Tomorrow Stefano will start the series on Hebrew 11 that will continue till all September.
For the first time in the church of San Lazzaro all the preachers and the men we are introducing to preaching will all share the same theme Sunday after Sunday.
The goal is to see Hebrews 11 as a museum gallery full of portraits, but each one of them is pointing to the end of the gallery: that is Christ!
This Sunday Stefano will preach on Hebrews 11:1-4 - Christ in the faith of Abel!
"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks."
Hebrews 11:1-4 (ESV)
"Whomsoever
God accepts or respects, he testifieth him to be righteous; that is, to be justified,
and freely accepted with him. This Abel was by faith antecedently unto his
offering. He was not made righteous, he was not justified by his sacrifice; but
therein he showed his faith by his works: and God by acceptance of his works of
obedience justified him, as Abraham was justified by works; namely, declaratively;
he declared him so to be." [1]
[1] John Owen, The Works of John Owen, An
exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Volume 23, The Ages Digital Library, Albany, 2000, pp. 31-32
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