Hebrews 11:23-40 Homework Due: April 28, 2004

1. Record some lessons about your Faith Journey that you realized from last week’s lecture on

Faith – some area where God is stretching you and you can TRUST HIM. Record one

observation about Abraham’s faith that blessed you.

Faith Sees Beyond What the Physical Eye Can See – Hebrews 11:23-26

2. a. Read Exodus 2:1-10 and Acts 7:17-22. What was faith required to stand against?

b. What encouragement for parents with faith can be drawn from Exodus 2:11 and Acts 7:23?

3. Why do you think our author could write Hebrews 11:26 of Moses who lived centuries before

the actual coming of Christ?

Faith Sees the Unseen – Hebrews 11:27-29

4. According to Exodus 3:1-10, what experience made Moses a different man for his second

stay in Egypt? How does Exodus 3:11-12 encourage faith to trust the unseen?

5. a. According to Exodus 13:21-22, what visible symbol of the invisible God led the exodus

from Egypt?

b. How can we of faith today “see” the reality of God in the midst of our needs?

c .Do you think God still leads? Explain your convictions based on Scripture and experience.

6. a. Read Exodus 14:9-14. According to these verses, what did the Israelites have to do in

order to be rescued? (v.29) What lessons from this event are still to be learned today?

7. a. Read Joshua 2 which tells of the faith of Rahab. Record information that helps you decide

the following:

(1) How much did she have to know about God to begin the exercise of faith?

(2) How was her faith demonstrated?

b. According to Joshua 6:22-23, how was her faith rewarded?

Faith Can Conquer – Hebrews 11:32-35

8. What victorious things are named here as feats of faith?

9. What one quality do you see consistently in these instances of faith that conquers?

10. Read the following and select the one that most encourages you about faith that overcomes:

Joshua 1:9; Psalm 118: 5-9; John 16:33; Romans 15: 4-6.

Faith Can Be Costly – Hebrews 11:36-40.

11. Hebrews 11:39-40 speak of that which is yet to be received through faith. How do the

following verses shed light on that future fulfillment? (See also Hebrews 10:32-38)

a. Matthew 5:10-12

b. John 14:1-4

c. John 17:24-26

12. What does Hebrews 11:39-40 suggest to all believers in all ages about waiting for God’s

way?

13. How is your understanding of the interplay between God’s deliverance and man’s faith

affected by these verses?