0940. Many Saints, or the Faith That Sees the Things God has Provided

Many Saints, or the Faith That Sees the Things God has Provided

"And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

"God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect" (Heb_11:39-40).

It is wonderful the large group that the Spirit brings before us as proofs of the vitality of a faith that is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

The faith of each of these worthies accomplished distinctive victories for God. The conquests of their faith ran all the way from subduing kingdoms to being destitute, afflicted, tormented. However, in each of these recorded instances it was a faith made potent by a vision of the future things God held in store–good things which they never attained during their earth life and which they have not yet attained.

"And these all having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect" (Heb_11:39-40, A. S. V.).

So it is, there lies ahead of us all a fullness of blessing which is laid aside and which shall simultaneously be given to those who have fought the good fight and kept the faith and finished their course.

Let us never again jest about those who believe the blessed hope of the Lord's return. Practically every conviction of faith set forth in the 11th of Hebrews has to do with some phase of the Lord's return.

Scoffers have arisen who say, "Where is the promise of His coming?" Unbelief is casting slurs at every vestige of the prophetic Scriptures which accepts at their face value the promise of the Lord's literal, corporeal, visible, personal, sudden coming to receive His own and to reign upon David's throne.

If we would please God, we must believe all that the prophets have spoken and we must have confidence in things hoped for and conviction in facts not seen.

The faith of many saints looked down

Through many ages, saw their crown;

They knew that Christ would come again,

That they with Him, would live and reign;

In faith they lived, in faith they died,

The promises, not verified

Disturbed them not, because faith knew

The Word was sure, and God was true.

The faith of all the saints who live

To-day upon the earth, should give

To God, a faith as strong, as true

As saints of old were used to do.

God's galaxy of heroes still

Is open unto all who will,

By deeds of faith write in their name

And thus attain a lasting fame.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR