Hebrews 11:7-16

Faith Revealed In Positive Present Action By Those Who Believed The Promises Of God's Future Reward For His Own In The Light Of The Future Hope (Hebrews 11:7).

The essential of this next section is that faith resulted in positive action in the very circumstances of these people's lives as they looked forward to the future hope promised by God. They believed God and therefore they acted according to His word in the most unusual ways, the first in order to proclaim judgment while himself escaping it along with his family, in order to build up a new people for the future, and the second in order to begin the process which would lead to the final receiving of an inheritance and to the establishment of the city of God. One revealed the negative side of God's purposes, the passing away of the old, although there was also the positive; the other the positive side, the coming in of the new. But the faith of both revealed their acceptability to God.