Part 1 - God's Puzzle Solved

312 God’s Puzzle Solvedis, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to becalled their God: for he has prepared for them a city.17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered upIsaac: and he that had received the promises offeredup his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, Thatin Isaac shall your seed be called.Many people are so busy trying to understand what faithis that they don’t pay attention to what the text actuallysays (Hebrews 11). When you understand what God plansto accomplish, then will you learn the meaning of faith.This chapter shows that it was an act of faith for Abrahamto go into an unknown land (Verse 8). Abraham obeyedGod and kept His commandments and statutes. And, yet,there was no law. Abraham kept God’s commandmentssimply because he had faith in God. He had agàpè love.When you have agàpè love, you will have God’s Law inyour heart (Romans 13:10). When God told Abraham togo to Canaan, he obeyed, “for an inheritance, obeyed; andhe went out, not knowing whither he went.”Abraham In Eden?What if Abraham had been in The Garden of Eden insteadof Adam? You can be sure that Abraham would have eatenof The Tree of Life. “ 9 By faith he sojourned in the land ofpromise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles.”Abraham never lived in a house (only tents). Isaac and Jacoblived in tents too. This was because, “ 10 For he lookedfor a city which has foundations, whose builder and makeris God.” This applies to The New Heaven and The NewEarth (New Jerusalem). The example of faith continues