He satisfies us with the perfectness with which Christ has washed us from our sins in His blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father. So he knelt down and worshipped the sun. Twice Moses forsook Egypt: [1.] Believers may and ought to have respect to this recompense of reward; they should acquaint themselves with it, approve of it, and live in the daily and delightful expectation of it. 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. The blessed fruits and rewards of Noah's faith. This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. 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. (iii) Noah's faith was a judgment on others. They knew the way. It is excluded from syllabuses of religious education because it is held to teach an unacceptable view of God. So we see this one hundred year old Abraham, one hundred and eight at this time, leading this little eight-year-old boy towards Mount Moriah where he is going to offer him as a human sacrifice unto God. ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. And they fractured his fingers and his arms and his legs and his elbows." This leads into the life of faith, which was a great stumbling-block to some of these Christian Jews. That he believed the resurrection of the body, and the communion that his soul should presently have with departed saints, as his body had with their dead bodies. 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). That he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. He chose "rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." Who ever in his senses built a great hulk of a ship on dry land far from the sea? (i) This story teaches us that we must be ready to sacrifice what is dearest to us for the sake of loyalty to God. 2. The death of Christ, both in the sense of a victim sacrificed, and of a testator, though a double figure, is evident to all, and tends to the self-same point. Wherever this blood is applied, the soul receives a whole Christ by faith, and lives upon him. 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. 11:22 Josephs faith was also strong when he was dying. The faith of parents often procures blessings for their posterity. And so I believe in the magnetic powers or the magnetic force, but I have never seen it. which cleave to Christ the rejected King, and Holy Sufferer, who is now in glory above. The reference is therefore plain and sure. There it was written, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God." Looking forward to that day when we shall be changed and fashioned like unto His own glorious image according to the mighty power of the Spirit of God that even works in our lives today. Because Christians are a heavenly people, and none but a heavenly Priest would suit them. "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." If any of the families of Israel had neglected the sprinkling of this blood upon their doors, though they should have spent all the night in prayer, the destroying angel would have broken in upon them, and slain their first-born. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. Need help streaming? Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. It is a reward suitable to the price paid for itthe blood of Christ; suitable to the perfections of God, and fully answering to all his promises. 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. That which to us alone is impossible is always possible with him. Even more the mind of the writer to the Hebrews goes back over the terrible days of the Maccabaean struggle. That is, he sought carefully with tears the blessing given to Jacob; but there was no room left for repentance, simply in the sense of change of mind; for, I suppose, the word here has that sense, which sometimes, no doubt, it has. Isaac, trusting God to fulfill His promises to Abraham and his descendants, pronounced blessings on his own two sons Jacob and Esau regarding their future. There were no events then occurring which would be likely to lead to this, and nothing which could be a basis of calculation that it would be so, except what God had spoken. James was beheaded by Herod. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." God is able to raise this boy up from the dead if necessary to keep His promise to me, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called. What comes in between the two? [3.] (2.) And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. He knew that the prizes of earth were contemptible compared with the ultimate reward of God. IX. Where is the mountain that could stand out so well against Sinai? 1 now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. This prediction of Joseph could have rested only on faith in the promise of God. Grace be with you all. 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. "In the volume of the book it is written of me" a book which none ever saw but God and His Son. "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?" The doctrine follows: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost." I'm just passing through. 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. As with the other great characters whose names are included in this roll or honour of God's faithful ones, many legends and elaborations had gathered round the name of Moses and doubtless the writer of this letter had them also in his mind. [3.] Some people have found difficulty here, because the Exodus narrative says that it was because Moses feared Pharaoh that he fled to Midian ( Exodus 2:14), while Hebrews says that he went out not fearing the blazing wrath of the king. (i) Noah took God at his word. Abel ran to the hills but Cain pursued him, saying: "The hills are mine." He sits there continually, in contrast with the Jewish priest, who was always rising up in order to do fresh work, because there was fresh sin; for their sacrifices never could absolutely put away sin. Thus it will be observed, at the end of all the moral and experimental dealings with the first man (manifested in Israel), we come to a deeply momentous point, as in God's ways, so in the apostle's reasoning. God doesn't always deliver those who believe and trust in Him. . Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, ; Hebrews 11:27. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. Abraham looked for that city which had foundation whose maker and builder was God. Consequently, when He comes again to them that look for Him, it is simply to bring them into all the eternal results of that great salvation. The final plague upon the Egyptians was to be the death of the first-born child of every family in Egypt. [2.] as well as done by him, extraordinary. If faith can see every step of the way, it is not really faith. He acted in faith, not policy. (2.) For without faith it is impossible to please God. What more can I say? 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. These evidently are the elders of olden times. He does not take them in any particular order but, as we shall see when we look at the outstanding characteristics of each, there is a line of thought which binds them all together. God sees, God is going to take care of it. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." He now supports this statement with illustrations from the Old Testament. The story we have in Exodus, Exodus 14:1-31. In this passage the writer to the Hebrews lays down in addition the two great foundation acts of faith of the Christian life. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. 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