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Robert Jeffress - The Necessary Ingredient (Part 1)

January 16, 2025 | S25:E28

Robert Jeffress - The Necessary Ingredient (Part 1)
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Necessary Ingredient (Part 1) | January 16, 2025
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • The word faith is pervasive today.
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  • It's woven into lyrics, books, and speeches.
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  • But even though it's familiar,
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  • Most of us could use a refresher course
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  • On the true meaning of faith.
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  • Today we're beginning a brand new study
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  • In hebrews chapter 11 called spiritual fitness.
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  • And we'll start by defining this all important word, faith.
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • I remember, at the beginning of this pandemic,
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  • The very outset of it, a reporter asked me,
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  • "pastor, what do you think
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  • The long-term consequences are going to be
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  • If this quarantine, the shutdown,
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  • Goes for months and months?
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  • And i said, "my prediction
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  • Is you're going to see divorce rates rise dramatically."
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  • And sure enough, months later,
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  • That is exactly what we have seen happen.
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  • We're seeing divorce rates go up in texas,
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  • In california, in florida.
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  • In fact, i came across an interview
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  • With a divorce attorney this week
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  • Who explained why that was.
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  • He said, "i would say the phone is ringing much more.
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  • Where it used to be that a couple
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  • Was able to get away from each other during the days
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  • Or in the evenings with their extracurricular activities,
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  • Now they don't have that opportunity.
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  • So now people are more acutely aware
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  • That they just can't stay together."
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  • Now will you listen to what that attorney is saying?
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  • He is saying that being cooped up with your mate,
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  • Let me change that, spending quality time with your beloved,
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  • Is not the cause of problems in the marriage,
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  • But it reveals problems that were already in the marriage.
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  • That's an important distinction.
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  • The fact is pressure from the outside
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  • Doesn't always cause problems,
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  • It simply reveals problems.
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  • Think about a hairline fracture in a sidewalk or in a road
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  • That you can't see with the naked eye.
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  • But you put pressure on that fracture,
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  • Whether it's a 4,000 pound truck
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  • Or an 18,000 pound semi,
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  • You put pressure on that, that fracture becomes visible
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  • And it even widens because of the pressure.
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  • That's true in almost every aspect of life,
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  • Including our relationship with god.
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  • The fact is
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  • Problems from the outside
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  • Don't fracture our relationship with god.
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  • Problems from the outside simply reveal fractures
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  • In our relationship with god and widens them.
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  • You know, we don't hear that often
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  • In christian teaching these days.
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  • Haven't you heard people say, "oh, problems are wonderful."
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  • "you've lost your mate, you're going through an illness,
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  • You're experiencing financial difficulty,
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  • Well, you ought to rejoice in that
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  • Because that strengthens your faith in god."
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  • We even have verses we quote to say that,
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  • Like james 1:2.
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  • "count it all joy, my brethren,
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  • When you encounter various trials,
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  • Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance."
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  • Well, sometimes that's true, but not all the time.
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  • That verse, "testing of your faith,"
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  • That word testing, dokimion,
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  • Is a word that refers to the process
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  • By which a potter forms a piece of pottery out of clay,
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  • And then he puts it in a firing oven,
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  • Turns up the temperature hundreds and hundreds of degrees,
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  • And the heat of that oven
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  • Sometimes strengthens that piece of pottery.
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  • But sometimes that oven, the heat reveals a problem
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  • In that piece of pottery and causes it to shatter.
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  • If the piece of pottery survives the firing oven,
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  • The potter takes it out and he writes on the bottom,
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  • He would write the greek word dokimon, tested, approved.
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  • It's made it through the fire
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  • And it's stronger because of it.
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  • But if that piece of pottery would shatter in the oven,
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  • It was discarded, thrown away forever.
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  • It's the same way with our faith.
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  • When we go through fiery problems in our life,
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  • Sometimes those problems can strengthen us,
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  • But sometimes they can cause our faith to shatter.
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  • What's the difference?
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  • What is it that determines
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  • Whether or not problems strengthen us or destroy us?
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  • In a word, faith.
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  • Faith is the necessary ingredient
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  • That allows us to survive and even thrive in problems
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  • Rather than be shattered by them.
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  • Whether or not problems draw us closer to god
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  • Or drive us away from god depends upon faith.
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  • And faith is the subject of our chapter we've come to
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  • In our study of the book of hebrews, hebrews chapter 11.
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  • Today we're beginning a new series
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  • Based on these final three chapters in the book of hebrews.
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  • I'm calling this series spiritual fitness:
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  • Strengthening our faith in troubled times.
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  • Now, you probably are familiar with hebrews chapter 11.
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  • It has many names.
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  • People have called it the westminster abbey of christianity,
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  • God's hall of honor, the roll call of faith.
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  • But the problem with hebrews 11
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  • Is sometimes we become so familiar with it
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  • We miss the teaching of it,
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  • Like psalm 23 or 1 corinthians 13.
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  • We get caught up in the beauty of the language
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  • Rather than the meaning of the text.
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  • When the writer of hebrews sat down to write hebrews 11,
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  • He wasn't trying to write the most eloquent treatise
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  • On the subject of faith ever created.
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  • Instead, he was addressing a very real problem
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  • Among the hebrew christians.
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  • These new christians who had come out of judaism
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  • And embraced christianity
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  • Were starting to feel the heat for their decision.
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  • They were facing pressure, testing,
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  • From the roman government
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  • That was beginning an empire wide ban on christianity.
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  • But they were also feeling the heat
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  • From their own family members, jews who didn't understand
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  • Why they would abandon tradition and their families
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  • For this new religion called christianity.
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  • How are these hebrew christians reacting to that pressure?
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  • Some were allowing it to shatter their beliefs
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  • And they were considering going back into judaism.
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  • And so the writer of hebrew says,
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  • "don't lose your confidence.
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  • Don't give up your faith in jesus,
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  • That superior priest who offer the superior sacrifice
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  • To obtain a superior salvation.
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  • Why would you let go of what you know to be true?"
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  • And so he says the key to holding onto your beliefs
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  • Is your faith.
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  • How can you as christians today living in the 21st century
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  • Make sure that you endure rather than buckle
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  • Under the problems you're facing?
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  • What is the key to holding onto your beliefs
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  • Rather than letting go of them in difficult times?
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  • What is it that will preserve your relationship with god
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  • Until christ returns one day?
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  • Again, in a word, it's faith.
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  • And today, in these first seven verses of hebrews 11,
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  • The author's going to do three things.
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  • First of all, he's going to define faith.
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  • Secondly, he's going to give us two examples of faith.
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  • And then third, he's going to explain
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  • The two requirements of faith.
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  • First of all, let's talk about a definition of faith.
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  • When we're talking about faith, what are we talking about?
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  • I think the best way to explain faith
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  • Is to begin by explaining what it's not.
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  • Today, there is a lot of fuzzy thinking
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  • About what faith is.
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  • You know, i remember reading a book
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  • By the late robert schuller.
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  • And robert schuller had some good things to say
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  • But also some not so good things to say.
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  • He was america's premier possibility thinker.
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  • And i remember reading a paragraph in one of his books,
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  • And he said, "the greatest threat to the world today
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  • Is not thermonuclear war, it's not environmental disaster,"
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  • No, this is what he said the greatest problem was, quote,
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  • "the greatest problem
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  • Is that the human being will lose faith
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  • That he can manage to overcome those problems.
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  • What is the solution to the biggest problem?
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  • I am and i can.
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  • Powerful, positive self-esteem is what we all need."
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  • By the way, when you hear people say,
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  • "oh, i'm a person of faith,"
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  • Or he or she's a person of faith,
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  • We're going to hear that a lot in the next few months.
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  • "oh, they're a person of faith."
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  • You always need to ask the question, faith in what?
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  • Faith in what?
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  • Faith in yourself, like schuller says?
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  • I am and i can?
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  • Faith in other people,
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  • Faith that somehow everything's going to turn out okay?
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  • Faith always demands an object.
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  • And the only worthy object of our faith is god himself.
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  • That's what faith is about.
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  • It's not faith in me or faith in circumstances,
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  • It is faith in god.
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  • No, faith is not positive thinking.
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  • It's not conjuring up this emotion
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  • That, oh, i believe, i believe, i believe,
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  • That if you believe something hard enough,
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  • You can will it into existence.
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  • That's not faith, that's presumption.
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  • No, he tells us exactly what real biblical faith is.
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  • First of all, by words, look at verse one.
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  • "now faith is the assurance of things hoped for.
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  • It is the conviction of things not seen,"
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  • Underlying those words, assurance and conviction.
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  • Look at that word assurance.
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  • It's the greek word hupostasis.
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  • It comes from two greek words actually,
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  • Stasis, which means a concrete pillar
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  • That holds something up,
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  • Hupo means underneath, below.
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  • It refers to the foundation
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  • That holds those pillars and the faith.
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  • In other words, hupostasis, assurance,
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  • Isn't some mystical hope that something might happen.
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  • It is the concrete assurance that something is going to happen.
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  • And what is our concrete assurance in?
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  • Again, it's not that what we want to happen will happen.
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  • Faith is the assurance, listen to this,
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  • That god will do what he has promised to do.
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  • It's not that god will do what i want him to do.
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  • It's that god will do what he has promised to do.
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  • So many christians get mixed up on this.
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  • They think to pray in faith
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  • Means to just get this positive attitude
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  • That says god's going to do what i want him to do.
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  • And if i believe it long enough, hard enough,
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  • And say it often enough,
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  • God will be forced to do what i want him to do.
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  • I say it's like that little engine that could.
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  • Remember going up the hill?
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  • I think i can, i think i can, i think i can.
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  • A lot of people think that's what faith is.
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  • I think god will, i think god will, i think god will.
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  • And somehow, if you say that long enough,
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  • God will be forced to do it.
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  • That's not faith, that's presumption.
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  • Faith is believing that god will do
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  • What he's promised to do.
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  • Well, what has he promised to do?
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  • Listen, god never promised to spare you from illness.
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  • He never promised to spare you from heartache.
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  • He never promised to spare you from death.
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  • But what he has promised to do is to redeem you when you die
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  • And take you with him forever.
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  • That is what you can know for sure
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  • That god has promised to do.
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  • I remember talking to a couple a while back.
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  • They were suffering the pain and heartbreak of infertility.
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  • They had prayed and prayed and prayed
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  • That god would give them a child.
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  • They'd gone through expensive treatments.
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  • Nothing worked.
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  • Now i remember what they said to me.
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  • They said, "you know, pastor, we believe
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  • That whether or not god gives us a child,
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  • God is going to use our experience to help and encourage others
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  • Who are going through this problem."
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  • And they ended up leading a support group in our church
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  • For those who go through infertility.
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  • You see, they exercised faith,
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  • Not the faith that god was going to give them a child.
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  • In fact, he never gave them a child.
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  • But faith that god could use their pain for good,
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  • Faith that like 1 corinthians 1 says,
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  • "god comforts us in our affliction,
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  • That we can comfort others with the same affliction
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  • Or the same comfort with which we are comforted
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  • In all of our affliction."
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  • That's what god has promised to do.
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  • He hasn't promised
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  • To take you out of your problems right now,
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  • But he's promised, if you're willing,
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  • To use you as an encouragement to others as well.
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  • That's what biblical faith is.
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  • It's an assurance that god will do what he's promised to do.
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  • But notice the second word.
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  • It's not just an assurance, it is a conviction.
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  • "it's a conviction of the things not seen."
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  • Verse two, "for by it," that is faith,
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  • "the men of old gained approval."
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  • Conviction has the idea of doing something
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  • As a result of your faith.
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  • It refers to obeying god.
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  • As we look at hebrews 11 in the next few weeks,
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  • We'll discover one thing all of these men and women
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  • Had in common is they believed god
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  • And they acted according to their belief in god.
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  • They did something as a demonstration of their faith.
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  • That's what conviction is.
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  • And that leads me to the definition of faith
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  • That i want us to use throughout the study.
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  • Faith is believing.
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  • Faith is the assurance that god will do
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  • What he's promised to do and acting accordingly.
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  • Faith without works is a dead faith.
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  • Faith is the assurance that god will do
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  • What he's promised to do and acting accordingly.
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  • Notice the illustration he gives
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  • Of what it means to believe,
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  • To be convicted of things not seen.
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  • Look at verse three.
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  • "by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared
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  • By the word of god, so that what is seen
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  • Was not made out of things which are visible."
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  • In other words, (chuckles)
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  • The first thing you have to believe,
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  • The first example of faith is the first verse of the bible.
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  • "in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth."
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  • We didn't see that happen.
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  • We didn't see how god did it,
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  • But we believe that by faith.
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  • In fact, if you can believe genesis 1:1,
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  • You don't have any trouble believing
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  • In the resurrection, or the incarnation,
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  • Or any of the other miracles in the bible.
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  • That's the most basic miracle.
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  • By faith, we understand that these things happened.
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  • Now, it's true that there's a lot of evidence
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  • That god created this world, that it didn't just happen.
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  • I think about the 18th century minister william paley.
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  • He used this analogy.
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  • He said if you're walking through a field
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  • And you stumble upon a rock, a large rock,
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  • You can assume that that rock is there by chance.
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  • It's just a sliver of a larger mineral deposit
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  • That just ended up there.
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  • But if you walk a little further
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  • And you see a gold, ornate pocket watch there,
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  • And you open it up, and you opened it
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  • And inside see that intricate mechanism,
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  • You know that watch isn't there by chance.
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  • There is a designer, an intelligent designer,
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  • Who made order out of chaos, who put that watch together.
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  • It's the same.
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  • In looking at the creation,
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  • You can look around this creation
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  • And know it didn't happen by chance.
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  • That's why the bible says,
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  • "the fool has said in his heart, there is no god."
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  • Only a fool would believe
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  • That all of this happened by chance.
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  • We believe that god created this world.
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  • Do you remember the name carl sagan,
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  • The astronomer who spent his life studying the cosmos?
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  • Carl sagan died when he was 62,
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  • But before he died, he's said to a religious friend of his,
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  • He said, "you're so smart.
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  • How can you believe in god?"
  • 00:18:31.533 --> 00:18:33.969
  • And she replied, "carl, you're so smart,
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  • How can you not believe in god?"
  • 00:18:36.738 --> 00:18:39.441
  • She then asked him, "carl, do you believe in love?
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  • You've never seen it, but do you believe it?"
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  • He said, "well, yes.
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  • I love my wife with all my heart."
  • 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:49.551
  • She said, "can you prove love exists?"
  • 00:18:49.551 --> 00:18:52.387
  • He said, "yes, i can prove it."
  • 00:18:52.387 --> 00:18:55.290
  • But then he agreed he really couldn't prove love exists.
  • 00:18:55.290 --> 00:18:59.695
  • The fact is we believe in things all the time
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  • That aren't visible to us, but we believe in them.
  • 00:19:02.264 --> 00:19:06.134
  • I think about vance havner, who said one time,
  • 00:19:06.134 --> 00:19:08.837
  • "i have never seen electricity, i don't understand it,
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  • But i don't plan to stumble around in the darkness
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  • Because of that."
  • 00:19:14.276 --> 00:19:15.644
  • I mean, you believe in the things you haven't seen.
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  • It's the same way in our relationship with god.
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  • But ultimately, it's a matter of faith.
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  • Now, to give us an example of what it means
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  • To be assured of what god has said and acting accordingly,
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  • Notice the two examples of faith
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  • Beginning in verses four and five.
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  • First of all, he takes us back to the story of abel,
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  • Abel, who demonstrates a faith that saves.
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  • Faith is integral.
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  • It is basic to salvation.
  • 00:19:45.507 --> 00:19:47.809
  • Look at verse four.
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  • "by faith abel offered to god a better sacrifice than cain,
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  • Through which he obtained the testimony
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  • That he was righteous,
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  • God testifying about his gifts, and through faith,
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  • Though he is dead, he still speaks."
  • 00:20:01.323 --> 00:20:03.992
  • Remember cain and abel
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  • Were the first two children of adam and eve?
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  • By the way, adam and eve had other children,
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  • Sons and daughters, the bible says,
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  • Which answers the old question, where did cain get his wife?
  • 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:15.437
  • Have you ever heard that before?
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  • It was from the other children.
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  • I know you're thinking, ew, that is so gross and disgusting,
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  • If you think about marrying your sister.
  • 00:20:22.811 --> 00:20:24.980
  • But the fact is that's how they procreated
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  • In those early days.
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  • But cain and abel were the first two children
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  • Of adam and eve.
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  • And remember, god said to them,
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  • "i want you to bring a sacrifice to me."
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  • And he prescribed the kind of sacrifice he wanted.
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  • And abel brought a sacrifice.
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  • He was a shepherd, and so he brought one of his animals
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  • And offered a blood sacrifice to god.
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  • Cain decided that he would try
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  • To offer his own sacrifice to god,
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  • And he brought some of the produce that he had raised.
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  • And the bible says that god accepted abel's offering,
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  • But he rejected cain's offering.
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  • And cain was so despondent
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  • Over the fact that god rejected him
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  • That he became enraged at his brother abel and killed him,
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  • The first murder in the bible.
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  • Why is it that god accepted abel's sacrifice
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  • But rejected cain's offering?
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  • (chuckles) i've heard pastors speculate about that.
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  • I've read bible commentators who said,
  • 00:21:27.376 --> 00:21:29.311
  • "well, it was in their attitude."
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  • Abel brought his sacrifice as an act of love,
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  • But cain brought his to satisfy a religious ritual.
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  • And it was their attitude that made the difference.
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  • That sounds so good, but it's so wrong.
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  • I mean, the fact is the bible tells us
  • 00:21:46.862 --> 00:21:48.730
  • Exactly why god accepted abel's sacrifice and rejected cain.
  • 00:21:48.730 --> 00:21:53.268
  • Look at verse four.
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  • "by faith abel offered to god
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  • A better sacrifice than cain."
  • 00:21:57.539 --> 00:22:01.676
  • Apparently, in words we don't have recorded,
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  • God told both men exactly what he wanted.
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  • He prescribed a blood sacrifice,
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  • A blood offering of an innocent animal
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  • That would foretell the coming, many years later,
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  • Of the lamb of god, jesus christ,
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  • Who would take away the sins of the world.
  • 00:22:18.527 --> 00:22:20.896
  • And abel, although he didn't understand
  • 00:22:20.896 --> 00:22:23.331
  • Why god said that,
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  • He couldn't see down the corridor of history
  • 00:22:24.833 --> 00:22:26.935
  • To jesus christ, it made no sense to him
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  • To kill an innocent and good animal,
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  • He obeyed god.
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  • He believed what god said and acted accordingly.
  • 00:22:34.042 --> 00:22:37.813
  • But not cain.
  • 00:22:37.813 --> 00:22:39.347
  • He thought he could come to god any way he wanted to.
  • 00:22:39.347 --> 00:22:42.884
  • In fact, did you know in the new testament, jude verse 11,
  • 00:22:42.884 --> 00:22:46.788
  • The writer says, "avoid the way of cain."
  • 00:22:46.788 --> 00:22:52.093
  • You know what the way of cain is?
  • 00:22:52.828 --> 00:22:54.229
  • It's trying to come to god on your own terms.
  • 00:22:54.229 --> 00:22:56.965
  • And the world today is filled with people
  • 00:22:56.965 --> 00:22:58.834
  • Who say they can come to god any way they want to.
  • 00:22:58.834 --> 00:23:01.603
  • It doesn't matter what you believe.
  • 00:23:01.603 --> 00:23:03.738
  • It's like you can approach god
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  • Any way you want to from any direction
  • 00:23:05.407 --> 00:23:07.609
  • And still go up the same mountain of truth
  • 00:23:07.609 --> 00:23:10.145
  • And approach the same god.
  • 00:23:10.145 --> 00:23:11.880
  • God says, "no, you cannot come to me any way you choose.
  • 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:16.251
  • You must come in my way."
  • 00:23:16.251 --> 00:23:18.253
  • And for us today, it means believing in jesus christ
  • 00:23:18.253 --> 00:23:21.456
  • To be our savior.
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  • We're often running in this new teaching series
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  • About spiritual fitness.
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  • And i'm hoping you'll make an appointment
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  • Every day at this time
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  • As we move our way through several chapters
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  • In the book of hebrews.
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  • Together we'll discover what it means
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  • To strengthen our walk with god through faith.
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  • Just as christians in the early church
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  • You and i are facing daily pressures as well.
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  • Well, today we started our spiritual fitness series
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  • By defining the word faith.
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