hebrews 11:22 commentary

In an age when men disregarded God, for Noah he was the supreme reality in the world. God can and will in his own time and way cause all the powerful opposition that is made to his interest and glory to fall down, and the grace of faith is mighty through God for the pulling down of strong-holds; he will make Babylon fall before the faith of his people, and, when he has some great thing to do for them, he raises up great and strong faith in them. (2.) The doctrine follows: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost." We cannot think of Enoch without thinking of the different attitudes to death. Someone asked him if he never got tired of it all. Now this sin of hers would make it more difficult for her to act by faith afterwards. Where is the mountain that could stand out so well against Sinai? The evidence of things not seen. [3.] This opened a way for the return of Abraham's posterity into the land of promise. So, he ordered all of the baby boys to be drowned in the Nile. Thursday, January 12, 2023 Hebrews 12:5 -- On Love and Memory "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:" Hebrews 12:5 This points out a couple of areas where we are frequently weak. 1. 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." The first is the story of Eleazar, the aged priest ( 4Ma_5:1-38 ; 4Ma_6:1-35 ; 4Ma_7:1-23 ). Item Weight: 10.9 Oz Number of Pages: 220 Pages About this product The twenty-four elders fall on their faces before the throne and take their crowns and cast them on the glassy sea and they say, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor; for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created" ( Revelation 4:11 ). Another great call was, to beware "lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." Let us then seek to combine these two things perfect nearness to God, and the place of utter scorn in the presence of man. That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. Sin is now put away; the sacrifice is complete. The apostle next proceeds to. And you feel the wind. [Note: Ibid., p. 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." How could this be disputed by one who simply believed Psalms 110:1-7? (i) Noah took God at his word. It remains. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. Another man writes that, however poor a home is, it is better to live at home than epi ( G1909) xenes ( G3581) , in a foreign country. They died in the faith of those promises; not only lived by the faith of them, but died in the full persuasion that all the promises would be fulfilled to them and theirs. If we have lived with Christ, we may die in the certainty that we go to be for ever with our Lord. By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. If He tells me to get out, I want Him to tell me where to go. It was taken by men who thought not of what they could do but of what God could do for them. 1. Because of the order in which it comes that must be what Hebrews 11:27 refers to. In my judgment it is correct to translate it both ways, never arbitrarily, but according to context. It may mean the worlds governed by dispensations; but still that the idea of the whole universe is in it cannot be fairly contested by competent minds. This inheritance is not immediately possessed by them; they must wait some time for it: but the promise is sure, and shall have its seasonable accomplishment. He completely forbade circumcision and the possession of the scriptures and of the law. 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. It was only through that finished work of Christ where was the door open as He preached to the souls in prison and led them from their captivity. Like Father Like Son -- both spoke of being buried in Canaan. 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. And God has said, "Now offer Isaac," so I'll offer Isaac, but somehow God's gotta work some kind of a miracle, because Isaac doesn't have any children yet, and through Isaac the nation is to be developed. It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. Here he is in the midst of a great revival. has the idea that God took Enoch to himself when he was still young to save him from the infection of this world. In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. As Sarah said: "Who would have said that Sarah would suckle children?" His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. The Holy Spirit said to Philip in Samaria, "Go down to Gaza, that desert area." Popilius took the stall which he was carrying and drew a circle in the sand round about Antiochus. It was a shattering humiliation for a king. Rebecca and Jacob are not to be justified in the indirect means they used to obtain this blessing, but God will be justified in overruling even the sins of men to serve the purposes of his glory. Who ever in his senses built a great hulk of a ship on dry land far from the sea? This is the best way the people of God can take to condemn the wicked; not by harsh and censorious language, but by a holy exemplary conversation. This is life itself, and to the Hebrews blood always stood for life. Nothing can be more admirable than this reserve of God. XIII. You have the riches of Egypt at your disposal. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, 2. 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." ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. These are the statements of men who believe in God, but not in a God who cares. The sixth they broke upon the wheel "while a fire roasted him from beneath. The scripture would indicate that he's in his late twenties probably at this point. It is said (. . The writer to the Hebrews insists that God did not work with existing material but created the world from nothing. He would have done so if God had not stopped him at the last possible moment (F. F. Bruce, Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews [Eerdmans], p. 308). She was wealthy and beautiful but she had lived in lonely mourning since her husband Manasses had died. Faith enabled him to picture the exodus already. When it was that the faith of Joseph acted after this manner; namely, as in the case of Jacob, when he was dying. His third request was to be permitted to see into Paradise so that he might see what the blessed enjoyed. For now God came out, so to speak, in His own power and grace, and, in the person of Christ on the cross, put away sin abolished it from before His face, and set the believer absolutely free from it as regards judgment. Its wonder is that both Abraham and Sarah were ninety years old, long past the age of begetting or bearing a child; and yet, according to the old story, that promise was made and came true. It is sometimes necessary for the Christian to take the way to which the voice of God is calling him without knowing what the consequences will be. Biblical References: Hbr 11:23-30 . There was Samuel, born to his mother so late in life ( 1 Samuel 1:1-28), again and again moving alone as the only strong and faithful man of God amongst an easily frightened, discontented and rebellious people. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, whose foundling he was, and her fondling too; she had adopted him for his son, and he refused it. (2.) But meanwhile, confessedly, the Spirit of God directs attention, not to the exercise, but to the order of the Melchisedec Priest. In the original, the meaning of the story is difficult. First, we will use it as such. Rahab also is given a verse to herself in Hebrews 11:31. It did not matter whether it was a priest or an Israelite. The first brother refused to eat the unclean things. The description given of heaven: it is a city, a regular society, well established, well defended, and well supplied: it is a city that hath foundations, even the immutable purposes and almighty power of God, the infinite merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the promises of an everlasting covenant, its own purity, and the perfection of its inhabitants: and it is a city whose builder and maker is God. These are very good and useful instructions, and yet the blood of sprinkling speaketh better things than that of Abel. I, too, will lay my brother in the ground," and he did so. Unlike others in Genesis, neither parents are recorded, nor is there any hint of descent from him. Though I have never seen God, the evidence of His existence creates that faith in my heart.As we pointed out this morning, there are many things that we believe in that we don't and haven't seen. 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 ( Hebrews 11:5 ). Implicit faith and obedience are due to God, and to him only. 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. They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. This Esau never sought; and there never was one who did seek and failed to find it. The gracious and great reward of their faith: he gives them leave to call him so; and he gives them the spirit of adoption, to enable them to cry, (3.) I'm satisfied to dwell in a tent. Remembered is appropriate here. 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." Because His people had no heart for His promises, He imposed a system of law and ordinances that was unjudged in them, which provoked the sin. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. This was the very thing that these Jewish Christians were shrinking, from, if not rebelling against. When we are faced with any great and demanding task, God is the ally we must never leave out of the reckoning. Christ brings a new priesthood, not mentioned by Moses (12-14) IV. That faith held out to the last. And, finally, he sums up the superiority of Christ in this, that "they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but he, because of his continuing for ever, hath the priesthood intransmissible." Hebrews 11:22 Hebrews 11:24-26. The trial of their faith in the imperfection of their present state. With Zion then the apostle justly begins. The apostle here mentions some things that very much added to the greatness of this trial. h T. Bab. Now it is evident that in the Old Testament the distinction was not made between flesh and spirit in the way in which we have it brought out in the general doctrine of Christianity. (iii) Some have seen in death sheer extinction. And because they only read the story in a cursory manner, they are confused and they ridicule such a God that would require such a thing of a man. 4. He describes Him thus in His judicial character. (2.) 3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Indeed, not being revealed of old, according to the apostle, it is altogether a mistake to go to the Old Testament for that truth. Accordingly observe the change of expression. 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. I'm just a stranger and a pilgrim here. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. [5.] The description given of heaven: it is a city, a regular society, well established, well defended, and well supplied: it is a city that hath foundations, even the immutable purposes and almighty power of God, the infinite merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the promises of an everlasting covenant, its own purity, and the perfection of its inhabitants: and it is a city whose builder and maker is God. (2.) They really mar the sense, because they draw attention not to the truth in itself so much as its application to us, which is not the point in Hebrews 9:1-28, but rather ofHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. Now Joseph gave this order, not that he thought his being buried in Egypt would either prejudice his soul or prevent the resurrection of his body (as some of the rabbis fancied that all the Jews who were buried out of Canaan must be conveyed underground to Canaan before they could rise again), but to testify, [1.] These two things, the cross on earth and glory on high, are correlative. Hence the apostle applies the type distinctly now, as far as the "order" of the priesthood goes. Yet Rahab believed and staked her whole future on the belief--that God would make the impossible possible. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 18:11-13). The answer is, by sacrifice. Whether or not that promise comes depends on me." By faith Moses, when he was come of age ( Hebrews 11:24 ). So Abraham took the ram, and offered it on the altar. The prevalency of their faith over their fear. 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