"Take now thy son, thine only son," God said. 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. that is, he praised God for what he had done for him, and for the prospect he had of approaching blessedness; and he prayed for those he was leaving behind him, that religion might live in his family when he was gone. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Hebrews Item Length: 4.4in. II. So God took unseen things and made the material, seen universe in which we live, the worlds. When God told Abraham to offer up his son Isaac, Abrahams faith was tested, because Isaac was the person through whom God promised to give Abraham a multitude of descendants. 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 ). 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. Then we hear of the practical use of all. STREAM DOWNLOAD. 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. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. There is something very convincing in a life of strict holiness and regard to God; it commends itself to every man's conscience in the sight of God, and they are judged by it. Now He came to set the prisoner free and to open the doors to those were captive, so that when Jesus rose, Matthew's gospel tells us in the twenty-seventh chapter, the graves of many of the saints were opened and were seen walking around the streets of Jerusalem after His resurrection.Paul tells us that when He ascended He led the captives from their captivity. "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. 24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 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. Hebrews 11:1. The phrase about quenching the violence of fire goes straight back to the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in Daniel 3:19-28. He grew to be so beautiful that people turned in the street, and even ceased their work, to took at him. This was the very thing that these Jewish Christians were shrinking, from, if not rebelling against. 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. The first is the story of Eleazar, the aged priest ( 4Ma_5:1-38 ; 4Ma_6:1-35 ; 4Ma_7:1-23 ). These are the things of which the writer to the Hebrews is thinking; and these are things which we do well to remember. Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you." And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." 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. Heaven, therefore, by man's own conviction, must be arrayed in justice against earth because of sin, But the day is coming when Israel shall be no more rebellious, and the nations shall be no longer deceived, and Satan shall be dethroned from his bad eminence, and all idols shall flee apace, and God shall be left the undisputed and evidently Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. The prevalency of his faith. Still worse was to come. 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. For without faith it is impossible to please God ( Hebrews 11:6 ): So the witness of faith. I'm satisfied to dwell in a tent. When our fighting instincts say: "Go on," it takes a big and a brave man to wait. "We're all imperfect beings," he began. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. It often means one who arranged or disposed of property, or anything else, such as a treaty or covenant. As we read of these people of great faith, we see that they made their mark in history because of their faith. Something of him we had before interwoven with the story of Abraham; here we have something of a distinct naturethat by faith he blessed his two sons, Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come. 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. The answer is, by sacrifice. Genesis 28:1-4; Genesis 47:29-31; Genesis 49:1; Genesis 50:24-25). The last chapter (Hebrews 13:1-25) follows this up with some practical exhortations as to brotherly love continuing; then as to kindness to strangers, or hospitality; finally, as to pity for those in bonds. There was also a very observable difference in their offerings: Abel brought a sacrifice of atonement, brought of the firstlings of the flock, acknowledging himself to be a sinner who deserved to die, and only hoping for mercy through the great sacrifice; Cain brought only a sacrifice of acknowledgment, a mere thank-offering, the fruit of the ground, which might, and perhaps must, have been offered in innocency; here was no confession of sin, no regard to the ransom; this was an essential defect in Cain's offering. As, (1.) The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. This was also a grand point of distinction. Noah planted a teak tree and in twenty years it grew to such a size that out of it he was able to build the entire ark. Some would take this as detracting from his victory, that he gained it so late, that he did not make this choice sooner; but it is rather an enhancement of the honour of his self-denial and victory over the world that he made this choice when he had grown ripe for judgment and enjoyment, able to know what he did and why he did it. faith: Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:16. The Jew never understood his law until the light of Christ on the cross and in glory shone upon it. 2 for by it the men of old gained approval. I'm just passing through. 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. When he was asked why, he answered: "To warn you that God will send a deluge to destroy you all." But the really amazing thing is that, according to the Exodus story, Moses not only made these regulations for the night on which the children of Israel were leaving Israel; he also laid it down that they were to be observed annually for all time. The wisdom of God is so often foolishness with men. I'm afraid that I have done things that embarrassed God in a sense that people said, "Oh well, he's a minister of God." (2.) In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. (2.) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". May your life be enriched in the fullness of that mercy and grace that he has extended towards us through Jesus our LORD. I'm just a stranger and a pilgrim here. Here, it is plain, we have the chief lineaments of revealed truth. They watch as those that shall give an account. 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. 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. only here, Luke 9:31 (note) and 2 Peter 1:15 (note). When I start to get weak, and I start to question and I start to say, "Why, God?" See on 1 Timothy 6:14. Abraham and his family did not give up and go back to Abrahams home in Mesopotamia as soon as difficulties arose. Their own Psalm, in its grand prophetic sweep, and looking back on the law, pointed to the place in which Christ is now seated above; and where it is of necessity He should be, in order to give Christianity its heavenly character. 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. Faith has a clear and a strong eye, and can see promised mercies at a great distance. One day Abraham was left in charge of the shop. He was so wise that he was far beyond all other children in learning and in knowledge. The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. God then has provided some better thing for us. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." This inheritance is not immediately possessed by them; they must wait some time for it: but the promise is sure, and shall have its seasonable accomplishment. They had not received the promises, that is, they had not received the things promised, they had not yet been put into possession of Canaan, they had not yet seen their numerous issue, they had not seen Christ in the flesh. Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. Now this sin of hers would make it more difficult for her to act by faith afterwards. 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. And the wheel was besmeared all over with blood, and the heap of coals was extinguished with the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh flew about the axles of the machine." To every task he came out from God's presence. III. Her story is recounted in Joshua 2 and 6. Pharaoh's daughter is said to have been his only child, and was herself childless; and having found Moses, and saved him as she did, she resolved to take him and bring him up as her son; and so he stood fair to be in time king of Egypt, and he might thereby have been serviceable to Israel. 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. InHebrews 1:1-14; Hebrews 1:1-14 it is written, that "having by himself made purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." What he did once he can do again, for the God of history is the same one as we worship today. It is also founded on one of their own prophets. After the smashing of the Spanish Armada, there was erected on Plymouth Hoe a monument with the inscription: "God sent his wind and they were scattered." He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,Hebrews 11:25. Here observe, [1.] It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. In Sparta xenos ( G3581) was the equivalent of barbaros ( G915) , barbarian. The destruction of the Egyptians. His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. Through his faith. From the beginning to the end of it the Christian in Hebrews is not thus dealt with apart from the old nature, as we may see him regarded in the ordinary epistles of Paul, where the old and the new man are most carefully separated. We have the church, but even when the expression "church" occurs, it is the church altogether vaguely, as inHebrews 2:12; Hebrews 2:12, or viewed in the units that compose it not at all in its unity. 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. God is able to raise the dead, to raise dead bodies, and to raise dead souls. God often gives his people living comforts in dying moments; and when he does it is their duty, as they can, to communicate them to those about them, for the glory of God, for the honour of religion, and for the good of their brethren and friends. Verse 22. Abraham saw Christ's day, when it was afar off, and rejoiced, ; John 8:56. (2.) (5.) Note, Those that are once effectually and savingly called out of a sinful state have no mind to return into it again; they now know better things. Amen.". His mother bade him be quiet and not push questions too far; but already Abraham's thoughts were reaching out to him who is the God of all. And there he heard things and if I tried to describe them in human language it would be a crime" ( 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 ). For a similar reason we never find life treated in the epistle, nor righteousness. One man, asked why he had so voted, answered: "Because I am tired of hearing Aristides called 'the just.'" Another story tells that, after he had been forewarned by God, Noah made a bell of plane wood, about five feet high, and that he sounded it every day, morning, noon and evening. There it was in the Psalms. 1. 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." They expected little from the world. The God with whom we have to do is an invisible God: he is so to our senses, to the eye of the body; and this shows the folly of those who pretend to make images of God, whom no man hath seen, nor can see. 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 ). He had some success; there were those who were willing to accept Greek culture, Greek drama, Greek athletics. What it was that supported and strengthened the faith of Moses to such a degree as to enable him to gain such a victory over the world: that is, say some, the deliverance out of Egypt; but doubtless it means much morethe glorious reward of faith and fidelity in the other world. 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. 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. The sting is gone. (3.) If I have an indisputable present title of access into the holiest of all, I must not shrink from the place of ashes outside the camp. But they voted to banish him. The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. He has but one settled purpose of goodness about us; He watches and judges for our good, and nothing but our good. She received strength to conceive seed. (iii) It culminated in the ability to believe in the impossible. They all believed that there would be made the provision for their sins by God. ( Genesis 22:10-14 ). Now, just how this was demonstrated, we do not know. In Hebrews,. Noah tried to warn the people of the impending flood that was going to come, and they mocked him. This was a frontier town in the land of Canaan, the first that stood out against the Israelites. Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. God had promised that this should be. But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. lest the destroying of the firstborn should touch them. The Lord said, "I'll pass through the land this night and the firstborn in every house will be slain. 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. Wait a minute! There was but one such Priest. 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