Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gilles recap and discuss Pastor Jonah Sage's sermon from Hebrews 11:1-16.
Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gilles recap and discuss Pastor Jonah Sage's sermon from Hebrews 11:1-16.
Lindsey: Welcome to the Midweek Checkup. My name is Lindsey Blair and I’m joined by Bobby Gilles. This past Sunday Pastor Jonah Sage preached from Hebrews eleven, versus one through sixteen in our series called A Life Worth Living.
Bobby: Pastor Jonah said that faith is an internal confidence expressed through external action. But if you missed the sermon or need help remembering, let’s do the Midweek Checkup.
Lindsey: Jonah began by asking “Why do people go to Disney?” Because they want a life worth living. They want a taste of a better country, so they endure the hardships to get there. The promise of a trip changes your behaviors today…and this is a living parable of the Kingdom of God.
Bobby: This week’s passage talks about what faith is and does. Internally, faith is confident in the truths of God. This is why we affirm the Nicene Creed each week. Internal truths. Faith proclaims “We believe in God.” Externally, faith lives in light of God’s promises. Because We believe in God, I live this way. Both are faith.
Lindsey: When your imagination is rich with the promises of God’s goodness, when you can get just a taste of his splendor, you listen to what he says. Inwardly, the examples in Hebrews Eleven received the promises of God and believed them.Outwardly, they lived lives of obedience, confident the promises would be fulfilled.
Bobby: The Bible is primarily made up of stories because They reach deep into our imaginations and help us dream and hope again. But God said you only need a drop, barely the size of a mustard seed, and he invites us over and over again to these stories to help us see what he can do with a little faith.
Lindsey: He can turn a shepherd into a world traveler, the father of nations. He can turn a farmer into a boat-building savior of the world.
He can turn an elderly woman into a great-grandmother of the world’s salvation. He can turn an instrument of Roman horror and shame into the greatest symbol of victory and freedom the world has ever known. We rejoice in the cross, we don’t hide from it! We boast in the cross, we are not ashamed of it!
Bobby: Amen. Next Sunday, we’ll continue our series called A Life Worth Living. And in Bible Fellowship, we’ll discuss a passage in the book of Acts that shows how the earliest Christians related to their neighbors and to one another. Join us and bring a friend.