Hebrews 11:1-22

v1-3: What is faith? It is “a firm conviction and expectation that God will fulfil all he has promised to us in Christ.” It is to have a conviction and expectation “so strong” that we have a “present enjoyment” of these things God has promised.

v4-7: It is those “who walk by faith with God in a sinful world” who “are pleasing to him.”

v8-12: Our true home is “the heavenly Canaan.” This inheritance we have as God’s children and heirs, “is not immediately possessed” by us and we “must wait some time for it.” Living by faith means being certain that “in God’s time and way” we will “be brought safely to it.”

v13-16: Most of our “happiness lies more in promise and prospect than in actual enjoyment and possession.” Faith “has a long arm, and can take hold of blessings that are far away, make them present, love them, and rejoice in them, and thus enjoy them ahead of time.”

v17-19: “God is able to raise the dead, to raise dead bodies and raise dead souls.” He did this for Christ, and He will do that for us.

v20-22: It is faith that helps “believers to finish well, to die in the Lord.” Those who do “leave behind a witness of the truth of God’s word and the excellence of his ways.” May this be true for us at the end of our lives here on earth.