The Roll Call Of Faith - South Union Baptist Church

Joshua & Rahab - Victorious Faith

June 5, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:23–29

We can learn a great deal about victorious faith from both Joshua and Rahab. We learn that to live out a victorious faith, you must have a personal encounter with God (Jesus) and you must submit to His commands. When you do, you can experience a work of God that has no human explanation, like Joshua and Rahab in the victory and salvation God gave in the battle of Jericho.

Moses - Warring By Faith

May 29, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:23–29

Moses life of faith can be divided into three 40 year periods: 40 years of training in Egypt, 40 years of training in the desert, and 40 years of doing what he was trained to do in the previous 80 years. All along the way he had a faith that was tested and tried. He had to learn to war by faith. If we’re going to follow in the footsteps of Moses, waiting, watching, walking, and warring in faith, then we should make the same decisions he made: 1) We must refuse to go with the flow of a sinful society. 2) We must leave the familiar to venture into the foreign. 3) We must swallow our pride and be willing to do the unusual.

Isaac, Jacob, Joseph - Blessing By Faith

May 15, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:20–22

Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph each had faith even unto the end of their days. But the thing the author of Hebrews zeros in on that they utilized their faith to extend a blessing to their children. Every parent has a God-given responsibility to bless their children. From the word “blessing” we get our word eulogy—“to speak well of.” There three lessons we can learn from these men of faith about blessing by faith. 1) The blessing is a spiritual tool giving hope to your children for the future 2) The blessing is another way of you worshipping God 3) The blessing is a means of interlocking the past with the future

Abraham - The Testing Of Faith

May 8, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:17–19

Abraham's faith was tested and tested and tested. Some tests he passed. Some tests he failed. But what we do see over time is a growing and strengthening and purifying of his faith. It is as if Abraham were enrolled in a school of faith. One of things that all students in any school have in common is tests. All students are tested to see where they are academically. Our walk with God by faith is a School of Faith. And in the School of Faith we, like Abraham, must have occasional tests, or we will never know where we are spiritually.

Sarah - Waiting By Faith

May 1, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews

Sarah's faith began in unbelief but it ended with her experiencing what was humanly impossible, i.e. God's possible, when after 25 years of waiting she gave birth to the promised son, Isaac. There are many lessons we can learn from Sarah about faith. One of the most important is that faith must be personal. Abraham had great faith, but Sarah needed her own faith. This principle is true for us. We may have people in our lives who have great faith but their faith won't substitute for our faith. Another lesson to learn is that often when we have to wait in faith we end up seeing our faith grow to new levels.

Abraham - Wandering By Faith

April 17, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:8–16

Abraham was a man of great faith. God called Abraham to follow Him and come to a land that God would give to Abraham. . Abraham didn’t know where exactly God was calling him to, but he had faith to follow. And since he didn’t know where he was going, you could say he had faith to wander with God. In our text we see five principles for those who live by faith: 1) We are invited to live by faith. 2) We obey when we live by faith. 3) We sojourn when we live by faith. 4) We reject the world when we live by faith. 5) We see with spiritual eyes when we live by faith.

Enoch - Walking By Faith

April 10, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:5–6

Enoch teaches us that by faith we can walk with God in such a way that we please God. By faith we can walk so closely with God and sense His presence and power that we look for our blessed hope, the return of Christ and the rapture that will occur.

Noah - Moved By Faith

April 3, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:7

Noah was a man whose fear (trust) in God motivated him to build an ark. He was moved by faith to prepare an ark in which he saved his house (family), condemned the world, and became an inheritor of righteousness. What is your faith moving you to do? Real faith moves believers to action. Do you have real faith?

Abel - Vapor With A Voice

March 20, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:1–4

Abel responded to God in faith by bringing an appropriate offering in sacrifice. Because he obeyed by faith, he won God's approval. God testified to Abel's faith. And to this day, Abel's faith is still speaking to us; pointing us to the way of faith, i.e. responding in obedience to what God has revealed to us in His Word.

The Principle Of Faith

March 13, 2024 • Pastor Chad Thompson • Hebrews 11:1–7

True biblical faith is confident obedience to God’s Word in spite of circumstances and consequences. It is not simply an intellectual belief. It is revealed in us volitionally as we act on what we believe. The writer of Hebrews makes it clear that faith is very practical. Faith enables us to understand what God does. Faith enables us to see what others cannot see. As a result, faith enables us to do what others cannot do!