{"id":925,"date":"2020-08-09T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T05:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/?p=925"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T22:11:24","slug":"8-9-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/8-9-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Devotional-August 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>August 9, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the next 13 days we will be spending time together walking through the book of Hebrews! Hebrews is written to Jewish Christians who were undergoing persecution for their faith and considering running back to Judaism. The author of Hebrews takes an in-depth look at the practices and regulations of the Old Testament as articulated in the Torah and argues for how Jesus is both superior to each of them and supreme over all of them! The author also warns his audience of the grave danger facing them should they choose to now reject Jesus and return to their former way of life. These warnings can and should make us feel uncomfortable as we read through the book together; allow the Spirit to do what He wants to do in your heart through them! Overall, the message of Hebrews is that Jesus, the Son of God as well as our Savior and Messiah, is infinitely superior to anything or anyone else we could give our lives to, and He is worthy of all our devotion and worship. Jesus is greater!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in Hebrews chapter 11 the author gives us the well-known \u201cHall of Faith\u201d, recounting the ways in which the people in the Old Testament lived their lives by confident faith in God and His promises as an example for us to follow. He has just finished demonstrating the awesome, incomparable greatness of Jesus and His superiority to everything that came before Him, and now the author turns and commands his audience, in light of Jesus\u2019 surpassing greatness, to walk by faith, following in the steps of those who went before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He defines faith in the first verse as \u201cthe assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.\u201d As he goes down the list of Old Testament heroes who lived according to their faith, notice that they are not commended merely for believing God, but for what they did based on that belief. Every single time the author says \u201cBy faith\u201d, what follows is an action the person took based on their confident belief and trust in God and His promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith means that we obey God, that we follow where He leads when His plan and purposes aren\u2019t all laid out for us clearly. It means that we trust that He really is as great as He says He is, and that if that is true then it is worth following Him no matter what we have to go through or where He leads us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This point is made crystal clear in the ending of the chapter: the author starts by stating all of these amazing feats that were accomplished by faith, but in verse 35 he turns to the horrific things that were endured by those of faith. Jesus is able to lead us to do great and incredible things for Him and His Kingdom; He is also worthy of enduring and persevering through suffering for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any and every circumstance Jesus is the treasure, the reward that we cling to by faith, and that is how we live a life that is pleasing to God!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container ugb-a1fc0e7 ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-basic ugb-main-block\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-a1fc0e7-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper{border-radius:12px !important;background-color:#f1f1f1 !important}.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper.ugb-container__content-wrapper{width:100% !important}.ugb-a1fc0e7-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper:before{background-color:#f1f1f1 !important}.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > h1,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > h2,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > h3,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > h4,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > h5,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > h6{color:#222222}.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > p,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > ol li,.ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper > ul li{color:#222222}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-a1fc0e7-wrapper ugb--shadow-3\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-a1fc0e7-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hebrews 11<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Faith<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11&nbsp;<\/strong>Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of&nbsp;things not seen.&nbsp;<sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup>For by it the people of old received their commendation.&nbsp;<sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith we understand that the universe was created by&nbsp;the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of&nbsp;things that are visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Abel offered to God&nbsp;a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And&nbsp;through his faith, though he died, he&nbsp;still speaks.<sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.&nbsp;<sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup>And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God&nbsp;must believe that he exists and&nbsp;that he rewards those who seek him.&nbsp;<sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Noah, being warned by God concerning&nbsp;events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of&nbsp;the righteousness that comes by faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place&nbsp;that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.&nbsp;<sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith he went to live in&nbsp;the land of promise, as in a foreign land,&nbsp;living in tents&nbsp;with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.&nbsp;<sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>For he was looking forward to&nbsp;the city that has&nbsp;foundations,&nbsp;whose designer and builder is God.&nbsp;<sup>11&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered&nbsp;him faithful who had promised.&nbsp;<sup>12&nbsp;<\/sup>Therefore from one man, and&nbsp;him as good as dead, were born descendants&nbsp;as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup>These all died in faith,&nbsp;not having received the things promised, but&nbsp;having seen them and greeted them from afar, and&nbsp;having acknowledged that they were&nbsp;strangers and exiles on the earth.&nbsp;<sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup>For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.&nbsp;<sup>15&nbsp;<\/sup>If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out,&nbsp;they would have had opportunity to return.&nbsp;<sup>16&nbsp;<\/sup>But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed&nbsp;to be called their God, for&nbsp;he has prepared for them a city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,&nbsp;<sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup>of whom it was said,&nbsp;\u201cThrough Isaac shall your offspring be named.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>19&nbsp;<\/sup>He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.&nbsp;<sup>20&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.&nbsp;<sup>21&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph,&nbsp;bowing in worship over the head of his staff.&nbsp;<sup>22&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>23&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of&nbsp;the king&#8217;s edict.&nbsp;<sup>24&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith Moses, when he was grown up,&nbsp;refused to be called the son of Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter,&nbsp;<sup>25&nbsp;<\/sup>choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy&nbsp;the fleeting pleasures of sin.<sup>26&nbsp;<\/sup>He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to&nbsp;the reward.&nbsp;<sup>27&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith he&nbsp;left Egypt,&nbsp;not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured&nbsp;as seeing him who is invisible.<sup>28&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>29&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.&nbsp;<sup>30&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.<sup>31&nbsp;<\/sup>By faith&nbsp;Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she&nbsp;had given a friendly welcome to the spies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>32&nbsp;<\/sup>And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of&nbsp;Gideon,&nbsp;Barak,&nbsp;Samson,&nbsp;Jephthah, of&nbsp;David and&nbsp;Samuel and the prophets\u2014&nbsp;<sup>33&nbsp;<\/sup>who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises,&nbsp;stopped the mouths of lions,&nbsp;<sup>34&nbsp;<\/sup>quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness,&nbsp;became mighty in war,&nbsp;put foreign armies to flight.&nbsp;<sup>35&nbsp;<\/sup>Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.&nbsp;<sup>36&nbsp;<\/sup>Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even&nbsp;chains and imprisonment.&nbsp;<sup>37&nbsp;<\/sup>They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword.&nbsp;They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated\u2014&nbsp;<sup>38&nbsp;<\/sup>of whom the world was not worthy\u2014wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>39&nbsp;<\/sup>And all these,&nbsp;though commended through their faith,&nbsp;did not receive what was promised,&nbsp;<sup>40&nbsp;<\/sup>since God had provided something better for us,&nbsp;that apart from us they should not be made perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#ededed\" class=\"has-background\">The Holy Bible, English Standard Version\u00ae (ESV\u00ae), copyright \u00a9 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-divider ugb-divider ugb-f810954 ugb-divider--v2 ugb-divider--design-basic ugb-main-block\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-f810954 hr.ugb-divider__hr{background-color:#dddddd !important;height:1px !important;width:50% !important;margin-left:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important}.ugb-f810954 .ugb-inner-block{text-align:center}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><hr class=\"ugb-divider__hr\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Family Discussion Question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are some ways you have heard \u201cfaith\u201d defined? How does the way the author defines and demonstrates it in this chapter change your understanding of faith?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 9, 2020 For the next 13 days we will be spending time together walking through the book of Hebrews! Hebrews is written to Jewish Christians who were undergoing persecution for their faith and considering running back to Judaism. The author of Hebrews takes an in-depth look at the practices and regulations of the Old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/8-9-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Devotional-August 9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional","tag-hebrews"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238.jpg",2000,648,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238-300x97.jpg",300,97,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238-768x249.jpg",768,249,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238-1024x332.jpg",900,292,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238-1536x498.jpg",1536,498,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238.jpg",2000,648,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.championforest.org\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bible-banner-e1638982898238.jpg",2000,648,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>August 9, 2020 For the next 13 days we will be spending time together walking through the book of Hebrews! 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