It is the most beautiful adventure in life." The Stoics were wise; they held that a man should not throw his life away by needlessly provoking the wrath of a tyrant. 4. He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. It is then that we are so liable to give up our hopes and lower our ideals and sink into an apathy whose dreams are dead. Christ gave up his glory for the sake of mankind; and accepted scourging and shame and a terrible death. So we see this one hundred year old Abraham, one hundred and eight at this time, leading this little eight-year-old boy towards Mount Moriah where he is going to offer him as a human sacrifice unto God. That strange old story is told in Joshua 6:1-20. 4. If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. Charles Frohman, who had known Barrie so well, went down with the Lusitania in that disaster of 7 May 1915. He prayed for them, that they might both be blessed of God. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. Even more than Abel and Enoch, Noah stands out as a man of faith. Alas! He reasons that, while our parents only chastise us the best way they can (for after all their judgment might not be perfect), the Father of spirits never fails. Christ has obtained redemption, and this is witnessed by the token of the veil rent from top to bottom. We have here those whose names are not only mentioned, but the particular trials and actings of their faith are subjoined. But as for you who believe in Jesus, wait not for the Romans; let Judaism be nothing but a corpse, which does not concern you. Share Embed Download Donate . Hebrews 11:22 Hebrews 11:24-26. Hebrews 10:19-22. He does not require to add more to the person and facts of Christ than the Old Testament furnishes, to prove the certainty of Christianity and all its characteristic truths with which he occupies himself in this epistle. Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. He has displayed Christ as Son of God (1) and Son of Man (2), warned of the dangers inherent in unbelief (3-4), and explored the power of Christ's priesthood (5-10). Certain great permanent truths emerge from them. But this shows the main object of the Spirit of God in directing us for the type that applies to the believer now to an unsettled pilgrim-condition, not to Israel established in the land of promise. So we are told that when Jesus died for our sins He descended into hell and He preached, according to Peter, to those souls that were in prison. In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. God is the God of all true believers; faith gives them an interest in God, and in all his fullness. Hebrews 11:22. Hallo, inloggen. When the people of England saw how the storm and the gale had shattered the Spanish Armada, they said: "God did it." The whole list is of men who faced incredible odds for God. No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. Things were frequently held up by cautious people who wished to know just where each step was taking them, until in the end the chairman reminded them that a Christian has no right to ask where he is going. i. This is the fallacy of this "Faith" teaching today. But the bodies of those beasts were burnt without the camp: my place, so far as I in the body am concerned, is one of shame and suffering in this world. The acting of their faith: they hid this their son three months. Bible-NT Paul Apple August 25, 2020 Hebrews. the lad Abraham asked. The taking of Jericho was the result of an act of faith. That he would go as far with his people as he could, though he could not go as far as he would. [2.] 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. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. But surely the meaning is much simpler. And thus, for the child of God, it's the glorious coronation day. Tucked into the New Testament after Galatians and the Corinthian correspondence, the Epistle to the Ephesians casts a warm, quieting glow when compared to the strident character of Galatians and the . In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. Abel's sacrifice was of a living creature, Cain's was not; therefore Abel's was the more acceptable. By the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the author is rounding third base in his sermon. And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. God said . We go on now to. In Exodus 33:9-11 we read of how he went into the Tabernacle; "and the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend." But, notwithstanding all this, Isaac's faith recovered itself, and he ratified the blessing: I have blessed him yea, and he shall be blessed. FAITH AND ITS SECRET ( Hebrews 11:23-29 ). Witness that he was righteous, a justified, sanctified, and accepted person; this, very probably, was attested by fire from heaven, kindling and consuming his sacrifice. This leads into the life of faith, which was a great stumbling-block to some of these Christian Jews. Here observe, [1.] Paul said, "I'm in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better; nevertheless, it is necessary for your sakes that I remain" ( Philippians 1:23-24 ). The Lord will make even Babylon fall before the faith of his people, and when he has some great thing to do for them, he raises up great and strong faith in them. He refused. Now oftentimes as God is leading us, He leads us just one step at a time, and that is our problem. (3.) The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). When a man leaves this world, he leaves something in it. [4.] 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. So when they died they did not enter in to the heavenly kingdom, but they had to wait for the promise of God to be fulfilled. Lord, we believe and we trust and we know that Your Word is sure. The reasons of their thus acting. They saw them afar off. 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. 00:02:01 Arkansas town elects youngest Black mayor in America. In the lives of Elijah ( 1 Kings 17:17 ff.) He promised and He'll send His Son. Holy Scripture then demanded that a man should sit down at the right hand of God. His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. He had good company with him, and they were a great comfort to him in his sojourning state. Their sincerity appeared not only in not returning to their former country, but in desiring a better country, that is, a heavenly. Those therefore that so translate our two verses have invented a meaning for the phrase, instead of accepting its legitimate sense as attested by all the monuments of the Greek tongue; whereas the moment that we give it the meaning assigned here rightly by the better translators, that is, the sense of "testator" and "testament," all runs with perfect smoothness, and with striking aptitude. Implicit faith and obedience are due to God, and to him only. 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. Perhaps more likely in the time in which the writer to the Hebrews wrote, it would remind his hearers of that epic but bloodthirsty incident told in the Book o Judith, one of the apocryphal books. "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.". (2.) To some extent this story has fallen into disrepute. W. S. Gilbert wrote in The Yeomen of the Guard: Robert Burns wrote of the early death of Highland Mary: There are those who have seen only the grim terroriser and despoiler in death. The writer to the Hebrews goes further. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. 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. Interesting statement, especially from a scientific standpoint. Being a man of faith doesn't mean that you will always going to have healing, you're always going to have victory, you're always going to drive a Maserati, you're never going to have any trouble. We know they exist, but yet, they are invisible. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for. 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. I refer to the fact just to exemplify on the one hand the true bearing of the epistle, and what I believe will be discovered in it, and on the other hand to guard against the mistake of importing into it, or trying to extract from it, what is not there. There we find these two facts. We can well understand that, because when the blood flows away, life ebbs away. More than that, it caused him to remain patient when he did not experience the fulfilment of the promise in his lifetime. 2. Faith--the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It was prefigured in Jonah, and Jesus brought that out, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" ( Matthew 12:40 ). The man with the wanderlust is lured on by the thought of the countries he has never yet seen. It is true, He does not always call at once into the place of reproach and suffering. He knew that the prizes of earth were contemptible compared with the ultimate reward of God. He would not comply with the king's order, "no, not if you pluck out my eyes and consume my bowels in the fire." Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. Like Abraham he has to go out not knowing where he is going. It probably accounted for the longevity of life, averaged nine hundred years or so. To the Hebrews Moses was the supreme figure in their history. He sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country.This was an exercise of his faith. At the same time he exhorts the believers as to their chiefs, that is, those who guided them spiritually. He leaves an influence of good or ill; every one when he dies still speaks. but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them, and they [held on to them] embraced them, and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eaRuth ( Hebrews 11:13 ). But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. Accordingly, then, as suiting this pilgrim-path of the Christian, the tabernacle is referred to, and not the temple. 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. You're forgetting something, Dad." "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Oh, you'll be changed, yes, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. The scripture would indicate that he's in his late twenties probably at this point. 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 no sanction here, of course, of the vulgar and outrageous error that pastors give an account of the souls of their flock. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. The point there is personal glory. To the writer of the letter to the Hebrews Moses was pre-eminently the man of faith. And where thou art a stranger thou must not open thy mouth. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. (viii) Above all, there are those, like Enoch, who have seen death as an entering into the nearer presence of him with whom they have lived for so long. (1.) Thus the cross and heavenly glory must go together. In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. . If the one figured the imposed measure of man's responsibility, which can only but most justly condemn him, in the other we behold the mountain of God's grace after all was lost. (i) We must believe in God. (1.) 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 taketh away the first." "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience; in all things willing to live honestly. It is what He carries on now. Those with faith look beyond what they see. 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. 11:7 It was by faith that Noah, when he had been informed by God about things that were still unseen, reverently accepted the message and built an ark to preserve his household in safety. They wished to destroy Moses there and then. 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. the sense of the word which had been used before), what would be the aim of the "also?" He sat down there as of His own right and title, but nevertheless making a part of His divine glory to be witnessed in, as indeed His person was necessary to make His blood efficacious to the purging of our sins. The actings of her faith. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." the author of creation cannot set!" Legend tells that with Enoch the Angel of Death made a compact of friendship. 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. Faith is the ability to lay hold on that grace which is sufficient for all things in such a way that the things which are humanly impossible become divinely possible. Their deliverance was very glorious. 3. And the wheel was besmeared all over with blood, and the heap of coals was extinguished with the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh flew about the axles of the machine." He acted in this matter with some reluctance. For those who knew the scriptures well in their Greek version, phrase after phrase would ring a bell in the mind. 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. The intention here was not to dwell either on the scene in which their waiting was put to the test, the wilderness, or on anything that could insinuate the settled position of Israel in the land. The ground of Noah's faitha warning he had received from God of things as yet not seen. Men spend the greater part of their lives putting limitations on the power of God. Never in all history has there been such a sadistic and deliberate attempt to wipe out a people's religion. She received strength to conceive seed. God's arm is not shortened; his power is not grown less. We will remember that everything in it is God's and will try to use it as God would have us use it. She engaged them to covenant with her to show favour to her and hers, when God should show kindness to them, and that they would give her a sign, which they did, a line of scarlet, which she was to hang forth out of the window; she sent them away with prudent and friendly advice. When Oliver Cromwell was arranging for the education of his son Richard, he said: "I would have him learn a little history." 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. In other cases the epistle to the Hebrews speaks of sanctification by God's call, and Christ's blood. After the fall, God must be worshipped by sacrifices, a way of worship which carries in it a confession of sin, and of the desert of sin, and a profession of faith in a Redeemer, who was to be a ransom for the souls of men. Then Abraham said: "The moon must be God and the stars his host!" 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. That though he had lived and died in Egypt, yet he did not live and die an Egyptian, but an Israelite. (v) There was the great act of the crossing of the Red Sea. So that it was an offering that was perfectly legitimate, an offering that expressed sort of a communion with God as did the peace offering. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. See also Hebrews 11:23-29 in other biblical comments: . Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. But it has pleased God to single two instances out of many of the faith of this patriarch, besides what has been already mentioned in the account of Abraham. 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. 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. Envy leads to bitterness; bitterness to hatred; and hatred to murder. Second, we will remember that, even when it may not look like it, somehow God is in control. But although it will be the shaking of all things, not of earth only but also heaven, yet, marvellous to say, such confidence of heart does grace give, that this, which may be regarded as the most awful threat, turns into a blessed promise. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." 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. Though heaven and earth may pass away, Your Word is something You will keep forever. Such a man, even as Cain was, is banished from the face of God. But not the patriarchs. He worshipped, leaning on his staff; that is, he praised God for what he had done for him, and for the prospect he had of approaching blessedness; and he prayed for those he was leaving behind him, that religion might live in his family when he was gone. Hereby they declared plainly that they sought another country (. The verb indicates a specific injunction (). God's warning comes to us in many ways. Quietly he said: "Consider it now; you will give me your decision before you leave that circle." The latter is not referred to, because it represents the millennial glory; the former is, because it finds its proper fulfilment in that which is made good in the Christian scheme now. If they were Abraham's children, and not his seed only, surely they would honour Him. He was willing to take his lot with the people of God here, though it was a suffering lot, that he might have his portion with them hereafter, rather than to enjoy all the sensual sinful pleasures of Pharaoh's court, which would be but for a season, and would then be punished with everlasting misery. But it is interesting, "I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again." If we have lived with Christ, we may die in the certainty that we go to be for ever with our Lord. All they did was point to the future when God would provide the perfect sacrifice through His only begotten Son. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. They were persuaded of them, that they were true and should be fulfilled. The moon arose in the east and the stars came out. 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.'. My faith in God provokes my works for God.Now Noah condemned the world by his belief and faith in God, and he became the heir of the righteousness, which is by faith. (i) Abraham's faith was the faith that was ready for adventure. 2. It seemed as if everything went against them. And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! You may find great pleasure and excitement in the indulging of your flesh, but it doesn't last. 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. But he did not mean what so many people think he meant. It was on Mount Moriah where the cross was placed upon which Jesus died. That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. He. (2.) I feel the love of God. To mount Zion. Robert Louis Stevenson said: "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive." Then, consequent on the fall, comes the ground of the believer's acceptance; then his walk with God, and deliverance from His judgment of the whole scene, in the midst of which we actually are. [2.] And Isaac, being in the prime of his youth, could have easily overpowered his Dad and said, "Okay, Dad, that's enough. 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. Let him learn his error. 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: By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, Hebrews 11:17. 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. the glory of God has come. The sixth they broke upon the wheel "while a fire roasted him from beneath. Such has been the usual form in all countries not savage, and in all ages. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. The actings of her faith. Jeremiah positively declares that God will make a new covenant. ", Bacon said: "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." But he said to them: "Though you rail at me now, the time will come when I shall rail at you; for you will learn to your cost who it is that punishes the wicked in this world and reserves for them a further punishment in the world to come.". Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" You have the riches of Egypt at your disposal. But in Cain's heart there was still bitter envy. Isaiah 53 , "numbered with the transgressors in His death." And so I believe in the magnetic powers or the magnetic force, but I have never seen it. [3.] I. Christ's priesthood shows the Old Testament law needed a change (11-22) II. he had respect unto the recompense of the reward ( Hebrews 11:26 ). (i) They lived for ever as strangers. By faith, then, Jacob himself blessed his sons and the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh. And here we learn the direct application. There it was in the Psalms. Remembered is appropriate here. little thinking that he was to be the lamb; but Abraham knew it, and yet he went on with the great design. "God," said Epicurus as a first principle, "does nothing." 1. As Barrie made Peter Pan say: "To die will be an awfully big adventure." I'm just a transient here. The first brother refused to eat the unclean things. III. In the end they tore him apart on the catapult and flayed him alive. (3.) 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ( Hebrews 11:9 ): So here, when he came to the land and he stood on Bethel, the center of the land, good vantage point, God said, "Look to the north, the east, the south and the west as far as you can see, Abraham. Thus the apostle closes this most striking and precious epistle, brimful to overflowing with that which had an especial and very touching interest to a Jew, but nevertheless needed as certainly by us, and as rich in instruction for us in this day as for those at any time that has passed away. 3. So as Jesus said to Martha grieving over her brother Lazarus, "If you live and believe in Me, you will never die." And the Lord said, "I will bless Ishmael and make of him a nation, but Sarah is going to bear a child, and through Sarah shall thy seed be called" ( Genesis 17:18-21 ). (4.) 11:22 Josephs faith was also strong when he was dying. Manasseh the evil son of Hezekiah ordered him sawed in two. The point which the writer to the Hebrews wishes to make is that all three men died without having entered into the promise that God had made, the promise of the Promised Land and of greatness to the nation of Israel. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. (7.) I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. Where is the mountain that could stand out so well against Sinai? Note, (1.) Women received their dead raised to life again ( Hebrews 11:33-35 ): This is the first section. 1 now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. 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. Indeed it is only the body that is here spoken of. Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. God honoured the son for the father's sake. How that Cain, being a farmer, brought the fruit of the ground unto the Lord. She offered him a way into Jerusalem by stealth; and then, having gained his confidence, she slew him in his drunken sleep with his own dagger, cut off his head and carried it back to her people. II. For they that say such things declare plainly that they are seeking for a country. It is possible that the word "worlds," which is a Hebraistic word, belonging to the Alexandrian Jews particularly, may embrace dispensations; but undoubtedly the material world is included in it. To such death is the adventure of supreme discovery. On this subject I refer the reader to the notes on "Genesis 50:25". A parepidemos was a person who was staying there temporarily and who had his permanent home somewhere else. Those who would find God in these ways of his must seek him diligently; they must seek early, earnestly, and perseveringly. To Abraham there was given the vision; and, even when his body was wandering in Palestine, his soul was at home with God. 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