Hebrews 11:8-22 {Lesson 11/Day 6}

45 minute study? Yep! Don't let that stop you! It's a powerful message today! Listen to the end!... What moves you? What gets you willing to get up and go? What drives you to live the way you live? If you’re living a life that is pleasing to God then you’re moved by obedience to God. You’re willing to sacrifice your comfort to follow God. Abraham left the security of his homeland and obeyed God. He had his eyes fixed on something beyond this world. He was looking forward to the city whose designer and builder was God. Why? Because he had faith – true faith that moves. This kind of faith is willing and driven by the internal combustion of hope in what can’t be seen. Abraham also accumulated great wealth, a huge family, and the blessing of the greatest king of his time, Melchizedek. Was all that the ultimate promise he was given? No. God’s ultimate promise was the covenant to bring from his lineage the ultimate Promise Keeper – Jesus. The thought that because we are heirs along with Abraham we are entitled to great prosperity is the malignant teaching of a false gospel. Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, and Creflo Dollar are among “Christian” leaders who teach this gospel. They fail to teach the reward of “joyfully accepting the plundering of property” or living with “hard struggle with sufferings.” Instead, their prosperity gospel admonishes those people as having a lack of faith when this is exactly the kind of faith that Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham had that honors God. This is the kind of faith that should define your life if you say you follow Jesus Christ today. Be armed with the truth and willing to stand on God’s Word against any false gospel. Live in true faith today, not because you’re getting rich by the world’s standards, but because you are desiring something better – a city prepared for you that has been built by God himself.