They all died in faith not having received the promise, for you see, God provided some better thing for us. Here was a band of wretched Hebrew slaves about to set off on a journey across an unknown desert to an unknown promised land and here was the whole power of Egypt hot upon their heels; yet Moses never doubted that God would bring them safely through. [2.] I don't like being led one step at a time. When Joshua sent out spies to spy out the situation in Jericho, they found a lodging in the house of Rahab, a harlot. Ours should as well. They tell how Abraham saw many flocks and herds and said to his mother: "Who is the lord of these?" He was the lender who had rescued them from slavery and who had received the Law of their lives from God. [5.] A strange mystery is the simple act of faith. has remembered in marg. Holding fast the permanence of the blotting out of our guilt, may we nevertheless and besides own the need of such an One as Christ to intercede for us, and deal in grace with all our feebleness or faults. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." It is observable in their principles: Abel acted under the power of faith; Cain only from the force of education, or natural conscience. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. 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. 22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones. Notwithstanding their meanness by nature, their vileness by sin, and the poverty of their outward condition, God is not ashamed to be called their God: such is his condescension, such is his love to them; therefore let them never be ashamed of being called his people, nor of any of those that are truly so, how much soever despised in the world. They all died in faith, believing the promise that God would, indeed, send His salvation through His Son. 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." He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. He chose "rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." A parepidemos ( G3927) was a man in lodgings, a man without a home in the place where life had sent him. (b) In Hebrews 11:9 he uses the word paroikein ( G3939) , to sojourn, of Abraham. If it be some good thing, faith stirs up love and desire; if some evil thing, faith stirs up fear. 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. Greek Interlinear Layout for Hebrews 11:39 (TR KJV) Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. (3.) God has to do something, raise him from the dead or something, because I and the lad will go and we will come again. It is possible for a person to be victorious over the enemy, to wax valiant in battle, to subdue the aliens, but it is also possible for the man of faith to be tortured for his faith. Now, they all died in faith not having received the promise. In the end they carried him to the fire and threw him on it, "burning him with cruelly contrived instruments and pouring stinking liquids into his nostrils." Second, to see the abode of the wicked so that he might know what the punishment of the evil was like. 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. We enter in to the glorious promise of God. "I can never attain to that." faith: Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:16. Here consider. He made nothing of himself, because he knew they were God's people. The real faith and the real courage are those which can take God's side when it seems doomed to defeat. One can well understand that the apostle would leave his readers to gather thus generally what it must have been. However long the way might be, they never stopped tramping along it. There are those who seek to be righteous by their faith in the Lord and those who seek to be righteous by their works. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. Abel's sacrifice was of a living creature, Cain's was not; therefore Abel's was the more acceptable. "The worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." That fallen man has leave to go in to worship God, with hope of acceptance. 2. Behold, there is a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. Faith--the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. (1.) 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. He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. Through that faith he passed judgment on the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is the result of faith. We hear first of Melchisedec (King of righteousness), next of Salem or peace; without father, without mother, without genealogy. but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them, and they [held on to them] embraced them, and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eaRuth ( Hebrews 11:13 ). Christ is doing nothing there to take away sin; nor when He comes again will He touch the question of sin, because it is a finished work. Psalms 110:1-7, which, as all the Jews owned, spoke., throughout its greater part at least, of the Messiah and His times, shows us Jehovah Himself by an oath, which is afterwards reasoned on signifying that another priest should arise after a different order from that of Aaron. He alludes to several facts, but leaves them. Certain great permanent truths emerge from them. And he called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh. But Abraham said, 'Son, do you remember that in your lifetime you had the good things, and Lazarus the evil? No doubt, natural affection could not but move them; but there was something further. Thus the only time when he comes into notice he is acting in the double capacity here spoken of: King of righteousness as to his name, King of Salem as to his place, blessing Abraham on his return from the victory over the kings of the Gentiles in the name of the Most High God, and blessing the Most High God the possessor of heaven earth in the name of Abraham. The apostle next proceeds to. 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. 1. Smegma Oriental. 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." There is something of permanent greatness here. The promise of God. They had not received the promises, that is, they had not received the things promised, they had not yet been put into possession of Canaan, they had not yet seen their numerous issue, they had not seen Christ in the flesh. Many that are interested in the promises do not presently receive the things promised. "What kind of God is He that would require a man to offer his son as a human sacrifice?" It was only owing to the blindness of Israel. He blessed both the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh; he adopted them into the number of his own sons, and so into the congregation of Israel, though they were born in Egypt. When Bunyan was in gaol he was thinking of what must happen to his family if he was executed. 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. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. When the aeroplane has reached that point it cannot go back. 3. Here observe, 1. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, said, "The gospel that I declared unto you, how that Christ died according to the scriptures, and was buried according to the scriptures, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures" ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ). Cain was bitterly dissatisfied. Thus the first part of the chapter shows us simply what God holds out to the new man; but the epistle to the Hebrews never looks at the Christian simply in the new man, but rather as a concrete person. ", Finally, he beseeches his brethren to hear the word of exhortation. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] There appeared in him something uncommon; the beauty of the Lord sat upon him, as a presage that he was born to great things, and that by conversing with God his face should shine (; Exodus 34:29), what bright and illustrious actions he should do for the deliverance of Israel, and how his name should shine in the sacred records. Faith will venture all hazards in the cause of God and his people; a true believer will sooner expose his own person than God's interest and people. Thus, writes William Lincoln, while surrounded by Egypts pomp and splendor, his heart was not there at all, but with his people in their future glory and blessing. BBC, And gave commandment concerning his bones - Genesis 50:25. For Moses to withdraw to Midian was not an act of fear; it was an act of courage. Observe here, (1.) blessed each of the sons of Joseph and prayed leaning, on the head of his staff. It is said (; Genesis 22:1), God in this tempted Abraham; not to sin, for so God tempteth no man, but only tried his faith and obedience to purpose. Continues after advertising. (2.) She was a Canaanite, a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, 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. 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. This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. He even commanded them to take his bones with them when they left. This was the very difficulty that the Jew pleaded; but now, in point of fact, it was only what the Psalm of Messiah insisted on, the law itself bearing witness of a priest superior to any under the law. 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. of Samuel and of the prophets, men who, through faith, mastered kingdoms, did righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword. This made the hidden children of the Israelites cry, too, and so they were discovered and killed. Do you not discern in this striking combination the distinctive features of Christianity? He had a share in these negotiations and in the long discussions which were necessary. 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. 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. 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. Where sin has abounded, grace has superabounded. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ). It was a figure of the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ, of whom Isaac was a type. (1. THE FAITH WHICH DEFIED THE FACTS ( Hebrews 11:30-31 ). He had the evidence of it in his own conscience, and the Spirit of God witnessed with his spirit. IX. And so the angel of the Lord said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" (3.) And this is the more remarkable, because his language is essentially of the actual state of what was going on in the temple; but he always calls it the tabernacle. If we have lived with Christ, we may die in the certainty that we go to be for ever with our Lord. BELIEVING THE INCREDIBLE ( Hebrews 11:11-12 ). They believed He would provide for them what He had promised. An old scholar who was dying turned to his friends: "Do you realize," he said, "that in an hour or two I will know the answers for which we have been searching all our lives?" By faith, when they were dying, they received the atonement; they acquiesced in the will of God; they quenched all the fiery darts of the devil; they overcame the terrors of death, disarmed it of its sting, and bade a cheerful farewell to this world and to all the comforts and crosses of it. Who was this One? For a hundred years he was building this giant ship out in an area that had never known rain. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. Hereby they declared plainly that they sought another country (Hebrews 11:14), heaven, their own country. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. (i) There are those who have thought of death as mysterious and inexplicable. It was the response of a man who was asked to offer God his own son. It is a recompense of reward, because given by a righteous Judge for the righteousness of Christ to righteous persons, according to the righteous rule of the covenant of grace. 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. Of the faith of Enoch, Hebrews 11:5. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. It may mean the worlds governed by dispensations; but still that the idea of the whole universe is in it cannot be fairly contested by competent minds. The preservation and safe passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when there was no other way to escape from Pharaoh and his host, who were closely pursuing them. A woman came in with a dish of meat for the gods. The seventh brother they roasted alive in a gigantic frying pan. They trusted Gods promise that they would have a son and through him a multitude of descendants, even though they were both past the age when they might normally expect to have children (11-12; cf. He has not been of by the reader before; he is never heard of again in history. The reaction of Abraham and Sarah to the promise of God followed a threefold course. [5.] Abraham saw Christ's day, when it was afar off, and rejoiced, ; John 8:56. Here observe. When we come to it straight from God's presence, no task can ever defeat us. By faith he looked beyond to a higher fulfilment of the promise (8-10; cf. Nothing could be more tender and moving than those words of Isaac: little thinking that he was to be the lamb; but Abraham knew it, and yet he went on with the great design. (1.) 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. Jacob gave blessings and Joseph gave instructions in the light of the nearness of death. The Jews themselves found the story puzzling and elaborated it in order to find a reason for God's rejection of Cain and for Cain's murder of Abel. Their deliverance was very glorious. (3.) They all believed that there would be made the provision for their sins by God. The trial and exercise of Abraham's faith; he was tried indeed. [4.] The blessing was: "in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth" ( Genesis 48:15-16). 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." The substitutionary lamb preserving the firstborn. Observe the due regard that Abraham had to this heavenly city: he looked for it; he believed there was such a state; he waited for it, and in the mean time he conversed in it by faith; he had exalted and rejoicing hopes, that in God's time and way he should be brought safely to it. But how? Moving on ahead now, a jump of several hundred years here. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Indeed, at no time will its order be more apparent than at present; for I think there can be little doubt to any unbiassed Christian who enters with intelligence into the Old Testament prophecies, that there is yet to be an earthly sanctuary, and, consequently, earthly priests and sacrifices for Israel in their own land; that the sons of Zadok, as Ezekiel lets us know, will perpetuate the line at the time when the Lord shall be owned to be there, in the person of the true David their King, blessing His people long distressed but now joyful on earth. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. Indeed it is only the body that is here spoken of. Faith sets to its seal that God is true, and thereby settles and satisfies the soul. We go on now to. 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, [1.] The world wasn't worthy of them and yet, what things they endured as the result of their faith in God.Your faith in God is not always going to bring you tremendous triumph and victories over the enemy, but your faith in God will sustain you through any kind of exigency that you may face in life. In the end they tore him apart on the catapult and flayed him alive. The two extremes, offensive to every lover of the vi media of religious rationalism, must be combined in Christianity and the Christian man, if he is to maintain it unimpaired and pure. The passage is out of ; Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25. We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, ; Hebrews 11:27. When Moses was born, by faith his parents hid him. But he did not mean what so many people think he meant. And if any were found to defy them, they "underwent great miseries and bitter torments. 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." How easily we even forget that we are not Jews but Christians! On the altar of the burnt offering he offered sacrifices of swine flesh to Zeus; and he turned the Temple chambers into brothels. If they were thinking of the land from which they had come out, they would have had time to return. Both Jacob and Esau were blessed as Isaac's children, at least as to temporal good things. IV. The man who goes out into the unknown and keeps going on will in the end arrive at God. 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. To us Christ is all. We believe in the wind, though we haven't seen the wind. So Abraham began to journey not knowing where he was going. Thermouthis, much to her sorrow, was childless; so she took the baby Moses home, and cared for him as her own son. Faith does work. So that God did not recognize Abraham's work of the flesh. At first sight every one may have been surprised, especially those that read the New Testament in the language in which God wrote it, at the double meaning of the word which is here translated "covenant." Not so Moses. As we read of these people of great faith, we see that they made their mark in history because of their faith. He made mention by faith of the departing of the children of Israel, that the time should come when they should be delivered out of Egypt; and he did this both that he might caution them against the thoughts of settling in Egypt, which was now a place of plenty and ease to them; and also that he might keep them from sinking under the calamities and distresses which he foresaw were coming upon them there; and he does it to comfort himself, that though he should not live to see their deliverance, yet he could die in the faith of it. The undivided place of Christ is more fully witnessed now, when there are no others to occupy the thought or to distract the heart from Him as seen by faith in glory on high. Second, we will remember that, even when it may not look like it, somehow God is in control. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? And a lot has been made over that. They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. From them, by this son, sprang a numerous progeny of illustrious persons. 1. As is usually the case, legend adds many a detail to this story. Jeremiah positively declares that God will make a new covenant. With all this Christianity is contrasted. not to sin, for so God tempteth no man, but only tried his faith and obedience to purpose. The first brother refused to eat the unclean things. Instead of having one person illustrating one thing, another person another, the Lord Jesus sums up the perfection of all trial in His own pathway, not as Saviour only, but in the point of view of bearing witness in His ways for God here below. But when the Lord was talking to Abraham concerning his son that He was going to give to him, Abraham said, "O Lord, let Ishmael live before thee!" God on his part rewarded them, but rejected those who showed no faith (4-7; cf. This they did for three months. The supports of his faith. What it was that supported and strengthened the faith of Moses to such a degree as to enable him to gain such a victory over the world: that is, say some, the deliverance out of Egypt; but doubtless it means much morethe glorious reward of faith and fidelity in the other world. They never wearily gave up the journey; they lived in hope and died in expectation. And where thou art a stranger thou must not open thy mouth. Because of the order in which it comes that must be what Hebrews 11:27 refers to. How could this be disputed by one who simply believed Psalms 110:1-7? "For every high priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. In Hebrews,. And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Josephs knees. He could have just gone on as the son of Pharaoh's daughter and enjoyed through his lifetime the pleasures of sin, but that would have been a very short time, though he lived to be one hundred twenty, still short in comparison to the fact that he has been gone for 3,700 years now. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? (2.) Abraham lived till Isaac was seventy-five years old, and Jacob fifteen. For the martyred saint's blood the earth cried to God for vengeance; but Christ's blood proclaims mercy from God, and the millennial day will be the glorious witness of its depth, and extent, and stability, before the universe. I know that you will not withhold anything from Me. All that are effectually called resign up their own will and wisdom to the will and wisdom of God, and it is their wisdom to do so; though they know not always their way, yet they know their guide, and this satisfies them. XV. When Abraham heard the promise he fell upon his face and laughed ( Genesis 17:17). Verse Only. When it says that Abraham looked for the city, it means a blessed and ordered scene of glory on high, which eclipsed the Holy Land before his eyes. The Christian believes in the spirit rather than the senses. No attention is paid here to the march through the wilderness, any more than to the establishment in the land, still less to the kingdom. 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. He does not actually mention these things. There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness. For he was looking for [the eternal city of God,] a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. She said to the spies whom she welcomed and hid: "I know that the Lord has given you the land. For the Lord your God, is he who is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath" ( Joshua 2:9-11). The promise of a posterity, and of the Messiah, must either be fulfilled by means of this son or not at all; so that, besides his most tender affection to this his son, all his expectations were bound up in him, and, if he perished, must perish with him. That he preferred a significant burial in Canaan before a magnificent one in Egypt. One day Abel was asleep upon a mountain; and Cain came upon him and took a stone and crushed his head. 3. God often gives his people living comforts in dying moments; and when he does it is their duty, as they can, to communicate them to those about them, for the glory of God, for the honour of religion, and for the good of their brethren and friends. The circumstance of time is taken notice of, when Moses by his faith gained this victory over the world, in all its honours, pleasures, and treasures: 3. It is not a question of justification here. How I thank God for the work of His Spirit as He helps us in our weaknesses, that I rely not upon my faithfulness, my work, my ability, but upon His faithfulness, His work. In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. (ii) In spite of everything these men never lost their vision and their hope. That is the very purpose of our existence, to bring pleasure to God. 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