This then is the monument for such as we are. Because Christians are a heavenly people, and none but a heavenly Priest would suit them. I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. I pray that I'll never be an embarrassment to God. A parepidemos was a person who was staying there temporarily and who had his permanent home somewhere else. 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. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? (3.) There is no real contradiction. I'm a stranger and a pilgrim to this earth. Abraham asked him his age and then said: "You fool to adore a god who is younger than yourself!" He prophesied that they should be blessed; but, as Isaac did before, so now Jacob prefers the younger, Ephraim; and though Joseph had placed them so, that the right hand of his father should be laid on Manasseh, the elder, Jacob wittingly laid it on Ephraim, and this by divine direction, for he could not see, to show that the Gentile church, the younger, should have a more abundant blessing than the Jewish church, the elder. Far better than his hearers should be moved by this and that phrase to remember them for themselves. 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. In point of fact they were reaching out after something better, I mean, the heavenly country. How Canaan is called the land of promise, because yet only promised, not possessed. 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. You can feel it. 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. "But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood entered in once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption." There are many who believe in God but do not believe that he cares. (2.) It is hard to keep clear of both. (iii) Noah's faith was a judgment on others. And it came to pass that the poor man died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; moreover also the rich man died. This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. The Bible said that God said, "Let there be light." Because of the order in which it comes that must be what Hebrews 11:27 refers to. Search Results in Other Versions. They were all men who were never afraid to stand alone and to face immense odds for the sake of their loyalty to God. That this Isaac was his only-begotten son by his wife Sarah, the only one he was to have by her, and the only one that was to be the child and heir of the promise. 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. Would he give up Isaac? Then we have the other patriarchs introduced, yet chiefly as regards earthly hopes, but not apart from resurrection, and its connection with the people of God here below. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. He is declaring that Isaac is going to come back with me.Now Abraham figures God's got a problem, because God has said, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. But now ours is the victory. So Egyptian mothers were sent into the homes of the Israelites with their babies; there they pricked their babies until they cried. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. "Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (for those priests were made without an oath" no oath ushers in the sons of Aaron "but he with an oath by him that said as to him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.". Though surrounded by the pomp of Egypt, Josephs heart still in Canaan. (2.) And when they came to Mount Moriah, Abraham bound Isaac, and put him on the altar, raised the knife, and God said, "Okay far enough, Abraham. 4 by faith abel offered to god a better sacrifice than cain, through which he Thus it is evident that the introduction of the last trial of Abraham was of all possible moment to every one that stood in the place of a son of Abraham. 11:8-10 It was by faith that Abraham, when he was caned, showed his obedience by going out to a place which he was going to receive as an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was to go. That picture of the sojourner became a picture of the Christian life. The gospel state is more perfect than the patriarchal, because more of the promises are now fulfilled. Let me emphasize that God has never given such a command, either before or after Abraham's time. He does not actually mention these things. He received his son. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. One can well understand that the apostle would leave his readers to gather thus generally what it must have been. Lord, we pray that You will continue the work of Your Spirit within our hearts as we yield ourselves to You, to walk in fellowship with You through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, to live in that hope of eternal life in and through Him. The prevalency of his faith. As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. These are the statements of men who believe in God, but not in a God who cares. Maybe I don't want to do what He's got in mind when we get down the road. He had good company with him, and they were a great comfort to him in his sojourning state. 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. ", Having laid this as the first application of faith, the next question is when man fell, how was he to approach God? But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. He has shown its the symbolic mount Of grace in Zion, contrasted with Sinai the mountain of law. He was so lovely a child that his parents determined to hide him in their house. Moses wisely chose the eternal over the immediate. (ii) The Christian hope is belief in the spirit against the senses. [2.] By the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the author is rounding third base in his sermon. 1. As the old story tells it, so it happened. Then they heated sharp spits and applied them to his back; and piercing through his sides they burned away his bowels." Israel's danger was very great; an enraged enemy with chariots and horsemen behind them; steep rocks and mountains on either hand, and the Red Sea before them. The actings of his faith here mentioned, and they are two:. At the moment when she was speaking, there seemed not one chance in a million that the children of Israel could capture Jericho. That's all. Because he lives, he has a permanent priesthood, always interceding for his own, and thus he is able completely to save those who trust in him. We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. 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. He, too, died faithful. This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. So Moses was spared. Some would take this as detracting from his victory, that he gained it so late, that he did not make this choice sooner; but it is rather an enhancement of the honour of his self-denial and victory over the world that he made this choice when he had grown ripe for judgment and enjoyment, able to know what he did and why he did it. Having therefore The apostle, having finished the doctrinal part of his epistle, now proceeds to exhortation, deduced from what has been treated of from Hebrews 5:4. 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." If we formed our Christian character practically on such epistles as those to the Ephesians and Colossians alone, depend on it there may not be the hard lines of the law, but there will be very far from the fervent affections which become him who feels the grace of Christ. And Abraham answered: "Let thine own ear hear what thine own mouth has spoken!". Their own Psalm, in its grand prophetic sweep, and looking back on the law, pointed to the place in which Christ is now seated above; and where it is of necessity He should be, in order to give Christianity its heavenly character. Their old friends would have been glad to receive them. But here is One who proffers Himself to come, and does come. The verb means to finish or close, with life understood. The story of Samson is in Judges 13:1-25; Judges 14:1-20; Judges 15:1-20; Judges 16:1-31. Something of him we had before interwoven with the story of Abraham; here we have something of a distinct naturethat by faith he blessed his two sons, Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come. 8) but the promise of a land; but when in the land he received the promise of a better country, that is, a heavenly, which raised his eyes to the city on high, in express contrast with the earthly land. They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. Here is some outstanding insight on the story of Abraham offering up his son Isaac to the LORD. So that it was an offering that was perfectly legitimate, an offering that expressed sort of a communion with God as did the peace offering. A parepidemos ( G3927) was a man in lodgings, a man without a home in the place where life had sent him. This should have been a rule to him all along, but he was rather swayed by natural affection, and by general custom, which gives the double portion of honour, affection, and advantage, to the first-born. 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. What is here reported of him. Fascinating statement!Now he begins to list those men of faith from the Old Testament. Sometimes he takes his illustrations from the Old Testament period; but still more he takes them from the Maccabaean period which falls between the Old and the New Testaments. Christ never needed this, but we do. But works cannot produce faith, nor can they substitute for faith. 1. What a surprise to the Hebrew believers to find such truths as these so strikingly shown out in type even in the Jewish system! After three days the Lord showed to Abraham Mount Moriah. They, too, were given the same choice and confronted with the same threats. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" 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 Amram, shamed into trusting God, took back his wife; and in due time Moses was born. It was prefigured in Jonah, and Jesus brought that out, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" ( Matthew 12:40 ). I know that you will not withhold anything from Me. "Nimrod," said his mother. The commentary The Epistle to the Ephesians, by S. Kent Brown, is available now. Now people who speak like that make it quite clear that they are searching for a fatherland. So that all of the material things that we see are made up of things that cannot be seen: of atoms, protons, electrons. Christianity. First, He makes a scene where sin enters at once. What was the necessity for a new covenant if the old one would do as well? The faith of Joseph, Hebrews 11:22. I'm convicted of truths, though I may not have seen them, I'm convicted of their existence. In each case it was the faith of a man to whom death was very near. Through faith Sara herself received strength to conceive, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised ( Hebrews 11:10-11 ). She answered: "Your father, Terah." I'm just a stranger and a pilgrim here. And because they only read the story in a cursory manner, they are confused and they ridicule such a God that would require such a thing of a man. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. He was always an outsider and only on payment a member of the community. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. We see the trees that are bowing in its force. No man ever did anything great without a vision which enabled him to face the difficulties and discouragements of the way. , [made mention of] remembered) He mentioned, what he had never forgotten, the promise made to their fathers, and as it were renewed it for the future. , concerning his bones) so that even though dead he might leave Egypt, and come into the Land of Promise. In the first chapter we saw the seat of personal glory connected with atonement; in the eighth chapter it is the witness of His priesthood, and where it is. 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. Observe here, [1.] Through his faith. They expected little from the world. Joseph's coffin, the Jews say h, was put into the river Nile; and so says Patricides i, an Arabic writer: others say it was in the buryingplace of the kings, until it was taken up and removed by Moses. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. God's summons meant that he had to leave home and family and business; yet he went. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. Faith has a long arm, and can lay hold of blessings at a great distance, can make them present, can love them, and rejoice in them; and thus antedate the enjoyment of them. He received him from the dead, for he gave him up for dead; he was as a dead child to him, and the return was to him no less than a resurrection. This also was granted, but Enoch, having been granted a glimpse of Paradise, never came back to earth again. I see its effect as I bring opposite poles together and I watch them attract. And Abraham said, "Son, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice" ( Genesis 22:7-8 ). Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? Selecteer de afdeling waarin je wilt zoeken. STREAM DOWNLOAD. This is the best way the people of God can take to condemn the wicked; not by harsh and censorious language, but by a holy exemplary conversation. In the end he says a great thing. The reaction of Abraham and Sarah to the promise of God followed a threefold course. He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. If that religion had been destroyed, what would have happened to the purposes of God? That is, the promises of the Messiah that God had given to them. THE FAITH WHICH DEFIED THE FACTS ( Hebrews 11:30-31 ). In this story, as Moffatt points out, there are five different acts of faith. "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes" ( Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary, note on Hebrews 11:20-22). Which in this particular case was forty years old. 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. by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. 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. So, by faith we believe that the worlds were formed by the word of God so that the things that we do see, the things that appear, are made out of things which cannot be seen or do not appear. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. It was as if God had so arranged things that the full blaze of his glory should not be revealed until we and they can enjoy it together. It is not owing to our inherent righteousness or best performances that we are saved from the wrath of God, but to the blood of Christ and his imputed righteousness. One of the finest men who ever lived in Athens was Aristides, who was called "the just." And they fractured his fingers and his arms and his legs and his elbows." He alludes to several facts, but leaves them. As they began to multiply more rapidly than the Egyptians, he could foresee the day when they would be stronger and overthrow the Egyptians and make the Egyptians their slaves. The moon arose in the east and the stars came out. Without hesitation they choose God ( Daniel 3:1-30). It simply says that in God's good time he passed serenely from this earth. Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. For Christ, on whom the promises depend. The meaning is, that spiritual guides shall give an account of their own behaviour in watching over other souls; for it is a work that calls for much jealousy over self, patience with others, painstaking labour, lowliness of mind, and that hearty love which can bear all, endure all, believe all. Testing Abraham. They, without the finished work of Christ, could not enter in to the kingdom of God. But how? Jehovah sees. "And unto the city of the living God, (not of dying David,) the heavenly Jerusalem" (not the earthly capital of Palestine). 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. O Lord our Lord how excellent is Thy name in all the earth. Hence, in Hebrews 8:1-13, the apostle draws his conclusion. Given after Isaac had said: "Behold. Observe. Another story tells that, when Noah was building the ark, the people laughed at him and counted him mad. We know that there was predicted in the Old Testament the death of Christ. Antiochus had an interest in Egypt. He had a divine revelation, whether by voice or vision does not appear; but it was such as carried in it its own evidence; he was. For everyone at some time there comes something for which there seems to be no reason and which defies explanation. The word used for mastering kingdoms is what Josephus, the Jewish historian, used of David. The earth was watered by a mist that came out of the ground every evening. in the other scale the best of the world, and in his judgment, directed by faith, the worst of religion weighed down the best of the world. (2.) But here he was seeking communion with God when sin was in his heart. 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. II. The apostle argues that, just as the blood of the beast was brought into the holiest of all, while the body of the same animal was taken outside the camp and burnt, so this too must be made good in our portion. Christ is that Lamb, he is our Passover, he was sacrificed for us. (ii) In spite of everything these men never lost their vision and their hope. His finger was burnt; he put the burnt finger in his mouth and burnt his mouth; that, they say, was why he was not a good speaker ( Exodus 4:10) but stammered all his life. I build my faith on that.". It is an idea that superstition hatched, for the purpose of spuriously exalting a clerical order. That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. Believers may and ought to have respect to this recompense of reward; they should acquaint themselves with it, approve of it, and live in the daily and delightful expectation of it. Nowhere does the apostle give the smallest occasion for such a thought. Abraham lived till Isaac was seventy-five years old, and Jacob fifteen. Ishmael was to be put off with earthly greatness. They embraced them. All right, "Take now thy son, thine only son." This passage (Hebrews 9:11-22) also sheds light on the question of why Christ had to die. The sting is gone. Noah tried to warn the people of the impending flood that was going to come, and they mocked him. A man writes complaining that he was despised "because I am a xenos ( G3581) ". 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. This inheritance is not immediately possessed by them; they must wait some time for it: but the promise is sure, and shall have its seasonable accomplishment. This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. God has prescribed means and ways wherein he may be found; to with, a strict attention to his oracles, attendance on his ordinances, and ministers duly discharging their office and associating with his people, observing his providential guidance, and in all things humbly waiting his gracious presence. This is the best way the people of God can take to condemn the wicked; not by harsh and censorious language, but by a holy exemplary conversation. Offer it on the altar." They talked; they both knew Rome and they had been friendly. 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. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. The other man replies: "Do you know what happens to Christians? does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." [3.] Their rashness was great, and their ruin was grievous. The writer to the Hebrews is here seeking to inspire new courage and a new sense of responsibility by making his hearers remember their past. Why turn back to "meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein?". and of Elisha ( 2 Kings 4:8 ff.) He put himself into the hand of God, to send him whithersoever he pleased. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. I. Christ's priesthood shows the Old Testament law needed a change (11-22) II. So we see this one hundred year old Abraham, one hundred and eight at this time, leading this little eight-year-old boy towards Mount Moriah where he is going to offer him as a human sacrifice unto God. [4.] So did Jacob in regard to Josephs sons, which was for him an act of faith in his old age. In Hebrews 10:1-39 he applies the matter to the present state of the believer. Joseph, when he died , When he was dying, gave commandment concerning his bones. You may give yourself over to indulgence. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full (Genesis 15:13-16). And so, in his envy, he hunted his brother until he killed him. such power and prosperity as, was never reached again. The Holy Spirit said to Philip in Samaria, "Go down to Gaza, that desert area." The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. 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. It is quite evident, on the contrary, that this is not only not the truth which all recognize when stated, but altogether inconsistent with the Bible, with all books, and with all experience. It was not so of old, when the Israelite brought his goat or calf. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites passing through the Red Sea under the conduct of Moses their leader, XIV. 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 ). "By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.". Xenos ( G3581) can even mean a refugee. Observe, (1.) We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: and all its power and pleasures, and undertook the conduct of Israel out of it. [1.] But where in the scripture, the Old Testament, does it speak of the resurrection after three days? 11:32-34 And what more shall I say? He blessed them; that is, he resigned them up to God in covenant; he recommended God and religion to them; he prayed for them, and prophesied concerning them, what would be the condition, and the condition of their descendants: we have the account of this in Gen. xxvii. The Egyptian tried to secure some sort of immortality. Hebrews 10:19-22. [3.] I've given you this land unto your seed forever. "For this he did once, when he offered up himself. When we come to it straight from God's presence, no task can ever defeat us. 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. There is an unwritten saying of Jesus: "The world is a bridge. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest." We may put it in another way--Noah was the man who heeded the warning of God; and because he heeded he was saved from disaster. The powerful success of the prescribed means. It is easy to see how this passage can be read against the terrible happenings of these days. Death merely took him into God's nearer presence. 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 could know nothing of the mystery of the church, Christ's body, nor of her bridal hopes; but he did look for what is called here the "heavenly Jerusalem," that city "whose maker and builder is God." (Verses 1-7.). True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. If God's word be true, and to this the Spirit adheres, the blood of Christ has thus perfectly washed away the sins of the believer. What Abel did by faith: He offered up a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, a more full and perfect sacrifice, pleiona thysian. 11:17-19 It was by faith that Abraham offered up Isaac when he was put to the test. She said to her father: "What hast thou done? Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. He loves the man who is ready to venture for his name. (7.) He will provide Himself a sacrifice. [6.] He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. When Bunyan was in gaol he was thinking of what must happen to his family if he was executed. 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. The principle upon which his faith acted in these his motions: He endured, as seeing him that was invisible.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. He sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country.This was an exercise of his faith. By faith Moses, when he was come of age ( Hebrews 11:24 ). 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