Champion: Faith For The Rest Of Us: Hebrews 11:20

 

1.Trusts in God’s Plans and Purposes

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Hebrews 11:20 (CSB)

2. Acknowledges My Wins and Losses

When the men of the place asked about his wide he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.” When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wide! How could you say, “She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
Genesis 26:7-9 (CSB)

From there he went up to Beer-sheba and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham. So he built an alter there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent here. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.
Genesis 26:23-25 (CSB)

3. Celebrates My Strengths and Weaknesses

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water us ours!” So he named the well Esek because they argued with him. Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Sitnah. He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “For now the Lord has made space for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Genesis 26:20:22 (CSB)

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Champion: ABC’s Of Faith: Hebrews 11:8-19

 

Faith…

1. Answers the Call

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Hebrews 11:8-10 (CSB)

The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:1-2 (CSB)

2. Believes the Promise

By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the one who has promised was faithful. Therefore, from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.
Hebrews 11:11-12 (CSB)

God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name. I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”
Genesis 17:15-17 (CSB)

3. Conquers the Test

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and yet he was offering his one and only son, the one to whom it had been said, your offspring will be called through Isaac. He considered God to be able to even raise someone from the dead; therefore, he received him back, figuratively speaking.
Hebrews 11:17-19 (CSB)

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-38 (CSB)

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Champion: Unsinkable Faith: Hebrews 11:7

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By faith Noah, after being warned about what was not yet seen, in reverence built an ark to deliver his family. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Hebrews 11:7 (CSB)

An Unsinkable Faith Requires Me to…

1. Do The Ordinary Before I can Experience The Extraordinary

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God. And Noah fathered three sons; Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:9-10 (CSB)

If you are faithful in the little things, you will be faithful in the large ones.
Luke 16:10 (NLT)

2. Embrace The Unpopular So I Can Become The Influencer

When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the Earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time, the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved. Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky-for I regret that I made them” Noah. However, found favor with the Lord.
Genesis 6:5-8 (CSB)

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation…So Noah, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7:1-7 (CSB)

3.  Believe The Improbable Before I Can Do The Impossible

By faith Noah, after he warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family.
Hebrews 11:7a (CSB)

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high… And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.
Genesis 6:14, 15, 22 (CSB)

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