For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." Then comes a total change: God takes up the matter Himself, acting in view of man's sin; but in Jesus, in the very Messiah for whom the Jews were waiting, he has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and has accomplished this mighty work, as admirably befitting the goodness of God, as it alone descends low enough to reach the vilest man, and yet deliver him with a salvation which only the more humbles man and glorifies God. He put himself into the hand of God, to send him whithersoever he pleased. His fear, thus excited by believing God's threatening, moved him to prepare an ark, in which, no doubt, he met with the scorns and reproaches of a wicked generation. He was pre-eminently the man who had the faith that if God gave his people an order he would also give them the strength to carry it out. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. In the book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego are confronted with the choice of obeying Nebuchadnezzar and worshipping the king's image or obeying God and entering the fiery furnace. In the city of Jericho there lived a woman whose name was Rahab, who had received the spies that Joshua had sent. In the end even the guards were moved to wondering compassion. The agents of Antiochus had gone to a town called Modin and had erected an altar there to make the inhabitants do sacrifice to the Greek gods. Legend says that when she drew the ark out of the water, the archangel Gabriel boxed the ears of the little baby to make him cry so that the heart of Thermouthis might be touched as she saw the little face puckered in sorrow and the eyes full of tears. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. Here, too, he begins to introduce what a. priest does, that is, the exercise of his functions. He was the lender who had rescued them from slavery and who had received the Law of their lives from God. THE ADVENTURE AND THE PATIENCE OF FAITH ( Hebrews 11:8-10 ). There were those in the ancient world who believed in the gods, but they believed that they lived out in the spaces between the worlds, entirely unaware of these strange animals called men. "All we like sheep have gone astray; we've turned everyone to our own ways, but God will lay on Him the iniquities of us all" ( Isaiah 53:6 ). We're going to break out of here." They were not afraid of the king's commandment, Exodus 1:22. I mean his sins now; not sin as a principle, but in fact, though it be only for faith. As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. But meanwhile, confessedly, the Spirit of God directs attention, not to the exercise, but to the order of the Melchisedec Priest. 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 supports of Abraham's faith (; Hebrews 11:10): He looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. The book As in Adam has this sentence: "The business of life, the way to life, consists in getting over fences, not in lying down and moaning on the hither side." The last chapter (Hebrews 13:1-25) follows this up with some practical exhortations as to brotherly love continuing; then as to kindness to strangers, or hospitality; finally, as to pity for those in bonds. The unrent veil bore evidence on its front that man could not yet draw near into the holiest that he had no access into the presence of God. Pharaoh's wise men were full of foreboding that this child would some day trample the royal power under foot. 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. the apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more summary account of another set of believers, where the particular acts are not ascribed to particular persons by name, but left to be applied by those who To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1. It may well be that the only offering which a man can properly bring to God is his most precious possession. (2.) In the original, the meaning of the story is difficult. That which to us alone is impossible is always possible with him. A true believer will despise them when they are offered upon such terms. 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. I'm only a stranger and a pilgrim here. In all the covenants of scripture the man that makes it has never to die for any such end. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." we read how. The God with whom we have to do is an invisible God: he is so to our senses, to the eye of the body; and this shows the folly of those who pretend to make images of God, whom no man hath seen, nor can see. Hebrews 11:23-31 -- From Egypt to Jericho -- From Bondage to Victory. Those who by faith walk with God in a sinful world are pleasing to him, and he will give them marks of his favour, and put honour upon them. In these consists our double present association by faith, while on the earth. Without hesitation they choose God ( Daniel 3:1-30). We are still walking here below; we are in the place therefore where infirmity is felt, where Satan tempts, where we may fail through unwatchfulness. Even the Greeks saw its horror. It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea as if they were going through dry land and that the Egyptians, when they ventured to try to do so, were engulfed. They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. She gained entry into the presence of Holofernes and persuaded him that she was convinced of the defeat of her people as a punishment for their sins. It was at that moment that the faith of Moses communicated itself to the people and drove them on when they might well have turned back. Preacher of righteousness . I know God will do it. 3. What is the inference from that? Jesus alone. Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. These men trusted in the unseen God and in his faithfulness to those who wholeheartedly sought him. We translate it, "Jehovah will provide." It means that God loved Enoch so much that he removed him before age and degeneration descended hand in hand upon him. and of Elisha ( 2 Kings 4:8 ff.) Terah returned and was angry. We now go on to. And gave commandment concerning his bones - Genesis 50:25. They are outlaws. There have been many who have sacrificed their careers to what they took to be the will of God. 4. Author: VICTOR C. Pfitzner Genre: Religion Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament Item Width: 4.4in. Beyond question the Lord is regarded as the completer of the whole walk of faith in its deepest and, morally, most glorious form. It was as if a band of almost unarmed infantry had routed a division of tanks. God's message might look foolishness at the moment; but Noah believed it and staked everything on it. When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. Hezekiah, the good king, died, and Manasseh came to the throne. He sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country.This was an exercise of his faith. 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). It begins with Abel, one of the first saints, and the first martyr for religion, of all the sons of Adam, one who lived by faith, and died for it, and therefore a fit pattern for the Hebrews to imitate. Isaac, trusting God to fulfill His promises to Abraham and his descendants, pronounced blessings on his own two sons Jacob and Esau regarding their future. He amassed an army and invaded that country. Through faith Sara herself received strength to conceive, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised ( Hebrews 11:10-11 ). 2. (2.) The word is used of the Jews when they were captives in Babylon and in Egypt. 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. 29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. The whole list is of men who faced incredible odds for God. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. So they saw the promises. The millennial day will see this. (2.) He had the evidence of it in his own conscience, and the Spirit of God witnessed with his spirit. Search Results by Book. They saw he was a beautiful child. Like Father Like Son -- both spoke of being buried in Canaan. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, 2. He didn't build any cities. For these very features did Judaism despise the gospel. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. I'm just a stranger and a pilgrim here. The Lord said, "Go," and he said, "Where?" 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. All this is a gradual undermining the wall until the whole structure is overthrown. Search Results in Other Versions. STREAM DOWNLOAD. And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. 3. Christ brings a new priesthood, not mentioned by Moses (12-14) IV. God is again to be found of us through Christ, the second Adam. Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you." For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. (1.) And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." The promise was that in Isaac his seed would grow and grow until he became a mighty nation in which all others would be blessed. The description given of heaven: it is a city, a regular society, well established, well defended, and well supplied: it is a city that hath foundations, even the immutable purposes and almighty power of God, the infinite merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the promises of an everlasting covenant, its own purity, and the perfection of its inhabitants: and it is a city whose builder and maker is God. But it is interesting, "I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again." And this heavy water blanket in the atmosphere no doubt accounted for the discoveries in the geological stratas of asparagus ferns sixty or seventy feet tall. [2.] 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. it was: "God give you of the dew of heaven. no mention of family or ancestors, "having neither beginning of days, nor end of life" neither is recorded in scripture; "but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. (2.) He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. To Moses belonged the faith to attempt what appeared to be the most insurmountable fences in the certainty that God would help the man who refused to turn back and insisted on going on. Hence the right hand of the throne is introduced, but, besides, "of the Majesty in the heavens." Take each of you offerings in your hand and go, sacrifice to the Lord and he will decide." That he preferred a significant burial in Canaan before a magnificent one in Egypt. William Morris wrote: "Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant. Because he walked with God when other men were walking away from him, he daily came nearer to him and death was no more than the last step that took him into the very presence of that God with whom he had always walked. Now here is evidence of what men have wrought by faith. But surely the meaning is much simpler. But God took care to summon His children outside to abandon the whole system before it was destroyed. "You mean you're moving your whole family and you don't know where you are going?" (Verses 8-22.). And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment. He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. Here's a man that declares he pleased God. To assure them that God would be with them in Egypt, and deliver them out of it in his own time and way. He had a share in these negotiations and in the long discussions which were necessary. This then is brought before us. An instance of his faith in conquering the world. He draws attention to the well-known rites of the atonement day; at any rate, if not of that day exclusively, wherever there was a beast the body of which was burnt without the camp, and the blood carried within the veil. First of all, "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. Sin is now put away; the sacrifice is complete. For he was afraid that the Hebrews, because they were having so many children, would become a threat to the security of Egypt. The call of Abraham is told with dramatic simplicity in Genesis 12:1. And then he prophesied, "In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen." It is told in Joshua 2:1-21 and finds its sequel in Joshua 6:25. There was David, who had once been a shepherd lad and who, to his own and everyone else's astonishment, was anointed king in preference to all his brothers ( 1 Samuel 16:1-13). God honoured the son for the father's sake. Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. It is possible for a person to be victorious over the enemy, to wax valiant in battle, to subdue the aliens, but it is also possible for the man of faith to be tortured for his faith. Second, there is this strange and eerie thought that Cain had discovered a new sin. His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. "God," said Epicurus as a first principle, "does nothing." His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. The passage is out of ; Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25. And as thus were shown the people immutably blessed (for salt shall not be wanting to that covenant) in the scene that will soon come, we finally hear of the earth itself joyful in the curse removed for ever. "We should thus ourselves become an example of impiety to the young, if we became to them an excuse for eating the unclean." He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] He collapsed and one of the soldiers kicked him violently in the stomach to make him rise. I'm afraid I have been. He will have nothing more to do with sin. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. 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. [2.] To Abraham God's promise never came fully true; and yet he never abandoned his faith. Observe, [1.] Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. (2.) Thus the cross and heavenly glory must go together. And for this cause he is mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." That is, the promises of the Messiah that God had given to them. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God, ; Hebrews 11:8. The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. I've given you this land unto your seed forever. 1. 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. His finger was burnt; he put the burnt finger in his mouth and burnt his mouth; that, they say, was why he was not a good speaker ( Exodus 4:10) but stammered all his life. He that possesses the one must not eschew the other. For whom it may be is another thing, of which he will speak by-and-by. ", Bacon said: "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." The pleasures of this world, and especially those of a court, are too often the pleasures of sin; and they are always so when we cannot enjoy them without deserting God and his people. 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. 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." While living in this tent I often groan earnestly desiring to be free, not that I would be unclothed or an unembodied spirit, but I want to be clothed upon with a body which is from heaven. Learn here, (1.) The evidence of things not seen. there was on the throne of Syria a king called Antiochus Epiphanes. He became one of the greatest of all Egyptian generals; in particular he conquered the Ethiopians when they were threatening Egypt and in the end was married to an Ethiopian princess. No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. At the moment when she was speaking, there seemed not one chance in a million that the children of Israel could capture Jericho. at the request of Thermouthis, he promised to make him his heir. [2.] Hence learn, (1.) The phrase about being made strong out of weakness might conjure up many a picture. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. The Egyptian tried to secure some sort of immortality. This true faith makes sin bitter to the soul, even while it receives the pardon and atonement. The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. Here the words "for us" had better be left out. Christianity turns everything to account. (1.) Hebrews 11 The apostle having, in the close of the foregoing chapter, recommended the grace of faith and a life of faith as the best preservative against apostasy, he how enlarges upon the nature and fruits of this excellent grace. Among other instructions, he told them to return his bones to their homeland, Canaan; he gave a "commandment" (entellomai), meaning an "order" (Thayer 218): And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. Accordingly he became just the more the vessel of divine power to the glory of God. Which in this particular case was forty years old. Now he is comforted while you are tormented. 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. (ii) Philo, the great Alexandrian Jewish interpreter, saw in Enoch the great pattern of repentance. Always in this sense in N.T. Thank You, Lord for the unchanging promises upon which our souls are anchored this evening through Jesus Christ. 1. Who this Rahab was. What more can I say? Wherever it comes from, we neglect it at our peril. If God's word be true, and to this the Spirit adheres, the blood of Christ has thus perfectly washed away the sins of the believer. God revealed to him that it was to be modelled on a bird's belly and was to be constructed of teak wood. others were tortured, not accepting deliverance ( Hebrews 11:35 ); Their faith caused them to make their stand firm for God and they were tortured for their faith. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking off unto Jesus the captain and completer of faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.". But where in the scripture, the Old Testament, does it speak of the resurrection after three days? 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. May God grant to us to leave behind not a germ of evil but a lovely thing in which the lives of those who come afterwards will find blessing. Abraham said, 'They have the law and the prophets; if they will not believe the law and the prophets, neither would they believe, even though one came back from the dead. There it was more particularly the activity of faith; here it is the suffering of faith. Observe, [1.] These two things, the cross on earth and glory on high, are correlative. [2.] Accordingly we have a remarkable line of blessing pursued for our instruction here. The belief of this will carry us through the greatest difficulties and trials that we can meet with. In the best of us there is a certain timorousness. He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. Hebrews 11:22. What he did by his faith: He made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones. He just lived in tents, though the whole land was his by the promise of God. 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. He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. The moon arose in the east and the stars came out. One further effort, a little more waiting, a little more hoping, would make the dream come true. By faith, he dwelt in the land of promise: Abraham lived as a "sojourner" in the land God promised, never owning any of it except the plots that he and Sarah were buried on. In similar fashion all believers should, in genuine faith, have confidence in the future of Gods people. When Abraham heard the promise he fell upon his face and laughed ( Genesis 17:17). 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. It was Cain who introduced murder into the world. ""So by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing where he was going.". Both these requests were granted. And Psalm 22 , "soul poured out to death." And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. In every point of view, therefore, the superiority of the Melchisedec priest was demonstrated over the line of Aaron. Observe here, (1.) He was tried by preferment and power in the court of Pharaoh, and yet his faith held out and carried him through to the last. 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. 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. How Abraham lived in Canaan, not as heir and proprietor, but as a sojourner only. After the smashing of the Spanish Armada, there was erected on Plymouth Hoe a monument with the inscription: "God sent his wind and they were scattered." God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. 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. [1.] camp, bearing his reproach." The Stoics held that the gods had given men the gift of life and the still greater gift of taking their own lives away. 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