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 fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. The second is the story of the seven brothers ( 4Ma_8:1-29 ; 4Ma_9:1-32 ; 4Ma_10:1-21 ; 4Ma_11:1-27 ; 4Ma_12:1-19 ; 4Ma_13:1-27 ; 4Ma_14:1-20 ). Joseph, when he died , When he was dying, gave commandment concerning his bones. (2.) Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God. When Abraham heard the promise he fell upon his face and laughed ( Genesis 17:17). It was Cain who introduced murder into the world. Joseph had attained to greatness but it was the greatness of a stranger in a strange land; and yet they never doubted that the promise would come true. The Old Testament story of Noah is in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. So the writer to the Hebrews says: "Although he died for his faith, he is still speaking to us." "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Here was a band of wretched Hebrew slaves about to set off on a journey across an unknown desert to an unknown promised land and here was the whole power of Egypt hot upon their heels; yet Moses never doubted that God would bring them safely through. In the early days of persecution they brought a humble Christian before the judges. For most of us much of their impact may be lost, for this reason--phrase after phrase is a reminiscence. Hebrews 11:22. 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. For he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ( Hebrews 11:26 ): So on the one side you have the son of Pharaoh's daughter, with all of the glory of the royal palace. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. He was brought up in all luxury. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet ( Hebrews 11:7 ). 1. God then has provided some better thing for us. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. Now He came to set the prisoner free and to open the doors to those were captive, so that when Jesus rose, Matthew's gospel tells us in the twenty-seventh chapter, the graves of many of the saints were opened and were seen walking around the streets of Jerusalem after His resurrection.Paul tells us that when He ascended He led the captives from their captivity. Joseph on his death-bed remembered the promise of God to give the land of Canaan to the seed of Abraham (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:7), and also the prediction to Abraham that his descendants should pass four hundred years in bondage in a strange land, and should afterward be brought out thence, Genesis 15:13, Genesis 15:14. (3.) To Abraham God's promise never came fully true; and yet he never abandoned his faith. We know they exist, but yet, they are invisible. He responded, 'I pray thee then, if he can not come to me, please send him back to warn my brothers that they don't come to this awful place.' (1.) They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. The Lord commands him to leave this marvelous move of the Spirit and go down to this desert place, go down to Gaza. Ishmael was to be put off with earthly greatness. 01/11/23. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do, thy will, O God." (viii) Above all, there are those, like Enoch, who have seen death as an entering into the nearer presence of him with whom they have lived for so long. The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. 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. In similar fashion all believers should, in genuine faith, have confidence in the future of Gods people. (2.) 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." In these consists our double present association by faith, while on the earth. [5.] He only recognized that work of the spirit, the son of promise, Isaac. 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. The readers too were to maintain their worship right to the end of life, persevering in faith in the future that God had foretold. In Hebrews 11:17, the tense of offered indicates that in purpose and intent, he offered Isaac. David Guzik commentary on Hebrews 1, in which the author declares that Jesus is the superior Savior, as proven by the Scriptures. Through faith, Enoch, as he walked with God, was translated that he should not see death, but before then he had this witness: he pleased God. 2. In addition to these audio and video commentaries, you can review the available text commentaries. It might paint the mental picture of the extraordinary healing of Hezekiah after he had turned his face to the wall to die ( 2 Kings 20:1-7). 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. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 Christ has saved the chief of sinners. In the blood of the Lamb, sprinkled on the door-posts of Israel, we see the type of God's judgment of their sins; next, in the passage of the Red sea, the exhibition of His power, which, in the most conspicuous way, saved them, and destroyed for ever their enemies. The trial of their faith in the imperfection of their present state. The Stoics held that the gods had given men the gift of life and the still greater gift of taking their own lives away. Read full chapter Hebrews 11:22 in all English translations Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 New International Version (NIV) We will remember that everything in it is God's and will try to use it as God would have us use it. The principle upon which his faith acted in these his motions: He endured, as seeing him that was invisible.He bore up with invincible courage under all danger, and endured all the fatigue of his employment, which was very great; and this by seeing the invisible God. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. 3 by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of god, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. "Into the second [goes] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way of the holies was not yet made manifest, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing: which is a figure for the present time according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not, as pertaining to the conscience, make him that did the religious service perfect; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. 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. as well as done by him, extraordinary. (i) Noah took God at his word. Now oftentimes as God is leading us, He leads us just one step at a time, and that is our problem. The earth was so wicked that God decided that there remained nothing to do but destroy it. So here he tells them to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man lack the grace of God." None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. He has displayed Christ as Son of God (1) and Son of Man (2), warned of the dangers inherent in unbelief (3-4), and explored the power of Christ's priesthood (5-10). Let us then seek to combine these two things perfect nearness to God, and the place of utter scorn in the presence of man. Herein he acted rationally as well as religiously, and conquered the temptation to worldly pleasure as he had done before to worldly preferment. Given after Isaac had said: "Behold. It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. But God has left the matter still under some doubt, as a warning to all who have great talents given to them, and a great trust reposed in them, that they do not prove unfaithful, since God would not enroll our first parents among the number of believers in this blessed calendar. It is then that a man is faced with life's hardest battle--to accept when he cannot understand. This is of the deepest importance. He was always an outsider and only on payment a member of the community. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,Hebrews 11:25. Herefused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter lest he should undervalue the truer honour of being a son of Abraham, the father of the faithful; he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter 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. When the Lord said to him, "Through Sarah your seed be called," she started laughing. The greater number of them may use the word "creation," but it must never be assumed that they mean what they say. (i) The first is the story of the fall of Jericho. Genesis 22:1-18). This was a frontier town in the land of Canaan, the first that stood out against the Israelites. 11:4 It was by faith that Abel offered to God a fuller sacrifice than Cain and so gained the verdict of being a just man, for God himself witnessed to that fact on the grounds of the gifts he brought: and although he died because of his faith, he is still speaking to us. (1. Therefore it is well to stand clear of all men's schemes and thoughts, ever rising up more and more presumptuously, because they mainly consist of some slight in one way or another on the word of God. Seeing Him. (ii) It passed into dawning realization. Every one of them refused what the world calls greatness and staked everything on God--and history proved them right. 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. God's word is true. 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. The next instance is the faith of Rahab, 1. Who this Rahab was. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. let us now prepare an ark, secure an interest in Christ, and in the ark of the covenant, and do it speedily, before the door be shut, for there is not salvation in any other. Then, very gently, Popilius told Antiochus that Rome did not wish him to proceed with the campaign but wished him to go home. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. 4. If we know His perfect love and the wisdom of it, we have the best answer to silence every murmuring thought or wish of the heart. Cain took the earth and everything stationary; Abel took everything moveable. (2.) And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. It begins with Abel, one of the first saints, and the first martyr for religion, of all the sons of Adam, one who lived by faith, and died for it, and therefore a fit pattern for the Hebrews to imitate. The writer to the Hebrews has been citing as examples of faith the great figures of the time before Israel entered into the Promised Land. All their days the patriarchs were strangers in a strange land. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. God was pleased in this extraordinary manner to slight and dismantle it, in order to magnify himself, to terrify the Canaanites, to strengthen the faith of the Israelites, and to exclude all boasting. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. He now supports this statement with illustrations from the Old Testament. He does not reason from the singular circumstance that there was no incense, any more than sacrifice. that good portion which shall not be taken away from those who cleave to the Crucified, who is now exalted in heaven? Here he is in the midst of a great revival. He had parted with him to God, and God gave him back again. The second part of the history of Joseph's death reads: "Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, 'God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.'. First, we will use it as such. Lord, we believe and we trust and we know that Your Word is sure. But surely the meaning is much simpler. He gave his blood to wash away our sins. She placed him in his arms, and he was so entranced by the child that he embraced him and. Joseph (Hebrews 11:22; this story is found in Genesis 50:24-25). I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. The apostle does not dwell on the detailed application of His Melchisedec priesthood, as to the object and character of its exercise. (2.) 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. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! The third brother was brought forward. His goodness consisted in the fact that he took God at his word. 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. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. The next instance is the faith of Rahab, Hebrews 11:31. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. That is why, at least in one sense, it is dangerous to be a Christian. (1.) After three days the Lord showed to Abraham Mount Moriah. Xenos ( G3581) can even mean a refugee. It may then be stated summarily, in few words, unless I am greatly mistaken, that the word should always be translated "covenant" in every part of the New Testament, except in these two verses; namely, Hebrews 9:16-17. 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. when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones: As Joseph was dying, he showed his faith like his father, Jacob, by calling his sons to him and telling them about the future when they would leave Egypt and return to Canaan. This was aiming a blow at the current belief that God created the world out of existing matter which, being necessarily imperfect, meant that from the beginning this was an imperfect world. 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. 11:7 It was by faith that Noah, when he had been informed by God about things that were still unseen, reverently accepted the message and built an ark to preserve his household in safety. Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. God said to first deal with the sin. 11:11-12 It was by faith that Sarah, too, received power to conceive and to bear a son, although she was beyond the age for it, for she believed that he who gave the promise could be absolutely relied upon. 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. As a supposed criminal, when the king's wrath was incensed against him for killing the Egyptian (. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. The scripture says, "So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance" (Joshua 24:28). by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. Thus in every case it is faith. Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. Sometimes he takes his illustrations from the Old Testament period; but still more he takes them from the Maccabaean period which falls between the Old and the New Testaments. They had natural strength to return. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.". He rests confidingly on the cross, that only valid moral basis before God; at the same time he is waiting for the glory that is to be revealed. If Abraham had ever so many sons, this was the only son who could convey to all nations the promised blessing. On the other side you have the affliction of the people of God, the reproach of Christ. 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. The Holy Spirit said to Philip in Samaria, "Go down to Gaza, that desert area." Again, the whole idea here in the chapter is that it is through faith that a person is accounted righteous before God. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. We're going to break out of here." Testing Abraham. Never was there a time when men used terms with a more equivocal design than at the present moment. Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. Under the inspiration of the prophetess Deborah, Barak assembled ten thousand young men and faced the fearful odds of the Canaanites with their nine hundred chariots of iron to win an almost incredible victory. Hebrews 11 The apostle having, in the close of the foregoing chapter, recommended the grace of faith and a life of faith as the best preservative against apostasy, he how enlarges upon the nature and fruits of this excellent grace. She was entranced by his beauty. Are they both true of you? Because he walked with God when other men were walking away from him, he daily came nearer to him and death was no more than the last step that took him into the very presence of that God with whom he had always walked. All this is a gradual undermining the wall until the whole structure is overthrown. Joseph's coffin, the Jews say h, was put into the river Nile; and so says Patricides i, an Arabic writer: others say it was in the buryingplace of the kings, until it was taken up and removed by Moses. He could know nothing of the mystery of the church, Christ's body, nor of her bridal hopes; but he did look for what is called here the "heavenly Jerusalem," that city "whose maker and builder is God." For Moses to withdraw to Midian was not an act of fear; it was an act of courage. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. He had beyond all mere men known sorrow and rejection in Israel; yet he himself not only mounted the throne of Jehovah, but raised up His people to. How did he please God? They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. (iii) Abraham is the pattern of the man who, with the test, found a way of escape. Hallo Bestemming kiezen Alle. 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