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NASB | Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality--faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]. |
Subject: Define Faith. |
Bible Note: Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The word substance comes to us from the Greek word HUPOSTASIS, it means making real to your experience. Combined with the word hoped which is ELPIZO, or an earnest expectation, which is not a desire, and it adds up to a sure thing because it is the object of faith or PISTIS, that makes all the difference and that object is Jesus. Now God has already justified our trust in him by raising him from the dead. Therefore faith isn't something that is abstract, nebulous or abstruse it is actually tangible to those who have received the Holy Spirit of promis. Ephes. 1:13-14 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. This is how it is with me, CDBJ |