It probably accounted for the longevity of life, averaged nine hundred years or so. They were to leave the dead to bury their dead; and they did so. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. The difficulties Isaac's faith struggled with. O Lord our Lord how excellent is Thy name in all the earth. (2.) 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. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. His birth was long beyond any natural possibility for birth, and so he was in a sense received from the dead, a miracle child to begin with. Again the legends help to light up the picture. So should we all do. "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." This also was granted, but Enoch, having been granted a glimpse of Paradise, never came back to earth again. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. ". They tell how Abraham saw many flocks and herds and said to his mother: "Who is the lord of these?" And for this cause he is mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. Here were two persons, brethren, both of whom went in to worship God, and yet there was a vast difference. There is nothing here below so difficult for the natural mind; and for the simple reason that man can never rise above that which is caused. We believe in the wind, though we haven't seen the wind. "Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God." It's yours." Hence they apply some terms to the work of God in nature similar to what they apply to His work in grace. More than that, it caused him to remain patient when he did not experience the fulfilment of the promise in his lifetime. Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. They had looked for advance and triumph and peace and prosperity everywhere; on the contrary, they had come into reproach and shame, partly in their own persons, partly as becoming the companions of others who so suffered. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. The second part of the history of Joseph's death reads: "Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, 'God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.'. 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. Sometimes a man may have to sacrifice personal relationships. It is a great mercy to be free from wicked laws and edicts; but, when we are not, we must use all lawful means for our security. Have enough faith and you can drive any kind of car you want or live in any kind of home you want if you just have enough faith." In all the other passages of the epistle the meaning of the word is, that He took His seat, or simply sat down there. (ii) Philo, the great Alexandrian Jewish interpreter, saw in Enoch the great pattern of repentance. He satisfies us with the perfectness with which Christ has washed us from our sins in His blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. This prediction of Joseph could have rested only on faith in the promise of God. As the proof of this, God has prepared for them a city, a happiness suitable to the relation into which he has taken them. They donned spiked iron gloves. A parepidemos was a person who was staying there temporarily and who had his permanent home somewhere else. when near his end.. The account is in Exodus 12:12-48. This then is the monument for such as we are. 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. 3. When Moses was born, by faith his parents hid him. It is true that victims were sometimes slain in ratifying a covenant, and thus were the seal of that covenant; but, first, they were not essential; and, secondly and chiefly, , the covenanter or contracting party had in no case to die in order to make the contract valid. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? That though he had lived and died in Egypt, yet he did not live and die an Egyptian, but an Israelite. They do not believe that God called all things into being. They believed He would provide for them what He had promised. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! The reward of his faith in this great trial (; Hebrews 11:19): he received his son from the dead in a figure, in a parable. For most of us much of their impact may be lost, for this reason--phrase after phrase is a reminiscence. In short, the word in itself may mean either; but this is no proof that it may indifferently or without adequate reason be translated both ways. There is no sanction here, of course, of the vulgar and outrageous error that pastors give an account of the souls of their flock. 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Even the Greeks saw its horror. The one is what may be called the objective glory; the other is the subjective condition of those that compose the bride, the Lamb's wife. The greater part of the affections of the Christian are drawn out toward our Saviour by all this scene of sin and sorrow through which we are passing on to heaven. Moving on ahead now, a jump of several hundred years here. Legend tells how Amram and Jochebed, the parents of Moses ( Exodus 6:20), were troubled by the decree of Pharaoh. In a home one partner became a Christian and the other did not; the children became Christians and the parents did not. Another great call was, to beware "lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." A son for whom he waited so long, whom he received in so extraordinary a manner, upon whom his heart was setto have this son offered up as a sacrifice, and that by his own hand; it was a trial that would have overset the firmest and the strongest mind that ever informed a human body. None of the patriarchs entered into the full possession of the promises that God had made to Abraham. He was always an outsider and only on payment a member of the community. Faith discerns this, and determines and acts accordingly. Man was tried by all sorts of tests from time to time God knew perfectly well, and even declared here and there, the end from the beginning; but He would make it manifest to every conscience, that all He got from man in these His varied dealings was sin. This was also a grand point of distinction. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. Hallo Bestemming kiezen Alle. He does not actually mention these things. Observe, [1.] The story of the promise of a son to Abraham and Sarah is told in Genesis 17:15-22; Genesis 18:9-15; Genesis 21:1-8. There is nothing capricious about the usage. It is easy to see how this passage can be read against the terrible happenings of these days. [Note: Ibid., p. Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. Testing Abraham. So that God did not recognize Abraham's work of the flesh. His faith influenced his practice. As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. But when the light broke he ran out crying, "Now I know! He may leave something which will grow and spread like a canker; or he may leave something fine which blossoms and flourishes without end. Hebrews 11:22. 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. In the second part of the passage the writer to the Hebrews tells what these men did and others like them in a series of machine-gun-like phrases. Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. 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? One day he said to his brother: "Remove thy foot; thou standest on my property; the plain is mine." Then he descends to a new or fresh covenant (not , as elsewhere, but ), the recently inaugurated covenant for the two houses of the ancient people. 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. There is no necessity for considering anything else, but that the Spirit of God, forecasting the future, was pleased to conceal the line of Melchisedec's parentage, or descendants if any, of their birth or death. 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). [2.] Continues after advertising. To Moses belonged the faith to attempt what appeared to be the most insurmountable fences in the certainty that God would help the man who refused to turn back and insisted on going on. Hebrews 11:22. Lord, we believe and we trust and we know that Your Word is sure. 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. They had sufficient to bear the charges of their journey; and flesh and blood, a corrupt counsellor, would be sometimes suggesting to them a return. The word is used of the Jews when they were captives in Babylon and in Egypt. They were persuaded of the truth of the promises. At the same time he exhorts the believers as to their chiefs, that is, those who guided them spiritually. Like Father Like Son -- both spoke of being buried in Canaan. Here is some outstanding insight on the story of Abraham offering up his son Isaac to the LORD. 4. In itself it does not say how Enoch died. It's interesting to me that David doesn't get much mention here, just his name listed. Death is a metamorphosis. In other cases the epistle to the Hebrews speaks of sanctification by God's call, and Christ's blood. [3.] (iii) Some have seen in death sheer extinction. If we take God at his word and stake everything on him, even when there seems to be nothing but a blank wall in front of us, the way of escape will open up. Swinburne best of all caught this mood of world-weariness in The Garden of Proserpine: There are those for whom death is good because it is the end of life. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. 24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. (i) It is belief in God against the world. 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. . BELIEVING THE INCREDIBLE ( Hebrews 11:11-12 ). If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? THE DEFIANCE OF SUFFERING ( Hebrews 11:35-40 ). These nomads from the desert had no artillery and no siege-engines. I build my faith on that.". For everyone at some time there comes something for which there seems to be no reason and which defies explanation. Separate Line. XI. Abel ran to the hills but Cain pursued him, saying: "The hills are mine." To him there had come this incomprehensible demand. Faith--the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. He demonstrates its vicarious nature and value from the sacrifices so familiar to all then, and to the Jew particularly, in connection with the covenant that required them Now his rapid mind seizes, under the Spirit's guidance, the other well-known sense of the word, namely, as a testamentary disposition, and shows the necessity of Christ's death to bring it into force. But in chapter 8. (4.) True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. And so he made them promise, "Now when you return to the land, I want you to take my bones out of Egypt and take them back to the land." (c) In Hebrews 11:13 he uses the word parepidemos ( G3927) . which cleave to Christ the rejected King, and Holy Sufferer, who is now in glory above. "To Gaza." God's people are, and always have been, a reproached people. At such a time there is only one thing to do--to obey and to do so without resentment, saying: "God, you are love! God then has provided some better thing for us. II. He argues that the word "new" puts the other out of date, and this to make room for a better. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, ; Genesis 12:1. 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 We should do the same. The account of this we have in Exodus 12:13-23. "Isaiah, the sixty-first chapter, and the prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the good tidings to the meek; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the day of the vengeance of our God." They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. Are you supposed to die in faith? Second, to see the abode of the wicked so that he might know what the punishment of the evil was like. They all died in faith, believing the promise that God would, indeed, send His salvation through His Son. Seeing Him. Every one of them refused what the world calls greatness and staked everything on God--and history proved them right. But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. Early in history then God is testifying of righteousness through faith. They disobeyed the order of the Pharaoh. Though I have never seen God, the evidence of His existence creates that faith in my heart.As we pointed out this morning, there are many things that we believe in that we don't and haven't seen. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." The Christians gained Him in a far more excellent way after the pattern of resurrection, as Abraham at the close received Isaac as it were from the dead. The secret of victorious living is to face God before we face men. He responded, 'I pray thee then, if he can not come to me, please send him back to warn my brothers that they don't come to this awful place.' God had before this tempted or tried the faith of Abraham, when he called him away from his country and father's house,when by a famine he was forced out of Canaan into Egypt,when he was obliged to fight with five kings to rescue Lot,when Sarah was taken from him by Abimelech, and in many other instances. Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. He amassed an army and invaded that country. God is again to be found of us through Christ, the second Adam. We translate it, "Jehovah will provide." let us now prepare an ark, secure an interest in Christ, and in the ark of the covenant, and do it speedily, before the door be shut, for there is not salvation in any other. (1.) The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. By the fall we have lost God; we have lost the divine light, life, love, likeness, and communion. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ). Do I have the faith, the quality of faith that endures? [2.] But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. He rests confidingly on the cross, that only valid moral basis before God; at the same time he is waiting for the glory that is to be revealed. It is the most beautiful adventure in life." "And who is the lord of Nimrod?" How excellent are Your works towards us your children. He was so lovely a child that his parents determined to hide him in their house. 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. So that means Abraham was probably one hundred and twenty-five by this time. But then there are impediments as well as sin, by which the enemy would keep us from the race set before us; whilst God carries on His discipline in our favour. Well, she was eavesdropping over in the tent, listening to what the Lord was saying to Abraham. 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. 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. That's what death is to the child of God. It begins with Abel, one of the first saints, and the first martyr for religion, of all the sons of Adam, one who lived by faith, and died for it, and therefore a fit pattern for the Hebrews to imitate. The Christian believes in the spirit rather than the senses. But would a Jew infer hence that it was only the city of David he was speaking of? But when evening came, the sun sank in the west and Abraham said: "No! Noah planted a teak tree and in twenty years it grew to such a size that out of it he was able to build the entire ark. 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. You have the riches of Egypt at your disposal. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites, under Joshua their leader, before the walls of Jericho. One of the finest men who ever lived in Athens was Aristides, who was called "the just." In the original, the meaning of the story is difficult. He was said to be the first to put pen to paper and instruct men from books. In Sparta xenos ( G3581) was the equivalent of barbaros ( G915) , barbarian. This is the fact. As the result of enduring the cross, having despised the shame, the word for sitting down here has a remarkably beautiful shade of meaning different from what is given in all the other occurrences. . The supports of Abraham's faith (; Hebrews 11:10): He looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. What comes in between the two? When Sarah heard it she laughed within herself ( Genesis 18:12). For Christ is not entered into holies made with hands, figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.". Here observe. How could this be disputed by one who simply believed Psalms 110:1-7? 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. To Abraham there was given the vision; and, even when his body was wandering in Palestine, his soul was at home with God. Now it is evident that in the Old Testament the distinction was not made between flesh and spirit in the way in which we have it brought out in the general doctrine of Christianity. It is also founded on one of their own prophets. Suffering is to be chosen rather than sin, there being more evil in the least sin than there can be in the greatest suffering. others were tortured, not accepting deliverance ( Hebrews 11:35 ); Their faith caused them to make their stand firm for God and they were tortured for their faith. As Barrie made Peter Pan say: "To die will be an awfully big adventure." Clement of Alexandria said: "We have no fatherland on earth." A most searching and practical question, the very unseen hinge in God Himself on which not Christianity only, but all blessing, turns for heaven and earth, at least as far as the fallen creation is concerned. Here we have the faith of a leader and of a people who were prepared to attempt the impossible at the command of God, realizing that the greatest barrier in the world is no barrier if God be there to help us overpass it. "For a testament is of force after men are dead (or, in case of dead men, ): since it is never of force when the testator liveth. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. Upon his mind; it impressed his soul with a fear of God's judgment: he was. 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." But he said to them: "Though you rail at me now, the time will come when I shall rail at you; for you will learn to your cost who it is that punishes the wicked in this world and reserves for them a further punishment in the world to come.". But having looked up to Him who is above all, he speaks of the highest group next to God in His judicial character, namely, the Old Testament saints. By this 29 th verse, his recounting has already lifted up Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and his family, and Moses. This Christian hope is such that it dictates all a man's conduct. ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. 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. 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. To what then are we come? There are many who believe in God but do not believe that he cares. The answer is, by sacrifice. We shall not want opportunities to revolt from God; but we must show the truth of our faith and profession by a steady adherence to him to the end of our days. does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." 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. Of Christ who was given up to death, who is risen and gone above, in whom we find all the blessing promised, and after a better sort. The writer to the Hebrews goes on to say that it was precisely because the great heroes of the faith lived on that principle that they were approved by God. When common sense pronounced the situation hopeless, she had the uncommon sense to see beyond the situation. 2. First of all, there is in this verse the glaring omission of the name of Adam, the mighty progenitor of the human race, neither he nor Eve, the mother of all living, being mentioned; and the circumstances that makes this omission so eloquent is that the author of Hebrews is embarking on a kind of roll-call of all the heroes of the past. Isaac and Jacob were heirs of the same promise; for the promise was renewed to Isaac (. Second, there is this strange and eerie thought that Cain had discovered a new sin. 1. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. 2. This statement is so much the more remarkable, because in the beginning of this epistle he had pointed out what became God. [2.] Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. Unpuzzling Hebrews: A New Translation & Commentary : Sims, Thomas: Amazon.nl: Boeken. 3. 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. (2.) (2.) Let me emphasize that God has never given such a command, either before or after Abraham's time. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Those who have been marked out must ever remember and acknowledge free and distinguishing grace. Many Samaritans are believing, being baptized, being filled with the Holy Spirit. [2.] 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. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." God preferred the gift of Abel to the gift of Cain who, moved to bitter jealousy, murdered his brother and became an outcast upon the earth. 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. Strengthened by the LORD, may you abound in all things in Christ to the glory and the praise and the honor of our God, our Savior, and our Lord. The people never forgot what great things God had done for them and, when some great effort was called for, they nerved themselves for it by remembering them. There are two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called. He has brought in redemption in present accomplishment, and at the same time He has given scope for a brighter hope, founded on His mighty work on the cross, measured by Christ's glory as its present answer at the right hand of God. If Abraham had ever so many sons, this was the only son who could convey to all nations the promised blessing. Adam then gave the girl to Abel and Cain was sorely vexed. Jehovah sees. It is sometimes necessary for the Christian to take the way to which the voice of God is calling him without knowing what the consequences will be. He was willing to do this for he reckoned that God was able to raise him even from the dead. And we go to the story of Abraham, where God said unto Abraham, "Abraham," and he said, "Here am I." Thursday, January 12, 2023 Hebrews 12:5 -- On Love and Memory "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" Hebrews 12:5 This points out a couple of areas where we are frequently weak. Like Abraham he has to go out not knowing where he is going. But this was the way God commanded them to take, and he loves to do great things by small and contemptible means, that his own arm may be made bare. (1.) 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