As the proof of this, God has prepared for them a city, a happiness suitable to the relation into which he has taken them. 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. If he takes to himself the title of their God, he will fully answer it, and act up to it; and he has prepared that for them in heaven which will fully answer this character and relation, so that it shall never be said, to the reproach and dishonour of God, that he has adopted a people to be his own children and then taken no care to make a suitable provision for them. It is not the hope which looks forward with wistful longing; it is the hope which looks forward with utter conviction. God must come to us before we come to him. Whether or not that promise comes depends on me." As, (1.) In the Apocalypse of Baruch God says: "I showed it to my servant by night" (4: 4). [1.] Hebrews 11:1. Among other instructions, he told them to return his bones to their homeland, Canaan; he gave a "commandment" (entellomai), meaning an "order" (Thayer 218): And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. I see evidence of it.I see evidence of God. (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. Sin is now put away; the sacrifice is complete. Hebrews 11:22 New International Version 22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. If I have an indisputable present title of access into the holiest of all, I must not shrink from the place of ashes outside the camp. Thus distinctly have we set before us the general doctrine of the chapter, that Christ has suffered but once, and has been offered but once; that the offering cannot be severed from the suffering. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. It is the conflict which introduces the reign of peace founded on righteousness, when God will manifest Himself as the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. Here is the very point the writer to the Hebrews wishes to make. 2. For that goodness, for the blessings, for the richness that is ours through Jesus Christ, for the promises and for the hope. 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Here it is the proof of the perpetual efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ. Isaac has to have children, because God has to keep His word. The doctrine follows: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost." 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." "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. (1.) To some, it has always been the terrifying unknown giving rise to what Hamlet called "that dread of something after death.". It became God to give Him to die; for such was our estate by sin that nothing short of His atoning death could deliver us; but, having delivered us, God would make us to be heavenly. Observe here, (1.) These are very good and useful instructions, and yet the blood of sprinkling speaketh better things than that of Abel. Josephs instructions to his sons proved he trusted God and was convinced God would keep His word about their return to Canaan. Christianity turns everything to account. The promise is made to believers and their children, and to as many as the Lord our God shall call. That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. 12 :18-24 If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. When he was asked why, he answered: "To warn you that God will send a deluge to destroy you all." Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God. In point of fact they were reaching out after something better, I mean, the heavenly country. "Judas Maccabaeus (and his friends) withdrew himself into the wilderness and lived in the mountains, after the manner of beasts" ( 2Ma_5:27 ). Observe, [1.] He went out, not knowing whither he went. I'm passing through. His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. We see the leaves that are blowing. There is nothing capricious about the usage. "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" How could Jesus have been born into the world if the Jewish religion had ceased to exist? There you will find every word was a trial: "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (5.) The thing which is pleasant at the moment may bring pain in the long run; the thing which hurts like fury at the moment may bring joy in the long run. That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! 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. 'It was therefore a crisis after the most painful accumulation of evils that weighed on the heart of Israel. No doubt, natural affection could not but move them; but there was something further. 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. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, said that if a man comes to the altar and realizes that his brother has ought against him, he ought to first go to his brother and reconcile their differences and then come and offer your gift unto the Lord ( Matthew 5:23-24 ). Man never did nor could settle it without the word of God. In this great example observe. There are two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called. 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. that is, he praised God for what he had done for him, and for the prospect he had of approaching blessedness; and he prayed for those he was leaving behind him, that religion might live in his family when he was gone. 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. As ever we expect to be justified and saved. His fear, thus excited by believing God's threatening, moved him to prepare an ark, in which, no doubt, he met with the scorns and reproaches of a wicked generation. All their days the patriarchs were strangers in a strange land. How could any believers put a slight upon it? The point there is personal glory. 22.By faith Joseph, etc. They know that they cannot explain the existence of the world solely by reasoning from the things that can be seen (11:1-3). 3 by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of god, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. What the wise men of antiquity, the Platos and Aristotles, never knew what the modern sages blunder about, without the slightest reason, after all the word of God has made the possession of every child of His. Observe, First, The heavenly country is better than any upon earth; it is better situated, better stored with every thing that is good, better secured from every thing that is evil; the employments, the enjoyments, the society, and every thing in it, are better than the best in this world. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. STREAM DOWNLOAD. Xenos is the word for a stranger and a foreigner. ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. [2.] (3.) Verse 22. And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. How did he please God? He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. They were persuaded of the truth of the promises. (2.) It is to be noted that to dwell in a foreign land was a humiliating thing in ancient days; to the foreigner in any country a certain stigma attached. The belief of this will carry us through the greatest difficulties and trials that we can meet with. 2. The Book of Fourth Maccabees has two famous stories which were undoubtedly in the mind of the writer to the Hebrews when he made his list of the things that the man of faith has had to suffer. the apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more summary account of another set of believers, where the particular acts are not ascribed to particular persons by name, but left to be applied by those who And of what did Christianity speak? But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. First, there is envy. Joseph gave instruction about returning his bones to Canaan: But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. His wife Sarah shared his faith. He showed thereby his dependence upon God, and testified his condition here as a pilgrim with his staff, and his weariness of the world, and willingness to be at rest. And what is the effect of it? But when Cain saw that his offering was rejected and Abel's was accepted, he was angry with the Lord for rejecting his offering. "He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust," says another apostle, "that he might bring us" not to pardon, nor to peace, nor to heaven, but "to God." They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. It is "the blood that speaketh better than Abel." These characteristics he proves to be really found in Christ Himself. (3.) Observe, [1.] It was by faith that Joseph, as he came to the end, had his mind the days when the children of Israel would leave Egypt, and gave instructions concerning his bones. 2. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. These nomads from the desert had no artillery and no siege-engines. Tertullian said of the Christian: "He knows that on earth he has a pilgrimage but that his dignity is in heaven." Share Embed Download Donate . Hebrews 11:22. Now looking at that a little more closely, God made the world out of things that do not appear.We know that the universe, the worlds, are made up of atoms which are invisible. When we come to it straight from God's presence, no task can ever defeat us. Such is the true sense of the passage. 3. That is the way in which so many people would like to sacrifice to God; but only the dearest and the best is good enough for him. When they offered their sacrifices unto the Lord, the Lord accepted Abel's sacrifice, but He rejected Cain's. Then, very gently, Popilius told Antiochus that Rome did not wish him to proceed with the campaign but wished him to go home. 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. 1. From the beginning to the end of it the Christian in Hebrews is not thus dealt with apart from the old nature, as we may see him regarded in the ordinary epistles of Paul, where the old and the new man are most carefully separated. [2.] Suffering is to be chosen rather than sin, there being more evil in the least sin than there can be in the greatest suffering. It raised him above the fear of the king's wrath. It was at that moment that the faith of Moses communicated itself to the people and drove them on when they might well have turned back. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you (Exodus 13:18-19). The reproaches of the church of God are the reproaches of Christ, who is, and has ever been, the head of the church. ", Finally, he beseeches his brethren to hear the word of exhortation. Hereby he judged and condemned the world; his holy fear condemned their security and vain confidence; his faith condemned their unbelief; his obedience condemned their contempt and rebellion. such power and prosperity as, was never reached again. [3.] To mark that as yet the veil was unrent. God can and will in his own time and way cause all the powerful opposition that is made to his interest and glory to fall down, and the grace of faith is mighty through God for the pulling down of strong-holds; he will make Babylon fall before the faith of his people, and, when he has some great thing to do for them, he raises up great and strong faith in them. In itself it does not say how Enoch died. VII. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. "I can never attain to that." It is also founded on one of their own prophets. An instance of his faith in conquering the world. "Well, if you don't know where you are going, how you going to know when you get there?" It was because of his faith that he was declared by God to be righteous.Now there has been a lot made over the sacrifices of Cain and Abel. Let us then seek to combine these two things perfect nearness to God, and the place of utter scorn in the presence of man. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. The writer to the Hebrews is saving: "See! His faith was supported by the sense he had of the mighty power of God, who was able to raise the dead; he reasoned thus with himself, and so he resolved all his doubts. (3.) It was ordered that they should compass the walls about once a day for seven days together and seven times the last day, that the priests should carry the ark when they compassed the walls about, and should blow with trumpets made of rams' horns, and sound a longer blast than before, and then all the people should shout, and the walls of Jericho should fall before them. Though he knew that it was great, and levelled at him in particular, and that it marched at the head of a numerous host to pursue him, yet he was not dismayed, and he said to Israel,Fear not, ; Exodus 14:13. Faith--the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Separate Line. For, [1.] So the writer to the Hebrews says: "Although he died for his faith, he is still speaking to us." "I do not think," said the man, "I know." Scripture Hebrews 11 Sort Bible Verse Sermon The Danger of Dull Hearing Apr 10, 1988 Scripture: Hebrews John Piper Sermon What Faith Knows and Hopes For Jun 1, 1997 Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-3 John Piper Sermon Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God Jun 8, 1997 Scripture: Hebrews 11:4-6 John Piper Conference Message And to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.Shall we pray.Thank you, Father, for all that You have done for us. Thither they are to be brought, and there are means for the road to keep us moving onward. It is a reward suitable to the price paid for itthe blood of Christ; suitable to the perfections of God, and fully answering to all his promises. "And who is the lord of Terah?" Jehovah sees. But let not the Gentile boast, no less unbelieving no less arrogant, against true Christianity. 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. They never wearily gave up the journey; they lived in hope and died in expectation. (1.) The book As in Adam has this sentence: "The business of life, the way to life, consists in getting over fences, not in lying down and moaning on the hither side." 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 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. He emptied that part of hell. What Abel did by faith: He offered up a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, a more full and perfect sacrifice, pleiona thysian. "And whilst the saw cut into his flesh, Isaiah uttered no complaint and shed no tears; but he ceased not to commune with the Holy Spirit till the saw had cloven him to the middle of his body.". To the writer of the letter to the Hebrews Moses was pre-eminently the man of faith. 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. (Verses 1-7.). No other seat was suitable to such a One. Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. But works cannot produce faith, nor can they substitute for faith. Hebrews 11:1. 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). How Abraham lived in Canaan, not as heir and proprietor, but as a sojourner only. is one of several phrases in N.T. NL. They were stoned; they were sawn asunder; they underwent every kind of trial; they died by the murder of the sword. God honoured the son for the father's sake. Had they been taunted with having no altar, possessing nothing so holy and so glorious in its associations? [3.] We belong to the holiest of all, and we act upon it, if we iet rightly, when we worship God; nay, when we draw near to God in prayer at all times. Maybe I don't want to do what He's got in mind when we get down the road. [3.] This leads to another point; for the change of the priesthood imports a change of the law. "All we like sheep have gone astray; we've turned everyone to our own ways, but God will lay on Him the iniquities of us all" ( Isaiah 53:6 ). God gave witness to the righteousness of his person, by testifying his acceptance of his gifts. I know!" he had respect unto the recompense of the reward ( Hebrews 11:26 ). 22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones. For Moses to withdraw to Midian was not an act of fear; it was an act of courage. h T. Bab. For whom it may be is another thing, of which he will speak by-and-by. 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. And so I believe in the magnetic powers or the magnetic force, but I have never seen it. (ii) The second act of faith was Moses' loyalty to his own people. While living in this tent I often groan earnestly desiring to be free, not that I would be unclothed or an unembodied spirit, but I want to be clothed upon with a body which is from heaven. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. (2.) That he would go as far with his people as he could, though he could not go as far as he would. Seeing Abraham afar off, and Lazarus there being comforted in Abraham's bosom, said, 'Father Abraham, send Lazarus to me, that he might take his finger and dip it in water, and touch my tongue; for I am tormented in this heat.' 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. The treasury was sacked. Cain took the earth and everything stationary; Abel took everything moveable. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1. 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. Note, (1.) God bless you and give you a beautiful week. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about for seven days ( Hebrews 11:30 ). In other cases the epistle to the Hebrews speaks of sanctification by God's call, and Christ's blood. You can always turn back. [4.] "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." I like the faith that brings me over the top, that brings me the victory, that subdues the aliens, and I like that. All they did was point to the future when God would provide the perfect sacrifice through His only begotten Son. The legends go on to tell that Terah not only worshipped twelve idols, one for each of the months, but was also a manufacturer of idols. 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. in ordering his bones to be exported, he had no regard to himself, as though his grave in the land of canaan would be sweeter or better than in egypt; but his only object was to sharpen the desire of his own nation, that they might more earnestly aspire after redemption; he wished also to strengthen their faith, so that they might confidently [4.] (2.) Above all things, he is the God of the gallant adventurer. This then is brought before us. There is no sanction here, of course, of the vulgar and outrageous error that pastors give an account of the souls of their flock. There was Samuel, born to his mother so late in life ( 1 Samuel 1:1-28), again and again moving alone as the only strong and faithful man of God amongst an easily frightened, discontented and rebellious people. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. Noah's life was one continued and concentrated preparation for what God had said would come. 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. Unlike others in Genesis, neither parents are recorded, nor is there any hint of descent from him. 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 ). The supports of Abraham's faith (; Hebrews 11:10): He looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. The prevalency of his faith. But God took care to summon His children outside to abandon the whole system before it was destroyed. He has been proved to be a divine person, and the true royal priest of whom not Aaron only but Melchisedec was the type. 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. The apostle does not dwell on the detailed application of His Melchisedec priesthood, as to the object and character of its exercise. These men trusted in the unseen God and in his faithfulness to those who wholeheartedly sought him. Who was this One? "What kind of God is He that would require a man to offer his son as a human sacrifice?" How great a temptation Moses was under. And they believed the promise of God that He would provide salvation, and they died believing that promise of God. (ii) We must believe that God is interested. Are they both true of you? The readers too were to maintain their worship right to the end of life, persevering in faith in the future that God had foretold. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. No doubt that is true; but, if we want to see this story at its greatest and as the writer to the Hebrews saw it, we must take it at its face value. Up until the time of Noah, it had never rained upon the earth. "We, Antiochus," he said, "who are convinced that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." And God provided Himself a sacrifice for our sins, for God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.Now, if we did not have Hebrews to give us a commentary on the story of Abraham, we, too, could be confused at God's demand. "For," says he, "there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof (for the law made nothing perfect)." 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. Men have called God The First Principle, The First Cause, The Creative Energy, The Life Force. (3.) I thought if you had enough faith, you wouldn't die. The Isaac story, told in Genesis 22:1-18, is that most dramatic account of how Abraham met the supreme test of the demand for the life of his own son. The account of this we have in Exodus 12:13-23. a man-child, a child of the promise, and comfort of his parents' advanced years, and the hope of future ages. After Joshua died, Josephs bones were reburied in Shechem: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph (Joshua 24:32). He knew that the prizes of earth were contemptible compared with the ultimate reward of God. (2.) He, too, died faithful. God must come first in our lives, or he comes nowhere. [2.] "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. They believed He would provide for them what He had promised. 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: 1. The way the people act I wouldn't blame Him. This was accordingly done, and the destroying angel passed over them, and slew the first-born of the Egyptians. Pharaoh's daughter is said to have been his only child, and was herself childless; and having found Moses, and saved him as she did, she resolved to take him and bring him up as her son; and so he stood fair to be in time king of Egypt, and he might thereby have been serviceable to Israel. 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