Being Dead, Still Speaks

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Being Dead,Still Speaks

• Hebrews 114

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Hebrews 114

• By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent
  sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained
  witness that he was righteous, God testifying of
  his gifts and through it he being dead still
  speaks.

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Abel
Being Dead, Yet Speaks

• God will respect only the right gift, given in
  the right way
• By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent
  sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained
  witness that he was righteous, God testifying of
  his gifts and through it he being dead still
  speaks. (Hebrews 114)

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Enoch
Being Dead, Yet Speaks

• God saved me from physical death because I
  pleased him
• By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not
  see death, and was not found, because God had
  taken him for before he was taken he had this
  testimony, that he pleased God. (Hebrews 115)

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Noah
Being Dead, Yet Speaks

• I followed Gods command to build an ark, and
  saved my family
• By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things
  not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an
  ark for the saving of his household, by which he
  condemned the world and became heir of the
  righteousness which is according to faith.
  (Hebrews 117)

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Abraham
Being Dead, Yet Speaks

• You can trust God. I did implicitly, and God
  gave me Isaac
• By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go
  out to the place which he would receive as an
  inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where
  he was going. (Hebrews 118)

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Moses
Being Dead, Yet Speaks

• I chose God and his people over the temporal
  riches of Egypt
• Hebrews 1124-26

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Hebrews 1124-26

• By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused
  to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
  25choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
  people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures
  of sin, 26esteeming the reproach of Christ
  greater riches than the treasures in Egypt
  for he looked to the reward.

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Rahab
Being Dead, Yet Speaks

• I was justified through my obedience to God
• Hebrews 1131 James 225-26

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Hebrews 1131

• By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with
  those who did not believe, when she had received
  the spies with peace.
• Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also
  justified by works when she received the
  messengers and sent them out another way? 26For
  as the body without the spirit is dead, so
  faith without works is dead also.
  (James 225-26)

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Conclusion

• These voices of faith
  should motivate each
  of us to faithfulness
  in our lives.
• Hebrews 121-2

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Hebrews 121-2

• Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so
  great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
  every weight, and the sin which so easily
  ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the
  race that is set before us, 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.