HEROES AND HYPOCRITES Hebrews 11 Noah Hebrews 11

HEROES AND HYPOCRITES Hebrews 11

Noah Hebrews 11: 7 ■ 2 Peter 2: 4 -5 (NKJV) ■ 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; ■ Drunkenness - Genesis 9: 20 -23 (NKJV)

Abraham and Sarah Hebrews 11: 8 -12 ■ James 2: 23 (NKJV) ■ 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. ” And he was called the friend of God.

Abraham and Sarah ■ Abraham gives Sarah to another man on 2 occasions: ■ Genesis 12: 12 -13 Pharaoh ■ Genesis 20: 5 Abimelech ■ Sarah let her husband lie with another woman ■ Genesis 16: 2 -4 Hagar ■ Both laughed at God ■ Genesis 17: 17 Abraham

Moses Hebrews 11: 23 -29 ■ Numbers 12: 3 (NKJV) ■ 3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.

Moses ■ Moses killed a man - Exodus 2: 11 -12 ■ Hid the body and ran away for 40 years - Exodus 2: 15 ■ Moses took credit for the miracle from God - Numbers 20: 10 -11 ■ Broke the ten commandments - Exodus 32: 19

David Hebrews 11: 32 ■ Acts 13: 22 (NKJV) ■ 22 And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will. ’

David ■ Goliath - 1 Samuel 17 ■ Bathsheba - 2 Samuel 11

Who deserves God’s grace? ■ Ephesians 2: 8 (NKJV) ■ 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

■ Hebrews 12: 1 (NKJV) ■ 12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

■ Ecclesiastes 7: 20 (NKJV) ■ 20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.