Hebrews 11 Continued

Jesus stressed it, pointing out instances of little faith and great faith- Paul practically wore out the word faith (faith appears almost forty times alone in his letter to the Romans)• but the writer of Hebrews gives the fullest explanation of faith• beginning in chapter 10, he reminded us of God's declaration,my righteous one shall live by faith (Heb. 10:38)◦ then he defined faith in chapter 11 verse 1:Faith is resting in the assurance that we will receive the things we hope for, the certainty of having things that are now invisible (my paraphrase)◦ he follows that with numerous examples of others who lived by faith- like I said last week, this is a magnificent chapter• it would be hard to find a chapter that is more helpful than this• from all these examples we learn thatFaith finds God, while unbelief gropes in the dark, and finds nothing