Here he is in the midst of a great revival. It is what He carries on now. (7.) (1.) 11:4 It was by faith that Abel offered to God a fuller sacrifice than Cain and so gained the verdict of being a just man, for God himself witnessed to that fact on the grounds of the gifts he brought: and although he died because of his faith, he is still speaking to us. 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. 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. 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 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. There we find these two facts. It was by faith that Joseph, as he came to the end, had his mind the days when the children of Israel would leave Egypt, and gave instructions concerning his bones. Such was the Priest of whom God spoke. Though believers are chiefly concerned for their souls, yet they cannot wholly neglect their bodies, as being members of Christ and parts of themselves, which shall at length be raised up, and be the happy companions of their glorified souls to all eternity. But when the writer to the Hebrews writes of himself in Hebrews 11:32, the masculine grammar of the passage argues against the idea that a woman wrote the letter. The reproaches of the church of God are the reproaches of Christ, who is, and has ever been, the head of the church. Abraham only had one, "Go, get out of the land." That is a struggle of which every Christian should know something, for if in these killing times, the Jews had surrendered their faith, Jesus could not have come. The apostle does not dwell on the detailed application of His Melchisedec priesthood, as to the object and character of its exercise. Before Jesus came, there was no question of it among the Jews. (3.) he made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; that is, out of the land of Egypt: he remembered it himself, and put his brethren in mind of it, by speaking of it to their comfort, with great assurance; he knew they were well situated in the land of Egypt, and yet speaks of their departure out of it; he foresaw, and firmly believed they would be greatly afflicted in it, and that God would look upon them, and visit them, and bring them out of it, into the land of Canaan; all which shows the strength of his faith, and that it was about things not seen. Faith has a clear and a strong eye, and can see promised mercies at a great distance. So wilt thou not have to bear the reproach of thy wandering. They embraced them. That's the thing. There was a time when Israel was threatened by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar led by his general Holofernes. (2.) Having brought its to see the "church of the firstborn which are written in heaven," the apostle next can only speak of "God the Judge of all." No other seat was suitable to such a One. They all died in faith not having received the promise, for you see, God provided some better thing for us. He presses a conversation without covetousness, and a spirit of content, founded on our confidence in the Lord's care. 4. [1.] What more can I say? He ordered the Jews to eat meats which were unclean and to sacrifice to the Greek gods. We must bear in mind that Melchisedec was a man like any other. 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. The Jews used to lay it down as a primary law for a teacher that he must never promise his pupils what he was unwilling or unable to perform; to do so would be to accustom the pupils thus early to the broken word. She was a Canaanite, a. 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. ", Bacon said: "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." This calls us not only to leave sin, but sinful company, and whatever is inconsistent with our devotedness to him. 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. "To Gaza." Think of the shaking of heaven and earth being a promise! 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. and so; in consequence of his remembering the prophecy of the exodus. 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. Abraham would ask them how old they were and they would answer perhaps fifty or sixty years of age. The word is used of the Jews when they were captives in Babylon and in Egypt. Would he give up Isaac? This is just what the believer receives, feeds on, and lives accordingly. She received the promise as the promise of God; and, being convinced of that, she truly judged he both could and would perform it, how impossible soever it might seem to reason; for the faithfulness of God will not suffer him to deceive his people. In a very real way we owe our Christianity to these martyrs of the times when Antiochus made his deliberate attempt to wipe out the Jewish religion. (1.) James was beheaded by Herod. This leads to a further contrast with the action of the Aaronic priest. Cavour said that the first essential of a statesman is "the sense of the possible." Men spend the greater part of their lives putting limitations on the power of God. These are the things of which the writer to the Hebrews is thinking; and these are things which we do well to remember. For the Christian that is easy, for God came to the world in Jesus Christ to tell us how much he cares. For, [1.] He gave his promise to never leave us. The millennial day will see this. These all died in faith, the "Faith Message" had not reached them yet. We wonder just what will happen to us if we take God at his word and act on his commands and promises. He seemed to have forgotten how God had determined the matter at the birth of these his sons, ; Genesis 25:23. "I don't know." Their condition: Strangers and pilgrims. which cleave to Christ the rejected King, and Holy Sufferer, who is now in glory above. Implicit faith and obedience are due to God, and to him only. First of all, as has been hinted, that which suggests "testament" is the end of verse 15 "They which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." But the Holy Ghost's testimony is not forgotten. I'll do it. (3.) It became God to give Him to die; for such was our estate by sin that nothing short of His atoning death could deliver us; but, having delivered us, God would make us to be heavenly. (:17-19) Faith of Abraham - Tested but Still Anticipating the Seed of Isaac . Isaac and Jacob were heirs of the same promise; for the promise was renewed to Isaac (. [1.] The influence this had upon his present conversation: it was a support to him under all the trials of his sojourning state, helped him patiently to bear all the inconveniences of it, and actively to discharge all the duties of it, persevering therein unto the end. I'm passing through. Not logic but life convinced him of the gods. Here observe, 1. "Do you really think," asked the judge, "that the like of you will go to God and his glory?" The outstanding characteristic of Moses was the close intimacy of his relationship with God. "For a testament is of force after men are dead (or, in case of dead men, ): since it is never of force when the testator liveth. Observe. He, of course, was referring to the Old Testament scriptures. But all the time he had never forgotten his fellow-countrymen; and the day came when he decided to ally himself with the downtrodden Israelites and say goodbye to the future of riches and royalty that he might have had. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. The other man replies: "Do you know what happens to Christians? He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] 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. A true believer will despise them when they are offered upon such terms. If any of the families of Israel had neglected the sprinkling of this blood upon their doors, though they should have spent all the night in prayer, the destroying angel would have broken in upon them, and slain their first-born. How Canaan is called the land of promise, because yet only promised, not possessed. And the other says despairingly: "You must be mad.". 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. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. The story is told in Exodus 2:11-14. Biblical Commentary Hebrews 11:29 - 12:2 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Hebrews 11 is the great faith chapter of the Bible, first defining faith (v. 1) and then using well-known Hebrew people to show faith in action. Cain took the earth and everything stationary; Abel took everything moveable. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called holy of holies; which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold." He was big enough and brave enough to wait until God said: "Now is the hour.". [3.] "And unto the city of the living God, (not of dying David,) the heavenly Jerusalem" (not the earthly capital of Palestine). That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. What is the end of the story? His goodness consisted in the fact that he took God at his word. "Well, if you don't know where you are going, how you going to know when you get there?" We have here those whose names are not only mentioned, but the particular trials and actings of their faith are subjoined. Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. It is one of the hardest challenges of Christianity that we have to be prepared to be sometimes a fool for Jesus' sake. We may put it in another way--Noah was the man who heeded the warning of God; and because he heeded he was saved from disaster. The truth is, that the Holy Ghost is come down for the purpose of bearing His witness; and he that deserts this for Judaism, or anything else, is an apostate and lost man. "Who needeth not daily," therefore says He, "as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's." There can be no such thing as religion without that belief. 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. That's what death is to the child of God. (i) There was the faith of Moses' parents. This true faith makes sin bitter to the soul, even while it receives the pardon and atonement. They had natural strength to return. 1 now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Search Results in Other Versions. The first is, that in spirit the Christian is now brought by redemption, without spot or guilt, into the presence of God. In addition to these audio and video commentaries, you can review the available text commentaries. We enter in to the glorious promise of God. (ii) Noah was not deterred by the mockery of others. 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. They are outlaws. Now, to entitle them to this distinguishing favour, and to mark them out for it, a lamb must be slain; the blood of it must be sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop upon the lintel of the door, and on the two side-posts; the flesh of the lamb must be roasted with fire; and it must be all of it eaten that very night with bitter herbs, in a travelling posture, their loins girt, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their hand. But this was the way God commanded them to take, and he loves to do great things by small and contemptible means, that his own arm may be made bare. 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. But the apostle takes all this difficulty by the horns, as good as telling them, that their having suffered all this was simply because it is the right road. Heaven, therefore, by man's own conviction, must be arrayed in justice against earth because of sin, But the day is coming when Israel shall be no more rebellious, and the nations shall be no longer deceived, and Satan shall be dethroned from his bad eminence, and all idols shall flee apace, and God shall be left the undisputed and evidently Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. The accommodation of this type is not difficult. He acted in this matter with some reluctance. In 4 Ezra the writer says: "It came to pass when they practised ungodliness before thee, that thou didst choose one from among them whose name was Abraham; him thou didst love and to him only thou didst reveal the end of the times, secretly, by night" (4: 13). There were a great many instances of the faith of Jacob; his life was a life of faith, and his faith met with great exercise. Some must hazard their own lives to preserve their children, and they were resolved to do it; they knew the king's commandment was evil in itself, contrary to the laws of God and nature, and therefore of no authority nor obligation. So knowing that God's word was to be fulfilled that the land would one day be theirs, some three hundred years later after the death of Joseph, when the children of Israel began their trek from Egypt to the Promise Land, with them they carried the mummy of Joseph to bury it in the land of promise. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." The king was determined that hidden children should be sought out and killed. Grace be with you all. They looked beyond death for a greater fulfilment than they could experience in their earthly lives (13-16; cf. It is interesting how that a person living for their own pleasure is constantly pursuing pleasure, constantly trying to find something new, something different, some new sensation. 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. Observe here, (1.) If we can grip that fact, two things follow. We are not told the details of what preceded the great week when God made the man and the woman. To mark that as yet the veil was unrent. "There was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called holy. A strange mystery is the simple act of faith. My spirit moves out of this old tent into the new house, a building of God not made with hands that is eternal in the heavens. Moses had the faith he had because he knew God in the way he did. (2.) by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. Further, that this Priest was to be a living one, in some most singular manner to be an undying Priest, was made evident beyond question, because in that Psalm it is said, "He testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." Hebrews 11:23-31 -- From Egypt to Jericho -- From Bondage to Victory. has remembered in marg. Observe, [1.] From this practical lessons of great value are drawn. He has shown its the symbolic mount Of grace in Zion, contrasted with Sinai the mountain of law. . 1. It was that loveliest of Roman poets, Catullus, who pled with Lesbia for her kisses because the night was coming: To die was to go out to nothingness and be lost in an eternal sleep. A woman's weakness had become strength to save her country. For a hundred years he was building this giant ship out in an area that had never known rain. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. He had such a firm belief that they would possess the land of promise, that he exacted an oath of them that they would remove his remains with them, that he might be buried in the land of his fathers. Obviously if he was going to accept that word of God, he had to lay aside his normal activities and concentrate on doing what his message commanded. little thinking that he was to be the lamb; but Abraham knew it, and yet he went on with the great design. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ). Note, Those that are once effectually and savingly called out of a sinful state have no mind to return into it again; they now know better things. He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. He was the scourge of the Philistines. The reason for the success of his salvation - his ability to deal with both our outward sins and our inward condition - is that he lives forever with power to save. He has but one settled purpose of goodness about us; He watches and judges for our good, and nothing but our good. Beyond question the Lord is regarded as the completer of the whole walk of faith in its deepest and, morally, most glorious form. 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. Hebrews 11:22 New International Version 22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. The lamb dying instead of the firstborn, and there we get a very beautiful picture of the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who died in our place that we might have life.And so by faith he kept the Passover. What, then, is man's actual estate? Now people who speak like that make it quite clear that they are searching for a fatherland. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. That, from the beginning, there has been a remarkable difference between the worshippers. Of this we saw somewhat inHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. 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. Culture & Commentary. [3.] THE DEFIANCE OF SUFFERING ( Hebrews 11:35-40 ). , By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the departing. 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. 1. Who this Rahab was. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. Biblical References: Hbr 11:22. [Note: Ibid., p. He argues that the word "new" puts the other out of date, and this to make room for a better. God revealed to him that it was to be modelled on a bird's belly and was to be constructed of teak wood. 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. Man never did nor could settle it without the word of God. Greek Interlinear Layout for Hebrews 11:39 (TR KJV) Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. He grew to be so beautiful that people turned in the street, and even ceased their work, to took at him. It did not matter whether it was a priest or an Israelite. This He has done, and done with. 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. By a testament, to be sure, as every one knows. On the altar of the burnt offering he offered sacrifices of swine flesh to Zeus; and he turned the Temple chambers into brothels. For he was afraid that the Hebrews, because they were having so many children, would become a threat to the security of Egypt. There was but One that could do God's will in that which concerned man's deepest wants. (2.) This they did for three months. 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." The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. Those who would find God in these ways of his must seek him diligently; they must seek early, earnestly, and perseveringly. "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 ). (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. He owed his life to this princess; and to refuse such kindness from her would look not only like ingratitude to her, but a neglect of Providence, that seemed to intend his advancement and his brethren's advantage. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? On first hearing of the promises of God, the human reaction often is that this is far too good to be true. 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. 1. As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. Wherever this blood is applied, the soul receives a whole Christ by faith, and lives upon him. Quietly he said: "Consider it now; you will give me your decision before you leave that circle." We see the effects of the wind. the riches and honours of joseph, as they could not secure him from death, so they did not make him unmindful of it; nor was he afraid of dying, or uneasy about it; nor did his prosperity make him proud, or above speaking to his brethren, nor revengeful to them, nor unthoughtful of their future afflictions; nor did his affluence of Hereby he became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith. How that Cain, being a farmer, brought the fruit of the ground unto the Lord. because God had some better plan for us, that they, without us, should not find all his purposes fulfilled. First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. II. (iii) Abraham is the pattern of the man who, with the test, found a way of escape. By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. 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. What is here said of his faith, Hebrews 11:6. He, too, died faithful. (3.) 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." ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. They do not believe that God called all things into being. In Sparta xenos ( G3581) was the equivalent of barbaros ( G915) , barbarian. From them, by this son, sprang a numerous progeny of illustrious persons. Here observe. There was but one such Priest. Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. Someone asked him if he never got tired of it all. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. She protected them and enabled them to make their escape; and in return, when Jericho was taken she and her family were saved from the general slaughter. (1.) 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. That he believed the resurrection of the body, and the communion that his soul should presently have with departed saints, as his body had with their dead bodies. It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. At first it was (ver. 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. He received his son. That Abraham and Sarah should have a child, humanly speaking, was impossible. not as the papists dream, that he worshipped some image of God engraven on the head of his staff, but intimating to us his great natural weakness, that he was not able to support himself so far as to sit up in his bed without a staff, and yet that he would not make this an excuse for neglecting the worshipping of God; he would do it as well as he could with his body, as well as with his spirit, though he could not do it as well as he would. Genesis 12:1-5). Those who forsook Egypt must expect the wrath of men; but they need not fear it, for they are under the conduct of that God who is able to make the wrath of man to praise him, and restrain the remainder of it. This leads him, from speaking of Esau's case, to add as a known fact, that afterward, when he desired to have inherited the blessing he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it carefully with tears. The Christian stands between the cross and the glory of the Lord Jesus. Second, there is this strange and eerie thought that Cain had discovered a new sin. Hebrews 11 teaches them the nature of faith through word (11:1) and story (11:2-40). God sees, God is going to take care of it. 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