Faith in God's Promises

Well, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we're at Hebrews chapter 11. You've got your coffee. Hebrews chapter 11. And we are at, let's see, verses 8 through 12. We're continuing on in the Hall of Faith. So, Dan Dan asked if he could have his baby brother in here with us today. So, we've got the Dan Dan and the Judah man. So, let's have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll talk about people who have shown us faith. All right, let's pray or have coffee first.
Lord, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for the opportunity to. hear from your word. God, we pray that you would please help us, help us, Lord, to hear, to understand, to grow. Lord, please give us faith, a faith that would endure forever. In Jesus's name, amen. All right, so we are at Hebrews chapter 11, verses 8 through 12. We're gonna talk, this is really fun, this is about Sarah and Abraham. You ready?
By faith, Abraham believed when he was called to go out to that place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. So when Abraham was in Ur of the Chaldeans, God said, hey, get up and leave this place. And did he know where he was going? Nope, no clue.
And yet, what did he do? And yet he did it. Yeah, why did he do it? Yeah, that's right, because he believed in God. Here, I'm going to move this closer so people can see. I bet that just made a lot of noise online, but that's okay. All right, so yeah, he did it because he believed.
And then verse nine, by faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of him of the same promise. For he waited for the city which has no foundations. Whose builder and maker is God. So when he left Ur of the Chaldeans and he went into the land of promise, did he have the promised land? So why did he pitch a tent there and wait for a city? Because God said so. Yeah, because God said so and he believed it. That's right.
Oh, now interestingly here, do you know what Abraham's wife's name was? Sarah, yeah, by faith Sarah herself also receives strength to conceive seed. And she bore a child when she was past her age because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man and from him, as good as dead, he was born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. All right, so Abraham was like a hundred years old and his wife Sarah, she was like 93.
They were old people, but she trusted God who had said she was going to have a baby. And guess what happened? She had a baby. How could she possibly, how could that have happened? Yeah, by God's grace, but also because she had faith. She counted him faithful who made the promise. And God did this, and because of that, right, they had one boy, Isaac. But guess who came from Isaac? Jacob. And guess who came from Jacob? 12 other sons. And guess who came from those 12 kids? A huge multitude.
It's so much that even if it was like all the stars in the sky, and like if you went to the seashore and you tried to count all the little grains of sand, could you ever do that? Maybe after like 10,000 years. Oh, I don't think even after 10,000 years, but the point is, right?
God blessed them. And why did God do this? Well, yeah, just to bless them, right? But they had faith. Did they trust God's promises? Could they see God's Could they see God's promises? Yep. Mm-hmm. His promises were in their heart. Yeah, the promises were in their heart, right? It was the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen, right? They knew that it had to be true because God promised it, and so... It had to be true. Yeah, and so they're examples to us of faith, Sarah and Abraham. Alright, well, in my Bible for best verse, I have underlined verse 10 and verse 12.
Well, let me ask you, see calling? What are you called to do? How does this teach you about Jesus Christ? Or what does this show you about the covenant? To have faith. Yeah, to have faith like Sarah and Abraham. Faith in who? God. Faith in God. That's right. And does God still have promises for us? Yeah. Can we see them? So why do we believe him? Because we have it in our hearts. We have it in our hearts. And if God made us a promise, is he going to be a bad father and take back his promises? No, no, no. If we have faith, right, he's going to make it good. All right, let's go and pray. I think Judah is hungry on the line. You think he has hunger? He's being pretty good right now. Hey, let's go ahead and pray.
Father, we thank you so much for the blessing it is to read your word. God, we pray that you would please give us faith. Lord, give us a stronger faith. Lord, we believe. Please help us even in our times of disbelief. Lord, we pray that you would please let us hope and cling to your promises. Thank you that we know in Christ all these things are yes and amen. In his name we pray. Amen. Okay. May God bless you and may you hope more and more in the assurance of those things not yet seen. We'll see you next time. I think Judah wants to say goodbye. Bye.