For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. 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. 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. There will always be a difference between those who worship the true God; some will compass him about with lies, others will be faithful with the saints; some, like the Pharisee, will lean to their own righteousness; others, like the publican, will confess their sin, and cast themselves upon the mercy of God in Christ. "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate Gods purposes." We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. 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. He has brought in redemption in present accomplishment, and at the same time He has given scope for a brighter hope, founded on His mighty work on the cross, measured by Christ's glory as its present answer at the right hand of God. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. These people heard God's promises and believed them in spite of waiting a very 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. 2. 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. If we believe that this is God's world then into our lives come a new sense of responsibility and a new power of acceptance, for everything belongs to God and all is in his hands. Again he insists upon the honour and purity of the marriage tie, and the abhorrence that God has for those that despise and corrupt it, and the sure judgment which will come upon them. 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). BELIEVING THE INCREDIBLE ( Hebrews 11:11-12 ). The standard of rebellion was raised. What he did once he can do again, for the God of history is the same one as we worship today. The passover was one of the most solemn institutions of the Old Testament, and a very significant type of Christ. Abraham only had one, "Go, get out of the land." The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. It begins with Abel, one of the first saints, and the first martyr for religion, of all the sons of Adam, one who lived by faith, and died for it, and therefore a fit pattern for the Hebrews to imitate. 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. Maybe I don't want to do what He's got in mind when we get down the road. Genesis 23:4). He acted in this matter with some reluctance. The difficulties Isaac's faith struggled with. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. [2.] Observe the due regard that Abraham had to this heavenly city: he looked for it; he believed there was such a state; he waited for it, and in the mean time he conversed in it by faith; he had exalted and rejoicing hopes, that in God's time and way he should be brought safely to it. We wonder just what will happen to us if we take God at his word and act on his commands and promises. He collapsed and one of the soldiers kicked him violently in the stomach to make him rise. Thus distinctly have we set before us the general doctrine of the chapter, that Christ has suffered but once, and has been offered but once; that the offering cannot be severed from the suffering. This was aiming a blow at the current belief that God created the world out of existing matter which, being necessarily imperfect, meant that from the beginning this was an imperfect world. He has displayed Christ as Son of God (1) and Son of Man (2), warned of the dangers inherent in unbelief (3-4), and explored the power of Christ's priesthood (5-10). 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." Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. It is then that we are so liable to give up our hopes and lower our ideals and sink into an apathy whose dreams are dead. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. The scripture says, "So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance" (Joshua 24:28). Carefully observe that it is the tabernacle, never the temple. Cavour said that the first essential of a statesman is "the sense of the possible." Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. I like two steps or three or four. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.". Abraham and his family did not give up and go back to Abrahams home in Mesopotamia as soon as difficulties arose. with Him in this place of nearness. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. (2. Josephs faith was recognized from the time he was a small child (approximately seventeen years of age) when he was sold by his brothers and taken to Egypt until near the time of his death. "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing his name. Because Christians are a heavenly people, and none but a heavenly Priest would suit them. A person who lives for their own pleasure is living out of sync with God. They cared not to engage much in it. The real presumption, therefore, is to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to doubt the primary fundamental truth of Christianity as to this. 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. So the writer to the Hebrews says: "Although he died for his faith, he is still speaking to us." ""So by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing where he was going.". Interesting! And thus, for the child of God, it's the glorious coronation day. There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. 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. "For," says he, "there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof (for the law made nothing perfect)." There it was in the Psalms. J. P. Struthers was the minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Greenock, a little congregation, which, it is neither false nor unkind to say, had a great past but no future. Man was tried by all sorts of tests from time to time God knew perfectly well, and even declared here and there, the end from the beginning; but He would make it manifest to every conscience, that all He got from man in these His varied dealings was sin. The emissaries of Antiochus tried to persuade a certain Mattathias to set an example by offering sacrifice, for he was a distinguished and influential man. "Isaiah, the sixty-first chapter, and the prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the good tidings to the meek; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the day of the vengeance of our God." The story is told in Exodus 2:11-14. Joseph's coffin, the Jews say h, was put into the river Nile; and so says Patricides i, an Arabic writer: others say it was in the buryingplace of the kings, until it was taken up and removed by Moses. At first it was (ver. So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. God must come to us before we come to him. Antiochus thought for a moment and realized that to defy Rome was impossible. They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. And this heavy water blanket in the atmosphere no doubt accounted for the discoveries in the geological stratas of asparagus ferns sixty or seventy feet tall. Now after the apostle has given this account of the faith of others, with Abraham, he returns to him again, and gives us an instance of the greatest trial and act of faith that stands upon record, either in the story of the father of the faithful or of any of his spiritual seed; and this was his offering up Isaac: 1. 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. "And who is the lord of Terah?" Amen.Suppose your name will ever get listed in this Hallmark of Faith that God has? With only three hundred men Gideon won a victory over the Ammonites in days when they had terrorized Israel, a victory which went ringing down the centuries. Hebrews 11:1. 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. A parepidemos ( G3927) was a man in lodgings, a man without a home in the place where life had sent him. "Ye are come unto mount Zion," which was the highest Old Testament point of grace on earth. "Just have enough faith and you'll never be sick. Xenos ( G3581) can even mean a refugee. The acting of their faith: they hid this their son three months. The Lord said, "Go," and he said, "Where?" Well, the word provide, the base word of provide is vision, provision. "Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (for those priests were made without an oath" no oath ushers in the sons of Aaron "but he with an oath by him that said as to him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.". That, after the fall, God opened a new way for the children of men to return to him in religious worship. As, (1.) It is "the blood that speaketh better than Abel." What, then, is man's actual estate? The wisdom of God is so often foolishness with men. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. For, [1.] Are you supposed to die in faith? "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. I see evidence of it.I see evidence of God. Then he adds: "And to myriads of angels, the general assembly" for such is the true way to divide the verse "and to the church of the firstborn," etc. 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. In 4 Ezra the writer says: "It came to pass when they practised ungodliness before thee, that thou didst choose one from among them whose name was Abraham; him thou didst love and to him only thou didst reveal the end of the times, secretly, by night" (4: 13). 7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, 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. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. By faith we may see this invisible God. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. For their spiritual birth is thence, there are their best relations, and there is their inheritance. Others doubtless could speak of their Ararat, their Olympus, their Etna; but which boasted of the true God that loved His people in the way that Zion could? It is easy to see how this passage can be read against the terrible happenings of these days. He had good company with him, and they were a great comfort to him in his sojourning state. It is by faith that we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, so that what is seen came into being out of what is unseen. (ii) Abraham is the pattern of the man who accepts what he cannot understand. They were not mindful of that country whence they came. The Jew never understood his law until the light of Christ on the cross and in glory shone upon it. Another great call was, to beware "lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." Who through faith subdued kingdoms, they wrought righteousness, they obtained promises, they stopped the mouths of lions, [probably referring to Daniel] they quenched the violence of fire, [probably referring to the three Hebrew children delivered from the fiery furnace] they escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness they were made strong, they waxed valiant in fight, and they turned to flight the armies of the aliens. It is doubtless a great blessing to be joined to the visible church of God in profession and privilege, but more to be so in spirit and truth. Jeremiah positively declares that God will make a new covenant. But God has left the matter still under some doubt, as a warning to all who have great talents given to them, and a great trust reposed in them, that they do not prove unfaithful, since God would not enroll our first parents among the number of believers in this blessed calendar. This is the fact. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. He prayed for them, that they might both be blessed of God. Of this we saw somewhat inHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. Seeing Abraham afar off, and Lazarus there being comforted in Abraham's bosom, said, 'Father Abraham, send Lazarus to me, that he might take his finger and dip it in water, and touch my tongue; for I am tormented in this heat.' She had gone out of the way of her duty through unbelief, in putting Abraham upon taking Hagar to his bed, that he might have a posterity. 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). "We don't know what fate [does he not believe in providence?] Faith enabled him to picture the exodus already. Barnes, the departing--"the exodus" (Genesis 50:24-25). But Biden concludes with a less-than-biblical solution. To speak about escaping the edge, of the sword was to direct men's thoughts to the way in which Elijah escaped threatened assassination in 1 Kings 19:1 ff and Elisha in 2 Kings 6:31 ff. "For every high priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. They all believed that there would be made the provision for their sins by God. Now this sin of hers would make it more difficult for her to act by faith afterwards. "O death where is thy sting? Where is the mountain that could stand out so well against Sinai? By faith Moses, when he was come of age ( Hebrews 11:24 ). If Abraham had ever so many sons, this was the only son who could convey to all nations the promised blessing. 11:20-22 It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in the things concerning the future. When I start to get weak, and I start to question and I start to say, "Why, God?" Observe. Share Embed Download Donate . But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. He became one of the greatest of all Egyptian generals; in particular he conquered the Ethiopians when they were threatening Egypt and in the end was married to an Ethiopian princess. 2. And so, in his envy, he hunted his brother until he killed him. The next instance is the faith of Rahab, 1. Who this Rahab was. O Lord our Lord how excellent is Thy name in all the earth. It often happens that simply by being himself the Christian passes judgment on other people. On the other hand, the priests, Aaron's family, among the sons of Levi, "have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham." Hereby himself and his house were saved, when a whole world of sinners were perishing about them. The truth is, that the Holy Ghost is come down for the purpose of bearing His witness; and he that deserts this for Judaism, or anything else, is an apostate and lost man. 2. will deliver to us and when. They had to be for ever moving on. If we have lived with Christ, we may die in the certainty that we go to be for ever with our Lord. [2.] He is showing us the efficacy of Christ's death. 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