Hebrews 11:10

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

From Background Notes [BN] for November 16^th & 17^th  written by Pastor Bob Brown:

“He was looking forward.” The future was not closed off to Abraham, nor is it shut for us. One marker of the Jewish faith has been the idea that time is actually going somewhere and is not a monotonous cycle of unchangeable events.

Other cultures, adjacent to Israel, really wondered if anything could ever be new. When King Solomon began his slippery slope into paganism, he became a cynic of sorts, and a later writer imagined the world Solomon made for himself out of his cynicism. The results of that project ended up as the book of Ecclesiastes. In contrast, the promise God made to Abraham, centuries before, set a different tone, one that could actually look ahead, farther along, and see a concrete reality, totally different from the one in front of him.  [BN,3]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am