Heb. 11:6 ESV
Things that are easier said than done...
• Helping someone fix a computer over the phone. • Following the instructions in putting together that Christmas present late Christmas eve.
• Answering the Question, “Does this dress make me look fat? [email protected]
Forgiveness
Forgiveness Commanded What is it?
Distortions Definition
Why is it important? How do you do it?
Physically Mentally/Emotionally Relationally Spiritually In General Everyday
Be Angry and Sin Not
Be Angry and Sin Not Anger
Derived from “grief” & “to strangle” Not a sin in and of itself
Awareness Clues & Causes Alternatives Be mastered by it...or...master it Indifference/vengeance or Attitudes compassion/forgiveness Actions
Have Faith
Importance of Faith
And without faith it is impossible to please him... (Heb. 11:6a ESV)
...whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. (Rom. 14:23b ESV)
Hebrews 11:1-6
Hebrews 11:1-6 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
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Noun or Verb
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Noun & Verb
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Verb
“pristis”
“peitho”
Conviction
To Convict
Assurance
To Assure
Belief
To Believe
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
James 2:17, 19, 26 ESV
17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Hebrews 11:17-19 ESV 17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
A faith realized is a faith exercised
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Target
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A Person
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Heb. 11:6 ESV
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A Person Not
a Feeling or an Outcome
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Two-sided coin Target Tricky Can faith and uncertainty coexist?
Dan. 3:15b-18 ESV 15 ...if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?" 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."
Two-sided coin Target Tricky If thereʼs a lack of favorable outcome, is it because a lack of faith?
Heb. 11:13a ESV
Speaking of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob...
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised...
Two-sided coin Target Tricky What if you donʼt have a lot of faith?
Matt. 17:19-20 ESV
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" 20 He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."
Two-sided coin Target Tricky If you donʼt feel it, do you really have faith?
Moses - Ex. 3-4 Joshua - Josh. 1:6,7,9 Gideon - Judges 6:11-16
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
11 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor."
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
13 And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
14 And the LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?" 15 And he said to him "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fatherʼs house."
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
16 And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
Two-sided coin Target Tricky Tested
Trials! James 1:2-4 ESV
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Trials! 1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV
6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
So...
“Have Faith” but remember...
Two-sided coin Target Tricky Tested
• Helping someone fix a computer over the phone. • Following the instructions in putting together that Christmas present late Christmas eve.
• Answering the Question, “Does this dress make me look fat? [email protected]
Forgiveness
Forgiveness Commanded What is it?
Distortions Definition
Why is it important? How do you do it?
Physically Mentally/Emotionally Relationally Spiritually In General Everyday
Be Angry and Sin Not
Be Angry and Sin Not Anger
Derived from “grief” & “to strangle” Not a sin in and of itself
Awareness Clues & Causes Alternatives Be mastered by it...or...master it Indifference/vengeance or Attitudes compassion/forgiveness Actions
Have Faith
Importance of Faith
And without faith it is impossible to please him... (Heb. 11:6a ESV)
...whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. (Rom. 14:23b ESV)
Hebrews 11:1-6
Hebrews 11:1-6 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Two-sided coin
Two-sided coin
Noun or Verb
Two-sided coin
Noun & Verb
Two-sided coin Noun
Verb
“pristis”
“peitho”
Conviction
To Convict
Assurance
To Assure
Belief
To Believe
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
James 2:17, 19, 26 ESV
17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Hebrews 11:17-19 ESV 17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
A faith realized is a faith exercised
Two-sided coin
Target
Two-sided coin Target
A Person
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Heb. 11:6 ESV
Two-sided coin Target
A Person Not
a Feeling or an Outcome
Two-sided coin Target Tricky
Two-sided coin Target Tricky Can faith and uncertainty coexist?
Dan. 3:15b-18 ESV 15 ...if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?" 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."
Two-sided coin Target Tricky If thereʼs a lack of favorable outcome, is it because a lack of faith?
Heb. 11:13a ESV
Speaking of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob...
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised...
Two-sided coin Target Tricky What if you donʼt have a lot of faith?
Matt. 17:19-20 ESV
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" 20 He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."
Two-sided coin Target Tricky If you donʼt feel it, do you really have faith?
Moses - Ex. 3-4 Joshua - Josh. 1:6,7,9 Gideon - Judges 6:11-16
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
11 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor."
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
13 And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
14 And the LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?" 15 And he said to him "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fatherʼs house."
Judges 6:11-16 ESV
16 And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
Two-sided coin Target Tricky Tested
Trials! James 1:2-4 ESV
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Trials! 1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV
6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
So...
“Have Faith” but remember...
Two-sided coin Target Tricky Tested
