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. They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. Abrahams faith caused him to set out for a promised, yet unknown, earthly inheritance. He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] One imperfection of the present state of the saints on earth is that their happiness lies more in promise and reversion than in actual enjoyment and possession. He lived there in an ambulatory moving condition, living in a daily readiness for his removal: and thus should we all live in this world. One day Abraham was left in charge of the shop. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,Hebrews 11:25. Hereby himself and his house were saved, when a whole world of sinners were perishing about them. He was said to be the first to teach men to make shoes to protect their feet. Clement of Alexandria said: "We have no fatherland on earth." Its petrol supply has reached such a level that there is nothing left but to go on. Cavour said that the first essential of a statesman is "the sense of the possible." No act of sacrilege was omitted. 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. First let us take the things that can be explained against the Old Testament background. [2.] In the previous chapter the writer asserted that people must join faith to perseverance if they are to enjoy the thing hoped for. Though they had not received the promises, yet. For there is seen not only the proof that the Messiah is the One whom God pronounced by an oath "a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec," but the glorious seat He has taken at the right-hand of God is now worked into this magnificent pleading. (i) The Book of Wisdom ( Wis_4:10 ff.) In the end they carried him to the fire and threw him on it, "burning him with cruelly contrived instruments and pouring stinking liquids into his nostrils." 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? On the other side you have the affliction of the people of God, the reproach of Christ. They were not mindful of that country whence they came. For why should there be a new covenant, unless because the first was faulty or ineffectual! of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. The actings of Abraham's faith in so great a trial: he obeyed; he offered up Isaac; he intentionally gave him up by his submissive soul to God, and was ready to have done it actually, according to the command of God; he went as far in it as to the very critical moment, and would have gone through with it if God had not prevented him. It is to be noted that to dwell in a foreign land was a humiliating thing in ancient days; to the foreigner in any country a certain stigma attached. Christ never needed this, but we do. I'm looking for my dwelling with God in His eternal kingdom. By the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the author is rounding third base in his sermon. The twenty-four elders fall on their faces before the throne and take their crowns and cast them on the glassy sea and they say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor; for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created" ( Revelation 4:11 ). For then would they not have ceased to be offered? He made nothing of himself, because he knew they were God's people. It was by faith that Jacob, when he was dying. James was beheaded by Herod. faith: Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:16. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. It probably accounted for the longevity of life, averaged nine hundred years or so. Hebrews 11:1. She said to her father: "What hast thou done? 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. Some people have found difficulty here, because the Exodus narrative says that it was because Moses feared Pharaoh that he fled to Midian ( Exodus 2:14), while Hebrews says that he went out not fearing the blazing wrath of the king. (2.) But in the commentary here in Hebrews it tells us the reason why one was rejected and the other was accepted, is one was offered in faith and the other was offered not with faith, just the works of man's hands.There are those today who offer in faith, and there are those today who offer works for righteousness. 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 knowing that God's word was to be fulfilled that the land would one day be theirs, some three hundred years later after the death of Joseph, when the children of Israel began their trek from Egypt to the Promise Land, with them they carried the mummy of Joseph to bury it in the land of promise. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. Through faith he kept the passover ( Hebrews 11:28 ). But he did not mean what so many people think he meant. If God had reserved the epistle to the Hebrews until after He sent forth His armies and burned up their city, destroying their polity root and branch, it might have been retorted that the Christians valued the Jewish ritual as loner as it was available, and only gave it up when earthly temple and sacrifice and priest were gone. does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." 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. All their days the patriarchs were strangers in a strange 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. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. But here he was seeking communion with God when sin was in his heart. 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 . Then, having finished this part of the subject, the apostle turns to another characteristic in believers the mighty power of faith which knows how to draw on God, and breaks through all difficulties. Though believers are chiefly concerned for their souls, yet they cannot wholly neglect their bodies, as being members of Christ and parts of themselves, which shall at length be raised up, and be the happy companions of their glorified souls to all eternity. She was wealthy and beautiful but she had lived in lonely mourning since her husband Manasses had died. 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. He promised and He'll send His Son. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. And of what did Christianity speak? That is, the promises of the Messiah that God had given to them. If people have faith, it means they believe that things hoped for according to God's promises will be achieved and that unseen powers of God are real. Genesis 1:26, lxx. 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. He demonstrates its vicarious nature and value from the sacrifices so familiar to all then, and to the Jew particularly, in connection with the covenant that required them Now his rapid mind seizes, under the Spirit's guidance, the other well-known sense of the word, namely, as a testamentary disposition, and shows the necessity of Christ's death to bring it into force. Now he takes two figures from the period of struggle when the children of Israel were winning a place for themselves within Palestine. Through his faith. For whence had he so much greatness of mind, as to look down on whatever was elevated in the world, and to esteem as nothing whatever was precious in it, except that he had ascended up into heaven. That is like Moses and God. He gave commandment concerning his bones, that they should preserve them unburied in Egypt, till God should deliver them out of that house of bondage, and that then they should carry his bones along with them into Canaan and deposit them there. They had time enough to return. Antiochus thought for a moment and realized that to defy Rome was impossible. (3.) Hebrews 11:22. God cannot give us the vision unless we permit him; but if we wait upon him, even in earth's desert places be will send us the vision and with it the toil and trouble of the way become all worth while. In the second part of the passage the writer to the Hebrews tells what these men did and others like them in a series of machine-gun-like phrases. Compare alsoEphesians 2:1-22; Ephesians 2:1-22. 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. [2.] The verb means to finish or close, with life understood. 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. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ). Upon his mind; it impressed his soul with a fear of God's judgment: he was. On the life of Isaac depended the promise; and now God seemed to want to take that life away. 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. Such a man, even as Cain was, is banished from the face of God. He had the honour to leave behind him an instructive speaking case; and what does it speak to us? "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?" An old scholar who was dying turned to his friends: "Do you realize," he said, "that in an hour or two I will know the answers for which we have been searching all our lives?" How great a temptation Moses was under. The difficulties Isaac's faith struggled with. 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. no mention of family or ancestors, "having neither beginning of days, nor end of life" neither is recorded in scripture; "but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. The writer to the Hebrews goes on to say that it was precisely because the great heroes of the faith lived on that principle that they were approved by God. 3. He acted in faith, not policy. 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). The Old Testament story of Noah is in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22. 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