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not to sin, for so God tempteth no man, but only tried his faith and obedience to purpose. (2.) All these legends give us a vivid picture of Abraham searching after God and dissatisfied with the idolatry of his people. Had the energetic activity of faith been first noticed, it would have made more of man; but when the heart had been disciplined in quiet endurance, and lowly expectancy from God, then he could be clothed with the energy of the Spirit. And I see the evidence of God's existence, and thus, faith. This then is brought before us. In the original, the meaning of the story is difficult. Thermouthis, much to her sorrow, was childless; so she took the baby Moses home, and cared for him as her own son. It raised him above the fear of the king's wrath. The grace of God is absolutely free, in taking some of the worst of men, and making them the best. There we have those that compose the church, in allusion to Christ, contrasted with the position of Israel as a nation, because of the nearness which they possess by the grace of Christ known on high. (i) We must believe in God. Though all Israel kept this passover, yet it was by Moses that God delivered the institution of it; and, though it was a great mystery, Moses by faith both delivered it to the people and kept it that night in the house where he lodged. To us all is given the tremendous task of helping God make his promises come true. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him ( Hebrews 11:6 ). It is not a question of the law, which a Jew might naturally conceive to be the standard of the will of God now as of old for Israel. (2.) 2. This statement is so much the more remarkable, because in the beginning of this epistle he had pointed out what became God. [6.] So the writer to the Hebrews says: "Although he died for his faith, he is still speaking to us." "Do you really think," asked the judge, "that the like of you will go to God and his glory?" But then there are impediments as well as sin, by which the enemy would keep us from the race set before us; whilst God carries on His discipline in our favour. Keats said that he had been "half in love with easeful death." Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. What should we learn from it? So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! (:17-19) Faith of Abraham - Tested but Still Anticipating the Seed of Isaac . Through faith he kept the passover ( Hebrews 11:28 ). It means that God loved Enoch so much that he removed him before age and degeneration descended hand in hand upon him. What he did by his faith: He made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones. And Isaac, being in the prime of his youth, could have easily overpowered his Dad and said, "Okay, Dad, that's enough. (2.) He was said to be the first to put pen to paper and instruct men from books. It is observable that the Spirit of God has not thought fit to say any thing here of the faith of our first parents; and yet the church of God has generally, by a pious charity, taken it for granted that God gave them repentance and faith in the promised seed, that he instructed them in the mystery of sacrificing, that they instructed their children in it, and that they found mercy with God, after they had ruined themselves and all their posterity. In an age when men disregarded God, for Noah he was the supreme reality in the world. When the sun was shining, his conduct must have looked like that of a fool. Legend tells how Amram and Jochebed, the parents of Moses ( Exodus 6:20), were troubled by the decree of Pharaoh. The apostle does not dwell on the detailed application of His Melchisedec priesthood, as to the object and character of its exercise. Indeed we may say that the whole epistle to the Hebrews is just this: we start from the foundation of grace up to God Himself in the heavens; and thence springs the certainty that the stream of grace is not exhausted, and that undoubtedly it will issue in unceasing blessing by-and-by for the earth, and for the people of Israel above all, in the day of Jehovah. After three days the Lord showed to Abraham Mount Moriah. (3.) The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. Another story tells that, when Noah was building the ark, the people laughed at him and counted him mad. It is doubtless a great blessing to be joined to the visible church of God in profession and privilege, but more to be so in spirit and truth. Next the apostle, with increasing boldness, comes to the proof from the Old Testament that the legal institution as a whole was to be set aside. That was Cain's failure to deal with the sin issue, and God put the finger on it. A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. The secret of victorious living is to face God before we face men. After the incredulity came the dawning realization that this was God who was speaking; and God cannot lie. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. Although the blood on which that covenant was founded may be now long shed, when the covenant comes into force for them will it not be as fresh as the day the precious Victim died and shed His blood? For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. He did not serve an ejectment, or raise a war against the old inhabitants, to dispossess them, but contented himself to live as a stranger, to bear their unkindnesses patiently, to receive any favours from them thankfully, and to keep his heart fixed upon his home, the heavenly Canaan. Not so Moses. And it is pleasant to see parents and children sojourning together in this world as heirs of the heavenly inheritance. The difference is observable in their persons: Abel was an upright person, a righteous man, a true believer; Cain was a formalist, had not a principle of special grace. In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. Both these requests were granted. He was so wise that he was far beyond all other children in learning and in knowledge. We should never forget that there was a day when his friends came and tried to get him to go home because they thought that he was mad. 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." 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. There are also house () and people () of Israel, and Israel of God, and Israel according to the flesh. To settle the matter, Adam said to them: "Go, my sons, sacrifice to the Lord; and he whose sacrifice is accepted shall have the young girl. He bore up with invincible courage under all danger, and endured all the fatigue of his employment, which was very great; and this by seeing the invisible God. 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. He has shown its the symbolic mount Of grace in Zion, contrasted with Sinai the mountain of law. ", Bacon said: "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." He calls himself so: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; he gives them leave to call him so; and he gives them the spirit of adoption, to enable them to cry,Abba, Father. 3. (i) There was the faith of Moses' parents. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. (i) The first is the story of the fall of Jericho. She was a harlot, and lived in a way of sin; she was not only a keeper of a public house, but a common woman of the town, and yet she believed that the greatness of sin, if truly repented of, shall be no bar to the pardoning mercy of God. He'll not provide a sacrifice for Himself. 1. Who this Rahab was. Though surrounded by the pomp of Egypt, Josephs heart still in Canaan. denoting the chosen people. Testing Abraham. His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. He prayed for them, that they might both be blessed of God. The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The faith of all three of these patriarchs affected their descendants. Expositor's Bible Commentary- It was when he thought he was near death that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau (Gen 27:2, 4). What Abel did by faith: He offered up a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, a more full and perfect sacrifice, pleiona thysian. 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. The story is like this. But when Cain saw that his offering was rejected and Abel's was accepted, he was angry with the Lord for rejecting his offering. The sacrifices that they made were all made in faith as they looked forward to the sacrifice that God would one day make when He would send His only begotten Son. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. Here we may observe, (1.) See Matthew 2:19; Matthew 9:18; Luke 7:2, etc. We often say, "It is good to be akin to an estate;" but surely it is good to be akin to the covenant. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." (ii) Abraham's faith was the faith which had patience. In the end under Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers the Jews regained their freedom and the Temple was cleansed and the faith flourished again. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. Good examples will either convert sinners or condemn them. It was by faith that Rahab, the harlot, did not perish with the disobedient because she had welcomed the scouts in peace. To us Christ is all. I like Him to spell out the whole thing. (2.) Faith, again, is the only principle of walk with God; as it is, again, the only means of realizing the judgment of God coming on all around us. (2.) It was because of his faith that he was declared by God to be righteous.Now there has been a lot made over the sacrifices of Cain and Abel. 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. That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. We are brought, then, washed from our sins, to God, and, according to this epistle, into the holiest of all, where He displays Himself. Moses gave up earthly glory for the sake of the people of God. And He led the captives from their captivity; opened the prison doors to those who had been bound.It is through Jesus Christ that the door has been made open into heaven. (c) In Hebrews 11:13 he uses the word parepidemos ( G3927) . "Woe to a man of such an age," said Abraham, "who adores the work of one day!" ""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.". His faith influenced his practice. 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). The honour roll of history is of men who chose to be in God's minority rather than with earth's majority. None but the Old Testament saints, as a class, can all be in the separate state: not the church, or New Testament saints, for we shall not all sleep; nor the millennial saints, for none of them will die. "This corruption must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality" ( 1 Corinthians 15:53 ). Observe, [1.] We should do the same. Think of the shaking of heaven and earth being a promise! Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". See how this word, this thought, always predominates in the epistle. Centuries after this Judas Maccabaeus and his men were facing the city of Caspis, so secure in its strength that its defenders laughed in their safety. This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. I can say, "Well, God, I don't understand, but You've got a reason and a plan," and I endure as seeing Him who is invisible. It is easy to argue: "Why should I refuse the pleasure of the moment for an uncertain future?" . Implicit faith and obedience are due to God, and to him only. Josephs instructions to his sons proved he trusted God and was convinced God would keep His word about their return to Canaan. as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. One man, asked why he had so voted, answered: "Because I am tired of hearing Aristides called 'the just.'" IV. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). For a similar reason we never find life treated in the epistle, nor righteousness. Unlike others in Genesis, neither parents are recorded, nor is there any hint of descent from him. (3.) A strong and hale man of seventy came in. 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. So, he ordered all of the baby boys to be drowned in the Nile. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. We will remember that everything in it is God's and will try to use it as God would have us use it. With reverence and obedience Noah took God at his word and so in the destruction of the world he was preserved. In my judgment it is correct to translate it both ways, never arbitrarily, but according to context. lest the destroying of the firstborn should touch them. His wife Sarah shared his faith. Continues after advertising. It is a reward suitable to the price paid for itthe blood of Christ; suitable to the perfections of God, and fully answering to all his promises. The twenty-four elders fall on their faces before the throne and take their crowns and cast them on the glassy sea and they say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor; for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created" ( Revelation 4:11 ). Observe, First, 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. This was a figure or parable of something further. 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. 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. But where in the Old Testament is there a prophecy of His rising again the third day? Great man of faith, marvelous spiritual insights. 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. That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. in ordering his bones to be exported, he had no regard to himself, as though his grave in the land of canaan would be sweeter or better than in egypt; but his only object was to sharpen the desire of his own nation, that they might more earnestly aspire after redemption; he wished also to strengthen their faith, so that they might confidently Apart from faith it is impossible to please God, for he who approaches God must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of those who spend their lives seeking him. Arranged all beforehand, neither Isaac's partiality nor Jacob's deceit was able to divert the channel. For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God, ; Hebrews 11:8. 2. Moffatt quotes a saying of A. S. Peake: "The courage to abandon work on which one's heart is set and accept inaction cheerfully as the will of God is of the rarest and highest kind and can be created and sustained only by the clearest spiritual vision." 11:20-22 It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in the things concerning the future. By faith we may see this invisible God. 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 cast in his lot with them, and to fare as they fare. [3.] 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. 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. I've given you this land unto your seed forever. 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." Observe here, (1.) 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. Hebrews 11:22 "By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Hebrews 11:22 Context 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. It is characteristic of the best of us that we are in a hurry. (2.) 1. They all died in faith, believing the promise that God would, indeed, send His salvation through His Son. Two Horizons Commentary Sale. (v) Many have seen in death release. These all died in faith, not having received the promises ( Hebrews 11:13 ). God calls his people to an inheritance: by his effectual call he makes them children, and so heirs. 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. Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. Some people have found difficulty here, because the Exodus narrative says that it was because Moses feared Pharaoh that he fled to Midian ( Exodus 2:14), while Hebrews says that he went out not fearing the blazing wrath of the king. Noah tried to warn the people of the impending flood that was going to come, and they mocked him. It was taken by men who thought not of what they could do but of what God could do for them. 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). You may find great pleasure and excitement in the indulging of your flesh, but it doesn't last. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. Thus it will prove a land-mark to direct their course, a load-stone to draw their hearts, a sword to conquer their enemies, a spur to quicken them to duty, and a cordial to refresh them under all the difficulties of doing and suffering work. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". And the writer probably was in his mind just taking from the beginning the men of the Old Testament who by faith their lives were made outstanding.Now here's what they did through faith. 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. However long that hope might be in coming true, its light always shone in their eyes. [4.] The eternal reward of living for Him so far outweighs any temporal advantage that I might have in living after the flesh. VI. Joseph (Hebrews 11:22; this story is found in Genesis 50:24-25). A.V. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.". He had parted with him to God, and God gave him back again. Hebrews 11:1. This it was of all consequence to have stated first. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. No doubt, natural affection could not but move them; but there was something further. What's going on here?" Separate Line. may so far have sensible evidence of what exists now; but it is only God who can tell me that He in the beginning caused to be that which now is. 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. The Christians gained Him in a far more excellent way after the pattern of resurrection, as Abraham at the close received Isaac as it were from the dead. Here we have the faith of a leader and of a people who were prepared to attempt the impossible at the command of God, realizing that the greatest barrier in the world is no barrier if God be there to help us overpass it. The story of the promise of a son to Abraham and Sarah is told in Genesis 17:15-22; Genesis 18:9-15; Genesis 21:1-8. "There is employed in that particular text what is known grammatically in the Hebrew as a polysyndeton. The writer to the Hebrews insists that God did not work with existing material but created the world from nothing. But surely the meaning is much simpler. (ii) Philo, the great Alexandrian Jewish interpreter, saw in Enoch the great pattern of repentance. For the moisture blanket shielded the earth from much of the cosmic radiation which causes mutation of the cells and the breakdown and the aging process.The period of the antediluvians with the long life and with the tremendous growth of plants and trees, they'd never seen rain before. From this practical lessons of great value are drawn. Asked to take out the biggest, baddest enemy of the people that had oppressed Israel for seven years, he nervously asked God for signs of assurance. We have yet another instance of the faith of Moses, in keeping. "Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God." [3.] She answered: "Your father, Terah." The idea being of God asking Abraham to give the most cherished possession that he had to Him. "We, Antiochus," he said, "who are convinced that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." To Abraham there was given the vision; and, even when his body was wandering in Palestine, his soul was at home with God. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 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. Genesis 4:2-7; Genesis 5:21-24; Genesis 6:8-14). 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 officers, impatient at the man's boldness, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines and wrenching them from their sockets, pulled his limbs asunder. Reference-Verse. A person who lives for their own pleasure is living out of sync with God. This He has done, and done with. No figure therefore would be more natural than that, if God intended certain persons called to have an inheritance, there should be a testament about the matter. Nor does it seem so natural for any as the great apostle to inform them of his child and fellow-labourer: "Know that the brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come pretty soon, I will see you. We cannot think of Enoch without thinking of the different attitudes to death. Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you." By faith he looked beyond to a higher fulfilment of the promise (8-10; cf. He amassed an army and invaded that country. It was so sure to him that he instructed his sons to carry his bones with them for burial in Canaan. Strengthened by the LORD, may you abound in all things in Christ to the glory and the praise and the honor of our God, our Savior, and our Lord. l. 1. c. 8. p. 379. He believed Gods promise that He would deliver the people of Israel out of Egypt. Now, I don't know how God's going to do it. We begin with His love, and shall end in it without end. Behold, there is a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. There is nothing to divert the heart from Christ, the great High Priest in the heavens. He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. Thus, before he enters on the subject of the sacrifices at length, he takes notice of the covenants, and thence he draws a conclusion from the well-known prophecy in Jeremiah, where God declares that the days were coming when He would make a new covenant. This is life itself, and to the Hebrews blood always stood for life. 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." We believe in the wind, though we haven't seen the wind. He tried to introduce this into Palestine. Many that are interested in the promises do not presently receive the things promised. I ask my brethren here if they are looking to God strenuously, earnestly, for themselves and for their children, not to allow but to oppose as their adversary every thing that tends to weaken either of these truths, which are our highest privilege and our truest glory as Christians here below. (iv) Noah was righteous through faith. Was this Paul's doctrine? But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. It often means one who arranged or disposed of property, or anything else, such as a treaty or covenant. They, without the finished work of Christ, could not enter in to the kingdom of 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. The Jews had still another story to explain the first murder. Even the Greeks saw its horror. He describes Him thus in His judicial character. 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. God's summons meant that he had to leave home and family and business; yet he went. I know that God's word is faithful. Jewish and eastern legends gathered largely round Abraham's name and some of them must have been known to the writer to the Hebrews. 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). Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and the sand which is by the seashore innumerable ( Hebrews 11:12 ). 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