Creation – All Was Created By the Word of God. Abel – A Better Sacrifice. Was Righteous. Still Speaks. Enoch – He Was Taken Up Because He Was Pleasing to God. Noah – Prepared a Way of Salvation The Heroes of Faith

Abraham – Was an Alien Offered His Son Consider God Could Raise Up His Son Sarah – She Believed She Conceived Miraculously Isaac – Blessed Concerning Things to Come Jacob – Worshipped Leaning on the Top of His Staff While He Was Dying. The Heroes of Faith

Joseph – While He Was Dying Mentioned the Exodus. Gave Orders That His Bones Not Be Left Behind. Moses – Was Hidden as a Child Refused the Treasures of Egypt Chose to be Ill Treated. He Endured…Seeing Him Who Is Unseen. He Sprinkled Blood…So the Firstborn Would Not Die. The Heroes of Faith

It Shows the Superiority of Christ By Comparing Him to Various Things/People of the OT. What Is Hebrew’s Structural Pattern? Jesus Is Greater ThanOT CharacterPassage Jesus Is Greater ThanThe Angels1:4 Jesus Is Greater ThanMoses3:3 Jesus Is Greater Than Joshua & His Rest 4:8 Jesus Is Greater Than Aaron and the Priesthood 5:4 Jesus Is Greater ThanThe Law of Moses7:5 Jesus Is Greater ThanOld Covenant7:22

This Whole Book Is About Jesus vs. The OT, But Hebrews 11 Changes That Pattern. Heb 12:1-2 – Now He Goes Back to Jesus. Why Is Hebrews 11 About the OT and Not About Jesus? OR MAYBE IT IS ABOUT JESUS. Hebrews Is Filled With Types. Law, Tabernacle, Priesthood, Etc. What About Hebrews 11?

Creation – All Was Created By the Word of God. John 1:2-4 “He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” The Typology of Heb. 11

Abel – A Better Sacrifice. Heb. 10:10 – Who Would You Think of When You Talk About The One Who Gave a Better Sacrifice? Heb. 12:24 “And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.” Jesus Is the Better Sacrifice (Once For All) The Heroes of Faith

Abel – Was Righteous. Acts 3:14-15, 7:52, 22:14-15 Jesus Is the Righteous One Abel – Still Speaks Heb. 1:1-2; 2 Cor. 13:3 When You Think of the Righteous One Who Still Speaks, Do You Think of Abel??? The Heroes of Faith

Enoch – He Was Taken Up Because He Was Pleasing to God. Acts 2:24-27 Acts 1:9-11 Matt. 3:17 When You Think of One Who Was Pleasing to God So He Was Taken Up, Would Your First Thought Be Enoch? The Heroes of Faith

Noah – Prepared a Way of Salvation 1 Pet 3:20-21 – Jesus Prepared a Way of Salvation John 14:6 – Jesus Is the Way to the Father The Heroes of Faith

Abraham – Was an Alien Matt 8:20 “And Jesus said to him, ‘The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.’” Phil 2:5-8 – Jesus “Emptied Himself” Luke 8 – Jesus Had No Money or Possessions, He Was Supported Financially By Women. The Heroes of Faith

Abraham – Offered His Son Considered God Could Raise Up His Son This Is The One Type We Clearly See in Heb. 11. “Offered His Only Son” He Was the Son of Promise, Prophesied Concerning His Coming. Resurrection and Receiving Him Back as a Type are Mentioned. The Heroes of Faith

Sarah – She Believed She Conceived Miraculously Who Conceived Miraculously a Son? Luke 1:41-45 Isaac - Blessed Concerning Things to Come The One Not Expected to be Blessed Was. Phil 2:9-11 The Heroes of Faith

Jacob – Worshipped Leaning on the Top of His Staff While He Was Dying. Of All the Stories You Could Use of Jacob Why Use This One? Do You Get the Picture? When You Think of One Dying On His Wooden Staff While Worshipping God Do You Think First and Foremost of Jacob? The Heroes of Faith

Joseph – While He Was Dying Mentioned the Exodus. Gave Orders That His Bones Not Be Left Behind. Luke 9:30-31 “And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah, who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.” The Heroes of Faith

Joseph – Gave Orders That His Bones Not Be Left Behind. Whose Bones Were Not Left Behind? (Acts 2:27; John 19:36). The Heroes of Faith

Joseph – While He Was Dying Mentioned the Exodus. Gave Orders That His Bones Not Be Left Behind. Moses – Was Hidden as a Child Refused the Treasures of Egypt Chose to be Ill Treated. He Endured…Seeing Him Who Is Unseen. He Sprinkled Blood…So the Firstborn Would Not Die. The Heroes of Faith

Moses – Was Hidden as a Child (Matt 2:13-15) Refused the Treasures of Egypt (Matt 4:8-10) Chose to be Ill Treated (John 15:18, They Hated Me). He Endured…Seeing Him Who Is Unseen (Heb. 12:2). He Sprinkled Blood…So the Firstborn Would Not Die (Heb. 10:22, 12:24). The Heroes of Faith

Now Read Heb. 12:12:1-3 Fix Our Eyes on Jesus 12:2 Great Cloud of Witnesses 12:1; Ch. 11 Jesus Is Greater Than All of Them