1. These nomads from the desert had no artillery and no siege-engines. [2.] [2.] Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. On first hearing of the promises of God, the human reaction often is that this is far too good to be true. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. "Do you really think," asked the judge, "that the like of you will go to God and his glory?" Death merely took him into God's nearer presence. The writer to the Hebrews goes on to say that it was precisely because the great heroes of the faith lived on that principle that they were approved by God. He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] (2.) But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. "And who is the lord of Terah?" God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. She was entranced by his beauty. It was by faith that he sojourned in the land that had been promised to him, as though it had been a foreign land, living in tents, in the same way as did Isaac and Jacob, who were his coheirs in the promise of it. Because of the order in which it comes that must be what Hebrews 11:27 refers to. What is here reported of him. "Ye are come unto mount Zion," which was the highest Old Testament point of grace on earth. Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 10:19-22. (3.) Not of course that one denies that He has His own proper place, for all is perfect as to each person of the Trinity and all else, but never to this end. It is then that a man is faced with life's hardest battle--to accept when he cannot understand. THE SUPREME SACRIFICE ( Hebrews 11:17-19 ). What more can I say? Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. We will remember that everything in it is God's and will try to use it as God would have us use it. 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. In addition to these audio and video commentaries, you can review the available text commentaries. There is nothing capricious about the usage. Well, the word provide, the base word of provide is vision, provision. (iii) Some have seen in death sheer extinction. Through faith, Enoch, as he walked with God, was translated that he should not see death, but before then he had this witness: he pleased God. Then shall they seek him, and find him, if they seek him with all their heart; and when once they have found him, as their reconciled God, they will never repent the pains they have spent in seeking after him. Moffatt finely comments: "Death is never the last word in the life of a righteous man." And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, [as was Zechariah and also, as thought, Jeremiah] they were sawn asunder [or sawed in two] ( Hebrews 11:36-37 ), Isaiah, that marvelous prophet that we've enjoyed his revelations. Longfellow wrote: "There is no Death! When we are discouraged, let us remember and take heart again. "Ya." Hebrews 9:1-28 brings us into the types of the Levitical ritual, priesthood and sacrifice. He only removes obstructions, and maintains our communion with Himself; surely this ought to settle every question for the believer. Always Samson was fighting alone. It is excluded from syllabuses of religious education because it is held to teach an unacceptable view of God. With reverence and obedience Noah took God at his word and so in the destruction of the world he was preserved. You that go after the tabernacle (as he persists in calling it, even though now the temple) have no title to our altar, with its exhaustless supplies. I build my faith on that.". Certain great permanent truths emerge from them. 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. 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. As the result of enduring the cross, having despised the shame, the word for sitting down here has a remarkably beautiful shade of meaning different from what is given in all the other occurrences. This change was clearly taught in the book of Psalms. "By the which will" (not man's, which is sin, but God's) "we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.". We shall find another use before we have done, which I hope to notice in its place. They were not mindful of that country whence they came, ; Hebrews 11:15. He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. We hear of sanctification often, but even what is thus spoken of throughout is rather in connection with separation to God and the work of Christ, than the continuous energy of the Holy Ghost, except, as far as I remember, in one practical passage "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Twice Moses forsook Egypt: [1.] Christ has gone into the presence of God," having obtained eternal redemption." That picture of the sojourner became a picture of the Christian life. How great a temptation Moses was under. The phrase about quenching the violence of fire goes straight back to the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in Daniel 3:19-28. 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. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. In this place (and in Genesis 5:22, &c.) we read, (1.) How Canaan is called the land of promise, because yet only promised, not possessed. Moving ahead, the successor to Moses was Joshua. Interesting statement, especially from a scientific standpoint. He has shown its the symbolic mount Of grace in Zion, contrasted with Sinai the mountain of law. They must be very great, suitable to the greatness of the trial: He accounted that God was able to raise him from the dead, Hebrews 11:19. But in Cain's heart there was still bitter envy. In point of fact they were reaching out after something better, I mean, the heavenly country. Observe, (1.) XIII. It is not only that we believe it, but we understand it thereby. "Others, who had run together into caves near by, to keep the Sabbath day secretly, being discoveredwere all burnt together" ( 2Ma_6:11 ). What a great testimony. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. 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. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." In short, there is. He does not so much tell them what to remember as by delicate hints compel them to remember for themselves. 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." 2. In each case it was the faith of a man to whom death was very near. The real faith and the real courage are those which can take God's side when it seems doomed to defeat. 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. So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! It was said that 80,000 Jews were killed and 10,000 sold into captivity. By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. He was changed by repentance from the life that is apart from God to the life that walks with God. If it was rejected, it was because sin lies at your door." It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea as if they were going through dry land and that the Egyptians, when they ventured to try to do so, were engulfed. does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." (c) In Hebrews 11:13 he uses the word parepidemos ( G3927) . The taking of Jericho was the result of an act of faith. Now these of the Old Testament, theirs was a different case. 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. The first is the story of Eleazar, the aged priest ( 4Ma_5:1-38 ; 4Ma_6:1-35 ; 4Ma_7:1-23 ). where one competent to take up that word "for ever"? Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. This call, though it was a very trying call, was the call of God, and therefore a sufficient ground for faith and rule of obedience. The man who takes God's word may often have to adopt a course of action which looks like madness. One further effort, a little more waiting, a little more hoping, would make the dream come true. He was a good governor but he had an almost abnormal love for all things Greek and saw himself as a missionary for the Greek way of life. Sprinkling on the lentils and the doorposts, interestingly enough, gives you the sprinkling in the shape of a cross. Fosdick somewhere says that Nero once condemned Paul, but the years have passed on and the time has come when men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero. Even more than Abel and Enoch, Noah stands out as a man of faith. 3. To take it seemed impossible. But if not, his will be done." It is the fact that there He sat down; but in this place it will be observed that His taking His seat there is the reward of the life of faith. (1.) It probably accounted for the longevity of life, averaged nine hundred years or so. Their faith defeated death. Time will fail me if I try to recount the story of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, or Jephthah, of David. . Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. As Faber had it: The Christian believes that no man who takes the side of God can ever ultimately be on the losing side for, even if he knows earth's defeats, there is a victory whose trophies are in heaven. Long ago Epicurus said the chief end of life was pleasure. Never used by Paul. The story of Gideon is told in Judges 6:1-40; Judges 7:1-25. For whence had he so much greatness of mind, as to look down on whatever was elevated in the world, and to esteem as nothing whatever was precious in it, except that he had ascended up into heaven. We come now to the faith of other Old-Testament saints, mentioned by name, and by the particular trials and actings of their faith. 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. 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. Isaac and Jacob were heirs of the same promise; for the promise was renewed to Isaac (. Hebrews 11 The apostle having, in the close of the foregoing chapter, recommended the grace of faith and a life of faith as the best preservative against apostasy, he how enlarges upon the nature and fruits of this excellent grace. BELIEVING THE INCREDIBLE ( Hebrews 11:11-12 ). God is able to raise this boy up from the dead if necessary to keep His promise to me, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called. The third brother was brought forward. True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. SOJOURNERS AND STRANGERS ( Hebrews 11:13-16 ). For this, knowing His grace in the work of Christ for them, they do not look; on the contrary, they rest in the assurance of the perfection with which their sins are effaced by the precious blood of Christ. By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones ( Hebrews 11:20-22 ). This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise to receive the everlasting prize. Were it a question of the mystery of Christ the Head, and of the church His body, this would not be proved from the Old Testament, which does not reveal it at all. 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. 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. He has but one settled purpose of goodness about us; He watches and judges for our good, and nothing but our good. The actings of her faith. Of the faith of Enoch, Hebrews 11:5. Observe here, (1.) A.V. Christianity. [3.] Far better than his hearers should be moved by this and that phrase to remember them for themselves. This his right of inheritance was through faith in Christ, as, and, if a child, then an heir. (3.) Hebrews 10:32-39 . If he put out his hand and touched the jewels, that would prove that he was so wise that he was a danger; if he put out his hands and touched the coals, that would prove that he was so witless that he was no danger. We have yet another instance of the faith of Moses, in keeping the passover and sprinkling of blood, Hebrews 11:28. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was, and, [2.] It was the more urgent to insist on it, because the Jews, like others, would like to have been settled in rest here and now. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? How could any believers put a slight upon it? In Hebrews,. When I start to get weak, and I start to question and I start to say, "Why, God?" He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. But let not the Gentile boast, no less unbelieving no less arrogant, against true Christianity. (2.) This is the last thing which Moses records respecting the patriarchs, and it deserves to be particularly noticed; for wealth, luxuries, and honors, made not the holy man to forget the promise, nor detained him in Egypt; and this was an evidence of no small faith. Their condition: Strangers and pilgrims. I like Him to spell out the whole thing. In the town there was a widow called Judith. There is no indication why God preferred the gift of Abel to the gift of Cain. Hebrews 12 :5-13 The benefit of God's chastisements.Hebrews 12 :14-17 Exhortation to peace and holiness.Hebrews 12 :18-24 The dispensation of the law compared with the privileges of the gospel. One of the finest men who ever lived in Athens was Aristides, who was called "the just." The Christian answer is that the future is not uncertain because it belongs to God; and it is enough that God has commanded and that God has promised. It owns the creation; it recognizes sacrifice as the only righteous means of being accepted with God the only means of approaching Him worthily. It is not merely that which goes on quietly waiting for the accomplishment of the counsels of God. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. Robert Louis Stevenson said: "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive." For these very features did Judaism despise the gospel. First, to die and come back again so that he might know what death was like. The faith of Moses himself (; Hebrews 11:24-25, &c.), here observe. I am looking for my permanent home. They believed in God's salvation that He promised that He would provide. They stripped him naked and scourged him with whips, while a herald stood by him, saying: "Obey the king's commands," His flesh was torn off by the whips and he streamed down with blood and his flanks were laid open by wounds. It is said (. It became God that Christ should go down to the uttermost; it became us that He should be exalted to the highest. 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. It might paint the mental picture of the extraordinary healing of Hezekiah after he had turned his face to the wall to die ( 2 Kings 20:1-7). And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. Hereby himself and his house were saved, when a whole world of sinners were perishing about them. By their own confession the application of that Psalm was to the Messiah, and the very point that Jesus urged upon the Jews of His day was this how, if He were David's Son, as they agreed, could He be his Lord, as the Psalmist David confesses? 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. 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. Under the inspiration of the prophetess Deborah, Barak assembled ten thousand young men and faced the fearful odds of the Canaanites with their nine hundred chariots of iron to win an almost incredible victory. They had to be for ever moving on. 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. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. And if there were any sacred book of the law found, it was destroyed; and those with whom they were found miserably perished also" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 12: 5, 4). (2.) I'm just a stranger and a pilgrim here. They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. 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. So as Jesus said to Martha grieving over her brother Lazarus, "If you live and believe in Me, you will never die." But we read here that it was through absolute faith in the word of God that Abraham was willing to go through this whole experience, believing so powerfully in the word of God that he knew that God would, if necessary, raise Isaac from the dead in order that He might fulfill His word, "Through Isaac shall they seed be called. 2. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about for seven days ( Hebrews 11:30 ). He was sold into Egypt. This He has done, and done with. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. How could Jesus have been born into the world if the Jewish religion had ceased to exist? He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. Read the account of it, 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." Isaac was still a nomad, Jacob wits an exile in Egypt. The verb indicates a specific injunction (). ), This was an exercise of his faith. Thermouthis, much to her sorrow, was childless; so she took the baby Moses home, and cared for him as her own son. (i) Noah took God at his word. Yet, I do not doubt His existence, because of the evidence that is all around. They wished to destroy Moses there and then. He may live as if that message is of no importance or as if it is the most important thing in the world. God usually warns sinners before he strikes; and, where his warnings are slighted, the blow will fall the heavier. (vii) Some have seen death as an adventure. It was due to the faith of these men that the Jewish religion was not completely destroyed. In the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation, where John sees the cherubim about the throne of God, worshipping the Lord, declaring the holiness and eternal character of God. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. I don't have time to tell about Gideon [now we're in the book of Judges], Barak, Samson, Jephthae ( Hebrews 11:32 ); These are all men from the book of Judges who became judges of Israel and who through their faith delivered the children of Israel from their enemies.Going on from the book of Judges to. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. But he was as a stranger and a pilgrim there. The golden altars of the shewbread and of the incense, the golden candlestick, the golden vessels, even the curtains and the veils were taken. The apostle proceeds to make mention of the faith of the other patriarchs, Isaac and Jacob, and the rest of this happy family. 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. [4.] 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. He sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country.This was an exercise of his faith. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. The Egyptian tried to secure some sort of immortality. It is not the case in the epistles of James and Peter, with which so far the epistle to the Hebrews agrees. So he died, declaring: "I am dying by fiery torments for the law's sake.". So he knelt down and adored the moon. When they offered their sacrifices unto the Lord, the Lord accepted Abel's sacrifice, but He rejected Cain's. (2.) Our hopes may never be realized but we must live in such a way that we shall hasten their coming. Nothing but stupid, obstinate, unbelieving prejudice, after the appearance of the Lord Jesus, could have suggested any other application of the Psalm. Observe, [1.] [1.] God's people are, and always have been, a reproached people. The fruits and rewards of her faith. All their lives the patriarchs were men who had no settled place that they could call home. This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. We have yet another instance of the faith of Moses, in keeping. They were not afraid of the king's commandment. 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