God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
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… been chosen by God, who went through intense suffering, and they actually died without ever receiving the promised miracle they deserved. Listen to Hebrews 11 verses 37 to 40. They were stoned. They were sawn in two. They were tempted. They were put to death with a sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated, men of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. And all of these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised. Because God has provided something better. What is that something better that awaited those Old Testament saints? It was to be with Jesus Christ, to be in the new heaven, in the new earth, to enjoy that relationship with God forever. And so it is with every one of us. Miracles delayed do not mean miracles denied. One day, one day, when we're with Jesus Christ in heaven, every miracle, every desire we've ever had, ever longed for, will be met and we'll experience the ultimate divine invasion. I came across this week a great story that illustrates that better than anything I've read in a long time. …
… chapter 11. Look at verse 39, all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us, they should not be made perfect. Now, you hear perfect, and we think sinless perfection. That's not what it means in Hebrews. It means qualified, fulfilled. They had faith, but they did not have all that had been promised to them. They did not have the fulfillment of their faith. It wouldn't be until the life and death and resurrection and ascension of Christ that together with us, trusting in Christ, they too could have the realization of what was promised. So, our faith is made perfect. That is, God enables us to get from the starting line to the finish line. He is the author and the actualizer, the beginner and the ender. He's the one who gets us enduring to the end. And notice what it says about Jesus. he endured the cross you see the connection let us run the race with what endurance it's a long race it takes endurance so here's the author and perfecter of our faith jesus what did he do no one was given a more difficult race to run than jesus no one had to endure more suffering in his race than jesus whatever race has been set out for you however difficult and not to minimize that difficulty, but is not the race that Jesus had to run. He endured the cross. …
Finish it. But God having provided some better things for us that they without us should not be made perfect. It takes both seasons in your life is what that is saying. And one didn't have more faith than the other. They all had faith. And some of them had faith to follow him through the suffering, through the loss, through the heartache, through the tears, through the valley. And others had faith in that season for God to be glorified. And those stories that they were in to build our faith generations later, he let them win victories. But in all cases, the deal is right there. You just keep following him. And you don't look over at other people and say, but what about them? I want to remind you of something. I want to remind you of how the Bible said in the book of Acts chapter 12, Simon Peter and James were in the same prison. and James is taken from the prison cell that Simon Peter is in and walked out to the execution block and beheaded. …