hebrews 11:22 commentary

The faith of the parents of Moses, which is cited from, There appeared in him something uncommon; the beauty of the Lord sat upon him, as a presage that he was born to great things, and that by conversing with God his face should shine (, whose foundling he was, and her fondling too; she had adopted him for his son, and he refused it. The supports of his faith. The Christian attitude is that in terms of eternity it is better to stake everything on God than to trust to the rewards of the world. 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. Without hesitation they choose God ( Daniel 3:1-30). (3.) Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, said that if a man comes to the altar and realizes that his brother has ought against him, he ought to first go to his brother and reconcile their differences and then come and offer your gift unto the Lord ( Matthew 5:23-24 ). The senses tell us to grasp the thing of the moment; the spirit tells us that there is something far beyond that. So Joseph died, being 110 years old. See on 1 Timothy 6:14. in the other scale the best of the world, and in his judgment, directed by faith, the worst of religion weighed down the best of the world. What was the necessity for a new covenant if the old one would do as well? The faith of all three of these patriarchs affected their descendants. It's interesting to me that David doesn't get much mention here, just his name listed. ii. Testing Abraham. A person who lives for their own pleasure is living out of sync with God. But he did not mean what so many people think he meant. We must believe not only that God exists but also that he cares and is involved in the human situation. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. He was always an outsider and only on payment a member of the community. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. But it may well be that the writer to the Hebrews is thinking not only of the story as it is in Genesis but also of the legends which gathered round it in Jewish folk-lore. This was a frontier town in the land of Canaan, the first that stood out against the Israelites. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. It was so sure to him that he instructed his sons to carry his bones with them for burial in Canaan. Their old friends would have been glad to receive them. 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 story we have. He lived in tents. Earlier God had promised Abraham that his descendants would return to Canaan after the fourth generation: (1) Abraham, (2) Isaac, (3) Jacob, and (4) Joseph: And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. This they did for three months. (2.) Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 3. 22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. Force and violence had not yet been used. Now these of the Old Testament, theirs was a different case. So that it was an offering that was perfectly legitimate, an offering that expressed sort of a communion with God as did the peace offering. It is quite evident, on the contrary, that this is not only not the truth which all recognize when stated, but altogether inconsistent with the Bible, with all books, and with all experience. Whether or not that promise comes depends on me." Note, Those that are once effectually and savingly called out of a sinful state have no mind to return into it again; they now know better things. Clement of Alexandria said: "We have no fatherland on earth." Thus, before he enters on the subject of the sacrifices at length, he takes notice of the covenants, and thence he draws a conclusion from the well-known prophecy in Jeremiah, where God declares that the days were coming when He would make a new covenant. Always Samson was fighting alone. But this time is not yet come. "I've done it! What mountain in the Old Testament so much speaks of grace, of God's merciful interference for His people when all was lost? But when the light broke he ran out crying, "Now I know! It is the conviction of the Christian that it is better to suffer with God than to prosper with the world. The answer is, by sacrifice. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,Hebrews 11:25. The actings of her faith. 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. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. These all died in faith, the "Faith Message" had not reached them yet. But as God said, "Through Isaac shall thy seed be called." Because he looked at the eternal aspect, the eternal reward, the eternal reward of following Jesus Christ. 1 now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. She was entranced by his beauty. ", 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. Abel's sacrifice was of a living creature, Cain's was not; therefore Abel's was the more acceptable. The reason I take to be, that the apostle meets the Jewish believer where he is, as much as possible giving credit for what was really true in the Old Testament saints, and so in the Jewish mind. So, by faith we believe that the worlds were formed by the word of God so that the things that we do see, the things that appear, are made out of things which cannot be seen or do not appear. "Into the second [goes] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way of the holies was not yet made manifest, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing: which is a figure for the present time according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not, as pertaining to the conscience, make him that did the religious service perfect; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." Observe. 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. They cut out the tongue of the fourth brother before they submitted him to like tortures. So there sprung forth from Abraham an innumerable host of people. The Christian faith is a hope that has turned to certainty. 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. 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." As a commander and ruler in Jeshurun, after God had employed him to humble Pharaoh and make him willing to let Israel go. The emissaries of Antiochus tried to persuade a certain Mattathias to set an example by offering sacrifice, for he was a distinguished and influential man. But now ours is the victory. The actings of his faith: He blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 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. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt (Genesis 50:22-26). And gave commandment concerning his bones; and the command was a very strict one when he gave it; he took an oath of his brethren to fulfil it; it was concerning his bones, not his body, which shows that he believed their departure out of Egypt was at a great distance, when his flesh would be consumed, and only his bones left, as it was about two hundred years after his death; it respects the carrying them out of Egypt with them, and burying them in the land of Canaan, when they came there; and this is an instance of his humility, in choosing to lie with his fathers, rather than with the kings, and great men in Egypt, and of his care to prevent idolatry, which he might observe the Egyptians would be prone unto: and this command was a great instance of Joseph's faith, that the children of Israel would return to Canaan, and which might serve greatly to confirm their faith in it; it also shows his belief of the resurrection of the dead, and of his enjoying the heavenly inheritance, signified by the land of Canaan; See Genesis 50:24, the Papists, from hence, plead for the relics of saints; but it should be observed, that it was at the request, and by the command of Joseph, that his bones were preserved, which is not the case of the saints, whose relics are pleaded for; besides, these were the true and real bones of Joseph, whereas the relics of the saints are only pretended; to which may be added, that the bones of Joseph, were ordered to be buried, not to be showed for a sight, much less worshipped, as Popish relics are. This is the meaning of the blood carried within, and of the body burnt without. These all died in faith, not having received the promises ( Hebrews 11:13 ). (2.). The sun rose in all its glory and Abraham said: "Surely the sun is God, the Creator!" He was a miracle child. One of the old Greek fathers said: "Up to this time no man had died so that Cain should know how to kill. And here we learn the direct application. You can always turn back. He draws attention to the well-known rites of the atonement day; at any rate, if not of that day exclusively, wherever there was a beast the body of which was burnt without the camp, and the blood carried within the veil. How could any believers put a slight upon it? It means that God loved Enoch so much that he removed him before age and degeneration descended hand in hand upon him. Had the energetic activity of faith been first noticed, it would have made more of man; but when the heart had been disciplined in quiet endurance, and lowly expectancy from God, then he could be clothed with the energy of the Spirit. Hebrews 11:1. It did not make sense. It is what He carries on now. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. This was a figure or parable of something further. In this great example observe. Was this Paul's doctrine? If I can only just come to the realization that all things are working together for good to those who love God and that God has a purpose, and when I can see God then I can endure. The story of the promise of a son to Abraham and Sarah is told in Genesis 17:15-22; Genesis 18:9-15; Genesis 21:1-8. The fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. The mount of the Lord, where Abraham offered his son Isaac, two thousand years later God offered His only begotten Son. And God provided Himself a sacrifice for our sins, for God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.Now, if we did not have Hebrews to give us a commentary on the story of Abraham, we, too, could be confused at God's demand. Again, in writing to the Corinthians, he said, "There was a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I don't know;) but he was caught up to the third heaven. Moses gave up earthly glory for the sake of the people of God. "Woe to a man of such an age," said Abraham, "who adores the work of one day!" (6.) Read full chapter Hebrews 11:22 in all English translations Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 New International Version (NIV) 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. To what, then, is the allusion to the sanctuary applied? One further effort, a little more waiting, a little more hoping, would make the dream come true. After the incredulity came the dawning realization that this was God who was speaking; and God cannot lie. (i) There are those who have thought of death as mysterious and inexplicable. She received the promise as the promise of God; and, being convinced of that, she truly judged he both could and would perform it, how impossible soever it might seem to reason; for the faithfulness of God will not suffer him to deceive his people. Thermouthis, much to her sorrow, was childless; so she took the baby Moses home, and cared for him as her own son. Both are true; and Moses is the type of the latter, as Abraham of the former. It does not appear that he had any expectation of being countermanded, and prevented from offering up his son; such an expectation would have spoiled the trial, and consequently the triumph, of his faith; but he knew that God was able to raise him from the dead, and he believed that God would do so, since such great things depended upon his son, which must have failed if Isaac had not a further life. It so happens that he is the first man in the Bible to be called dikaios ( G1342) , righteous ( Genesis 6:9). and so; in consequence of his remembering the prophecy of the exodus. We must bear in mind that Melchisedec was a man like any other. The gospel state is more perfect than the patriarchal, because more of the promises are now fulfilled. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. 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. That's what death is to the child of God. Hebrews 9:1-28 brings us into the types of the Levitical ritual, priesthood and sacrifice. 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. The next instance of faith is that of the Israelites passing through the Red Sea under the conduct of Moses their leader, XIV. 2. The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. They were persuaded of them, that they were true and should be fulfilled. 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). Others went through scoffing and scourging, yes, and chains and imprisonment. 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. Their rashness was great, and their ruin was grievous. Biblical References: Hbr 11:23-30 . And Abraham answered: "Let thine own ear hear what thine own mouth has spoken!". Separate Line. She was a Canaanite, a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, 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. (3.) That is the faith which gave you your religion. the matter came to boiling-point. To take it seemed impossible. Reference-Verse. 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. (2.) XI. 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. They cared not to engage much in it. 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. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. Thus the first part of the chapter shows us simply what God holds out to the new man; but the epistle to the Hebrews never looks at the Christian simply in the new man, but rather as a concrete person. In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. 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. Observe. And as he starts towell, before he gets into it, he starts with just the creation of the world itself. They had looked for advance and triumph and peace and prosperity everywhere; on the contrary, they had come into reproach and shame, partly in their own persons, partly as becoming the companions of others who so suffered. An evil life it is to go from house to house. At that moment Moses might have gone on but his people were not ready. 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. JFB, Comp. Though surrounded by the pomp of Egypt, Josephs heart still in Canaan. Both Jacob and Esau were blessed as Isaac's children, at least as to temporal good things. We go on now to. When Bunyan was in gaol he was thinking of what must happen to his family if he was executed. "We don't know what fate [does he not believe in providence?] Euripides said: "Envy is the greatest of all diseases among men." A true believer will despise them when they are offered upon such terms. Hebrews 12 :5-13 The benefit of God's chastisements.Hebrews 12 :14-17 Exhortation to peace and holiness.Hebrews 12 :18-24 The dispensation of the law compared with the privileges of the gospel. is one of several phrases in N.T. 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.'. Their descendants, when they were in the desert, often wished to go back to the fleshpots of Egypt. There have been many who have sacrificed their careers to what they took to be the will of God. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. This also was granted, but Enoch, having been granted a glimpse of Paradise, never came back to earth again. (2.) 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. 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. (2.) Swinburne best of all caught this mood of world-weariness in The Garden of Proserpine: There are those for whom death is good because it is the end of life. It was at that moment that the faith of Moses communicated itself to the people and drove them on when they might well have turned back. Worse was to come. "He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust," says another apostle, "that he might bring us" not to pardon, nor to peace, nor to heaven, but "to God." When he dwelt in Mesopotamia, he had a promise to bring him into Canaan; and when he got there, he had a promise of what was higher to lead his heart above. The leading instance and example of faith here recorded is that of Abel. There was but One that could do God's will in that which concerned man's deepest wants. In the end even the guards were moved to wondering compassion. Terah said: "That is impossible for they are made of wood and stone." [3.] Always in this sense in N.T. That Moses was born at all was an act of faith; that he was preserved was another. The substitutionary lamb preserving the firstborn. I'm passing through. But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. So that God did not recognize Abraham's work of the flesh. "I do not think," said the man, "I know." I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. But the answer to this is, that there is not a single writer in the language, not sacred only but profane, who employs it in such a sense. They trusted Gods promise that they would have a son and through him a multitude of descendants, even though they were both past the age when they might normally expect to have children (11-12; cf. 22.By faith Joseph, etc. The apostle proceeds to make mention of the faith of the other patriarchs, Isaac and Jacob, and the rest of this happy family. THE FAITH OF THE ACCEPTABLE OFFERING ( Hebrews 11:4 ). As they are companions, so do they test a walk with God; one is faith, the other is suffering. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. Upon his mind; it impressed his soul with a fear of God's judgment: he was. He put himself into the hand of God, to send him whithersoever he pleased. 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. 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. And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, [as was Zechariah and also, as thought, Jeremiah] they were sawn asunder [or sawed in two] ( Hebrews 11:36-37 ), Isaiah, that marvelous prophet that we've enjoyed his revelations. Here it is the grand truth itself in its own character. 2. All the saints are heirs of the same promise. Now here Moses conquered the riches of the world, as before he had conquered its honours and pleasures. Christ brings a new priesthood, not mentioned by Moses (12-14) IV. He made mention by faith of the departing of the children of Israel, that the time should come when they should be delivered out of Egypt; and he did this both that he might caution them against the thoughts of settling in Egypt, which was now a place of plenty and ease to them; and also that he might keep them from sinking under the calamities and distresses which he foresaw were coming upon them there; and he does it to comfort himself, that though he should not live to see their deliverance, yet he could die in the faith of it. Christ accounts himself reproached in their reproaches; and, while he thus interests himself in their reproaches, they become riches, and greater riches than the treasures of the richest empire in the world; for Christ will reward them with a crown of glory that fades not away. Faith first influences our affections, then our actions; and faith works upon those affections that are suitable to the matter revealed. It was ordered that they should compass the walls about once a day for seven days together and seven times the last day, that the priests should carry the ark when they compassed the walls about, and should blow with trumpets made of rams' horns, and sound a longer blast than before, and then all the people should shout, and the walls of Jericho should fall before them. But a test was proposed; they set before the child a bowl of precious stones and a bowl of live coals. Many times a person is trying to shortcut himself into fellowship with God. On the other hand it is notoriously true, that in no case can a testament come into execution without the testator's death a figure that every man at once discerns. He prayed for them, that they might both be blessed of God. (i) They lived for ever as strangers. 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