28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. (ii) Abraham's faith was the faith which had patience. The substitutionary lamb preserving the firstborn. Even the Greeks saw its horror. According, to the Jews it was quite impossible, if God had once established a covenant, He could ever change; but the apostle replies that their own prophet is against their theory. They tell how Abraham saw many flocks and herds and said to his mother: "Who is the lord of these?" [5.] This, he maintains, has always been so; it is no novelty he is preaching. Hallo, inloggen. For the law maketh men priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, a Son perfected (or consecrated) for ever." And, amazingly, she is one of the names which appear in the genealogy of Jesus ( Matthew 1:5). If He tells me to get out, I want Him to tell me where to go. ", 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. Genesis 1:26, lxx. Wait a minute! It is a reward suitable to the price paid for itthe blood of Christ; suitable to the perfections of God, and fully answering to all his promises. The nature of it, and the honour it reflects upon all who live in the exercise of it, ver 1-3. In that day it will be the joy of Him who is the true Melchisedec, to bring out not the mere signs, but the reality of all that can be the stay and comfort of man, and all that sustains and cheers, the patent proof of the beneficent might of God, when "no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.". The apostle argues that, just as the blood of the beast was brought into the holiest of all, while the body of the same animal was taken outside the camp and burnt, so this too must be made good in our portion. 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. His wish was fulfilled (Joshua 24:32; Acts 4:16). 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. Cain tilled the ground and brought to God an offering of the fruits of the ground; Abel was a flock-master and brought to God an offering from his flocks. (2.) Steven was stoned to death. The second brother they bound to the catapults. 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." [3.] But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hold it. But the answer to this is, that there is not a single writer in the language, not sacred only but profane, who employs it in such a sense. 2. It is not implied that they may not sin, or that they have no consciousness of their failure, either past or present. (b) In Hebrews 11:9 he uses the word paroikein ( G3939) , to sojourn, of Abraham. Then Abraham said: "The moon must be God and the stars his host!" 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. In his willingness to go ahead with the sacrifice, Abraham did, in effect, offer up Isaac, but God intervened and Abraham received his son back, so to speak, from death (17-19; cf. (3.) Faith has a clear and a strong eye, and can see promised mercies at a great distance. (i) They lived for ever as strangers. There is no real contradiction. What can you do but be true to a heritage like that?". God said that He was going to cause it to rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. VI. Christianity turns everything to account. He had a share in these negotiations and in the long discussions which were necessary. 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." You have the riches of Egypt at your disposal. He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. as well as done by him, extraordinary. The faith of Joseph, then, was simple confidence in God; and its strength was seen in his firm conviction that what had been promised would be fulfilled, even when there were no appearances that to human view justified it. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." (2.) So we see this one hundred year old Abraham, one hundred and eight at this time, leading this little eight-year-old boy towards Mount Moriah where he is going to offer him as a human sacrifice unto God. So Joseph died, being 110 years old. the matter came to boiling-point. For this, knowing His grace in the work of Christ for them, they do not look; on the contrary, they rest in the assurance of the perfection with which their sins are effaced by the precious blood of Christ. He has nothing more to do with sin; He will judge man who rejects Himself and slights sin. He presses the fact of a new principle, as well as an institution established on better promises, upon the Jews. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. , [made mention of] remembered) He mentioned, what he had never forgotten, the promise made to their fathers, and as it were renewed it for the future. , concerning his bones) so that even though dead he might leave Egypt, and come into the Land of Promise. If we formed our Christian character practically on such epistles as those to the Ephesians and Colossians alone, depend on it there may not be the hard lines of the law, but there will be very far from the fervent affections which become him who feels the grace of Christ. Observe here, (1.) All their days the patriarchs were strangers in a strange land. (5.) If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? We cannot think of Enoch without thinking of the different attitudes to death. 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. 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. (3.) They were not afraid of the king's commandment. But He said, "I came to open the prison to those that were bound, setting the captive free." Hence in Hebrews we never find the body of Christ as such referred to. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. ; 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. We can well understand that, because when the blood flows away, life ebbs away. If he had gone on recklessly he would simply have thrown his life away and the deliverance from Egypt might never have happened. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. On the other side you have the affliction of the people of God, the reproach of Christ. We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, ; Hebrews 11:27. He saw two crows fighting and one killed the other, then dug a hole with its beak and buried it. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! Now, just how this was demonstrated, we do not know. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; the grace of faith will help us through all the dangers we meet with in our way to heaven. The meal offering it was called. He may leave something which will grow and spread like a canker; or he may leave something fine which blossoms and flourishes without end. Were it a question of the mystery of Christ the Head, and of the church His body, this would not be proved from the Old Testament, which does not reveal it at all. In the early days of persecution they brought a humble Christian before the judges. Then, consequent on the fall, comes the ground of the believer's acceptance; then his walk with God, and deliverance from His judgment of the whole scene, in the midst of which we actually are. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." 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. What more can I say? 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 reference is therefore plain and sure. 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. For Christ is not entered into holies made with hands, figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.". The truth on the contrary is, that there was but one offering and but one suffering of Christ, once for all; in witness of the perfection of which He is gone into the presence of God, there to appear for us. "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes" ( Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary, note on Hebrews 11:20-22). In this place (and in Genesis 5:22, &c.) we read, (1.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. [1.] There is no mystery in all creation like the love of God. [Note: Ibid., p. He ordered the Jews to eat meats which were unclean and to sacrifice to the Greek gods. 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. 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 . This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. 2. Now, the faith of Isaac thus prevailing over his unbelief, it has pleased the God of Isaac to pass by the weakness of his faith, to commend the sincerity of it, and record him among the elders, who through faith have obtained a good report. he made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; that is, out of the land of Egypt: he remembered it himself, and put his brethren in mind of it, by speaking of it to their comfort, with great assurance; he knew they were well situated in the land of Egypt, and yet speaks of their departure out of it; he foresaw, and firmly believed they would be greatly afflicted in it, and that God would look upon them, and visit them, and bring them out of it, into the land of Canaan; all which shows the strength of his faith, and that it was about things not seen. To assure them that God would be with them in Egypt, and deliver them out of it in his own time and way. And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Josephs knees. If they were thinking of the land from which they had come out, they would have had time to return. But whether we look at the heavenly supremacy of Christ over the universe, which is the highest part of the mystery, or at the church associated with Him as His body, composed of both Jew and Gentile, where all distinction is gone, no wit of man ever did or could possibly draw this beforehand from the Old Testament. For, before this change came to him it was testified that he pleased God. He refused in anger. Now, the faith of Isaac thus prevailing over his unbelief, it has pleased the God of Isaac to pass by the weakness of his faith, to commend the sincerity of it, and record him among the elders. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. It is the conviction of the Christian that it is better to suffer with God than to prosper with the world. How Abraham lived in Canaan, not as heir and proprietor, but as a sojourner only. 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. We do see by faith. It is hard to keep clear of both. If they were Abraham's children, and not his seed only, surely they would honour Him. The death of Christ, both in the sense of a victim sacrificed, and of a testator, though a double figure, is evident to all, and tends to the self-same point. And as he starts towell, before he gets into it, he starts with just the creation of the world itself. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. They saw he was a beautiful child. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. Antiochus thought for a moment and realized that to defy Rome was impossible. He just lived in tents, though the whole land was his by the promise of God. In an age when men disregarded God, for Noah he was the supreme reality in the world. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. How glorious was the triumph of his faith in so great a trial. 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. He goes out, deliberately and knowingly, just at the time of life when a man is most sensitive to the value of a grand sphere of influence, as well as exercise of his powers, wherein, too, he could have ordinarily exerted all in favour of his people. But, notwithstanding all this, Isaac's faith recovered itself, and he ratified the blessing: I have blessed him yea, and he shall be blessed. Amen.". But in chapter 8. The story of Barak is in Judges 4:1-24; Judges 5:1-31. 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." "Others, who had run together into caves near by, to keep the Sabbath day secretly, being discoveredwere all burnt together" ( 2Ma_6:11 ). Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God." "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For now, what's interesting is that the first six men suffered serious shortcomings; in spite of their flaws, God honored their faith. We know they exist, but yet, they are invisible. If it be not the truth, it would be the height of presumption indeed. He is the second of those elders that through faith have a good report. That, after the fall, God opened a new way for the children of men to return to him in religious worship. 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 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. Who ever in his senses built a great hulk of a ship on dry land far from the sea? In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. Expositor's Bible Commentary- It was when he thought he was near death that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau (Gen 27:2, 4). You have the immediate advantage and the eternal advantage to choose. He received him from the dead, for he gave him up for dead; he was as a dead child to him, and the return was to him no less than a resurrection. By faith we may see this invisible God. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? No, he had another son by Hagar named Ishmael, who was some thirteen years older than Isaac. So, one, Abel offered in faith and was accepted. The pleasures of sin are and will be but short; they must end in speedy repentance or in speedy ruin. Hezekiah, the good king, died, and Manasseh came to the throne. Accordingly observe the change of expression. (i) The first is the story of the fall of Jericho. (3.) No doubt all will be good and right in its due season then. "We're all imperfect beings," he began. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". Unpuzzling Hebrews: A New Translation & Commentary : Sims, Thomas: Amazon.nl: Boeken. And is he better or safer that slights the sacrifice of the Son of God, and goes back either to earthly sacrifices or to lusts of flesh, giving a loose rein to sin, which is expressly what the Son of God shed His blood to put away? At the moment of decision there is the excitement and the thrill; at the moment of achievement there is the glow and glory of satisfaction; but in the intervening time there is necessary the ability to wait and work and watch when nothing seems to be happening. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. You can feel it. So from one man, and he a man whose body had lost its vitality, there were born descendants, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, as countless as the sand upon the seashore. THE FAITH WHICH DEFEATS DEATH ( Hebrews 11:20-22 ). They all died in faith not having received the promises. God calls his people to an inheritance: by his effectual call he makes them children, and so heirs. Because he walked with God when other men were walking away from him, he daily came nearer to him and death was no more than the last step that took him into the very presence of that God with whom he had always walked. It is not a question of the law, which a Jew might naturally conceive to be the standard of the will of God now as of old for Israel. by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. So there sprung forth from Abraham an innumerable host of people. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." Observe, [1.] Samuel is listed after David and so that's the only break in the chronology. Abrahams faith caused him to set out for a promised, yet unknown, earthly inheritance. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". His last words were: "Why fear death? The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. Impossible to rise higher than the Highest, whence therefore the apostle descends, to consequences. 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 the other says despairingly: "You must be mad.". William Morris wrote: "Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant. , By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the departing. What Abel did by faith: He offered up a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, a more full and perfect sacrifice, pleiona thysian. 11:20-22 It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in the things concerning the future. (2.) This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. There appeared in him something uncommon; the beauty of the Lord sat upon him, as a presage that he was born to great things, and that by conversing with God his face should shine (; Exodus 34:29), what bright and illustrious actions he should do for the deliverance of Israel, and how his name should shine in the sacred records. This made the hidden children of the Israelites cry, too, and so they were discovered and killed. 11:23-29 It was by faith that Moses, when he was born, was kept hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful: and they did not fear the edict of the king. Reference-Verse. Observe here, (1.) There are many who believe in God but do not believe that he cares. First of all, not realizing that it is sin that has alienated me from God, and before I can really have any kind of communion or fellowship with God, the sin issue must be dealt with. Hence the apostle applies the type distinctly now, as far as the "order" of the priesthood goes. Terah said: "That is impossible for they are made of wood and stone." To wait is even harder than to adventure. You can always turn back. (2.) It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea as if they were going through dry land and that the Egyptians, when they ventured to try to do so, were engulfed. The Bible said that God said, "Let there be light." He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. 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: He had respect unto the recompense of reward, 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. God is again to be found of us through Christ, the second Adam. (2.) (1. When God judges, he will overcome; and it is plain that the destruction of sinners is of themselves. The difficulties of Sarah's faith, which were very great. It is of men who cheerfully and courageously and confidently accepted God-given tasks which, on human terms, were impossible. 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. They saw them afar off. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? He had parted with him to God, and God gave him back again. He put himself into the hand of God, to send him whithersoever he pleased. It is perfectly true that, if we think of Christ, He was here below absolutely without sin; but He who was without sin in His person, and all His life, had everything to do with sin on the cross, when God made Him to be sin for us. It is not merely that which goes on quietly waiting for the accomplishment of the counsels of God. Here's a man that declares he pleased God. He loves the man who is ready to venture for his name. Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. 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. The writer to the Hebrews goes further. As those who would follow the faithful steps of Abraham would die and would come into this compartment of hell, Abraham would say, "Don't worry, God's faithful. First, in God's counsels it was always before Him to have One more than man though a man to deal with this greatest of all transactions. Need help streaming? 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. Alcibiades that brilliant but wild young man of Athens used to say to Socrates: "Socrates, I hate you, for every time I meet you, you show me what I am." FAITH AND ITS SECRET ( Hebrews 11:23-29 ). 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. Joseph too, nearing death, expressed confidence that God would in the future deliver the Israelites from Egypt. Their faith defeated death. 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. That the word ( ) in this connection means "testator" appears to me beyond just question. The earth was so wicked that God decided that there remained nothing to do but destroy it. The trial and exercise of Abraham's faith; he was tried indeed. It is true that victims were sometimes slain in ratifying a covenant, and thus were the seal of that covenant; but, first, they were not essential; and, secondly and chiefly, , the covenanter or contracting party had in no case to die in order to make the contract valid. There is nothing to divert the heart from Christ, the great High Priest in the heavens. (1) Gideon was cowardly at first; God had to coax him to to obey. "Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without any rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave it fierce assault against the walls and took the city by the will of God" ( 2Ma_12:13-16 ). Observe, [1.] So Abel devised a scheme whereby they might bring an end to contention. But he was as a stranger and a pilgrim there. 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. One can well understand that the apostle would leave his readers to gather thus generally what it must have been. Antiochus said that he would consider it. Not so Moses. Through his faith. 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. Alas! 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. Its petrol supply has reached such a level that there is nothing left but to go on. The Lord will provide. 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." A person who lives for their own pleasure is living out of sync with God. If he takes to himself the title of their God, he will fully answer it, and act up to it; and he has prepared that for them in heaven which will fully answer this character and relation, so that it shall never be said, to the reproach and dishonour of God, that he has adopted a people to be his own children and then taken no care to make a suitable provision for them. 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. Biblical Commentary Hebrews 11:29 - 12:2 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Hebrews 11 is the great faith chapter of the Bible, first defining faith (v. 1) and then using well-known Hebrew people to show faith in action. Above all, let them take care that they be not a shame and reproach to their God, and so provoke him to be ashamed of them; but let them act so as to be to him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory. 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