Hebrews 11:1-7
June 29, 2025
preached by Noah Crane
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“We do see by faith. We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands.”

~Charles Spurgeon

“We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.”

~Kevin DeYoung

“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”

~Martin Luther

“Faith is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence on and trust in Jesus Christ for the necessary requirements to enter God’s Kingdom. It involves more than mere intellectual assent to the truth of the gospel; saving faith includes trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and surrender to His lordship.”

~John MacArthur

“The righteous shall live by faith.”

~Habakkuk 2:4

Sermon Passage

Hebrews 11:1-7 (ESV)

¹ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. ² For by it the people of old received their commendation. ³ By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. ⁵ By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ⁶ And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 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. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.