When we are faced with any great and demanding task, God is the ally we must never leave out of the reckoning. 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. He tried to introduce this into Palestine. They had begun and it never struck them to turn back. He describes Him thus in His judicial character. The writer to the Hebrews has been citing as examples of faith the great figures of the time before Israel entered into the Promised Land. But he was as a stranger and a pilgrim there. To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. The senses tell us to grasp the thing of the moment; the spirit tells us that there is something far beyond that. It owns the creation; it recognizes sacrifice as the only righteous means of being accepted with God the only means of approaching Him worthily. The fruits and rewards of her faith. God is able to raise this boy up from the dead if necessary to keep His promise to me, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called. Given after Isaac had said: "Behold. (2.) It is believing in God that is the most important, not my works; they follow. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. He would have done so if God had not stopped him at the last possible moment (F. F. Bruce, Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews [Eerdmans], p. 308). Here is some outstanding insight on the story of Abraham offering up his son Isaac to the LORD. With reverence and obedience Noah took God at his word and so in the destruction of the world he was preserved. And it is pleasant to see parents and children sojourning together in this world as heirs of the heavenly inheritance. They disobeyed the order of the Pharaoh. By faith Moses, when he came of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; but chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ( Hebrews 11:24-25 ); He made a very interesting choice. In Exodus 33:9-11 we read of how he went into the Tabernacle; "and the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend." If people have faith, it means they believe that things hoped for according to Gods promises will be achieved and that unseen powers of God are real. They did not hanker after the plenty and pleasures of it, nor regret and repent that they had left it; they had no desire to return to it. So he died, declaring: "I am dying by fiery torments for the law's sake.". But what at Zion? And God provided Himself a sacrifice for our sins, for God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.Now, if we did not have Hebrews to give us a commentary on the story of Abraham, we, too, could be confused at God's demand. The faith of Jacob (; Hebrews 11:21), who, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. (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. He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. "There is employed in that particular text what is known grammatically in the Hebrew as a polysyndeton. When Sarah heard it she laughed within herself ( Genesis 18:12). Or it is held that the point of the story is that it was in this way that Abraham learned that God did not desire human sacrifice. because God had some better plan for us, that they, without us, should not find all his purposes fulfilled. (2.) 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. Interesting! Never was there a time when men used terms with a more equivocal design than at the present moment. others were tortured, not accepting deliverance ( Hebrews 11:35 ); Their faith caused them to make their stand firm for God and they were tortured for their faith. Fosdick somewhere says that Nero once condemned Paul, but the years have passed on and the time has come when men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero. (i) This story teaches us that we must be ready to sacrifice what is dearest to us for the sake of loyalty to God. Another man writes that, however poor a home is, it is better to live at home than epi ( G1909) xenes ( G3581) , in a foreign country. One day he said to his brother: "Remove thy foot; thou standest on my property; the plain is mine." But surely the meaning is much simpler. By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. For he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ( Hebrews 11:26 ): So on the one side you have the son of Pharaoh's daughter, with all of the glory of the royal palace. 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. "So he was going on sheer faith in the word of God, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." Here observe. (3.) He who, having professed to value the blessing of God abandons it, and rushes here below into the sins of the flesh knowingly and deliberately, is evidently no Christian at all. (iv) Noah was righteous through faith. They were not mindful of that country whence they came. God had before this tempted or tried the faith of Abraham, when he called him away from his country and father's house,when by a famine he was forced out of Canaan into Egypt,when he was obliged to fight with five kings to rescue Lot,when Sarah was taken from him by Abimelech, and in many other instances. The way the people act I wouldn't blame Him. For by it the elders obtained a good report._ The names of those who lived in old time are handed down. He. 22.By faith Joseph, etc. They embraced or held on to the promises and they made their confession. No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. XV. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. Abraham would ask them how old they were and they would answer perhaps fifty or sixty years of age. Now this sin of hers would make it more difficult for her to act by faith afterwards. Of the faith of Isaac, Hebrews 11:20. "I don't know." But he withstood their tortures and died faithful. Demosthenes said: "Envy is the sign of a nature that is altogether evil." They do not belong to heaven like the angels; but God had an eternal purpose, which brought them by an extraordinary favour there. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." He was changed by repentance from the life that is apart from God to the life that walks with God. Works will logically automatically follow my faith. And he would eat the scraps of food that were thrown to him from the rich man's table. When Joshua sent out spies to spy out the situation in Jericho, they found a lodging in the house of Rahab, a harlot. A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. He could know nothing of the mystery of the church, Christ's body, nor of her bridal hopes; but he did look for what is called here the "heavenly Jerusalem," that city "whose maker and builder is God." And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment. He worshipped, leaning on his staff; 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. Now he is comforted while you are tormented. She offered him a way into Jerusalem by stealth; and then, having gained his confidence, she slew him in his drunken sleep with his own dagger, cut off his head and carried it back to her people. 2. The sting is gone. What's going on here?" In calling and converting sinners, God appears as a God of glory, and works a glorious work in the soul. Believers may and ought to have respect to this recompense of reward; they should acquaint themselves with it, approve of it, and live in the daily and delightful expectation of it. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." When Moses was born, by faith his parents hid him. It was the response of a man who was asked to offer God his own son. He now supports this statement with illustrations from the Old Testament. They examined the animals in their toy ark and finally decided on a sheep with a broken leg. 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. How glorious was the triumph of his faith in so great a trial. 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. His faith silenced all objections, and set him to work in earnest. Legend says that when she drew the ark out of the water, the archangel Gabriel boxed the ears of the little baby to make him cry so that the heart of Thermouthis might be touched as she saw the little face puckered in sorrow and the eyes full of tears. (i) The Book of Wisdom ( Wis_4:10 ff.) Time will fail me if I try to recount the story of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, or Jephthah, of David. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. Such a sight of God will enable believers to endure to the end whatever they may meet with in the way. It is not implied that they may not sin, or that they have no consciousness of their failure, either past or present. 2. So the writer to the Hebrews says: "Although he died for his faith, he is still speaking to us." But now ours is the victory. What was the necessity for a new covenant if the old one would do as well? But Abraham said, 'Son, do you remember that in your lifetime you had the good things, and Lazarus the evil? "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. (3.) He seemed to have forgotten how God had determined the matter at the birth of these his sons, ; Genesis 25:23. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 God bless you and give you a beautiful week. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. Indeed, not being revealed of old, according to the apostle, it is altogether a mistake to go to the Old Testament for that truth. That is the way in which so many people would like to sacrifice to God; but only the dearest and the best is good enough for him. 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. Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and the sand which is by the seashore innumerable ( Hebrews 11:12 ). Amen.". 3. When I start to get weak, and I start to question and I start to say, "Why, God?" has remembered in marg. All true believers desire this better country. 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 speaks ( Hebrews 11:4 ). So Antiochus turned for home, almost mad with rage; and on the way he turned aside and attacked Jerusalem, capturing it almost without an effort. In the ancient world the fate of the stranger was hard. IX. The faith of Joseph, Hebrews 11:22. Observe here, (1.) By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about for seven days ( Hebrews 11:30 ). When he reached the promised land, he was never allowed to possess it. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. As a supposed criminal, when the king's wrath was incensed against him for killing the Egyptian (. Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. [2.] The prevalency of unbelief for a time: she laughed at the promise, as impossible to be made good. This was the very thing that these Jewish Christians were shrinking, from, if not rebelling against. Like Abraham he has to go out not knowing where he is going. Through his faith. and made it still more manifest and heinous. It is the conviction of the Christian that it is better to suffer with God than to prosper with the world. "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. Are those two things true of you? Ishmael was to be put off with earthly greatness. (3.) She said to the spies whom she welcomed and hid: "I know that the Lord has given you the land. For the Lord your God, is he who is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath" ( Joshua 2:9-11). On the seventh day the priests were to blow upon the trumpets, after the city had been encircled seven times, and the people were to shout with all their might, "and the wall of the city will fall down flat." And who delivered them from the inhabitants of Jericho. The strength of nature, as well as grace, is from God: he can make the barren soul fruitful, as well as the barren womb. 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. 'It was therefore a crisis after the most painful accumulation of evils that weighed on the heart of Israel. 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. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, said, "The gospel that I declared unto you, how that Christ died according to the scriptures, and was buried according to the scriptures, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures" ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ). So far, Antiochus had succeeded only in causing a division in the nation; the greater part of the Jews were unshakeably true to their faith and could not be moved. No man ever did anything great without a vision which enabled him to face the difficulties and discouragements of the way. But another Jew, seeking to curry favour and to save his own life, came forward and was about to sacrifice. 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. So they had the proper attitude towards the world, proper perspective of life. To take it seemed impossible. God sees, God is going to take care of it. These were the actings of their faith. 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. The one is what may be called the objective glory; the other is the subjective condition of those that compose the bride, the Lamb's wife. Nimrod sought to murder the infant but Abraham was concealed in a cave and his life saved. X. Here the words "for us" had better be left out. How easily we even forget that we are not Jews but Christians! That strange old story is told in Joshua 6:1-20. 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." This is the last thing which Moses records respecting the patriarchs, and it deserves to be particularly noticed; for wealth, luxuries, and honors, made not the holy man to forget the promise, nor detained him in Egypt; and this was an evidence of no small faith. Now Joseph gave this order, not that he thought his being buried in Egypt would either prejudice his soul or prevent the resurrection of his body (as some of the rabbis fancied that all the Jews who were buried out of Canaan must be conveyed underground to Canaan before they could rise again), but to testify, [1.] God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. He was willing to take his lot with the people of God here, though it was a suffering lot, that he might have his portion with them hereafter, rather than to enjoy all the sensual sinful pleasures of Pharaoh's court, which would be but for a season, and would then be punished with everlasting misery. "And, as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. Christendom prefers the middle course; it will have neither the conscious nearness, to God, nor the place of Christ's reproach among men. These are the positive sides to faith: the subduing of kingdoms, obtaining the promises, stopping the mouths of lions, quenching the violence of fire, made strong out of their weakness, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens and women receiving their dead to life again.But the man of faith can also know defeat and discouragement. 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. So, he ordered all of the baby boys to be drowned in the Nile. Observe here, (1.) 2 This is what the ancients were commended for. Hebrews 11:1. The principle upon which his faith acted in these his motions: He endured, as seeing him that was invisible.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. The passover was one of the most solemn institutions of the Old Testament, and a very significant type of Christ. For the martyred saint's blood the earth cried to God for vengeance; but Christ's blood proclaims mercy from God, and the millennial day will be the glorious witness of its depth, and extent, and stability, before the universe. (2.) And what then? 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. Manasseh the evil son of Hezekiah ordered him sawed in two. It is said (; Genesis 22:1), God in this tempted Abraham; not to sin, for so God tempteth no man, but only tried his faith and obedience to purpose. But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. 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. It is excluded from syllabuses of religious education because it is held to teach an unacceptable view of God. That this Isaac was his only-begotten son by his wife Sarah, the only one he was to have by her, and the only one that was to be the child and heir of the promise. You that go after the tabernacle (as he persists in calling it, even though now the temple) have no title to our altar, with its exhaustless supplies. (iv) Some have seen in death the supreme terror and the unmitigated evil. And a lot has been made over that. They were confronted with "the wheels and racks and hooks and catapults and caldrons and frying pans and finger racks and iron hands and wedges and hot cinders." (2.). True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. ), This was an exercise of his faith. The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. When they offered their sacrifices unto the Lord, the Lord accepted Abel's sacrifice, but He rejected Cain's. The supports of his faith. They did not take the opportunity that offered itself for their return. I like two steps or three or four. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. With all this Christianity is contrasted. The veil is rent: the believer can draw near, as is shown in the next chapter; but meanwhile it is merely pointed out that there is no veil now, eternal redemption being obtained. "So Mattathias and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they ever had in the city" ( 1Ma_2:28 ). When the fire, an emblem of God's justice, consumed the offering, it was a sign that the mercy of God accepted the offerer for the sake of the great sacrifice. (2.) Genesis 22:1-18). Amen.Suppose your name will ever get listed in this Hallmark of Faith that God has? 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. "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience; in all things willing to live honestly. God then has provided some better thing for us. (iii) In spite of everything they never wished to go back. They all died in faith not having received the promise, for you see, God provided some better thing for us. Faith does work. They suggested to him that they would bring him dressed meat which was not pork, and that he should eat it pretending that it was pork. He will have nothing more to do with sin. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." the matter came to boiling-point. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full (Genesis 15:13-16). To wait is even harder than to adventure. (1.) A strange mystery is the simple act of faith. One of the finest men who ever lived in Athens was Aristides, who was called "the just." This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. If God's word be true, and to this the Spirit adheres, the blood of Christ has thus perfectly washed away the sins of the believer. Augustine said: "We are sojourners exiled from our fatherland." 11:30-31 It was by faith that the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. We should never forget that there was a day when his friends came and tried to get him to go home because they thought that he was mad. 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." The meaning is, that spiritual guides shall give an account of their own behaviour in watching over other souls; for it is a work that calls for much jealousy over self, patience with others, painstaking labour, lowliness of mind, and that hearty love which can bear all, endure all, believe all. 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. They had time enough to return. And Abraham said, "Son, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice" ( Genesis 22:7-8 ). It is the setting aside of God, and the setting up of man; it is the precursor of the apostasy that is coming, which again will issue in man taking the place of God, and becoming the object of worship, instead of the true Creator. Verse 22. where one competent to take up that word "for ever"? They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" (Genesis 50:22-26, ESV). II. So we are told that when Jesus died for our sins He descended into hell and He preached, according to Peter, to those souls that were in prison. Scripture Hebrews 11 Sort Bible Verse Sermon The Danger of Dull Hearing Apr 10, 1988 Scripture: Hebrews John Piper Sermon What Faith Knows and Hopes For Jun 1, 1997 Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-3 John Piper Sermon Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God Jun 8, 1997 Scripture: Hebrews 11:4-6 John Piper Conference Message In the Apocalypse of Baruch God says: "I showed it to my servant by night" (4: 4). And when they came to Mount Moriah, Abraham bound Isaac, and put him on the altar, raised the knife, and God said, "Okay far enough, Abraham. (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. He had good company with him, and they were a great comfort to him in his sojourning state. Author: VICTOR C. Pfitzner Genre: Religion Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament Item Width: 4.4in. Christianity is stamped by this, that, in virtue of the blood of Christ, once for all for every believer the way is made manifest into the holiest of all. But when the light broke he ran out crying, "Now I know! 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." Maybe I don't want to do what He's got in mind when we get down the road. I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. In the town there was a widow called Judith. (2.) "And unto the city of the living God, (not of dying David,) the heavenly Jerusalem" (not the earthly capital of Palestine). "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 ). He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. That is why, at least in one sense, it is dangerous to be a Christian. An instance of his faith in conquering the world. She answered: "Your father, Terah." The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. The people never forgot what great things God had done for them and, when some great effort was called for, they nerved themselves for it by remembering them. "By the which will" (not man's, which is sin, but God's) "we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.". He lives in it and he dies in it; and it is the possession of it which makes him act as he does. 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. Then comes forth the wondrous counsel that was settled before either the sin of man, or the promises to the fathers, or the law which subsequently put man to the test. The Book of Fourth Maccabees has two famous stories which were undoubtedly in the mind of the writer to the Hebrews when he made his list of the things that the man of faith has had to suffer. But when Cain saw that his offering was rejected and Abel's was accepted, he was angry with the Lord for rejecting his offering. (iii) Abraham's faith was the faith which was looking beyond this world. He is called their God. 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