SCRIPTURE REFERENCES FOR THIS SERMON:
Hebrews 11:35-38
11:35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.
36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
