Hence the right hand of the throne is introduced, but, besides, "of the Majesty in the heavens." (i) The first is the story of the fall of Jericho. For whom it may be is another thing, of which he will speak by-and-by. He was big enough and brave enough to wait until God said: "Now is the hour.". (2.) 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. They all believed that there would be made the provision for their sins by God. 2. We often say, "It is good to be akin to an estate;" but surely it is good to be akin to the covenant. [3.] ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) Jesus has removed the sting of death by taking away our sin. Men of faith and yet men who were tortured for their faith.Not accepting deliverance. But in the commentary here in Hebrews it tells us the reason why one was rejected and the other was accepted, is one was offered in faith and the other was offered not with faith, just the works of man's hands.There are those today who offer in faith, and there are those today who offer works for righteousness. "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 ). Then Abraham said: "The moon must be God and the stars his host!" (iv) Some have seen in death the supreme terror and the unmitigated evil. (i) There was the faith of Moses' parents. It is believing in God that is the most important, not my works; they follow. Like Father Like Son -- both spoke of being buried in Canaan. Charles Frohman, who had known Barrie so well, went down with the Lusitania in that disaster of 7 May 1915. Without hesitation they choose God ( Daniel 3:1-30). Instead of pining after that which is about to be destroyed, or repining at the call to go out to the place of Christ's shame on earth, Christianity, which replaces Judaism now, may well cause us to offer "the sacrifice of praise to God continually." After the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua, he allowed each tribe to go to its own home. This priesthood is not based on physical requirement (15-17) (Compare Acts 15:22.) (3.) Both Jacob and Esau were blessed as Isaac's children, at least as to temporal good things. 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. How great a temptation Moses was under. Again the legends help to light up the picture. 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." That he walked with God, that is, that he was really, eminently, actively, progressively, and perseveringly religious in his conformity to God, communion with God, and complacency in God. Now, just how this was demonstrated, we do not know. And so as Isaac was with his father now, the two of them walking towards Moriah, Isaac said, "Father, here is the wood and we've got the fire, but where is the sacrifice? The supports of Abraham's faith (; Hebrews 11:10): He looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. He was heir to the kingdom. "Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without any rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave it fierce assault against the walls and took the city by the will of God" ( 2Ma_12:13-16 ). Interesting statement, especially from a scientific standpoint. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. Good examples will either convert sinners or condemn them. There is an unwritten saying of Jesus: "The world is a bridge. It often happens that simply by being himself the Christian passes judgment on other people. The earliest legend tells how every time Eve bore children she bore twins, a boy and a girl, and that they were given to each other as man and wife. 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. After the incredulity came the dawning realization that this was God who was speaking; and God cannot lie. 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. lest he should undervalue the truer honour of being a son of Abraham, the father of the faithful; lest it should look like renouncing his religion as well as his relation to Israel; and no doubt both these he must have done if he had accepted this honour; he therefore nobly refused it. (1.) The gracious and great reward of their faith: God is not ashamed to be their God, for he hath prepared for them a city, ; Hebrews 11:16. Again, we usually in our minds picture Isaac, because of the Sunday school papers that we had, of being maybe eight to ten years old. Their faith was a faith of consent. God said, "And when I pass through the land tonight and I see the blood, I will pass over that house and the first-born will be spared." (2.). Joseph on his death-bed remembered the promise of God to give the land of Canaan to the seed of Abraham (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:7), and also the prediction to Abraham that his descendants should pass four hundred years in bondage in a strange land, and should afterward be brought out thence, Genesis 15:13, Genesis 15:14. They saw he was a proper child, a goodly child (Exod. (1.) I'm passing through. All these, though they were attested through their faith, did not receive the promise. So that all of the material things that we see are made up of things that cannot be seen: of atoms, protons, electrons. (3.) 3. For, says he, "we have an altar," yea, more than that, an altar, "whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." They sent a senator called Popilius Laena with a small and quite unarmed suite. But it may well be that the writer to the Hebrews is thinking not only of the story as it is in Genesis but also of the legends which gathered round it in Jewish folk-lore. 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." Interesting! There is no necessity for considering anything else, but that the Spirit of God, forecasting the future, was pleased to conceal the line of Melchisedec's parentage, or descendants if any, of their birth or death. 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. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites, under Joshua their leader, before the walls of Jericho. The faith of Joseph, Hebrews 11:22. But another Jew, seeking to curry favour and to save his own life, came forward and was about to sacrifice. That he would go as far with his people as he could, though he could not go as far as he would. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. (1.) In this place (and in Genesis 5:22, &c.) we read, (1.) Hereby himself and his house were saved, when a whole world of sinners were perishing about them. This is interesting: God is not ashamed to be called their God. (ii) Noah was not deterred by the mockery of others. In flying there is what is called the point of no return. The Lord commands him to leave this marvelous move of the Spirit and go down to this desert place, go down to Gaza. 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. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. But, notwithstanding all this, Isaac's faith recovered itself, and he ratified the blessing: I have blessed him yea, and he shall be blessed. She was delivered of a child, a man-child, a child of the promise, and comfort of his parents' advanced years, and the hope of future ages. What is the inference from that? Thank You, Lord for the unchanging promises upon which our souls are anchored this evening through Jesus Christ. He said, "If your offering is rejected, it is because sin is at the door of your tent. They had been listening to the Old Testament stories and determined that they too would offer a sacrifice. He'll send the Savior. Holy Scripture then demanded that a man should sit down at the right hand of God. He prophesied that they should be blessed; but, as Isaac did before, so now Jacob prefers the younger, Ephraim; and though Joseph had placed them so, that the right hand of his father should be laid on Manasseh, the elder, Jacob wittingly laid it on Ephraim, and this by divine direction, for he could not see, to show that the Gentile church, the younger, should have a more abundant blessing than the Jewish church, the elder. Thus it will be observed, at the end of all the moral and experimental dealings with the first man (manifested in Israel), we come to a deeply momentous point, as in God's ways, so in the apostle's reasoning. The wise men of the present day are fast giving up the truth of creation. Keats said that he had been "half in love with easeful death." I'm convicted of truths, though I may not have seen them, I'm convicted of their existence. 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. 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. In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. Nothing can be more admirable than this reserve of God. There we read of how the children of Israel were wondrously enabled to pass through and of how the Egyptians were engulfed when they tried to do the same. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? But he chose, rather, to identify himself with God's people; suffering the affliction of God's people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. SOJOURNERS AND STRANGERS ( Hebrews 11:13-16 ). It was not only that there had been at the beginning such a priest, but that fact became the form of a glorious anticipation which the Holy Ghost holds out for the latter day. "Oh, He'll tell me. "This is the covenant," says he, "that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Popilius took the stall which he was carrying and drew a circle in the sand round about Antiochus. What a great testimony. (Verses 8-22.). 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. Observe here, (1.) These are the things of which the writer to the Hebrews is thinking; and these are things which we do well to remember. Here observe. The actings of her faith. Learn here, (1.) A lot of times as we read of these people of faith, we sort of think them out of our category. As ever we expect to be justified and saved in the great and terrible day of the Lord, let us now prepare an ark, secure an interest in Christ, and in the ark of the covenant, and do it speedily, before the door be shut, for there is not salvation in any other. 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. He was said to be the first man skilled in tailoring and in sewing and that he instructed men how to cut out skins in the proper shape to make garments. He rests confidingly on the cross, that only valid moral basis before God; at the same time he is waiting for the glory that is to be revealed. Isaac has not yet had any children. This is life itself, and to the Hebrews blood always stood for life. A stranger thou art in that case and drinkest contempt; And besides this thou wilt have to hear bitter things: 'Come hither, sojourner, and furnish my table. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." They, presumptuously attempting to follow Israel through the Red Sea, being thus blinded and hardened to their ruin, were all drowned. There remains, therefore, a sabbath-keeping for the people of God. He received his son. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. 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. Antiochus had an interest in Egypt. Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. The story is like this. God on his part rewarded them, but rejected those who showed no faith (4-7; cf. It is by faith that we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, so that what is seen came into being out of what is unseen. 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 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. This then is brought before us. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors' studies worldwide, this new thirteen-volume edition marshals the most current evangelical scholarship . 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. The mount of the Lord, where Abraham offered his son Isaac, two thousand years later God offered His only begotten Son. A. Because His people had no heart for His promises, He imposed a system of law and ordinances that was unjudged in them, which provoked the sin. Rahab also is given a verse to herself in Hebrews 11:31. This is a different way of looking at His session there. Given after Isaac had said: "Behold. He loves the man who is ready to venture for his name. Dwelt translates the ancient Greek word paroikos, describing a "resident alien" one who lives at a certain place, but doesn't have permanent status there. According, to the Jews it was quite impossible, if God had once established a covenant, He could ever change; but the apostle replies that their own prophet is against their theory. He promised and He'll send His Son. 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. Alcibiades that brilliant but wild young man of Athens used to say to Socrates: "Socrates, I hate you, for every time I meet you, you show me what I am." He may feel called by God to a task in a sphere which is difficult and in a place that is unattractive and it may be that the girl he is to marry will not face it with him. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Indeed, not being revealed of old, according to the apostle, it is altogether a mistake to go to the Old Testament for that truth. Take each of you offerings in your hand and go, sacrifice to the Lord and he will decide." The apostle earnestly insists on them both. Nowhere does the apostle give the smallest occasion for such a thought. By it he, being dead, yet speaketh. How glorious was the triumph of his faith in so great a trial. But in Cain's heart there was still bitter envy. To mount Zion. "God," said Epicurus as a first principle, "does nothing." 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. Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. (iv) There came the day when Moses had to make all the arrangements for the first Passover. 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. 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. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.". The veil is rent: the believer can draw near, as is shown in the next chapter; but meanwhile it is merely pointed out that there is no veil now, eternal redemption being obtained. In point of fact the English translators did not know what to make of the matter; for they give sometimes one, sometimes the other, without any apparent reason for it, except to vary the phrase. The meal offering it was called. 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. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? Biblical References: Hbr 11:23-30 . 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. 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. The simple statement in Genesis has a kind of mystical quality. These all died in faith, the "Faith Message" had not reached them yet. As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. In the isolation of his splendid strength again and again he faced the most amazing odds and emerged triumphant. Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. 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. A man writes complaining that he was despised "because I am a xenos ( G3581) ". Preacher of righteousness . There was a Greek proverb which said: "Envy has no place in the choir of God." We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: and all its power and pleasures, and undertook the conduct of Israel out of it. In every point of view, therefore, the superiority of the Melchisedec priest was demonstrated over the line of Aaron. He sits there not merely as the proof of the perfectness with which He has purged our sins by Himself alone, but as the Priest; and accordingly it is not merely said "on high," but "in the heavens." We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. That is why the Christian message is the gospel, good news; it is news so good that it is almost impossible to believe it true. It's yours." He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. Buy Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews by Charles Spurgeon, Elliot Ritzema Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9781577996408 Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. Twice Moses forsook Egypt: [1.] He went down to Hebron and back up to the area of Shechem. If we know His perfect love and the wisdom of it, we have the best answer to silence every murmuring thought or wish of the heart. 2. His faith influenced his practice. (7.) Observe, (1.) Thus in every case it is faith. How Abraham lived in Canaan, not as heir and proprietor, but as a sojourner only. Hebrews 11:23-31 -- From Egypt to Jericho -- From Bondage to Victory. Hence in Hebrews we never find the body of Christ as such referred to. [3.] ", Bacon said: "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. "Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (for those priests were made without an oath" no oath ushers in the sons of Aaron "but he with an oath by him that said as to him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.". 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.'. Now looking at that a little more closely, God made the world out of things that do not appear.We know that the universe, the worlds, are made up of atoms which are invisible. "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. "This corruption must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality" ( 1 Corinthians 15:53 ). Immediately a Christian has set out on some enterprise sent him by God, he should feel that he has already passed the point of no return. It is what He carries on now. The supports of his faith. You see the evidence of it, and thus, we believe in the wind, though we don't actually see the wind itself.Magnetic force--I believe in it, but I've never seen it. And he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. His third request was to be permitted to see into Paradise so that he might see what the blessed enjoyed. This was a figure or parable of something further. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. 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. 2. (2.) And it is pleasant to see parents and children sojourning together in this world as heirs of the heavenly inheritance. After the people had been tried and found wanting; after the priests had wrought, if possible, greater corruption; after the king of Israel's choice had reduced them to the lowest degradation. I like the faith that brings me over the top, that brings me the victory, that subdues the aliens, and I like that. There are certain surroundings which indicate to the competent eye when the word "covenant" is right and when the word "testament" is better. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. For without faith it is impossible to please God ( Hebrews 11:6 ): So the witness of faith. The reference is therefore plain and sure. For now, what's interesting is that the first six men suffered serious shortcomings; in spite of their flaws, God honored their faith. Sometimes, not always, the countenance is the index of the mind. He chose "rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." As a commander and ruler in Jeshurun, after God had employed him to humble Pharaoh and make him willing to let Israel go. He contrived the model; he accordingly made it, and he has laid open a new and living way into it, and prepared it for his people; he puts them into possession of it, prefers them in it, and is himself the substance and felicity of it. For there is nothing in this world commensurate to the love of God in being the God of his people; and, if God neither could nor would give his people anything better than this world affords, he would be ashamed to be called their God. (6.) They embraced or held on to the promises and they made their confession. 2. If he had gone on recklessly he would simply have thrown his life away and the deliverance from Egypt might never have happened. By a testament, to be sure, as every one knows. This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. He prophesied that they should be blessed; but, as Isaac did before, so now Jacob prefers the younger, Ephraim; and though Joseph had placed them so, that the right hand of his father should be laid on Manasseh, the elder, Jacob wittingly laid it on Ephraim, and this by divine direction, for he could not see, to show that the Gentile church, the younger, should have a more abundant blessing than the Jewish church, the elder. The preservation and safe passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when there was no other way to escape from Pharaoh and his host, who were closely pursuing them. It was a shattering humiliation for a king. 2. (4.) Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." There it was in the Psalms. That, after the fall, God opened a new way for the children of men to return to him in religious worship. Another story tells that, after he had been forewarned by God, Noah made a bell of plane wood, about five feet high, and that he sounded it every day, morning, noon and evening. Mattathias, moved to uncontrollable wrath, seized a sword and slew his apostate countryman and the king's commissioner with him. None of the patriarchs entered into the full possession of the promises that God had made to Abraham. In the Letter of Aristeas the writer says: "It is a fine thing to live and to die in one's native land; a foreign land brings contempt to poor men and shame to rich men, for there is the lurking suspicion that they have been exiled for the evil they have done." ), The strength of nature, as well as grace, is from God: he can make the barren soul fruitful, as well as the barren womb. The sun rose in all its glory and Abraham said: "Surely the sun is God, the Creator!" 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