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The faith examples of Hebrews 11 all responded to God’s word in a particular manner, because it was a particular word. Faith, in other words, is particularized. What God said to one, he didn’t to the other.
Abraham and Sarah’s faith, was all about a child and land, Whereas Noah’s faith, was about the saving of his family and judgment on the earth. Judgment was the furthest thing from Abraham’s mind and a child from Noah’s. They responded to what God said to them, that’s all, no more and no less.
Faith is based on what God declares or promises. Faith, then, is not a commodity that guarantees individual preference, because faith is generated by God’s will and word. It is not created by human effort, resourcefulness, or wishfulness.
None of the great “cloud of witnesses” manufactured their own word, nor did they appropriate the word God spoke to another; they all being in uniquely different circumstances with individualized needs.
What they did do, was believe in the face of compelling contrary evidence. Sarah was barren and old, but God promised a child. Noah had not seen the likes of the flood they survived, but God gave him instructions and promise - Isaac for Sarah, physical deliverance for Noah.
God has a word for you. It is specific to your person and situation. It is for something otherwise impossible or highly unlikely.
This is faith – in other words.
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The writer of Hebrews 11 states from the get-go, that faith is an assurance, a conviction, in and of something not seen, but hoped for. Hope in this instance is rock solid, based upon the character, and articulations of God; his person and his word, in other words.
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