Christ the True and Better - Hebrews 10:32 - 11:40 - Christ Our True Faith

When you live in confidence, hold fast, not neglecting one another in love, and walk in obedience and holiness with our King you will joyfully give everything to and for Him even your life in death and suffering. - Hebrews 10:32-34 - “But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened,(photizo: imbue, permeate with saving knowledge) you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.”If anyone throws away their confidence, does not hold fast to their hope, neglects the brotherhood in love, and walks in disobedience and unholiness, they will receive what was always intended for them destruction, God has no pleasure in them. But the righteous will live by faith. - Hebrews 10:35-39 - “Therefore do not throw away (apoballo: throw off, cast away agament) your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, (be timid, cower, shrink, hesitating to avow what they believe) my soul has no pleasure in him.”39 “But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.”Faith, the gift of God, is to know with firm trust and full assurance in God’s word by which we are fully convinced without wavering. - FOCUS SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11:1-3 - “Now faith is the assurance (hoo-pos-ta-sis: confidence, firm trust, assurance) of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. (accredited) 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.”Faith before the flood. - Hebrews 11:4-7Faith after the flood. - Hebrews 11:8-12Faith of pre and post-flood is the same Faith given to us today. - Hebrews 11:12-16Godly men of old by Faith believed God and obeyed - Hebrews 11:17-22Faith before the exodus - Hebrews 11:23-28Faith after the exodus - Hebrews 11:29-31 It has always been by Faith Alone - Hebrews 11:32-40 - FOCUS SCRIPTURE: 39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.