Champion: The Power Of Everybody: Hebrews 11:30-31

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being marched around by the Israelites for seven days. By faith Rahab the prostitute welcomed the spies in peace and didn’t perish with those who disobeyed.
Hebrews 11:30-31 (CSB)

Now Jericho was strongly fortified because of the Israelites-no one leaving or entering. The Lord said to Joshua, “Look, I have handed Jericho, its king, and its fighting men over to you.  March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
Joshua 6:1-3 (CSB)

1. Everybody Worships

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”“Neither,” he replied. “I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.” Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship and asked him, “What does my lord want to say to his servant?”The commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did that.
Joshua 5:13-14 (CSB)

Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.  After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the troops, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city…So the troops shouted, and the trumpets sounded. When they heard the blast of the trumpet, the troops gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed.
Joshua 6:15-20 (CSB)

2.  Everybody Marches

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being marched around by the Israelites for seven days.
Hebrews 11:30 (CSB)

And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”
Joshua 6:7 (NIV)

3.  Everybody Believes

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being marched around by the Israelites for seven days.
Hebrews 11:30 (CSB)

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Champion: Time To Decide: Hebrews 11:23-29

By faith Moses, after he was born, was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict.
Hebrews 11:23 (CSB)

Faith…

1.        Chooses

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.
Hebrews 11:24-25 (CSB)

2.         Thinks

For he considered reproach for the sake of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.
Hebrews 11:26 (CSB)

3.         Leaves

By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for he persevered, as one who sees Him who is invisible.
Hebrews 11:27 (CSB)

4.         Practices

By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned.
Hebrews 11:28 (CSB)

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Champion: Don’t Let Anyone Steal Your Dreams: Hebrews 11:22

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By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.
Hebrews 11:22 (CSB)

1.         Discover Your Dreams

Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”8 “Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.9 Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”10 He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had?” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you?” 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
Genesis 37:5-11 (CSB)

But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20 You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people. 21 Therefore don’t be afraid. I will take care of you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 50:19-21 (CSB)

2.         Hang On To Your Dreams

…So Joseph was there in prison.  But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor with the prison warden. 22 The warden put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph’s authority, and he was responsible for everything that was done there. 23 The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord made everything that he did successful.
Genesis 39:20-23 (CSB)

3.         Help Others Fulfill Their Dreams

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I remember my faults.  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guards.  He and I had dreams on the same night; each dream had its own meaning.  Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation.  It turned out just the way he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”
Genesis 41:9-13 (CSB)

4.         Finish Your Dreams

By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.
Hebrews 11:22 (CSB)

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”  So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.” Joseph died at the age of 110. They embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis 50:24-26 (CSB)

 

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Champion: Leaning On The Lord: Hebrews 11:21

 

1. My Faith Is Like A Seed, It Has To Grow.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and, he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Hebrews 11:21 (CSB)

3 Levels of faith
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When my faith grows…

A. I Bless Others

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and, he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Hebrews 11:21 (CSB)

B. I Worship the Lord

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and, he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Hebrews 11:21 (CSB)

C. I Stop Relying on Myself

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and, he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Hebrews 11:21 (CSB)

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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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