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GENESIS
created, but our conviction is that they were “framed by
the word of God” (v. 3). We have never seen Christ,
our Elder Brother, but we believe in Him as the One who
Y is abundantly able to save us from sin and mortality.
We
have never had a glimpse of heaven, but we believe that
the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead
dwelleth in us, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead
shall give life also to our mortal bodies through His Spirit
that dwelleth in us (Rom. 8:ll). Therefore we are
exhorted to live by faith, to walk by faith and to die in
the faith.
(4) Illustratiovts from the chapter (Heb. 11). (a)
Abel brought his offering to the altar with the conviction
that the God whom he had never seen, but in whom he
believed, would accept it, v. 4. (b) In Noah’s heart
there was an overwhelming conviction that judgment
would come upon the antediluvian world because of its
wickedness. Although summer and winter, and seedtime
and harvest, continued to come and go as usual for one
hundred and twenty years, he never faltered. Through all
the trying experiences of this period of grace he retained
his conviction. Because that during all these intervening
years there was no evidence in nature of the impending
catastrophe, it was a conviction with respect to things
not seen, v. 7. (c) Abraham left home and kindred and
friends, and started on a strange journey to a land both
-Inknown to him and unseen by him. He had no idea
how far he would have to travel in order to reach it. All
that moved him was a conviction with respect to the far
country and a conviction that God would give it to him
for an inheritance. Vs. 8-12. (d) These fathers of Israel,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all died in the faith, having
never received the literal fulfilment of the promises. So
far as we know they all died without possessing a single
acre of the land of promise save the few square feet they
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