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Hebreus 11 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
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1The 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.
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1Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.
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2The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
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2Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation.
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3By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.
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3By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.
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4By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
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4It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. Abel’s offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man, and God showed his approval of his gifts. Although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us by his example of faith.
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5By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. "They looked all over and couldn't find him because God had taken him." We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken "he pleased God."
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5It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying — “he disappeared, because God took him.” For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God.
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6It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
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6And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
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7By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
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7It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.
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8By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going.
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8It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going.
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9By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise.
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9And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith — for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise.
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10Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
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10Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.
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11By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said.
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11It was by faith that even Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. She believed that God would keep his promise.
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12That's how it happened that from one man's dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.
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12And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead — a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them.
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13Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world.
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13All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth.
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14People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home.
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14Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own.
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15If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted.
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15If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back.
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16But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
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16But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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17By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—
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17It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac,
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18and this after he had already been told, "Your descendants shall come from Isaac."
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18even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.”
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19Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that's what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
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19Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.
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20By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
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20It was by faith that Isaac promised blessings for the future to his sons, Jacob and Esau.
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21By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph's sons in turn, blessing them with God's blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
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21It was by faith that Jacob, when he was old and dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and bowed in worship as he leaned on his staff.
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22By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
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22It was by faith that Joseph, when he was about to die, said confidently that the people of Israel would leave Egypt. He even commanded them to take his bones with them when they left.
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23By an act of faith, Moses' parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child's beauty, and they braved the king's decree.
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23It was by faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months when he was born. They saw that God had given them an unusual child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king’s command.
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24By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house.
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24It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
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25He chose a hard life with God's people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors.
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25He chose to share the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin.
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26He valued suffering in the Messiah's camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff.
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26He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of Christ than to own the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his great reward.
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27By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king's blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going.
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27It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger. He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the one who is invisible.
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28By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn't touch them.
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28It was by faith that Moses commanded the people of Israel to keep the Passover and to sprinkle blood on the doorposts so that the angel of death would not kill their firstborn sons.
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29By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
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29It was by faith that the people of Israel went right through the Red Sea as though they were on dry ground. But when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were all drowned.
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30By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
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30It was by faith that the people of Israel marched around Jericho for seven days, and the walls came crashing down.
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31By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God.
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31It was by faith that Rahab the prostitute was not destroyed with the people in her city who refused to obey God. For she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
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32I could go on and on, but I've run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets... .
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32How much more do I need to say? It would take too long to recount the stories of the faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and all the prophets.
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33Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions,
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33By faith these people overthrew kingdoms, ruled with justice, and received what God had promised them. They shut the mouths of lions,
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34fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies.
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34quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword. Their weakness was turned to strength. They became strong in battle and put whole armies to flight.
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35Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection.
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35Women received their loved ones back again from death. But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection.
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36Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons.
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36Some were jeered at, and their backs were cut open with whips. Others were chained in prisons.
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37We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—
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37Some died by stoning, some were sawed in half, and others were killed with the sword. Some went about wearing skins of sheep and goats, destitute and oppressed and mistreated.
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38the world didn't deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
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38They were too good for this world, wandering over deserts and mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.
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39Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised.
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39All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised.
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40God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
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40For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us.