08/16/2021
Faith does not mean foolishness. Faith is misunderstood or many people are not reading the text correctly. Heb 11:1 describes faith as, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” But many discount you don’t need faith or hope for something you already know. Rom 8:24, “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
Faith had elements that identifies real faith. (1) substance of things hoped for; (2) evidence of things not seen. Key words (a) hope; (b) not seen. COVID is killing people that can be seen. Hospitals and schools COVID cases are going back up that can be seen. Children are getting sick that can be seen.
Also, faith MUST come with a Transitive Verb attached to it (it meaning Faith.) A Transitive verb simply express action and are followed by a direct object. Therefore, Faith is something that makes it an object and NOT an illusion or a wish. It has (1) Substance; and (2) Evidence. Let’s identify the Transitive Verbs in Heb 11 shall we?
Heb 11:4, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Transitive verb: Offered
Heb 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Transitive verb: Translated
Heb 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Transitive verbs: Come; Believe; Seek
Heb 11:7, “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Transitive verb: Prepared
Heb 11:8, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Transitive verbs: Go; Obeyed; Went
Heb 11:9-10, “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 promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Transitive verbs: Sojourned (stayed); Looked
Heb 11:11, “Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Transitive verbs: Conceive; Unseen Transitive verbs: Lay with her husband; Delivered; Judged
You know what else all these things have in common. God instructed.
Transitive verb: Instructed