That strange old story is told in Joshua 6:1-20. Stevenson tells of an old byreman who spent all his days amidst the muck of the byre. Meanwhile Christianity gives the utmost force to every type and truth of God. In Hebrews 10:1-39 he applies the matter to the present state of the believer. 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. When Joshua sent out spies to spy out the situation in Jericho, they found a lodging in the house of Rahab, a harlot. 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. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. We enter in to the glorious promise of God. None of the patriarchs entered into the full possession of the promises that God had made to Abraham. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. The belief of this will carry us through the greatest difficulties and trials that we can meet with. God saved his family for his sake; it was well for them that they were Noah's sons and daughters; it was well for those women that they married into Noah's family; perhaps they might have married to great estates in other families, but then they would have been drowned. And here we learn the direct application. I. Observe, The practical belief of the existence of God, as revealed in the word, would be a powerful awe-band upon our souls, a bridle of restraint to keep us from sin, and a spur of constraint to put us upon all manner of gospel obedience. He may leave something which will grow and spread like a canker; or he may leave something fine which blossoms and flourishes without end. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. The ground of Noah's faitha warning he had received from God of things as yet not seen. 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 was said to be the first to put pen to paper and instruct men from books. There is no indication why God preferred the gift of Abel to the gift of Cain. [2.] 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. When he was still a child, Thermouthis took him to Pharaoh and told him how she had found him. It was by faith that Jacob, when he was dying. This was in the same spirit of faith exhibited by Jacob when he gave a similar commandment concerning his remains, requiring that he be buried in Canaan, not in Egypt; Joseph's bones were brought along. (2.). Christ never needed this, but we do. Abraham said: "My father, a woman brought this dish of meat for your gods; they all wanted to have it and the strongest knocked the heads off the rest, lest they should eat it all." But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. They never wearily gave up the journey; they lived in hope and died in expectation. [2.] He says that it is an act of faith to believe that God made this world and adds that the things which are seen emerged from the things which are not seen. He was a good governor but he had an almost abnormal love for all things Greek and saw himself as a missionary for the Greek way of life. He does not reason from the singular circumstance that there was no incense, any more than sacrifice. He contrived the model; he accordingly made it, and he has laid open a new and living way into it, and prepared it for his people; he puts them into possession of it, prefers them in it, and is himself the substance and felicity of it. The only thing they would offer was a broken toy they could well do without. Offer it on the altar." He alludes to several facts, but leaves them. In Luke's gospel, the sixteenth chapter, Jesus said, "There was a certain rich man, who fared sumptuously every day, and there was a poor man that was brought daily and laid at his gate, covered with sores, and the dogs would come and lick his sores. Rebecca and Jacob are not to be justified in the indirect means they used to obtain this blessing, but God will be justified in overruling even the sins of men to serve the purposes of his glory. At first sight every one may have been surprised, especially those that read the New Testament in the language in which God wrote it, at the double meaning of the word which is here translated "covenant." 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. But it is interesting, "I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again." After the fall, God must be worshipped by sacrifices, a way of worship which carries in it a confession of sin, and of the desert of sin, and a profession of faith in a Redeemer, who was to be a ransom for the souls of men. Then Abraham said: "The moon must be God and the stars his host!" Who ever in his senses built a great hulk of a ship on dry land far from the sea? 123.]. the author of creation cannot set!" As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. He is called their God. 01/11/23. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,Hebrews 11:25. Abraham had faith to obey, believing that God could bring Isaac back to life. 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. That's the thing. Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. Notwithstanding their meanness by nature, their vileness by sin, and the poverty of their outward condition, God is not ashamed to be called their God: such is his condescension, such is his love to them; therefore let them never be ashamed of being called his people, nor of any of those that are truly so, how much soever despised in the world. He was heir to the kingdom. (3.) Publisher: Abingdon Press Publication Year: 1997 Format: Trade Paperback Language: English Item Height: 0.2in. (iii) Some have seen in death sheer extinction. Though all Israel kept this passover, yet it was by Moses that God delivered the institution of it; and, though it was a great mystery, Moses by faith both delivered it to the people and kept it that night in the house where he lodged. We often say, "It is good to be akin to an estate;" but surely it is good to be akin to the covenant. 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. Not so Moses. And He led the captives from their captivity; opened the prison doors to those who had been bound.It is through Jesus Christ that the door has been made open into heaven. "So he was going on sheer faith in the word of God, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." Moffatt distinguishes three directions in which the Christian hope operates. What should we learn from it? 11:5-6 It was by faith that Enoch was transferred from this to the other life so that he did not die but passed from men's sight, because God took him from one life to the other. What he did once he can do again, for the God of history is the same one as we worship today. 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. By faith we may see this invisible God. 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. 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. We see the evidence of it. They're sort of super saints. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. God's warning comes to us in many ways. 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. He didn't build any cities. 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. (2.) The consideration of this should inflame the affections, enlarge the desires, and excite the diligent endeavours, of the people of God after this city that he has prepared for them. Now is the time for self-denying labour, and endurance in grace; by-and-by the account must be given to the Lord that appointed them. 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. More than that, it caused him to remain patient when he did not experience the fulfilment of the promise in his lifetime. He does not actually mention these things. 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? "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.". This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. The incident from the life of Joseph comes from Genesis 50:22-26. At first it was (ver. By faith we may see this invisible God. 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. has the idea that God took Enoch to himself when he was still young to save him from the infection of this world. Hebrews 11 teaches them the nature of faith through word (11:1) and story (11:2-40). That we will not just take that which seems to be so exciting, and temporarily beneficial, but that we'll look and find out where the path leads. They had known God in His providence and dealings on the earth, though looking for a Messiah and His day. 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. The Puritans used to emphasize the importance of dying well. 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 ). 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 that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived. That was a wicked and a cruel edict, that all the males of the Israelites should be destroyed in their infancy, and so the name of Israel must be destroyed out of the earth. Here observe. We say, "Oh, that's a cold, biting wind," or we say, "Oh, that's one of those warm Santa Anas." Again, in writing to the Corinthians, he said, "There was a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I don't know;) but he was caught up to the third heaven. How that Cain, being a farmer, brought the fruit of the ground unto the Lord. Isaac has to have children, because God has to keep His word. In this great example observe. The supports of his faith. 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. They saw them afar off. There was but One that could do God's will in that which concerned man's deepest wants. These all died in faith ( Hebrews 11:13 ). (2.) [6.] He made nothing of himself, because he knew they were God's people. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. This was a final call; and how gracious! They, presumptuously attempting to follow Israel through the Red Sea, being thus blinded and hardened to their ruin, were all drowned. Sota, fol. You may find great pleasure and excitement in the indulging of your flesh, but it doesn't last. He saw two crows fighting and one killed the other, then dug a hole with its beak and buried it. In this place (and in Genesis 5:22, &c.) we read, (1.) The word is, "Jehovah has vision." (Hebrews 9:15). Indeed, at no time will its order be more apparent than at present; for I think there can be little doubt to any unbiassed Christian who enters with intelligence into the Old Testament prophecies, that there is yet to be an earthly sanctuary, and, consequently, earthly priests and sacrifices for Israel in their own land; that the sons of Zadok, as Ezekiel lets us know, will perpetuate the line at the time when the Lord shall be owned to be there, in the person of the true David their King, blessing His people long distressed but now joyful on earth. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. Here, too, he begins to introduce what a. priest does, that is, the exercise of his functions. And she said, "I wasn't laughing" ( Genesis 18:13-15 ). I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. They watch as those that shall give an account. 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. The apostle next proceeds to. They, too, were given the same choice and confronted with the same threats. The grounds why Canaan could not consistently be made prominent in this epistle as a present thing, but only as a hope, we have already seen. The means prescribed to God to bring down the walls of Jericho. 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. (3.) How Canaan is called the land of promise, because yet only promised, not possessed. It looks at only the first half of the list and ignores the second half of the list, but that isn't reality. See Matthew 2:19; Matthew 9:18; Luke 7:2, etc. 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. "I don't know." 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. What had immediately preceded this, The cross. 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. Jesus alone. The patriarchs mentioned here likewise looked to the future in faith. Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. XIV. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, said that if a man comes to the altar and realizes that his brother has ought against him, he ought to first go to his brother and reconcile their differences and then come and offer your gift unto the Lord ( Matthew 5:23-24 ). Sometimes a man may have to sacrifice personal relationships. He answered; "He that has something ayont (beyond) need never weary." And to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.Shall we pray.Thank you, Father, for all that You have done for us. 11:8-10 It was by faith that Abraham, when he was caned, showed his obedience by going out to a place which he was going to receive as an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was to go. The promise of a posterity, and of the Messiah, must either be fulfilled by means of this son or not at all; so that, besides his most tender affection to this his son, all his expectations were bound up in him, and, if he perished, must perish with him. And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. But meanwhile we have not yet entered on the rest of God. Longfellow wrote: "There is no Death! Observe, Moses was persecuted betimes, and forced to be concealed; in this he was a type of Christ, who was persecuted almost as soon as he was born, and his parents were obliged to flee with him into Egypt for his preservation. 11:23 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. 3. of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Observe, [1.] Genesis 22:1-18). They examined the animals in their toy ark and finally decided on a sheep with a broken leg. It is of men who never believed that God was on the side of the big battalions and were willing to take tremendous and even terrifying risks for him. He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. who is, and has ever been, the head of the church. We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. For he was looking for [the eternal city of God,] a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. The departing of the children of Israel ( ). The hardest time of all is the time in between. To the end of their days they were nomads, never living a settled life in a settled land. As the proof of this, God has prepared for them a city, a happiness suitable to the relation into which he has taken them. Here observe. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. "Everyone doth think his own Religion rightest," he said, "both Jews and Moors and Pagans; and how if all our Faith and Christ and Scriptures should be but a 'Think so' too?" When we remember that the one who makes the promise is God, there comes the realization that however astonishing that promise may be, it must none the less be true. There are certain surroundings which indicate to the competent eye when the word "covenant" is right and when the word "testament" is better. After Joshua died, Josephs bones were reburied in Shechem: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph (Joshua 24:32). This isn't my home. God preferred the gift of Abel to the gift of Cain who, moved to bitter jealousy, murdered his brother and became an outcast upon the earth. One day he said to his brother: "Remove thy foot; thou standest on my property; the plain is mine." The Stoics held that the gods had given men the gift of life and the still greater gift of taking their own lives away. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. It is not a question of justification here. This change was clearly taught in the book of Psalms. I'll do it. Envy is that poison which can poison all life and kill all goodness. He was tried by temptations, by sin, by persecution, for retaining his integrity. Now these of the Old Testament, theirs was a different case. And, amazingly, she is one of the names which appear in the genealogy of Jesus ( Matthew 1:5). I'm just a transient here. Hence he did receive him back which is a parable of the resurrection. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. Then we have the other patriarchs introduced, yet chiefly as regards earthly hopes, but not apart from resurrection, and its connection with the people of God here below. For there is nothing in this world commensurate to the love of God in being the God of his people; and, if God neither could nor would give his people anything better than this world affords, he would be ashamed to be called their God. And the writer probably was in his mind just taking from the beginning the men of the Old Testament who by faith their lives were made outstanding.Now here's what they did through faith. 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. It is one of the hardest challenges of Christianity that we have to be prepared to be sometimes a fool for Jesus' sake. He refused. And I have this to add to the account I have given of the sarcophagus now in the British Museum, vulgarly called Alexander's coffin, that it is more probably the coffin of Joseph himself; and, should the time ever arrive in which the hieroglyphics on it shall he interpreted, this conjecture may appear to have had its foundation in truth. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. But, notwithstanding all this, Isaac's faith recovered itself, and he ratified the blessing: I have blessed him yea, and he shall be blessed. "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God;" a simple but a most sublime truth, and one that man never really found out that we are entirely dependent on faith for after all. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. There is a story of two children who had been given a toy Noah's Ark as a present. There was a Greek proverb which said: "Envy has no place in the choir of God." Up until the time of Noah, it had never rained upon the earth. There is something of permanent greatness here. (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. [5.] Nothing but absolute establishment of heart in God's grace could have gazed on a destroyed universe, and yet call it a "promise." Then, the legend tells, the Egyptians struck upon a cruel scheme. "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?" 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. (1.) Abraham is the supreme example of faith. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.". to the foundations, which became apparent too, too quickly in Solomon's son. 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. He had the honour to leave behind him an instructive speaking case; and what does it speak to us? And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. 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. It was a testimony of his righteousness. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. 3. He had beyond all mere men known sorrow and rejection in Israel; yet he himself not only mounted the throne of Jehovah, but raised up His people to. So he knelt down and worshipped the sun. Nor does it seem so natural for any as the great apostle to inform them of his child and fellow-labourer: "Know that the brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come pretty soon, I will see you. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." Thus the only time when he comes into notice he is acting in the double capacity here spoken of: King of righteousness as to his name, King of Salem as to his place, blessing Abraham on his return from the victory over the kings of the Gentiles in the name of the Most High God, and blessing the Most High God the possessor of heaven earth in the name of Abraham. We are still walking here below; we are in the place therefore where infirmity is felt, where Satan tempts, where we may fail through unwatchfulness. 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. Antiochus thought for a moment and realized that to defy Rome was impossible. Though he knew that it was great, and levelled at him in particular, and that it marched at the head of a numerous host to pursue him, yet he was not dismayed, and he said to Israel,Fear not, ; Exodus 14:13. The expression used for stopping the mouths of lions is that used of Daniel in Daniel 6:18; Daniel 6:23. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? Joseph gave instruction about returning his bones to Canaan: But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. (i) Abraham's faith was the faith that was ready for adventure. "They heaped up fuel and, setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more. The reward of his faith in this great trial (; Hebrews 11:19): he received his son from the dead in a figure, in a parable. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ( Hebrews 11:1 ). So did Jacob in regard to Josephs sons, which was for him an act of faith in his old age. The traitors within the camp were silenced and looming defeat was turned into tumultuous victory. The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. After all, the telling fact was before them that, whoever wrote the epistle to the Hebrews, it was not a Christian who wrote the book of Genesis, but Moses; and Moses bears witness to the homage which Abram rendered to Melchisedec by the payment of tithes. 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. For that goodness, for the blessings, for the richness that is ours through Jesus Christ, for the promises and for the hope. It was the more urgent to insist on it, because the Jews, like others, would like to have been settled in rest here and now. Now, I don't know how God's going to do it. When we are discouraged, let us remember and take heart again. They stripped him naked and scourged him with whips, while a herald stood by him, saying: "Obey the king's commands," His flesh was torn off by the whips and he streamed down with blood and his flanks were laid open by wounds. We do not know the steps of His work, until we come to the preparation of an abode for man. (1.) For then would they not have ceased to be offered? But another Jew, seeking to curry favour and to save his own life, came forward and was about to sacrifice. The phrase about being made strong out of weakness might conjure up many a picture. 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