”These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.” (Hebrews 11:39-40)
Who were these “all”? The list is the hall of fame of the Bible…Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David and Samuel.
They were commended for their faith but did NOT receive immortal life that God has promised.
God has promised to make us perfect… but not in this age…for now we all die. Now we can only believe the promise of God that….
“…as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive” for “just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man” and these earthly bodies will be “buried in weakness and raised in power; buried a natural body but raised a spiritual body…The perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality”. (1 Corinthians 15:22-53)
Only the joy of having faith in God’s promise will make a sinful man good, and a religious man humble.
Who were these “all”? The list is the hall of fame of the Bible…Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David and Samuel.
They were commended for their faith but did NOT receive immortal life that God has promised.
God has promised to make us perfect… but not in this age…for now we all die. Now we can only believe the promise of God that….
“…as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive” for “just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man” and these earthly bodies will be “buried in weakness and raised in power; buried a natural body but raised a spiritual body…The perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality”. (1 Corinthians 15:22-53)
Only the joy of having faith in God’s promise will make a sinful man good, and a religious man humble.