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Hebrews 11- Faith

Benjamin Ng

01 The Faith of Abel

02 The Faith of Enoch

03 The Faith of Noah

05 The Faith of Sarah

08 The Faith of Jacob

09 The Faith of Joseph Part 1

11 The Faith of Moses’ Parents

10 The Faith of Joseph Part 2

13 The Faith of Moses Part 2

14 The Faith of Moses Part 3

12 The Faith of Moses Part 1

15 The Faith of Rahab

16 The Faith of Gideon

07 The Faith of Isaac

17 The Faith of Barak

19 The Faith of Samson

20 The Faith of Jephthah

21 The Faith of David

22 The Faith of Samuel

04 The Faith of Abraham Part 1

06 The Faith of Abraham Part 2

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time that we have together.

Thank you Lord that we can come and study together this evening.

Thank you Lord for seeing us safely through a new week, this past week.

Thank you for your watch care over us And thank you for the many blessings Lord and if we're struggling with seeing your goodness in this past week I pray that you jog our memory even now as we're studying that not only will you remember of your goodness But we'll also see your goodness through your word as well.

So bless us tonight as we study together.

Lord, please may your presence be with us.

We pray in Jesus' name we pray and ask, Amen.

Let's follow along in Hebrews chapter 11 verses 5 and 6.

We are studying the faith of Enoch today.

The Bible says this, By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." Look, we don't really know that much about the life of Enoch.

Not much detail is given about him even in the Old Testament in Genesis there.

But there is 1 thing that stands out in this passage that we just read here in Hebrews chapter 11 and is that Enoch, he pleased God.

Maybe that's not even a detail that you were familiar with before but Enoch is famously known for being the man that walked straight into heaven.

Let's turn our Bibles to Genesis chapter 5, 23 and 24.

And all the days of Enoch were 360 and 5 years.

And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him.

Look, Enoch was the first 1 to walk straight into heaven.

He was the first human being from our planet Earth to walk right into heaven and he pleased God.

He longed for God to come soon and take everybody home.

He represents the group of people at the end of time that will go to heaven without ever seeing death.

There are 2 people in the Bible that actually represent that.

But in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, let's turn the Bibles there, shall we?

1 Thessalonians chapter 4, there is this group of people that will see Jesus come with their own eyes, they themselves will not experience mortal death.

1 Thessalonians 4 verse 15 the Bible says, For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

But then, verse 17, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord those which are alive and remain at the second coming of the Lord those are the ones that are represented here in the life of Enoch this evening.

So friends, look, what we wanna do as we study the life of Enoch and his faith, the faith of Enoch really, we're gonna go through some details here that we find in Hebrews 11 and verse 5.

Look, what is described of Enoch before God translated him?

Yes, he lived by faith and we'll look at that in a minute, but what does it mean to please God?

Because this is the detail that stands out about Enoch.

Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

So if you want to abound more and more, what do you have to do?

But what is put together with pleasing God here in 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 1.

So pleasing God is connected with something we do.

So it's not just, I love you God, and we please Him and that's it.

What are these actions that the Bible talks about?

Let's look at another verse that talks about pleasing God.

The Bible says, and whatsoever we ask, we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

So what sort of actions do we connect this with in 1 John, it is what?

So friends, if we want to please God, we will be commandment keepers.

Now look, before you think I'm talking about righteousness by works again, I've got to say this every time it comes up.

Do you remember when Peter walked on water?

We've looked at this illustration before.

And the 10 Commandments, before they were given in stone, they were spoken by God.

And so really, the 10 Commandments are 10 promises.

The very power to keep the 10 commandments is found in the 10 Commandments.

And so if you put the 10 Commandments in your heart and mind, you will begin to keep the 10 Commandments.

It was the very word of God that enables us to keep it.

Romans chapter 8, let's turn the Bibles there.

What does the Bible say here about pleasing God?

The Bible says this, So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

If we are in the flesh, now surely it's not talking about our flesh, right?

No, it's not talking about that, friends.

When it talks about the flesh, let's allow the Bible to interpret what that flesh is.

Let's go to Galatians chapter 5 verses 19 to 21.

Because those that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Galatians chapter 5 starting in verse 19.

The Bible says, Now the works of the flesh are manifest.

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, seditions, strife, seditions, heresies, this is a long list isn't it?

Verse 21, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings and such like, of the which I tell you before as I've also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Those that are in the flesh, they do the works of the flesh.

So can you understand whether you are in the flesh or not?

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