TheTranscendent

Reality

TheTranscendent

Reality

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence

of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

TheTranscendent

Legacy!

We will all, someday, leave behind a legacy!

“The Harbor Bridge crossed over the Port of Corpus

Christi. It was a high steel arc, tall

enough to grant barges and

freighters access to the ship channel,

and stood where the old…

…drawbridge once did. The city had

hosted a contest to name the bridge, and the winner, a

housewife who lived out by the oil

refineries, was given the honor of riding in

the first car…

…to drive across. That was in 1959. She wore a pillbox hat and white satin gloves. She posed

for pictures with the mayor. Years later, when she died, her

family walked…

…to the top of the bridge and scattered her ashes over the

lilting water.” (Bret Anthony Johnston in Remember Me Like This)

We tend to define life, our

life, by concrete

quantifiable standards!

…but is that all there is?

Is that even the most

important?

Is it possible that life’s

greatest legacy is a

transcendent reality?

Matthew 16:17“Jesus answered and

said to him, “Blessed are you,

Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”

I Corinthians 15:50

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot

inherit the kingdom of God...”

Hebrews 11:1-6

1 “Now faith is the substance of things

hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the

elders obtained a good testimony.

3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things

which are seen were not made of things

which are visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to

God…

…a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he

obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts;

and through it he being dead still

speaks.

5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he

did not see death, “and was not found,

because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that

he pleased God.

6 But without faith it is impossible to

please Him, for he who comes to God

must believe that He is, and that He is a

rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

The Parameterof Faith

TheStarting Place!

Hebrews 11:1(The Message)

“The fundamental fact of existence is that this

trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation

under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what

we can’t see.”

The Foundationof Faith

TheRevelatory

Reality!

Romans 10:17“So then faith

comes by hearing, and hearing by

the word of God..”

Luke 4:4“But Jesus

answered him, saying, “It is

written, ‘Man shall not live by bread

alone, but by every word of God.’”

The Demandof Faith

TheEssential

Response!

Faith must be active!

Faith demands action, a

response!

James 2:26

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is

dead.”

Faith is the Transcendent

Legacy

‘It’ is essential because, by ‘It’ we can know God, and by knowing God we can Know all else!

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the

sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything

else.” C. S. Lewis

TheTranscendent

Reality

TheTranscendent

Reality

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence

of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1