Hebrews 11:8-16
True faith lives as a pilgrim on earth, trusting God's promises and seeking the heavenly country He prepares.
8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
True faith lives as a pilgrim on earth, trusting God's promises and seeking the heavenly country He prepares.
To show that Abraham and the patriarchs lived by faith as pilgrims seeking a heavenly homeland.
Faith That Sees the Unseen and Endures for the Promise
Faith trusts God's unseen promise, obeys God's word, endures suffering, rejects temporary reward, and waits for the better fulfillment God has secured in Christ.