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06-1224am - Faith Pt 19 Substance Faith - Samuel Dale

 

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HEBREWS 11:1

  1       Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

 

HEBREWS 11:2

  2    For by it the elders obtained a good report.

 

HEBREWS 11:3

  3    Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

 

PERFECT.FAITH_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-11  SUNDAY_  63-0825E

  29    In Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter, we are told that faith is the substance of things hoped for. Now, here's where many people fail to receive their healing, or what they're asking for, because they take faith to be something that it is not. See? They don't believe it. It--it's... It--it's not a imagination. It is a actual substance.

Now, listen close. See, it is not what you imagine. It's just as real to you as any sense of your body will declare anything else. It's just as real as my eye says, "This is a piece of paper." It's just as real as to say that, that that is a light. It's just as real as to say, "I feel my coat." It's just as real as to--as I hear that baby talking there, or making its noise. See? Just that real as music playing. It's just as real as I taste anything in my mouth. It is that real, only you can't show it to somebody else. You have it alone. Amen. It's yours. Faith is the substance (See?); its not just a myth. So many people come...

Now, these are real deep lessons, and I'll catch the top of it, then you dig down in it. See?

 

PERFECT.FAITH_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-11  SUNDAY_  63-0825E

  33    Notice, it is something that you possess; not imagination, if you really have it. It's just as real to you as any other thing that could be. It's just as real as--as you know that--that you're riding in a automobile. It's just as real as you know that you're setting in a church. It's just as real as you hear my voice. It is a substance, not an imagination, not an emotion; but something that you have; and it comes to you by hearing the Word of God and That only. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God." That puts it back to where your faith then is not in some individual. It's not in a man. It's not in a organization. It's not in a group of people. It's in God, because God is the Word. See? Your faith is in God. Faith cometh by hearing the Word of God.

Then when God, by His Word, not by what somebody else did, somebody else said, but by what God's Word said... He said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be true."

 

COUNTDOWN_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0909M

  23    Now, things that were made of things that do not appear. Now, I have learned through all these years that all things that are natural are types of spiritual things, everything that's in the natural. And now, just remember that when you see anything in the natural, it is typifying a spiritual thing. See? All things are made after things which do not appear. See, the natural then has reflected the spiritual.

Now, as I was studying a few days ago, and I believe I mentioned it last night, slightly, that I was reading where... or hearing on the radio, coming in from Canada, of where that a doctor here in the United States had--had made a statement that man was fourteen million years of evolution. They dug up a bone over in Italy, in 1800, somewhere in the 1800's, that this bone was supposed to be a human bone that was been--might by the... How they do it to tell how old it was, and this doctor as an old man and has put all of his life on studying on this bone. And he says, "This bone is the bone of a man that's fourteen millions years old."

 

COUNTDOWN_  BAKF.CA  V-22 N-9  SUNDAY_  64-0209

  4    Now, just give me your undivided attention just for a few moments, about twenty minutes. I have a little text here. I'd like to call it "Countdown."

You know, all the things... Did you hear what the Scripture said? The things that are--we see, were made of things that was not, because it was the Word of God, Who spoke things into existence. The world that we are sitting upon today, the chairs that we're setting in, the floor that's beneath us, the dirt, the trees, everything is nothing but the interpretation of the Word of God. When God interprets it, when It happens, that reveals It. "Let there be," and there was. "Let there be," and there was.

 

GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM_  CHARLOTTE.NC  SATURDAY_  56-0428

  E-28    Believe it. No matter what takes place, believe it anyhow. You see, Christians don't look at what they see; Christians look at things they don't see. And the things you don't see are more real than the things that you see. You see that microphone. It'll perish. I see faith that'll never perish. See? I see love--love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. Every shield of the believer is supernatural. Everything that belongs in the realm of Christianity is worked by supernatural. An atheist once said to me, said, "Anything that can't be scientifically proven isn't real."

I said, "Anything that can be scientifically proven isn't real." That's vice versa.

He said, "There's something wrong with you."

I... "Yeah, I got saved; that's what's wrong."

And he said, "Oh...?..." He said...

I said, "Now, you're, here you're looking at television you was trying sell me."

 

FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_  OAKLAND.CA  SATURDAY_  47-0412

  E-22    "Faith is the substance of the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Let's take that part of the Scripture, "the substance of things hoped for."

There's three things: hope, charity, and faith. Is that right? Now, hope is one element; faith is another element; and charity is another element. Charity is love.

I've seen many people come by, lovely people, real Christians, but didn't have enough faith to be healed, and some sinner pass by and has the faith to be healed. See?

It's another element altogether. It's not how well you serve God; it's a--an element that you possess yourself. Now, I want you to see this because it's for your benefit.

 

HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  58-0105

  E-6    Now, some thinks that it's a mental conception of the Word, but that is not right. Faith is a substance. Faith is not a myth. Say... Faith is a substance of things hoped for; the evidence... To have an evidence, it must be a substance. So it is not just something that you imagine in your mind; it's something that absolutely, you have. It's something that you possess in your own being. And what is it? It's the evidence of things that you have hoped for. It's the evidence of things you do not have as yet, but you have the authority of God to say that you have it. It's an evidence, something you have in your heart.

 

 E-7    Now, it's--it's not something that you just kindly push yourself to. I've noticed so much of that in my meetings, that people try to work themself up into something, to make them believe. Now, you can't do that. You're just beating the air. But faith is something that's just as calm and settled as it can be. It's taking God at His Word and having the assurance in your heart, that God is able to keep what He has said that He would do and will perform everything that He said He would do.

Now, I've noticed it many times, people think they must be prayed for. That's all right. We should pray for each other. Or that their hands might be... or some evangelist's hands, must be ministered. That's all right. That'll bring contacts and so forth of faith. But real, unadulterated faith is taking God at His Word. That's the main thing.

 

TESTED.FAITH.PRODUCES.GOODS_  BANGOR.ME  SUNDAY_  58-0518

  E-7    Jesus saying, "Have faith in God," the book of Hebrews the 11th chapter said that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. Now, remember, it's just not a intellectual conception of something; it is a substance. It's something that you possess.