526 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 44 - Being Shipwrecked Spiritually - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 44 BEING SHIPWRECKED SPIRITUALLY - PART 2 All right, now we’re going to go right into the next verse after our last program ended in verse 18—now verse 19. He’s still admonishing the young man Timothy. faith,…” Romans chapter 10 and verse 17, and it’s as plain as language can make it. Romans 10:17 the word of God.” All right, my definition for faith over the years that I’ve been on television has been real simple. Taking God at His Word. That’s what faith is. God said it, and He expects us to believe it. That’s faith. We’re talking about faith in what God has said concerning our spiritual need. The Word of God. All right, now the Word of God tells us in Romans 3:23 that: Romans 3:23 God says it, and we believe it because it’s His Word. Come back to Genesis chapter 4. Because see, the world’s problem has always been the lack of faith—or the word I’ve always used is unbelief. Unbelief. They don’t believe what God said. Genesis 4:3a Genesis 4:3-5a “And in the process of time (Or after a time of instruction so that there was no doubt what God expected.) Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. God did not respect that offering. All the way up to Hebrews chapter 11, the great faith chapter—keeping in mind now these two young men. Hebrews 11:4a “By faith (by taking God at His Word) Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,...” Cain brought that which grew out of the ground. Abel brought a live sacrifice. A blood sacrifice. All right, so now then, if Abel brought the right sacrifice and he did it by faith, why did Cain bring a wrong sacrifice? No faith! The man didn’t believe a word God said. Well, that was Cain. Whatever God told him concerning a sacrifice, Cain just let it go in one ear and out the other. And when it came time that he knew he had to get right with God, instead of bringing a blood sacrifice, Cain probably said, well, surely God knows how much sweat I’ve put into growing these things. It was Cain’s unbelief. It was just simply that he did not have faith, where Abel did. So Abel was accepted. Chapter 25. Genesis 25:27 “And the boys (Jacob and Esau) grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” All right, now verse 29: Genesis 25:29-31 It was a red bean soup that Jacob was cooking.) Sell me this day thy birthright.” By faith! God didn’t lay it all out in a blueprint. They had to appropriate these things by taking God at His Word. And that’s why Hebrews 11 is such a beautiful resume of these men of faith. It was their faith. All right, now coming back to this man Esau, then, he sees nothing to be gained from that spiritual birthright. No faith. What God said didn’t mean anything to Esau. Verse 31: Genesis 25:31-32 “And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. Whatever God may have said went in one ear and out the other. Hey, that’s most people today. We believe it, and God reckons that faith, then, as righteousness. Verse 33: Genesis 25:33-34 “And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Turn to chapter 36 of Genesis. Now this is the genealogy of the people that would come from this man destitute of faith, Esau. Genesis 36:1-2a 2. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan;…” All right, so why can Esau glibly go and marry Canaanite women? No faith! No faith. I’m looking right at it. Yeah, okay verse 3. Genesis 36:3 No faith. Didn’t mean a thing to him what God said. All right, now let’s follow up again going all the way back to Hebrews—to our same faith chapter. Eleven is the faith chapter. We’re going to follow up on this man destitute of faith, Esau. Hebrews 12:16 “Lest there be any (What’s the word? Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.” Immoral. No faith. Not taking God at His Word has ruined nations. Because we have had so much of the Word of God. Bibles in every library. All right, I’d like to use one more quick instance of a lack of faith. No, let’s go to Numbers 14. God brings them up to the southern border of the Promised Land, or what we today call the Land of Israel. The Promised Land, whatever you want to call it. Back into chapter 13 verse 27, the spies have now come back. And remember, the spies weren’t God’s idea, that was Israel’s. Numbers 13:32 Had God told them to be afraid of any of that? Oh, the next chapter now: Numbers 14:1-2a Verse 3. Numbers 14:3 God said all they had to do was walk in and occupy it. No faith! And Hebrews chapter 3 recaps it. Unbelief. So the Nation missed all the promises of the land flowing with milk and honey. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible