"Prophesying; how is that? There is death everywhere else but there. O that God might sanctify some that are here! Let us consider, secondly, THE KIND OF OBEDIENCE WHICH FAITH PRODUCES. Where Jesus died, there you shall live. Let your reply be We no longer live in the region of argument as to the Word of the Lord; but we dwell in the realm of faith. All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. The bringing up of families is a very great matter. "I will be your God," saith he, and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. Happy people! God be praised for our psalms and spiritual songs. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Psalms 119:33-40 . I will weigh out the price to you, whatever you may demand." Without faith thou art out of the kingdom of grace, a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel. Now, it is always foolish in us to be led by man, for then "the blind lead the blind, and both fall into the ditch;" but for the blind to be led by God is one of the best and wisest things. If you are one of those plants which seldom bloom with bunches of bright flowers, but have your blossoms hidden and concealed, be not disquieted. I am not pronouncing any judgement upon their conduct, I am merely pointing out the fact. Saul did it. While the enemy were preparing he had begun the battle, and they were routed before they knew where they were. What a shout of triumph would they raise, and how would they fraternize with him! If thou dost trust in thy works, then thy works are anti-christ, and Christ and anti-christ can never go together. 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. Ah! Remember that your greatest joy, while you are a pilgrim, is your God. Again let me affectionately give the invitation to the vilest of men, if so they feel themselves to be. I resolved, the other day, that I would see a man whom I had known, and tell him that I was a changed character; but when I reached his house, I drifted into other talk, and went the way in which he led me. have you not often strong inducements, if it were not for the grace of God, to become as they are. Amen. It is a wonder of wonders that we have not gone back to the world, and to our own sin. Or in some cases, perhaps, they have to go to the workhouse, and be far away from all Christian intercourse or anything that could comfort them. The call is given again, will you obey it or not? By this you shall know whether you are Christ's or not when you have opportunity to return--if you don't return, that shall prove you are his. It is forgiven thee. To believe in God, and to do his bidding, is a great escape from the hazards of personal weakness and folly. By nature we love our own will and way; and it goes against the grain for us to bring ourselves into such complete subjection as the law of the Lord requires. As many of us as have believed in Christ Jesus have been called out. Amen and amen. I cannot reproduce the letters that were written about the sturdy patriarch, nor can I recount the spiteful things which were said by the gossips; but I have no doubt they were very clever, and very sarcastic. It is not ours to judge the Lord's command, but to follow it. May God help you so to do; for Christ's sake! 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. Make the attempt by faith in God; for it is written, "Out of weakness were made strong." said he to him. This land in which you dwell, and all the works thereof, must be burned up. Ah, my dear friend! Noah never spoke thus; for with his fear he had a good hope. Henceforth, in this world we have no home, no true home for our spirits; our home is beyond the flood; we are looking for it amongst the unseen things; 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. will you not now sue for mercy?" It staggers us: we cannot make it out. 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. There are many who have that kind of faith: they believe just so far as probabilities go with them, but when the promise and the probability part, then they follow the probability and part with the promise. He must leave all these, and he must also leave the fair pastures wherein his flocks and his father's flocks had been fed, and he must wend his way into the wilderness. Do you long to be of some use? O! He must give up all agricultural pursuits, renounce his vine and his fig tree, and go his way, he knew not whither, to a land which to him was as unknown as the valley of the shadow of death. Your children have been about you, you have had many household joys, and you have said, "I could stay here for ever." We are to be strangers and foreigners in the land wherein we sojourn. While life lasts hope lasts; and we beseech you not to lie down in sullen hopelessness. "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark." Those productions of genius are all forgotten now; but Noah is remembered still. The poverty and the suffering of even godly people in London would be a subject too harrowing for those of you who have specially tender hearts. It makes them say, "Lord, thou hast forgiven me my sins; I will sin no more. May he give me grace to go through the stream! And I am sure of this, moreover, it is impossible to know the value of salvation without desiring to see others brought in. Noah obeyed the Lord very carefully. III. It was blotted out when he nailed the handwriting of ordinances to his cross. You look to those who agree with you, and they are lukewarm; you turn to old associates, and they do not share your concern. There is, in this chapter, a special commendation for faith in a pleasing variety of operations. 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?" Faith, then, is an union with Christ. No better answer is given in perhaps all the Bible than in the great eleventh chapter of the book of Hebrews. Hebrews 11:6 . Alas! We either curse or bless those around us. The first duty of a Christian man is to obey God. Or if you spiritually perceive that part, you see it as it is, but God sees it as it will be when it shall be like unto Christ, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. 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. "Trials of cruel mockings" are common yet. 14/04/2023 . Trust you in Christ to overcome by his Spirit that which he has put away by his death. That is the inquiry of most people, and within proper bounds it is not a wrong question. Most probably he heard a voice from heaven speaking audibly to him and saying, "Get thee out from thy kindred and from thy father's house." Ah! "Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." When people slander and persecute you no longer, be afraid. Again, and again, and again have I explained the demands of the gospel, and described the blessings of it, and yet I see its demands neglected and its blessings refused. Five or six families, attending that despised ministry, learned to believe what they did believe, and to live upon it. He knows better than we do when to strike for victory. Thus we have Abraham before us; may the Holy Spirit make us like him. They were aliens in the country which God had given them by promise. Believe for yourself, because God has said it; and speak as the Lord guides you. Don't expect the men of this world to treat you as one of themselves--if they do, be afraid. The man who waits until he shall find it more easy to bear the yoke of obedience, is like the woodman who found his faggot too heavy for his idle shoulder, and, placing, it upon the ground, gathered more wood and added to the bundle, then tried it, but finding it still an unpleasant load, repeated the experiment of heaping on more, in the vain hope that by-and-by it might be of a shape more suitable for his shoulder. You are not allowed to halve the Scriptures, and to believe what you please; you are not allowed to believe the Scripture with a half-heartedness, for if you do this wilfully, you have not the faith which looks alone to Christ. God grant it may be now! We shall notice first what Abraham left, and then where Abraham went; the trial is made up of these two things. Frequent opportunities came in their way. They are mad." We are not squabblers, itching to prove our superiority in reasoning, but we are children of light, worshipping our God by bowing our whole minds to the obedience of faith. The victory was complete. Oh, this flesh, the body of this death--wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from it? Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Hebrews 11:1-20 This is the Arc de Triomphe erected to the memory of the heroes of faith, whose names are here recorded by the apostle's inspired pen, with a brief mention of some of their most memorable actions. The bravest and the most honoured of men are those who implicitly obey the command of the King of kings. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON--Hebrews 11:0 . They are the trainers, drilling God's young soldiers, and teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight. 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." Scripture: Hebrews 2:9-13. Still, he never does discountenance them, and he proves that he is not ashamed of them, for he calls himself their God. Let's read the text ( Hebrews 11:1-3 ): Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. The Promise: A Redeemer In Hebrews 11 there is a constant reference to the promise that God had given to various people. To help them, we shall consider, first, what was Abraham's special experience which led to his being what he became? I have had to mourn over Christian men--at least I thought they were--who have grown very poor, and when they have grown poor they hardly felt they could associate with those whom they knew in better circumstances. Only that is true faith which believes everything that is revealed by the Holy Spirit, whether it be joyous or distressing. Your joy is your God: make your God your joy. 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. What shouts of triumph would they raise, and how would they welcome him! I felt greatly encouraged when I read this, "Now they desire a better"--The word "country" has been inserted by our translators. But there is no praying without believing. --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. Perhaps it did when you were dead in sin. Thus Abraham obeyed! Give me thyself, and take these all away if it so please thee, but don't my Lord, don't think I can fill myself with these things." He who knows how to pray has his hand on a leverage which moves the universe. It weakens the sense; vague but vast is the craving expressed in the sentence, "They desire a better"--I know I long for something far better, something infinitely preferable to that which my eyes can see or that my tongue can express. He resides, seated on His throne in heaven, as our High Priest guaranteeing this right standing with God. God's blessings are blessings with both his hands. 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. Again, this trial of faith cometh oftentimes in matters of providence. It cannot be wrong to do the right thing at once; nay, in matters of duty, every moment of delay is a sin. The fact soon comes home to us that we are weak where we most of all desire to be strong. The true believer believes in God beyond all his belief in anything else, and everything else. That faith which saves the soul is a real faith, and a real faith sanctifies men. Our home is beyond the flood. They are, in truth, the pilgrim's solace. One reason for this seems to me to be, because he does not judge of them according to their present circumstances, but much rather according to their pleasant prospects. 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. Preaching is not taking out a manuscript sermon, asking God to direct your heart, and then reading pages prepared beforehand. Into the unknown land he made his way; through fertile regions, or across a wilderness; among friends or through the midst of foes, he pursued his journey. The mother of Sisera thought him long in coming, but what shall we say of this laggard season? God will hear your prayer and bless Ishmael also. Our longing is to be able both to do and to suffer for our Lord, and to do this we must have strength from above, and that strength can only come to us through faith. How long shall it be so? By E. D. Jones, A. M., St. Louis. Opportunities to return in our own nature. Fast Download speed and no annoying The vows of God are upon you. If you have faith in God, you can lead others out of the bondage of sin, and through the wilderness world, as Moses led the children of Israel; for faith is a great guide. The mountain of safety is Calvary. It is a city, which indicates, first, an abiding happiness. Perhaps you will say, "Why does the Lord make them so plentiful? God sees the poorest, the least proficient disciple as a man in Christ; a perfect man come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; such indeed as he will be in that day when he shall see Christ, for then he shall be like him as he is. If then, we be right in saying that to please God is to be happy, the one important question is, how can I please God? ABRAHAM left his country at God's command, and he never went back again. This is his infallible revelation, and I believe it against every argument that can possibly be urged against it. If he saith, "Go," they go; if he saith, "Stay," they abide in their places. And then, as though the greatest victory should be recorded last, we have faith entering the lists with sin, holding a tournament with iniquity, and coming off more than a conqueror. But if you desire to go to heaven, I beg you to remember that "the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." It may be now or never with you. Christians must swim against the stream. My brethren, we have such opportunities in our daily calling. Have you not been obliged to say, after you have had all that the world could give you, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"? Notwithstanding that grace is its main characteristic it has all the authority of a command. 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. 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. You can suffer no need, for everlasting supplies await the hand of prayer: "Ask, and it shall be given you." Whatever we believe to be true, to the last jot and tittle we will speak it out. But a strong-minded man is one who does not try to be singular, but who dares to be singular, when he knows that to be singular is to be right. how often will our imagination paint sin in very glowing colours, and though we loathe the sin and loathe ourselves for thinking of it, yet how many a man might say, "Had it not been for divine grace, my feet had almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped." So then, my hearers, we must have true faith, because the old key of works is so broken by us all, that we never shall enter Paradise by it. 11 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11:1-13 Hebrews 11:1. How strong is the evil in the most upright man! Ah, friends! Jun 23, 1996. Ah me! Has the world ever satisfied you? Poor souls! Medicines, embrocations, foods, baths, and all sorts of inventions are advertised as means of increasing strength. He prepared the right materials; he prepared the different parts so as to fit together: he prepared his mind, and then prepared his work. Read online Christ Superior To Angels Moses And Aaron A Comment On The Epistle To The Hebrews ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. They say, "The man was born too late; he is behind the age; he fights for a worn-out creed; he is out of place in a world of progress," What then? I bid thee still remain; yea, come again and make this thy Sabbath house of prayer. But now for other reasons. We need not wish to have any strength of our own, for by faith we can reach to any degree of power in the Lord. How much of character is revealed in our desires. Foremost among Abraham's trials was that of being called away to a land which he had never been; as this may be our trial also, I pray that my words may be adapted to our present condition. Dost thou love his people? The things that we have a title to, that we value, are ours to-day by faith: we do not enjoy them yet. As the Lord said to the Jews, "With all your sacrifices you must offer salt;" so he says to us, "With all your doings you must bring faith, or else "without faith it is impossible to please God." I think my heart will break unless I see you saved." Friends tell you that you are making much ado about nothing, or that you are uncharitable, narrow-minded, and bigoted. A dead world may satisfy a dead heart, but ever since you have known something of better things have you ever been contented with the world? C.H. PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Genesis 6:5-22 ; Hebrews 11:1-7 . And, when the jeer has been raised against canting methodists, you have said, "I am one of them." Notice, next, that there is this about a Christian, that even when he does not enjoy something better, he desires it. It is in the Scriptures, certainly, but how do you reconcile it with science?" If you are what you profess to be, you are strangers: you do not expect men of this world to treat you as members of their community. More than that, there were messages exchanged; servants were sometimes sent. wouldst thou struggle with the fiery passion which sendeth forth flame from human breasts? Every truth is essential. 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." Let us think of heaven, of Christ, and of the blessings of the covenant, and let us thus keep our desires wide awake, and stimulate them to active exercise. Then they talk to you like that, do not begin bristling up, and declaring that, after all, you are as wise and as strong as your opponents, though that may readily be the case; but accept all their remarks upon your folly and weakness, and say to yourself, "Out of weakness were made strong." How slow to cut off right hands, and pluck out right eyes! 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. 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. 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. We shall go over the ground which I marked out in my introduction. He does well who glorifies God by where he goes, and by what he does; he will excel fifty others who only preach religion with their tongues. Dost thou believe on the Son of God? We are looking for it among the unseen things. You must do as Lot did, when the angels presses him and said, "Haste to the Mount lest thou be consumed." Your hope lies there: where Jesus died, where Jesus rose again, where Jesus has gone into the glory. Some one asked Alexander to what he owed his conquests, and he said, "I have conquered because I never delayed." I have read you this glorious eleventh of Hebrews, which describes the mighty men of faith, the men of renown. Delivered on Thursday Evening, August 21st, 1890, by. She was disappointed, expecting that everyone would have some keys. Oh, beloved! Hebrews:2:9. Ah! I hope, beloved, you do not think of God's sovereignty as tyranny, or imagine that he ever could or would will anything but that which is right. He left that all in the hands of God. Bible > Commentaries > Hebrews 11:4 eBibles Free Downloads Audio Hebrews 11:4 Plug in, Turn on and Be Enlightened! I suppose you think you are poor yourselves, though you have got some thousand pounds odd a year, and so you keep it yourself, under the notion that "he that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." Well, be it what it may, we will go forth, not knowing whither we go, but yet knowing that since he is with us, passing through the gloomy vale, we need fear no evil. Alas! Does he not himself sometimes say of them, "How can I put thee among the children?" By-and-by, they march through the Jordan dry shod, and then Faith gets firmer confidence. Did not you find very soon that there was a thorn in the flesh? After all, we confess to-night, and rejoice in the confession, that our best hopes are for things that are out of sight: our expectations are our largest possessions. Arise and take thy last journey." We Christians are to be equally distinct, not in meats, and drinks, and garments, and holy days, but as to spirituality of mind and holiness of life. I have broken the key of my drawers, and there are some things I must get directly." And now in conclusion, THE QUESTION, the vital question. The chief thought in life with the true believer is, "How can I obey God?" (1). I trust there is hope for me." -- Hebrews 11:31. Some years ago, I preached a sermon to you from the text, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Nevertheless, be you faithful to your God, and to the souls of men. Where can we fly to escape from these opportunities that haunt us everywhere and peril us in every thing? Thirdly, OBEDIENCE WAS THE GRACIOUS FRUIT. What will you do then if you have not faith? Then you are not like Jacob, good at wrestling. That is what we should have done; but Jehovah did something better. but you can not tell what a great thing it is to save a soul. It was easier for Noah to build the ark than to render so complete an obedience; but the Lord wrought in him by his grace. Sir, that is not the believing in Christ that is of any use. We shall never find a heaven here. Our will brings envy, malice, war; but the Lord's will would bring us love, joy, rest, bliss. But the speciality of the strangers and pilgrims is that they all died in faith. I do not think if any of us had such a family as God has, we should ever have patience with them. Men are never right by accident, nor obedient to the Lord by chance; preparation of heart is wanted, and this the Lord must give. Opportunities to return as long as you are in this body will be with you to the very edge of Jordan. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Separation from the world shall endear you to the Saviour, and bring you conscious enjoyment of his presence; but opportunities to return I have shown you now are plentiful enough. I wished to clear myself if any sin remained upon me, but I could not discover any evil which I was tolerating. Was it gambling? You see, then, whether you grow rich, or whether you become poor, you will have these opportunities to return. Obedience arises out of a faith which is to us the paramount principle of action . "THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL." Here, indeed, all our strength must come to us by faith in the thrice-holy God. cells in an azure synapse studio notebook can be reordered without copying and pasting the contents. You sometimes see in a factory the wheels running some this way, and some the other, and some crossways, and they seem to be playing all sorts of anticks, but somehow or other the deviser brings them all to work for some settled object. 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