hebrews 11:22 commentary

2. If He tells me to get out, I want Him to tell me where to go. He knew that the prizes of earth were contemptible compared with the ultimate reward of God. There was but one such Priest. "I can never attain to that." It was prefigured in Jonah, and Jesus brought that out, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" ( Matthew 12:40 ). Because of the order in which it comes that must be what Hebrews 11:27 refers to. (7.) 12 :18-24 A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The Rabbis were proud to trace their descent to her. I, too, will lay my brother in the ground," and he did so. [2.] Instead of pining after that which is about to be destroyed, or repining at the call to go out to the place of Christ's shame on earth, Christianity, which replaces Judaism now, may well cause us to offer "the sacrifice of praise to God continually." And he called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh. Far better than his hearers should be moved by this and that phrase to remember them for themselves. Let him learn his error. And why? There was a Greek proverb which said: "Envy has no place in the choir of God." A simple word of scripture settles a thousand questions. They wished to destroy Moses there and then. Isaac has not yet had any children. The acting of their faith: they hid this their son three months. 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. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." And Isaac, being in the prime of his youth, could have easily overpowered his Dad and said, "Okay, Dad, that's enough. His blood must be sprinkled; it must be applied to those who have the saving benefit of it. And if I can see the hand of God in my hour of suffering, if I can see the hand of God in the moment of trial or affliction, then I can endure. 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 departing of the children of Israel ( ). XIII. Sprinkling on the lentils and the doorposts, interestingly enough, gives you the sprinkling in the shape of a cross. Jewish and eastern legends gathered largely round Abraham's name and some of them must have been known to the writer to the Hebrews. 11:13-16 All these died without obtaining possession of the promises. As Chrysostom put it: "The things of God seemed to fight against the things of God, and faith fought with faith, and the commandment fought with the promise." She placed him in his arms, and he was so entranced by the child that he embraced him and. One further effort, a little more waiting, a little more hoping, would make the dream come true. The last chapter (Hebrews 13:1-25) follows this up with some practical exhortations as to brotherly love continuing; then as to kindness to strangers, or hospitality; finally, as to pity for those in bonds. But a good point may be made by contrasting the idea which an Egyptian had when he arranged that his body should be embalmed, with the idea that Joseph had in arranging for the preservation of his bones. Though heaven and earth may pass away, Your Word is something You will keep forever. This was in the same spirit of faith exhibited by Jacob when he gave a similar commandment concerning his remains, requiring that he be buried in Canaan, not in Egypt; Joseph's bones were brought along. (:17-22) FAITH OF THE PATRIARCHS - PASSING THE BATON OF GOD'S PROMISES TO THE NEXT GENERATION -- LOOKING FORWARD TO FUTURE BLESSING. but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them, and they [held on to them] embraced them, and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eaRuth ( Hebrews 11:13 ). "For by it the elders obtained a good report." 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. It is human to fear to miss the chance; but it is great to wait for the time of God--even when it seems like throwing a chance away. To him there had come this incomprehensible demand. 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. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. In the end even the guards were moved to wondering compassion. (3.) 2. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,Hebrews 11:25. NL. So Abraham began to journey not knowing where he was going. VI. It showed the courage of the man who has learned to wait. It is wise and necessary to examine closely what they mean. How is it that anybody ordinarily gets an inheritance? . For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". His faith influenced his practice. 4. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible ( Hebrews 11:27 ). Manasseh the evil son of Hezekiah ordered him sawed in two. (2.) They saw them afar off. The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. Read the account of it, Genesis 22:2. They know that they cannot explain the existence of the world solely by reasoning from the things that can be seen (11:1-3). Selecteer de afdeling waarin je wilt zoeken. Abraham lived till Isaac was seventy-five years old, and Jacob fifteen. In the previous chapter the writer asserted that people must join faith to perseverance if they are to enjoy the thing hoped for. I refer to the fact just to exemplify on the one hand the true bearing of the epistle, and what I believe will be discovered in it, and on the other hand to guard against the mistake of importing into it, or trying to extract from it, what is not there. All that are effectually called resign up their own will and wisdom to the will and wisdom of God, and it is their wisdom to do so; though they know not always their way, yet they know their guide, and this satisfies them. That he would go as far with his people as he could, though he could not go as far as he would. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. And here we learn the direct application. But he chose, rather, to identify himself with God's people; suffering the affliction of God's people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. One story tells how Noah was in doubt as to the shape he was to give the ark. Genesis 1:26, lxx. Then you may bless God that He has so blessed you, and given you to know as true of yourself that which, if not so known, effectually prevents one from having the full joy and bearing the due witness as an unworldly and simple-hearted servant of Christ here below. (3.) These are the things of which the writer to the Hebrews is thinking; and these are things which we do well to remember. But even the apostle felt his own need of the prayers of the faithful, not because he had gone wrong, but because he was conscious of no hindrance to his work from a had conscience. It was not only that there had been at the beginning such a priest, but that fact became the form of a glorious anticipation which the Holy Ghost holds out for the latter day. Again the legends help to light up the picture. (ii) In spite of everything these men never lost their vision and their hope. It is possible that the word "worlds," which is a Hebraistic word, belonging to the Alexandrian Jews particularly, may embrace dispensations; but undoubtedly the material world is included in it. At such a time there is only one thing to do--to obey and to do so without resentment, saying: "God, you are love! 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. It is also founded on one of their own prophets. The Old Testament story of Noah is in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22. He, of course, was referring to the Old Testament scriptures. Indeed both should die; for it usually consists of two parties who are thus bound, and therefore, were the maxim true, both ought to die, which is an evident absurdity. A woman came in with a dish of meat for the gods. The greater number of them may use the word "creation," but it must never be assumed that they mean what they say. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones. the riches and honours of joseph, as they could not secure him from death, so they did not make him unmindful of it; nor was he afraid of dying, or uneasy about it; nor did his prosperity make him proud, or above speaking to his brethren, nor revengeful to them, nor unthoughtful of their future afflictions; nor did his affluence of It is "the blood that speaketh better than Abel." Sota, fol. They had natural strength to return. 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." All right, "Take now thy son, thine only son." (iii) There came the day when Moses, because of his intervention on behalf of his people, had to withdraw from Egypt to Midian ( Exodus 2:14-22). 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." The real faith and the real courage are those which can take God's side when it seems doomed to defeat. Now observe. It was therefore necessary that the representations of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. To assure them that God would be with them in Egypt, and deliver them out of it in his own time and way. And she said, "I wasn't laughing" ( Genesis 18:13-15 ). (2.) When Abraham was born a very vivid star appeared in the sky and seemed to obliterate the others. Again, we usually in our minds picture Isaac, because of the Sunday school papers that we had, of being maybe eight to ten years old. Greek Interlinear Layout for Hebrews 11:39 (TR KJV) Line-By-Line Order: Verse-Reference. Seneca wrote: "The wise man will never provoke the wrath of mighty men; nay, he will turn aside from it; in just the same way as sailors in sailing will not deliberately court the danger of the storm." It is a happy thing where yoke-fellows draw together in the yoke of faith, as heirs of the grace of God; and when they do this in a religious concern for the good of their children, to preserve them not only from those who would destroy their lives, but from those who would corrupt their minds. This is the meaning of the phrase, not that He will sit there throughout all eternity. (iii) Abraham's faith was the faith which was looking beyond this world. 3. He began by being the child of faith. When common sense pronounced the situation hopeless, she had the uncommon sense to see beyond the situation. But he withstood their tortures and died faithful. Others doubtless could speak of their Ararat, their Olympus, their Etna; but which boasted of the true God that loved His people in the way that Zion could? They tell how Abraham saw many flocks and herds and said to his mother: "Who is the lord of these?" 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. 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). (2.) The means prescribed to God to bring down the walls of Jericho. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. The faith of all three of these patriarchs affected their descendants. faith: Genesis 50:24, Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:16. Works will logically automatically follow my faith. For Moses to withdraw to Midian was not an act of fear; it was an act of courage. (i) It began with sheer incredulousness. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.". as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. He alludes to several facts, but leaves them. He was brought before Antiochus and ordered to eat swine's flesh, being threatened with the direst penalties if he refused. (i) We must believe in God. No, he had another son by Hagar named Ishmael, who was some thirteen years older than Isaac. One man meets a friend. We wonder just what will happen to us if we take God at his word and act on his commands and promises. He emptied that part of hell. On this subject I refer the reader to the notes on "Genesis 50:25". If we can grip that fact, two things follow. First of all, there is in this verse the glaring omission of the name of Adam, the mighty progenitor of the human race, neither he nor Eve, the mother of all living, being mentioned; and the circumstances that makes this omission so eloquent is that the author of Hebrews is embarking on a kind of roll-call of all the heroes of the past. Cain said: "I have not the sense of this bird. To what then are we come? The promise was that in Isaac his seed would grow and grow until he became a mighty nation in which all others would be blessed. Faith brings God into everything. ", Having laid this as the first application of faith, the next question is when man fell, how was he to approach God? (3.) 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. Pronounced the situation God than to enjoy the thing hoped for, the evidence things... 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