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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     Hebrews 11:17-28

What is it that prompts some people to take more interest in the principles of godliness than in God Himself? I think one reason could be that we are more comfortable dealing in the realm of the visible than the invisible. We prefer to work with things we can touch or handle and apply so that we feel an immediate...

Bible Verses: Hebrews 11:17-28Romans 1:16-23Hebrews 11:1-21 Timothy 1:17

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Charles Spurgeon

Behold the epitaph of all those blessed saints who fell asleep before the coming of our Lord! It matters nothing how else they died, whether of old age, or by violent means; this one point, in which they all agree, is the most worthy of record, "they all died in faith." In faith they lived-it was their comfort, their guide, their motive and their support; and in the same spiritual grace they died, ending their life-song in the sweet strain in which they had so long continued. They did not...

Bible Verses: Hebrews 11:13

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William MacDonald

Peter reminds his readers that they are strangers and pilgrims, a reminder that was never more needed than today. Pilgrims are people who are travelling from one country to another. The country they are passing through is not their own; they are aliens in it. It is the country to which they are going that is their homeland.

The hallmark of a pilgrim is a tent. Thus, when we read that Abraham dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, we are to understand that he considered Canaan an alien...

Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:11Hebrews 11:10

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T. Austin-Sparks

They were longing for a better country – a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city
for them. (Hebrews 11:16 NIV)



The implications of any movement of God are not always recognized at the
beginning, but if we go on with Him we shall find that much that is done here
and is of time is – and has to be – left behind. The...

Bible Verses: Hebrews 11:16

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Samuel Bagster

Truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country … By faith Moses … [chose] rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. § “The just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who...

Bible Verses: Deuteronomy 17:16Hebrews 11:15Hebrews 11:16Hebrews 11:24Hebrews 11:25Hebrews 11:26Hebrews 10:38Hebrews 10:39Luke 9:62Galatians 6:142 Corinthians 6:17Philippians 1:6

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Samuel Bagster

Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. § Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? § Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.The Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me. § God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.He who...

Bible Verses: Matthew 25:34Luke 12:32James 2:5Romans 8:17John 16:27Hebrews 11:16Revelation 21:72 Timothy 4:8Philippians 1:6

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Samuel Bagster

He will choose our inheritance for us. § He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the Lord alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go. § Who teaches like Him?We walk by faith, not by sight. § Here we have no continuing...

Bible Verses: Hebrews 11:8Psalms 47:4Deuteronomy 32:10Deuteronomy 32:11Deuteronomy 32:12Isaiah 48:17Job 36:222 Corinthians 5:7Hebrews 13:141 Peter 2:11Micah 2:10

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Samuel Bagster

Get wisdom! Get understanding! § The wisdom that is from above. § The deep says, “It is not in me”; and the sea says, “It is not with me.” § We were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin...

Bible Verses: Colossians 3:1Proverbs 4:5James 3:17Job 28:14Romans 6:4Romans 6:5Hebrews 12:1Ephesians 2:5Ephesians 2:6Hebrews 11:14Zephaniah 2:3

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Samuel Bagster

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. § An inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you. § Here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven. § Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer...

Bible Verses: Hebrews 11:16John 14:31 Peter 1:4Hebrews 13:14Acts 1:11James 5:7James 5:8Hebrews 10:371 Thessalonians 4:171 Thessalonians 4:18

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Samuel Bagster

Have faith in God … Whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. § Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.He who...

Bible Verses: Romans 4:20Mark 11:22Mark 11:23Mark 11:24Hebrews 11:6Hebrews 11:17Hebrews 11:18Hebrews 11:19Romans 4:21Genesis 18:14Matthew 19:26Luke 17:5

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