Then, and not before, he overthrew them, so that Israel sang, "The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." Let us fear God because of his greatness; let us fear ourselves because of our sinfulness. Oh, that God would give to every preacher of righteousness this full reward himself and his house! Let us away from it. Bible > Commentaries > Hebrews 11:4 eBibles Free Downloads Audio Hebrews 11:4 Friend, I am not careful in that matter, nor need you be. Being connected with the living and incorruptible seed, it lives and abides for ever. He feared his own wisdom: for he knew that man is like to vanity, and no more to be relied upon than the mist of the morning. says she, secretly within herself, what she would willingly have said to her neighbors, "will you not now believe? PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Genesis 6:5-22 ; Hebrews 11:1-7 . -- Hebrews 11:15-16. I know I do. The proof of faith lies in perseverance. "By faith Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt." And now in conclusion, THE QUESTION, the vital question. Ah! You mean you are reading the prophecies?" "You will be captivated by the lofty way Spurgeon unfolds the real significance of marital love, the reverent way he honors Christ, and the genuine desire JEHOVAH ROPHI is his name: "The Lord that healeth thee." I hardly think that, for years, he had spoken without ill language; and yet, from the moment he turned unto the Lord, he never used an oath, and he also noted that he never had a temptation so to do. How much of character is revealed in our desires. Abraham had a call, so have we, but here was the difference, Abraham obeyed. The mountain of safety is Calvary. Did Rahab continue a harlot after she had faith? God alone can help you to fill up with roses that grim memory of danger and suffering. 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. How long a wolf-beloved habit lingers at the door after the heart has given it a bill of divorce! When I think of the strength of divine grace, I do not marvel that saints should persevere; but, when I remember the weakness of their nature, it seems a miracle of miracles that there should be one Christian in the world who could maintain his steadfastness for a single hour. Lay hold on him, touch the hem of his garment, and ye shall be healed. Have faith in God about him. When you get nearest to God, Satan will sometimes seem to get nearer to you. And the same things that are the object of our hope, are the . Obedience is the rehearsal of eternal bliss. Whose of you who have had to part from those you loved, who have had your hearts rent when loved ones have been torn away, can sympathize somewhat with Abraham's trial when he left home and family, and country, and all, to go forth into an unknown land. You will never be able to cut down this huge upas tree except with the axe of Christ's atoning sacrifice. We may hunt the world through, and say, 'This looks like a little paradise," but there is no paradise this side of the skies--for a child of God at any rate. Depend upon it, faith that is never tried is not true faith. 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. I would entreat you each one to make an application of the text to yourself in every work of faith, and labor of love, in which you may be engaged. They are, in truth, the pilgrim's solace. And explaining it more fully to her, he said, "It is Christ, and Christ alone, that can open heaven to you, and not your good works." O traders in this hubbub of trifles, we have small esteem for your great bargains and tempting cheats; we are not buyers in the Roman row nor in the French row, we would give all that we have to leave your polluted streets, and be no more annoyed by Beelzebub, the lord of the fair. See, whether you can do it; for if you are afraid of men, you are taken in a snare which may prove your grief and is now your sin. We have sometimes heard of a brother who has become great and rich in the world, and he has had some poor brother or some distant relative, and when he has seen him in the street he has been obliged just to speak to him and own him; but I dare say he wished him a long way off, especially if some rich acquaintance happened to be with him who should say, "Why, Smith, who was that wretched seedy-looking fellow that you spoke to?" 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. By E. D. Jones, A. M., St. Louis. Father, mother, husband, wife, sister, brother, servant, master--whatever your relation, I beseech you, if you feel weak in the discharge of your duty, exercise faith in God about it, and out of weakness you shall be made strong. I believe that since it is all the Word of God it is all most assuredly true." I beseech you, have faith in God that he will direct you, and have faith also to follow that direction when you receive it. By faith alone can you bear persecution, and turn it to account for the good of others. You have confessed as occasion served before the world, you have professed as duty called before the church, you have accepted the consequences as honesty demanded before angels and men. Our journey is towards the celestial city, and when the sons of earth cry to us, "What do ye buy?" Don't expect to find comforts in this world that your flesh would long for. His feet would have been willing to attempt a miracle, and the stormy billows would have been dry before his march. "Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." Yes, but you would not, though; you know better than that, for you do not, as it is, give all, no, nor yet half, nor yet the thousandth part. Fix it in your mind, "This is God's Book. He prepared an ark. How long shall unbelief lodge within you and grieve the Holy Spirit? I hope that many of us have the living faith which Folks by love, and if so we shall rejoice in the will of the Lord, let it be what it may; if we know anything to be right we shall delight to do it but as for doubtful or sinful deeds we renounce them. We are scientific, and therefore we know how absurd his preaching is; for none ever heard of the world being drowned by a flood." We see faith dauntless in courage when Moses forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, and equally patient in suffering when he endured as seeing him who is invisible. And there is something very solemn in the utterance of our text: "Without faith it is impossible to please God." "Ah! If all the world would obey the Lord, what a heaven on earth there would be! If you trust the living God, you will do the right, and bear the loss or the shame; but if your faith fail you, self-love will create such respect for your own good name, such fear of ridicule, such unwillingness to be singular, that you will slide from your integrity, and choose a smooth and pleasing road. If you are a stranger, they naturally bark at you. May God make us all so, and unto his name shall be the glory through Jesus Christ our Lord! Now, you may have a dead faith which will ruin your soul. I met with a little incident in company, the other day, after preaching. I believe, dear friends, that many and many a time you, in your providential journey will have to go forth, not knowing whither you are going. We do see by faith. If you are what you profess to be, you are strangers. We are not our own, we are bought with a price. 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? Have you faith? The men of that generation mocked him. Many a man has felt keenly enough the separation from home and kindred, and next to that, the sad banishment from his native land. We have faith dividing seas, and casting down strong walls. So the first important thing to see . It is only grace that can keep grace alive under such circumstances. Do not come down a stop or two as to holiness, nor seek a lower platform upon which to meet more cordially an ungodly world. They dwelt in tents--Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob--but he has prepared for them a city. More than that, if ever the child of God gets entangled for awhile, he is uneasy by reason of it. Fourthly, and this is the main point, Abraham committed himself to God by faith. 11 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11:1-13 Hebrews 11:1. Each man's calling may seem to him to be more full of temptation than his fellow's. He does not like to say, "That's my brother;" or, "That's a relative of mine." His choice is neither wealth, nor ease, nor honour; but that ho may glorify God in his body, and his spirit, which are the Lord's. If they do, be afraid. Don't come here with your cant." While he calls himself their God, he never forbids them to call him their God. 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. "According to your faith be it unto you." If we never have done so, may we this morning be led to give God his due by trusting him, to give the blood of Christ its due by relying upon it, to give the Spirit of God his due by yielding ourselves to him. I. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. God-fearing example at home is the most fruitful of religious agencies. Prudent consideration of consequences is superabundant; but the spirit which obeys, and dares all things for Christ's sake where is it? He is not ashamed that it should be so. Your joy is your God: make your God your joy. "What! That is his master. 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. And because we desire this better thing, we cannot go back and be content with things which gratified us once. You have transferred their strong will to your own deliberate choice. He did not say, "Lord give me a little time: I will go in a week. To pray without faith is formality; nay, it is vanity. Alas! "Yes," says one, "I own that it is an urgent service to make known to others what the Lord has done for me: but, somehow, I cannot discharge my conscience by fully doing as I would. "I will be your God," saith he, and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. Furthermore, this woman's faith was A STABLE FAITH, which stood firm in the midst of trouble, I have heard of a church clergyman who was once waited upon by his church warden, after a long time of drought, and was requested to put up the prayer for rain. and in a mournful degree I felt what I preached, as my own cry. May he give me grace to go through the stream! Be steadfast, unmovable. But, we must pass on (for we have a very wealthy text) to notice the second point. I like to hear a man say, when his father has gone, "My dear father was a man that feared God, and I would fain follow him. True faith exclaims, "The thing is unlikely, yet I believe it." "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. These men were fed on substantial meat, and they became sturdy old fellows, able to cope with the world, and fight their way. It seems, therefore, but right, that faith, which is the mightiest of the mighty, should have a pillar raised to its honor, upon which its valiant deeds should be recorded. It may be that certain of my hearers feel that they cannot attain to the matters I have mentioned, for they are as yet battling to reach the position of servants and pleaders. Because they are strangers, add because they will not go back to their old abode, "therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God." Ah sirs, there will be an end to this ere long, one way or the other, which shall it be? He answered, "What were you thinking about me for? Abraham returned not; Isaac returned not; Jacob returned not. Stay lo of his infinite mercy give us the willing and the obedient mind that we may not pervert the gospel to our own destruction. If you know how to pray, you can move heaven and earth. How few could endure this! There is a secret virtue in the confession, if it be steadfastly adhered to and zealously maintained. But yet it must be done; and only faith can do it, by calling in the aid of the Almighty One. When Napoleon was attacking the Egyptians he had powerful artillery, but he could not reach the enemy, for they were ensconced in a mud fort, and it made Napoleon very angry, because, if they had been behind granite walls, he could hate battered them down, but their earthworks could not be blown to pieces, every ball stuck in the mud, and made the wall stronger. Biblical Commentary (Bible Study) Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Hebrews 11 is the great faith chapter of the Bible, first defining faith (v. 1) and then using well-known Hebrew people to show faith in action. It will be something else that will prevent you, for these opportunities are plentiful indeed. He that does not run away because his legs are too weak, does not prove himself a hero; but he that could run, but will not run; he that could desert his Lord, but will not desert him, has within him a principle of grace stronger than any fetter could be--the highest, firmest, noblest bond that unites a man to the Savior. 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. A sense of great obligation, an apprehension of the fitness of obedience, and spiritual renewal of heart, work an obedience which becomes essential to the sanctified soul. It can not be. If thou wilt trust thy soul with Jesus, thou art saved. Men have humbled themselves, and yet God has not saved them. You and I may be very weak at this time, but we can be made strong out of just such weakness. Noah had not a careless fear, as some here have. This grieves the hearts of those who know and love Jesus, and the question arises with them, "What shall I do?" THE OLD Assembly's Catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" Who shall tell which of the three grand deeds of faith is the greatest? ABRAHAM'S FAITH was of the most eminent order, for he is called the Father of the Faithful. She became after that a woman eminent for piety walking in the fear of God. 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. no", said the man; "she never goes anywhere." Yet, we repeat it again, the chief of sinners are as welcome to Christ as the best of saints. ". Multitudes have confessed the name of Christ, and have done many marvellous things, and yet they have never been pleasing to God, from this simple reason, that they had not faith. Commentary on Hebrews 11:1-3. I might call some of you hypocrites: you sing. 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. The man reasons with himself that he ought to obey his Redeemer, his Father, his God; and, at the same time, the love of Christ constrains him so to do, and thus what argument suggests affection performs. And Jacob, he had found a wife, nay, two, in Laban's land, but he was not content. Do you think that we meditate enough upon heaven? "Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." I will show you that it is so; for, if I should hear a voice, how am I to know that it is divine? Doubtless he was the frequent subject of sarcastic remark. I hope so long as I live there will always be a straight road from my heart to my mouth, and that I shall be able to preach whatever I believe in my soul, and to keep nothing reserved. The faith of Rahab was the right sort of faith, for it was firm and enduring. and then, thirdly, what was the result of that conduct? If we passed through life unrecognised, or were only acknowledged by a sneer from the worldly-wise, and if this were regarded as a failure, it could be borne with equanimity as long as we knew that we had kept our faith towards God, and our obedience to him. Leave off saying, "I do not know," or "I do not care." Where can we go to escape from these opportunities to return? Another thing strikes me. "My Father is the husbandman," said Christ. Indeed, it seems to me as if the word "opportunity" as it occurs in the text, were hardly strong enough to express the influence and incentive, the provocations and solicitations, by which, in our case, we have been urged. He might well be ashamed of that. There is death everywhere else, but there is life in his death. Ere the precept had gone forth, obedience had come forth to meet it with rejoicing. Here we are in midsummer again, and yet Felix has not found his convenient season. They accomplished all their feats by a power which was not in them by nature. Hence faith is the essential point of holiness. 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. Hare you not been obliged to say, after you have had all that the world could give you, "Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity?" We want to have more outspoken, downright utterances of truth and appeals to the conscience, and until we get these, we shall never see any very great and lasting reforms. then get alone, and, like Abraham, cry to God, "O that Ishmael might live before thee!" Some say it is a land of confusion and of the shadow of death. Assuredly, you will not hold out without true faith, and much of it. We must be going to our heavenly Father's kindly home, where Jesus is: to that royal city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. This was a grand thing for the tribes in their after journeys through the wilderness. It is a hard task to a man of loving soul to put long leagues of distance between himself and those he loves, and to become a banished man. Next, we must have faith in the rightness of all that God says or does . When God began with many of us, he found us very low down beneath the flood of evil. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 1, 1857, by the, "By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." Obey on earth, and then you will have learned to obey in heaven. Share. I do not believe she was a harlot at the time the men went to her house, though the name still stuck to her, as such ill names will; but I am sure she was not afterward, for Salmon the prince of Judah married her, and her name is put down among the ancestors of our Lord Jesus Christ. There are some things which are quite customary with them which you will not endure. To-day, the tried one suffers alone, and misses the encouragement of Christian eyes. Brethren, we desire something better than this world. Perhaps it did when you were dead in sin. We should not reason about the command of God as though it might be set aside or amended. Other sins die hard, but this is shot through the head by true repentance and faith in Jesus. By the time of Christ, many thought God chose Abraham because he was a righteous man in a godless world. I don't want any of your thoughts." Elijah, after he had slain the prophets of Baal, was found fleeing into the wilderness from the face of Jezebel. The Pastors' College Conference Address, 1891. Or do you put out your thinking to be done for you, like your washing? Book excerpt: Get ready to make the book of Hebrews your new favorite book of the Bible with the help of Looking to Christ, an . None of our old friends would refuse to receive us. They are mad." 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." Should we have any other ambition, within the walls of our Father's house, than to be perfectly obedient children before him, and implicitly trustful towards him? We all wish to be strong. Beginning in 11:13 and summarizing his discussion thus far, the writer of Hebrews points out that people can still be living by faith when they die, even if they don't receive the things promised by the time of their passing. Faith and self-denial, like the Siamese twins, are born together, and must live together, and the food that nourisheth one must nourish both. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. In the better land you shall find the rest which you never can find here, and need not wish to find, for the land is polluted; let us away from it. Remember that "without faith it is impossible to please God," so that you are displeasing to the Lord. May God help you so to do; for Christ's sake! Faith is the father of holiness, and he has not the parent who loves not the child. By-and-by, they march through the Jordan dry shod, and then Faith gets firmer confidence. Here is the list of names mentioned in Hebrews 11 which make up the Hall of Faith: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sara, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthae, David, Samuel and the prophets. Picking and choosing are great enemies to submission. There all the inhabitants shall be united in one glorious brotherhood--the true Communism; Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in the highest possible degree. II. "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." Hold the truth, if you stand alone. that he would bring her now, though seventy years of age, to love the Saviour! I do not know to which of them that dog belongs, but I shall be able to tell you directly. As a dog, which is chased away from the house, returns again and again to its former master, so does an evil lust turn again even to the soul that loathes it. Then I understood why I must feel like one forsaken. The fact soon comes home to us that we are weak where we most of all desire to be strong. Had they been mindful of the place from whence they came out, they might have found opportunities to go back. You see, then, they had many opportunities to have returned, to have settled down comfortably and tilled the ground which their fathers did before them; but they continued to follow the uncomfortable life of wanderers of the weary foot, who dwell in tents, who own no plot of land. He dreams of it. With solemn awe believe the bitter word of judgment, that the word of mercy may be sweet to you. All you can see in that poor child of God is a hard-working laboring man, mocked and despised of his fellows. Two men are going along a road, and there is a dog behind them. This land in which you dwell, and all the works thereof, must be burned up. the gutta-percha backbone is common among Dissenters, and they take to politics, and the new philosophy, and therefore we are losing the force of our testimony, and are, I fear, decreasing in numbers too. May the Holy Spirit work in us, so that, by faith like Abraham we may obey ! If you believe first, you may have as many good works as you please; but if you believe, you will never trust in them, for if you trust in them you have spoilt them, and they are not good works any longer. We tarry for a night: we are away in the morning. Ah! no; thy name may yet be written among the mightiest of the mighty, and thou mayest stand as a memorable and triumphant instance of the power of faith. Do you want a richer source of consolation than you have? Abraham "went out, not knowing whither he went," but the moderns must have every information with regard to the way, and then they will not go. -- Hebrews 11:34. What harvest will come of our sowing we must leave with the Lord of the harvest; but we ourselves must look to the basket and the seed, and scatter our handfuls in the furrows without fail. III. There are warriors on the field of conflict, and sentries in the box of patience. "Thou hast kept the best wine until now." Oh, may the day never come to you, you young people especially, who have lately put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and professed his name, when you shall be welcomed by the world, but may you for ever forget your kindred and your father's house, so shall the king greatly desire your beauty, for he is the Lord, and worship you him. They learned to fear God, and to trust in him, and to rest in the old faith, and even in worldly things they prospered. If any of you pretend that you have no sins, to be very plain with you, you deceive yourselves, and the truth is not in you. I. "Oh," said the other, "I felt so sorry to think that, if you were to die, you would die without hope, that I was obliged to come to you." "We know that this earthly house of our" tent "shall be dissolved, but we have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Amen. C.H. God does. Our greatest risk is over when we obey. 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