Join us on a reflective journey as we delve into the heart of biblical faith. In this sermon, Dr. McGee explains how the examples of saints like Abel and Enoch illustrate the essence of trusting in God. The episode challenges listeners to re-examine their faith, understand its foundational truths, and see it as a personal confidence in God that is alive and active in every believer’s life.
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The foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent word.
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. That’s Hebrews 11.1, one of the most quoted verses in the book of Hebrews. In fact, many people use this verse to define their faith. But what does it really mean? How does faith work? And how does this definition of faith point to God’s gift of salvation? Welcome to the Sunday Sermon on Through the Bible, where our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is going to take us on a journey through Hebrews 11, verses 1 to 3, and he’ll answer two questions. What’s faith, and how does it operate in our lives? Well, in this message, Looking at Faith in the Laboratory of Life, Dr. McGee provides practical examples from the lives of the Old Testament saints mentioned in this chapter. So find your seat on the Bible bus, and let’s bow our heads and pray to begin. Father, thank you for your promise to honor your word. May it take root in our hearts today. Give us a deeper understanding of our faith and guide us in living our lives for you. In Jesus’ name, amen. Now here’s the Sunday Sermon on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.
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I want to read in your hearing this evening just a few verses from the 11th chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, beginning with the first verse. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God, but without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. I’ll break off our reading there tonight at the sixth verse. Our subject this evening is looking at faith in the laboratory of life and the contribution that the Old Testament makes to faith is expressed in this last verse that I read. But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. There is one solitary essential an all-important requirement in coming to God, and that is faith. So the writer to the Hebrews says here, let me put it in this rather vivid manner, if you had tonight the most ornate temple that had ever been constructed, you had the most beautiful and lavish ritual that was imaginable, You had meticulous ceremonies, most elegant appointments, dignified form, elaborate service, soul-inspiring music, every detail appealing to both eye and ear, and have religious feelings and bring to the altar rich gifts of silver and gold. and shed tears in profusion and be absolutely sincere, you would not be acceptable to God without faith. May I say to you, that’s a tremendously important statement. You would be positively displeasing to God without faith in his Son. Now, that’s the Old Testament contribution. The New Testament restricts this even farther, and it’s more definitive than that. Will you listen as I turn to the third chapter of Galatians? And at the 22nd verse, listen to this. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came we were kept under the law, shut up under the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Now I turn over to Galatians 5, 6. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision. but faith which worketh by love. Now what Paul is saying now in the epistle to the Galatians is simply this, that when you come to God, you come with faith and faith only. That God does not accept anything else today, only faith, and that faith reposed in Jesus Christ. And he sums it all up in Romans 3.28 when he says, Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. It is faith plus nothing. That is the New Testament contribution. So that if tonight you stood alone, a naked soul, stripped of all the props of this life, with nothing human to lean upon, and you were filthy from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot, and you were out in the barnyard, you were on a pile of fertilizer, and you believed God, and you came as a lost soul at his invitation to trust his son, you would be acceptable to God. That’s tremendous, is it not? If you have all things but not faith, you’re rejected of him. If you lack all things and have nothing and have faith, you’re accepted of him. Now, what is faith that is so all-important? Is it some mystic quality? some unknown quantity, some abstract idea, some theoretical aphorism? Is it something that’s not in the realm of reality? It’s sort of like you have it or you don’t have it. Now you see it, now you don’t see it. It’s a sort of a knack. It’s like you have an ear for music or maybe you don’t have an ear for music if you’re like I am. or you have athletic prowess, or you don’t have athletic prowess. Is it a sort of a way by which we in our imaginations, we move Never Never Land out of Disneyland and put it down on Main Street and try to make it real? May I say to you, these things are not faith at all. And I recognize tonight that definitions are unsatisfactory, yet I must ask that you hear a few. Phillips, in his letters to young churches, apparently tried to, in his interpretation, which I do not like to call a translation, tried to make these first few verses in the 11th chapter of Hebrews a definition, but it’s not a definition, but listen to it for its good. Now, faith means putting our full confidence in the things we hope for. It means being certain of things we cannot see. It was this kind of faith that won their reputation for the saints of old, and it’s after all only the faith that our minds accept this fact that the whole scheme of time and space was designed by God, that the world which we can see is operating on principles that are invisible. May I say to you, that is a very good interpretation, but it’s not a definition for the writer to the Hebrews never intended those verses to be a definition. Philip Cabot gives this definition, faith is a spiritual condition and not a creed or a form of words that needs no copyright to legalize and protect it. And after I’ve read that, I still don’t know just what he said. and then here is another definition faith is a thread slender and frail easy to tear yet it can lift the weight of a soul up from despair that’s good but it’s not a definition of faith although it was intended to be a definition of faith now we could go on with definitions tonight but i do not think they would be satisfactory i think the best place to go for a definition is to the scripture and as far as i know There is only one definition of faith in the Word of God, and it’s so simple that we sometimes pass over it. It’s in 1 John 5, 14. Listen to this. So simple. And this is the confidence that we have in Him. What is faith tonight? Faith is confidence in God. It is a personal confidence in God. That’s all. It’s to have confidence in God. Now I want you to see something tonight, for faith is the expression of the total personality of man. A famous preacher who is still living was asked by a seminary student at a forum in a seminary He was asked this question, when you preach, do you preach to the mind of people or to the heart of the people or to the will of the people? And this man gave this very interesting answer. He says, I preach to the 12 inches of air in front of my mouth. May I say to you that if you’ll think that over for a while, he said something. You see, he’s not preaching at any particular part of man. He’s preaching at total man. We have here a very interesting thing that’s been going on for some time. A man who is an outstanding liberal here in Southern California in one of the beach towns, and that’s as far as I can go, but he is, I take it that he probably does not even believe in the existence of God. But he’s a preacher nonetheless. He attends here some on Thursday night. He’s intensely interested and he’s greatly puzzled. Now he’s told his mutual friend, he says, you know, fundamentalists always appeal to the emotions and never to the intellect. And I don’t understand that fellow McGee because I don’t think he’s appealing to emotions altogether. May I say to you, that man is apparently a very keen observer. He’s found out that that’s true. Also, I do not believe you can departmentalize man, but psychologically, there is the intellectual part of man, there is the emotional part, and there is the volitional part, and God directs the gospel to all three parts of man. God directs the gospel to the total man, not to just one part of him. And one of the reasons that I believe that since the war we’ve had so much that’s been shallow and shoddy and shabby has been because the message has been directed to one part of man. He responded on that alone, and there was nothing to sustain. I believe that when the gospel goes out, that God expects man to respond in all three parts of his being. And will you notice how he presents it in the word of God? First of all, I believe that the gospel is directed to the intellectual part of man. God directs it to the mind. Now, faith is therefore not a leap in the dark. Beverly Nichols, the English writer and playwright who wrote Cry Havoc, Verdict on India, I totally disagree with her. When she gives this kind of a statement, and don’t misunderstand, I’m going to quote her again in a few moments because she said something quite outstanding, by the way. And she is one of the bright people of this day. But I think she’s wrong when she says, for its mystical fulfillment, it demands from its followers a leap in the dark, a leap that leads from darkness to light. Now I personally do not believe that God is asking any person to take a leap in the dark when they come to him. I believe that he appeals to the mind of man and he appeals to the mind of man and offers the mind of man evidence if that mind is willing to accept it. Now we are told today that what we know in the mind comes through sense, perception. And that science today is nothing in the world but using sense perception. And it’s based on faith. The scientist has to have faith in the objective world. He has to have faith in these different forces and the different elements that he uses. He has to have faith on many of these things that are his fingertips. And he has to have faith in his senses. that he’s seeing, that he’s hearing, that he’s detecting, that he’s taking down information accurately. Now that is faith, may I say to you. May I say that some folk now say, well, now faith is not like that because it is a spiritual perception. It is a higher knowledge. It is the Holy Spirit taking things that are unseen and making them real to you. Will you listen to me very carefully? I believe that when a man comes to God and if that man has intellectual questions, God has the evidence to offer him and God will meet him and meet that man’s mind. And when that man brings to this a mind to understand, then the Holy Spirit will take these things and give him a spiritual perception that is higher than sense perception. And he’ll know. No one else can possibly know in this life. It was Huxley Miller that made this statement, history looks back. Science looks around, philosophy looks in, but only faith can look up and beyond the horizons of this present life to the mansions of God in eternity, to the everlasting kingdom of heaven, which is as inevitable as it is invisible. And that’s when I believe now that God moves in and by the Spirit of God makes these things real to the heart and life. But God is not asking you to take off in the dark. Listen to this very carefully. Paul says in Romans 10, 17, Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. You see, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Faith rests upon that which is tangible, that which is subject to sense perception. God’s not asking any man to take any leap in the dark at all. And faith is not, as Captain Jack used to say, betting on God. It’s no gamble at all. It’s the surest thing that there is. Now, will you look at the very first man that responded by faith to God according to the record? That man was Abel. We are told that by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. I want you to notice something very important there. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. How could he offer unto God by faith a sacrifice? He could only offer it if God had given him a revelation. For faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. This man had heard something. In those days, either through Adam directly or to Abel directly, God had revealed himself and said, now that you’re out of the Garden of Eden, it will be necessary for you to bring a sacrifice to me. And that sacrifice must witness to the fact that you’re a lost sinner and that only the shedding of blood makes it possible for me, a holy God, to forgive your sin. You bring that little lamb and that little lamb will be accepted because I in time will send my son, the Lamb of God, to take away the sins of the world. Now Abel believed God. Faith is confidence in God. If you had met Abel on the way to make his sacrifice and you’d said to him, Now, Abel, do you understand all about imputation and propitiation? And he said, I really don’t know what you’re talking about. Well, do you know what you’re doing? Well, he said, I know this much. I know that my father Adam was put out of the Garden of Eden because he disobeyed God. And I know that I’ve inherited a nature that’s in disobedience to God and I’m a lost sinner. And God says because of that and that I’m not right with him and he’s holy, I’m to bring this little lamb and I’m coming and bringing the little lamb. Now Cain refused to do that. Cain would not believe God. Abel believed God. He evidenced that he had confidence in God. And that faith came because he had a revelation. He had something from God. Now, our faith tonight rests upon documentary evidence. It rests upon the word of God. Will you listen to this? Many other signs truly did Jesus, which are not written in this book, But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in his name. John says there are many other things I could have written, but I have put down in black and white. I have put down on papyrus. I have put down in Greek these things that are tangible. you might know Jesus is the Christ. God’s not asking anybody to take a leap in the dark. He’s asking you, if you please, to examine the evidence. That’s all in the world that he asks. Our Lord said, he that heareth my word… and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life. Now listen to John again in 1 John 5, 10, because this is very interesting. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar. That’s the reason it’s so terrible not to believe God. When you don’t, you make him a liar. because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. Now John says here that there is a record and that when you do not accept that record, you’ve made God a liar. But when you accept that record, you exhibit that you’ve got confidence in God. And this is the record. that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. That’s simple enough, isn’t it? These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. It rests upon a record, if you please. And may I say also that this record is something that you and I are asked to do, is to believe God. That’s all Abraham did. Abraham believed God. It was counted to him for righteousness. Abraham, a good man in many ways. You put Abraham down by the average church member today, it’d make him ashamed of himself. But Abraham did not count on his own righteousness. Abraham was told that he was to believe God. And God said certain things to him. And Abraham said, I believe you. I have confidence in God. And that tonight is what God’s asking of you. God’s not asking you to take a leap in the dark. God is asking you to examine the evidence. Now, will you listen to this statement that comes from Beverly Nichols? A remarkable statement. She was one of the world’s worst skeptics. And I mean she turned people. She quotes a letter in here of people that she turned away from God. But it made her begin to think that she was on the wrong track. She began to study on her own. Back to the matter, she took a regular theological course. Listen to this. If any reader should be one of those who assume that the Christian account of the facts is impossible, that it is against nature and utterly contrary to enlightened opinion, if in short he thinks it’s just a pretty legend, I do implore him in his own most vital interest to examine those facts as wholly and as impartially as if he were a member of a jury. Even if he gains nothing else, he will have made the discovery that theology is one of the most exciting studies to which a man may devote himself. But I suspect that this will be the least of his gains. I suspect that he will find to his astonishment that it might have happened. May I say to you tonight, here’s a woman, rank unbeliever. She came and looked at the evidence. And she says, I was amazed. There’s evidence. God is not asking you to take a leap in the dark. God is asking you to examine the facts he’s appealing to your mind. Someone asked Luther, do you feel that you’ve been forgiven? He answered, no, but I’m as sure as there’s a God in heaven, for feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the word of God. Nought else is worth believing. He had documentary evidence. My friend and I, God is not asking you to take a leap in the dark. God is asking you to examine the evidence. And if you think today that faith is something that’s contrary to reason or to knowledge, you’re wrong. God begins with you there. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Our Lord said, this is life eternal. that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. And Paul could say, I know whom I have believed. I’m persuaded that he’s able to keep that which I’ve committed unto him against that day. Faith is not contrary to reason. God appeals to the intellect of man. Now God appeals to the emotions also. And I believe that we’re living in an hour when we need a baptism of emotion. So many people come to church and afraid they’ll show their emotions. I saw more tears this morning at the church of the open door than I’ve seen in years. We need it. Oh, I don’t mean cheap emotion now. I know folk can go to the movies and they can dampen two handkerchiefs to watch a play about a woman who loses her husband. They just sit there and weep. And the gals already had three in real life. And I don’t know why people weep about it, but they weep about it. May I say to you tonight that a block of ice is weepy. And you can shed tears without it really affecting you at all. I’m talking now about the fact that God is appealing to your emotions. Listen again to Paul in Romans 10.9, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Now, he’s not talking here about the mind. In here is where most everything happens that happens to us. Oh, in here is where we live and move and have our being, not up here. Many of us don’t use this up here much, but down here we do. All of us use this down here. And the scripture is very careful to say that. The writer to the Proverbs says, Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. God appeals to your emotions. Our Lord made a startling statement. He says, For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies. Not an awful brood come out of one heart, but it’s in our hearts. My, down in here, God is appealing to us. And today, the head of man is really not at fault. Heart is his problem child. Man is not silly. Man is sinful today. And man is not weak. Man, if you please, is wicked. It was William Law that made this statement. This is an eternal truth which you cannot too much reflect upon. That reason always follows the state of the heart. And what your heart is, that’s your reason. If your heart is full of sentiments of penance and of faith, your reason will take part with your heart. But if your heart is shut up in death and dryness, your reason will delight in nothing but dry objections and speculation. And that’s the reason today that the church needs revival. We need an atmosphere today in which emotions can be expressed. I mean right emotions, not just cheap sentiment. I mean real, down-deep emotions. That’s the reason that over this land in ages gone by that they had great revival movements because there was an atmosphere for it. My friend, there’s no atmosphere today for it. And we need that because God is appealing to the heart of man. And God’s appealing today. And one of the reasons today so many people turn away in unbelief, they are in an atmosphere where their hearts are becoming hardened. Young people in school today, among unbelievers, men at work, on the street today, everything is talked about except the things of God. We haven’t seen in our day and generation a turning to God. I have attended many of the Billy Graham meetings, and I did it for my own blessing. And I want to say this, that The one thing that you could tell the Billy Graham meetings were doing, they were bringing in a community an atmosphere where the emotions of man could be stirred again. And my friend, they need to be stirred. Because tonight you happen to be in a cold and different atmosphere doesn’t mean tonight that God’s not appealing to your emotions. and asking you. You see, our trouble is down here, not here. It’s down here in our hearts. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, one of the old-line modernist liberals, made this startling statement, he says, of the hundreds of students that I’ve interviewed at Columbia University. I never met one that had any trouble in his head. When you got down underneath, it was down here in his heart. I can agree with that. I have met men that have had head trouble. I do believe there are intellectual difficulties that some people have to face up to. May I say to you, when I was in college, that was my problem. I had to get over those head problems. I had to get to the place where the thing would make sense to me. I believe tonight if any man is honest in his heart, he’ll beat his music out. God wants to appeal to your emotion. Let me move on. May I say to you that God is appealing also to the volitional part of man, to the will. Practically all translations of Hebrews 11.1 say that faith is a conviction of things not seen. It’s a conviction. It’s something that comes out of the will of man, if you please. And it’s interesting that every time God asks a man to believe, you will find that he always puts with it a little preposition. In John 3, 16, which is probably more familiar than any other verse, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him might not perish, but have everlasting life. Now, the Greek is very vivid. It uses the little preposition eis, epsilon, iota, sigma. And that little preposition means believe in too. And when Paul met that jailer that night after midnight, when he came rushing in there and said, what must I do to be saved? Paul said to him, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. The preposition he used was epi, epsilon, pi, iota. And that means to believe upon. Every time that you’re asked to believe, it’s with a preposition that denotes action that’s appealing to the volitional part of man, asking him to do something. Therefore, tonight, faith is more than mental assent. It’s more than just shedding tears. It’s something that we act upon. Because you can give a man a last cent, and that by itself is not salvation. And you can shed kids, and that’s not salvation. May I say to you that it’s when you and I believe on him. May I illustrate that here tonight? I may take a chair. You’ve seen me do this here before us. This young salesman that was here that sold, I forget now just what he did sell. He was saved here when we use this illustration. You are here tonight, never trusted Christ. Maybe you believe intellectually these things and may I say they can be examined. They’ll stand up to any intellectual examination you want to make. But may I say to you, you can stand right by the side of this chair. And you can believe this chair will hold you. And I believe it’ll hold me. And I think you believe this chair will hold me. May I say to you, I can stand right here to doomsday and I’ll not be held up by the chair. It’s not until I believe either ice or a pea into or upon. And when I believe ice or a pea into and upon, it holds me. There are a lot of folk tonight that are standing right here and say, yes, I believe, I believe, but they have not yet believed into. They have not yet rested in Christ. They’ve not yet made him their only Savior tonight. You remember when Saul of Tarsus was converted? Notice his conversion. He asked two questions. Who art thou, Lord? That’s intellectual. That’s to the mind. Who art thou, Lord? The second was, what will you have me to do? That’s to the volitional. May I say to you tonight, God is appealing to you on all three fronts, not just one. By faith, Abel offered unto God. And had you gone to Abel and said, Abel, aren’t you going to offer a sacrifice? Yes, I think I am. Hasn’t God appeared to you? Yes. Don’t you believe? Yes. Well, when are you going to do it? Well, one of these days I’ll do it. No, he didn’t do that. Abel brought that sacrifice, and the writer to the Hebrews says, by faith Abel offered unto God. He offered unto God. He took that step of faith. He had confidence in what God said, and he acted upon that. Martin Luther wrote this statement concerning the epistle to the Romans, and one night a man read this down on Aldersgate in London, and a young preacher who was not saved slipped into the back of the church, and his name was John Wesley. Here is what he heard that converted him. Faith is not something we fetch up from our imagination and put over on ourselves. Faith comes over us in the mighty impact of God’s revelation of Himself to us. It’s God’s own work in us which changes us all over and makes us like new. It kills the past and utterly transforms us in heart, disposition, Spirit in all the faculties. Oh, it’s the lively, busy, active, mighty thing, this faith whereby the Holy Spirit regenerates us and pours itself in a steady stream of good deeds. It’s just a lively, reckless confidence in God’s graces so sure that the believer could die a thousand times for it. Such knowledge of God’s grace and trustful reliance upon it sets a man up, makes him cheerful, sure of himself, bold-hearted, happy toward God and all creation. And John Wesley said that night, I felt my heart strangely warm and I felt I did trust God. This brilliant young Oxford student said, for the first time I trusted him. My friend tonight, Have you come on all three fronts to God? Have you been convicted and convinced intellectually? Have you been convicted also emotionally in your heart of hearts? And then have you, by an act of a will, have you trusted Him as your own personal Savior? Have you done that? May I ask you tonight, have you done that?
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Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, he washed it white as snow.
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