This Sunday

Faith is a fixed focus on the Father before you have the full picture.

Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) says,

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

That word “assurance” is the Greek word hypostasis. It means a title deed. 

Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Hebrews 11:7 (NIV):

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.

Genesis 6:5 (NIV)

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time

Genesis 6:11-14 (NIV):

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 2:5-6 (NIV)

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 6:17 (NIV):

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Genesis 6:22 (NIV):

“Noah did everything just as God commanded him.”

Faith is a fixed focus on the Father before you have the full picture.

Genesis 7:11-12 (NIV):

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV)

“For we live by faith, not by sight.”