First General Baptist

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 11:30-31  

Your Journey…  

Crazy Faith  

Crazy faith of the Israelites:  

“Not one word!”  

Crazy faith of Rahab and all her family:  

Choosing to leave the unbelieving for the believing.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 11:23-29  

Your Journey…  

Two Friends  

An amazing this is that God loves you, a real amazing this is that God likes you. God does not need you, but He wants you.  

(Exodus 32:7, 11, 33:13)  

Exodus 33:11  

*Leaving, forsaking, choosing, turning your back…  

*Time  

God is always the initiator  

Philippians 2:13  

Philippians 3:10

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 11:20-22

Your Journey… Links in a Chain

The link before us: There is something wrong with all of us, we are all dysfunctional. But we won’t let that stop us.

Matthew 6:33

It’s the kingdom that’s important, not just my small part of the kingdom.

The link after us:

“Yes you can!” Amazing how much we complain about the people we are called to minister to.

Philippians 4:13

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 11:17-19

Your Journey…

There was Jesus

See God the Father in Abraham

See Jesus the Son in Isaac

The Great Reversal: now see yourself in Isaac and see Jesus in the ram.

Jesus not only sees what you are going through, He enters it with you. You are never alone.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews (Father’s Day)

Text: Hebrews 11:7

Your Journey…

Noah: more afraid not to

John Maxwell, “Mistakes mark the road to success. He who makes no mistakes makes no progress. Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes.”

1 John 2:20 (KJV)

You don’t really believe until you act. Go out and make some good mistakes.

How did Noah condemn the world?

11:7 The Message

1. God saw him

2. His family saw him

3. The world saw him

Message: Communion-wait for each other

Text: 1 Corinthians 11:33, Revelation 12:12, 17, 2 Timothy 3:13, Matthew 24:12

Passover is a family meal. Jesus’ disciples have become a family, the family of God.

“Lawlessness”—rampant sin, wickedness, iniquity, overwhelming spread of evil.

Evil and hatred lead to indifference. Evil around you can lead to indifference in you.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 11:11-12

Your Journey…

Believing what God has said

Genesis 18:9-15

If God can create the heavens and the stars, and has the numbered the hairs on your head…He can take care of you.

Matthew 6:24-34

Matthew 10:29-31

Matthew 11:28-30

1 Peter 5:6-7

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 11:8-16

Your Journey…

Seeing afar off

Tests of faith:

*Leaving when you’re not told where to go

*Hard to leave, you feel like you’re losing what you have gained.

*Abraham was a foreigner, stranger, pilgrim, no permanent home. Never felt at home.

*No matter what, Abraham kept looking toward his heavenly home.

“Seeing afar off”

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 11:7  

Your Journey…  

Noah: more afraid not to  

John Maxwell,  "Mistakes mark the road to success.  He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.  Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes."  

1 John 2:20 (KJV)  

You don’t really believe until you act. Go out and make some good mistakes.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 11:5-6

Your Journey…

The Great Reversal

Please—to gratify entirely

You exist because God does. If God is not random, neither are you.

Colossians 1:16

1 John 4:19

The way to make any relationship better is to change yourself.