For not merely did David receive from Jehovah that throne, but never were the people of God lifted out of such a state of distress and desolation, and placed on such a height of firm and stable triumph as under that one man's reign. Expositor's Bible Commentary- It was when he thought he was near death that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau (Gen 27:2, 4). Yet, I do not doubt His existence, because of the evidence that is all around. As a supposed criminal, when the king's wrath was incensed against him for killing the Egyptian (. They only saw them from far away and greeted them from afar, and they admitted that they were strangers and sojourners upon the earth. Then they heated sharp spits and applied them to his back; and piercing through his sides they burned away his bowels." The supports of his faith. The eternal reward of living for Him so far outweighs any temporal advantage that I might have in living after the flesh. Observe, [1.] Implicit faith and obedience are due to God, and to him only. It is not owing to our inherent righteousness or best performances that we are saved from the wrath of God, but to the blood of Christ and his imputed righteousness. 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. Others went through scoffing and scourging, yes, and chains and imprisonment. For, [1.] If the law could show little mercy in such a case, the grace of God views all sin as intolerable. We wonder just what will happen to us if we take God at his word and act on his commands and promises. So from one man, and he a man whose body had lost its vitality, there were born descendants, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, as countless as the sand upon the seashore. Accordingly he became just the more the vessel of divine power to the glory of God. And if any were found to defy them, they "underwent great miseries and bitter torments. The preservation and safe passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when there was no other way to escape from Pharaoh and his host, who were closely pursuing them. The accommodation of this type is not difficult. No attention is paid here to the march through the wilderness, any more than to the establishment in the land, still less to the kingdom. Though they had not received the promises, yet. The Christian believes in the spirit rather than the senses. Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor's Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. Now looking at that a little more closely, God made the world out of things that do not appear.We know that the universe, the worlds, are made up of atoms which are invisible. They all died in faith, believing the promise that God would, indeed, send His salvation through His Son. The description given of heaven: it is a city, a regular society, well established, well defended, and well supplied: it is a city that hath foundations, even the immutable purposes and almighty power of God, the infinite merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the promises of an everlasting covenant, its own purity, and the perfection of its inhabitants: and it is a city whose builder and maker is God. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. The sun rose in all its glory and Abraham said: "Surely the sun is God, the Creator!" "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. He, of course, was referring to the Old Testament scriptures. And so I believe in the magnetic powers or the magnetic force, but I have never seen it. Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. Here, it is plain, we have the chief lineaments of revealed truth. When we are discouraged, let us remember and take heart again. For Christ is not entered into holies made with hands, figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.". This was why Joseph left instructions about his burial. 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. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. The account is in Exodus 12:12-48. 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. No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. There is an unwritten saying of Jesus: "The world is a bridge. But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." They talked; they both knew Rome and they had been friendly. The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. The actings of her faith. 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. His faith silenced all objections, and set him to work in earnest. A lot of times as we read of these people of faith, we sort of think them out of our category. Faith has a clear and a strong eye, and can see promised mercies at a great distance. Because he looked at the eternal aspect, the eternal reward, the eternal reward of following Jesus Christ. When he was a youth he came out of the cave and stood looking across the face of the desert. "There is employed in that particular text what is known grammatically in the Hebrew as a polysyndeton. Good examples will either convert sinners or condemn them. They did not send an army to oppose him; such was the might of Rome that they did not need to. All their lives the patriarchs were foreigners in a land that never was their own. 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.] The actings of Noah's faith, and the influence it had both upon his mind and practice. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. will deliver to us and when. 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. 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.' Thus the apostle closes this most striking and precious epistle, brimful to overflowing with that which had an especial and very touching interest to a Jew, but nevertheless needed as certainly by us, and as rich in instruction for us in this day as for those at any time that has passed away. he had respect unto the recompense of the reward ( Hebrews 11:26 ). There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. 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. Arranged all beforehand, neither Isaac's partiality nor Jacob's deceit was able to divert the channel. There is a story of two children who had been given a toy Noah's Ark as a present. Moffatt quotes a saying of A. S. Peake: "The courage to abandon work on which one's heart is set and accept inaction cheerfully as the will of God is of the rarest and highest kind and can be created and sustained only by the clearest spiritual vision." In short, the word in itself may mean either; but this is no proof that it may indifferently or without adequate reason be translated both ways. The actings of her faith. The secret of victorious living is to face God before we face men. 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." She was a harlot, and lived in a way of sin; she was not only a keeper of a public house, but a common woman of the town, and yet she believed that the greatness of sin, if truly repented of, shall be no bar to the pardoning mercy of God. And this is the more remarkable, because his language is essentially of the actual state of what was going on in the temple; but he always calls it the tabernacle. A paroikos ( G3941) was a resident alien. It is not that the Christian is self-righteous; it is not that he is censorious; it is not that he goes about finding fault with other people; it is not that he says: "I told you so." (iv) Some have seen in death the supreme terror and the unmitigated evil. Was Isaac his only son? (vii) Some have seen death as an adventure. As the old story tells it, so it happened. Grace be with you all. Earlier God had promised Abraham that his descendants would return to Canaan after the fourth generation: (1) Abraham, (2) Isaac, (3) Jacob, and (4) Joseph: And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. ), The strength of nature, as well as grace, is from God: he can make the barren soul fruitful, as well as the barren womb. Those therefore that so translate our two verses have invented a meaning for the phrase, instead of accepting its legitimate sense as attested by all the monuments of the Greek tongue; whereas the moment that we give it the meaning assigned here rightly by the better translators, that is, the sense of "testator" and "testament," all runs with perfect smoothness, and with striking aptitude. 11:1-3 Faith means that we are certain of the things we hope for, convinced of the thing we do not see. The world wasn't worthy of them and yet, what things they endured as the result of their faith in God.Your faith in God is not always going to bring you tremendous triumph and victories over the enemy, but your faith in God will sustain you through any kind of exigency that you may face in life. The sting is gone. But now ours is the victory. And declaring, basically, that if it were offered properly it would have been accepted; if his heart was right.There has been a lot made over the fact that one was a blood sacrifice and the other was not a blood sacrifice, but an offering of the fruit of the ground. That's all. (2.) They died in the faith of those promises; not only lived by the faith of them, but died in the full persuasion that all the promises would be fulfilled to them and theirs, Hebrews 11:13. From them, by this son, sprang a numerous progeny of illustrious persons, as the stars of the sky (; Hebrews 11:12)a great, powerful, and renowned nation, above all the rest in the world; and a nation of saints, the peculiar church and people of God; and, which was the highest honour and reward of all, of these, according to the flesh, the Messiah came, who is over all, God blessed for evermore. ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." 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. 2. He grew to be so beautiful that people turned in the street, and even ceased their work, to took at him. 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. Legend tells how Amram and Jochebed, the parents of Moses ( Exodus 6:20), were troubled by the decree of Pharaoh. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for. Here observe. (1.) William Morris wrote: "Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant. But when evening came, the sun sank in the west and Abraham said: "No! This was accordingly done, and the destroying angel passed over them, and slew the first-born of the Egyptians. There is no indulgence of human curiosity. But he did not mean what so many people think he meant. [5.] Sprinkling on the lentils and the doorposts, interestingly enough, gives you the sprinkling in the shape of a cross. 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. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate Gods purposes." 29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. in ordering his bones to be exported, he had no regard to himself, as though his grave in the land of canaan would be sweeter or better than in egypt; but his only object was to sharpen the desire of his own nation, that they might more earnestly aspire after redemption; he wished also to strengthen their faith, so that they might confidently See how Moses weighed matters: in one scale he put the worst of religionthe reproaches of Christ, in the other scale the best of the worldthe treasures of Egypt; and in his judgment, directed by faith, the worst of religion weighed down the best of the world. None but the Old Testament saints, as a class, can all be in the separate state: not the church, or New Testament saints, for we shall not all sleep; nor the millennial saints, for none of them will die. Their acknowledgment of this their condition: they were not ashamed to own it; both their lips and their lives confessed their present condition. STREAM DOWNLOAD. 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? It is not merely that which goes on quietly waiting for the accomplishment of the counsels of God. The unrent veil bore evidence on its front that man could not yet draw near into the holiest that he had no access into the presence of God. The gracious and great reward of their faith: he gives them leave to call him so; and he gives them the spirit of adoption, to enable them to cry, (3.) "Just have enough faith and you'll never be sick. The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. (2.) Observe, First, The heavenly country is better than any upon earth; it is better situated, better stored with every thing that is good, better secured from every thing that is evil; the employments, the enjoyments, the society, and every thing in it, are better than the best in this world. 2. And he called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. Heaven is a great reward, surpassing not only all our deservings, but all our conceptions. 2. One story tells how Noah was in doubt as to the shape he was to give the ark. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. This country they seek: their designs are for it; their desires are after it; their discourse is about it; they diligently endeavour to clear up their title to it, to have their temper suited to it, to have their conversation in it, and to come to the enjoyment of it. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived. But where in the Old Testament is there a prophecy of His rising again the third day? I feel the presence of God. 2. The seventh brother they roasted alive in a gigantic frying pan. VII. 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. True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. Abraham would ask them how old they were and they would answer perhaps fifty or sixty years of age. 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. He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. Hebrews 11:23-31 -- From Egypt to Jericho -- From Bondage to Victory. For the moisture blanket shielded the earth from much of the cosmic radiation which causes mutation of the cells and the breakdown and the aging process.The period of the antediluvians with the long life and with the tremendous growth of plants and trees, they'd never seen rain before. When other men broke God's commandments, Noah kept them; when other men were deaf to God's warnings, Noah listened to them; when other men laughed at God, Noah reverenced him. (2.) Hebrews 11:1. The man of faith is the man whose hope is flaming bright and whose effort is intensely strenuous even in the grey days when there is nothing to do but to wait. What seems so is transition; To such death has always been a call to come up higher, a crossing from the dark to the dawn. The commentary The Epistle to the Ephesians, by S. Kent Brown, is available now. He does not actually mention these things. "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?" In the book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego are confronted with the choice of obeying Nebuchadnezzar and worshipping the king's image or obeying God and entering the fiery furnace. He acted in faith, not policy. I'm looking for my dwelling with God in His eternal kingdom. He made mention by faith of the departing of the children of Israel, that the time should come when they should be delivered out of Egypt; and he did this both that he might caution them against the thoughts of settling in Egypt, which was now a place of plenty and ease to them; and also that he might keep them from sinking under the calamities and distresses which he foresaw were coming upon them there; and he does it to comfort himself, that though he should not live to see their deliverance, yet he could die in the faith of it. It was that loveliest of Roman poets, Catullus, who pled with Lesbia for her kisses because the night was coming: To die was to go out to nothingness and be lost in an eternal sleep. You may find great pleasure and excitement in the indulging of your flesh, but it doesn't last. "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes" ( Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary, note on Hebrews 11:20-22). The reasons of their thus acting. And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. According, to the Jews it was quite impossible, if God had once established a covenant, He could ever change; but the apostle replies that their own prophet is against their theory. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. A strange mystery is the simple act of faith. That he was translated, that he should not see death, nor any part of him be found upon earth; for God took him, soul and body, into heaven, as he will do those of the saints who shall be found alive at his second coming. How Abraham lived in Canaan, not as heir and proprietor, but as a sojourner only. As is usually the case, legend adds many a detail to this story. It is applied effectually only to the Israelites, the chosen people of God. 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 observable in their principles: Abel acted under the power of faith; Cain only from the force of education, or natural conscience. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.". It is the fact that there He sat down; but in this place it will be observed that His taking His seat there is the reward of the life of faith. Many times a person is trying to shortcut himself into fellowship with God. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. [4.] 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. Moses gave up earthly glory for the sake of the people of God. 1. Were it a question of the mystery of Christ the Head, and of the church His body, this would not be proved from the Old Testament, which does not reveal it at all. God bless you and give you a beautiful week. In Numbers 12:7-8 we read of God's verdict on him when there were those who were ready to rebel against him: "with him I speak mouth to mouth." People came in to buy idols. 1. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". This is just what the believer receives, feeds on, and lives accordingly. (1. These two last verses bear witness to the grace of God in redemption. When he dwelt in Mesopotamia, he had a promise to bring him into Canaan; and when he got there, he had a promise of what was higher to lead his heart above. He told them that nothing they could do could shake him because he believed that, if he was true to God, God would be true to him. 2. The faith of Abraham, the friend of God, and father of the faithful, in whom the Hebrews boasted, and from whom they derived their pedigree and privileges; and therefore the apostle, that he might both please and profit them, enlarges more upon the heroic achievements of Abraham's faith than of that of any other of the patriarchs; and in the midst of his account of the faith of Abraham he inserts the story of Sarah's faith, whose daughters those women are that continue to do well. it was: "God give you of the dew of heaven. 4. A greater trial was never put upon any creature. How easily we even forget that we are not Jews but Christians! This was a frontier town in the land of Canaan, the first that stood out against the Israelites. 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