined to be the promises of God for Believers in this life, in order to manifest/bring into existence, as God did in Creating, things that will enrich their misguided lives.

Let us note; light was; not because God spoke, but because it was God that spoke. God need not speak to Create or bring to pass. God Speaking is an expression of God’s will, thoughts, and actions in communication and explanation that He uses in order that His Created beings with intelligence may comprehend His marvelous ways and means (See Job 38:7 and read all of chapters 38-41 which is a

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