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    The document examines models of faith in the Old Testament through three examples: 1. Noah, who built an ark to save his family from a flood despite never having seen rain or being able to fully understand or describe the coming event, demonstrating total faith. 2. Abraham, who at age 75 was told by God to leave his home and was promised a new land, showing obedience and trust in God. 3. David, a complex figure about whom stories of both his faith and struggles are told, with his faith emerging through his actions and what happened to him, such as trusting God would deliver him from Goliath.

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    The document examines models of faith in the Old Testament through three examples: 1. Noah, who built an ark to save his family from a flood despite never having seen rain or being able to fully understand or describe the coming event, demonstrating total faith. 2. Abraham, who at age 75 was told by God to leave his home and was promised a new land, showing obedience and trust in God. 3. David, a complex figure about whom stories of both his faith and struggles are told, with his faith emerging through his actions and what happened to him, such as trusting God would deliver him from Goliath.

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    The document examines models of faith in the Old Testament through three examples: 1. Noah, who built an ark to save his family from a flood despite never having seen rain or being able to fully understand or describe the coming event, demonstrating total faith. 2. Abraham, who at age 75 was told by God to leave his home and was promised a new land, showing obedience and trust in God. 3. David, a complex figure about whom stories of both his faith and struggles are told, with his faith emerging through his actions and what happened to him, such as trusting God would deliver him from Goliath.

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    The Old Testament models of faith


    So it seems that the best way of looking at ‘faith’ in what we call the ‘Old Testament’
    (though Jewish friends make the challenging point that it is neither a testament nor old),
    might be to examine the behaviour of those who are thought to have faith; we shall take

    just three instances. of Noah


    1. 1.Why do you think God asked Noah to build the ark?
    2. God saw only Noah as pure and virtuous.
    3. He had total faith in something he did not fully understand.
    I remember asking a group of young people, “Why do you think God asked Noah to build the ark?” “To
    save all the animals,” was their immediate response. No. He prepared it for his family.

    What faith Noah must have had! People living in his day had not seen water fall from the sky, and this
    man declared, “It is going to rain, and the whole world will be flooded!”

    Quickly, he began building an ark to save his family from something he could hardly describe.

    God saw only Noah as pure and virtuous, yet his family was rescued. “Oh, you foolish man,” the people
    must have laughed.

    Before this time, rain had never fallen upon the earth. The earth had been gently watered by the dew.
    Imagine what the wicked people of that generation must have thought when Noah began to preach
    about the flood and the peril that was coming. At first they dismissed Noah’s warnings, but as he
    continued, they probably asked, “What is he talking about?”

    Noah told everyone who would listen that it was going to rain and flood the earth. He had total faith in
    something he did not fully understand and began building an ark to save his family from something he
    could not even describe.
    In a world filled with iniquity, there was only one person who found grace in the eyes of the Lord
    2.Abraham
    The prime example of such a one is the figure of Abraham, who in Genesis 12:1-3, and at the
    age of 75, no less, is abruptly told by God, ‘Go from your land and from your relatives, and from
    your father’s house, to the land that I shall show you’. Then the text goes into poetry, as the
    Lord continues,

    Andrew E. Hill and John H. Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. (3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI:
    Zondervan Pub. House, 2009), PDF, 23
    3. David
    Then there is David, a complex and ambiguous figure, about whom some robust stories are told
    between 1 Samuel 16 and 1 Kings 2 (you could do worse than read through these stories, if you
    want to see how faith works out in this extraordinary man’s life). His faith emerges in what he
    does, and in what happens to him. For example, when Saul’s servants are trying to persuade
    their king to make use of David’s musical gifts to heal Saul, they claim that ‘the Lord is with him’
    (1 Samuel 16:18). We hear it on his own lips, as he asks Saul for the privilege of taking on
    Goliath in single combat: ‘the Lord, who delivered me from the power of the lion and the bear,
    will deliver me also from the power of this Philistine’; indeed, this fact of the Lord’s presence to
    David becomes the grounds for Saul’s hatred of him (1 Samuel 18:28-29).

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