hebrews 11 commentary spurgeon

Ah! Let the personal question go round and cause great searching of heart, for I fear that in many instances precious faith is absent. Faith alone takes hold of the divine strength; and only by that strength can we obey. Perhaps it did when you were dead in sin. Christ taketh away the vulture from the conscience, but he taketh away the chains too, and maketh the man wholly free when he doeth it all. Jesus said, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" He can say, "Let God be true, but every man a liar." By Vernon J. Charlesworth. We are strangers and sojourners, as all our fathers were; dwellers in this wilderness, passing through it to reach the Canaan which is to be the land of our perpetual inheritance. My brethren, Jehovah never errs in deed, or in word; and when you find his law written either in the ten commandments, or anywhere else, you believe that there is not a precept too many, or too few. When you get nearer to God, Satan will sometimes seem to get nearer to you. and yet he does. "Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." Do I address a wife who has a godless husband? I change the run of my discourse altogether by remarking that there is another thing that falls to the lot of Christian men, a matter of the very first importance: namely, to spread the gospel. To believe is to be holy. "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." ye perishing and guilty souls, may God give you Rahab's faith, and you shall have this salvation, and shall with her stand yonder, where the white-robed spotless hosts sing unending hallelujah to God and the Lamb. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You know that very particular, superfine sort--the gospel, a gospel, the spirit of which consists in bad temper, carnal security, arrogance, and a seared conscience. We may as well gather the rosebuds while we may. Take heed of rushing to perdition over your mother's prayers! It is a good key, but you have broken it." They are poor now, but God, to whom things to come are things present, sees them in their fair white linen which is the righteousness of the saints. Faith always has been the mark of God's servants, from the beginning of the world. He looks to the iron safe: he would be quite sure that it is well secured. Don't come here with your cant." "Turn ye, turn ye; why will ye die, O house of Israel?" I will give you three tests, as briefly as ever I can, not to weary you, and then farewell this morning. Such a sublime life recompensed a thousandfold all the sacrifice he was led to make. Acts 9:31 The New King James Version (NKJV) Never! But thou, poor sinner, with all thy sin about thee, if the rope is round thy loins, and Christ has hold of it, fear not! God declared him righteous; not righteous by his works, although his works, following upon his faith, proved him to be righteous; but righteous by his faith. Sir, you speak falsely; you do not believe in Christ. And what know I of the journey? I sigh to think of many that appeared to be very earnest Christians when they were struggling for bread, who have become very dull and cold now that they have grown rich and increased in goods. We should find that none of our old friends would refuse to receive us. Some of you are engaged in the midst of ungodly men, and those engagements supply you with constant opportunities to sin as they do, to fall into their excesses, to lapse into their forgetfulness of God, or even to take part in their blasphemies. And is not that word true, I would make one more application of my text, which is capable of being used in a thousand directions. then get alone, and, like Abraham, cry to God, "O that Ishmael might live before thee!" The will of the Lord is to be done by his servants, whether on earth or in heaven. The question of many will be, did it pay? When I was a boy, I thought him rather stiff and Puritanical; but now I see he had a good reason for it all. What the Lord has spoken he is able to make good; and none of his words shall fall to the ground. Noah had a very humble distrust of himself. Now that call came we are not told; whether it reached him through a dream, or by an audible voice from heaven, or by some unmentioned prophet, we cannot tell. Fourthly, and this is the main point, Abraham committed himself to God by faith. No other sail is within sight. If, as a decided believer, he takes his stand, and if he is firm and steadfast for his God, he will make a man, and his after years will be bright and useful; but if he begins to give way a little, and if he tries to trim his sail to the wind, he will never attain to a holy character. I felt greatly encouraged when I read this, "Now they desire a better"--the word "country" has been inserted by our translators--they desire something better. may grace be given you so that if others play the Judas, instead of leading you to do the same, it may only bind you more fast to your Lord, and make you walk more carefully, lest you also prove a son of perdition. That was the first day; probably the next day Rahab thought they would come with scaling-ladders and mount the walls; but no, rams' horns again, up to the seventh day; and this woman kept the scarlet thread in the window all the time, kept her father and mother, and brothers and sisters in the house, and would not let them go out; and on the seventh day, when the people made a great shout, the wall of the city fell flat to the ground; but her faith overcame her womanly timidity, and she remained within, although the wall was tumbling to the ground. Noah obeyed the Lord very carefully. The father of the family must not know whither he was going, and shall you, the sons and daughters, long to read the future with whistful curious eyes? "I will be your God," saith he, and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. God strengthening you, you shall out of weakness be made strong to overcome sin, though it be backed by the world, the flesh, and the devil. What a glorious degree Abraham took when he was called "the friend of God"; was not his loss of earthly friendships abundantly made up to him? Oh! "Now, by faith, the harlot Rahab was delivered." Indeed there is, unless faith is strong; and then the bullets turn to pellets, and the stones are soft as sponges. Whatever may be the precepts of the law, or of the gospel, they are pure and holy altogether. The obedience of a slave ranks very little higher than the obedience of a well-trained horse or dog, for it is tuned to the crack of the whip. I believe that since it is all the Word of God it is all most assuredly true." O! Those sons of Heth also were willing to make him a present of a piece of land around the cave of Machpelah; but he did not want a present from Canaanites, and so he said, "No, I will pay you every penny. They were a grand company. That is what we should have done; but Jehovah did something better. There is a high and blessed duty and privilege--I will call it both--which is to every Christian the necessity of his life, and that is to pray. "He hath prepared for them a city"--that is, for such as are strangers and foreigners--for such as have faith, and, therefore, have left the world, and gone out to follow Christ. Can you pray, my brother? and then, thirdly, what was the result of that conduct? Delivered on Thursday Evening, August 21st, 1890, by. We hear people talk about "minor points," and so on; but we must not consider any word of our God as a minor thing, if by that expression is implied that it is of small importance. May the Lord convince you, yea, at this moment, may be lead you to decision, and enable you henceforth to live by faith. He had to leave behind him those who were exceeding dear to him. Let us consider, secondly, THE KIND OF OBEDIENCE WHICH FAITH PRODUCES. If you are never mirthful, and seldom able to call yourself joyful--the only cure for depression is faith. It is a city too possessing immunities, and conferring dignity upon its residents. Trust thou in thy God, in his love to thee, in his care of thee, and then thou shalt be as the lilies, which toil not, and spin not, and yet are clothed; or as the ravens, which have no store, and yet are fed. Yes, this is a chief ingredient of heaven that we shall see the face of our Lord, and serve him day and night in his temple. There is no doubt he could, but it was never the Master's intention that we should all be hothouse plants. As gold is to the inferior metals, such is our trust in God to all our other trusts. But we must pass on (for we have a very wealthy text tonight) to notice the second point. Trials are the winds which root the tree of our faith. Let us think of heaven, of Christ, of all the blessings of the covenant, and let us thus keep our desires wide awake. Whether I stand on Tabor's summit, or am hidden in the vale of Baca, the covenant standeth fast, and everlasting love abideth." Though you may think it a very ordinary thing to obey God in all things, you will find that a man had need to set his face like a flint in order to keep the right road; and the only way in which he will be able to hold on his way will be by having faith in God. A dead world may satisfy a dead heart; but ever since you have known something of better things, and brighter realities, have you been ever contented with earthly things and emptier vanities? Our prayer is that God of his grace may give you to imitate the example of Abraham, who, when he was called, obeyed at once. Now, have you ever felt that it is a very hard thing to have a singular faith? God does not create useless things: he intends that the faith he gives should have its test, should glorify his name. "But," says one, "I know if I were to try to speak to any of my neighbors, I should break down." Hebrews 1:1, 2. And now we come to the ARGUMENT, why, without faith, we cannot be saved. It is because you are the descendants, the spiritual descendants, of the patriarchs. And, after death, what cometh? I. I have broken the key of my drawers, and there are some things I must get directly." You can hardly believe for one hundred and twenty days. Or, if you have spiritual discernment to perceive the spiritual creature, you only see it as it is veiled by reason of the flesh, and beclouded by the atmosphere of this world; but he sees it as it will appear, when it shall be radiant like unto Christ, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. How strong is the evil in the best man, how stern is the conflict to keep under the body, lest corruption should prevail! It is not ours to judge the Lord's command, but to follow it. A city is a place of genial associations. I will rehearse no stories of Christian women with jeering husbands, nor of godly youths who endure scoffing, and far worse; but many a house is still a place of martyrdom. They are so highly "cultured" that they prefer to be original, and map out their own way. With regard to the things of God our first thoughts are best: considerations of difficulty entangle us. There was a little boy at the corner of the table, and his father asked him, "Why does your father love you, John?" THE OPPORTUNITIES WHICH WE HAVE HAD, AND STILL HAVE, TO RETURN to the old house if we were mindful of it. Let us not forget those members of Christ's mystical body that are in the fire: "his feet are like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." First consider THE KIND OF FAITH WHICH PRODUCES OBEDIENCE. . The believer is no longer the helmsman of his own vessel; he has taken a pilot on board. "Ah!" He had a considerable property in flocks and herds, and probably had the ancestral dwelling house in which to reside. The brother went home weeping; but he was not the only one who felt his heart breaking. You see his clothes, you see not him; you see but his earthly tabernacle, but the Spirit, twice born immortal and divine, you see not that. What had he to leave? Hebrews 11:4 Commentaries: By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. Let's read the text ( Hebrews 11:1-3 ): Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Like Elijah, when be said, "I only am left and they seek my life;" to feel in one's self that we believe as firmly as if a thousand witnesses stood up by our side. "Prophesying; how is that? It may be now or never with you. I do not know to whom that dog belongs, but I'll tell you directly. Romans 11 commentary macarthur. But all these were men of faith. but here it is that God exercises his great husbandry. It is in the Scriptures, certainly, but how do you reconcile it with science?" Don't wonder, don't wonder if you have discomforts here. They had news concerning the family house. Our lease of mortal life is fast running out. Review them often: refresh your memory with them frequently; recur to them and renew them in every time of trial and temptation. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Obedience let us pray for it for ourselves and others! Notice, next, that there is this about a Christian, that even when he does not enjoy something better, he desires it. ABRAHAM left his country at God's command, and he never went back again. Oh, have you not often strong inducements, if it were not for the grace of God, to become as they are? This woman's faith was saving faith, singular faith, stable faith, self-denying faith, sympathising faith, and sanctifying faith. I am persuaded that nothing but a spirit of distaste for free grace would ever have led any commentator to deny her sin. and, secondly, what was there peculiar in Abraham's conduct? He was parted from his friends, but then he had the sweet society of his God, and was treated as the friend of the Most High, and allowed to intercede for others, and clothed with great power on their behalf. There are many ways in which the devil's whip can reach the back of the child of God. He taught us to pray, "Lead us not into temptation," but at the same time he does lead us there, and intends to do it; and this is for the proving of our faith to see whether it be true faith or not. Settle this in your heart: "Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus Christ is the same. He even offered up his son Isaac. There are warriors on the field of conflict, and sentries in the box of patience. Do you think that we meditate enough upon heaven? But you must take distinct note that at the back of everything was his faith in God. You look to those who agree with you, and they are lukewarm; you turn to old associates, and they do not share your concern. Ah sirs, there will be an end to this ere long, one way or the other, which shall it be? cells in an azure synapse studio notebook can be reordered without copying and pasting the contents. Have faith in God, and then obey, obey, obey, and keep on obeying, until the Lord shall call you home. We have been lining our nests very softly, and counting all the eggs that are laid therein, with the greatest cheerfulness and delight; we have had much goods laid up for many years, and all of a sudden, Misfortune, like a wicked boy, has climbed the tree, and pulled down the nests, and the birds had to fly, and we have said, "Whither shall we go?" Does he not himself sometimes say of them, "How can I put thee among the children?" You cannot be blessed with Abraham unless like him you come out, and stand forth as true men. You must joy in God, or you will not joy at all. Some of you are engaged in the midst of ungodly men. Thus we have Abraham before us; may the Holy Spirit make us like him. Where can we fly to escape from these opportunities that haunt us everywhere and peril us in every thing? Men have repented, and yet have not been saved, because their's was the wrong repentance. True faith gives its full assent to the Scriptures; it takes a page and says, "No matter what is in the page, I believe it;" it turns over the next chapter ands says, "Herein are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable do wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their destruction; but hard though it be, I believe it." We have faith, in another place, wresting with time; Noah, warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, wrestled with time, which placed his deluge a hundred and twenty years away; and yet, in the confidence of faith, he believed against all rational expectation, against all probability, and his faith was more than a match for probability and time too. Nobody here will actually declare that he will not, but many will reply that they hope they shall. His image passes across the page of history rather like that of a spirit from the supernal realms than that of a mere man; he is so thorough, so childlike, and therefore so heroic. Perhaps you have tried to fill your soul with worldly things. --Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan "Although commentaries on the Gospel of John abound, far too few of them combine careful scholarship, deep theological reflection, and a pastoral heart. I have often met with persons awakened by divine grace to see the evil of a certain act, and they have said, "I do not know how I shall ever break off the habit;" yet they have very easily escaped from it. I would sooner have the faith which obeys than the faith which heaps the altar of God with sacrifices, and perfumes his courts with incense. All glory to his grace! "Whither away?" And remember, you can only know how great a thing faith is by knowing the infinite value of the salvation of a soul. May God give his blessing, for Jesus sake! Meanwhile, the delayer's case waxes worse and worse, and, if there were difficulties before, they are now far more numerous and severe. He cannot forget his dear gold. Suppose that you are called to testify for truth in the midst of those who doubt, disbelieve, or even deride it. He said to David, "I have sinned against thee, my son David;" and yet he went on as he did before. "Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose true, Dare to make it known. I trust we know what it is to have gone without the camp bearing Christ's reproach. Now, young man, dare you think for yourself? Said the dear little lad, very prettily, "Because I'm a good boy." Now, in this book you have the call "Come ye out from among them, be ye separate, touch not the unclean thing; and I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters." what a mighty thing faith is, when it saves the soul from going down to the pit! All the answer was, "Go away with you. O! Do you feel in prayer as if the sinew of your strength were shrunk, and your knee out of joint? Spurgeon, Sunday August 18th 1889. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength, Permit me to speak to some aspiring spirit here, and say,--Dear friend, would you like to do something great for God Have you heard the motto of our early missionaries: "Attempt great things for God"? We keenly suspect whether that religion can be true which was feigned so cunningly and betrayed so wantonly, by one who seemed to be a model, but proved to be a hypocrite. you have a father, and he hates the Saviour. It begins with one triumph of faith, and then proceeds to others. What will you do then if you have not faith? Next, obedience should be exact . We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. The people just go round the city, and all hold their tongues, except the few priests blowing rams' horns. Read online Christ Superior To Angels Moses And Aaron A Comment On The Epistle To The Hebrews ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. yes," she said, "I have lived long enough, and I have gone to Church long enough, to know that if we work hard and get our bread by the sweat of our brow, and act well towards our neighbours, and behave, as the catechism says, lowly and reverently to all our betters, and if we do our duty in that station of life in which it has pleased God to place us, and say our prayers regularly, we shall be saved." As many of us as have believed in Christ Jesus have been called out. I could not come to the point." There are perils in company, but there are perils likewise in our loneliness. "Along the cool, sequestered vale of life they hold the even tenor of their way." It would be unreasonable if we did not vehemently resist every opportunity and every solicitation to go back. God bade Abraham journey, and he moved his camp at once. "Why, it is ridiculous. Though he has many opportunities he does not embrace any, he shrinks with repugnance from them all, for, through divine grace, he has had produced in his heart desires for something better. It is a city, too, for dignity. A man runs a great risk When he steers himself. Here we are tent-dwellers, but the tent is soon to be taken down. Note, next, that Noah had faith in the warning and threatening of God. (1). Trust him now and ye are saved. That our meditation may be profitable, we will first think a little of the kind of faith which produces obedience ; and then, secondly, we will treat of the kind of obedience which faith produces ; and then we will advance another step, and consider the kind of life which comes out of this faith and obedience . Did it answer Abraham's purpose? Revelation 3:7-13 Philadelphia: The church that was taken! Now, beloved friends, suffer me a few words upon the other cheering fact, namely, that FAITH MAKES MEN STRONG FOR PATIENT SUFFERING. Did you never note that those who seem least likely to fall into a sin are the very people who commit it? Strength to do right at the head of a household must come by divine gift; and that gift will only be placed in the open hand of faith. She had not one who felt as she did, who could enter into her feelings and realize the value of her faith. There is enough in the world for sinners, but not for saints. what a world of misery there is in this great city, among even good and gracious people! Was it drunkenness? If God had commanded him to ford the Atlantic, Abraham would have obeyed. If you had a business to settle which involved the gain or loss of ten thousand pounds, how particular you would be; but when your whole soul is at stake, how many take up such matters at haphazard and risk eternal destruction! Sincere faith in God must treat all God's Word alike; for the faith which accepts one word of God and rejects another is evidently not faith in God, but faith in our own judgment, faith in our own taste. Noah was a stranger to this paralyzing fear: he bestirred himself, and built an ark. They are the trainers, drilling God's young soldiers, and teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight. For this a man must have faith in God; and he must be sure that his trials, endured through his office, will have great recompense of reward. Abraham returned not; Isaac returned not; Jacob returned not. But, dear brethren, it is not merely in our business and in our calling; the mischief lies in our bone and in our flesh. God does. Our life is quite long enough for the trial of faith. I shall have some things to say this morning concerning this notable victory of faith over sin, such as I think will lead you to see that this was indeed a supereminent triumph of faith. You must endure, "as seeing him who is invisible." The more they draw us to heaven the more we shall be separated from earth. In no tent of all the fair can we rest. Ah me! And now there is some gentleman in the audience who says, "There's a gospel for you; it is a kind of sanctuary for wicked men, unto which the worst of people may run and be saved." The men of faith to whom the apostle referred in our text were not only strangers and pilgrims, but it is specially observed that they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. You can suffer no need, for everlasting supplies await the hand of prayer: "Ask, and it shall be given you." Hence faith is the essential point of holiness. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 10th, 1859, by the REV. Even if in your own house you find your worst foes, hold on, and never doubt. You have joined the company that makes the goal of life the object for which you live. I thought it was a great nuisance to be had in at such a time to pray, and more especially to be made to cry, as my mother used to make me cry. Do you feel bewildered as to how to behave yourself? They are, in truth, the pilgrim's solace. Here was Noah filled with such a holy fear of himself, that he took care to do what the Lord bade him, even to the most minute particular. It staggers us: we cannot make it out. But," said he, wishing to improve the occasion, "have you ever heard of the key of heaven?" Well, then, let me bring the text before you. First, he effectually purged our sins: "when he had by himself purged our sins." Listen to those wondrous words. What poor people God's people are--poor many of them in circumstances, but how many of them I might very well call poor as to spiritual things! Yet, remember that the obedience which comes of true faith is often bound to be altogether unreckoning and implicit ; for it is written, "He went out, not knowing whither he went." No, he was commanded to go, and he went without hesitation. "Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering." "He hath prepared a city." The gospel has about it a divine authority, and is not to be trilled with. Before long you will find that the wind is dead against you, and the course to be followed is hard to keep. It is better to have the faith that obeys than the faith which moves mountains. Welcome to Episode 117 of The Burning Bush Podcast, where we share the message of the Bible while enjoying a good cigar. walter e smithe daughters net worth. His faith in God has become to him the crown of all his believings; the most assured of all his confidences. "His honor is engaged to save The meanest of his sheep; All that his heavenly Father gave His hands securely keep.". And if there be not one mentioned in Scripture, which is the history of some thousand years, it is not likely that in the other two thousand years of the world's history there would have been one, when there was not one during the first four thousand. If they do go out, they must know where they are going, and how much is to be picked up in the new country. We are safe, because we are in the City of Refuge, and not because we are, in ourselves, ill or well. But you can do nothing aright for others without faith in God for yourself and them. We must accept every single word of precept, or prohibition, or instruction, as being what it ought to be, and neither to be diminished nor increased. If you have faith in God, you may bless your brothers while you live, as Joseph did: faith has housed many a family which else had starved. Will you do so, or not? Unless we desire others to taste the benefits we have enjoyed, we are either inhuman monsters or outrageous hypocrites; I think the last is most likely. Yet we read in Abraham's life, after a whole host of troubles, "And Abraham was old and well stricken in years, and the Lord had blessed Abrabam in all things." "O men and brethren, trust not your faith, unless it has self-denial with it. She brought her life, even as that other woman, who was a sinner, brought the alabaster box of precious ointment, and broke it on the head of Christ. Do are not read of those who "stumbled at the word, being disobedient"; surely there must be a command and a duty, or else there could not be disobedience. If it be true that the Lord has his martyrs still, let it be seen that they are as brave as ever. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row, and all Booksellers. Dear friend, have you this kind of faith? 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