For the moisture blanket shielded the earth from much of the cosmic radiation which causes mutation of the cells and the breakdown and the aging process.The period of the antediluvians with the long life and with the tremendous growth of plants and trees, they'd never seen rain before. If he put out his hand and touched the jewels, that would prove that he was so wise that he was a danger; if he put out his hands and touched the coals, that would prove that he was so witless that he was no danger. One further effort, a little more waiting, a little more hoping, would make the dream come true. "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. Author: VICTOR C. Pfitzner Genre: Religion Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament Item Width: 4.4in. God is again to be found of us through Christ, the second Adam. (iii) There came the day when Moses, because of his intervention on behalf of his people, had to withdraw from Egypt to Midian ( Exodus 2:14-22). He was said to be the first to put pen to paper and instruct men from books. (3.) Observe here, (1.) This is the fallacy of this "Faith" teaching today. (vi) Some have seen in death transition--not an end, but a stage on the way; not a door closing, but a door opening. When our fighting instincts say: "Go on," it takes a big and a brave man to wait. These men trusted in the unseen God and in his faithfulness to those who wholeheartedly sought him. Antiochus had an interest in Egypt. Hebrews 11:1. Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. 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. 2. The story of Samson is in Judges 13:1-25; Judges 14:1-20; Judges 15:1-20; Judges 16:1-31. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." (2.) To what, then, is the allusion to the sanctuary applied? What Abel gained by his faith: the original record is in Genesis 4:4, God had respect to Abel, and to his offering; first to his person as gracious, then to his offering as proceeding from grace, especially from the grace of faith. But yet, in their death they did not enter into the kingdom of God and into that eternal glory. 2. It is the assembly composed of certain individuals that make it up, regarded either as brethren, as in the second chapter ("In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee"), or as the church of the first-born ones, as in Hebrews 12:1-29, persons who drew their title from Christ the first-born Heir. And, amazingly, she is one of the names which appear in the genealogy of Jesus ( Matthew 1:5). It is the conflict which introduces the reign of peace founded on righteousness, when God will manifest Himself as the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. I know that you will not withhold anything from Me. It was prefigured in Jonah, and Jesus brought that out, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" ( Matthew 12:40 ). There it was in the Psalms. 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. He didn't build any homes. It is I likely that the Hebrew believers were somewhat unruly. The acting of their faith: they hid this their son three months. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. 11:4 It was by faith that Abel offered to God a fuller sacrifice than Cain and so gained the verdict of being a just man, for God himself witnessed to that fact on the grounds of the gifts he brought: and although he died because of his faith, he is still speaking to us. What she did by her faith: She received the spies in peace, the men that Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho, ; Joshua 2:6-7. 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. The actings of her faith. Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? 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 hope that they would be at length delivered. The difficulties of Sarah's faith, which were very great. Now looking at that a little more closely, God made the world out of things that do not appear.We know that the universe, the worlds, are made up of atoms which are invisible. 1. Hezekiah, the good king, died, and Manasseh came to the throne. 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. 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. This leads to a further contrast with the action of the Aaronic priest. If the law could show little mercy in such a case, the grace of God views all sin as intolerable. As, (1.) No Jew could or ought to pretend to such purgation as its result. Christendom prefers the middle course; it will have neither the conscious nearness, to God, nor the place of Christ's reproach among men. It raised him above the fear of the king's wrath. If the one figured the imposed measure of man's responsibility, which can only but most justly condemn him, in the other we behold the mountain of God's grace after all was lost. 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." (3.) Samuel is listed after David and so that's the only break in the chronology. If it was rejected, it was because sin lies at your door." Its petrol supply has reached such a level that there is nothing left but to go on. [3.] 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. By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace ( Hebrews 11:31 ). What seems so is transition; To such death has always been a call to come up higher, a crossing from the dark to the dawn. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, said that if a man comes to the altar and realizes that his brother has ought against him, he ought to first go to his brother and reconcile their differences and then come and offer your gift unto the Lord ( Matthew 5:23-24 ). It became God to give Him to die; for such was our estate by sin that nothing short of His atoning death could deliver us; but, having delivered us, God would make us to be heavenly. How excellent are Your works towards us your children. Having been schooled in the schools of Egypt in the sciences and the arts, Moses having been raised in the Pharaoh's palace, having been adopted by the Pharaoh's daughter, having at his disposal all of the riches of Egypt, all of the glory of Egypt. "And whilst the saw cut into his flesh, Isaiah uttered no complaint and shed no tears; but he ceased not to commune with the Holy Spirit till the saw had cloven him to the middle of his body.". 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. Hereby they declared plainly that they sought another country (. He will provide Himself a sacrifice. I don't like being led one step at a time. If I know what Christ's redemption has accomplished for all who believe, I must know that God has given me this. "Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (for those priests were made without an oath" no oath ushers in the sons of Aaron "but he with an oath by him that said as to him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.". Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. Their deliverance was very glorious. It is a recompense of reward, because given by a righteous Judge for the righteousness of Christ to righteous persons, according to the righteous rule of the covenant of grace. He uses in the most skilful manner the change of the priest, in order to bring along with it a change of the law, the whole Levitical system passing away "but [there is] the bringing in of a better hope." Through his faith. "Take now thy son, thine only son," God said. If he had gone on recklessly he would simply have thrown his life away and the deliverance from Egypt might never have happened. The nature of it, and the honour it reflects upon all who live in the exercise of it, ver 1-3. Moses knew well that God does not summon his servants to a great task and leave it at that; he goes with them every step of the way. A simple word of scripture settles a thousand questions. "What kind of God is He that would require a man to offer his son as a human sacrifice?" 3. "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." But whether the one or the other, all was by faith. (4.) Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. When the Messiah was crucified, Judaism was in principle a dead thing: if it was in any sense kept up, it was no more than a decent time before its burial. Expositor's Bible Commentary- It was when he thought he was near death that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau (Gen 27:2, 4). This was why Joseph left instructions about his burial. No figure therefore would be more natural than that, if God intended certain persons called to have an inheritance, there should be a testament about the matter. He realized that the pleasures of sin are not lasting. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. The interesting thing to me is that when God inaugurated the sacrifices and all through Moses, there was the meal offering which was acceptable to God. "Just have enough faith and you'll never be sick. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. Epictetus said: "You must know that the most important thing in reverence for the gods is to have right beliefs that they are and that they order all things righteously and well.". They were not mindful of that country whence they came. And we go to the story of Abraham, where God said unto Abraham, "Abraham," and he said, "Here am I." 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. 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. To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. It is easy to see how this passage can be read against the terrible happenings of these days. Had he been willing to forsake the Church of his fathers, any pulpit in the land was open to him and the most dazzling ecclesiastical prizes were his; but he sacrificed them all for the sake of what he considered to be loyalty to God's will. God meant to have His will done, and thereby a people for Himself capable of enjoying His presence and His nature, where no question of sin or fall could ever enter. The writer to the Hebrews uses three vivid Greek words about them. Here's a man that declares he pleased God. The reproaches of the church of God are the reproaches of Christ, who is, and has ever been, the head of the church. (i) There are those who have thought of death as mysterious and inexplicable. Those whose names are barely mentioned, and an account given in general of the exploits of their faith, which it is left to the reader to accommodate, and apply to the particular persons from what he gathers up in the sacred story. We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. There is something of permanent greatness here. That fallen man has leave to go in to worship God, with hope of acceptance. This leads him, from speaking of Esau's case, to add as a known fact, that afterward, when he desired to have inherited the blessing he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it carefully with tears. So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! In a very real way we owe our Christianity to these martyrs of the times when Antiochus made his deliberate attempt to wipe out the Jewish religion. "Nimrod," said his mother. ; for they were whipped with rods and their bodies were torn to pieces; they were crucified while they were still alive and breathed; they also strangled those women and their sons whom they had circumcised, as the king had appointed, hanging their sons about their necks as if they were upon their crosses. But another Jew, seeking to curry favour and to save his own life, came forward and was about to sacrifice. After Joshua died, Josephs bones were reburied in Shechem: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph (Joshua 24:32). And who delivered them from the inhabitants of Jericho. It may mean the worlds governed by dispensations; but still that the idea of the whole universe is in it cannot be fairly contested by competent minds. He is declaring that Isaac is going to come back with me.Now Abraham figures God's got a problem, because God has said, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." "Now of the things that are being spoken of this is a summary: We have such an high priest, who is set down on [the] right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." The great artist or composer is driven by the thought of the performance he has never yet given and the wonder he has never yet produced. The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. The prevalency of his faith. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. 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. 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. 2. From them, by this son, sprang a numerous progeny of illustrious persons, as the stars of the sky (; Hebrews 11:12)a great, powerful, and renowned nation, above all the rest in the world; and a nation of saints, the peculiar church and people of God; and, which was the highest honour and reward of all, of these, according to the flesh, the Messiah came, who is over all, God blessed for evermore. But he withstood their tortures and died faithful. If it be some good thing, faith stirs up love and desire; if some evil thing, faith stirs up fear. That is a struggle of which every Christian should know something, for if in these killing times, the Jews had surrendered their faith, Jesus could not have come. He has displayed Christ as Son of God (1) and Son of Man (2), warned of the dangers inherent in unbelief (3-4), and explored the power of Christ's priesthood (5-10). He. We shall find another use before we have done, which I hope to notice in its place. We should do the same. They had begun and it never struck them to turn back. But, by the grace and the power of God, the impossible became true. Now is the time for self-denying labour, and endurance in grace; by-and-by the account must be given to the Lord that appointed them. [2.] There were a great many instances of the faith of Jacob; his life was a life of faith, and his faith met with great exercise. Abraham saw Christ's day, when it was afar off, and rejoiced. 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. True faith will show itself in good works, especially towards the people of God. The story of their action is told in Exodus 2:1-10. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. To every task he came out from God's presence. 5. For whence had he so much greatness of mind, as to look down on whatever was elevated in the world, and to esteem as nothing whatever was precious in it, except that he had ascended up into heaven. 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. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." We know they exist, but yet, they are invisible. The leading instance and example of faith here recorded is that of Abel. They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. There is no mystery in all creation like the love of God. He knew that in Isaac his seed was to be called. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking off unto Jesus the captain and completer of faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.". It was by faith that he sojourned in the land that had been promised to him, as though it had been a foreign land, living in tents, in the same way as did Isaac and Jacob, who were his coheirs in the promise of it. None of the patriarchs entered into the full possession of the promises that God had made to Abraham. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." God said to first deal with the sin. The sword came down upon that home; and unless there had been those who counted Christ dearer than all else, there would be no Christianity today. He believed Gods promise that He would deliver the people of Israel out of Egypt. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do, thy will, O God." At first it was (ver. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things to come. [3.] The goal of LifeLight is that through a regular program of in-depth personal and group study of Scripture, more and more Christian adults may grow in their personal faith in Jesus Christ. So he knelt down and adored the moon. Accordingly, this is an appeal to the hearts. In the Apocalypse of Baruch God says: "I showed it to my servant by night" (4: 4). "We, Antiochus," he said, "who are convinced that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." There is an unwritten saying of Jesus: "The world is a bridge. For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. Account en lijsten Retourzendingen en bestellingen . When the aeroplane has reached that point it cannot go back. Christ has obtained redemption, and this is witnessed by the token of the veil rent from top to bottom. We may be fully assured of his existence, of his providence, and of his gracious and powerful presence with us. (2.) The departing of the children of Israel ( ). 4. [2.] And you feel the wind. The wisdom of God is so often foolishness with men. The meal offering it was called. . So he knelt down and worshipped the sun. His goodness consisted in the fact that he took God at his word. You have the riches of Egypt at your disposal. He was the lender who had rescued them from slavery and who had received the Law of their lives from God. The description given of heaven: it is a city, a regular society, well established, well defended, and well supplied: it is a city that hath foundations, even the immutable purposes and almighty power of God, the infinite merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the promises of an everlasting covenant, its own purity, and the perfection of its inhabitants: and it is a city whose builder and maker is God. Then about 168 B.C. A strong and hale man of seventy came in. But how? He was tried by preferment and power in the court of Pharaoh, and yet his faith held out and carried him through to the last. Buy Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews by Charles Spurgeon, Elliot Ritzema Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9781577996408 He blessed both the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh; he adopted them into the number of his own sons, and so into the congregation of Israel, though they were born in Egypt. This then is brought before us. Here is the great function of life. not to sin, for so God tempteth no man, but only tried his faith and obedience to purpose. In Jesus' name. So knowing that God's word was to be fulfilled that the land would one day be theirs, some three hundred years later after the death of Joseph, when the children of Israel began their trek from Egypt to the Promise Land, with them they carried the mummy of Joseph to bury it in the land of promise. The actings of Noah's faith, and the influence it had both upon his mind and practice. But now God sends His final summons, founded on their own ritual, to His people who were hankering after the dead, instead of seeing the Living One on He as it were repeats, "Let the dead bury the dead." ". Remembered is appropriate here. Even more than Abel and Enoch, Noah stands out as a man of faith. But see what it cost to enable it to come! 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. All that are effectually called resign up their own will and wisdom to the will and wisdom of God, and it is their wisdom to do so; though they know not always their way, yet they know their guide, and this satisfies them. 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. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. 11:35-40 Women received back their own folk as if they had been raised from the dead. Clement of Alexandria said: "We have no fatherland on earth." Whether or not that promise comes depends on me." It was through faith that Abel was declared righteous by the Lord and accepted by God. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. "Will you hold back anything from Me, Abraham? 1. "They wandered in the mountains and in the dens like beasts" ( 2Ma_10:6 ). 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. That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. XV. 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." The story we have. If we have lived with Christ, we may die in the certainty that we go to be for ever with our Lord. 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." The trial of their faith in the imperfection of their present state. with Him in this place of nearness. and of Elisha ( 2 Kings 4:8 ff.) They looked beyond death for a greater fulfilment than they could experience in their earthly lives (13-16; cf. may so far have sensible evidence of what exists now; but it is only God who can tell me that He in the beginning caused to be that which now is. 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. He was the scourge of the Philistines. When the Lord said to him, "Through Sarah your seed be called," she started laughing. His fear, thus excited by believing God's threatening, moved him to prepare an ark, in which, no doubt, he met with the scorns and reproaches of a wicked generation. And here we learn the direct application. There is something here to challenge and uplift the heart of every man. 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: When he had come to years (Hebrews 11:24); not only to years of discretion, but of experience, to the age of forty yearswhen he was great, or had come to maturity. (3.) That the word ( ) in this connection means "testator" appears to me beyond just question. Abraham and his family did not give up and go back to Abrahams home in Mesopotamia as soon as difficulties arose. By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. Sin is now put away; the sacrifice is complete. It probably accounted for the longevity of life, averaged nine hundred years or so. 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