In other words, he was an impossible child anyhow. Psalms 110:1-7, which, as all the Jews owned, spoke., throughout its greater part at least, of the Messiah and His times, shows us Jehovah Himself by an oath, which is afterwards reasoned on signifying that another priest should arise after a different order from that of Aaron. Fosdick somewhere says that Nero once condemned Paul, but the years have passed on and the time has come when men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero. With reverence and obedience Noah took God at his word and so in the destruction of the world he was preserved. The writer to the Hebrews goes on to say that it was precisely because the great heroes of the faith lived on that principle that they were approved by God. The readers too were to maintain their worship right to the end of life, persevering in faith in the future that God had foretold. Such is the true sense of the passage. That this Isaac was his only-begotten son by his wife Sarah, the only one he was to have by her, and the only one that was to be the child and heir of the promise. 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. The Pharaoh had commanded that all of the Hebrew boys be thrown into the Nile River--drowned. This his right of inheritance was through faith in Christ, as, and, if a child, then an heir. The story of Gideon is told in Judges 6:1-40; Judges 7:1-25. But having looked up to Him who is above all, he speaks of the highest group next to God in His judicial character, namely, the Old Testament saints. [2.] She was a harlot, and lived in a way of sin; she was not only a keeper of a public house, but a common woman of the town, and yet she believed that the greatness of sin, if truly repented of, shall be no bar to the pardoning mercy of God. If I have an indisputable present title of access into the holiest of all, I must not shrink from the place of ashes outside the camp. 1. For a hundred years he was building this giant ship out in an area that had never known rain. He may leave something which will grow and spread like a canker; or he may leave something fine which blossoms and flourishes without end. 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. I cannot say that I believe with all of my heart without my life conforming to what I believe. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. For, says he, "we have an altar," yea, more than that, an altar, "whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." When I start to get weak, and I start to question and I start to say, "Why, God?" Always in this sense in N.T. We shall find another use before we have done, which I hope to notice in its place. (iii) It culminated in the ability to believe in the impossible. 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. XV. 123.]. "And who is the lord of Nimrod?" Observe, The practical belief of the existence of God, as revealed in the word, would be a powerful awe-band upon our souls, a bridle of restraint to keep us from sin, and a spur of constraint to put us upon all manner of gospel obedience. 2. Twice Moses forsook Egypt: [1.] Joseph was eminent for his faith, though he had not enjoyed the helps for it which the rest of his brethren had. The Lord said, "I'll pass through the land this night and the firstborn in every house will be slain. He was brought up in all luxury. One of the finest men who ever lived in Athens was Aristides, who was called "the just." 01/11/23. Another man writes that, however poor a home is, it is better to live at home than epi ( G1909) xenes ( G3581) , in a foreign country. 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. God honoured the son for the father's sake. 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. XI. That is the faith which gave you your religion. (Compare Acts 15:22.) 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. A true believer is desirous, not only to be in covenant with God, but in communion with the people of God; and is willing to fare as they fare. Amen.". It is interesting how that a person living for their own pleasure is constantly pursuing pleasure, constantly trying to find something new, something different, some new sensation. Not of course that one denies that He has His own proper place, for all is perfect as to each person of the Trinity and all else, but never to this end. After the incredulity came the dawning realization that this was God who was speaking; and God cannot lie. It is excluded from syllabuses of religious education because it is held to teach an unacceptable view of God. First, we will use it as such. ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. 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. The sun rose in all its glory and Abraham said: "Surely the sun is God, the Creator!" And I have this to add to the account I have given of the sarcophagus now in the British Museum, vulgarly called Alexander's coffin, that it is more probably the coffin of Joseph himself; and, should the time ever arrive in which the hieroglyphics on it shall he interpreted, this conjecture may appear to have had its foundation in truth. So he knelt down and worshipped the sun. Terah said: "That is impossible for they are made of wood and stone." By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about for seven days ( Hebrews 11:30 ). They're sort of super saints. Now when a child hears another child cry, he will cry too. The greater part of the affections of the Christian are drawn out toward our Saviour by all this scene of sin and sorrow through which we are passing on to heaven. By faith he looked beyond to a higher fulfilment of the promise (8-10; cf. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. When it says that Abraham looked for the city, it means a blessed and ordered scene of glory on high, which eclipsed the Holy Land before his eyes. Had they been taunted with having no altar, possessing nothing so holy and so glorious in its associations? I am old, I do not know the day of my death" ( Genesis 27:2). Through faith, Enoch, as he walked with God, was translated that he should not see death, but before then he had this witness: he pleased God. 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. To speak about escaping the edge, of the sword was to direct men's thoughts to the way in which Elijah escaped threatened assassination in 1 Kings 19:1 ff and Elisha in 2 Kings 6:31 ff. She was a Canaanite, a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, and had but little help for faith, and yet she was a believer; the power of divine grace greatly appears when it works without the usual means of grace. He sacked the Temple. But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. Then we hear of the practical use of all. This is the meaning of the blood carried within, and of the body burnt without. When it was that the faith of Joseph acted after this manner; namely, as in the case of Jacob, when he was dying. (2.) Again, in writing to the Corinthians, he said, "There was a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I don't know;) but he was caught up to the third heaven. In the previous chapter the writer asserted that people must join faith to perseverance if they are to enjoy the thing hoped for. 00:02:01 Arkansas town elects youngest Black mayor in America. Steven was stoned to death. Its wonder is that both Abraham and Sarah were ninety years old, long past the age of begetting or bearing a child; and yet, according to the old story, that promise was made and came true. Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, ; Genesis 12:1. because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." Charles Frohman, who had known Barrie so well, went down with the Lusitania in that disaster of 7 May 1915. Believers may and ought to have respect to this recompense of reward; they should acquaint themselves with it, approve of it, and live in the daily and delightful expectation of it. And Abraham answered: "Let thine own ear hear what thine own mouth has spoken!". At first it was (ver. The other man replies: "Do you know what happens to Christians? 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. The supports of his faith. Such a man, even as Cain was, is banished from the face of God. There have been many who have sacrificed their careers to what they took to be the will of God. She was entranced by his beauty. But Biden concludes with a less-than-biblical solution. A son for whom he waited so long, whom he received in so extraordinary a manner, upon whom his heart was setto have this son offered up as a sacrifice, and that by his own hand; it was a trial that would have overset the firmest and the strongest mind that ever informed a human body. Author: VICTOR C. Pfitzner Genre: Religion Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament Item Width: 4.4in. Nor does it seem so natural for any as the great apostle to inform them of his child and fellow-labourer: "Know that the brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come pretty soon, I will see you. We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. They expected little from the world. The answer is, that the language is peculiar and precise in these same two verses, requiring not a covenant but a testament, and therefore the sense of testament here is the preferable one, and not covenant. Do you not discern in this striking combination the distinctive features of Christianity? 1. He will have nothing more to do with sin. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect ( Hebrews 11:40 ). The undivided place of Christ is more fully witnessed now, when there are no others to occupy the thought or to distract the heart from Him as seen by faith in glory on high. But this becomes the occasion of a remarkable allusion, on which I must for a moment dwell. When he reached the promised land, he was never allowed to possess it. The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived. 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. There are also house () and people () of Israel, and Israel of God, and Israel according to the flesh. So Amram, shamed into trusting God, took back his wife; and in due time Moses was born. If any of the families of Israel had neglected the sprinkling of this blood upon their doors, though they should have spent all the night in prayer, the destroying angel would have broken in upon them, and slain their first-born. 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 ). 1. 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. And I see the evidence of God's existence, and thus, faith. As the writer to the Hebrews put it, we must believe that God is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. The Jewish town of Bethulia had determined to surrender in five days' time for its supplies of food and water were at an end. 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. He had such a firm belief that they would possess the land of promise, that he exacted an oath of them that they would remove his remains with them, that he might be buried in the land of his fathers. (3.) Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. The idea being of God asking Abraham to give the most cherished possession that he had to Him. As the result of enduring the cross, having despised the shame, the word for sitting down here has a remarkably beautiful shade of meaning different from what is given in all the other occurrences. It was in that cave the first vision of God came to him. "Everyone doth think his own Religion rightest," he said, "both Jews and Moors and Pagans; and how if all our Faith and Christ and Scriptures should be but a 'Think so' too?" Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. They are outlaws. The final plague upon the Egyptians was to be the death of the first-born child of every family in Egypt. More than that, it caused him to remain patient when he did not experience the fulfilment of the promise in his lifetime. That those who obtain this favour from God must expect the envy and malice of the world. What Abel did by faith: He offered up a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, a more full and perfect sacrifice, pleiona thysian. Then he adds: "And to myriads of angels, the general assembly" for such is the true way to divide the verse "and to the church of the firstborn," etc. We belong to the holiest of all, and we act upon it, if we iet rightly, when we worship God; nay, when we draw near to God in prayer at all times. This call, though it was a very trying call, was the call of God, and therefore a sufficient ground for faith and rule of obedience. There is nothing more simple; at the same time it is just one of those questions that God has answered, and this so as to settle the mind perfectly, and fill the heart with praise. The story of Samson is in Judges 13:1-25; Judges 14:1-20; Judges 15:1-20; Judges 16:1-31. But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." Accordingly we find everything about Moses. Second, to see the abode of the wicked so that he might know what the punishment of the evil was like. 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. So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! Isaiah refused and was condemned to be sawn asunder with a wooden saw. It may then be stated summarily, in few words, unless I am greatly mistaken, that the word should always be translated "covenant" in every part of the New Testament, except in these two verses; namely, Hebrews 9:16-17. 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." "And whilst the saw cut into his flesh, Isaiah uttered no complaint and shed no tears; but he ceased not to commune with the Holy Spirit till the saw had cloven him to the middle of his body.". 3. There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. with Him in this place of nearness. A lot of times as we read of these people of faith, we sort of think them out of our category. The Lord will provide. The story is told in Exodus 2:11-14. And yet, she received strength to conceive seed and bore the son, though she was past age, because she judged Him faithful. That was Cain's failure to deal with the sin issue, and God put the finger on it. The scripture would indicate that he's in his late twenties probably at this point. By faith we may see this invisible God. He said, "If your offering is rejected, it is because sin is at the door of your tent. Read the account of it, Take thy son, not one of thy beasts or slaves, thy only son by Sarah, Isaac thy laughter, the child of thy joy and delight, whom thou lovest as thine own soul; take him away to a distant place, three days' journey, the land of Moriah; do not only leave him there, but offer him for a burnt offering." Christ is doing nothing there to take away sin; nor when He comes again will He touch the question of sin, because it is a finished work. It's interesting to me that David doesn't get much mention here, just his name listed. This is the best way the people of God can take to condemn the wicked; not by harsh and censorious language, but by a holy exemplary conversation. So that, let the Jews say what they might, there was only found what answered to their own scriptures, and what proved the incontestable superiority of the great Priest whom Melchisedec shadowed out, and of whom it was now for the Christian justly to boast. Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. It is the fact that there He sat down; but in this place it will be observed that His taking His seat there is the reward of the life of faith. If it be not the truth, it would be the height of presumption indeed. Many Samaritans are believing, being baptized, being filled with the Holy Spirit. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) Jesus has removed the sting of death by taking away our sin. Preacher of righteousness . Or it is held that the point of the story is that it was in this way that Abraham learned that God did not desire human sacrifice. And she said, "I wasn't laughing" ( Genesis 18:13-15 ). By faith, when they were dying, they received the atonement; they acquiesced in the will of God; they quenched all the fiery darts of the devil; they overcame the terrors of death, disarmed it of its sting, and bade a cheerful farewell to this world and to all the comforts and crosses of it. 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. The second part of the history of Joseph's death reads: "Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, 'God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.'. SOJOURNERS AND STRANGERS ( Hebrews 11:13-16 ). And then, in the centre of all, we have God Himself. Their old friends would have been glad to receive them. The Lord said, "Go," and he said, "Where?" You ought to have the consciousness that there is no judgment for you with God by-and-by, however truly He, as a Father, judges you now on earth. By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. ", But again the solemn notice of Jehovah's oath is enlarged on. (3.) He would have done so if God had not stopped him at the last possible moment (F. F. Bruce, Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews [Eerdmans], p. 308). 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. There is no mystery in all creation like the love of God. First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. 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, Hebrews 11:13. Finally, this passage not only tells us of the faith of Moses; it also tells us of the source of that faith. It was not the act of a child, that prefers counters to gold, but it proceeded from mature deliberation. The heavenly country is better than any upon earth; it is better situated, better stored with every thing that is good, better secured from every thing that is evil; the employments, the enjoyments, the society, and every thing in it, are better than the best in this world. and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. And the evidence, that word has been translated conviction of the things not seen. His faith silenced all objections, and set him to work in earnest. Observe here, [1.] "I've done it! We must believe not only that God exists but also that he cares and is involved in the human situation. I feel the power of God. Hebrews 11:22 New International Version 22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. He could know nothing of the mystery of the church, Christ's body, nor of her bridal hopes; but he did look for what is called here the "heavenly Jerusalem," that city "whose maker and builder is God." l. 1. c. 8. p. 379. Observe here, (1.) He is called their God. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full (Genesis 15:13-16). Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. Accordingly the epistle to the Hebrews, while it does put the believer in association with Christ, does not, for all this, dissociate him from whatever is good in the saints of God in every age. So Abel devised a scheme whereby they might bring an end to contention. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. Next the apostle, with increasing boldness, comes to the proof from the Old Testament that the legal institution as a whole was to be set aside. All these, though they were attested through their faith, did not receive the promise. But when the light broke he ran out crying, "Now I know! "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.". After three days the Lord showed to Abraham Mount Moriah. Jewish and eastern legends gathered largely round Abraham's name and some of them must have been known to the writer to the Hebrews. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. 1. 3. The grace of God is absolutely free, in taking some of the worst of men, and making them the best. Inspectors went throughout the land to see that these commands were carried out. The walls of Jericho fell before them. It did not matter whether it was a priest or an Israelite. We come now to the faith of other Old-Testament saints, mentioned by name, and by the particular trials and actings of their faith. Hebrews 11:22. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. That is like Moses and God. Amen.Suppose your name will ever get listed in this Hallmark of Faith that God has? (2.) Then comes forth the wondrous counsel that was settled before either the sin of man, or the promises to the fathers, or the law which subsequently put man to the test. This proves that the city of the heavenly Jerusalem does not mean the church, because here they are certainly distinguished from each other, which therefore completely settles all the argument that is often founded on Abraham's looking for a heavenly city. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. When Joshua sent out spies to spy out the situation in Jericho, they found a lodging in the house of Rahab, a harlot. Accordingly observe the change of expression. All that are effectually called resign up their own will and wisdom to the will and wisdom of God, and it is their wisdom to do so; though they know not always their way, yet they know their guide, and this satisfies them. I feel the love of God. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 . Consequently, when He comes again to them that look for Him, it is simply to bring them into all the eternal results of that great salvation. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. They had natural strength to return. God's warning comes to us in many ways. Genesis 22:1-18). Hold it. Thursday, January 12, 2023 Hebrews 12:5 -- On Love and Memory "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" Hebrews 12:5 This points out a couple of areas where we are frequently weak. They saw he was a beautiful child. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, said that if a man comes to the altar and realizes that his brother has ought against him, he ought to first go to his brother and reconcile their differences and then come and offer your gift unto the Lord ( Matthew 5:23-24 ). That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. The unleavened bread had to be made; the Passover lamb had to be slain; the door post had to be smeared with the blood of the lamb so that the Angel of Death would see the blood and pass over that house and not slay the first-born in it. It is then that a man is faced with life's hardest battle--to accept when he cannot understand. Now, to entitle them to this distinguishing favour, and to mark them out for it, a lamb must be slain; the blood of it must be sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop upon the lintel of the door, and on the two side-posts; the flesh of the lamb must be roasted with fire; and it must be all of it eaten that very night with bitter herbs, in a travelling posture, their loins girt, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their hand. Noah planted a teak tree and in twenty years it grew to such a size that out of it he was able to build the entire ark. You're forgetting something, Dad." They did not take the opportunity that offered itself for their return. XIV. Have enough faith and you can drive any kind of car you want or live in any kind of home you want if you just have enough faith." That before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? 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. We are not come to Sinai, the mountain that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and a voice more terrible than that of the elements. By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace ( Hebrews 11:31 ). The belief of this will carry us through the greatest difficulties and trials that we can meet with. Heaven and earth have not been united, nor have they been in fact possessed for the blessing of man by the power of God, since sin severed between the earth and that which is above it, and the prince of the power of the air perverted all, so that what should have been, according to God's nature and counsels, the source of every blessing, became rather the point from which the guilty conscience of man cannot but look for judgment. In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. It was not that the Christians were foolishly other-worldly, detaching themselves from the life and work of this world; but they always remembered that they were people on the way. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). One day he said to his brother: "Remove thy foot; thou standest on my property; the plain is mine." 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. The death of Christ, both in the sense of a victim sacrificed, and of a testator, though a double figure, is evident to all, and tends to the self-same point. There appeared in him something uncommon; the beauty of the Lord sat upon him, as a presage that he was born to great things, and that by conversing with God his face should shine (; Exodus 34:29), what bright and illustrious actions he should do for the deliverance of Israel, and how his name should shine in the sacred records. 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