[2.] So he died, declaring: "I am dying by fiery torments for the law's sake.". If in these two verses we bear in mind that it really means "testament," growing out of the previous mention of the "inheritance," I am persuaded that you will have better understanding of the argument. [2.] But as for you who believe in Jesus, wait not for the Romans; let Judaism be nothing but a corpse, which does not concern you. Hebrews 11:23-30. The means prescribed to God to bring down the walls of Jericho. I'm passing through. He made mention by faith of the departing of the children of Israel, that the time should come when they should be delivered out of Egypt; and he did this both that he might caution them against the thoughts of settling in Egypt, which was now a place of plenty and ease to them; and also that he might keep them from sinking under the calamities and distresses which he foresaw were coming upon them there; and he does it to comfort himself, that though he should not live to see their deliverance, yet he could die in the faith of it. And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. Here observe. In Numbers 12:7-8 we read of God's verdict on him when there were those who were ready to rebel against him: "with him I speak mouth to mouth." When we are discouraged, let us remember and take heart again. The legends go on to tell that Terah not only worshipped twelve idols, one for each of the months, but was also a manufacturer of idols. There is then the solemn admonition of the account they are to render by-and-by. Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. 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. God is able to raise the dead, to raise dead bodies, and to raise dead souls. It was not that the Christians were foolishly other-worldly, detaching themselves from the life and work of this world; but they always remembered that they were people on the way. 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. Tertullian said of the Christian: "He knows that on earth he has a pilgrimage but that his dignity is in heaven." The Old Testament story of Noah is in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22. It raised him above the fear of the king's wrath. It was ordered that they should compass the walls about once a day for seven days together and seven times the last day, that the priests should carry the ark when they compassed the walls about, and should blow with trumpets made of rams' horns, and sound a longer blast than before, and then all the people should shout, and the walls of Jericho should fall before them. His goodness consisted in the fact that he took God at his word. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. They wished to destroy Moses there and then. It probably accounted for the longevity of life, averaged nine hundred years or so. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. In this passage the writer to the Hebrews lays down in addition the two great foundation acts of faith of the Christian life. 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. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. He made them both heads of different tribes, as if they had been his own immediate sons. Accordingly we find everything about Moses. The Christian attitude is that in terms of eternity it is better to stake everything on God than to trust to the rewards of the world. 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. (ii) The second story the writer to the Hebrews takes is that of Rahab. Both these requests were granted. But although it will be the shaking of all things, not of earth only but also heaven, yet, marvellous to say, such confidence of heart does grace give, that this, which may be regarded as the most awful threat, turns into a blessed promise. has the idea that God took Enoch to himself when he was still young to save him from the infection of this world. Accordingly the epistle to the Hebrews, while it does put the believer in association with Christ, does not, for all this, dissociate him from whatever is good in the saints of God in every age. The rest of the chapter brings in, accordingly, the closing scene, when the Lord comes to shake everything, and establish that blessed day. They saw them afar off. The trial and exercise of Abraham's faith; he was tried indeed. (i) Noah took God at his word. God brings forward His choice, David, when the miserable end of Saul and Jonathan saw the Philistines triumphant, and Israel disheartened as they had scarce been beyond that moment. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. They saw them afar off. He had the evidence of it in his own conscience, and the Spirit of God witnessed with his spirit. See Matthew 2:19; Matthew 9:18; Luke 7:2, etc. 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. In the town there was a widow called Judith. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. They were persuaded of the truth of the promises. To every task he came out from God's presence. There is nothing capricious about the usage. When Oliver Cromwell was arranging for the education of his son Richard, he said: "I would have him learn a little history." Second, to see the abode of the wicked so that he might know what the punishment of the evil was like. (2.) NL. Cain said: "I have not the sense of this bird. (2.) He had the honour to leave behind him an instructive speaking case; and what does it speak to us? (1.) Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. This was the very difficulty that the Jew pleaded; but now, in point of fact, it was only what the Psalm of Messiah insisted on, the law itself bearing witness of a priest superior to any under the law. The second is the story of the seven brothers ( 4Ma_8:1-29 ; 4Ma_9:1-32 ; 4Ma_10:1-21 ; 4Ma_11:1-27 ; 4Ma_12:1-19 ; 4Ma_13:1-27 ; 4Ma_14:1-20 ). 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. (2.) Accordingly we have a remarkable line of blessing pursued for our instruction here. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." 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. He had a divine revelation, whether by voice or vision does not appear; but it was such as carried in it its own evidence; he was. Then, the legend tells, the Egyptians struck upon a cruel scheme. It is excluded from syllabuses of religious education because it is held to teach an unacceptable view of God. And the Lord said, "I will bless Ishmael and make of him a nation, but Sarah is going to bear a child, and through Sarah shall thy seed be called" ( Genesis 17:18-21 ). It was by faith that Moses, when he grew to manhood, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter and chose rather to suffer evil with the people of God than to enjoy the transient pleasures of sin, for he considered that a life of reproach for the sake of the Messiah was greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes fixed upon his reward. The passage is out of ; Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25. I'm just passing through. The supports of Abraham's faith (; Hebrews 11:10): He looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. The Puritans used to emphasize the importance of dying well. There we have those that compose the church, in allusion to Christ, contrasted with the position of Israel as a nation, because of the nearness which they possess by the grace of Christ known on high. 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. I know that God's word is faithful. It is of men who cheerfully and courageously and confidently accepted God-given tasks which, on human terms, were impossible. God's arm is not shortened; his power is not grown less. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 That is, he sought carefully with tears the blessing given to Jacob; but there was no room left for repentance, simply in the sense of change of mind; for, I suppose, the word here has that sense, which sometimes, no doubt, it has. That's incredulous! Their sincerity appeared not only in not returning to their former country, but in desiring a better country, that is, a heavenly. [4.] For let me say this as a parting word, and I say it advisedly, because of circumstances that might well be before our hearts, no deliverance, however enjoyed, no place of death to law, world, or sin, no privilege of union with Christ, will enable a soul to dispense with the truths contained in this epistle to the Hebrews. 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 told Noah his purpose of judgment and instructed him to build an ark in which he and his family and the representatives of the animal creation might be saved. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment ( Hebrews 11:23 ). From them, by this son, sprang a numerous progeny of illustrious persons. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you (Exodus 13:18-19). 2. Then they heated sharp spits and applied them to his back; and piercing through his sides they burned away his bowels." It was a shattering humiliation for a king. And you feel the wind. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. (i) This story teaches us that we must be ready to sacrifice what is dearest to us for the sake of loyalty to God. (ii) Abraham is the pattern of the man who accepts what he cannot understand. 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. (3.) The Lord said, "I'll pass through the land this night and the firstborn in every house will be slain. 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. A lot of times as we read of these people of faith, we sort of think them out of our category. And he called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh. Because as it goes on. And I see the evidence of God's existence, and thus, faith. XIII. In itself it does not say how Enoch died. There are those who seek to be righteous by their faith in the Lord and those who seek to be righteous by their works. We often say, "It is good to be akin to an estate;" but surely it is good to be akin to the covenant. 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 ). (2.) The later legends believed that at the moment of his call Abraham was given a glimpse of the new Jerusalem. 1. Observe, First, The heavenly country is better than any upon earth; it is better situated, better stored with every thing that is good, better secured from every thing that is evil; the employments, the enjoyments, the society, and every thing in it, are better than the best in this world. Hebrews 11:22. Now, to entitle them to this distinguishing favour, and to mark them out for it, a lamb must be slain; the blood of it must be sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop upon the lintel of the door, and on the two side-posts; the flesh of the lamb must be roasted with fire; and it must be all of it eaten that very night with bitter herbs, in a travelling posture, their loins girt, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their hand. By way of jest he took his crown and placed it on the child's head; but the infant snatched the crown from his head and flung it on the ground and trampled on it. In every point of view, therefore, the superiority of the Melchisedec priest was demonstrated over the line of Aaron. [2.] He was the lender who had rescued them from slavery and who had received the Law of their lives from God. For these very features did Judaism despise the gospel. that they might obtain a better resurrection ( Hebrews 11:35 ): It's better to have a resurrection unto eternal life than resurrection unto damnation, and that they might have that better resurrection unto eternal life. "I will go home," he said. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. The gracious and great reward of their faith: God is not ashamed to be their God, for he hath prepared for them a city, ; Hebrews 11:16. 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