Weekly Sermons

The Only Way to Please God

Hebrews 10:38 – 11:7

Hebrews 11 is probably one of the top _______ chapters of the Bible!

The person God is ____________ pleased with                   10:38-39

Habakkuk 2:1-3

God responded by reminding Habakkuk that God’s just ones live not on the _______________ of what they can see, but by faith in the God they can’t see.

Proverbs 3:5-6

In Hebrews 11 the author refers to ____________ Old Testament saints by name, both men and women, and countless unnamed saints who trusted God even though they did not understand the specifics of what God was doing in their lives.

Faith defined                                                                          11:1

Faith is trusting that the God you can’t see is more _______________ in your life than whatever you can see.

People of faith just say, “God said it, that __________________ it.”

The only __________________that matters                        11:2-5

The root word martureo, from which we get the word martyr, is the word for witness or testimony here. It occurs 4 times in verses 2-5.

The “theological passive” tense

The only way to ____________ God is to walk by faith       11:6

John 15:5                    Isaiah 64:6b                Romans 10:9-10

The thing about Abel and Enoch and Noah – they ain’t dead even though they ain’t ________________.