#BCStewardshipStories Stephanie Schafer (Camp Hope Lodge Manager & Food Service Director) opens her heart and shares with all viewers how the Lord has provided opportunities for her to use her God-given hospitality gifts to be a blessing to others. It also shows that “Camp Hope” is the “BC Conference Sanctuary”. We have an amazing team of workers there who do everything to ensure Camp Hope users are given the best possible assistance and benefits of what they can get from that special place! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSe6klEJ5Fk
Monday: By Faith Abraham
Hebrews defines faith as “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1, NIV). Then it provides a list of faithful people from the history of Israel who exemplify what faith is, and it shows how they manifested that faith by their deeds.
Read Hebrews 11:1-19. What did these “heroes” of faith do that exemplified their faith? How are their actions related to hope of things not seen?
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Abraham is probably the most important character in this chapter. Abraham’s last act of faith is especially instructive regarding the true nature of faith.
Hebrews notes that God’s instruction to Abraham that he offer Isaac as a sacrifice seemed to imply a contradiction on God’s part (Hebrews 11:17-18). Isaac was not the only son of Abraham. Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham, but God had told Abraham that it was all right for him to accept Sarah’s request and cast Ishmael and his mother out because God would take care of them, and also because Abraham’s offspring would be named through Isaac (Genesis 21:12-13). In the next chapter, however, God asks Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering. God’s instruction in Genesis 22 seemed to flatly contradict God’s promises in Genesis chapters 12-21.
Hebrews concludes that Abraham amazingly solved the conundrum by arriving at the conclusion that God would resurrect Isaac after he had offered him. This is amazing because no one had yet been resurrected. It seems, however, that Abraham’s previous experience with God led him to that conclusion. Hebrews 11:12 notes that Isaac was conceived by the power of God from one who was “as good as dead.” Paul also noted that, despite Abraham’s being “as good as dead” and Sarah barren, Abraham believed “in hope … against hope, that he should become the father of many nations” because he believed that God “gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist” (Romans 4:17-20, ESV). Thus, Abraham must have assumed that if God in some sense had already given life to Isaac out of the dead, He could do it again. In God’s leading in the past, Abraham saw an intimation of what He could do in the future.
| Why is meditating on how God has led our lives in the past so crucial in maintaining our faith and trust in Him now? |
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11.2 By Faith, Abraham – JESUS, AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series THE MESSAGE OF HEBREWS with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
11.JESUS, AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH
Faith is believing in God`s promises.
Memory Text: Hebrews 12:2 – Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
11.2 By Faith, Abraham…
Abraham trusted in God, believing that his son Isaac would be resurrected after having been sacrificed.
My God bless you today and always.
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Book of Genesis [What is It About and Why is It Important?]
Sometimes we take the books of the Bible, and read them as if they are their own separate piece of literature. Forgetting that what happens in the beginning, has far reaching consequences and is reference throughout the entirety of Scripture. This week, Sam and Jennifer talk to Benji Maxon about how to read the first book of the Bible, why it’s important and how to see the stories played out throughout the whole of Scripture. ___
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The Gospel just changed the face of a country and made history as 50 years of fighting ended in Mindoro, Philippines. After listening to Adventist World Radio’s broadcasts and taking the Gospel to heart, rebel fighters and assassins laid down their guns and made decisions for baptism. In November, they received amnesty and embraced members of the military they’d previously hunted. Watch this incredible story and share it with your church on Sabbath, March 12, during the Adventist World Radio offering. MB01UJGR07JTAE1 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eszlwPrGjMg
