hebrews 11:22 commentary

As a supposed criminal, when the king's wrath was incensed against him for killing the Egyptian (Exodus 2:14-15), where it is said he feared, not with a fear of despondency, but of discretion, to save his life. Rahab also is given a verse to herself in Hebrews 11:31. [2.] For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself, and all the people, saying, "This [is] the blood of the covenant which God hath enjoined unto you. At one time Bunyan was tortured by uncertainty. It's interesting to me that David doesn't get much mention here, just his name listed. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" (Genesis 50:22-26, ESV). It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. (1.) And he called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh. "For every high priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. Thus, before he enters on the subject of the sacrifices at length, he takes notice of the covenants, and thence he draws a conclusion from the well-known prophecy in Jeremiah, where God declares that the days were coming when He would make a new covenant. There we find these two facts. Accordingly advantage is taken of an unquestionable meaning of the word for this added illustration, which is based on the death of Christ, "Where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." He had parted with him to God, and God gave him back again. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. Bishop Newbigin tells of the negotiations which led to the formation of the United Church of South India. Cavour said that the first essential of a statesman is "the sense of the possible." He was a miracle child. With God there is very little difference between vision and provision. Jacob gave blessings and Joseph gave instructions in the light of the nearness of death. "We, Antiochus," he said, "who are convinced that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to our law." There were two specially famous interpretations of the death of Enoch. One thing links these three examples of faith together. (2.) 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. There we have those that compose the church, in allusion to Christ, contrasted with the position of Israel as a nation, because of the nearness which they possess by the grace of Christ known on high. It is observable in their principles: Abel acted under the power of faith; Cain only from the force of education, or natural conscience. His wish was fulfilled (Joshua 24:32; Acts 4:16). We shall not want opportunities to revolt from God; but we must show the truth of our faith and profession by a steady adherence to him to the end of our days. All true believers desire this better country. If you say," For where a covenant is, there must also of necessity be the death of the covenanter" the person. The acting of their faith: they hid this their son three months. That is the repetition of the word and over and over, where you find, "and, and, and, and," which in the grammatical structure indicates a continued deliberate action, no hesitation, just the movement, continued and deliberate. The Jews themselves found the story puzzling and elaborated it in order to find a reason for God's rejection of Cain and for Cain's murder of Abel. To speak about escaping the edge, of the sword was to direct men's thoughts to the way in which Elijah escaped threatened assassination in 1 Kings 19:1 ff and Elisha in 2 Kings 6:31 ff. In the best of us there is a certain timorousness. Then follows the heavenly glory, to which grace naturally leads; then the natural inhabitants of the heavenly land, namely, the angels "and to myriads of angels, the general assembly." Nor is it that redemption only is denied, but creation also; so that there is very great importance in maintaining the rights and the truth of God in creation. lest the destroying of the firstborn should touch them. He lived in tents. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? 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. God then has provided some better thing for us. With reverence and obedience Noah took God at his word and so in the destruction of the world he was preserved. "Nimrod," said his mother. The next instance is the faith of Rahab, Hebrews 11:31. What is the end of the story? For by it the elders obtained a good report._ The names of those who lived in old time are handed down. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. And now by faith Joseph, when he was about ready to die, he was in Egypt, had great authority and power in Egypt, but he knew that one day the people of God must go back and possess the land that God had promised to Abraham. Alas! Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. [3.] For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain. And she said, "I wasn't laughing" ( Genesis 18:13-15 ). Those who have been marked out must ever remember and acknowledge free and distinguishing grace. The agents of Antiochus had gone to a town called Modin and had erected an altar there to make the inhabitants do sacrifice to the Greek gods. The difficulties Isaac's faith struggled with. Let me emphasize that God has never given such a command, either before or after Abraham's time. 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. To Moses belonged the faith to attempt what appeared to be the most insurmountable fences in the certainty that God would help the man who refused to turn back and insisted on going on. How glorious was the triumph of his faith in so great a trial. He was tried by temptations, by sin, by persecution, for retaining his integrity. He owed his life to this princess; and to refuse such kindness from her would look not only like ingratitude to her, but a neglect of Providence, that seemed to intend his advancement and his brethren's advantage. She protected them and enabled them to make their escape; and in return, when Jericho was taken she and her family were saved from the general slaughter. His righteousness was relative, resulting from his adoption, through faith in the promised seed. As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. So Abraham began to journey not knowing where he was going. That was Cain's failure to deal with the sin issue, and God put the finger on it. Isaac was still a nomad, Jacob wits an exile in Egypt. Here observe. All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other. Ephraim and Manasseh; he adopted them into the number of his own sons, and so into the congregation of Israel, though they were born in Egypt. The manner in which he was called Stephen relates in Acts 7:2-3, The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in MesopotamiaAnd said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I will show thee. What mountain in the Old Testament so much speaks of grace, of God's merciful interference for His people when all was lost? He began by being the child of faith. For the martyred saint's blood the earth cried to God for vengeance; but Christ's blood proclaims mercy from God, and the millennial day will be the glorious witness of its depth, and extent, and stability, before the universe. Such a man, even as Cain was, is banished from the face of God. 22.By faith Joseph, etc. "We don't know what fate [does he not believe in providence?] 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. The story of Gideon is told in Judges 6:1-40; Judges 7:1-25. [2.] When he argued like this he was not interested in the scientific side of the matter; he wanted to stress the fact that this is God's world. There is something of permanent greatness here. Genesis 12:1-5). (2.) At such a time there is only one thing to do--to obey and to do so without resentment, saying: "God, you are love! Thus, writes William Lincoln, while surrounded by Egypts pomp and splendor, his heart was not there at all, but with his people in their future glory and blessing. BBC, And gave commandment concerning his bones - Genesis 50:25. This was why Joseph left instructions about his burial. "He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust," says another apostle, "that he might bring us" not to pardon, nor to peace, nor to heaven, but "to God." All our spiritual privileges on earth should quicken us to set out early, and get forward, in our way to heaven. 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. 1. The point there is personal glory. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? Interesting! On the other hand, the priests, Aaron's family, among the sons of Levi, "have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham." For Moses to withdraw to Midian was not an act of fear; it was an act of courage. God's people are, and always have been, a reproached people. Many times a person is trying to shortcut himself into fellowship with God. Separate Line. The actings of his faith here mentioned, and they are two:. The truth is, that the Holy Ghost is come down for the purpose of bearing His witness; and he that deserts this for Judaism, or anything else, is an apostate and lost man. Men have called God The First Principle, The First Cause, The Creative Energy, The Life Force. And thus, for the child of God, it's the glorious coronation day. "Do you really think," asked the judge, "that the like of you will go to God and his glory?" That, from the beginning, there has been a remarkable difference between the worshippers. In the city of Jericho there lived a woman whose name was Rahab, who had received the spies that Joshua had sent. 3. I cannot say that I believe with all of my heart without my life conforming to what I believe. The Christian believes in the spirit rather than the senses. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. There are types that suit the mystery when it is revealed, but of themselves they never could make it known, though illustrating particular parts when it is. But the really amazing thing is that, according to the Exodus story, Moses not only made these regulations for the night on which the children of Israel were leaving Israel; he also laid it down that they were to be observed annually for all time. God's people are, and always have been, a reproached people. This call, though it was a very trying call, was the call of God, and therefore a sufficient ground for faith and rule of obedience. So when they died they did not enter in to the heavenly kingdom, but they had to wait for the promise of God to be fulfilled. They lashed him with whips and tied him to the wheel until he was dislocated and fractured in every limb. Then comes forth the wondrous counsel that was settled before either the sin of man, or the promises to the fathers, or the law which subsequently put man to the test. His faith silenced all objections, and set him to work in earnest. Having been schooled in the schools of Egypt in the sciences and the arts, Moses having been raised in the Pharaoh's palace, having been adopted by the Pharaoh's daughter, having at his disposal all of the riches of Egypt, all of the glory of Egypt. To some extent this story has fallen into disrepute. "There is employed in that particular text what is known grammatically in the Hebrew as a polysyndeton. I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again. It was as if God had so arranged things that the full blaze of his glory should not be revealed until we and they can enjoy it together. 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. This statement is so much the more remarkable, because in the beginning of this epistle he had pointed out what became God. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. The blessing was: "in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth" ( Genesis 48:15-16). 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. God revealed to him that it was to be modelled on a bird's belly and was to be constructed of teak wood. (v) There was the great act of the crossing of the Red Sea. . God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. ""So by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing where he was going.". X. The trial and exercise of Abraham's faith; he was tried indeed. God has to do something, raise him from the dead or something, because I and the lad will go and we will come again. But if so, He was the Priest after the order of Melchisedec, as well as seated at Jehovah's right hand a cardinal truth of Christianity, the import of which the Jews did not receive in their conception of the Messiah. 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. He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. So you, first of all, have to believe in the existence of God, but then you have to believe that God is good; God rewards those who diligently seek Him.The next example is that of Noah. Enoch made three requests of him. 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. Here's a man that declares he pleased God. 2. And for this simple reason: no place is given herein to man's importance. They were given the promises of the kingdom of God. By faith we may see this invisible God. Here consider. So, he ordered all of the baby boys to be drowned in the Nile. 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. Hebrews 11:1. In the early days of persecution they brought a humble Christian before the judges. But having done this, He points us to the place of Christ without the camp. (2.) As a commander and ruler in Jeshurun, after God had employed him to humble Pharaoh and make him willing to let Israel go. This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. 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. It was by faith that Jacob, when he was dying. 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. The Christian is certain that in the long run no man can exile the truth for "great is truth, and in the end she will prevail.". 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. 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. It is told in Joshua 2:1-21 and finds its sequel in Joshua 6:25. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. 123.]. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. He subscribed to God's wisdom, as fittest to direct; and submitted to his will, as fittest to determine every thing that concerned him. In this phrase there is no allusion whatever to the church; nor indeed anywhere in the Hebrews is there any reference to its distinctive portion in union with its Head. Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. In other words, the example speaks to us today of Abel, who offered his sacrifice to God through faith. Even more the mind of the writer to the Hebrews goes back over the terrible days of the Maccabaean struggle. 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. If it be not the truth, it would be the height of presumption indeed. Terah said: "That is impossible for they are made of wood and stone." VII. The real presumption, therefore, is to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to doubt the primary fundamental truth of Christianity as to this. Joseph (Hebrews 11:22; this story is found in Genesis 50:24-25). They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. 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. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. 00:02:01 Arkansas town elects youngest Black mayor in America. What is here said of his faith, Hebrews 11:6. It is that which infinitely exceeds the deliverance out of Egypt, or any ceremonial atonement ever wrought by a high priest for Israel. They really mar the sense, because they draw attention not to the truth in itself so much as its application to us, which is not the point in Hebrews 9:1-28, but rather ofHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. If the one figured the imposed measure of man's responsibility, which can only but most justly condemn him, in the other we behold the mountain of God's grace after all was lost. (1.) He was willing to do this for he reckoned that God was able to raise him even from the dead. (a) In Hebrews 11:13 he calls them xenoi ( G3581) . The apostle is dealing with the saints as to their walk; and as he had shown how Christ alone had purged the sins of the believer, and how He is on high, as the Priest in the presence of God, to intercede for them in their weakness and dangers; so now, when he is come to the question of the walk of faith, Christ is the leader of that, walk. Their deliverance was very glorious. THE HEROES OF THE FAITH ( Hebrews 11:32-34 ). Where sin has abounded, grace has superabounded. ( Genesis 22:10-14 ). And he knew that God having given him by a miracle, could also by a miracle sustain him until the promise of God was fulfilled through Isaac.Continuing down through history. But see what it cost to enable it to come! The writer to the Hebrews is here seeking to inspire new courage and a new sense of responsibility by making his hearers remember their past. It became God that Christ should go down to the uttermost; it became us that He should be exalted to the highest. We know they exist, but yet, they are invisible. Not logic but life convinced him of the gods. 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. Search Results in Other Versions. Then he threw the dead body on his back and carried it about because he did not know what to do with it. Far better than his hearers should be moved by this and that phrase to remember them for themselves. Before developing these, the apostle refers to the tabernacle itself in which these sacrifices were offered. Now truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ( Hebrews 11:14-15 ). That's incredulous! By their own confession the application of that Psalm was to the Messiah, and the very point that Jesus urged upon the Jews of His day was this how, if He were David's Son, as they agreed, could He be his Lord, as the Psalmist David confesses? He is the second of those elders that through faith have a good report. God's summons meant that he had to leave home and family and business; yet he went. The great improbability of the thing promised, that she should be the mother of a child, when she was of sterile constitution naturally, and now past the prolific age. Cain was the elder brother, but Abel has the preference. There came a day when the situation ignited. Oh, you'll be changed, yes, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. The fruits and rewards of her faith. Heaven and earth have not been united, nor have they been in fact possessed for the blessing of man by the power of God, since sin severed between the earth and that which is above it, and the prince of the power of the air perverted all, so that what should have been, according to God's nature and counsels, the source of every blessing, became rather the point from which the guilty conscience of man cannot but look for judgment. Note, (1.) 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. of Samuel and of the prophets, men who, through faith, mastered kingdoms, did righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword. And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, [as was Zechariah and also, as thought, Jeremiah] they were sawn asunder [or sawed in two] ( Hebrews 11:36-37 ), Isaiah, that marvelous prophet that we've enjoyed his revelations. 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. That strange old story is told in Joshua 6:1-20. And God was sort of ashamed that I should be so identified. he had respect unto the recompense of the reward ( Hebrews 11:26 ). THE FAITH WHICH DEFIED THE FACTS ( Hebrews 11:30-31 ). The third brother was brought forward. They saw them afar off. A. The substitutionary lamb preserving the firstborn. And almost all things are according to the law purged with blood; and without shedding, of blood is no remission. All of them trusted God even if they could not fully imagine what God's promises would entail. (1.) "Others, who had run together into caves near by, to keep the Sabbath day secretly, being discoveredwere all burnt together" ( 2Ma_6:11 ). Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ( Hebrews 11:1 ). As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. The veil is rent: the believer can draw near, as is shown in the next chapter; but meanwhile it is merely pointed out that there is no veil now, eternal redemption being obtained. But another Jew, seeking to curry favour and to save his own life, came forward and was about to sacrifice. 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. They had known God in His providence and dealings on the earth, though looking for a Messiah and His day. "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. XIII. (2.) That is the faith which gave you your religion. Sota, fol. (ii) The second story the writer to the Hebrews takes is that of Rahab. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of the everlasting covenant, perfect you in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight "through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. The manner in which scripture introduces him is such as to furnish a very striking type of Christ. In an age when men disregarded God, for Noah he was the supreme reality in the world. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. And where thou art a stranger thou must not open thy mouth. The product of his faith: He forsook Egypt, and all its power and pleasures, and undertook the conduct of Israel out of it. 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." Joseph too, nearing death, expressed confidence that God would in the future deliver the Israelites from Egypt. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? 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. But surely the meaning is much simpler. 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