Grounded: God, the Father Almighty, Creator - Hebrews 11:1-6 - Drew Hyun

And Jesus is like, why don't you come home? The father almighty, why don't you become like little children again? Yeah. But you don't understand. I got all these degrees and you don't understand how much I have in my four zero one k. And I know none of us would say that out loud, but I mean, isn't this the posture of our hearts? Yeah. But I've been doing this on my own for so long and no one's been there for me. And Jesus is like, I get it, But you can come home again. You can be a child again. The maker of heaven and earth, the god who is transcendent, and the god who is close. Will you come home again? [00:38:44] (60 seconds)  #ComeHomeAgain

In other words, God is so transcendent. Do you see this? Like, God is so big and beyond us. Like, do you see how much how how transcendent and an omnipotent God is? If God can take just a breath and create the cosmos and everything in it. But what's so extraordinary is that it says, God is the creator of heaven and earth, but God is also father almighty. He's transcendent, but he's also close. He's like a father, someone who has seen you in every season. Now I recognize that some of us might because of our own earthly experiences with fathers or some of us have positive experiences with fathers like Brett was talking about, But nonetheless, the language of filial kind of familiarity, isn't that extraordinary? [00:27:50] (66 seconds)  #FatherAndCreator

And artificial intelligence, you know, he was saying is gonna be better than your best kind of scientist, your best doctor, your best I know. I recognize there's a lot of anxiety around all these things that artificial intelligence can be. But the one thing that artificial intelligence can never replace is it is a human being's access to the divine imagination. That each of us have a capacity to pray, to connect the living God, the creator of heaven and earth. Now that is wild. Just think about that. Each one of us, with whatever you might be going through today, you have access to a father in heaven. [00:29:57] (56 seconds)  #AICantReplacePrayer

then my faith really doesn't lend itself to much. Which is why, look at how the creed begins. It begins with, I believe in God. That's what Christians through the ages say. We believe in God, this transcendent God. And notice what it says. What what are the modifiers about this God? It says, I believe in god, the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. Now this phrase heaven and earth is, what the ancients refer to as not only the material universe but the immaterial universe. And and if you look into the stars in the sky and notice the modifier, it's basically like, listen, you wanna know who the object of faith is that Christians believe in? It's I believe in God. [00:11:28] (48 seconds)  #IBelieveInGod

Now, that's why in the scriptures, this idea of belief and in the passage that was read for us in the early church from the book of Hebrews, look at look at what it says. It says, now faith, which is another word for belief. Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. In other words, we end up shaping things based on things that are unseen, but hopefully there's a cumulative case that leads us to certain things that we put our faith in. And look at what it says, without faith, it is impossible to please God. [00:05:03] (31 seconds)  #FaithIsTrust

Now that's the object of faith that we lean into. But remember I told you there's two different aspects of faith. One aspect of faith is the object of our faith. Who is the one that we're putting our trust in or what is the the object that we're putting our trust in? For the Christian, we're saying the object of faith is a god who's a creator of heaven and earth, who just with a breath feeds the furnace of the sun, directs the earth and all the planets around this sun. That's who we believe in, a god who's the maker of heaven and earth. See, but there's a second part of faith, and that second part is the nature of faith. [00:25:07] (40 seconds)  #ObjectAndNatureOfFaith

See, the early Christians as well as in the Judeo Christian faith, it wasn't only that the god was a transcending god who created the universe and everything in it. It's that god also knows your name. He knows your story. He knows your longings. He knows your fears. He knows your history. He knows the the background that you come from, your fears, your your ambitions. He knows your pin number. Sorry. That was weird. But anyhow, you're like, oh, you're right. He does. Yeah. Like, knows us that intimately. [00:20:51] (41 seconds)  #GodKnowsYou

You see the scripture scriptural writers, the early Christians, they would always talk about there's a certain kind or a posture that we're supposed to have with faith. See, it's not enough just to say, this is the object of my faith. That's what I believe in. Instead, there's a nature to it. How do we approach this object of faith? The posture in which we have. Now notice what it says in the apostles creed which Brett pointed out so brilliantly last week. Look what it says. What is the nature of faith? It says, I believe in God. [00:26:12] (35 seconds)  #FaithPosture