Christ has gone into the presence of God," having obtained eternal redemption." By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, as he leaned on the top of his staff. One of the finest men who ever lived in Athens was Aristides, who was called "the just." They know that they cannot explain the existence of the world solely by reasoning from the things that can be seen (11:1-3). 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Adam then gave the girl to Abel and Cain was sorely vexed. "Well, if you don't know where you are going, how you going to know when you get there?" 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. (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. We are not told the details of what preceded the great week when God made the man and the woman. The point to which he directs the reader is the evident and surpassing dignity of the case the unity too of the Priest and the priesthood; and this for an obvious reason. XI. 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. Hebrews chapter 11 New International Version 1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. He knew that in Isaac his seed was to be called. "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. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. Hallo Bestemming kiezen Alle. . 1. This was a frontier town in the land of Canaan, the first that stood out against the Israelites. His mother bade him be quiet and not push questions too far; but already Abraham's thoughts were reaching out to him who is the God of all. Take each of you offerings in your hand and go, sacrifice to the Lord and he will decide." You can feel it. We'll get out of here. O grave, where is thy victory?" XIII. "Now of the things that are being spoken of this is a summary: We have such an high priest, who is set down on [the] right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." i. Abraham lived till Isaac was seventy-five years old, and Jacob fifteen. The Lord commands him to leave this marvelous move of the Spirit and go down to this desert place, go down to Gaza. (ii) There are those who simply have seen in death the one inevitable thing in life. All of them trusted God even if they could not fully imagine what God's promises would entail. He refused. 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 what is the effect of it? He was sold into Egypt. which cleave to Christ the rejected King, and Holy Sufferer, who is now in glory above. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.". And, finally, he sums up the superiority of Christ in this, that "they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but he, because of his continuing for ever, hath the priesthood intransmissible." 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. He promised and He'll send His Son. That's incredulous! If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. She answered: "Your father, Terah." In all the covenants of scripture the man that makes it has never to die for any such end. 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 ). Abel's sacrifice was of a living creature, Cain's was not; therefore Abel's was the more acceptable. Accordingly he now turns to set forth the contrast between the weakness and the unavailingness of the Jewish sacrifices, which, in point of fact, only and always brought up sins again, instead of putting them away as does the sacrifice of Christ. When the people of England saw how the storm and the gale had shattered the Spanish Armada, they said: "God did it." 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. His wife Sarah shared his faith. It may be observed, too, that the Holy Ghost appears but little in this epistle. He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. "For He who has ascended is the same one who first of all descended into the lower parts of the earth and when he ascended He led the captives from their captivity." And is he better or safer that slights the sacrifice of the Son of God, and goes back either to earthly sacrifices or to lusts of flesh, giving a loose rein to sin, which is expressly what the Son of God shed His blood to put away? The apostle earnestly insists on them both. It was a shattering humiliation for a king. He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. Through his faith. Well, she was eavesdropping over in the tent, listening to what the Lord was saying to Abraham. Observe here, (1.) XV. 00:02:01 Arkansas town elects youngest Black mayor in America. Charles Frohman, who had known Barrie so well, went down with the Lusitania in that disaster of 7 May 1915. On the seventh day the priests were to blow upon the trumpets, after the city had been encircled seven times, and the people were to shout with all their might, "and the wall of the city will fall down flat." That story left an indelible mark upon the memory of Israel. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. 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. It was by faith that he left Egypt, unmoved by the blazing anger of the king, for he could face all things as one who sees him who is invisible. [4.] If people have faith, it means they believe that things hoped for according to God's promises will be achieved and that unseen powers of God are real. 11:35-40 Women received back their own folk as if they had been raised from the dead. There is nothing capricious about the usage. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about for seven days ( Hebrews 11:30 ). How great a temptation Moses was under. I. Christ's priesthood shows the Old Testament law needed a change (11-22) II. (iv) Noah was righteous through faith. 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. 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. Jewish legend tells that Isaiah was sawn asunder. Thou hast sent thy wife away out of thine house, because thou couldst not trust the Lord God that he would protect the child that might be born to thee." This made the hidden children of the Israelites cry, too, and so they were discovered and killed. They disobeyed the order of the Pharaoh. There are two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called. You have the immediate advantage and the eternal advantage to choose. Our being brought to God supposes, and is founded on the fact, that our sins are gone perfectly by His one offering; otherwise no madness is greater than indulging such a thought. "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. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God." 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. Noah's life was one continued and concentrated preparation for what God had said would come. 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. ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. 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. (2.) 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. That, from the beginning, there has been a remarkable difference between the worshippers. But it has pleased God to single two instances out of many of the faith of this patriarch, besides what has been already mentioned in the account of Abraham. Indeed, not being revealed of old, according to the apostle, it is altogether a mistake to go to the Old Testament for that truth. He could not have exacted this oaths, nor could they have taken it, unless both he and they had a sure confidence that what God had spoken would be performed. At that moment Moses might have gone on but his people were not ready. The story we have. This was a final call; and how gracious! The Christian regards himself as the pilgrim of eternity. 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. When it was that the faith of Joseph acted after this manner; namely, as in the case of Jacob, when he was dying. It was because of that that God was not ashamed to be called their God, for he had prepared a city for them. True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. Those who would find God in these ways of his must seek him diligently; they must seek early, earnestly, and perseveringly. Then about 168 B.C. that is, of a great and severe judgment, such as the world had never yet seen, and of which, in the course of second causes, there was not yet the least sign. I know!" (ii) Abraham's faith was the faith which had patience. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 It is extraordinary how Rahab became imprinted on the memory of Israel. These men trusted in the unseen God and in his faithfulness to those who wholeheartedly sought him. They had begun and it never struck them to turn back. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt (Genesis 50:22-26). Joseph had attained to greatness but it was the greatness of a stranger in a strange land; and yet they never doubted that the promise would come true. No man ever did anything great without a vision which enabled him to face the difficulties and discouragements of the way. The unrent veil bore evidence on its front that man could not yet draw near into the holiest that he had no access into the presence of God. (2.) A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. So as Jesus said to Martha grieving over her brother Lazarus, "If you live and believe in Me, you will never die." 1. One of the tragedies of life is the number of people who turn back just a little too soon. He loves the man who is ready to venture for his name. The promise is made to believers and their children, and to as many as the Lord our God shall call. We can well understand that, because when the blood flows away, life ebbs away. "Isaac was probably twenty-seven years old by this time, not leading a little boy. In this passage the writer lets his mind's eye roam back over the history of his people; and out of it there springs to memory name after name of those who were heroic souls. 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. James ( James 2:25) quotes her as a great example of the good works which demonstrate faith. How could any believers put a slight upon it? ii. He lived there in an ambulatory moving condition, living in a daily readiness for his removal: and thus should we all live in this world. as well as done by him, extraordinary. Observe, [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. (iii) It culminated in the ability to believe in the impossible. Now, the faith of Isaac thus prevailing over his unbelief, it has pleased the God of Isaac to pass by the weakness of his faith, to commend the sincerity of it, and record him among the elders, who through faith have obtained a good report. 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. This was accordingly done, and the destroying angel passed over them, and slew the first-born of the Egyptians. Do I have the faith, the quality of faith that endures? There is then the solemn admonition of the account they are to render by-and-by. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? "Just have enough faith and you'll never be sick. There is something of permanent greatness here. Faith is a great preservative against the sinful slavish fear of men, as it sets God before the soul, and shows the vanity of the creature and its subordination to the will and power of God. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. The Levitical priesthood did not bring perfection (11) III. The phrase about being made strong out of weakness might conjure up many a picture. [3.] They must be very great, suitable to the greatness of the trial: 4. The sword came down upon that home; and unless there had been those who counted Christ dearer than all else, there would be no Christianity today. After the smashing of the Spanish Armada, there was erected on Plymouth Hoe a monument with the inscription: "God sent his wind and they were scattered." As Sarah said: "Who would have said that Sarah would suckle children?" If I can only just come to the realization that all things are working together for good to those who love God and that God has a purpose, and when I can see God then I can endure. 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