1. “Faithfulness is the Only Way to Live!”
Hebrews 10:35 – 11:2

2. After the first session, he was sore and swollen
After the first session, he was sore and swollen. He didn’t realize that it would be this difficult. The battered youth had some questions…

3. to better see our need for faith-fulness in response to His grace
PURPOSE:
to better see our need for faith-fulness in response to His grace

4. You have been saved by grace, through faith, at baptism for a reason…

5. I What FAITHFULNESS Is
A. Hearing the Word

6. “… O. J. Simpson slaughtered two innocent people, and he walked free – right past the most massive and compelling body of physical evidence ever assembled against a criminal defendant.”

7. Romans 10:17
“So faith comes by hearing, and hearing concerning the word of Christ.” NASB

8. God’s Word is more than dependable
God’s Word is more than dependable. It is truth; thus, every promise made by God is
sure, certain, definite, crystal clear, exact, without a doubt. God’s Word is SOLID!

9. I What FAITHFULNESS Is
A. Hearing the Word
B. Doing the Word

10. Faith and faithfulness are interchangeable words… Our words endurance and perseverance are synonyms of faithfulness.

11. Hebrews 10:5-7
“Therefore when Christ came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for Me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, Here I am – it is written about Me in the scroll – I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

12. Hebrews 10:38
“But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”

13. Hebrews 10:35-36
“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.”

14. I What FAITHFULNESS Is A. Hearing the Word B. Doing the Word
C. Being the Word

15. The origin of the term southpaw is from baseball…

16. Recently, “Southpaw International” wanted to honor two of their own…
Kate Jackson
James Michener
Recently, “Southpaw International” wanted to honor two of their own…

17. Calls his bed “The Word” so if anyone calls early in the morning and asks if they got him out of bed he can honestly say, “No, I was in ‘The Word.’”
Mark Lowry

18. II God Has Always RE- QUIRED Faithfulness
A. Faithfulness in the O.T.

19. Jezebel

20. II God Has Always RE- QUIRED Faithfulness
A. Faithfulness in the O.T.
B. Faithfulness in the N.T.

21. Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”

22. James 4:17
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”

23. III How the JUST Are to Live
A. The “Just” are the Forgiven
B. “Live” is Present Tense
C. “By Faith” is Faithfulness

24. Mary Decker

25. Running in the 1923 race…
Eric Liddell

26. Conclusion and Summary
Though elbowed, knocked down and assaulted, may we run the race with patience and with the perseverance of God’s Spirit in our lives enduring until the end!