2. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. [2.] By faith Joseph, when he died - When about to die; see Genesis 50:24-25. When I start to get weak, and I start to question and I start to say, "Why, God?" You, as a Christian, ought to have the calm settled consciousness that God, looking on you, discerns not one spot or stain, but only the blood of Jesus Christ His Son that cleanses from all sin. The first brother refused to eat the unclean things. As, (1.) The commentary The Epistle to the Ephesians, by S. Kent Brown, is available now. "What kind of God is He that would require a man to offer his son as a human sacrifice?" Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you." Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. It was due to the faith of these men that the Jewish religion was not completely destroyed. Now is it an axiom, that a covenant-maker must die to give it force? Such is pre-eminently the bearing of this epistle to those who had no such frequent opportunities of profiting by his teaching as the Gentile churches. It is human to fear to miss the chance; but it is great to wait for the time of God--even when it seems like throwing a chance away. (2.) The twenty-four elders fall on their faces before the throne and take their crowns and cast them on the glassy sea and they say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor; for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created" ( Revelation 4:11 ). To the writer of the letter to the Hebrews Moses was pre-eminently the man of faith. So did Jacob in regard to Josephs sons, which was for him an act of faith in his old age. Xenos ( G3581) can even mean a refugee. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. And if I can see the hand of God in my hour of suffering, if I can see the hand of God in the moment of trial or affliction, then I can endure. Isaac has not yet had any children. a man-child, a child of the promise, and comfort of his parents' advanced years, and the hope of future ages. This was a final call; and how gracious! 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. In other cases the epistle to the Hebrews speaks of sanctification by God's call, and Christ's blood. Alas! That picture of the sojourner became a picture of the Christian life. Christianity turns everything to account. Many legends gathered around his name. She was delivered of a child, a man-child, a child of the promise, and comfort of his parents' advanced years, and the hope of future ages. 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. The secret of his endurance, that ability to see God and to see the work of God and the hand of God. They talked; they both knew Rome and they had been friendly. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. Sota, fol. He believed the message which God sent him. If I know what Christ's redemption has accomplished for all who believe, I must know that God has given me this. 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.' These nomads from the desert had no artillery and no siege-engines. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. Was this Paul's doctrine? He is called their God. This was in the same spirit of faith exhibited by Jacob when he gave a similar commandment concerning his remains, requiring that he be buried in Canaan, not in Egypt; Joseph's bones were brought along. The story we have ; Joshua 6:5, &c. Here observe, 1. He prayed for them, that they might both be blessed of God. There have been many who have sacrificed their careers to what they took to be the will of God. The incident from the life of Joseph comes from Genesis 50:22-26. 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. "Ye are come unto mount Zion," which was the highest Old Testament point of grace on earth. (2.) 2. It was because of faith that the men of old time had their record attested. The Levitical priesthood did not bring perfection (11) III. In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. (2.) That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. X. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. 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. because God had some better plan for us, that they, without us, should not find all his purposes fulfilled. When they came to Haran, he could have turned around and gone back into Babylon. He does not actually mention these things. At one time Bunyan was tortured by uncertainty. As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. If people have faith, it means they believe that things hoped for according to Gods promises will be achieved and that unseen powers of God are real. The latter is not referred to, because it represents the millennial glory; the former is, because it finds its proper fulfilment in that which is made good in the Christian scheme now. Man never did nor could settle it without the word of God. It was a figure and earnest of the glorious resurrection of all true believers, whose life is not lost, but hid with Christ in God. To wait is even harder than to adventure. This was why Joseph left instructions about his burial. The two extremes, offensive to every lover of the vi media of religious rationalism, must be combined in Christianity and the Christian man, if he is to maintain it unimpaired and pure. The consideration of this should inflame the affections, enlarge the desires, and excite the diligent endeavours, of the people of God after this city that he has prepared for them. Antiochus had an interest in Egypt. Then comes a total change: God takes up the matter Himself, acting in view of man's sin; but in Jesus, in the very Messiah for whom the Jews were waiting, he has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and has accomplished this mighty work, as admirably befitting the goodness of God, as it alone descends low enough to reach the vilest man, and yet deliver him with a salvation which only the more humbles man and glorifies God. 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. By faith Moses, when he was come of age ( Hebrews 11:24 ). This secret warning he was to communicate to the world, who would be sure to despise both him and his message. It was, parabolically, like that of Christ himself. We may be fully assured of his existence, of his providence, and of his gracious and powerful presence with us. What's going on here?" Abraham said: "My father, a woman brought this dish of meat for your gods; they all wanted to have it and the strongest knocked the heads off the rest, lest they should eat it all." 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. ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) Jesus has removed the sting of death by taking away our sin. "And, as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. And he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. Again, we usually in our minds picture Isaac, because of the Sunday school papers that we had, of being maybe eight to ten years old. We are still walking here below; we are in the place therefore where infirmity is felt, where Satan tempts, where we may fail through unwatchfulness. In addition to these audio and video commentaries, you can review the available text commentaries. The supports of his faith. I see its effect as I bring opposite poles together and I watch them attract. by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. 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. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor's Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. 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." This calls us not only to leave sin, but sinful company, and whatever is inconsistent with our devotedness to him. If we know His perfect love and the wisdom of it, we have the best answer to silence every murmuring thought or wish of the heart. 2. 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. (viii) Above all, there are those, like Enoch, who have seen death as an entering into the nearer presence of him with whom they have lived for so long. [5.] 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. When Sarah comes on the scene, her faith is spoken of that in her old age (she was plus ninety), had never had a child. He describes Him thus in His judicial character. [3.] But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. Greek athletes trained naked and some of the Jewish priests even went so far as to seek to obliterate the mark of circumcision from their bodies so that they might become completely hellenized. His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. 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. 3. God usually warns sinners before he strikes; and, where his warnings are slighted, the blow will fall the heavier. Again, the whole idea here in the chapter is that it is through faith that a person is accounted righteous before God. He does not mean by this the worst of sinners, but saving believers to the uttermost, bringing through every difficulty those "that come unto God by him." 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. One of the old Greek fathers said: "Up to this time no man had died so that Cain should know how to kill. 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. Then about 168 B.C. He went down to Hebron and back up to the area of Shechem. Mattathias, moved to uncontrollable wrath, seized a sword and slew his apostate countryman and the king's commissioner with him. The destruction of the Egyptians. (1) Gideon was cowardly at first; God had to coax him to to obey. To the Hebrews Moses was the supreme figure in their history. Interesting prophecy. Hebrews 10:32-39 . The trumpet call about being strong in warfare and routing the ranks o the aliens would immediately make men think of the unforgettable glories of the Maccabaean days. 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). Noah's life was one continued and concentrated preparation for what God had said would come. 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. It is not seniority of birth, but grace, that makes men truly honourable. Never used by Paul. 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. That's what death is to the child of God. And the writer probably was in his mind just taking from the beginning the men of the Old Testament who by faith their lives were made outstanding.Now here's what they did through faith. Of the faith of Isaac, Hebrews 11:20. A lot of people from the secular world take this particular story to put down the Bible and to put down God. THE HEROES OF THE FAITH ( Hebrews 11:32-34 ). There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". With the apostle Paul ( Phil. Share Embed Download Donate . In short, there is. They suggested to him that they would bring him dressed meat which was not pork, and that he should eat it pretending that it was pork. Buy Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews by Charles Spurgeon, Elliot Ritzema Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9781577996408 The exercise of Abraham's faith: he yielded an implicit regard to the call of God. God saved his family for his sake; it was well for them that they were Noah's sons and daughters; it was well for those women that they married into Noah's family; perhaps they might have married to great estates in other families, but then they would have been drowned. Then, very gently, Popilius told Antiochus that Rome did not wish him to proceed with the campaign but wished him to go home. It is not the hope which looks forward with wistful longing; it is the hope which looks forward with utter conviction. He does not reason from the singular circumstance that there was no incense, any more than sacrifice. Envy is that poison which can poison all life and kill all goodness. 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. This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. 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. 2M views 7 years ago #BibleVideo #BibleProject #Hebrews Watch our overview video on the book of Hebrews, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. (6.) And they believed the promise of God that He would provide salvation, and they died believing that promise of God. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. "We don't know what fate [does he not believe in providence?] Rahab also is given a verse to herself in Hebrews 11:31. Observe, [1.] 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. (2. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." The Witness of a Dead Man's Bones .Joseph's body was embalmed. He now supports this statement with illustrations from the Old Testament. Had they been taunted with having no altar, possessing nothing so holy and so glorious in its associations? 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. "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience; in all things willing to live honestly. It is of men who never believed that God was on the side of the big battalions and were willing to take tremendous and even terrifying risks for him. If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. 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. How great a temptation Moses was under. I feel the power of God. These men had the something beyond--and so may we. Learn here, (1.) Then they heated sharp spits and applied them to his back; and piercing through his sides they burned away his bowels." The circumstance of time is taken notice of, when Moses by his faith gained this victory over the world, in all its honours, pleasures, and treasures: 3. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. He does not take them in any particular order but, as we shall see when we look at the outstanding characteristics of each, there is a line of thought which binds them all together. The golden altars of the shewbread and of the incense, the golden candlestick, the golden vessels, even the curtains and the veils were taken. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. We see the evidence of it. First, there is envy. He did refuse. It often happens that simply by being himself the Christian passes judgment on other people. Why turn back to "meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein?". The answer is, that the language is peculiar and precise in these same two verses, requiring not a covenant but a testament, and therefore the sense of testament here is the preferable one, and not covenant. The blessing which Isaac gave is in Genesis 27:28-29; Genesis 27:39-40. 2. Now truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ( Hebrews 11:14-15 ). The belief of this will carry us through the greatest difficulties and trials that we can meet with. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. After the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua, he allowed each tribe to go to its own home. She offered him a way into Jerusalem by stealth; and then, having gained his confidence, she slew him in his drunken sleep with his own dagger, cut off his head and carried it back to her people. That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. "This is the covenant," says he, "that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. He only recognized that work of the spirit, the son of promise, Isaac. Moses in his day and generation shared in the sufferings of Christ, choosing the loyalty that led to suffering rather than the ease which led to earthly glory. Two Horizons Commentary Sale. I don't have time to tell about Gideon [now we're in the book of Judges], Barak, Samson, Jephthae ( Hebrews 11:32 ); These are all men from the book of Judges who became judges of Israel and who through their faith delivered the children of Israel from their enemies.Going on from the book of Judges to. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. How easily we even forget that we are not Jews but Christians! Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? Legend tells that with Enoch the Angel of Death made a compact of friendship. If God had reserved the epistle to the Hebrews until after He sent forth His armies and burned up their city, destroying their polity root and branch, it might have been retorted that the Christians valued the Jewish ritual as loner as it was available, and only gave it up when earthly temple and sacrifice and priest were gone. So Joseph died, being 110 years old. (3.) There is condemnation for the sinner; but there is still greater condemnation for the man who teaches another to sin. So he died, declaring: "I am dying by fiery torments for the law's sake.". In the blood of the Lamb, sprinkled on the door-posts of Israel, we see the type of God's judgment of their sins; next, in the passage of the Red sea, the exhibition of His power, which, in the most conspicuous way, saved them, and destroyed for ever their enemies. Abel took refuge on the mountains but Cain still pursued him saying: "The mountains, too, are mine." 1. He will have nothing more to do with sin. The Bible said that God said, "Let there be light." Ga naar primaire content.nl. Our failure and our fear are so often due to the fact that we try to do things alone. Faith brings God into everything. So that God did not recognize Abraham's work of the flesh. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. That, if our persons and offerings be accepted, it must be through faith in the Messiah. ), This was an exercise of his faith. For, [1.] They, without the finished work of Christ, could not enter in to the kingdom of God. Further, that this Priest was to be a living one, in some most singular manner to be an undying Priest, was made evident beyond question, because in that Psalm it is said, "He testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." the riches and honours of joseph, as they could not secure him from death, so they did not make him unmindful of it; nor was he afraid of dying, or uneasy about it; nor did his prosperity make him proud, or above speaking to his brethren, nor revengeful to them, nor unthoughtful of their future afflictions; nor did his affluence of For everyone at some time there comes something for which there seems to be no reason and which defies explanation. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. He only removes obstructions, and maintains our communion with Himself; surely this ought to settle every question for the believer. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. (2.) We shall find another use before we have done, which I hope to notice in its place. I build my faith on that.". Twice Moses forsook Egypt: [1.] A woman came in with a dish of meat for the gods. By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Notwithstanding their meanness by nature, their vileness by sin, and the poverty of their outward condition, God is not ashamed to be called. 1. The heavenly state will be most perfect of all; for there all the promises will have their full accomplishment. Isaac, Jacob and Joseph were all certain that the promise to Abraham would be fulfilled. Perhaps more likely in the time in which the writer to the Hebrews wrote, it would remind his hearers of that epic but bloodthirsty incident told in the Book o Judith, one of the apocryphal books. 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