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We see history as the unfolding of God’s sovereign purpose to glorify Himself by saving a church in His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, the coming of Christ to save His church is at the center of all history. All of the other events are only sidelights which serve God’s purpose.
To help us understand how that glorious heritage was entrusted to us by God in His infinite wisdom, the speaker used as an example, an album containing portraits of the saints who lived and died in the faith of our fathers. We saw in this album Abel, the first martyr, who gave his life for what we n
In the hall of the heroes of faith are also the portraits of heroines, of women who are example of a life of faith. God’s grace is no respecter of sex and in Christ Jesus there is no difference. Although the man more than the woman stands on the foreground in Scripture, women occupy a rather promine
At the same time we do not despise the saints or think basely of them. For we acknowledge them to be living members of Christ and friends of God who have gloriously overcome the flesh and the world. Hence we love them as brothers [and sisters], and also honor them; yet not with any kind of worship,
The Scriptures are filled with examples of saints, who, under the most trying of circumstances and in the greatest of difficulties, believed that God would not forget them, but would faithfully remember, care for. and establish them. Their faithfulness to God was inspired by faith in His faithfulnes
They are the saints through whom God has continued his covenant with his people in their generations. They are the ones who set examples to the following generations of living godly lives. They are fountains of knowledge and wisdom to us who are just starting to travel the life of a pilgrim and stra
But looking to Jesus, we will persevere through these things and be gathered into the arms of our Lord. Young people, I earnestly encourage you to consider diligently the lives of the saints who have gone before you—both the lives of those recorded for us in scripture and those who have walked since
Our objection is not that we doubt that the persons whose lives are sketched were indeed saints but that these saints are not distinct as such from other people of God. According to Scripture every child of God is a saint, cf. Eph. 1:1 and I John 2:20. The author evidently proceeds from the supposi
The great men who are here presented to us as living demonstrations of this faith, and as incentive for the saints who press on in the battle, are all taken from the midst of the saints. They are really not "heroes" of faith in the strict sense of the term. The whole concept of the Greek "Heeros" mu