Calvary Chapel Carson City
Sunday Morning Live
August 3, 2025
Hebrews 11-12
Eligible for Enlistment: THEREFORE…..
Faith is: Living in the Promises of God
as if they are already received.
Walking in and by Faith in God while persevering in trials, persecutions, difficulties and testings.
Faith is: the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen
Recap: Faith acts out of bold confidence and is backed up by the power of the unseen. Faith is God using the ordinary to do the extraordinary. Faith is needed in all situations. Faith is fueled by God‘s power, promises and His Word.
Abraham is God‘s obedient sojourner
Heb. 11:8-10
Sarah is God’s faithful seed bearer of promise
Heb. 11:11-12
What faith teaches and reveals:
Heb. 11:13-16
Faith is for a lifetime
You can still be assured, even though you don’t receive
Having a glimpse (looking through glass, dimly) is enough to embrace and confess that we are strangers and pilgrims on this earth
Reveals are true seeking, our Homeland in Heaven
It strengthens us to desire better, namely, our Heavenly Country, our eternal citizenship
Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called our God
God is NOT ashamed!!! Think of it!!! What a wonderful thought.
We easily wrap our head around the idea that we should not be ashamed of God, or the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or the Bible.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
In this case, we read clearly that God is not ashamed to be called their God because of something, simultaneously, unpacking this thought to a reasonable conclusion reveals that God could be ashamed of being called their God because something.
Gen. 6:6
And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Listen: Having faith in the promises of God, through the Word of God, because of the saving grace of God and having salvation, through the Lord Jesus Christ and being assured, and embracing the hope that we have in Christ for our Heavenly Citizenship and not being ashamed of the Gospel results in God not being ashamed to be called our God!
Isaac by Faith blessed Jacob continuing the legacy.
Jacob by Faith continued the blessing of the lineage
Joseph by Faith gave instructions to be buried in the promised land
Moses’ parents by Faith are preservers of the lineage
Moses by Faith was God’s deliverer of the people from Pharaoh and Egypt.
The nation of Israel by Faith pass through the Red Sea on dry land
The nation of Israel by Faith marched around the wall of Jericho
Rehab by Faith received and protected the spies
Saving Faith, singular Faith, stability Faith, self-denying Faith, sympathizing Faith, sanctifying Faith
She declared: “for the Lord your God, He is God in Heaven above and on earth below.
By Faith:
Heb. 11:32…
Gideon: by Faith the Lord’s idol destroyer and Midianite Defeater
Barak: by Faith the Lord’s Canaanite Defeater
Samson: by Faith the Lord’s Philistine Defeater
Jephthan: by Faith the Lord‘s Ammonite Defeater
David and Samuel and the Prophets: all by Faith listened to the Lord and obeyed
Who through Faith:
…Heb. 11:33-35
David, Joshua, King Asa, Jehoshaphat, King Hezekiah, King Josiah: by Faith are the Lord’s kingdom defeaters
Elijah, Elisha, King Josiah: by Faith are the Lord’s righteousness workers
Joshua, Caleb, Gideon…by Faith obtained promises
Daniel, David, Benaiah by Faith stopped the mouths of lions
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego: by Faith quenched the violent fires
By Faith escaped the sword:
David by Faith escaped and defeated the sword of Goliath
Moses by Faith escaped the sword of pharaoh
Elijah by Faith escape the sort of Jezebel
By faith: out of weakness were made strong: the list is long and inclusive of each of us who live by Faith. Listed among the name such as Sarah, Gideon, Abraham, Esther
CH Spurgeon said: “Many of us may never have to brave the fiery stake, or need to pu our neck on the chopping block, but we have received Grace enough to be out of weakness be made strong in so doing we shall not be left out of the roles of the nobles of faith, and God’s name shall not fail to be glorified through us.”
Zarepheth and the Shunamite women by Faith receive their dead raised to life again
Heb. 11:35-38
Others: by Faith we’re not delivered, but received a better resurrection
The mocking: Ishmael mocked Isaac, Samson was mocked by the Philistines, Joseph was imprisoned, King Ahab imprisoned the prophet Micaiah, Zechariah was stoned between the altar and Temple, Naboth was stoned to death at Jezebel’s orders. Isaiah was sawn in two, (According to reliable sources).
In Faith 85 priests killed by Doeg and the prophets of Elijah’s day were slain by the sword,
By Faith: some wandered in sheepskin clothing and goatskins dwelling in caves. David, Elijah, the prophets of Obadiah. If we want, we can sneak in John the Baptist at this point.
Heb11:39-40
And all of these, having obtained a good testimony through faith… God provided something better…
Hebrews 12
Therefore…….
