Both these requests were granted. Moffatt quotes a saying of A. S. Peake: "The courage to abandon work on which one's heart is set and accept inaction cheerfully as the will of God is of the rarest and highest kind and can be created and sustained only by the clearest spiritual vision." Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him ( Hebrews 11:6 ). It is doubtless a great blessing to be joined to the visible church of God in profession and privilege, but more to be so in spirit and truth. Immediately a Christian has set out on some enterprise sent him by God, he should feel that he has already passed the point of no return. He has displayed Christ as Son of God (1) and Son of Man (2), warned of the dangers inherent in unbelief (3-4), and explored the power of Christ's priesthood (5-10). "These wild beasts, fierce as panthers, first dragged all the flesh off his sinews with their iron gauntlets to his chin and tore off the skin of his head." . God was going openly to set aside the Jewish system, as it had already been judged morally in the cross of Christ. And, finally, he sums up the superiority of Christ in this, that "they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but he, because of his continuing for ever, hath the priesthood intransmissible." Samuel is listed after David and so that's the only break in the chronology. 11:11-12 It was by faith that Sarah, too, received power to conceive and to bear a son, although she was beyond the age for it, for she believed that he who gave the promise could be absolutely relied upon. The account is in Exodus 12:12-48. Observe here, [1.] But He said, "I came to open the prison to those that were bound, setting the captive free." You, as a Christian, ought to have the calm settled consciousness that God, looking on you, discerns not one spot or stain, but only the blood of Jesus Christ His Son that cleanses from all sin. Selecteer de afdeling waarin je wilt zoeken. It is by faith that we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, so that what is seen came into being out of what is unseen. There were no events then occurring which would be likely to lead to this, and nothing which could be a basis of calculation that it would be so, except what God had spoken. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. So Amram, shamed into trusting God, took back his wife; and in due time Moses was born. That is the repetition of the word and over and over, where you find, "and, and, and, and," which in the grammatical structure indicates a continued deliberate action, no hesitation, just the movement, continued and deliberate. If I can only just come to the realization that all things are working together for good to those who love God and that God has a purpose, and when I can see God then I can endure. For the Christian that is easy, for God came to the world in Jesus Christ to tell us how much he cares. To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. It is the substance of things that are hoped for. I am not going to enter into any statement of facts as to this now, but there is no truth in its own place more important than that with which the apostle commences in this chapter, namely, that "through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." It was significant when the child was born they named him laughter, Isaac, which means laughter, because they laughed at how incredulous it seemed that Sarah should conceive in her old age and bear a son. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. It often means one who arranged or disposed of property, or anything else, such as a treaty or covenant. The consideration of this should inflame the affections, enlarge the desires, and excite the diligent endeavours, of the people of God after this city that he has prepared for them. VIII. In the previous chapter the writer asserted that people must join faith to perseverance if they are to enjoy the thing hoped for. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. It was hid in God from ages and generations. It is true, He does not always call at once into the place of reproach and suffering. And they believed the promise of God that He would provide salvation, and they died believing that promise of God. In the end they carried him to the fire and threw him on it, "burning him with cruelly contrived instruments and pouring stinking liquids into his nostrils." So he knelt down and worshipped the sun. The writer to the Hebrews uses three vivid Greek words about them. When does it first appear? An old scholar who was dying turned to his friends: "Do you realize," he said, "that in an hour or two I will know the answers for which we have been searching all our lives?" This they did for three months. What is here reported of him. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. So, one, Abel offered in faith and was accepted. The ground of Noah's faitha warning he had received from God of things as yet not seen. He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was, and, [2.] "What kind of God is He that would require a man to offer his son as a human sacrifice?" God's people are, and always have been, a reproached people. And why? Abel ran to the hills but Cain pursued him, saying: "The hills are mine." God said, "Let the waters above the firmament be divided from the waters beneath the firmament." God said . God cannot give us the vision unless we permit him; but if we wait upon him, even in earth's desert places be will send us the vision and with it the toil and trouble of the way become all worth while. She received strength to conceive seed. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. (6.) The severest and final trial of Abraham's faith was giving up the son, in whom all the promises were infolded, to receive him back on a resurrection ground in figure. Sometimes his stay was strictly limited. They saw them afar off. The Jews used to lay it down as a primary law for a teacher that he must never promise his pupils what he was unwilling or unable to perform; to do so would be to accustom the pupils thus early to the broken word. When the fire, an emblem of God's justice, consumed the offering, it was a sign that the mercy of God accepted the offerer for the sake of the great sacrifice. It is possible that the word "worlds," which is a Hebraistic word, belonging to the Alexandrian Jews particularly, may embrace dispensations; but undoubtedly the material world is included in it. That is the way in which so many people would like to sacrifice to God; but only the dearest and the best is good enough for him. The nature of it, and the honour it reflects upon all who live in the exercise of it, ver 1-3. Then, having finished this part of the subject, the apostle turns to another characteristic in believers the mighty power of faith which knows how to draw on God, and breaks through all difficulties. Joseph's coffin, the Jews say h, was put into the river Nile; and so says Patricides i, an Arabic writer: others say it was in the buryingplace of the kings, until it was taken up and removed by Moses. As ever we expect to be justified and saved in the great and terrible day of the Lord, let us now prepare an ark, secure an interest in Christ, and in the ark of the covenant, and do it speedily, before the door be shut, for there is not salvation in any other. We say, "Oh, that's a cold, biting wind," or we say, "Oh, that's one of those warm Santa Anas." Though I have never seen God, the evidence of His existence creates that faith in my heart.As we pointed out this morning, there are many things that we believe in that we don't and haven't seen. As the writer to the Hebrews put it, we must believe that God is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. It is believing in God that is the most important, not my works; they follow. There is an unwritten saying of Jesus: "The world is a bridge. Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. Something of him we had before interwoven with the story of Abraham; here we have something of a distinct naturethat by faith he blessed his two sons, Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come. Having therefore The apostle, having finished the doctrinal part of his epistle, now proceeds to exhortation, deduced from what has been treated of from Hebrews 5:4. His faith influenced his practice. And because they only read the story in a cursory manner, they are confused and they ridicule such a God that would require such a thing of a man. In this passage the writer to the Hebrews is intermingling different periods of history. Nothing could be more tender and moving than those words of Isaac: little thinking that he was to be the lamb; but Abraham knew it, and yet he went on with the great design. This is just what the believer receives, feeds on, and lives accordingly. This made the hidden children of the Israelites cry, too, and so they were discovered and killed. It is quite evident, on the contrary, that this is not only not the truth which all recognize when stated, but altogether inconsistent with the Bible, with all books, and with all experience. Every change of mind is far from being repentance, which doctrinally means that special and profound revolution in the soul when we take God's part against ourselves, judging our past ways, yea, what we are in His sight. The one is what may be called the objective glory; the other is the subjective condition of those that compose the bride, the Lamb's wife. We hear first of Melchisedec (King of righteousness), next of Salem or peace; without father, without mother, without genealogy. I'll do it. The standard of rebellion was raised. Men of faith and yet men who were tortured for their faith.Not accepting deliverance. Observe, [1.] The sword came down upon that home; and unless there had been those who counted Christ dearer than all else, there would be no Christianity today. My faith in God provokes my works for God.Now Noah condemned the world by his belief and faith in God, and he became the heir of the righteousness, which is by faith. Noah's life was one continued and concentrated preparation for what God had said would come. He had good company with him, and they were a great comfort to him in his sojourning state. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. Abraham is the supreme example of faith. In Jesus' name. What he did once he can do again, for the God of history is the same one as we worship today. No doubt that is true; but, if we want to see this story at its greatest and as the writer to the Hebrews saw it, we must take it at its face value. As a Christian I am now free, by God's will, to go in peace and assurance of His love into the holiest of all yes, now. He subscribed to God's wisdom, as fittest to direct; and submitted to his will, as fittest to determine every thing that concerned him. God had before this tempted or tried the faith of Abraham, when he called him away from his country and father's house,when by a famine he was forced out of Canaan into Egypt,when he was obliged to fight with five kings to rescue Lot,when Sarah was taken from him by Abimelech, and in many other instances. All their lives the patriarchs were men who had no settled place that they could call home. This was a final call; and how gracious! Sprinkling on the lentils and the doorposts, interestingly enough, gives you the sprinkling in the shape of a cross. There is something very convincing in a life of strict holiness and regard to God; it commends itself to every man's conscience in the sight of God, and they are judged by it. He would not comply with the king's order, "no, not if you pluck out my eyes and consume my bowels in the fire." As Chrysostom put it: "The things of God seemed to fight against the things of God, and faith fought with faith, and the commandment fought with the promise." All these legends give us a vivid picture of Abraham searching after God and dissatisfied with the idolatry of his people. But this time is not yet come. There is danger in goodness, for in its light evil stands condemned. "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. The traitors within the camp were silenced and looming defeat was turned into tumultuous victory. THE MAN WHO BELIEVED IN GOD'S MESSAGE ( Hebrews 11:7 ). Hence he did receive him back which is a parable of the resurrection. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. [3.] Note, (1.) That's incredulous! But they voted to banish him. It is our duty to be reasoning down our doubts and fears, by the consideration of the almighty power of God. So they saw the promises. The reason I take to be, that the apostle meets the Jewish believer where he is, as much as possible giving credit for what was really true in the Old Testament saints, and so in the Jewish mind. Here, it is plain, we have the chief lineaments of revealed truth. Swinburne best of all caught this mood of world-weariness in The Garden of Proserpine: There are those for whom death is good because it is the end of life. Hebrews 11:22. Now is the time for self-denying labour, and endurance in grace; by-and-by the account must be given to the Lord that appointed them. If people have faith, it means they believe that things hoped for according to Gods promises will be achieved and that unseen powers of God are real. In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. He does not actually mention these things. But Abraham said, 'Son, do you remember that in your lifetime you had the good things, and Lazarus the evil? (iii) It culminated in the ability to believe in the impossible. We have just the fact of their passing through the Red sea, and no more; as we have the fall of Jericho, and no more. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites passing through the Red Sea under the conduct of Moses their leader, ; Hebrews 11:29. The expression used for stopping the mouths of lions is that used of Daniel in Daniel 6:18; Daniel 6:23. THE FAITH WHICH DEFIED THE FACTS ( Hebrews 11:30-31 ). It was as if a band of almost unarmed infantry had routed a division of tanks. He was snatched away lest evil should change his understanding or guile deceive his soul." She was delivered of a child, a man-child, a child of the promise, and comfort of his parents' advanced years, and the hope of future ages. For let me say this as a parting word, and I say it advisedly, because of circumstances that might well be before our hearts, no deliverance, however enjoyed, no place of death to law, world, or sin, no privilege of union with Christ, will enable a soul to dispense with the truths contained in this epistle to the Hebrews. Search Results in Other Versions. These all died in faith, not having received the promises ( Hebrews 11:13 ). If people have faith, it means they believe that things hoped for according to God's promises will be achieved and that unseen powers of God are real. (i) There was the faith of Moses' parents. Interesting statement, especially from a scientific standpoint. It is characteristic of the best of us that we are in a hurry. "I will go home," he said. (5.) Observe the due regard that Abraham had to this heavenly city: he looked for it; he believed there was such a state; he waited for it, and in the mean time he conversed in it by faith; he had exalted and rejoicing hopes, that in God's time and way he should be brought safely to it. I am old, I do not know the day of my death" ( Genesis 27:2). THE SUPREME SACRIFICE ( Hebrews 11:17-19 ). The actings of their faith during this imperfect state of things. Observe. Cain took the earth and everything stationary; Abel took everything moveable. Genesis 28:1-4; Genesis 47:29-31; Genesis 49:1; Genesis 50:24-25). 2. The point to which he directs the reader is the evident and surpassing dignity of the case the unity too of the Priest and the priesthood; and this for an obvious reason. Jehovah sees. For, says he, "we have an altar," yea, more than that, an altar, "whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." Christ never needed this, but we do. For although outwardly, no doubt, the prosperity lasted in the time of Solomon, it was mainly the fruit of David's suffering, and power, and glory. Bishop Newbigin tells of the negotiations which led to the formation of the United Church of South India. When Sarah comes on the scene, her faith is spoken of that in her old age (she was plus ninety), had never had a child. 11:1-3 Faith means that we are certain of the things we hope for, convinced of the thing we do not see. has remembered in marg. How great a temptation Moses was under. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called holy of holies; which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold." The prudent, comfort-loving man is the very opposite of God. Their sincerity appeared not only in not returning to their former country, but in desiring a better country, that is, a heavenly. The prevalency of unbelief for a time: she laughed at the promise, as impossible to be made good. He grew to be so beautiful that people turned in the street, and even ceased their work, to took at him. Here we have the faith of a leader and of a people who were prepared to attempt the impossible at the command of God, realizing that the greatest barrier in the world is no barrier if God be there to help us overpass it. (2.) (6.) The phrase about quenching the violence of fire goes straight back to the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in Daniel 3:19-28. The Christian is certain that in the long run no man can exile the truth for "great is truth, and in the end she will prevail.". And as I said, this is the only place where the chronological order is broken. The apostle is dealing with the saints as to their walk; and as he had shown how Christ alone had purged the sins of the believer, and how He is on high, as the Priest in the presence of God, to intercede for them in their weakness and dangers; so now, when he is come to the question of the walk of faith, Christ is the leader of that, walk. It is an idea that superstition hatched, for the purpose of spuriously exalting a clerical order. Force and violence had not yet been used. "So accounting that God was able to raise him even from the dead, "from whence also he received him in a figure." (7.) ), The strength of nature, as well as grace, is from God: he can make the barren soul fruitful, as well as the barren womb. (2.) It is one of the hardest challenges of Christianity that we have to be prepared to be sometimes a fool for Jesus' sake. The gracious and great reward of their faith: God is not ashamed to be their God, for he hath prepared for them a city, ; Hebrews 11:16. Faith does work. (Exodus 4:22), so also will I make king . Again, we usually in our minds picture Isaac, because of the Sunday school papers that we had, of being maybe eight to ten years old. They're sort of super saints. Greek athletes trained naked and some of the Jewish priests even went so far as to seek to obliterate the mark of circumcision from their bodies so that they might become completely hellenized. There is a story of two children who had been given a toy Noah's Ark as a present. He was willing to take his lot with the people of God here, though it was a suffering lot, that he might have his portion with them hereafter, rather than to enjoy all the sensual sinful pleasures of Pharaoh's court, which would be but for a season, and would then be punished with everlasting misery. They died in the faith of those promises; not only lived by the faith of them, but died in the full persuasion that all the promises would be fulfilled to them and theirs. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. He tried to introduce this into Palestine. What is here said of his faith, Hebrews 11:6. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Hebrews Item Length: 4.4in. Still worse was to come. and made it still more manifest and heinous. It was due to the faith of these men that the Jewish religion was not completely destroyed. One of the old Greek fathers said: "Up to this time no man had died so that Cain should know how to kill. The mighty intervention of God in grace yea, more than that, forgiveness, deliverance, victory, glory, for the people of God. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. He does not take them in any particular order but, as we shall see when we look at the outstanding characteristics of each, there is a line of thought which binds them all together. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. She received the promise as the promise of God; and, being convinced of that, she truly judged he both could and would perform it, how impossible soever it might seem to reason; for the faithfulness of God will not suffer him to deceive his people. (iii) Abraham's faith was the faith which was looking beyond this world. Terah returned and was angry. Christianity is stamped by this, that, in virtue of the blood of Christ, once for all for every believer the way is made manifest into the holiest of all. The lamb dying instead of the firstborn, and there we get a very beautiful picture of the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who died in our place that we might have life.And so by faith he kept the Passover. Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. Hebrews 11:23-31 -- From Egypt to Jericho -- From Bondage to Victory. Made mention of the departing of the children of Israel - Margin, remembered. The meaning is, that he called this to their mind; he spake of it. 11:30-31 It was by faith that the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. the author of creation cannot set!" When the Lord said to him, "Through Sarah your seed be called," she started laughing. 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