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12/17/2023 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Matt Lambert
Speaker: Steve Estes, Senior Pastor
Scripture: Hebrews 11:35-40
Title: Faith Rewarded Tomorrow

NIV: Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated--the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

ESV: Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated--of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And 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.

Notes:

1. True faith may seem unrewarded in this life
A. Being confined
B. Loss of home or comfort
C. Physical pain
D. A painful death
E. Emotional pain

2. God commends His faithful by contrasting them with the world
A. What God condemns
B. What God loves

3. God's great plan for those with faith
A. Verse 40 is speaking of Old Testament believers after death
B. Verse 40 is also speaking of all believers on the world's final day

Benediction: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." (Romans 15:13)

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