There was but one such Priest. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. (Compare Acts 15:22.) He was snatched away lest evil should change his understanding or guile deceive his soul." His birth was long beyond any natural possibility for birth, and so he was in a sense received from the dead, a miracle child to begin with. to the foundations, which became apparent too, too quickly in Solomon's son. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) Jesus has removed the sting of death by taking away our sin. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. The story we have ; Joshua 6:5, &c. Here observe, 1. Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. (iii) It culminated in the ability to believe in the impossible. They tell how Abraham saw many flocks and herds and said to his mother: "Who is the lord of these?" That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. 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. "We're all imperfect beings," he began. 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. 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. The consequence is, that many have tried (and I remember making efforts of that kind myself, until convinced that it could not succeed) to give , in the English Bible rightly rendered "the testator," the force of the covenanting victim. By faith Joseph: "Joseph" (Ioseph) was "the eleventh son of Jacob" (Thayer 311). Josephs eminent position in Egypt did not make him regard it as his home: in faith he looked to Gods promise of Canaan being fulfilled and desired that his bones should rest there: testifying thus: (1) that he had no doubt of his posterity obtaining the promised land: and (2) that he believed in the resurrection of the body, and the enjoyment in it of the heavenly Canaan. That he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. 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. the sense of the word which had been used before), what would be the aim of the "also?" To some, it has always been the terrifying unknown giving rise to what Hamlet called "that dread of something after death.". That's all. "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?" 2. He did this. He was put upon it after he had received the promises, that this Isaac should build up his family, that in him his seed should be called (. Then comes a total change: God takes up the matter Himself, acting in view of man's sin; but in Jesus, in the very Messiah for whom the Jews were waiting, he has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and has accomplished this mighty work, as admirably befitting the goodness of God, as it alone descends low enough to reach the vilest man, and yet deliver him with a salvation which only the more humbles man and glorifies God. For what did the Jews wait in hope? She dressed in all her finery, persuaded her people to let her out of the town and went straight to the camp of the Assyrians. After Joshua died, Josephs bones were reburied in Shechem: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph (Joshua 24:32). They were not afraid of the king's commandment. It is characteristic of the best of us that we are in a hurry. (2.) A son for whom he waited so long, whom he received in so extraordinary a manner, upon whom his heart was setto have this son offered up as a sacrifice, and that by his own hand; it was a trial that would have overset the firmest and the strongest mind that ever informed a human body. Such is the true sense of the passage. "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" All true believers desire this better country. Religion began when men became aware of God; it ceases when they live a life in which for them God does not exist. This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise to receive the everlasting prize. blessed each of the sons of Joseph and prayed leaning, on the head of his staff. See also Hebrews 11:23-29 in other biblical comments: . True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. (i) It began with sheer incredulousness. In the original, the meaning of the story is difficult. Hebrews 11:22. 1:20 ), they desired that "Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death." Matthew Henry wrote, Though the grace of faith is of universal use throughout our whole lives, yet it is especially so when we come to die. In other words, he was an impossible child anyhow. (6.) W. S. Gilbert wrote in The Yeomen of the Guard: Robert Burns wrote of the early death of Highland Mary: There are those who have seen only the grim terroriser and despoiler in death. God usually warns sinners before he strikes; and, where his warnings are slighted, the blow will fall the heavier. "And who is the lord of Terah?" 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. The phrase about being made strong out of weakness might conjure up many a picture. Things were frequently held up by cautious people who wished to know just where each step was taking them, until in the end the chairman reminded them that a Christian has no right to ask where he is going. Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. The scripture would indicate that he's in his late twenties probably at this point. Abel ran to the hills but Cain pursued him, saying: "The hills are mine." 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. We do not know the steps of His work, until we come to the preparation of an abode for man. The man who goes out into the unknown and keeps going on will in the end arrive at God. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. He believed Gods promise that He would deliver the people of Israel out of Egypt. It is of men who cheerfully and courageously and confidently accepted God-given tasks which, on human terms, were impossible. The promise of God. God's people are, and always have been, a reproached people. If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old-Testament times, and these may be divided into two classes:1. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." For by it [that is, by faith] the elders obtained a good report ( Hebrews 11:2 ). They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. 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. Isaac was willingly submissive to the father's will.For three days they journeyed from Hebron, and in the mind of Abraham, for those three days his son Isaac was dead, because he knew that God had required that he offer him as a sacrifice in the place that He would show him. Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. What more can I say? Nor is it pleasant to nature. In the end even the guards were moved to wondering compassion. 2M views 7 years ago #BibleVideo #BibleProject #Hebrews Watch our overview video on the book of Hebrews, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. 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. InHebrews 1:1-14; Hebrews 1:1-14 it is written, that "having by himself made purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." In the Letter of Aristeas the writer says: "It is a fine thing to live and to die in one's native land; a foreign land brings contempt to poor men and shame to rich men, for there is the lurking suspicion that they have been exiled for the evil they have done." "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." The truth on the contrary is, that there was but one offering and but one suffering of Christ, once for all; in witness of the perfection of which He is gone into the presence of God, there to appear for us. But it has pleased God to single two instances out of many of the faith of this patriarch, besides what has been already mentioned in the account of Abraham. Those who have been marked out must ever remember and acknowledge free and distinguishing grace. 24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. They are imprisoned, thrown to the lions, crucified, burned." The actings of his faith: He blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. What's going on here?" When common sense pronounced the situation hopeless, she had the uncommon sense to see beyond the situation. It became God that Christ should go down to the uttermost; it became us that He should be exalted to the highest. Hebrews 11:22, NLT: It was by faith that Joseph, when he was about to die, said confidently that the people of Israel would leave Egypt. He didn't build any cities. 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. He demonstrates its vicarious nature and value from the sacrifices so familiar to all then, and to the Jew particularly, in connection with the covenant that required them Now his rapid mind seizes, under the Spirit's guidance, the other well-known sense of the word, namely, as a testamentary disposition, and shows the necessity of Christ's death to bring it into force. None of the patriarchs entered into the full possession of the promises that God had made to Abraham. that is, of a great and severe judgment, such as the world had never yet seen, and of which, in the course of second causes, there was not yet the least sign. 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. (ii) Noah was not deterred by the mockery of others. "So he was going on sheer faith in the word of God, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." The simple statement in Genesis has a kind of mystical quality. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". The verb indicates a specific injunction (). Where could they find such a Priest? They were all men who were never afraid to stand alone and to face immense odds for the sake of their loyalty to God. (1) Gideon was cowardly at first; God had to coax him to to obey. Next the apostle, with increasing boldness, comes to the proof from the Old Testament that the legal institution as a whole was to be set aside. But whether the one or the other, all was by faith. 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. 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." When Joseph was near to death he made the Israelites take an oath that they would not leave his bones in Egypt but would take them with them when they went out to possess the promised land, which in due time they did ( Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32). 1. i Apud Hottinger. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. She was wealthy and beautiful but she had lived in lonely mourning since her husband Manasses had died. All these died before the final unfolding of God's promise and the coming of his Messiah into the world. The people never forgot what great things God had done for them and, when some great effort was called for, they nerved themselves for it by remembering them. He who, having professed to value the blessing of God abandons it, and rushes here below into the sins of the flesh knowingly and deliberately, is evidently no Christian at all. But he was as a stranger and a pilgrim there. 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. There is no indulgence of human curiosity. "As it is appointed unto men once to die," wages of sin, though not all, "but after this the judgment," or the full wages of sin, "so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;" this He has finished; "and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation." has remembered in marg. God will keep His word. His faith silenced all objections, and set him to work in earnest. And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. One thing links these three examples of faith together. They did not hanker after the plenty and pleasures of it, nor regret and repent that they had left it; they had no desire to return to 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. So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! We hear of sanctification often, but even what is thus spoken of throughout is rather in connection with separation to God and the work of Christ, than the continuous energy of the Holy Ghost, except, as far as I remember, in one practical passage "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." If they were thinking of the land from which they had come out, they would have had time to return. There has to be that conformity, but faith has to come first. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, ; Genesis 12:1. 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.'. That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. In other words, the example speaks to us today of Abel, who offered his sacrifice to God through faith. Implicit faith and obedience are due to God, and to him only. He was looking for the kingdom of God and confessing that, "I'm not permanent here. Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. What, then, is man's actual estate? Search Results in Other Versions. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. He could not have exacted this oaths, nor could they have taken it, unless both he and they had a sure confidence that what God had spoken would be performed. NL. Above all things, he is the God of the gallant adventurer. Observe, (1.) God then has provided some better thing for us. In point of fact the English translators did not know what to make of the matter; for they give sometimes one, sometimes the other, without any apparent reason for it, except to vary the phrase. In the first section is pretty much powerful, positive kind of reactions and responses to their faith. He seemed to have forgotten how God had determined the matter at the birth of these his sons, ; Genesis 25:23. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). Legend had it that down in Egypt Jeremiah was stoned to death by his fellow-countrymen. 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. 3. As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. 3. First of all, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. For let me say this as a parting word, and I say it advisedly, because of circumstances that might well be before our hearts, no deliverance, however enjoyed, no place of death to law, world, or sin, no privilege of union with Christ, will enable a soul to dispense with the truths contained in this epistle to the Hebrews. But when the Lord was talking to Abraham concerning his son that He was going to give to him, Abraham said, "O Lord, let Ishmael live before thee!" They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. For, before this change came to him it was testified that he pleased God. How is it that anybody ordinarily gets an inheritance? Hezekiah, the good king, died, and Manasseh came to the throne. And then he prophesied, "In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen." God meant to have His will done, and thereby a people for Himself capable of enjoying His presence and His nature, where no question of sin or fall could ever enter. 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. Hence the apostle applies the type distinctly now, as far as the "order" of the priesthood goes. That was Cain's failure to deal with the sin issue, and God put the finger on it. Hence the right hand of the throne is introduced, but, besides, "of the Majesty in the heavens." He showed thereby his dependence upon God, and testified his condition here as a pilgrim with his staff, and his weariness of the world, and willingness to be at rest. The Witness of a Dead Man's Bones .Joseph's body was embalmed. The fifth brother they bound to the wheel, bending his body round the edge of it, and then fastened him with iron fetters to the catapult and tore him in pieces. The destruction of the Egyptians. From this practical lessons of great value are drawn. First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. Holding fast the permanence of the blotting out of our guilt, may we nevertheless and besides own the need of such an One as Christ to intercede for us, and deal in grace with all our feebleness or faults. The influence this had upon his present conversation: it was a support to him under all the trials of his sojourning state, helped him patiently to bear all the inconveniences of it, and actively to discharge all the duties of it, persevering therein unto the end. They must be very great, suitable to the greatness of the trial: He accounted that God was able to raise him from the dead, Hebrews 11:19. To the writer to the Hebrews faith is absolutely certain that what it believes is true and that what it expects will come. And what is its distinctive character as here introduced? [2.] (2.) (ii) It passed into dawning realization. [3.] He was heir to the kingdom. Legend tells how Amram and Jochebed, the parents of Moses ( Exodus 6:20), were troubled by the decree of Pharaoh. 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. In the best of us there is a certain timorousness. (1.) All of them trusted God even if they could not fully imagine what God's promises would entail. [2.] I'm just a transient here. I ask my brethren here if they are looking to God strenuously, earnestly, for themselves and for their children, not to allow but to oppose as their adversary every thing that tends to weaken either of these truths, which are our highest privilege and our truest glory as Christians here below. Buy Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews by Charles Spurgeon, Elliot Ritzema Paperback / softback from Church House Bookshop - ISBN: 9781577996408 Moses had the faith he had because he knew God in the way he did. 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