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. Now, they all died in faith not having received the promise. The mount of the Lord, where Abraham offered his son Isaac, two thousand years later God offered His only begotten Son. Cavour said that the first essential of a statesman is "the sense of the possible." By faith, then, Jacob himself blessed his sons and the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh. But the sacrifices they made could not put away sin. "They wandered in the mountains and in the dens like beasts" ( 2Ma_10:6 ). 1. the author of creation cannot set!" By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. The preservation and safe passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when there was no other way to escape from Pharaoh and his host, who were closely pursuing them. (v) Many have seen in death release. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. And the other says despairingly: "You must be mad.". There will always be a difference between those who worship the true God; some will compass him about with lies, others will be faithful with the saints; some, like the Pharisee, will lean to their own righteousness; others, like the publican, will confess their sin, and cast themselves upon the mercy of God in Christ. If he takes to himself the title of their God, he will fully answer it, and act up to it; and he has prepared that for them in heaven which will fully answer this character and relation, so that it shall never be said, to the reproach and dishonour of God, that he has adopted a people to be his own children and then taken no care to make a suitable provision for them. 2. He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. The wise man will pass over it but will not build his house upon it." How could Jesus have been born into the world if the Jewish religion had ceased to exist? Amen.Suppose your name will ever get listed in this Hallmark of Faith that God has? On the life of Isaac depended the promise; and now God seemed to want to take that life away. [5.] Like Abraham he has to go out not knowing where he is going. Through faith Sara herself received strength to conceive, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised ( Hebrews 11:10-11 ). 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. He has set His mind upon making us, patterns of His holiness. Coincidental? In a wicked and corrupt generation Enoch walked with God and so when the end came to him, there was no shock or interruption. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant." On the seventh day the priests were to blow upon the trumpets, after the city had been encircled seven times, and the people were to shout with all their might, "and the wall of the city will fall down flat." X. He was a miracle child. The difference is very great. They disobeyed the order of the Pharaoh. And he lists them in chronological order, as far as their appearances in the Bible, until you get to David and Samuel, and only there does he reverse the chronological order.The first to appear on the scene of faith was Abel. ii. Unlike others in Genesis, neither parents are recorded, nor is there any hint of descent from him. If they were thinking of the land from which they had come out, they would have had time to return. Now this sin of hers would make it more difficult for her to act by faith afterwards. Jesus alone. One of the old Greek fathers said: "Up to this time no man had died so that Cain should know how to kill. not as the papists dream, that he worshipped some image of God engraven on the head of his staff, but intimating to us his great natural weakness, that he was not able to support himself so far as to sit up in his bed without a staff, and yet that he would not make this an excuse for neglecting the worshipping of God; he would do it as well as he could with his body, as well as with his spirit, though he could not do it as well as he would. This true faith makes sin bitter to the soul, even while it receives the pardon and atonement. Now after the apostle has given this account of the faith of others, with Abraham, he returns to him again, and gives us an instance of the greatest trial and act of faith that stands upon record, either in the story of the father of the faithful or of any of his spiritual seed; and this was his offering up Isaac: By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, Hebrews 11:17. little thinking that he was to be the lamb; but Abraham knew it, and yet he went on with the great design. They believed in God's salvation that He promised that He would provide. By faith, when they were dying, they received the atonement; they acquiesced in the will of God; they quenched all the fiery darts of the devil; they overcame the terrors of death, disarmed it of its sting, and bade a cheerful farewell to this world and to all the comforts and crosses of it. Even more the mind of the writer to the Hebrews goes back over the terrible days of the Maccabaean struggle. What he did by his faith: He made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones. So Abel, who was a shepherd, took his best lamb to the place of sacrifice; but Cain, who was a tiller of the ground, took the poorest sheaf of corn he could find and laid it on the altar. Hebrews 9:1-28 brings us into the types of the Levitical ritual, priesthood and sacrifice. (Hebrews 9:15). It is excluded from syllabuses of religious education because it is held to teach an unacceptable view of God. The actings of their faith during this imperfect state of things. For everyone at some time there comes something for which there seems to be no reason and which defies explanation. Far better than his hearers should be moved by this and that phrase to remember them for themselves. That, from the beginning, there has been a remarkable difference between the worshippers. 3. In a very real way we owe our Christianity to these martyrs of the times when Antiochus made his deliberate attempt to wipe out the Jewish religion. Indeed we may say that the whole epistle to the Hebrews is just this: we start from the foundation of grace up to God Himself in the heavens; and thence springs the certainty that the stream of grace is not exhausted, and that undoubtedly it will issue in unceasing blessing by-and-by for the earth, and for the people of Israel above all, in the day of Jehovah. By faith we may see this invisible God. They had begun and it never struck them to turn back. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. The Jews would not have Him living. Cain and Abel could not agree as to what they should possess. He had some success; there were those who were willing to accept Greek culture, Greek drama, Greek athletics. There came a day when the situation ignited. 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. A true believer is desirous, not only to be in covenant with God, but in communion with the people of God; and is willing to fare as they fare. (ii) Philo, the great Alexandrian Jewish interpreter, saw in Enoch the great pattern of repentance. [2.] He responded, 'I pray thee then, if he can not come to me, please send him back to warn my brothers that they don't come to this awful place.' 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 ). So knowing that God's word was to be fulfilled that the land would one day be theirs, some three hundred years later after the death of Joseph, when the children of Israel began their trek from Egypt to the Promise Land, with them they carried the mummy of Joseph to bury it in the land of promise. Hence learn, (1.) But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. 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 God with whom we have to do is an invisible God: he is so to our senses, to the eye of the body; and this shows the folly of those who pretend to make images of God, whom no man hath seen, nor can see. 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. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. the apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more summary account of another set of believers, where the particular acts are not ascribed to particular persons by name, but left to be applied by those who This should have been a rule to him all along, but he was rather swayed by natural affection, and by general custom, which gives the double portion of honour, affection, and advantage, to the first-born. The phrase used for wrought righteousness is the description of David in 2 Samuel 8:15. And so the angel of the Lord said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. Thus the power of what Christ had wrought was now brought in for future ends; it was not merely retrospective, but above all in present efficacy while the Jews refuse Christ. "We're all imperfect beings," he began. "So Mattathias and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they ever had in the city" ( 1Ma_2:28 ). The two extremes, offensive to every lover of the vi media of religious rationalism, must be combined in Christianity and the Christian man, if he is to maintain it unimpaired and pure. Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness. And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Josephs knees. 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