Study Desk

We know that God has said he will punish and take revenge. We also know that the Scriptures say the Lord will judge his people.

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

Learn to be patient, so that you will please God and be given what he has promised.

As the Scriptures say, "God is coming soon! It won't be very long.

The people God accepts will live because of their faith. But he isn't pleased with anyone who turns back."

It was their faith that made our ancestors pleasing to God.

Because Abel had faith, he offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. God was pleased with him and his gift, and even though Abel is now dead, his faith still speaks for him.

Enoch had faith and did not die. He pleased God, and God took him up to heaven. That's why his body was never found.

But without faith no one can please God. We must believe that God is real and that he rewards everyone who searches for him.

Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.

Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the land that God had said would be his, and he left for a country he had never seen.

Abraham did this, because he was waiting for the eternal city that God had planned and built.

Even when Sarah was too old to have children, she had faith that God would do what he had promised, and she had a son.

But they were looking forward to a better home in heaven. That's why God wasn't ashamed for them to call him their God. He even built a city for them.

because he was sure that God could raise people to life. This was just like getting Isaac back from death.

And right before Joseph died, he had faith that God would lead the people of Israel out of Egypt. So he told them to take his bones with them.

Because of his faith, Moses left Egypt. Moses had seen the invisible God and wasn't afraid of the king's anger.

Their faith helped them conquer kingdoms, and because they did right, God made promises to them. They closed the jaws of lions

All of them pleased God because of their faith! But still they died without being given what had been promised.

This was because God had something better in store for us. And he did not want them to reach the goal of their faith without us.