It has been said of Noah that "he threw the dark scepticism of the world into relief against his own shining faith in God." Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. When Bunyan was due for trial he said: "With God's comfort in my poor soul, before I went down to the justices I begged of God that if I might do more good by being at liberty than in prison, then I might be set at liberty. The whole list is of men who faced incredible odds for God. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. He does not actually mention these things. (iv) These men were able to go on because they were haunted by the things beyond. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." Those who forsook Egypt must expect the wrath of men; but they need not fear it, for they are under the conduct of that God who is able to make the wrath of man to praise him, and restrain the remainder of it. Our hopes may never be realized but we must live in such a way that we shall hasten their coming. (3.) But where in the scripture, the Old Testament, does it speak of the resurrection after three days? 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. The actings of his faith: He blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. It is extraordinary how Rahab became imprinted on the memory of Israel. The king was determined that hidden children should be sought out and killed. First, there is envy. This was also a grand point of distinction. "There was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called holy. [5.] He subscribed to God's wisdom, as fittest to direct; and submitted to his will, as fittest to determine every thing that concerned him. The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. The faith of all three of these patriarchs affected their descendants. He even commanded them to take his bones with them when they left. 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. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. , By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the departing. 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. There are those who seek to be righteous by their faith in the Lord and those who seek to be righteous by their works. He draws attention to the well-known rites of the atonement day; at any rate, if not of that day exclusively, wherever there was a beast the body of which was burnt without the camp, and the blood carried within the veil. Adam then gave the girl to Abel and Cain was sorely vexed. He was a miracle child. There we find these two facts. The supports of his faith. We often say, "It is good to be akin to an estate;" but surely it is good to be akin to the covenant. To put it simply--the secret of his faith was that Moses knew God personally. They talked; they both knew Rome and they had been friendly. God said, "Let the waters above the firmament be divided from the waters beneath the firmament." Wherever this blood is applied, the soul receives a whole Christ by faith, and lives upon him. To some, it has always been the terrifying unknown giving rise to what Hamlet called "that dread of something after death.". A strange mystery is the simple act of faith. He was changed by repentance from the life that is apart from God to the life that walks with God. 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. This passage (Hebrews 9:11-22) also sheds light on the question of why Christ had to die. It is also founded on one of their own prophets. (2.) What is here said of his faith, Hebrews 11:6. They had known God in His providence and dealings on the earth, though looking for a Messiah and His day. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. The belief of this will carry us through the greatest difficulties and trials that we can meet with. (2.) The reference is therefore plain and sure. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. 3. You remember, though, that Sarah's faith wasn't always so perfect. Nor is it pleasant to nature. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." 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. There is a story of two children who had been given a toy Noah's Ark as a present. Their sincerity appeared not only in not returning to their former country, but in desiring a better country, that is, a heavenly. "I can never attain to that." They must be very great, suitable to the greatness of the trial: He accounted that God was able to raise him from the dead, Hebrews 11:19. With only three hundred men Gideon won a victory over the Ammonites in days when they had terrorized Israel, a victory which went ringing down the centuries. How is it that anybody ordinarily gets an inheritance? The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. For, says he, "we have an altar," yea, more than that, an altar, "whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." Jacob gave blessings and Joseph gave instructions in the light of the nearness of death. We may be fully assured of his existence, of his providence, and of his gracious and powerful presence with us. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? Then shall they seek him, and find him, if they seek him with all their heart; and when once they have found him, as their reconciled God, they will never repent the pains they have spent in seeking after him. Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. Through faith, Enoch, as he walked with God, was translated that he should not see death, but before then he had this witness: he pleased God. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. Another story tells that, when Noah was building the ark, the people laughed at him and counted him mad. What is here reported of him. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. Seneca wrote: "The wise man will never provoke the wrath of mighty men; nay, he will turn aside from it; in just the same way as sailors in sailing will not deliberately court the danger of the storm." If any of the families of Israel had neglected the sprinkling of this blood upon their doors, though they should have spent all the night in prayer, the destroying angel would have broken in upon them, and slain their first-born. They all died in faith, believing the promise that God would, indeed, send His salvation through His Son. Had the energetic activity of faith been first noticed, it would have made more of man; but when the heart had been disciplined in quiet endurance, and lowly expectancy from God, then he could be clothed with the energy of the Spirit. "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. More than that, it caused him to remain patient when he did not experience the fulfilment of the promise in his lifetime. "The worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." He was a good governor but he had an almost abnormal love for all things Greek and saw himself as a missionary for the Greek way of life. 2. Because he lives, he has a permanent priesthood, always interceding for his own, and thus he is able completely to save those who trust in him. We do see by faith. When they offered their sacrifices unto the Lord, the Lord accepted Abel's sacrifice, but He rejected Cain's. At the moment when she was speaking, there seemed not one chance in a million that the children of Israel could capture Jericho. The traitors within the camp were silenced and looming defeat was turned into tumultuous victory. Behold, there is a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. He lived there in an ambulatory moving condition, living in a daily readiness for his removal: and thus should we all live in this world. He, of course, was referring to the Old Testament scriptures. So here he tells them to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man lack the grace of God." See Matthew 2:19; Matthew 9:18; Luke 7:2, etc. (2.) "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. And they believed the promise of God that He would provide salvation, and they died believing that promise of God. (b) In Hebrews 11:9 he uses the word paroikein ( G3939) , to sojourn, of Abraham. 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. 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. It is not seniority of birth, but grace, that makes men truly honourable. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." They did not send an army to oppose him; such was the might of Rome that they did not need to. Manasseh the evil son of Hezekiah ordered him sawed in two. But when Cain saw that his offering was rejected and Abel's was accepted, he was angry with the Lord for rejecting his offering. And it came to pass that the poor man died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; moreover also the rich man died. Cavour said that the first essential of a statesman is "the sense of the possible." (v) Because these men were what they were, God was not ashamed to be called their God. 11:35-40 Women received back their own folk as if they had been raised from the dead. Such is the true sense of the passage. As we read of these people of great faith, we see that they made their mark in history because of their faith. Please call the BYU Studies office at 801-422-6691 during business hours (Monday-Friday, 9 to 5 MST) to order. What more can I say? By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet ( Hebrews 11:7 ). (i) We must believe in God. The reasons will be given in a moment. Here were two persons, brethren, both of whom went in to worship God, and yet there was a vast difference. Observe here, (1.) 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. But this shows the main object of the Spirit of God in directing us for the type that applies to the believer now to an unsettled pilgrim-condition, not to Israel established in the land of promise. Indeed, at no time will its order be more apparent than at present; for I think there can be little doubt to any unbiassed Christian who enters with intelligence into the Old Testament prophecies, that there is yet to be an earthly sanctuary, and, consequently, earthly priests and sacrifices for Israel in their own land; that the sons of Zadok, as Ezekiel lets us know, will perpetuate the line at the time when the Lord shall be owned to be there, in the person of the true David their King, blessing His people long distressed but now joyful on earth. 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. The atonement was at least as real as our sin; and God Himself dealt with Christ as laying sin upon Him, and treating Him, the Great Substitute, as sin before Himself, that at one blow it might be all put away from before His face. She not only bade them welcome, but she concealed them from their enemies who sought to cut them off, and she made a noble confession of her faith, Joshua 2:9-11. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) Jesus has removed the sting of death by taking away our sin. His wish was fulfilled (Joshua 24:32; Acts 4:16). But he chose, rather, to identify himself with God's people; suffering the affliction of God's people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. The story we have ; Joshua 6:5, &c. Here observe, 1. Take each of you offerings in your hand and go, sacrifice to the Lord and he will decide." The readers too were to maintain their worship right to the end of life, persevering in faith in the future that God had foretold. 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. By the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the author is rounding third base in his sermon. (2.) Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. The ground of Noah's faitha warning he had received from God of things as yet not seen. All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. The senses say to a man: "Take what you can touch and taste and handle and enjoy.". It was by faith that Rahab, the harlot, did not perish with the disobedient because she had welcomed the scouts in peace. The Egyptian tried to secure some sort of immortality. In this passage the writer to the Hebrews lays down in addition the two great foundation acts of faith of the Christian life. None of the patriarchs entered into the full possession of the promises that God had made to Abraham. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. The reasons of their thus acting. Before Jesus came, there was no question of it among the Jews. Cain was the elder brother, but Abel has the preference. This made the hidden children of the Israelites cry, too, and so they were discovered and killed. Was Isaac his only son? And then, in the centre of all, we have God Himself. The point there is personal glory. Nimrod sought to murder the infant but Abraham was concealed in a cave and his life saved. Observe. For now God came out, so to speak, in His own power and grace, and, in the person of Christ on the cross, put away sin abolished it from before His face, and set the believer absolutely free from it as regards judgment. Such was the Priest of whom God spoke. Oh, you'll be changed, yes, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? Christ accounts himself reproached in their reproaches; and, while he thus interests himself in their reproaches, they become riches, and greater riches than the treasures of the richest empire in the world; for Christ will reward them with a crown of glory that fades not away. 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. These are the things of which the writer to the Hebrews is thinking; and these are things which we do well to remember. 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 FAITH WHICH DEFIED THE FACTS ( Hebrews 11:30-31 ). God said, "And when I pass through the land tonight and I see the blood, I will pass over that house and the first-born will be spared." I ask my brethren here if they are looking to God strenuously, earnestly, for themselves and for their children, not to allow but to oppose as their adversary every thing that tends to weaken either of these truths, which are our highest privilege and our truest glory as Christians here below. (c) In Hebrews 11:13 he uses the word parepidemos ( G3927) . We should do the same. Mattathias, moved to uncontrollable wrath, seized a sword and slew his apostate countryman and the king's commissioner with him. and so; in consequence of his remembering the prophecy of the exodus. He didn't build any homes. First let us take the things that can be explained against the Old Testament background. The faith of Joseph, Hebrews 11:22. So he died, declaring: "I am dying by fiery torments for the law's sake.". Through that faith he passed judgment on the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is the result of faith. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land: and the Egyptians attempting to do it were drowned ( Hebrews 11:28-29 ). As a result Amram put away his wife, not because he did not love her, but because he would spare her the sorrow of seeing her children killed. Isaiah 53 , "numbered with the transgressors in His death." True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. In my judgment it is correct to translate it both ways, never arbitrarily, but according to context. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. (1.) 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. O Lord our Lord how excellent is Thy name in all the earth. The real faith and the real courage are those which can take God's side when it seems doomed to defeat. 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. He made nothing of himself, because he knew they were God's people. (ii) The second act of faith was Moses' loyalty to his own people. And now by faith Joseph, when he was about ready to die, he was in Egypt, had great authority and power in Egypt, but he knew that one day the people of God must go back and possess the land that God had promised to Abraham. God has prescribed means and ways wherein he may be found; to with, a strict attention to his oracles, attendance on his ordinances, and ministers duly discharging their office and associating with his people, observing his providential guidance, and in all things humbly waiting his gracious presence. Buy Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews by Charles Spurgeon, Elliot Ritzema Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9781577996408 They never wearily gave up the journey; they lived in hope and died in expectation. The Lord said, "Go," and he said, "Where?" Never in all history has there been such a sadistic and deliberate attempt to wipe out a people's religion. Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. Observe. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. There was a time when Israel was threatened by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar led by his general Holofernes. He didn't build any cities. It is simply that the writer of the letter to the Hebrews saw even more deeply into the story. But a good point may be made by contrasting the idea which an Egyptian had when he arranged that his body should be embalmed, with the idea that Joseph had in arranging for the preservation of his bones. 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. Those who would find God in these ways of his must seek him diligently; they must seek early, earnestly, and perseveringly. So then I believe in the gods and I honour them, because again and again I have experienced their power." 123.]. A true believer is desirous, not only to be in covenant with God, but in communion with the people of God; and is willing to fare as they fare. They lashed him with whips and tied him to the wheel until he was dislocated and fractured in every limb. This his right of inheritance was through faith in Christ, as a member of Christ, a child of God, and, if a child, then an heir. (2.) It might paint the mental picture of the extraordinary healing of Hezekiah after he had turned his face to the wall to die ( 2 Kings 20:1-7). 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. And a lot has been made over that. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ). When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. And what then? But this time is not yet come. Biblical References: Hbr 11:23-30 . Like Father Like Son -- both spoke of being buried in Canaan. denoting the chosen people. It was a testimony of his righteousness. In the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation, where John sees the cherubim about the throne of God, worshipping the Lord, declaring the holiness and eternal character of God. He lives in it and he dies in it; and it is the possession of it which makes him act as he does. But he did not mean what so many people think he meant. Whether or not that promise comes depends on me." He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ( Hebrews 11:9 ): So here, when he came to the land and he stood on Bethel, the center of the land, good vantage point, God said, "Look to the north, the east, the south and the west as far as you can see, Abraham. i. Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you." To wait is even harder than to adventure. "Ye are come unto mount Zion," which was the highest Old Testament point of grace on earth. The infant Moses was about to touch the jewels when Gabriel took his hand and put it on the coals. 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. Observe, (1.) To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. 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. (1) Gideon was cowardly at first; God had to coax him to to obey. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. He had such a firm belief that they would possess the land of promise, that he exacted an oath of them that they would remove his remains with them, that he might be buried in the land of his fathers. Greek Interlinear Layout for Hebrews 11:39 (TR KJV) Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. "Well, if you don't know where you are going, how you going to know when you get there?" But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city ( Hebrews 11:16 ). 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