The Fulfillment of Faith | Pastor Grant Ethridge | Liberty Live Church

And I want you to see it in verses 39 and 40, these last two verses.

All these were approved through their faith.

but they did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us.

so that they would not be made perfect without us.

Let's pray.

Lord, I pray the Holy Spirit, who is our teacher, would right now teach us what this means to us, for our generation and for our church.

And I pray, Holy Spirit, that you'd fill me and let me preach out the overflow and give the people ears to hear what the Spirit says.

And when the invitation is given, I pray the Holy Spirit would draw people close to Jesus.

In Jesus' name, amen.

I've called this the fulfillment of faith.

The fulfillment of faith.

And you'll understand why as we look at these verses and walk through them together.

When I read these two verses, three things just jumped out to me.

First of all, pleasing faith.

Write that down, pleasing faith, because he said in verse 39, all these were approved through their faith.

We all want the approval of God.

And if faith is the only way to please God, you need to know what faith is.

So go back to verse one.

Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for.

That word hope's not just, well, I wish something would happen.

No, it's confidence.

It's assurance.

It's the proof of what is not seen.

For by this our ancestors were, there's the word again, approved.

And so faith is the way to please God.