Such a man, even as Cain was, is banished from the face of God. For, [1.] Two Horizons Commentary Sale. They were not mindful of that country whence they came. 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. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. And they fractured his fingers and his arms and his legs and his elbows." 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. And so they saw the promises. He collapsed and one of the soldiers kicked him violently in the stomach to make him rise. By the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the author is rounding third base in his sermon. Yet, I do not doubt His existence, because of the evidence that is all around. Observe, (1.) You're forgetting something, Dad." He has nothing more to do with sin; He will judge man who rejects Himself and slights sin. He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. (iii) In spite of everything they never wished to go back. The fruits and rewards of her faith. [1.] Abraham saw Christ's day, when it was afar off, and rejoiced. All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other. (1.) She protected them and enabled them to make their escape; and in return, when Jericho was taken she and her family were saved from the general slaughter. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. We should do the same. VII. [2.] He that possesses the one must not eschew the other. 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. "Woe to a man of such an age," said Abraham, "who adores the work of one day!" Share Embed Download Donate . The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. That is the very purpose of our existence, to bring pleasure to God. of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Think of the shaking of heaven and earth being a promise! 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. Abraham saw Christ's day, when it was afar off, and rejoiced, ; John 8:56. I'm only a stranger and a pilgrim here. They had been listening to the Old Testament stories and determined that they too would offer a sacrifice. Hebrews 9:1-28 brings us into the types of the Levitical ritual, priesthood and sacrifice. It is easy to argue: "Why should I refuse the pleasure of the moment for an uncertain future?" 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. He worshipped idols and tried to compel Isaiah to take part in his idolatry and to approve of it. There it was more particularly the activity of faith; here it is the suffering of faith. But I am also interested that I have that faith that will see me through the hardships, the sufferings, the testings. (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. THE HEROES OF THE FAITH ( Hebrews 11:32-34 ). Joseph was eminent for his faith, though he had not enjoyed the helps for it which the rest of his brethren had. Above all things, he is the God of the gallant adventurer. [3.] They, without the finished work of Christ, could not enter in to the kingdom of God. "Just have enough faith and you'll never be sick. [2.] His wish was fulfilled (Joshua 24:32; Acts 4:16). THE DEFIANCE OF SUFFERING ( Hebrews 11:35-40 ). That strange old story is told in Joshua 6:1-20. The sun rose in all its glory and Abraham said: "Surely the sun is God, the Creator!" Abraham lived till Isaac was seventy-five years old, and Jacob fifteen. Moving ahead, the successor to Moses was Joshua. He was always an outsider and only on payment a member of the community. They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. "We should thus ourselves become an example of impiety to the young, if we became to them an excuse for eating the unclean." Our being brought to God supposes, and is founded on the fact, that our sins are gone perfectly by His one offering; otherwise no madness is greater than indulging such a thought. He first brings us into the joy and nearness of His presence. In a home one partner became a Christian and the other did not; the children became Christians and the parents did not. This statement is so much the more remarkable, because in the beginning of this epistle he had pointed out what became God. A paroikos ( G3941) was not very much above a slave in the social scale. (6.) By it he, being dead, yet speaketh. Manasseh the evil son of Hezekiah ordered him sawed in two. Take each of you offerings in your hand and go, sacrifice to the Lord and he will decide." Then, the legend tells, the Egyptians struck upon a cruel scheme. It was not that the Christians were foolishly other-worldly, detaching themselves from the life and work of this world; but they always remembered that they were people on the way. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with reverence, he prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith ( Hebrews 11:7 ). The epistle sets before us the seat of glory prepared on high; the Revelation speaks of the bride represented as a glorious golden city with figures beyond nature. That was a wicked and a cruel edict, that all the males of the Israelites should be destroyed in their infancy, and so the name of Israel must be destroyed out of the earth. Abraham said, 'They have the law and the prophets; if they will not believe the law and the prophets, neither would they believe, even though one came back from the dead. It is a happy thing where yoke-fellows draw together in the yoke of faith, as heirs of the grace of God; and when they do this in a religious concern for the good of their children, to preserve them not only from those who would destroy their lives, but from those who would corrupt their minds. 'Ye are come unto Mount Zion,' the dwelling-place of the living God, from whose lips there will steal into the ears and the hearts of those who keep near Him, gracious words of consolation, so thrilling, so soothing, so enlightening, so searching, so encouraging, that they which hear them shall say, 'Speak yet again, that I may be blessed.' "For the law made nothing perfect" is a parenthesis. Their condition: Strangers and pilgrims. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors' studies worldwide, this new thirteen-volume edition marshals the most current evangelical scholarship . To such death is the adventure of supreme discovery. The intention here was not to dwell either on the scene in which their waiting was put to the test, the wilderness, or on anything that could insinuate the settled position of Israel in the land. When we are faced with any great and demanding task, God is the ally we must never leave out of the reckoning. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ours should as well. (ii) It passed into dawning realization. Observe here, (1.) We often say, "It is good to be akin to an estate;" but surely it is good to be akin to the covenant. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 Because the Holy Ghost bears this witness, and nothing less, to the perfectness of the work of Christ. I say not absolutely all its great truths. The blessing of Jacob is given in Genesis 48:9-22. The actings of her faith. Now is it an axiom, that a covenant-maker must die to give it force? A. It is not only that we believe it, but we understand it thereby. They cut out the tongue of the fourth brother before they submitted him to like tortures. "We don't know what fate [does he not believe in providence?] In 4 Ezra the writer says: "It came to pass when they practised ungodliness before thee, that thou didst choose one from among them whose name was Abraham; him thou didst love and to him only thou didst reveal the end of the times, secretly, by night" (4: 13). The supports of his faith. Nothing can be more admirable than this reserve of God. For there is seen not only the proof that the Messiah is the One whom God pronounced by an oath "a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec," but the glorious seat He has taken at the right-hand of God is now worked into this magnificent pleading. He had to pay an alien tax. 2. 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. When Oliver Cromwell was arranging for the education of his son Richard, he said: "I would have him learn a little history." It was by faith that he carried out the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch the children of his people. Although the blood on which that covenant was founded may be now long shed, when the covenant comes into force for them will it not be as fresh as the day the precious Victim died and shed His blood? (7.) It is not that the Christian is self-righteous; it is not that he is censorious; it is not that he goes about finding fault with other people; it is not that he says: "I told you so." As those who would follow the faithful steps of Abraham would die and would come into this compartment of hell, Abraham would say, "Don't worry, God's faithful. (2.) Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. (iv) Noah was righteous through faith. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. 11:32-34 And what more shall I say? 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. When we remember that the one who makes the promise is God, there comes the realization that however astonishing that promise may be, it must none the less be true. that they might obtain a better resurrection ( Hebrews 11:35 ): It's better to have a resurrection unto eternal life than resurrection unto damnation, and that they might have that better resurrection unto eternal life. (Verses 1-7.). To some extent this story has fallen into disrepute. At the end of his course there was a still heavier tax on him. He went out, not knowing whither he went. She had gone out of the way of her duty through unbelief, in putting Abraham upon taking Hagar to his bed, that he might have a posterity. In the town there was a widow called Judith. As it was God's will and the work of Christ, so the Holy Ghost is He who witnesses to the perfectness of it. Second, to see the abode of the wicked so that he might know what the punishment of the evil was like. Take care of that first and then come and offer your gift unto the Lord." And it is pleasant to see parents and children sojourning together in this world as heirs of the heavenly inheritance. lest he should undervalue the truer honour of being a son of Abraham, the father of the faithful; lest it should look like renouncing his religion as well as his relation to Israel; and no doubt both these he must have done if he had accepted this honour; he therefore nobly refused it. But they did not so fear as presently to give up their child; they considered that, if none of the males were preserved, there would be an end and utter ruin of the church of God and the true religion, and that though in their present state of servitude and oppression one would praise the dead rather than the living, yet they believed that God would preserve his people, and that the time was coming when it would be worth while for an Israelite to live. The exercise of Abraham's faith: he yielded an implicit regard to the call of God. (i) There are those who have thought of death as mysterious and inexplicable. 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." It is doubtless a great blessing to be joined to the visible church of God in profession and privilege, but more to be so in spirit and truth. Observe, [1.] 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. Euripides said: "Envy is the greatest of all diseases among men." (3.) Those therefore that so translate our two verses have invented a meaning for the phrase, instead of accepting its legitimate sense as attested by all the monuments of the Greek tongue; whereas the moment that we give it the meaning assigned here rightly by the better translators, that is, the sense of "testator" and "testament," all runs with perfect smoothness, and with striking aptitude. An instance of his faith in conquering the world. The writer to the Hebrews goes further. Author: VICTOR C. Pfitzner Genre: Religion Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament Item Width: 4.4in. The fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. we read how. Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. His last words were: "Why fear death? The reason I take to be, that the apostle meets the Jewish believer where he is, as much as possible giving credit for what was really true in the Old Testament saints, and so in the Jewish mind. Search Results by Book. and so; in consequence of his remembering the prophecy of the exodus. Asked to take out the biggest, baddest enemy of the people that had oppressed Israel for seven years, he nervously asked God for signs of assurance. Hereby they declared plainly that they sought another country (Hebrews 11:14), heaven, their own country. Hallo, inloggen. "As Isaac was three days and three nights dead in the mind of his father, so Jesus three days and three nights before His resurrection. Not only is it because He is the only one capable of being a perfect sacrifice but as verse 22 says, "the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed in blood." . They believed He would provide for them what He had promised. So Abraham began to journey not knowing where he was going. 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. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. A strong and hale man of seventy came in. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? Here consider. Again, in writing to the Corinthians, he said, "There was a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I don't know;) but he was caught up to the third heaven. But after the night was passed, the moon sank and the sun rose again and Abraham said: "Truly these heavenly bodies are no gods, for they obey law; I will worship him who imposed the law upon them. 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. A.V. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. This is just what the believer receives, feeds on, and lives accordingly. 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. (iv) Some have seen in death the supreme terror and the unmitigated evil. He has but one settled purpose of goodness about us; He watches and judges for our good, and nothing but our good. Cain said: "I have not the sense of this bird. 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. 2. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. They know that they cannot explain the existence of the world solely by reasoning from the things that can be seen (11:1-3). His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. Isaiah refused and was condemned to be sawn asunder with a wooden saw. They, presumptuously attempting to follow Israel through the Red Sea, being thus blinded and hardened to their ruin, were all drowned. He did not dispute with God why he should make an ark, nor how it could be capable of containing what was to be lodged in it, nor how such a vessel could possibly weather out so great a storm. As is usually the case, legend adds many a detail to this story. Immediately a Christian has set out on some enterprise sent him by God, he should feel that he has already passed the point of no return. 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. ), The strength of nature, as well as grace, is from God: he can make the barren soul fruitful, as well as the barren womb. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? The senses tell us to grasp the thing of the moment; the spirit tells us that there is something far beyond that. I know that you will not withhold anything from Me. [3.] 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. He says that it is an act of faith to believe that God made this world and adds that the things which are seen emerged from the things which are not seen. It was so sure to him that he instructed his sons to carry his bones with them for burial in Canaan. You remember, though, that Sarah's faith wasn't always so perfect. When we listen to men planning and arguing and thinking aloud, we get the impression of a vast number of things in this world which are known to be desirable but dismissed as impossible. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. There is evidence for the existence of God, and it causes me to believe in God. from weakness were made strong, showed themselves strong in warfare, routed the ranks of aliens. 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. [Note: Ibid., p. 13. (Exodus 4:22), so also will I make king . Here is the great function of life. "Be mindful of those in bonds, as bound with them; and of those which suffer adversity." The legends tell how Abraham was the son of Terah, commander of the armies of Nimrod. Witness that he was righteous, a justified, sanctified, and accepted person; this, very probably, was attested by fire from heaven, kindling and consuming his sacrifice. A priest is always in connection with the people of God, never as such with those that are outside, but a positive known relation with God "seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Nimrod sought to murder the infant but Abraham was concealed in a cave and his life saved. At any time it is an unhappy thing to be a stranger in a strange land, but in ancient days to this natural unhappiness there was added the bitterness of humiliation. Fascinating statement!Now he begins to list those men of faith from the Old Testament. Through his faith. They were confronted with "the wheels and racks and hooks and catapults and caldrons and frying pans and finger racks and iron hands and wedges and hot cinders." The manner in which scripture introduces him is such as to furnish a very striking type of Christ. It was a shattering humiliation for a king. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? 2. It is evident that in these we have the two main parts of Christianity. Hebrews 10:19-22. IX. Because he looked at the eternal aspect, the eternal reward, the eternal reward of following Jesus Christ. We are not come to Sinai, the mountain that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and a voice more terrible than that of the elements. (1.) In the Letter of Aristeas the writer says: "It is a fine thing to live and to die in one's native land; a foreign land brings contempt to poor men and shame to rich men, for there is the lurking suspicion that they have been exiled for the evil they have done." Another man writes that, however poor a home is, it is better to live at home than epi ( G1909) xenes ( G3581) , in a foreign country. But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. I'm passing through. A parepidemos was a person who was staying there temporarily and who had his permanent home somewhere else. But it is interesting, "I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again." But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant." Time and again in the early Church it happened. And we go to the story of Abraham, where God said unto Abraham, "Abraham," and he said, "Here am I." 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. Their descendants, when they were in the desert, often wished to go back to the fleshpots of Egypt. But in chapter 8. Then they heated sharp spits and applied them to his back; and piercing through his sides they burned away his bowels." Such is the true sense of the passage. That's all. IV. Faith is the ability to lay hold on that grace which is sufficient for all things in such a way that the things which are humanly impossible become divinely possible. Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. 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. In Ecclesiasticus ( Sir_29:22-28 ) there is a wistful passage: "Better the life of the poor under a shelter of logs. That, if our persons and offerings be accepted, it must be through faith in the Messiah. Then comes forth the wondrous counsel that was settled before either the sin of man, or the promises to the fathers, or the law which subsequently put man to the test. He is labouring for this, and with divine skill accomplishes it, by the testimonies of their own law and prophets. He was a miracle child. As the proof of this, God has prepared for them a city, a happiness suitable to the relation into which he has taken them. 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. Christ gave up his glory for the sake of mankind; and accepted scourging and shame and a terrible death. Joseph (Hebrews 11:22; this story is found in Genesis 50:24-25). Isaac and Jacob were heirs of the same promise; for the promise was renewed to Isaac (. Our hopes may never be realized but we must live in such a way that we shall hasten their coming. Above all, let them take care that they be not a shame and reproach to their God, and so provoke him to be ashamed of them; but let them act so as to be to him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory. The word used for mastering kingdoms is what Josephus, the Jewish historian, used of David. The eternal reward of living for Him so far outweighs any temporal advantage that I might have in living after the flesh. [3.] We have yet another instance of the faith of Moses, in keeping the passover and sprinkling of blood, Hebrews 11:28. After this chapter on faith, only the rhetorical culmination (12) and closing matters (13) remain. She dressed in all her finery, persuaded her people to let her out of the town and went straight to the camp of the Assyrians. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, they were in want, they were oppressed, they were maltreated--the world was not worthy of them--they wandered in desert places and on the mountains, they lived in caves and in holes of the earth. 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. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). 11:20-22 It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in the things concerning the future. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. Joseph had attained to greatness but it was the greatness of a stranger in a strange land; and yet they never doubted that the promise would come true. Under the inspiration of the prophetess Deborah, Barak assembled ten thousand young men and faced the fearful odds of the Canaanites with their nine hundred chariots of iron to win an almost incredible victory. They were not afraid of the king's commandment, Exodus 1:22. They were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy ( Hebrews 11:37-38 ): What a statement, remarkable statement, concerning these men. 2. "I will go home," he said. I don't like being led one step at a time. All true believers desire this better country. God said . The word is used of the Jews when they were captives in Babylon and in Egypt. I am not going to enter into any statement of facts as to this now, but there is no truth in its own place more important than that with which the apostle commences in this chapter, namely, that "through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." So it is said here, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Hebrews 10:32-39 . Christ never needed this, but we do. There is something of permanent greatness here. See also Hebrews 11:23-29 in other biblical comments: . Let us hold fast the profession of our hope [for so it should be] without wavering (for he is faithful that promised); and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. It was Cain who introduced murder into the world. Hebrews 11:22 "By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Hebrews 11:22 Context "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." (3.) Meanwhile we are told that He has obtained (not a temporary, but) "eternal redemption." (1.) When he argued like this he was not interested in the scientific side of the matter; he wanted to stress the fact that this is God's world. 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. 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