A Voyage Of Faith (3 of 5)
Series: Children's Stories (Part 1)
Jeff Strite
Hebrews 11:7
(I opened by pretending to read a children story about Noah. Then I read Hebrews 11:7) ''By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.''
PRAYER
Now, the first part of Hebrews 11:7 tells us that God WARNED Noah - and Noah believed God. Faith is essentially believing God. Believing that God did what He did, said what He meant, and He'll do what He promised.
ILLUS: Years ago I was visiting with some relatives and one of them said: ''I've never met anybody who BELIEVED that God sent a flood that cover the whole earth''
Well, now she had!
If the Bible says something happened... I believe it! And that's especially true of the story of Noah and the flood.
ILLUS: Back in 2007, Reuters wrote a story about the Creation Museum in Kentucky. They wrote: ''The Christian creators of the sprawling museum, unveiled on Saturday, hope to draw as many as half a million people each year to their state-of-the-art project, which depicts the Bible's first book, Genesis, as literal truth. While the $27 million museum near Cincinnati has drawn snickers from media and condemnation from U.S. scientists, those who believe God created the heavens and the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago say their views are finally being represented.''
And Reuters lamented ''almost half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve but were created by god in their present form within the last 10,000 years.''
Now, of course my faith doesn't depend upon the applause of the media, or approval of scientists. I could spend Sunday after Sunday giving you true geological and historical reasons why I can believe that there was a literal man named Noah who built a huge boat filled with every kind of animal - a boat that survived a world-wide flood that washed the earth clean of all evil. And THEN... God started ...
Series: Children's Stories (Part 1)
Jeff Strite
Hebrews 11:7
(I opened by pretending to read a children story about Noah. Then I read Hebrews 11:7) ''By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.''
PRAYER
Now, the first part of Hebrews 11:7 tells us that God WARNED Noah - and Noah believed God. Faith is essentially believing God. Believing that God did what He did, said what He meant, and He'll do what He promised.
ILLUS: Years ago I was visiting with some relatives and one of them said: ''I've never met anybody who BELIEVED that God sent a flood that cover the whole earth''
Well, now she had!
If the Bible says something happened... I believe it! And that's especially true of the story of Noah and the flood.
ILLUS: Back in 2007, Reuters wrote a story about the Creation Museum in Kentucky. They wrote: ''The Christian creators of the sprawling museum, unveiled on Saturday, hope to draw as many as half a million people each year to their state-of-the-art project, which depicts the Bible's first book, Genesis, as literal truth. While the $27 million museum near Cincinnati has drawn snickers from media and condemnation from U.S. scientists, those who believe God created the heavens and the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago say their views are finally being represented.''
And Reuters lamented ''almost half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve but were created by god in their present form within the last 10,000 years.''
Now, of course my faith doesn't depend upon the applause of the media, or approval of scientists. I could spend Sunday after Sunday giving you true geological and historical reasons why I can believe that there was a literal man named Noah who built a huge boat filled with every kind of animal - a boat that survived a world-wide flood that washed the earth clean of all evil. And THEN... God started ...
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