hebrews 11:22 commentary

(2.) But he said to them: "Though you rail at me now, the time will come when I shall rail at you; for you will learn to your cost who it is that punishes the wicked in this world and reserves for them a further punishment in the world to come.". Because he lives, he has a permanent priesthood, always interceding for his own, and thus he is able completely to save those who trust in him. He will provide Himself a sacrifice. And if there were any sacred book of the law found, it was destroyed; and those with whom they were found miserably perished also" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 12: 5, 4). is one of several phrases in N.T. They are imprisoned, thrown to the lions, crucified, burned." There is danger in goodness, for in its light evil stands condemned. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things to come. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. V. In the midst of the story of Abraham, the apostle inserts an account of the faith of Sarah. 4. 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. Christ has saved the chief of sinners. The fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. He began by being the child of faith. It is one of the hardest challenges of Christianity that we have to be prepared to be sometimes a fool for Jesus' sake. faith: Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:16. We need to be called, not only to set out well, but to go on well. We should never forget that there was a day when his friends came and tried to get him to go home because they thought that he was mad. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city ( Hebrews 11:16 ). In the original, the meaning of the story is difficult. The real faith and the real courage are those which can take God's side when it seems doomed to defeat. From this practical lessons of great value are drawn. 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. (i) The Book of Wisdom ( Wis_4:10 ff.) Keats said that he had been "half in love with easeful death." blessed each of the sons of Joseph and prayed leaning, on the head of his staff. Never used by Paul. And Abraham said, "Son, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice" ( Genesis 22:7-8 ). 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. But having done this, He points us to the place of Christ without the camp. 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. She said to the spies whom she welcomed and hid: "I know that the Lord has given you the land. For the Lord your God, is he who is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath" ( Joshua 2:9-11). Jewish legend tells that Isaiah was sawn asunder. There is no indication why God preferred the gift of Abel to the gift of Cain. The accommodation of this type is not difficult. Abel took refuge on the mountains but Cain still pursued him saying: "The mountains, too, are mine." Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. 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. He must believe that God is, and that he is what he is, what he has revealed himself to be in the scripture, a Being of infinite perfections, subsisting in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (ii) The second story the writer to the Hebrews takes is that of Rahab. They were tortured.This happened to the early church. God saved his family for his sake; it was well for them that they were Noah's sons and daughters; it was well for those women that they married into Noah's family; perhaps they might have married to great estates in other families, but then they would have been drowned. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. It was so sure to him that he instructed his sons to carry his bones with them for burial in Canaan. (1.) It is true that victims were sometimes slain in ratifying a covenant, and thus were the seal of that covenant; but, first, they were not essential; and, secondly and chiefly, , the covenanter or contracting party had in no case to die in order to make the contract valid. The phrase about being made strong out of weakness might conjure up many a picture. They were all men who were never afraid to stand alone and to face immense odds for the sake of their loyalty to God. 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. The sacrifices that they made were all made in faith as they looked forward to the sacrifice that God would one day make when He would send His only begotten Son. (1.) For why should there be a new covenant, unless because the first was faulty or ineffectual! Now the tone becomes bolder with them, and shows clearly that the Jew had but an empty form, a foreshadow of value once, but now superseded by the true antitype in the heavens. Joseph gave instruction about returning his bones to Canaan: But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. To us Christ is all. And they fractured his fingers and his arms and his legs and his elbows." . So when God's call came to him he was ready to go out into the unknown to find him! And she said, "I wasn't laughing" ( Genesis 18:13-15 ). He describes Him thus in His judicial character. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. 11:17-19 It was by faith that Abraham offered up Isaac when he was put to the test. (2.) The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived. All our spiritual privileges on earth should quicken us to set out early, and get forward, in our way to heaven. 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. He received his son. In Measure for Measure Shakespeare makes Claudio say: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; And blown with restless violence round about, The weariest and most loathed worldly life. He was said to be the first to put pen to paper and instruct men from books. 2. III. (7.) The reward of his faith in this great trial (, He blessed them; that is, he resigned them up to God in covenant; he recommended God and religion to them; he prayed for them, and prophesied concerning them, what would be the condition, and the condition of their descendants: we have the account of this in. It is of men who never believed that God was on the side of the big battalions and were willing to take tremendous and even terrifying risks for him. Beyond question the Lord is regarded as the completer of the whole walk of faith in its deepest and, morally, most glorious form. It is an excellent thing for persons to be seriously religious when in the midst of worldly business and enjoyments, to despise the world when they are most capable of relishing and enjoying it. Cain tilled the ground and brought to God an offering of the fruits of the ground; Abel was a flock-master and brought to God an offering from his flocks. 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. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God." 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 beginning ofHebrews 11:1-40; Hebrews 11:1-40 we are told what faith is. 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. Now is the time for self-denying labour, and endurance in grace; by-and-by the account must be given to the Lord that appointed them. For three years she was put away, and then Miriam prophesied: "My parents shall have another son, who shall deliver Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians." But this becomes the occasion of a remarkable allusion, on which I must for a moment dwell. 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. We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking Egypt: and all its power and pleasures, and undertook the conduct of Israel out of it. It is of men who cheerfully and courageously and confidently accepted God-given tasks which, on human terms, were impossible. Meanwhile Christianity gives the utmost force to every type and truth of God. Early in history then God is testifying of righteousness through faith. Observe, (1.) He'll not provide a sacrifice for Himself. No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. They were confronted with "the wheels and racks and hooks and catapults and caldrons and frying pans and finger racks and iron hands and wedges and hot cinders." (3.) Thou hast sent thy wife away out of thine house, because thou couldst not trust the Lord God that he would protect the child that might be born to thee." He was big enough and brave enough to wait until God said: "Now is the hour.". Observe. 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