IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL (1 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-4
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It Is Well with My Soul (1 of 4)
Series: Songs of Faith
Jeff Strite
Hebrews 11:1-4
OPEN: I love a good action movie - the kind they used to make. Movies where good overcomes evil; the boy gets the girl; righteousness triumphs and the hero rides off into the sunset. Those are ''feel good'' movies because everything works out the way it should.
One website talked about the movies where that kind of thing happens. ''It's the end of the movie. The Drifter has to be moving on. There are other people in trouble, other wrongs to right, other paths to follow. And so, he saddles up his horse and rides west into the setting sun. And the townspeople look on as his figure, silhouetted against the orange disk, disappears into the horizon. The music swells and the words ''The End'' appear on the screen.'' (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RidingIntoTheSunset)
Hebrews 11 has always struck me as a ''Riding Off Into The Sunset'' kind of passage. It's often been referred to as the Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11) and it lists such greats as Abraham, Moses, and Gideon and David and Samuel. These were heroes that stood up for God and for righteousness. And their story ended with them riding off into the sunset. In fact, the Bible's filled with many of those kinds of heroes. Heroes that ''conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Hebrews 11:33-34
THAT'S THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE!!!
(pause) But, you know... life doesn't always work out that way. Good doesn't always win; The boy doesn't always get the girl; And righteousness doesn't always triumph. Sometimes there isn't even a sunset to ride off into.
That's why Hebrews 11 doesn't stop by just telling us of the conquering heroes. We're told: ''Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again ...
Series: Songs of Faith
Jeff Strite
Hebrews 11:1-4
OPEN: I love a good action movie - the kind they used to make. Movies where good overcomes evil; the boy gets the girl; righteousness triumphs and the hero rides off into the sunset. Those are ''feel good'' movies because everything works out the way it should.
One website talked about the movies where that kind of thing happens. ''It's the end of the movie. The Drifter has to be moving on. There are other people in trouble, other wrongs to right, other paths to follow. And so, he saddles up his horse and rides west into the setting sun. And the townspeople look on as his figure, silhouetted against the orange disk, disappears into the horizon. The music swells and the words ''The End'' appear on the screen.'' (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RidingIntoTheSunset)
Hebrews 11 has always struck me as a ''Riding Off Into The Sunset'' kind of passage. It's often been referred to as the Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11) and it lists such greats as Abraham, Moses, and Gideon and David and Samuel. These were heroes that stood up for God and for righteousness. And their story ended with them riding off into the sunset. In fact, the Bible's filled with many of those kinds of heroes. Heroes that ''conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Hebrews 11:33-34
THAT'S THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE!!!
(pause) But, you know... life doesn't always work out that way. Good doesn't always win; The boy doesn't always get the girl; And righteousness doesn't always triumph. Sometimes there isn't even a sunset to ride off into.
That's why Hebrews 11 doesn't stop by just telling us of the conquering heroes. We're told: ''Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again ...
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