1. Adventures in Hebrews 11, Part 1
Verses taken from the American King James Version, unless stated otherwise.
Saturday morning at the Reynolds’ house.
Today “Faith is the
we’re going to confidence that what we hope
read from Hebrews for will actually happen; it gives us
chapter 11. assurance about things we cannot see.
Through their faith, the people in days
of old earned a good reputation”
(Hebrews 11:1-2 NLT).
Lovely You’re
breakfast. welcome.
Thank you,
dear.

2. When you have
confidence in something, you Mommy is a
are sure of it. You believe something great cook.
will happen, or that something is
true.
I know that I’m
you will take us hoping that the
to batting practice this boys will clean
afternoon because you their room when they
promised to. come home from
school.

3. Faith Because
assures us about you have
things that haven’t confidence in
happened yet or things me, you know that
that can’t be seen by I will take you
our human eyes. to batting
practice.
We’ve never
gone to this Yes.
We And we made
batting range before, when
saw the reservations.
so how do we know we know
brochure! Yes.
it’s there? something will
happen, even if
it hasn’t yet, we
can take steps
toward making
it happen.

4. The first
“By faith part of the verse is
we understand How do
talking about how God we know that
that the entire universe created the universe.
was formed at God’s God created
command, that what we now the world?
see did not come from
anything that can be
seen” (Hebrews 11:3
NLT).
John 1:3
says, “All things That’s right.
Because were made through We can have faith in
the Bible tells him, and without him was what the Bible tells us
us so? not any thing made about Creation, and we can
that was made” also learn of discoveries
(ESV). in science that point to
a Creator.

5. It’s like with
the brochure for the Mr. Hopkins
batting range! We haven’t seen gave that to us.
the range, but we know that He’s been to the
it’s there because of this batting range with
brochure. Jeffrey and
Melissa.
Melissa’s
my friend!
There are many
things in the world that
we haven’t personally seen-or
that can’t be seen with our eyes-
but we know they are there because
we trust in reliable sources of
information.

6. The Bible We trust in it because
is one of our we see the good results of doing
chosen reliable so and because we know and love the
sources of author-God.
information.
So what we’ve
gathered so far is that faith
is rather mysterious.
oh, boy! Dad’s
putting on his Old
Testament costume.
Yay!
To be continued…
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