Week 8:Redeemer GC Lesson
Main Focus: What sustains us in faithful obedience when the world thinks we're crazy?
Grace. The same covenant love that calls us to obedience empowers us to walk in it. Grace sustains what grace commands.
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Hebrews 11:1-7
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
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What do we learn from Jesus here?
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How does this passage convict us to trust and love Jesus more deeply?
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What immediate step of obedience is Jesus calling us to?
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Is the Lord instructing us to adopt any new or renewed habits from this text?