In short, the word in itself may mean either; but this is no proof that it may indifferently or without adequate reason be translated both ways. That though he had lived and died in Egypt, yet he did not live and die an Egyptian, but an Israelite. He knew that they weren't going to be in Egypt forever. Are you supposed to die in faith? In short, there is. Though believers are chiefly concerned for their souls, yet they cannot wholly neglect their bodies, as being members of Christ and parts of themselves, which shall at length be raised up, and be the happy companions of their glorified souls to all eternity. He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. (3.) It was said that 80,000 Jews were killed and 10,000 sold into captivity. There it was written, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God." "As it is appointed unto men once to die," wages of sin, though not all, "but after this the judgment," or the full wages of sin, "so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;" this He has finished; "and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation." That's incredulous! 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. By the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the author is rounding third base in his sermon. But as God said, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." 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. And their relation to their leaders he puts forward in various forms. Many legends gathered around his name. (1.) [2.] This also was granted, but Enoch, having been granted a glimpse of Paradise, never came back to earth again. First, there is envy. 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. 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." Both Jacob and Esau were blessed as Isaac's children, at least as to temporal good things. I can say, "Well, God, I don't understand, but You've got a reason and a plan," and I endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Now observe. But if not, his will be done." 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 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. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. The lamb sacrificed for the house. 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. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" asked Abraham. I pray that I'll never be an embarrassment to God. 2. He showed thereby his dependence upon God, and testified his condition here as a pilgrim with his staff, and his weariness of the world, and willingness to be at rest. Would he give up the one that was the type of the true Seed, the progenitor, and the channel of the promised blessing, yea, of the Blesser? Many that are interested in the promises do not presently receive the things promised. The meal offering it was called. What is the end of the path? Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. There was, no doubt, a very heavy moisture blanket around the earth as God divided the waters above the firmament from the waters beneath the firmament. This is the fact. Have enough faith and you can drive any kind of car you want or live in any kind of home you want if you just have enough faith." He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. To Moses belonged the faith to attempt what appeared to be the most insurmountable fences in the certainty that God would help the man who refused to turn back and insisted on going on. 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. All these died before the final unfolding of God's promise and the coming of his Messiah into the world. His faith was supported by the sense he had of the mighty power of God, who was able to raise the dead; he reasoned thus with himself, and so he resolved all his doubts. God first said to Abraham, "Get out of this place, out of the land of your fathers, and go unto a land that I will show you." Here it is the proof of the perpetual efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. Quietly he said: "Consider it now; you will give me your decision before you leave that circle." (2.) There were those in the ancient world who believed in the gods, but they believed that they lived out in the spaces between the worlds, entirely unaware of these strange animals called men. But when the light broke he ran out crying, "Now I know! Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. How could this be disputed by one who simply believed Psalms 110:1-7? It did not matter whether it was a priest or an Israelite. Because he looked at the eternal aspect, the eternal reward, the eternal reward of following Jesus Christ. 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. There is no necessity for considering anything else, but that the Spirit of God, forecasting the future, was pleased to conceal the line of Melchisedec's parentage, or descendants if any, of their birth or death. [2.] Now people who speak like that make it quite clear that they are searching for a fatherland. And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Josephs knees. And it is pleasant to see parents and children sojourning together in this world as heirs of the heavenly inheritance. "O death where is thy sting? (iii) It culminated in the ability to believe in the impossible. 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. Genesis 23:4). [2.] On the life of Isaac depended the promise; and now God seemed to want to take that life away. 1. If He tells me to get out, I want Him to tell me where to go. 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. Tucked into the New Testament after Galatians and the Corinthian correspondence, the Epistle to the Ephesians casts a warm, quieting glow when compared to the strident character of Galatians and the . What can you do but be true to a heritage like that?". (1.) But the Holy Ghost's testimony is not forgotten. As a supposed criminal, when the king's wrath was incensed against him for killing the Egyptian (Exodus 2:14-15), where it is said he feared, not with a fear of despondency, but of discretion, to save his life. XIV. 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. He saw his error at last, and put his seal on God's original appointment of the matter. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. To take it seemed impossible. Faith will venture all hazards in the cause of God and his people; a true believer will sooner expose his own person than God's interest and people. Faith--the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. THE SUPREME SACRIFICE ( Hebrews 11:17-19 ). (vii) Some have seen death as an adventure. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. I belong to the heavenly kingdom, a citizen of that heavenly kingdom." The Jews had still another story to explain the first murder. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. How could Jesus have been born into the world if the Jewish religion had ceased to exist? Being a man of faith doesn't mean that you will always going to have healing, you're always going to have victory, you're always going to drive a Maserati, you're never going to have any trouble. Envy is that poison which can poison all life and kill all goodness. But in Cain's heart there was still bitter envy. (2.) The actings of his faith here mentioned, and they are two:. 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 ). As the writer to the Hebrews put it, we must believe that God is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. It is evident that in these we have the two main parts of Christianity. 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." These are very good and useful instructions, and yet the blood of sprinkling speaketh better things than that of Abel. Observe, [1.] God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. No, he had another son by Hagar named Ishmael, who was some thirteen years older than Isaac. (2.) One imperfection of the present state of the saints on earth is that their happiness lies more in promise and reversion than in actual enjoyment and possession. "This corruption must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality" ( 1 Corinthians 15:53 ). The occasion of its first observance was extraordinary: it was in the same night that God slew the first-born of the Egyptians; but, though the Israelites lived among them, the destroying angel passed over their houses, and spared them and theirs. So Abel devised a scheme whereby they might bring an end to contention. It is interesting how that a person living for their own pleasure is constantly pursuing pleasure, constantly trying to find something new, something different, some new sensation. God said to first deal with the sin. In the end under Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers the Jews regained their freedom and the Temple was cleansed and the faith flourished again. 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. He always keeps up the evidence of the utter inferiority of the Jewish priest, as well as of the accompanying state of things, to that of Christianity. There were two specially famous interpretations of the death of Enoch. As a Christian I am now free, by God's will, to go in peace and assurance of His love into the holiest of all yes, now. They endeavoured to lay aside every weight, to gird up the loins of their minds to mind their way, to keep company and pace with their fellow-travellers, looking for difficulties, and bearing them, and longing to get home. ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. God said, "Let the waters above the firmament be divided from the waters beneath the firmament." He rests confidingly on the cross, that only valid moral basis before God; at the same time he is waiting for the glory that is to be revealed. The exercise of Abraham's faith: he yielded an implicit regard to the call of God. That he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, they were in want, they were oppressed, they were maltreated--the world was not worthy of them--they wandered in desert places and on the mountains, they lived in caves and in holes of the earth. It is of men who cheerfully and courageously and confidently accepted God-given tasks which, on human terms, were impossible. (5.) [3.] But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. 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." Grace be with you all. (1.) He didn't build any homes. of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Things were frequently held up by cautious people who wished to know just where each step was taking them, until in the end the chairman reminded them that a Christian has no right to ask where he is going. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. This should have been a rule to him all along, but he was rather swayed by natural affection, and by general custom, which gives the double portion of honour, affection, and advantage, to the first-born. Through faith he kept the passover ( Hebrews 11:28 ). "God," said Epicurus as a first principle, "does nothing." 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. Reference-Verse. It is what He carries on now. His wish was fulfilled (Joshua 24:32; Acts 4:16). The Lord will provide. 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.' He has shown its the symbolic mount Of grace in Zion, contrasted with Sinai the mountain of law. XIII. And he knew that God having given him by a miracle, could also by a miracle sustain him until the promise of God was fulfilled through Isaac.Continuing down through history. ". We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: and all its power and pleasures, and undertook the conduct of Israel out of it. This secret warning he was to communicate to the world, who would be sure to despise both him and his message. For those who knew the scriptures well in their Greek version, phrase after phrase would ring a bell in the mind. Isaiah refused and was condemned to be sawn asunder with a wooden saw. Moffatt finely comments: "Death is never the last word in the life of a righteous man." And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise ( Hebrews 11:38-39 ): Though they all believed, and here's the good report of them, yet though they died in faith, they did not receive the promise. Was Isaac his only son? Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with reverence, he prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith ( Hebrews 11:7 ). Now oftentimes as God is leading us, He leads us just one step at a time, and that is our problem. To us Christ is all. 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. 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