The next set of verses in the Hall of Faith are quite incredible. Join me as we read and meditate on them today before we begin our slow stroll through them.
Several things astound me as I look at the list:
- They were ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances who walked with God, obeyed, and believed Him. They had a relationship with Him before these trials came.
- The Scripture doesn’t hide their failures as it tells of their faith.
- God accomplished great things through them.
For your convenience, I have added links to Scriptures that give account of their lives.
“32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”
Does God’s Word ever just make you sit back and say, “WOW!”? It does me. Reading this Scripture has made me do this.
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