Message outline 9th July 06 - by Ps Jeremy Wong

FAITH Revisited
- Faith to believe the incredible, Faith to see the invisible, Faith to attempt the impossible
Intro: Death Man Still Speaking…
Hebrews 11:1-6

What is faith?
• Saying ‘Amen’ to God.
• Forsaking All I Take Him. Acrostic: F-A-I-T-H.
• Famous definitions:
• ‘Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.’ AUGUSTINE.
• ‘If the blind put their hand in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.’ ‘HELEN KELLER. II Cor. 5:7.
• ‘Faith is the title’s deed of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ Heb. 11:1
• 1 John 5:4-5, ‘and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.’

I. FAITH BELIEVES THE INCREDIBLE – all the Cs
• In Creation. Heb 11:3, ‘Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear,’ see also (Psalm 33:9, II Peter 3:5).
• Christ’s Incarnation (John 1:14)
• Christ’s Resurrection - coming back from death - (Heb11:17-19).
• Christ’s 2nd coming – to rapture and Judge the earth.(1 Thes 4:16)
• Christ’s Miracles. (John 20:30-31. ‘Signs & Miracles.’)
• Compassion of God -That God could love and save sinful man. (John 3:16).
• Co-existence of the Trinity. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit of the Godhead. (Colossians 2:9; Matthew 28:19; Genesis 1:26-27.)


II. FAITH SEES THE INVISIBLE.
• ‘For he (Moses) endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible, 11:27.
• V7 - The Unseen and Unknown Future–Noah’s flood. Where will you be in 5 or 10 yrs time?
• V13 - The OT Saints saw the Promises of God. “Rumours of another world” by Philip Yancey
• V17 – Abraham believed God gives and God takes
• V22 – by faith Joseph gave instruction for his bones
• V26,27 Moses saw Jesus and His Riches..
• V 31 by faith the prostitutes Rahab was saved

Faith sees God more than the circumstances!!
‘For we walk by faith, not by sight,’ 2 Corinthians 5:7.


III. FAITH ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
• The Dead Speaks! Through faith, Abel still speak to us, verse 4.
• Pleases God and takes an express chariot to heaven! Enoch, verses 5, 6.
• Defy God’s natural law. Peter, Matthew 14:30-31. Walked on water, Move Mountains, Luke 17:6.
• Abraham and Sarah become parents of Isaac in Old Age, verses 8-11.
• Stopped the mouths of lions, verse 33. Daniel
The list goes on.......


APPLICATION & CONCLUSION
• Faith believes the incredible, sees the invisible and achieves the Impossible.
• This is no pep talk. These are divine principles! God can use you to transform your generations by many or by a few!
• “…and everything that does not come from faith is sin.” (Romans 14:23b) Faith please God, and by the same logic, faithlessness displeases God!
• Those who are fearful of losing are those who will lose! Fear will get its result just as sure as faith. (Job 3:25). Welcome to the life on the edge!
• Faith overcomes offence – (A lady who stopped going to church for 15 years because of a cake!) What a waste of a precious life!
• Faith means to step out of your “self serving” mode and serve Him for a change. I will not want to rob you of the joy and reward of serving the King of kings.
• If we can surely and plainly do any task WITH OUR OWN RESOURCES, DO WE STILL NEED GOD?.