1. FAITH SEES HEBREWS 11

2. WE VISUALISE BEFORE THINGS HAPPEN WE PICTURE THEM IN OUR MINDS FAITH = VISUALISING VISUALISES WHAT GOD HAS PROMSED, WHAT HE HAS SAID HE WILL DO FAITH ACTS ACCORDING TO THE PICTURE VISUALISING

3. 11:11-12 SHE CONSIDERED THE ONE WHO PROMISED FAITHFUL AND PRODUCED A SON SARAH

4. 11:13-16 DIED WITH A VISION THEY SAW AND GREETED A HEAVENLY CITY AND COUNTRY THEY SAW THE PROMISES OF GOD AND LIVED ACCORDINGLY GOD WAS DELIGHTED TO BE KNOWN AS THEIR GOD THE PATRIARCHS

5. 11:17-19 ABRAHAM HEARD GOD, TOOK HIM SERIOUSLY AND PICTURED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN [GENESIS 22:5 “WE WILL COME BACK”] ABRAHAM AND ISAAC

6. 11:20-22 THEY SAW THE FUTURE THEY SAW WHAT GOD WAS DOING IN THE FUTURE AND ACTED ACCORDINGLY ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH

7. 11:23 THEY GLIMPSED THE FUTURE [GOD’S FUTURE] AND DISOBEYED THE KING’S ORDERS MOSES’ PARENTS

8. 11:24-28 V26 HE LOOKED AWAY TO THE REWARD V27 HE WAS ABLE TO COPE BECAUSE HE SAW THE INVISIBLE V24 HE MADE A LIFECHANGING CHOICE V28 HE KEPT THE PASSOVER MOSES

9. 11:29-30 CROSSED THE RED SEA [EXODUS 14:21-29] CONQUERED JERICOH [JOSHUA 6:1-7] ISRAEL

10. 11:31 SHE WELCOMED THE SPIES [JOSHUA 2:1-14] RAHAB

11. 11:39-40 THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS SAW THE FUTURE, GOD’S FUTURE THEY SAW IMMEDIATE PROMISES FULFILLED BUT NOT THE FUTURE THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR US FOR THE SOMETHING BETTER, GREATER, GRANDER, MORE GLORIOUS STILL WAITING

12. DO YOU HAVE A PICTURE? IS IT A PICTURE OF VICTORY OVER DEATH? A PICTURE OF A COMMUNITY WHO HAVE FINISHED THEIR TRAINING? A PICTURE OF A COMMUNITY WORKING WITH GOD? A PICTURE OF GOD AND HIS PEOPLE LIVING IN THE NEW [HEAVENLY] COUNTRY AND CITY? OUR FUTURE