The History of Faith - Part 1 (Hebrews 11:8-12)

Do worries and fears sometimes threaten to overwhelm you? Developing a foundation of faith in God can stabilize your life when emotions run high and situations seem impossible. Putting your trust in His promises clarifies decisions and provides guidance even in the darkest times.

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0:00 - Introduction
16:04 - 1. How Can I Recognize My Faith?
34:09 - 2. How Do I Put My Faith Into Action?
38:58 - 3. What Will My Faith Accomplish?

[PriscillaConsiglio-soyz]

I love how Pastor Hibb gives us notes, teaches from the Bible and encourages us to study and read our Bible!!

[christdriven]

Been listening to Pastor Jack now for 6-8 months, he's spot on. Praise God for this man. ><>

[lorigokey]

Please pray 4 my 2 sons, KJ & MATT.
They're not believers in Christ Jesus.
😢😢😢 👑✝️👑 ✝️🙏🕊🙏🕊
Please and thank you.
Amen.
Praying for the lost. ✝️🛐🙏🕊👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👦

[KevinWhite-eupd]

I've listen to this message 3 times, once on YouTube, the real life app and again on YouTube on the live Wednesday service. What do I like about listening to it 3 times is a get more from the message and it strengthen my faith . I always depended on God to open doors for a job I desired in trucking . I was bad about depending on my own strength throughout the years when I always knew it was God is who always gave the strength to make it through a long trip through the night or a snow storm going over Donner or Eisenhower in Colorado. I always knew God guided the truck I drove and if I messed up it was God getting my attention. This is what I love about this message about faith . So in the storms of life depend upon faith on the Lord Jesus and he will see you through. Phillipines 4:13

[kimberlydodder]

Your relationship with God gives you power. I used bad words if I hurt myself. No matter how little it hurt. Anger came out of me just from stubbing my toe, etc. Getting spiritually deep and sound creates power you didn't know you had. Now, no matter what, I hurt. Silence is on my lips. It's as if it doesn't hurt as much. The pain wasn't the issue it was my bad attitude that i needed to repent of, not what I actually hurt physically. In Jesus' name, I rebuke Satan by sharing this with believers that he can not use what I've shared against me. He can not hurt me beyond what God allows. ❤

[DeeJC]

Thank you Pastor God has used you to lift me up. During your sermons, i smile, laugh and cry. thank you.... Jesus is coming!!!

[eddyswiderczuk]

Thank you Pastor Jack.
Righteousness through
FAITH ;
Romans 3: 21-31;/4:1-25
Faith is not Believing,
It is what you put your
TRUST IN!
Psalm 32:1-11
Repent in Faith ;
To the Glory of God,
In Christ Jesus Name Amen.

[HOMETHEATERBOY]

“The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm.””
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭14‬:‭14‬ ‭

[annielynn-le]

Steve Harvey made me smile on that answer, but once I came across an atheist at work yrs ago, a young man I worked with. I asked him why he didn't believe in Jesus & he told me he read the Bible once & it was an interesting book but he couldn't believe in someone or something he couldn't see. Upon hearing this, I asked him Do you believe in the wind ?" He looked at me, confused & said yes because I see it moving the trees, grass, or the clouds. I said no you don't you see the effects of the wind, the clouds moving, the trees swaying back & forth but you do not see the wind, hold up your hand the next time it blows on your face & stuff you won't see it it's invisible but yet it's there you see the actions of it . He said reluctantly, well that's true but I'll have to get back to you on that. I planted a seed for God, and now he's rethinking his answer and choice. He's thinking about what I said. He never did get back to me & he moved on but I still pray for Adam & think about him alot. I pray that God worked in his life & I pray he now believes.

[florencenorwood]

Thank you, God for the gift of salvation. Thank you Pastor Hibbs for preaching it.❤

[donnadohanich]

I wish he preached close to me. I love his teachings!!!

[aarontodd]

Pastor Hibbs, its awesome you quoted Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. Bravo, sir.

[angelespeart]

❤ BLESSINGS 🙏 TO ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THE WONDERFUL WORD OF GOD 🙏👑 JESUS CHRIST REIGNS!!!

[kimberlystringer]

FABULOUS ♥️♥️♥️♥️PRAYERS FOR OUR WHOLE COUNTRY!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏

[vickihighnote]

Awesome Word given Pastor Jack, " Faith helps me navigate in the darkness ". God bless you and yours with protection, health and joy❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[PreacherwithoutaPulpit]

Thank you Pastor Jack, your ministry and all those involved for as always speaking His, (the only), truth boldly, standing on the proven and sure Word of God, (Psa 119:160 +more). You and your ministry are truly a blessing as you continue to inform, instruct and build up His saints. I'm adding a short teaching below, please know I do this in love, with respect for you and all those around you. I do it to continue the feeding of His flock, to feed the algo, and in support of you and what you've said, one of His faithful.

As a new pastor who's came to the pulpit late in life, after to my shame ignoring the call for forty years, (the irony of that is not lost on me). Yet I was never allowed to fully walk away from my faith, the salvation He has given me, as is the same for all those who've been given that gift, (Eph 2:8). Hopefully this well help all understand the security we have in Him. It should also help with the discernment needed to do as we are commanded to do in Scripture, (Eph 5:11). Those who claim to be His and yet willfully continue in or support sin are clearly showing they are not His. (1 Joh 3:6, 1 Joh 3:9), what the Apostle is telling in these verses is that those who've been given the gift of faith will not continue to willfully live in or support sin. Just as the Apostle John and James both teach us in their Epistles, (Jas 1:25, Jas 2:22, 1 Joh 2:19, 1 Joh 4:18 +more). There must be some sign of "life" in their lives and actions, (Rom 8:10-13, Eph 2:10), or they're not truly His and never were. I'm not saying that we all don't stumble and fall short, (1 Joh 1:8), but we're never able to fully walk away from faith that is a gift from God, (Gal 3:22), if we were truly given it, (Eph 2:8).

Today we have so many things being taught, sadly even from pulpits and those in positions of power/influence, that if it were not for His sure and unchanging promises to us it would be easy to fall into fear and deep despair. However we do have His promises recorded for us in Scripture and we know that He is in total control, not even a sparrow falls without His knowledge, (Mat 10:29). As has always been the case it seems these un-Biblical teachings keep coming up, like pound scum they keep bubbling to the surface. I'm addressing the wrong understanding of, (Jhn 15:1-5), below but the same application of paying attention to detail and historical context can be used for, (Heb 6:4-7). When teaching on Hebrews 6 I look closely at, (Heb 6:8), and keep in mind the Apostle John or James' Epistles. We see both, (Jhn 15:2-5 and Heb 6:4-7) in Scripture being used wrongly which can lead to one believing that they can loose that gift of salvation our Lord has freely and lovingly given them. As John and James clearly tell us if we continue to willfully live in sin we are not truly His, (Jas 1:25, Jas 2:22, 1 Jhn 2:19, 1 Joh 4:18). We must hate the sin, as He does, even and especially in ourselves, but love the sinner, plant the seed that will bring them to repentance and faith, a seed only God can cause to grow, (Jhn 15:5, 1 Cor 3:7).

Below is a sermon/outline of a teaching I give, it's brief and doesn't include all the verses I use. I often write myself questions into a sermon/outline to stay on topic and focus. I try and think of questions those in the congregation may have as I speak and answer them in the teaching itself. So when you see the multiple question marks it doesn't represent a Q&A it's just me thinking things thru to exposit them more clearly.

This one's about the unchanging promises of our Lord and the fact that no one can ever loose the gift of the Spirit of Grace, freely and lovingly given to us, (Eph 2:8), by our great God and Father, (Rom 8:15), thru/by His Son our Lord Jesus Christ, (Rom 5:15-18 +more). If they do fully walk away, as the Apostle John clearly teaches us they were never given that gift or truly had it, (1 Jhn 2:19).

Let's begin:

(John 15:1-5)
Where was Jesus when He gave this teaching and who was He talking to, history, detail and context matter, they are so very important.

(Gen 49:22)
"Joseph is a faithful vine, a fruitful vine beside a spring; its branches climb over the wall"

What does this verse tell us about who the vine represents here, is it not all Israel via the patriarch Joseph?

(Hos 10:1a)
"Israel is a lush vine; it yields fruit for itself".

Now if Israel is represented by the vine in the Old Testament and Christ is the true vine in the New Testament, (Jhn 15:1).
What does that tell you?

Prior to His, (incarnation), coming did not all faithful Jews worship Him while He was with the Father in heaven?
(Deu 6:8)

Were they not waiting for their Messiah to come as promised in Scripture but when He did come they rejected Him and in so doing rejected the Father as well, (Jhn 10:30).

What it does tell us is that after He came and they rejected Him, they were leaving true faith they had possessed in Him. Something that they may not have understood they were now doing because they didn't believe the Scriptures, (Psa 2, Psa 22, Isa 52:13-53:12, Luk 16:31, Luk 24:34, Luk 24:44, Jhn 5:46 +more). They also wouldn't accept, ignored and refused to believe Jesus' clear and true Word, given Him by the Father, (Jhn 7:16, Jhn 12:50, Jhn 14:24, Jhn 17:8 +more)

Are not the branches being spoken of here in, (Jhn 15:2-5), the same ones the Apostle Paul tells us of in, (Rom 11:17-20)?

Do you now understand what Jesus was teaching to the Jews in the upper room in Jerusalem on that day, it was for the Jews of Judaism outside that room and to help His Apostles to understand how, (one of the ways), to teach/reach them.

What Jesus was teaching in the upper room is not intended for the New Testament, New Covenant believers, (Rom 3:25, Rom 5:9, Eph 1:7, Col 1:14, those bought at/with a price +more), as is mistakenly claimed and taught by so many. That doctrine is un-Biblical and goes against the clear teaching and unchanging promises of Scripture, (Jhn 10:29, +more). It ignores that He is the author and finisher of our faith, (Heb 12:2). He promises us we will stand because He is able to make us stand, (Rom 14:4). He will loose none the Father has given Him, (Jhn 3:35, Jhn 6:39, Jhn 6:65, Jhn 17:2 +more), As far as our being able to loose our salvation, we would in an instant if we could, being fallen as we are prior to our justification, during ongoing sanctification, and ultimately glorification, (Rom 8:30), if it was not a gift from God. The Spirit of Grace freely and lovingly given us, (Eph 2:8), by our great God and Father, (Rom 8:15), thru/by His Son Jesus the Christ, (Rom 5:15-18 +more). To claim or teach otherwise goes against the clear doctrine, (teaching of Scripture), relying on man's own understanding, just another form of pride rearing it's ugly head.

What we see in, (Jhn 15:1-5), Jesus is teaching what was and is for the Jews who practiced Judaism and by extension had faith in Him until now that He had come, they had then rejected Him and by extension His Father.

That is one of the many reasons, (John 15:29-30), are so very important to understand rightly, closely linked as they are. In, (John 15:29), we see just one of His many unchanging promises to us. It is the Father who first gives us to Him and holds us, then the Lord promises no one can take us from the Father's hand as they both hold us, not even ourselves. That promise is followed by, (John 10:30), where Jesus flatly states, "I and the Father are one".

This teaching was given to Jews in the upper room in Jerusalem for the Jews by their Jewish Messiah.

It was to and for the Jews of Judaism as a warning that they must remain in Him and believe in Him now, in His incarnation, on earth, as they had while He was in Heaven with the Father.

How can everyone not see this clear exposition as the truth?

This is why I teach that historical context and paying attention to detail are so very important. You need to know where He was and who He was teaching at all times when studying Scripture. The same must be applied to the Apostles and all the authors throughout Scripture. Those who don't will continue to misapply and not understand what is being clearly taught. As I've said attention to detail no matter how small matters. An example would be the two feedings of the multitudes, in one we see them being seated on grass and in the other it is on dry ground/dirt no grass. In this instance it is an indication of time passed, season change. Another often misunderstood verse due to not paying attention to detail is in the first Book of the Bible, (Gen 6:3), where the LORD is telling us how long until the flood will come but we see so many who wrongly claim it means man lives for 120 years, (I'll leave finding the proof of that statement to you, do as the Bereans did).

There are just so many verses in Scripture like this that were I given an hundred lifetimes I don't think I could ever plumb the depths and riches of His Word but that does not mean I will ever stop trying. His Word is one of the most beautiful love stories ever told, is something I often hear said, and I wholeheartedly agree, yet it is even so much more than that, (Psa 18:30).

I truly hope this helps even just one to understand the security they have in Him, a doctrine that is clearly taught in Scripture thru His many unchanging promises to us. They are unchanging because He is unchanging, (Mal 3:6a, Heb 13:8 +more).

Take a stand, speak boldly, God Bless, God Bless Israel, may God Bless and open the eyes, ears and hearts of all those who've yet to come to know and love Him, lastly may God Bless the USA, if he still will...

[AnaFlores-giqi]

I have no idea how I stumbled upon one of Pastor Jack’s videos a few months ago, I started listening to it and right there and then I realized that it was God Almighty who put him on my path to worship the real Jesus the one who doesn’t lie the one who doesn’t say give this amount of money and I will give you 100 fold, I know God wants us to give him our tithes and offerings and He alone will provide with what we need and with what He knows is good for us, not to fill our hearts full of lusts for the expensive things that will fade away! I was brain washed in praising a Jesus that certain Pastors made me believed in, that He wanted all my money in order to be wealthy and healthy, I discovered with Pastor Jack that all these fools are nothing but false preachers “Pastors”that go after people’s money to fulfill their bank accounts. I praise God for saving me of my wrong thinking and for taking away that lusts that was flourishing in my heart & mind. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[helenblake]

Wonderful message, pastor Jack. Thank you. As for the 3 days of grocery supplies in stores, I learned that years ago, while living in an area where hurricanes are common.

[letrukim]

Thank you, Pastor Jack, for another sermon.

[danetteperkins]

Father God, open the spiritual eyes and ears of our children, siblings, spouses, aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, grandparents, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, step children, adopted children, friends, etc.. Help them to believe what is for whatever reason seemingly impossible for them to believe which is the WAY of salvation in Jesus Christ and it's in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ that we pray. We know that we are not asking amiss because this is the very reason that You sent Your only begotten Son!