Still worse was to come. They donned spiked iron gloves. Abel ran to the hills but Cain pursued him, saying: "The hills are mine." One story tells how Noah was in doubt as to the shape he was to give the ark. Xenos ( G3581) can even mean a refugee. So you, first of all, have to believe in the existence of God, but then you have to believe that God is good; God rewards those who diligently seek Him.The next example is that of Noah. 2. Hebrews 11:22. This was aiming a blow at the current belief that God created the world out of existing matter which, being necessarily imperfect, meant that from the beginning this was an imperfect world. They endeavoured to lay aside every weight, to gird up the loins of their minds to mind their way, to keep company and pace with their fellow-travellers, looking for difficulties, and bearing them, and longing to get home. That he would go as far with his people as he could, though he could not go as far as he would. 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. I'm only a stranger and a pilgrim here. As in chapter 6 he declares that he is persuaded better things of them, than that they would abandon the Holy Ghost; so here he expected better things than that they would thus dishonour the sacrifice of Christ In that case, he says, God was not unrighteous to forget their work and labour of love; in this case, he lets them know that he had not forgotten the way in which they had suffered for Christ. Buy Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews by Charles Spurgeon, Elliot Ritzema Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9781577996408 There is danger in goodness, for in its light evil stands condemned. And gave commandment concerning his bones - Genesis 50:25. James was beheaded by Herod. To assure them that God would be with them in Egypt, and deliver them out of it in his own time and way. This is interesting: God is not ashamed to be called their God. With reverence and obedience Noah took God at his word and so in the destruction of the world he was preserved. Though all Israel kept this passover, yet it was by Moses that God delivered the institution of it; and, though it was a great mystery, Moses by faith both delivered it to the people and kept it that night in the house where he lodged. There was a Greek proverb which said: "Envy has no place in the choir of God." And they fractured his fingers and his arms and his legs and his elbows." For there is nothing in this world commensurate to the love of God in being the God of his people; and, if God neither could nor would give his people anything better than this world affords, he would be ashamed to be called their God. To some extent this story has fallen into disrepute. The twenty-four elders fall on their faces before the throne and take their crowns and cast them on the glassy sea and they say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor; for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created" ( Revelation 4:11 ). Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. The best way to enjoy our comforts with comfort is to resign them up to God; he will then return them, if not in kind, yet in kindness. Some must hazard their own lives to preserve their children, and they were resolved to do it; they knew the king's commandment was evil in itself, contrary to the laws of God and nature, and therefore of no authority nor obligation. He did not serve an ejectment, or raise a war against the old inhabitants, to dispossess them, but contented himself to live as a stranger, to bear their unkindnesses patiently, to receive any favours from them thankfully, and to keep his heart fixed upon his home, the heavenly Canaan. Xenos is the word for a stranger and a foreigner. Abraham would ask them how old they were and they would answer perhaps fifty or sixty years of age. In this passage the writer to the Hebrews lays down in addition the two great foundation acts of faith of the Christian life. By faith Joseph, when he died - When about to die; see Genesis 50:24-25. (ii) The second act of faith was Moses' loyalty to his own people. When we are faced with any great and demanding task, God is the ally we must never leave out of the reckoning. He completely forbade circumcision and the possession of the scriptures and of the law. Here consider. The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old-Testament times, and these may be divided into two classes:1. may so far have sensible evidence of what exists now; but it is only God who can tell me that He in the beginning caused to be that which now is. Now it is evident that in the Old Testament the distinction was not made between flesh and spirit in the way in which we have it brought out in the general doctrine of Christianity. 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. Demosthenes said: "Envy is the sign of a nature that is altogether evil." There has to be that conformity, but faith has to come first. Christ never needed this, but we do. It was ordered that they should compass the walls about once a day for seven days together and seven times the last day, that the priests should carry the ark when they compassed the walls about, and should blow with trumpets made of rams' horns, and sound a longer blast than before, and then all the people should shout, and the walls of Jericho should fall before them. 11:35-40 Women received back their own folk as if they had been raised from the dead. (1.) It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". In this passage the writer to the Hebrews is intermingling different periods of history. None but the Old Testament saints, as a class, can all be in the separate state: not the church, or New Testament saints, for we shall not all sleep; nor the millennial saints, for none of them will die. (1) Gideon was cowardly at first; God had to coax him to to obey. That he walked with God, that is, that he was really, eminently, actively, progressively, and perseveringly religious in his conformity to God, communion with God, and complacency in God. For now, what's interesting is that the first six men suffered serious shortcomings; in spite of their flaws, God honored their faith. It has been said of Noah that "he threw the dark scepticism of the world into relief against his own shining faith in God." True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. And we go to the story of Abraham, where God said unto Abraham, "Abraham," and he said, "Here am I." Lord, we believe and we trust and we know that Your Word is sure. At the end of his course there was a still heavier tax on him. With God all things are possible, and, therefore, the word impossible has no place in the vocabulary of the Christian and of the Christian Church. We should do the same. The faith of parents often procures blessings for their posterity. It is the most beautiful adventure in life." Hebrews 11:22, NLT: It was by faith that Joseph, when he was about to die, said confidently that the people of Israel would leave Egypt. He had the honour to leave behind him an instructive speaking case; and what does it speak to us? But there was worse to come. For a hundred years he was building this giant ship out in an area that had never known rain. First of all, as has been hinted, that which suggests "testament" is the end of verse 15 "They which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." The story we have in Exodus, Exodus 14:1-31. (ii) Abraham's faith was the faith which had patience. (ii) Abraham is the pattern of the man who accepts what he cannot understand. This true faith makes sin bitter to the soul, even while it receives the pardon and atonement. The occasion of its first observance was extraordinary: it was in the same night that God slew the first-born of the Egyptians; but, though the Israelites lived among them, the destroying angel passed over their houses, and spared them and theirs. Thus another and a higher priesthood was incontestably acknowledged by the father of the faithful. His faith silenced all objections, and set him to work in earnest. God was pleased in this extraordinary manner to slight and dismantle it, in order to magnify himself, to terrify the Canaanites, to strengthen the faith of the Israelites, and to exclude all boasting. 3 by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of god, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. These all died in faith, the "Faith Message" had not reached them yet. (ii) The Christian hope is belief in the spirit against the senses. They believed He would provide for them what He had promised. "I don't know." He refused in anger. When Joseph was near to death he made the Israelites take an oath that they would not leave his bones in Egypt but would take them with them when they went out to possess the promised land, which in due time they did ( Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32). Never was there a time when men used terms with a more equivocal design than at the present moment. No attention is paid here to the march through the wilderness, any more than to the establishment in the land, still less to the kingdom. "Others, who had run together into caves near by, to keep the Sabbath day secretly, being discoveredwere all burnt together" ( 2Ma_6:11 ). 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. We begin with His love, and shall end in it without end. After the incredulity came the dawning realization that this was God who was speaking; and God cannot lie. One further effort, a little more waiting, a little more hoping, would make the dream come true. We may be fully assured of his existence, of his providence, and of his gracious and powerful presence with us. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. 4. 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. I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. It may indicate that God is ashamed that some people call Him God. It was a shattering humiliation for a king. By a testament, to be sure, as every one knows. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! In the end even the guards were moved to wondering compassion. I see its effect as I bring opposite poles together and I watch them attract. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. No, he had another son by Hagar named Ishmael, who was some thirteen years older than Isaac. Hebrews 11:27 tells us that he was able to face all things as one who sees him who is invisible. They know that they cannot explain the existence of the world solely by reasoning from the things that can be seen (11:1-3). And so the angel of the Lord said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" In Hebrews,. "Do you really think," asked the judge, "that the like of you will go to God and his glory?" Here is the very point the writer to the Hebrews wishes to make. Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. All the saints are heirs of the same promise. Wherever it comes from, we neglect it at our peril. Indeed both should die; for it usually consists of two parties who are thus bound, and therefore, were the maxim true, both ought to die, which is an evident absurdity. ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. I like the faith that brings me over the top, that brings me the victory, that subdues the aliens, and I like that. What she did by her faith: She received the spies in peace, the men that Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho, ; Joshua 2:6-7. How could this be disputed by one who simply believed Psalms 110:1-7? I feel the love of God. NL. 2M views 7 years ago #BibleVideo #BibleProject #Hebrews Watch our overview video on the book of Hebrews, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. "You mean you're moving your whole family and you don't know where you are going?" The actings of Noah's faith, and the influence it had both upon his mind and practice. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, 2. Further, that this Priest was to be a living one, in some most singular manner to be an undying Priest, was made evident beyond question, because in that Psalm it is said, "He testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." "Well, if you don't know where you are going, how you going to know when you get there?" Her unbelief is pardoned and forgotten, but her faith prevailed and is recorded: 3. And God has said, "Now offer Isaac," so I'll offer Isaac, but somehow God's gotta work some kind of a miracle, because Isaac doesn't have any children yet, and through Isaac the nation is to be developed. (2.) 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 ). At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. The first brother refused to eat the unclean things. The man must choose between the will of God and the relationship which means so much to him. The reason appears to be, because he is going to tell us of the Old Testament saints. And so, in his envy, he hunted his brother until he killed him. In an age when men disregarded God, for Noah he was the supreme reality in the world. "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. The phrase used for wrought righteousness is the description of David in 2 Samuel 8:15. A person who lives for their own pleasure is living out of sync with God. If we take God at his word and stake everything on him, even when there seems to be nothing but a blank wall in front of us, the way of escape will open up. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (6.) This is one of the first instances that is upon record of fallen men going in to worship God; and it was a wonder of mercy that all intercourse between God and man was not cut off by the fall. Manasseh the evil son of Hezekiah ordered him sawed in two. It is easy to see how this passage can be read against the terrible happenings of these days. This, he maintains, has always been so; it is no novelty he is preaching. XIII. "Oh, He'll tell me. 2. Another great call was, to beware "lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. lest he should undervalue the truer honour of being a son of Abraham, the father of the faithful; lest it should look like renouncing his religion as well as his relation to Israel; and no doubt both these he must have done if he had accepted this honour; he therefore nobly refused it. His mother bade him be quiet and not push questions too far; but already Abraham's thoughts were reaching out to him who is the God of all. Those with whom they sojourned would have been willing enough to part with them. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. We now go on to. [2.] It is not a question of justification here. No man ever did anything great without a vision which enabled him to face the difficulties and discouragements of the way. It was accomplished in Christ, exalted as the great Melchisedec in heaven. I am not aware that it is, nor do I believe that it could be, ever used in such a sense as "covenanting victim," for which some contend. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, ; Genesis 12:1. Then follows the heavenly glory, to which grace naturally leads; then the natural inhabitants of the heavenly land, namely, the angels "and to myriads of angels, the general assembly." Above all, let them take care that they be not a shame and reproach to their God, and so provoke him to be ashamed of them; but let them act so as to be to him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory. So he knelt down and adored the moon. Now he takes two figures from the period of struggle when the children of Israel were winning a place for themselves within Palestine. He had beyond all mere men known sorrow and rejection in Israel; yet he himself not only mounted the throne of Jehovah, but raised up His people to. The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. My spirit moves out of this old tent into the new house, a building of God not made with hands that is eternal in the heavens. He realized that the pleasures of sin are not lasting. As Faber had it: The Christian believes that no man who takes the side of God can ever ultimately be on the losing side for, even if he knows earth's defeats, there is a victory whose trophies are in heaven. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. asked Abraham. Above all things, he is the God of the gallant adventurer. In a home one partner became a Christian and the other did not; the children became Christians and the parents did not. And if any were found to defy them, they "underwent great miseries and bitter torments. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God ( Hebrews 11:5 ). If he put out his hand and touched the jewels, that would prove that he was so wise that he was a danger; if he put out his hands and touched the coals, that would prove that he was so witless that he was no danger. You that go after the tabernacle (as he persists in calling it, even though now the temple) have no title to our altar, with its exhaustless supplies. By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. "I've done it! They had to be for ever moving on. 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. A.V. He may live as if that message is of no importance or as if it is the most important thing in the world. All right, "Take now thy son, thine only son." But surely the meaning is much simpler. Hebrews 11:22. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. But a good point may be made by contrasting the idea which an Egyptian had when he arranged that his body should be embalmed, with the idea that Joseph had in arranging for the preservation of his bones. (2.) Carefully observe that it is the tabernacle, never the temple. That we will not just take that which seems to be so exciting, and temporarily beneficial, but that we'll look and find out where the path leads. (2.) So Abel, who was a shepherd, took his best lamb to the place of sacrifice; but Cain, who was a tiller of the ground, took the poorest sheaf of corn he could find and laid it on the altar. The standard of rebellion was raised. The faith of Jacob (; Hebrews 11:21), who, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. The apostle does not dwell on the detailed application of His Melchisedec priesthood, as to the object and character of its exercise. Seneca wrote: "The wise man will never provoke the wrath of mighty men; nay, he will turn aside from it; in just the same way as sailors in sailing will not deliberately court the danger of the storm." Jephthah was an illegitimate son; he was driven into a kind of exile and into the life of an outlaw; but when the Ammonites were putting Israel into fear, the forgotten outlaw was called back and won a tremendous victory, although his vow to God cost him the life of his daughter. He prayed for them, that they might both be blessed of God. The reaction of Abraham and Sarah to the promise of God followed a threefold course. One day he said to his brother: "Remove thy foot; thou standest on my property; the plain is mine." Enoch made three requests of him. Holding fast the permanence of the blotting out of our guilt, may we nevertheless and besides own the need of such an One as Christ to intercede for us, and deal in grace with all our feebleness or faults. The other man replies: "Do you know what happens to Christians? The king was determined that hidden children should be sought out and killed. Observe, [1.] Abraham looked for that city which had foundation whose maker and builder was God. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. But God has left the matter still under some doubt, as a warning to all who have great talents given to them, and a great trust reposed in them, that they do not prove unfaithful, since God would not enroll our first parents among the number of believers in this blessed calendar. Many that are interested in the promises do not presently receive the things promised. And he lists them in chronological order, as far as their appearances in the Bible, until you get to David and Samuel, and only there does he reverse the chronological order.The first to appear on the scene of faith was Abel. God usually warns sinners before he strikes; and, where his warnings are slighted, the blow will fall the heavier. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites, under Joshua their leader, before the walls of Jericho. The fruits and rewards of her faith. It is not a question of the law, which a Jew might naturally conceive to be the standard of the will of God now as of old for Israel. I. The manner in which scripture introduces him is such as to furnish a very striking type of Christ. Terah returned and was angry. But, notwithstanding all this, Isaac's faith recovered itself, and he ratified the blessing: I have blessed him yea, and he shall be blessed. They were prepared to believe that God could make their obvious weakness able for an incredible task. God then has provided some better thing for us. Given after Isaac had said: "Behold. It may come from conscience; it may come from some direct word of God to our souls; it may come from the advice or the rebuke of some good and godly man; it may leap out at us from God's Book or challenge us in some sermon. At first sight every one may have been surprised, especially those that read the New Testament in the language in which God wrote it, at the double meaning of the word which is here translated "covenant." But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city ( Hebrews 11:16 ). 2. What, then, is man's actual estate? It is characteristic of the best of us that we are in a hurry. VI. Joseph was eminent for his faith, though he had not enjoyed the helps for it which the rest of his brethren had. 1. Notwithstanding their meanness by nature, their vileness by sin, and the poverty of their outward condition, God is not ashamed to be called their God: such is his condescension, such is his love to them; therefore let them never be ashamed of being called his people, nor of any of those that are truly so, how much soever despised in the world. For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain. It so happens that he is the first man in the Bible to be called dikaios ( G1342) , righteous ( Genesis 6:9). Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. The gracious and great reward of their faith: he gives them leave to call him so; and he gives them the spirit of adoption, to enable them to cry, (3.) Accordingly we have a remarkable line of blessing pursued for our instruction here. First, to die and come back again so that he might know what death was like. Here observe, [1.] has the idea that God took Enoch to himself when he was still young to save him from the infection of this world. Rebecca and Jacob are not to be justified in the indirect means they used to obtain this blessing, but God will be justified in overruling even the sins of men to serve the purposes of his glory. (i) Noah took God at his word. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. "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." If he takes to himself the title of their God, he will fully answer it, and act up to it; and he has prepared that for them in heaven which will fully answer this character and relation, so that it shall never be said, to the reproach and dishonour of God, that he has adopted a people to be his own children and then taken no care to make a suitable provision for them. Maybe I don't want to do what He's got in mind when we get down the road. Thank You, Lord for the unchanging promises upon which our souls are anchored this evening through Jesus Christ. 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