What I think is most interesting about this section is the part that is not actually in this section. Verse 39 of this chapter explains that even though everyone listed here received approval (in the form of blessing) from God, none of them received the real promise which is Christ. Today, we have the chance to meet with God intimately in a way that Cain and Abel and Enoch and Noah and Abraham and Issac and Jacob and Sarah and Joseph and Moses and ... never could. The majority of the bible is about people who lived life hoping to have something that we have today, an intimate relationship with God through faith. Faith was a way of living life for them and not just a belief. It is easy to see by the way they lived for God.
All of the men and women of the old testament went through impossible trials in order to win God's approval so that their faith would lead them to salvation. Yet, they never saw it because the promise of salvation was waiting on Jesus. I should have a faith much stronger than any of those men because I experience the promise daily through the Spirit and scripture. I pray that God will give me a faith the size of His grace. I owe that much faith for the promise I have experienced.
Check out the rest of this chapter. It is powerful.
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