What Faith is Not:
“Biblical faith is confidence that is grounded in the person and work of Jesus that produces expectant hopes and deep convictions in your heart concerning realities that you cannot see.”
- By faith Abel God .
“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.” –Hebrews 11:4
“Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.” – Genesis 4:1-2
“In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.”- Genesis 4:3-5
- By faith Enoch with God .
“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.” – Hebrews 11:5
“When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.” -Genesis 5:21-22
“Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.” – Genesis 5:23-24
- By faith Noah God .
” 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.” – Hebrews 11:7
“The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” – Genesis 6:5-6
“So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” – Genesis 6:7
“But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.” – Genesis 6:8
“Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.” – Genesis 6:22.