hebrews 11:22 commentary

It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. This priesthood is not based on physical requirement (15-17) To what, then, is the allusion to the sanctuary applied? 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. If he takes them into such a relation to himself, he will provide for them accordingly. They endeavoured to lay aside every weight, to gird up the loins of their minds to mind their way, to keep company and pace with their fellow-travellers, looking for difficulties, and bearing them, and longing to get home. After the people had been tried and found wanting; after the priests had wrought, if possible, greater corruption; after the king of Israel's choice had reduced them to the lowest degradation. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. Strengthened by the LORD, may you abound in all things in Christ to the glory and the praise and the honor of our God, our Savior, and our Lord. The faith of Jacob (; Hebrews 11:21), who, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. That's what death is to the child of God. 1. The standard of rebellion was raised. He was a good governor but he had an almost abnormal love for all things Greek and saw himself as a missionary for the Greek way of life. So it is said here, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Read full chapter Footnotes Hebrews 11:18 Gen. 21:12 Hebrews 10 Hebrews 12 Through his faith. . The answer is, that the language is peculiar and precise in these same two verses, requiring not a covenant but a testament, and therefore the sense of testament here is the preferable one, and not covenant. Among other instructions, he told them to return his bones to their homeland, Canaan; he gave a "commandment" (entellomai), meaning an "order" (Thayer 218): And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. This leads to a further contrast with the action of the Aaronic priest. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. Interesting prophecy. Now truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ( Hebrews 11:14-15 ). Cain took the earth and everything stationary; Abel took everything moveable. It was taken by men who thought not of what they could do but of what God could do for them. But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. Josephs instructions to his sons proved he trusted God and was convinced God would keep His word about their return to Canaan. When other men broke God's commandments, Noah kept them; when other men were deaf to God's warnings, Noah listened to them; when other men laughed at God, Noah reverenced him. The real faith and the real courage are those which can take God's side when it seems doomed to defeat. But when Cain saw that his offering was rejected and Abel's was accepted, he was angry with the Lord for rejecting his offering. The writer to the Hebrews must have known these legends and they must have helped to add vividness to the picture in his mind. No doubt all will be good and right in its due season then. 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. Here observe, [1.] They might have had such an opportunity. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. So far, Antiochus had succeeded only in causing a division in the nation; the greater part of the Jews were unshakeably true to their faith and could not be moved. The reasons will be given in a moment. Though they had not received the promises, yet. X. (1.) Observe, [1.] Finally, this passage not only tells us of the faith of Moses; it also tells us of the source of that faith. His goodness consisted in the fact that he took God at his word. It is simply that the writer of the letter to the Hebrews saw even more deeply into the story. It is to be noted that to dwell in a foreign land was a humiliating thing in ancient days; to the foreigner in any country a certain stigma attached. 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. 1. They examined the animals in their toy ark and finally decided on a sheep with a broken leg. Longfellow wrote: "There is no Death! 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. Faith has a clear and a strong eye, and can see promised mercies at a great distance. It is not seniority of birth, but grace, that makes men truly honourable. He has set His mind upon making us, patterns of His holiness. 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. We belong to the holiest of all, and we act upon it, if we iet rightly, when we worship God; nay, when we draw near to God in prayer at all times. Isaac and Jacob were heirs of the same promise; for the promise was renewed to Isaac (. The reference is therefore plain and sure. 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. But it is interesting, "I and the lad will go and will worship God and will come again." It is also founded on one of their own prophets. The ground of Abraham's faith, the call and promise of God. (7.) He, too, died faithful. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? (2.) The expression used for stopping the mouths of lions is that used of Daniel in Daniel 6:18; Daniel 6:23. 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. The rest of the chapter brings in, accordingly, the closing scene, when the Lord comes to shake everything, and establish that blessed day. It often happens that simply by being himself the Christian passes judgment on other people. The supports of his faith. Thus the only time when he comes into notice he is acting in the double capacity here spoken of: King of righteousness as to his name, King of Salem as to his place, blessing Abraham on his return from the victory over the kings of the Gentiles in the name of the Most High God, and blessing the Most High God the possessor of heaven earth in the name of Abraham. Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. 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. See how this word, this thought, always predominates in the epistle. Hence in Hebrews we never find the body of Christ as such referred to. We shall find another use before we have done, which I hope to notice in its place. STREAM DOWNLOAD. The Jewish town of Bethulia had determined to surrender in five days' time for its supplies of food and water were at an end. They are imprisoned, thrown to the lions, crucified, burned." He collapsed and one of the soldiers kicked him violently in the stomach to make him rise. The story has just said that "the time drew near that Israel must die" ( Genesis 47:29). They were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy ( Hebrews 11:37-38 ): What a statement, remarkable statement, concerning these men. They were confronted with "the wheels and racks and hooks and catapults and caldrons and frying pans and finger racks and iron hands and wedges and hot cinders." The man of faith is the man whose hope is flaming bright and whose effort is intensely strenuous even in the grey days when there is nothing to do but to wait. We should do the same. As a result Amram put away his wife, not because he did not love her, but because he would spare her the sorrow of seeing her children killed. The call of Abraham is told with dramatic simplicity in Genesis 12:1. THE FAITH WHICH DEFEATS DEATH ( Hebrews 11:20-22 ). A son for whom he waited so long, whom he received in so extraordinary a manner, upon whom his heart was setto have this son offered up as a sacrifice, and that by his own hand; it was a trial that would have overset the firmest and the strongest mind that ever informed a human body. 1. i Apud Hottinger. When clubs had their common meal, those who sat down to it were divided into members and xenoi ( G3581) . First of all, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Biblical References: Hbr 11:23-30 . and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. It is characteristic of the best of us that we are in a hurry. They were not afraid of the king's commandment, Exodus 1:22. He answered; "He that has something ayont (beyond) need never weary." ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) Jesus has removed the sting of death by taking away our sin. Others were crucified because they refused to accept release, for they were eager to obtain a better resurrection. 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. In flying there is what is called the point of no return. I see evidence of it.I see evidence of God. In this way he declared his faith that one day his people would inherit the land God promised them (20-22; cf. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. It is the assembly composed of certain individuals that make it up, regarded either as brethren, as in the second chapter ("In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee"), or as the church of the first-born ones, as in Hebrews 12:1-29, persons who drew their title from Christ the first-born Heir. "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." It was said that 80,000 Jews were killed and 10,000 sold into captivity. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for.