Fact Checking God (21 of 28)
Series: Jesus - Greatest Of All Time
Tim Badal
Hebrews 11:1-3
We're back in the book of Hebrews, so please open your Bibles to Hebrews 11. For the last seven months we've been going verse by verse through this book. Today we come to a very famous passage of Scripture: the hall of faith. We're going to move through this chapter relatively quickly, even though there's so much in it. Three years ago we spent many weeks on this very chapter, walking through each of the biographies, in a series we called ''Heroes from Hebrews.''
Let's remember now what's going on in the book of Hebrews. It was written by an anonymous author to a group of first-century Christians who had left Judaism, including the rituals and regulations of the Mosaic law, because they had entered into a personal relationship with King Jesus. When they did this, their lives were changed in a lot of positive ways. They now had access to God in a way that no Jewish person had ever experienced before. They had the Holy Spirit living in them, guiding them to truth and convicting them of sin. But with all the good that would come from walking with Jesus, trouble was there as well. You see, the other Jewish people in their families, communities and workplaces were upset that these people would walk away from Judaism. How dare they walk away from the national faith of Israel! Because of this, these New Testament Christians were being beaten down and bullied to leave Jesus and come back to the fold.
We saw in Hebrews 10 that many who had once walked with Jesus were now deserting Him to go back to their old ways of doing things. The writer says to those who remained, ''Persevere. Endure. There's something so valuable waiting for you if you would just continue to walk this life of faith.'' He now is taking them to Hebrews 11 to describe what is meant by faith.
There is a phenomenon in our times that is fairly new, perhaps less than ten years old, called ''fact check ...
Series: Jesus - Greatest Of All Time
Tim Badal
Hebrews 11:1-3
We're back in the book of Hebrews, so please open your Bibles to Hebrews 11. For the last seven months we've been going verse by verse through this book. Today we come to a very famous passage of Scripture: the hall of faith. We're going to move through this chapter relatively quickly, even though there's so much in it. Three years ago we spent many weeks on this very chapter, walking through each of the biographies, in a series we called ''Heroes from Hebrews.''
Let's remember now what's going on in the book of Hebrews. It was written by an anonymous author to a group of first-century Christians who had left Judaism, including the rituals and regulations of the Mosaic law, because they had entered into a personal relationship with King Jesus. When they did this, their lives were changed in a lot of positive ways. They now had access to God in a way that no Jewish person had ever experienced before. They had the Holy Spirit living in them, guiding them to truth and convicting them of sin. But with all the good that would come from walking with Jesus, trouble was there as well. You see, the other Jewish people in their families, communities and workplaces were upset that these people would walk away from Judaism. How dare they walk away from the national faith of Israel! Because of this, these New Testament Christians were being beaten down and bullied to leave Jesus and come back to the fold.
We saw in Hebrews 10 that many who had once walked with Jesus were now deserting Him to go back to their old ways of doing things. The writer says to those who remained, ''Persevere. Endure. There's something so valuable waiting for you if you would just continue to walk this life of faith.'' He now is taking them to Hebrews 11 to describe what is meant by faith.
There is a phenomenon in our times that is fairly new, perhaps less than ten years old, called ''fact check ...
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