Hebrews 11:1

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-33

The Life of Faith Hebrews 11:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Faith defined. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews opens with something that is very definite it is a definition of faith. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith takes hold of a promise from God, and turns it into substance. Faith is the substance of things hoped for; it reaches out into coming things, and creates them into present realities. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Of... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 11:1

PROGRESS IN RELIGIOUS CONVICTION‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ Hebrews 11:1 All religious conviction proceeds from God and cannot proceed from man, because whatever there is in man that is good is put into him by God. I. The first stage— repentance.—The first stage in the progress of spiritual conviction is repentance; a man has to find out that he is in the wrong before he can be set right. The foundation of all spiritual conviction rests... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:1-2

True Faith Is Faith In God’s Promises (Hebrews 11:1-2 ). Hebrews 11:1-2, ‘Now faith is assurance (hupostasis - ‘the substance’ or ‘the underpinning’ and therefore the ‘assurance’, the ‘guarantee within the heart’) of things hoped for, a proof (or ‘conviction’) of things not seen, for therein the elders had witness borne to them.’ Faith is to see as substantial fact what is hoped for on the basis of taking God’s promises seriously. It is to be assured of it, and to be convinced that what God... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:1-3

Hebrews 11:1 f. The chapter opens with a definition of faith as the “ assurance” whereby we lay hold of things still in the future, and the proving”— i.e. the inward certainty which is stronger than any outward proof— of things which lie beyond the evidence of the senses. Thus faith enables us on the one hand to believe in a salvation yet to come; and on the other hand, to apprehend a higher world, of which this visible world of change is only the shadow. For Paul the object of faith is the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:1

Now faith: the Holy Spirit proceeds in this chapter to strengthen the counsel he had given these Hebrews to continue stedfast in the faith of Christ, to the end that they may receive their reward, the salvation of their souls, Hebrews 10:39; 1 Peter 1:9; and so beginneth with a description of that faith, and proves it to be effectual to this end, by instances out of all ages of the world before them, wherein the Old Testament believers had found it to be so. The description of it is laid down,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-3

ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAITH AS A PRACTICAL POWER IN LIFECRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESTHIS chapter contains a series of illustrations, taken from the heroic ages of Hebrew history, of the nature and influence of faith in God. The writer desires to show that faith makes a motive and inspiration for daily life and conduct as sufficient and as satisfactory as distant announcements and demonstrative proofs. In impressing the temporary character of the Mosaic religious system, the writer is careful to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1

Hebrews 11:1 The Work of the Few and the Many. The history of mankind, whether secular or religious, resolves itself into the history of a few individuals. It is not that all the rest do not live their own lives, or can shirk their own eternal responsibilities; but it is that the march and movement of the many is as surely influenced by the genius of the few as is the swing of the tide by the law of gravitation. It is a law of our being that we should belong the vast majority of us to the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-7

Hebrews 11:1-7 Abel, Enoch, Noah. Before the flood and the Abrahamic covenant God had a people on earth who lived by faith. Abel, the first martyr, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, and Noah, the preacher of righteousness, are the three witnesses of the period whose lives are recorded. I. Abel, the first man who had to descend into the grave, was carried through it on the arms of redeeming love. Abel, believing the word, approached God through the bitter sacrifice. Every one who believes in Jesus... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 11:1

DISCOURSE: 2317THE NATURE OF FAITHHebrews 11:1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.CONSIDERING how much the Scriptures speak of faith, one is surprised that the subject of faith so little occupies the attention of the world at large, or even of the religious world. But the truth is, that the nature of faith is but little known. The world at large consider it as no more than assent upon evidence; whilst the religious world confine their views of it... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-40

Hebrews, chapter 11:Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ( Hebrews 11:1 ).This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. It is the substance of things that are hoped for. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. And the evidence, that word has been translated conviction of the things not seen. I'm convicted of truths, though I may not... read more

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