What comes in between the two? He acted in this matter with some reluctance. Now is it an axiom, that a covenant-maker must die to give it force? His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. Then he descends to a new or fresh covenant (not , as elsewhere, but ), the recently inaugurated covenant for the two houses of the ancient people. "So accounting that God was able to raise him even from the dead, "from whence also he received him in a figure." "They heaped up fuel and, setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more. Jewish and eastern legends gathered largely round Abraham's name and some of them must have been known to the writer to the Hebrews. But they stedfastly adhered to God and duty under all discouragements and against all temptations to revolt from him. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. It is then that a man is faced with life's hardest battle--to accept when he cannot understand. "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. Legend tells how Amram and Jochebed, the parents of Moses ( Exodus 6:20), were troubled by the decree of Pharaoh. Mattathias and his sons and those like-minded took to the hills; and once again the phrases used to describe their life there were in the mind of the writer to the Hebrews and he has echoes of them over and over again. And there he heard things and if I tried to describe them in human language it would be a crime" ( 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 ). We can understand, therefore, both the delicacy that thus entreated them, and the meaning of the added words, "for also in few words I have written to you." When Abraham heard the promise he fell upon his face and laughed ( Genesis 17:17). Take thy son, not one of thy beasts or slaves, thy only son by Sarah, Isaac thy laughter, the child of thy joy and delight, whom thou lovest as thine own soul; take him away to a distant place, three days' journey, the land of Moriah; do not only leave him there, but offer him for a burnt offering." He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. Hebrews 11:22 New International Version 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. They had known God in His providence and dealings on the earth, though looking for a Messiah and His day. (1.) That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. The patriarchs mentioned here likewise looked to the future in faith. 1. 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. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things to come. Apart from faith it is impossible to please God, for he who approaches God must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of those who spend their lives seeking him. Noah's life was one continued and concentrated preparation for what God had said would come. The story is like this. There was Samuel, born to his mother so late in life ( 1 Samuel 1:1-28), again and again moving alone as the only strong and faithful man of God amongst an easily frightened, discontented and rebellious people. Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. 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. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. Now here is evidence of what men have wrought by faith. 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. The Bible said that God said, "Let there be light." 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. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. What a glorious hope we have in Christ. VII. Not so Moses. 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. There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness. STREAM DOWNLOAD. 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. It was not only that there had been at the beginning such a priest, but that fact became the form of a glorious anticipation which the Holy Ghost holds out for the latter day. Yet, he dwelt in it as a stranger. Biblical References: Hbr 11:23-30 . But they voted to banish him. He was said to be the first man skilled in tailoring and in sewing and that he instructed men how to cut out skins in the proper shape to make garments. And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. 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. Dwelt translates the ancient Greek word paroikos, describing a "resident alien" one who lives at a certain place, but doesn't have permanent status there. (3.) For although outwardly, no doubt, the prosperity lasted in the time of Solomon, it was mainly the fruit of David's suffering, and power, and glory. Impossible to rise higher than the Highest, whence therefore the apostle descends, to consequences. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." The Jews used to lay it down as a primary law for a teacher that he must never promise his pupils what he was unwilling or unable to perform; to do so would be to accustom the pupils thus early to the broken word. Her story is recounted in Joshua 2 and 6. The faith of the father, Abraham, passed on to Isaac, who by faith blessed his two sons, Jacob and Esau, and prophesied of the things to come. 3. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. 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. God's warning comes to us in many ways. Great man of faith, marvelous spiritual insights. 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. They were not afraid of the king's commandment, Exodus 1:22. They looked beyond death for a greater fulfilment than they could experience in their earthly lives (13-16; cf. Tertullian said of the Christian: "He knows that on earth he has a pilgrimage but that his dignity is in heaven." The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. Abraham only had one, "Go, get out of the land." When Sarah heard it she laughed within herself ( Genesis 18:12). Her unbelief is pardoned and forgotten, but her faith prevailed and is recorded: 3. If it be not the truth, it would be the height of presumption indeed. Thursday, January 12, 2023 Hebrews 12:5 -- On Love and Memory "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" Hebrews 12:5 This points out a couple of areas where we are frequently weak. 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. He is the second of those elders that through faith have a good report. The story of Jephthah is in Judges 11:1-40; Judges 12:1-15. It is believing in God that is the most important, not my works; they follow. Even the Greeks saw its horror. There were a great many instances of the faith of Jacob; his life was a life of faith, and his faith met with great exercise. I like two steps or three or four. And I see the evidence of God's existence, and thus, faith. The evidence of things not seen. Faith has a clear and a strong eye, and can see promised mercies at a great distance. where one competent to take up that word "for ever"? Antiochus said that he would consider it. It is the conflict which introduces the reign of peace founded on righteousness, when God will manifest Himself as the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? This is natural and pleasant to the flesh, no doubt; but it is precisely what opposes the whole object of God in Christianity, since Christ went on high till He come again, and therefore the path of faith to which the children of God are called. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. Our being brought to God supposes, and is founded on the fact, that our sins are gone perfectly by His one offering; otherwise no madness is greater than indulging such a thought. His faith influenced his practice. As the proof of this, God has prepared for them a city, a happiness suitable to the relation into which he has taken them. He was pre-eminently the man who had the faith that if God gave his people an order he would also give them the strength to carry it out. The circumstance of time is taken notice of, when Moses by his faith gained this victory over the world, in all its honours, pleasures, and treasures: When he had come to years (Hebrews 11:24); not only to years of discretion, but of experience, to the age of forty yearswhen he was great, or had come to maturity. With God all things are possible, and, therefore, the word impossible has no place in the vocabulary of the Christian and of the Christian Church. Others went through scoffing and scourging, yes, and chains and imprisonment. 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. The great artist or composer is driven by the thought of the performance he has never yet given and the wonder he has never yet produced. In all the other passages of the epistle the meaning of the word is, that He took His seat, or simply sat down there. Abraham saw Christ's day, when it was afar off, and rejoiced. But what at Zion? It was God's commandment that once a day for six days and in silence the people should march round it, led by seven priests marching in front of the ark and bearing trumpets of rams' horn. (ii) We must believe that God is interested. A most searching and practical question, the very unseen hinge in God Himself on which not Christianity only, but all blessing, turns for heaven and earth, at least as far as the fallen creation is concerned. 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. There is then the solemn admonition of the account they are to render by-and-by. Sometimes a man may have to sacrifice personal relationships. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. They were not afraid of the king's commandment. 1. There were two specially famous interpretations of the death of Enoch. Search Results by Book. 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. 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. What she did by her faith: She received the spies in peace, the men that Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho, ; Joshua 2:6-7. God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. 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. Many times a person is trying to shortcut himself into fellowship with God. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. Biblical Commentary Hebrews 11:29 - 12:2 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Hebrews 11 is the great faith chapter of the Bible, first defining faith (v. 1) and then using well-known Hebrew people to show faith in action. Now the tone becomes bolder with them, and shows clearly that the Jew had but an empty form, a foreshadow of value once, but now superseded by the true antitype in the heavens. And gave commandment concerning his bones; and the command was a very strict one when he gave it; he took an oath of his brethren to fulfil it; it was concerning his bones, not his body, which shows that he believed their departure out of Egypt was at a great distance, when his flesh would be consumed, and only his bones left, as it was about two hundred years after his death; it respects the carrying them out of Egypt with them, and burying them in the land of Canaan, when they came there; and this is an instance of his humility, in choosing to lie with his fathers, rather than with the kings, and great men in Egypt, and of his care to prevent idolatry, which he might observe the Egyptians would be prone unto: and this command was a great instance of Joseph's faith, that the children of Israel would return to Canaan, and which might serve greatly to confirm their faith in it; it also shows his belief of the resurrection of the dead, and of his enjoying the heavenly inheritance, signified by the land of Canaan; See Genesis 50:24, the Papists, from hence, plead for the relics of saints; but it should be observed, that it was at the request, and by the command of Joseph, that his bones were preserved, which is not the case of the saints, whose relics are pleaded for; besides, these were the true and real bones of Joseph, whereas the relics of the saints are only pretended; to which may be added, that the bones of Joseph, were ordered to be buried, not to be showed for a sight, much less worshipped, as Popish relics are. It means that God loved Enoch so much that he removed him before age and degeneration descended hand in hand upon him. And the evidence, that word has been translated conviction of the things not seen. These things are grievous to a man of understanding: Upbraiding concerning sojourning, and the reproach of a. (ii) Noah was not deterred by the mockery of others. Exodus 1:15-22 tells how the king of Egypt in his hatred tried to wipe out the children of the Israelites by having them killed at birth. At the moment when she was speaking, there seemed not one chance in a million that the children of Israel could capture Jericho. The devil instructed him in this in a dream." This is one of the first instances that is upon record of fallen men going in to worship God; and it was a wonder of mercy that all intercourse between God and man was not cut off by the fall. Than sumptuous fare in the house of strangers. The Christian regards himself as the pilgrim of eternity. He didn't build any cities. You remember, though, that Sarah's faith wasn't always so perfect. 1. "Nimrod," said his mother. I say not absolutely all its great truths. To Claudio the worst and bitterest of life was to be preferred to death. Fascinating statement!Now he begins to list those men of faith from the Old Testament. The whole list is of men who faced incredible odds for God. At any time it is an unhappy thing to be a stranger in a strange land, but in ancient days to this natural unhappiness there was added the bitterness of humiliation. Noah planted a teak tree and in twenty years it grew to such a size that out of it he was able to build the entire ark. This is of the deepest importance. 2. The other man replies: "Do you know what happens to Christians? She said to her father: "What hast thou done? lest he should undervalue the truer honour of being a son of Abraham, the father of the faithful; lest it should look like renouncing his religion as well as his relation to Israel; and no doubt both these he must have done if he had accepted this honour; he therefore nobly refused it. 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. It was in that cave the first vision of God came to him. He saw two crows fighting and one killed the other, then dug a hole with its beak and buried 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. The writer to the Hebrews must have known these legends and they must have helped to add vividness to the picture in his mind. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. 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. for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him ( Hebrews 11:6 ). They do not believe that God called all things into being. Every one of them refused what the world calls greatness and staked everything on God--and history proved them right. With all this Christianity is contrasted. The Christians gained Him in a far more excellent way after the pattern of resurrection, as Abraham at the close received Isaac as it were from the dead. (2.) On the life of Isaac depended the promise; and now God seemed to want to take that life away. 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. Such was the Priest of whom God spoke. Many legends gathered around his name. 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 . A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. But the Holy Ghost's testimony is not forgotten. 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. 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." About the year 170 B.C. The Witness of a Dead Man's Bones .Joseph's body was embalmed. For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. It was due to the faith of these men that the Jewish religion was not completely destroyed. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). 2. Instead of pining after that which is about to be destroyed, or repining at the call to go out to the place of Christ's shame on earth, Christianity, which replaces Judaism now, may well cause us to offer "the sacrifice of praise to God continually." [2.] Some would take this as detracting from his victory, that he gained it so late, that he did not make this choice sooner; but it is rather an enhancement of the honour of his self-denial and victory over the world that he made this choice when he had grown ripe for judgment and enjoyment, able to know what he did and why he did it. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. Accordingly he now turns to set forth the contrast between the weakness and the unavailingness of the Jewish sacrifices, which, in point of fact, only and always brought up sins again, instead of putting them away as does the sacrifice of Christ. He prophesied that they should be blessed; but, as Isaac did before, so now Jacob prefers the younger, Ephraim; and though Joseph had placed them so, that the right hand of his father should be laid on Manasseh, the elder, Jacob wittingly laid it on Ephraim, and this by divine direction, for he could not see, to show that the Gentile church, the younger, should have a more abundant blessing than the Jewish church, the elder. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. What is here reported of him. I'm afraid I have been. Someone asked him if he never got tired of it all. So Joseph died, being 110 years old. Faith sets to its seal that God is true, and thereby settles and satisfies the soul. Hence He crowns the noble army of witnesses with Christ Himself. You see the evidence of it, and thus, we believe in the wind, though we don't actually see the wind itself.Magnetic force--I believe in it, but I've never seen it. [2.] He insisted that we must take the long view. But how? In his willingness to go ahead with the sacrifice, Abraham did, in effect, offer up Isaac, but God intervened and Abraham received his son back, so to speak, from death (17-19; cf. But Biden concludes with a less-than-biblical solution. Observe, (1.) To what, then, is the allusion to the sanctuary applied? A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. "And whilst the saw cut into his flesh, Isaiah uttered no complaint and shed no tears; but he ceased not to commune with the Holy Spirit till the saw had cloven him to the middle of his body.". If he takes to himself the title of their God, he will fully answer it, and act up to it; and he has prepared that for them in heaven which will fully answer this character and relation, so that it shall never be said, to the reproach and dishonour of God, that he has adopted a people to be his own children and then taken no care to make a suitable provision for them. 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." (ii) Philo, the great Alexandrian Jewish interpreter, saw in Enoch the great pattern of repentance. But he withstood their tortures and died faithful. It is human to fear to miss the chance; but it is great to wait for the time of God--even when it seems like throwing a chance away. The Old Testament story of Noah is in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22. In the end he says a great thing. And so he journeyed through the land. In Measure for Measure Shakespeare makes Claudio say: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; And blown with restless violence round about, The weariest and most loathed worldly life. He does not require to add more to the person and facts of Christ than the Old Testament furnishes, to prove the certainty of Christianity and all its characteristic truths with which he occupies himself in this epistle. He uses in the most skilful manner the change of the priest, in order to bring along with it a change of the law, the whole Levitical system passing away "but [there is] the bringing in of a better hope." True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. Death is a metamorphosis. 1. For that goodness, for the blessings, for the richness that is ours through Jesus Christ, for the promises and for the hope. They believed He would provide for them what He had promised. His wish was fulfilled (Joshua 24:32; Acts 4:16). (2.) You, as a Christian, ought to have the calm settled consciousness that God, looking on you, discerns not one spot or stain, but only the blood of Jesus Christ His Son that cleanses from all sin. By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. Jephthah was an illegitimate son; he was driven into a kind of exile and into the life of an outlaw; but when the Ammonites were putting Israel into fear, the forgotten outlaw was called back and won a tremendous victory, although his vow to God cost him the life of his daughter. It is an excellent thing for persons to be seriously religious when in the midst of worldly business and enjoyments, to despise the world when they are most capable of relishing and enjoying it. But in chapter 8. (3.) But when the light broke he ran out crying, "Now I know! The leading instance and example of faith here recorded is that of Abel. Maybe I don't want to do what He's got in mind when we get down the road. But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. 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. It was the response of a man who was asked to offer God his own son. Was Isaac his only son? God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect ( Hebrews 11:40 ). Immediately a Christian has set out on some enterprise sent him by God, he should feel that he has already passed the point of no return. Those who forsook Egypt must expect the wrath of men; but they need not fear it, for they are under the conduct of that God who is able to make the wrath of man to praise him, and restrain the remainder of it. (3.) I. (7.) He went out, not knowing whither he went. 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. The exercise of Abraham's faith: he yielded an implicit regard to the call of God. The earth was so wicked that God decided that there remained nothing to do but destroy it. 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. Now these of the Old Testament, theirs was a different case. Jewish legend tells that Isaiah was sawn asunder. As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. It was on Mount Moriah where the cross was placed upon which Jesus died. III. I mean his sins now; not sin as a principle, but in fact, though it be only for faith. Christianity turns everything to account. So Abel devised a scheme whereby they might bring an end to contention. We mustn't think of God, "If I trust in Him, He will surely deliver me." And it came to pass that the poor man died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; moreover also the rich man died. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, whose foundling he was, and her fondling too; she had adopted him for his son, and he refused it. Abrahams faith caused him to set out for a promised, yet unknown, earthly inheritance. And so, in his envy, he hunted his brother until he killed him. 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