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Selecteer de afdeling waarin je wilt zoeken. The departing of the children of Israel ( ). This is the last thing which Moses records respecting the patriarchs, and it deserves to be particularly noticed; for wealth, luxuries, and honors, made not the holy man to forget the promise, nor detained him in Egypt; and this was an evidence of no small faith. 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. This then is brought before us. Great man of faith, marvelous spiritual insights. (i) There was the faith of Moses' parents. "I've done it! Are they both true of you? There is nothing more simple; at the same time it is just one of those questions that God has answered, and this so as to settle the mind perfectly, and fill the heart with praise. As a Christian I am now free, by God's will, to go in peace and assurance of His love into the holiest of all yes, now. God's summons meant that he had to leave home and family and business; yet he went. For without faith it is impossible to please God ( Hebrews 11:6 ): So the witness of faith. The difficulties Isaac's faith struggled with. He amassed an army and invaded that country. For that goodness, for the blessings, for the richness that is ours through Jesus Christ, for the promises and for the hope. First, He makes a scene where sin enters at once. Then he adds: "And to myriads of angels, the general assembly" for such is the true way to divide the verse "and to the church of the firstborn," etc. Faith, again, is the only principle of walk with God; as it is, again, the only means of realizing the judgment of God coming on all around us. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. [2.] Learn here, (1.) I speak, of course, of our entrance there only in spirit. He is declaring that Isaac is going to come back with me.Now Abraham figures God's got a problem, because God has said, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." The point to which he directs the reader is the evident and surpassing dignity of the case the unity too of the Priest and the priesthood; and this for an obvious reason. Then Abraham said: "The moon must be God and the stars his host!" He was looking for the kingdom of God and confessing that, "I'm not permanent here. Accordingly observe the change of expression. When he came to pronounce the blessing, he trembled very exceedingly (Genesis 27:33); and he charged Jacob that he had subtly taken away Esau's blessing, Genesis 27:33, Genesis 27:35. A most searching and practical question, the very unseen hinge in God Himself on which not Christianity only, but all blessing, turns for heaven and earth, at least as far as the fallen creation is concerned. He sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country.This was an exercise of his faith. 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. The verb indicates a specific injunction (). III. Given after Isaac had said: "Behold. I know that you will not withhold anything from Me. Though only the mother of Moses is mentioned in the history, yet, by what is here said, it seems his father not only consented to it, but consulted about it. 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. How glorious was the triumph of his faith in so great a trial. He, too, died faithful. Jacob gave blessings and Joseph gave instructions in the light of the nearness of death. He insisted that we must take the long view. The Old Testament story of Noah is in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22. 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. Never was there a time when men used terms with a more equivocal design than at the present moment. Now, they all died in faith not having received the promise. 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. 4. Condemnation, darkness, death. That is a struggle of which every Christian should know something, for if in these killing times, the Jews had surrendered their faith, Jesus could not have come. [Note: Ibid., p. Sometimes, not always, the countenance is the index of the mind. The passover was one of the most solemn institutions of the Old Testament, and a very significant type of Christ. 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. The lamb dying instead of the firstborn, and there we get a very beautiful picture of the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who died in our place that we might have life.And so by faith he kept the Passover. But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. Force and violence had not yet been used. So that, let the Jews say what they might, there was only found what answered to their own scriptures, and what proved the incontestable superiority of the great Priest whom Melchisedec shadowed out, and of whom it was now for the Christian justly to boast. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 1. 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 story of Samson is in Judges 13:1-25; Judges 14:1-20; Judges 15:1-20; Judges 16:1-31. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. 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. 11:22 Josephs faith was also strong when he was dying. As the proof of this, God has prepared for them a city, a happiness suitable to the relation into which he has taken them. And when Jesus came, He declared deliverance to the captive. 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. And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Josephs knees. 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. There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. We see the effects of the wind. 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. The best way to enjoy our comforts with comfort is to resign them up to God; he will then return them, if not in kind, yet in kindness. The actings of his faith: He blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. Those who would find God in these ways of his must seek him diligently; they must seek early, earnestly, and perseveringly. Greek Interlinear Layout for Hebrews 11:39 (TR KJV) Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. Christianity turns everything to account. When the Messiah was crucified, Judaism was in principle a dead thing: if it was in any sense kept up, it was no more than a decent time before its burial. But yet, in their death they did not enter into the kingdom of God and into that eternal glory. [2.] Another story tells that, after he had been forewarned by God, Noah made a bell of plane wood, about five feet high, and that he sounded it every day, morning, noon and evening. He presses the fact of a new principle, as well as an institution established on better promises, upon the Jews. "In those sacrifices," referring to the law to which some Hebrew Christians were in danger of going back, "there is a remembrance made again of sins every year. And for this cause he is mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." 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. Observe the due regard that Abraham had to this heavenly city: he looked for it; he believed there was such a state; he waited for it, and in the mean time he conversed in it by faith; he had exalted and rejoicing hopes, that in God's time and way he should be brought safely to it. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? Lord, we believe and we trust and we know that Your Word is sure. Here is the very point the writer to the Hebrews wishes to make. This then is the monument for such as we are. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Hebrews Item Length: 4.4in. Through faith they believed to the point of not accepting deliverance. He had the honour to leave behind him an instructive speaking case; and what does it speak to us? All they did was point to the future when God would provide the perfect sacrifice through His only begotten Son. Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. 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. Those with whom they sojourned would have been willing enough to part with them. The choice comes to every man either to listen to or to disregard the message of God. What he did by his faith: He made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones. Of course, he had two steps. [2.] Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. They gave full proof of their sincerity in making such a confession. (Commentary) Constable - "With all three the significant thing was their firm conviction that death cannot frustrate God's purposes. (2.) faith: Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:16. The writer to the Hebrews goes further. 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. The trial and exercise of Abraham's faith; he was tried indeed. In this place we are told that he obtained by his faith some special advantages; as, (1.) There was but One that could do God's will in that which concerned man's deepest wants. 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. 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. The occasion of its first observance was extraordinary: it was in the same night that God slew the first-born of the Egyptians; but, though the Israelites lived among them, the destroying angel passed over their houses, and spared them and theirs. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; the grace of faith will help us through all the dangers we meet with in our way to heaven. 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. There are also house () and people () of Israel, and Israel of God, and Israel according to the flesh. Sprinkling on the lentils and the doorposts, interestingly enough, gives you the sprinkling in the shape of a cross. The faith of Joseph, Hebrews 11:22. No doubt, natural affection could not but move them; but there was something further. She was a Canaanite, a. and had but little help for faith, and yet she was a believer; the power of divine grace greatly appears when it works without the usual means of grace. There we read of how the children of Israel were wondrously enabled to pass through and of how the Egyptians were engulfed when they tried to do the same. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. THE SUPREME SACRIFICE ( Hebrews 11:17-19 ). 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. "So he was going on sheer faith in the word of God, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." This is natural and pleasant to the flesh, no doubt; but it is precisely what opposes the whole object of God in Christianity, since Christ went on high till He come again, and therefore the path of faith to which the children of God are called. He didn't build any cities. that they might obtain a better resurrection ( Hebrews 11:35 ): It's better to have a resurrection unto eternal life than resurrection unto damnation, and that they might have that better resurrection unto eternal life. Such is pre-eminently the bearing of this epistle to those who had no such frequent opportunities of profiting by his teaching as the Gentile churches. Who ever walked in faith as He? So as Jesus said to Martha grieving over her brother Lazarus, "If you live and believe in Me, you will never die." He did not serve an ejectment, or raise a war against the old inhabitants, to dispossess them, but contented himself to live as a stranger, to bear their unkindnesses patiently, to receive any favours from them thankfully, and to keep his heart fixed upon his home, the heavenly Canaan. 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. And so as Isaac was with his father now, the two of them walking towards Moriah, Isaac said, "Father, here is the wood and we've got the fire, but where is the sacrifice? In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. "Ya." "This corruption must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality" ( 1 Corinthians 15:53 ). The Christians gained Him in a far more excellent way after the pattern of resurrection, as Abraham at the close received Isaac as it were from the dead. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites passing through the Red Sea under the conduct of Moses their leader, ; Hebrews 11:29. 11:17-19 It was by faith that Abraham offered up Isaac when he was put to the test. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. Witness that he was righteous, a justified, sanctified, and accepted person; this, very probably, was attested by fire from heaven, kindling and consuming his sacrifice. Or it is held that the point of the story is that it was in this way that Abraham learned that God did not desire human sacrifice. "They heaped up fuel and, setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more. 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. And of what did Christianity speak? Need help streaming? It so happens that he is the first man in the Bible to be called dikaios ( G1342) , righteous ( Genesis 6:9). In the previous chapter the writer asserted that people must join faith to perseverance if they are to enjoy the thing hoped for. Second, there is this strange and eerie thought that Cain had discovered a new sin. "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. But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. It greatly alleviates the evil of suffering when we suffer with the people of God, embarked in the same interest and animated by the same Spirit. 2. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. He was said to be the first man skilled in tailoring and in sewing and that he instructed men how to cut out skins in the proper shape to make garments. Now when a child hears another child cry, he will cry too. So that all of the material things that we see are made up of things that cannot be seen: of atoms, protons, electrons. The trial and exercise of Abraham's faith; he was tried indeed. In this passage the writer to the Hebrews is intermingling different periods of history. I've given you this land unto your seed forever. He didn't build any homes. (1. It was by faith that Rahab, the harlot, did not perish with the disobedient because she had welcomed the scouts in peace. Wherever this blood is applied, the soul receives a whole Christ by faith, and lives upon him. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 18:11-13). "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. When we remember that the one who makes the promise is God, there comes the realization that however astonishing that promise may be, it must none the less be true. Second, to see the abode of the wicked so that he might know what the punishment of the evil was like. The senses tell us to grasp the thing of the moment; the spirit tells us that there is something far beyond that. The latter is not referred to, because it represents the millennial glory; the former is, because it finds its proper fulfilment in that which is made good in the Christian scheme now. Moving ahead, the successor to Moses was Joshua. "Well, if you don't know where you are going, how you going to know when you get there?" The Stoics held that the gods had given men the gift of life and the still greater gift of taking their own lives away. He believed Gods promise that He would deliver the people of Israel out of Egypt. And what then? And so he journeyed through the land. (2.) The walls of Jericho fell before them. Hebrews 11:23-30. What infinite thoughts are those that God's word gives; as glorifying for Himself as elevating for our souls! It is easy to see how this passage can be read against the terrible happenings of these days. Their own Psalm, in its grand prophetic sweep, and looking back on the law, pointed to the place in which Christ is now seated above; and where it is of necessity He should be, in order to give Christianity its heavenly character. And so the angel of the Lord said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" For there is seen not only the proof that the Messiah is the One whom God pronounced by an oath "a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec," but the glorious seat He has taken at the right-hand of God is now worked into this magnificent pleading. His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. He lives in it and he dies in it; and it is the possession of it which makes him act as he does. We enter in to the glorious promise of God. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do, thy will, O God." First, in God's counsels it was always before Him to have One more than man though a man to deal with this greatest of all transactions. Observe, [1.] he made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; that is, out of the land of Egypt: he remembered it himself, and put his brethren in mind of it, by speaking of it to their comfort, with great assurance; he knew they were well situated in the land of Egypt, and yet speaks of their departure out of it; he foresaw, and firmly believed they would be greatly afflicted in it, and that God would look upon them, and visit them, and bring them out of it, into the land of Canaan; all which shows the strength of his faith, and that it was about things not seen. They talked; they both knew Rome and they had been friendly. The actings of their faith during this imperfect state of things. the men that Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho, Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings). This his right of inheritance was through faith in Christ, as a member of Christ, a child of God, and, if a child, then an heir. 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