FAITH of the FLAWED
(vv 32-34)
Gideon: (Judg. 6:11–40)
Barak: (Judg. 4:6–8)
Samson: (Judg. 14:1–4, 8–9, 19–20; 15:1–8; 16:1–17)
Jepthah: (Judg. 11:29–40)
David: (1 Sam. 17:45; 2 Samuel 11–18)
Samuel: (1 Sam. 2:12–17, 22–36; 8:1–4)
In spite of all this...the writer/preacher does not remember them for their flaws. He commends them for their faith.
If they could act in faith and see God work, so could the sermon-letter’s first hearers, some of whom had “drooping hands” and “weak knees” (Heb. 12:12–13)— so can we in our trials and frailty.