“By Faith Waiting & Wanting Heaven”

1. “By Faith Waiting & Wanting Heaven” Hebrews 11:13-16 Pg 1068 In Church Bibles

2. O Lord, You have searched me and known me… You understand my thought afar off. You...are acquainted with all my ways. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand Ps 139:1-3,17-18

3. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it. Ps 139:6

5. Hebrews 11 – Hall of Faith • By faith We…… Understand– creation, unknown • By faith Abel…. Offered– acceptable sacrifice • By faith Enoch.. Pleased and walked with God • By faith Noah… Headed God’s warning • By faith Abraham • Followed – going where not knowing • Did Impossible – with Sarah…

6. Hebrews 11 – Hall of Faith • By faith We…… Understand– creation, unknown • By faith Abel…. Offered– acceptable sacrifice • By faith Enoch.. Pleased and walked with God • By faith Noah… Headed God’s warning • By faith Abraham • Followed – going where not knowing • Did Impossible – with Sarah…

7. Hebrews 11 – Hall of Faith • By faith We…… Understand– creation, unknown • By faith Abel…. Offered– acceptable sacrifice • By faith Enoch.. Pleased and walked with God • By faith Noah… Headed God’s warning • By faith Abraham • Followed – with Isaac and Jacob • Did Impossible – with Sarah…

8. Abraham 175 Isaac 180 Jacob 147

11. By Faith…Willing to Wait

12. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:18-25

13. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Romans 8:18-25

14. By Faith…Willing to Wait

16. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Seeing

17. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

18. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20-21

19. “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. John 14:1-3

20. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Seeing • Assured • Embracing • Confessing

21. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Reality of Waiting Faith • Experienced & Evidenced… • …by our Words

22. Our Father in heaven Hallowed be Your name Your kingdom come Your will be done… Give us…daily bread And forgive us our debts As we forgive our debtors Lead us not into temptation Deliver us from the evil one For Yours is kingdom & power & glory forever Amen

23. In this manner, therefore, pray:(Mt 6:9-13) Our Father in heaven Hallowed be Your name Your kingdom come Your will be done… Give us…daily bread And forgive us our debts As we forgive our debtors Lead us not into temptation Deliver us from the evil one For Yours is kingdom & power & glory forever Amen ………….Relationship ……….Worship ………….Heaven .………….Surrender …..……..Dependence …….Forgiveness ..….Mercy ….Protect- self ….Protect- satan ….Closing…filter

24. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Reality of Waiting Faith • Experienced & Evidenced… • …by our Words • …by our Actions

25. Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims 1 Peter 2:11-12

26. Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, 1 Peter 2:11-12

27. Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:11-12

28. For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. 1 Peter 4:1-5

29. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 1 Peter 4:1-5

30. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Reality of Waiting Faith • Experienced & Evidenced… • …by our Words • …by our Actions

31. Hope…means…a continual looking forward to the eternal…It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next…it is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth “thrown in”; aim at earth and you will get neither” C.S. Lewis, Christian Writer, Speaker (1898-1963)

32. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Reality of Waiting Faith • Experienced & Evidenced… • …by our Words • …by our Actions • …by our Desires

33. For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven 2Corinthians 5:1-2

34. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 2Corinthians 5:6-8

35. By Faith…Willing to Wait • Making of Waiting Faith • Reality of Waiting Faith • Experienced & Evidenced… • …by our Words • …by our Actions • …by our Desires

36. By Faith…Willing to Wait Making of Waiting Faith Reality of Waiting Faith Honor of Waiting Faith

37. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

38. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1-3

40. By Faith…Willing to Wait Making of Waiting Faith Reality of Waiting Faith Honor of Waiting Faith