going Hebrews chapter 12 Now understand the context in Hebrews 11 he has already told us many stories of men and women of faith we looked at Sarah and Abraham already in verses 11 and 12 earlier this morning and you think well Lord I want Faith like that I

chapter 6 verse 12 fight the good fight of faith and lay hold of eternal life how do you understand that I'm sure all of you have read that verse sometime or the other in your

who has beg a good work in me will be faithful to complete it and I hope you've God has told you that's you he told me this about 12 years ago 10 12 years ago that verse became mine not just text on the page that became mine

nothing happened I said Lord I will I will never give up Christianity you love me I'll live for you but I'll stop preaching actually said that way back in 1974 I said I will never give up my Christian faith or my love for you I

walk it's not perfect we sometimes we do fall and we have a great promise as we we are reminded constantly about uh repenting when we repent is faithful and just to forgive us our sins if we repent and uh he will cleanse us from all

about our spiritual life ask your wife or children they will give it out give out uh and more than I think they'll be more honest than many other people and how do I encourage by living out that Christian Faithfully in my life uh in

and I have been so blessed by these simple people God has chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and I have found more faith I'll tell you honestly I've learned more about faith for my own life

but one of the things that reminded me of that is when we were talking about faithfulness the very first message I gave this year was about faithfulness and just being faithful and we came across this verse where the where in

says uh without faith it's impossible to please God so without uh Faith it's impossible to please God right that's what uh Hebrews 1168 so you can paraphrase it in this

when brother finish talking about having faith and opening our mouth wide to receive in the first chapter verse 45 and this is Mary's prayer and he says

Lord The Godly Man seizes to be faithful are disappearing from among the sons of men let me use English words Lord there there don't seem to be many wholehearted Christians in the world anymore do you believe that I believe that there don't

think that's arrogance it is not arrogance it is faith when we confess something of faith people think it's arrogance because they don't experience it can I tell you what I believe in I believe the Word of God it's for you too

encouraging them to continue in the faith faith and saying through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God so they went from these towns town to town to town wherever they had contact and and gathered a group of

also been the same burden the Lord put on my heart and it is such an encouragement the Lord does that it's rare um I think because the Lord wants it to be special right wants us most of the time to live by faith and walk by

heaven verse 21 well done good and faithful slave you were faithful with a few things i will put you in charge of many things enter into heaven how is heaven described in your bible somebody say it

are so lost in our sin and we cannot do it and we have to be so honest but once we are honest he's faithful and just forgive us we repent and we all we have to do is be honest and looked at him and then he will be our Morningstar that

whom God raised from the dead. By this name, this man stands here before you in good health. Now, you compare these two pictures, brothers and sisters. Before he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he could not defend his faith. He could not

marriage say it's going to be very good it's going to go very well with my children speak the word of faith that's what jesus said go back to the beginning he told the pharisees you're talking about divorce that is something god permitted because of sin

wow and you you see the submission to authority he said wow and again it's tied to faith right this guy this soldier does what he's told to do by the roman army he does it and again i picture it something like jesus saying if i were a soldier you

that no matter what happens even if I'm being tortured in some prison in India for my faith I'm not gonna say well right now the devil took over control of this Jesus had all authority in heaven and earth up until yesterday but not

something i try to ask this question right so when i read a story about daniel or one of the heroes of the bible the heroes of our faith lord do you see those same qualities in me and again i'm not interested in going to

the inside there's still corruption inside turn on the lights even if you're 90 years old I'd say turn on the lights God can clean it up in a moment he doesn't need 50 60 years he can do it because Faith does Miracles and God will

6 verse 12 fight the good fight of faith and lay hold of eternal life how do you understand that I'm sure all of you have read that verse sometime or the other in your life can you explain to me what does it

fought the good fight I have finished the course I have kept the faith it wasn't just Iran it's like think about the Olympics sometimes I like to watch some of these events in the Olympics in the 100 meter race and you get you know it's