From a human standpoint, Rahab’s name doesn’t belong in Hebrews 11. She wasn’t Jewish; her people were wicked and under the severe condemnation of God; she was an adulterer by profession. Yet, even she ends up being a hero of the faith!

Most of the riches-to-rags stories you hear involve people who lost everything because of foolishness and disobedience to God. But Moses’ story is the opposite. He willingly exchanged his temporal possessions for an eternal one.

Waiting on God is hard enough when He hasn’t promised us a child, a spouse, or a dream job. It’s even harder when He has promised us something that hasn’t yet arrived. Abraham waited nearly a lifetime to see the fulfillment of God’s promise!

When Noah and his family boarded the ark, they weren’t walking away from their trials . . . they were walking deeper into them. The pain of living with unbelievers was doubled by the pain of watching them be destroyed.

One line says it all sometimes. Here's one illustration of that: "Noah walked with God." That statement is worth a thousand words and it encapsulates a lifetime of obedience and enduring faith. But his obedience was costly.

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What Old Testament saint was taken up to heaven before death? Elijah is the most well known, but Enoch was first. His story is a picture of our redemptive future.

The story of Cain and Abel provides us with a lot of firsts in history: the first sibling rivalry, the first murder, the first account of true and false religion, and, of course, the first example of a human hero.

There would be no great saints had there been no great Savior; there would be no great men or women of faith had there been no faithful God. God is the ultimate original hero of the Bible.

Hebrews 11 lists heroes who are honored for faithful ministry, and the most incredible thing is that it’s full of people we wouldn’t expect to find there.