Welcome to Gospel in Life.

How do you live a life of stability in a world full of uncertainty?

This month, Tim Keller is exploring the book of Hebrews and looking at how genuine faith rooted in the work of Christ

empowers us to live with courage, hope, and poise, even in difficult circumstances.

The passage on which we are basing our teaching this morning is found in your bulletins.

It would be at the place where you would be if you were following and moving along with everyone else. It's Hebrews chapter 11, verses 8 to 16. Let's read it

together. I mean, let me read it and you listen. I don mean i don't mean to read it together read it together

my faith

abraham when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance

obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going

by faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger

in a foreign country. He lived in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the

same promise, for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder

is God. By faith, Abraham, even though he was past age and Sarah herself was barren,

was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise.

And so from this one man, and he as good as dead. Came descendants as numerous as the stars in the

sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living

by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised. They only saw them and welcomed

them from a distance, and they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on Earth. People who

say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking

of the country they had left,

they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country,

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