"The soul is the life of the body, faith is the life of the soul, and Christ is the life of faith" (John Flavel). And don't forget what Luther wrote in his Preface to Romans: "Faith is not the human notion and dream that some people call faith . . . . Faith, however, is a divine work in us. . . . O it is a living, busy, active, mighty thing, this faith. It is impossible for it not to be doing good works incessantly." As we begin to look at Hebrews 11, we need to know what faith is — the kind of faith that did all the things recorded in this chapter. The writer defines faith for us here at the beginning of the chapter to tell us that this is the kind of faith he's talking about. This faith is the one that subdues kingdoms, builds arks, receives the resurrection of the dead, and much, much more. We will also go to a couple of other texts to see more of what faith is, but conclude with the declaration from the previous verse — the last verse of ch. 10 — that faith preserves or saves the soul. What I hope to show you is that faith is steady hope and conviction of proof. It is this kind of faith that did all the good things described in Hebrews 11, and it is this faith that you and I need to have in our own hearts and lives.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
