So Antiochus turned for home, almost mad with rage; and on the way he turned aside and attacked Jerusalem, capturing it almost without an effort. Her unbelief is pardoned and forgotten, but her faith prevailed and is recorded: 3. The Christian believes in the spirit rather than the senses. After this chapter on faith, only the rhetorical culmination (12) and closing matters (13) remain. 3. So from one man, and he a man whose body had lost its vitality, there were born descendants, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, as countless as the sand upon the seashore. God must come first in our lives, or he comes nowhere. The answer is, by sacrifice. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. But surely the meaning is much simpler. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. So, Philip went. Faith, again, is the only principle of walk with God; as it is, again, the only means of realizing the judgment of God coming on all around us. He had to pay an alien tax. He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was, and, [2.] The interesting thing to me is that when God inaugurated the sacrifices and all through Moses, there was the meal offering which was acceptable to God. He was a miracle child. The point there is personal glory. True faith will show itself in good works, especially towards the people of God. 2. it was: "God give you of the dew of heaven. The difference is very great. 1. 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. Hebrews 11:23-30. There is something of permanent greatness here. It was because of that that God was not ashamed to be called their God, for he had prepared a city for them. On the seventh day the priests were to blow upon the trumpets, after the city had been encircled seven times, and the people were to shout with all their might, "and the wall of the city will fall down flat." And if thou hast aught feed me therewith'; Or, 'Get thee gone, sojourner, from the face of honour, My brother is come as my guest, I have need of my house.'. Finally, this passage not only tells us of the faith of Moses; it also tells us of the source of that faith. From this practical lessons of great value are drawn. He has brought in redemption in present accomplishment, and at the same time He has given scope for a brighter hope, founded on His mighty work on the cross, measured by Christ's glory as its present answer at the right hand of God. The grace of God is absolutely free, in taking some of the worst of men, and making them the best. Author: VICTOR C. Pfitzner Genre: Religion Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament Item Width: 4.4in. (iv) There came the day when Moses had to make all the arrangements for the first Passover. The hill of Zion up to this time had been the constant menace of the enemy against the people of the Lord; but in due time, when David reigned, it was wrested out of the hands of the Jebusites, and became the stronghold of Jerusalem, the city of the king. At the moment when she was speaking, there seemed not one chance in a million that the children of Israel could capture Jericho. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" (Genesis 50:22-26, ESV). The mean looks and sounds well, but is utterly false for the Christian. The legends go on to tell that Terah not only worshipped twelve idols, one for each of the months, but was also a manufacturer of idols. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. Those with faith look beyond what they see. In Luke's gospel, the sixteenth chapter, Jesus said, "There was a certain rich man, who fared sumptuously every day, and there was a poor man that was brought daily and laid at his gate, covered with sores, and the dogs would come and lick his sores. He was regarded with hatred and suspicion and contempt. All they did was point to the future when God would provide the perfect sacrifice through His only begotten Son. 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. Their own Psalm, in its grand prophetic sweep, and looking back on the law, pointed to the place in which Christ is now seated above; and where it is of necessity He should be, in order to give Christianity its heavenly character. So be believed, notice, he believed that God was able to raise him up really from the dead. He was a good governor but he had an almost abnormal love for all things Greek and saw himself as a missionary for the Greek way of life. Oh, you'll be changed, yes, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 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. There came a day when the situation ignited. It is extraordinary how Rahab became imprinted on the memory of Israel. (2.) We now go on to. There will always be a difference between those who worship the true God; some will compass him about with lies, others will be faithful with the saints; some, like the Pharisee, will lean to their own righteousness; others, like the publican, will confess their sin, and cast themselves upon the mercy of God in Christ. 13. 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). The wilderness generations In the first chapter we saw the seat of personal glory connected with atonement; in the eighth chapter it is the witness of His priesthood, and where it is. Exodus 1:15-22 tells how the king of Egypt in his hatred tried to wipe out the children of the Israelites by having them killed at birth. It was not the act of a child, that prefers counters to gold, but it proceeded from mature deliberation. "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes" ( Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary, note on Hebrews 11:20-22). He uses in the most skilful manner the change of the priest, in order to bring along with it a change of the law, the whole Levitical system passing away "but [there is] the bringing in of a better hope." But it is interesting, "I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again." First of all, not realizing that it is sin that has alienated me from God, and before I can really have any kind of communion or fellowship with God, the sin issue must be dealt with. IV. Meanwhile we are told that He has obtained (not a temporary, but) "eternal redemption." 1. Who this Rahab was. Let us hold fast the profession of our hope [for so it should be] without wavering (for he is faithful that promised); and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." He lived in tents. 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. [2.] Hebrews 11:22. "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. From them, by this son, sprang a numerous progeny of illustrious persons, as the stars of the sky (; Hebrews 11:12)a great, powerful, and renowned nation, above all the rest in the world; and a nation of saints, the peculiar church and people of God; and, which was the highest honour and reward of all, of these, according to the flesh, the Messiah came, who is over all, God blessed for evermore. In the Apocalypse of Baruch God says: "I showed it to my servant by night" (4: 4). One can well understand that the apostle would leave his readers to gather thus generally what it must have been. After all, the telling fact was before them that, whoever wrote the epistle to the Hebrews, it was not a Christian who wrote the book of Genesis, but Moses; and Moses bears witness to the homage which Abram rendered to Melchisedec by the payment of tithes. Would he give up the one that was the type of the true Seed, the progenitor, and the channel of the promised blessing, yea, of the Blesser? Thus the power of what Christ had wrought was now brought in for future ends; it was not merely retrospective, but above all in present efficacy while the Jews refuse Christ. It did not make sense. Accordingly he now turns to set forth the contrast between the weakness and the unavailingness of the Jewish sacrifices, which, in point of fact, only and always brought up sins again, instead of putting them away as does the sacrifice of Christ. For without faith it is impossible to please God. It was a figure and earnest of the glorious resurrection of all true believers, whose life is not lost, but hid with Christ in God. And he knew that God having given him by a miracle, could also by a miracle sustain him until the promise of God was fulfilled through Isaac.Continuing down through history. "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. Carefully observe that it is the tabernacle, never the temple. There are those who seek to be righteous by their faith in the Lord and those who seek to be righteous by their works. (2.) That fallen man has leave to go in to worship God, with hope of acceptance. ", The Arabs have a different legend. God revealed to him that it was to be modelled on a bird's belly and was to be constructed of teak wood. (i) We must believe in God. (2.) "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the. (ii) It passed into dawning realization. God preferred the gift of Abel to the gift of Cain who, moved to bitter jealousy, murdered his brother and became an outcast upon the earth. Christ accounts himself reproached in their reproaches; and, while he thus interests himself in their reproaches, they become riches, and greater riches than the treasures of the richest empire in the world; for Christ will reward them with a crown of glory that fades not away. Hallo Bestemming kiezen Alle. 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. When they offered their sacrifices unto the Lord, the Lord accepted Abel's sacrifice, but He rejected Cain's. The real presumption, therefore, is to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to doubt the primary fundamental truth of Christianity as to this. What had immediately preceded this, The cross. Share Embed Download Donate . Jewish and eastern legends gathered largely round Abraham's name and some of them must have been known to the writer to the Hebrews. "Oh, He'll tell me. 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. 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. Isaiah refused and was condemned to be sawn asunder with a wooden saw. He ordered the Jews to eat meats which were unclean and to sacrifice to the Greek gods. He had a share in these negotiations and in the long discussions which were necessary. (Exodus 4:22), so also will I make king . The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. Now, the faith of Isaac thus prevailing over his unbelief, it has pleased the God of Isaac to pass by the weakness of his faith, to commend the sincerity of it, and record him among the elders, who through faith have obtained a good report. He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. Here it is the proof of the perpetual efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ. It is an idea that superstition hatched, for the purpose of spuriously exalting a clerical order. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. In point of fact they were reaching out after something better, I mean, the heavenly country. One thing links these three examples of faith together. So that God did not recognize Abraham's work of the flesh. Worse was to come. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. (3.) Clement of Rome quotes her as an outstanding example of one who was saved "by faith and hospitality.". The other man replies: "Do you know what happens to Christians? It is not owing to our inherent righteousness or best performances that we are saved from the wrath of God, but to the blood of Christ and his imputed righteousness. They had sufficient to bear the charges of their journey; and flesh and blood, a corrupt counsellor, would be sometimes suggesting to them a return. If God had reserved the epistle to the Hebrews until after He sent forth His armies and burned up their city, destroying their polity root and branch, it might have been retorted that the Christians valued the Jewish ritual as loner as it was available, and only gave it up when earthly temple and sacrifice and priest were gone. His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. God has to do something, raise him from the dead or something, because I and the lad will go and we will come again. They had not received the promises, that is, they had not received the things promised, they had not yet been put into possession of Canaan, they had not yet seen their numerous issue, they had not seen Christ in the flesh. 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 Egyptian tried to secure some sort of immortality. Death merely took him into God's nearer presence. But now God sends His final summons, founded on their own ritual, to His people who were hankering after the dead, instead of seeing the Living One on He as it were repeats, "Let the dead bury the dead." 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. 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. For he was looking for [the eternal city of God,] a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 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. It was due to the faith of these men that the Jewish religion was not completely destroyed. 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. 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. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. lest the destroying of the firstborn should touch them. A lot of people from the secular world take this particular story to put down the Bible and to put down God. Hallo, inloggen. Quietly he said: "Consider it now; you will give me your decision before you leave that circle." He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. The addition of this last clause as a necessary condition confirms the sense assigned. Such a man, even as Cain was, is banished from the face of God. She received strength to conceive seed. Many have suggested that that is the reason why God accepted Abel's, because he offered a blood sacrifice and rejected Cain's, because it was really the product of the works of his own hands that he brought to the Lord. While his enemies tried to make him recant his faith he steadfastly defied them and prophesied their doom. And you feel the wind. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." Its petrol supply has reached such a level that there is nothing left but to go on. When they came to Haran, he could have turned around and gone back into Babylon. Inspectors went throughout the land to see that these commands were carried out. They did not take the opportunity that offered itself for their return. That strange old story is told in Joshua 6:1-20. [3.] Suffering is to be chosen rather than sin, there being more evil in the least sin than there can be in the greatest suffering. Lord, we pray that You will continue the work of Your Spirit within our hearts as we yield ourselves to You, to walk in fellowship with You through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, to live in that hope of eternal life in and through Him. The honour roll of history is of men who chose to be in God's minority rather than with earth's majority. [2.] First let us take the things that can be explained against the Old Testament background. Why turn back to "meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein?". At the end of his course there was a still heavier tax on him. Thus another and a higher priesthood was incontestably acknowledged by the father of the faithful. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, whose foundling he was, and her fondling too; she had adopted him for his son, and he refused it. Thus it will prove a land-mark to direct their course, a load-stone to draw their hearts, a sword to conquer their enemies, a spur to quicken them to duty, and a cordial to refresh them under all the difficulties of doing and suffering work. Force and violence had not yet been used. This, however, only by the way. There is evidence for the existence of God, and it causes me to believe in God. When we listen to men planning and arguing and thinking aloud, we get the impression of a vast number of things in this world which are known to be desirable but dismissed as impossible. He insisted that we must take the long view. This was accordingly done, and the destroying angel passed over them, and slew the first-born of the Egyptians. And the other says despairingly: "You must be mad.". Accordingly, this is an appeal to the hearts. (4.) We have yet another instance of the faith of Moses, in keeping the passover and sprinkling of blood, Hebrews 11:28. 2 for by it the men of old gained approval. 1:20 ), they desired that "Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death." Matthew Henry wrote, Though the grace of faith is of universal use throughout our whole lives, yet it is especially so when we come to die. "For He who has ascended is the same one who first of all descended into the lower parts of the earth and when he ascended He led the captives from their captivity." On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. When he was asked why, he answered: "To warn you that God will send a deluge to destroy you all." Now these of the Old Testament, theirs was a different case. Do you not discern in this striking combination the distinctive features of Christianity? All these legends give us a vivid picture of Abraham searching after God and dissatisfied with the idolatry of his people. We may be fully assured of his existence, of his providence, and of his gracious and powerful presence with us. 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. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. (6.) Longfellow wrote: "There is no Death! Hebrews 11:1. Rightly then we begin with Zion, and thence may we trace the path of glory up to God Himself, and down to the kingdom here below. Men have called God The First Principle, The First Cause, The Creative Energy, The Life Force. He sacked the Temple. This is natural and pleasant to the flesh, no doubt; but it is precisely what opposes the whole object of God in Christianity, since Christ went on high till He come again, and therefore the path of faith to which the children of God are called. 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. Then we hear of "Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant" the pledge of Israel's full and changeless blessing. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. Amen.". [1.] 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. They never wearily gave up the journey; they lived in hope and died in expectation. (2.) Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. Now after the apostle has given this account of the faith of others, with Abraham, he returns to him again, and gives us an instance of the greatest trial and act of faith that stands upon record, either in the story of the father of the faithful or of any of his spiritual seed; and this was his offering up Isaac: 1. Their descendants, when they were in the desert, often wished to go back to the fleshpots of Egypt. Faith will venture all hazards in the cause of God and his people; a true believer will sooner expose his own person than God's interest and people. How I thank God for the work of His Spirit as He helps us in our weaknesses, that I rely not upon my faithfulness, my work, my ability, but upon His faithfulness, His work. 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. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about for seven days ( Hebrews 11:30 ). Hereby he judged and condemned the world; his holy fear condemned their security and vain confidence; his faith condemned their unbelief; his obedience condemned their contempt and rebellion. [3.] He lived there in an ambulatory moving condition, living in a daily readiness for his removal: and thus should we all live in this world. The apostle proceeds to make mention of the faith of the other patriarchs, Isaac and Jacob, and the rest of this happy family, Hebrews 11:13. The infant Moses was about to touch the jewels when Gabriel took his hand and put it on the coals. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. THE FAITH WHICH DEFEATS DEATH ( Hebrews 11:20-22 ). The favourite thought is "development;" and so they hold a development or genesis of matter, not a creation: matter continually progressing, in various forms, until at last it has progressed into these wise men of our day. He now supports this statement with illustrations from the Old Testament. He responded, 'I pray thee then, if he can not come to me, please send him back to warn my brothers that they don't come to this awful place.' and of Elisha ( 2 Kings 4:8 ff.) XII. Then we have the other patriarchs introduced, yet chiefly as regards earthly hopes, but not apart from resurrection, and its connection with the people of God here below. God honoured the son for the father's sake. He didn't build any homes. 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. 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 ). 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. It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. Then you may bless God that He has so blessed you, and given you to know as true of yourself that which, if not so known, effectually prevents one from having the full joy and bearing the due witness as an unworldly and simple-hearted servant of Christ here below. He had to wander in it, a stranger and a tent-dweller, as the people were some day to wander in the wilderness. For Christ, on whom the promises depend. These are the things of which the writer to the Hebrews is thinking; and these are things which we do well to remember. [2.] "To Gaza." (3.) His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. [2.] (2.) I'm a stranger and a pilgrim to this earth. The difficulties Isaac's faith struggled with. A strong and hale man of seventy came in. 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." 8) but the promise of a land; but when in the land he received the promise of a better country, that is, a heavenly, which raised his eyes to the city on high, in express contrast with the earthly land. We must believe not only that God exists but also that he cares and is involved in the human situation. It was by faith that he sojourned in the land that had been promised to him, as though it had been a foreign land, living in tents, in the same way as did Isaac and Jacob, who were his coheirs in the promise of it. 3. He did not dispute with God why he should make an ark, nor how it could be capable of containing what was to be lodged in it, nor how such a vessel could possibly weather out so great a storm. The ground of Noah's faitha warning he had received from God of things as yet not seen. The next instance is the faith of Rahab, Hebrews 11:31. Ga naar primaire content.nl. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. And he would eat the scraps of food that were thrown to him from the rich man's table. After three days the Lord showed to Abraham Mount Moriah. The acting of their faith: they hid this their son three months. When he was still a child, Thermouthis took him to Pharaoh and told him how she had found him. He argues that the word "new" puts the other out of date, and this to make room for a better. They donned spiked iron gloves. Then, the legend tells, the Egyptians struck upon a cruel scheme. 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