613 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 52 - By Faith

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 52 By Faith Hebrews 11:9–23 All right now then, let’s continue our study in Chapter 11 - "the faith chapter." And again, it’s just to show us that these Old Testament people walked and lived and were saved by faith even as we are. What God said to them! It was God’s Word to them. And we’ve already covered the pre-flood people. God didn’t tell Noah, "Now believe that I’m going to die on a Roman cross and be raised from the dead." Now believing what God said, what did Noah do? Now verse 9. Hebrews 11:9a "By faith…" By faith; by just simply believing what God had said, now I can comprehend that it was probably easier for the man to believe something when he had seen God, Who I’m sure came down in human form, as He did in Genesis 18. All the way from Adam until we get to Moses, there was no written Word from God. Hebrews chapter 1, right up there at verses 1 and 2 - and this is just exactly what we’re saying. "God." Remember God never changes. All right, so here’s the whole idea. Hebrews 1:1 "God, who at sundry (or various) times and in diverse (different) manners spake in time past unto the fathers (how?) Now verse 2, and here God changes things: Hebrews 1:2 The ascended Lord. So when we read Paul’s epistles now we realize that God is speaking to us through God the Son Who in turn is inspiring this Apostle to write what we are to understand and believe for salvation, and it’s that much difference. All right, so these Patriarchs were still believers of what God said and when they responded to it, God in turn responds by calling them righteous. They were in right relationship with Him. Hebrews 11:9a "By faith (by taking God at His Word) he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country,…" The Canaanites were dwelling in the land. Even though it was the land that God had promised. Hebrews 11:9b "…dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" All right, so he "sojourned in a strange land" only because he knew he could trust the God who told him to leave Ur. Now, I think all of you know - how old was he when the promised son was born, Isaac? Tents. If you can’t understand the Abrahamic Covenant, then this Book is a dilemma. All right, Genesis chapter 12. It was there, because Abraham comes out of one of the three sons of Noah remember. And God was in control of all that. Genesis 12:1 "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, (in chapter 11) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will (sometime in the future) shew thee:" See He doesn’t tell him here, for example, I’m going to send you up to the Mediterranean. Well now, this is all means of testing the man’s faith. Now here come the promises, verse 2. Genesis 12:2-3a "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:…" All right, but then the best promise of all is the last part. Genesis 12:3b Now we’re going to see where God repeats this same covenant, if I may call it that, to the next one on the scene, which is Isaac. And Isaac, too, is going to be given the covenant promises over in chapter 26. Genesis 26:1-3 Here comes Jacob. Years are going by but God doesn’t change. God never forgets. Genesis 28:1-4 3. And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people: 4. And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham." As I’ve said on this program over and over, this is the only Book on earth that can prove itself as the revealed Word of God. I’ll never know. But here it is, that all the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with regard to that nation of people inheriting the land of Canaan. And God later would promise that they would be scattered into every nation under Heaven because of their disobedience. Don’t you get puffed up because the same God that could break off those original branches and graft in foreign branches can break you off and bring Israel in and what’s the word? Hebrews 11:9 "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country; dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same (what?) promise;" God promised it and they all believed it even though it took so many hindrances - my goodness, just stop and think of the confrontation between Jacob and Esau. Who would ever dream that, out of that, God would fulfill the promises, but He did. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible