Moses chose to suffer the pain of alienation and misunderstanding from his adoptive family. I. I propose, then, first of all this evening, to speak to you upon the opportunities which we have had, and still have, to return to the old house, if we were mindful of it. They died in faith. 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. Here is one that can never be diminished, much less exhausted. There is death everywhere else, but there is life in his death. 433. Let God be true, but every man a liar." Men have confessed their sins, and have not been saved. And remember, you can only know how great a thing faith is by knowing the infinite value of the salvation of a soul. 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." Place me where I can best answer thy purpose by being made to sympathize with thy troubled people. Like Noah, we stagger not at the Word of God, because of evident improbability and apparent impossibility. This is the sweetest support in the presence of a threatened operation. Do you want a greater source of consolation than you have got? I do not know to whom that dog belongs, but I'll tell you directly. Sunday School Addresses. Revelation 3:7-13 Philadelphia: The church that was taken! 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." have you not often strong inducements, if it were not for the grace of God, to become as they are. Dear friend, have you this kind of faith? Notice how the text puts it:--"But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly." But that is no faith, it is sight. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Consciences, tender about the Lord's honour, have not been produced for the last few years in any great number. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. Out of weakness you shall be made strong by faith. This is a first-fruit of the Spirit. Download Christ Superior To Angels Moses And Aaron A Comment On The Epistle To The Hebrews full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Now faith is the substance: Just as our physical eyesight is the sense that gives us evidence of the material world, faith is the "sense" that gives us evidence of the invisible, spiritual world. They simply blow a number of rams' horns; her neighbors say, "Why, Rahab, you do not mean to say you believe now? Here, indeed, all our strength must come to us by faith in the thrice-holy God. 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. He must have other people feel what he feels. You will soon become a speckled bird among them. 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. Believe in his Spirit, and pray by his help. These opportunities to return are meant to try your faith, and they are sent to you to prove that you are a volunteer soldier. you dwell in a land where you find some sort of repose, but I have heavy tidings for you. It is smoothing the way to return to your old places. Brethren, as believers in the Lord Jesus, we are called to two things, namely, to do and to suffer for his name's sake. He, too, have had many calls, but perhaps we have said, "If I heard a voice speaking from the sky I would obey it," but the form in which your call has come has been better than that, for Peter in his second epistle tells us that he himself heard a voice out of the excellent glory when he was with our Lord in the holy mount, but he adds, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy" as if the testimony which is written, the light that shineth in a dark place, which beams forth from the word of God, was more sure than even the voice which he heard from heaven. If you are so constituted that you rise and fall; if you are a creature that can be excited, and that can be depressed; and, worse still, if you happen to have been born on a foggy day, and to have swallowed so much of that fog that you have found it shading your spirit many a time ever since; then you can only be strong by faith. Only break the ice, and begin; and you shall find my text to be true in your case also, and out of weakness you, too, shall be made strong. Cast yourselves upon his love and blood, his doing and his dying, his miseries and his merits; and if you do this you shall never fall, but you shall be saved now, and saved in that great day when not to be saved will be horrible indeed. So too, dear brethren and sisters, these opportunities to return are adapted to our circumstances and adjusted to any condition of life, and any change through which we may pass. You see, then, they had many opportunities to have returned, to have settled comfortably, and tilled the ground as their fathers did before them; but they continued to follow the uncomfortable shifting life of wanderers of the weary foot, who dwelt in tents, who own no foot of land--they were aliens in the country which God had given them by promise. 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. But you can do nothing aright for others without faith in God for yourself and them. It sees an atoning sacrifice; there is something difficult in the thought, but it believes it; and whatever it be which it sees in revelation, it devoutly puts its lips to the book, and says, "I love it all; I give my full, free and hearty assent to every word of it, whether it be the threatening or the promise, the proverb, the precept, or the blessing. Now which man does the dog follow? He who is not firm at starting is cutting out for himself a poor pattern of life. He dreams of it. Men have repented, and yet have not been saved, because their's was the wrong repentance. When the creature streams are dry, go to this eternal fountain, and you will find it ever springing up. Noah was a stranger to this paralyzing fear: he bestirred himself, and built an ark. If we should mount upon the wings of the wind, could we find "a lodge in some vast wilderness," think ye, then, we might be quite clear from all the opportunities to go back to the old sins in which we once indulged? You are not much like Noah. "I will be your God," saith he, and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. Have you an Ishmael? If he had not believed the threat, he would not have prepared an ark, and so would not have received the promise. Don't come here with your cant." Henceforth in this world we have no home, no true abiding home for our spirits. Note what it is he has made ready for them. my brethren and sisters, if some of us wished to return, we should have this opportunity to return in a certain sense. 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. I remark that the particular form of sin known as blasphemy is one of the first to die, and to be buried out of sight. The modern believer must have no mysteries, but must have everything planed down to a scientific standard. True, it brought him into a world of trouble, and no wonder: such a noble course as his was not likely to be an easy one. In a lonely hamlet one has little company. III. 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. They are mad." The same faith which saved Rahab can save thee. If you truly believe a man, you believe all that he says. I remember one who was very foul-mouthed, and used oaths habitually. He has placed him in due order of time after Abel and Enoch; but he had also another reason for the arrangement. It is not ours to judge the Lord's command, but to follow it. O! "My Father is the husbandman," said Christ. For him the promise of the woman's seed, though it was all the Bible that he had, was quite enough. How foolish to go on adding, sin to sin, increasing the hardness of the heart, increasing the distance between the soul and Christ, and all the while fondly dreaming of some enchanted hour in which it will be more easy to yield to the divine call, and part with sin. Young woman! Do not expect to find the comforts in this world that you crave after, that your flesh would long for. The obedience which faith produces must be continuous . Collection administered by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. So long as you are willing to be used, so long as God has given you an anxiety and travail of spirit for the souls of others, you need not fear; but may with faith get to work in all your feebleness, for as your day your strength shall be. If thou puttest one atom of trust in thyself thou hast no faith; if thou dost place even a particle of reliance upon anything else but what Christ did, thou hast no faith. Update: 2023-04-16. The more they draw us to heaven, the more they withdraw us from the world. "But suppose," he said, "I had some keys, they might not fit your lock, and therefore you could not get the articles you want. If any of you are prospered in this world, oh! Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 10th, 1859, by the REV. Though now residing in the midst of all nations, it is still true "the people shall dwell alone, they shall not be reckoned among the nations." 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." 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. 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. And Jacob, one of the patriarchs, was driven to go down into the land, but he could not stay there; he was always unrestful, till at last he stole a march upon Laban and came back into the proper life--the life which he had chosen, the life which God had commanded him, the life of a pilgrim and a stranger in the land of promise. Read online Christ Superior To Angels Moses And Aaron A Comment On The Epistle To The Hebrews ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. ', "And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. Rahab's faith was a SANCTIFYING FAITH. 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 for the proving of our faith, to see whether it be true faith or not. 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. Said that renowned preacher, Whitefield, "As soon as I was converted, I wanted to be the means of the conversion of all that I had ever known. This true Jerusalem blade was long annealed before it gained its marvellous edge and matchless temper. Faith has its reasons. 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. 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. If thou wilt trust thy soul with Jesus, thou art saved. I beseech you, have faith in God that he will direct you, and have faith also to follow that direction when you receive it. That is the one business of your life; and I believe that if you have faith in the Lord as to your family, your beloved ones shall be given you as a prey. There is a good tale told of an old man whose minister used to read. (1-2) A summary of points previously made regarding Jesus as our High Priest. 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. I do not think if any of us had such a family as God has, we should ever have patience with 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." Descend, O sovereign love, descend, And melt that stubborn soul! But, then, notice that when Abraham started he made no stipulations with his Lord. III. Faith is the father of holiness, and he has not the parent who loves not the child. But there is no praying without believing. Now, beloved friends, suffer me a few words upon the other cheering fact, namely, that FAITH MAKES MEN STRONG FOR PATIENT SUFFERING. There is no doubt he could, but it was never the Master's intention that we should all be hothouse plants. Dark is my path. Men do not prepare an ark to escape from a flood unless they believe that there will be a flood. Did it answer Abraham's purpose? Indeed, in the text it seems to me as if the word "opportunities" were not in our case nearly strong enough. Man cannot please God without bringing to himself a great amount of happiness; for if any man pleases God, it is because God accepts him as his son, gives him the blessings of adoption, pours upon him the bounties of his grace, makes him a blessed man in this life, and insures him a crown of everlasting life, which he shall wear, and which shall shine with unfading lustre when the wreaths of earth's glory have all been melted away; while, on the other hand, if a man does not please God, he inevitably brings upon himself sorrow and suffering in this life; he puts a worm and a rottenness in the core of all his joys; he fills his death-pillow with thorns, and he supplies the eternal fire with faggots of flame which shall for ever consume him. I fear some of you will miss eternal life, for you trifle about it! And now we come to the ARGUMENT, why, without faith, we cannot be saved. Have thou strong confidence: "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" 11 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11:1-13 Hebrews 11:1. Culture there was none in the ministry; but the people were stanch believers. I must not dwell on this theme, delightful as it is; I want a few words with you, my friends, direct and personal, before I close. Charles Spurgeon has been called "the Prince of Preachers" and "the last Puritan." His many sermons are among the best in Christian literature. cells in an azure synapse studio notebook can be reordered without copying and pasting the contents. Oh! When it involves loss of money, or ease, or honor, what will you do then if you have no faith? But we find that Jesus Christ, however low his people may sink, and however poor they may be, is not ashamed to call them brethren, nor to let them look up to him in all the depths of their degradation and call him "brother born for adversity." When he has seen him in the street, he has been obliged to speak to him and own him. "Whither away?" Medicines, embrocations, foods, baths, and all sorts of inventions are advertised as means of increasing strength. Do you think that we meditate enough upon heaven? it may even happen that she that lieth in your bosom does not yet know the Lord. Noah, on the other hand, had not a despairing fear, as some have. I am sure it has been so with you. Nothing in Noah is held up before us as an example, but that which grew out of his faith. Abraham's slips, for he had one or two, were made when he had left the land, and gone down among the Philistines; but he was not easy there: he must come back again. By the time of Christ, many thought God chose Abraham because he was a righteous man in a godless world. There is no hint of hesitation, parleying, or delay; when he was called to go out, he went out. 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. And said a minister at the table, "I had an instance of that yesterday. Faith is the great force which is needed by those whose principal work is to overcome sin. Has the world ever satisfied you? 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. 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. Yes; and you will reply, that Christ said to the Pharisees, "Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte." The curse has fallen. There is an old woman weeping--do you know why? Gathering together such substance as he had he exiled himself that he might be a sojourner with his God, and took a journey in an age when travelling was infinitely more laborious than now. "Thy statutes," said David, "have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." Since then, in presenting myself to my Lord for service, I have said to him, "Make me useful to the doubting and the feeble-minded. When you sit expectant on the banks of the last river, waiting, for the summons to cross, it may be that your fiercest temptation will come even then. "Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." One parent is too indulgent, another is too severe. He has hit upon the happiest mode of living under heaven a mode of life akin to the perfect life above. From an unit they had multiplied into a countless host. God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. God does not create useless things. Perhaps, you will say, "Why does the Lord make them so plentiful? It is nothing short of Godhead's utmost stretch of might that keeps the feet of the saints, and preserves them from going back to their old unregenerate condition. For an offensive weapon, take "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God"; and if this does not serve your turn, nothing will. In fact, they are not at an consistent therewith. for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae, of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets." Oh, this flesh, the body of this death--wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from it? He shall dwell in God's house and be still praising him. If thou dost trust in thy works, then thy works are anti-christ, and Christ and anti-christ can never go together. said he to him. The victory was complete. The very meaning of a church is, "called out by Christ." Whenever you feel a prompting to do a good thing do not ask anybody whether you should do it or not; no one ever repents of doing good. If thou wilt trust thy soul with Jesus, thou art saved. Enoch, before his translation, had this testimony, that he pleased God: and Noah "found grace in the eyes of the Lord." Be steadfast, unmovable. Yet faith is the instrument of accomplishing the whole work. The chief thought in life with the true believer is, "How can I obey God?" I will withdraw the question as directed to you, and I will ask it of myself: Have I that faith which leads me to obey my God? Thus you see the reason why the Christian cannot go back. Have you not been obliged to say, after you have had all that the world could give you, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"? "But how?" I will give you three tests, as briefly as ever I can, not to weary you, and then farewell this morning. In a city, especially where all the inhabitants shall be united in one glorious brotherhood, the true communism of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity may be realised in the purest sense and highest possible degree. That she was really saved in a gospel sense as well as temporally, seems to me to be proved from her reception of the spies which was an emblem of the entrance of the word into her heart, and her hanging out of the scarlet thread was an evidence of faith, not unaptly picturing faith in the blood of Jesus the Redeemer. We have faith dividing seas, and casting down strong walls. I do not bargain for comfort, and peace, and joy, if I can be more helpful to thy poor, weary children without them. Some of us are by constitution inclined to that condition. There shall be delightful intercourse. 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. I have seen many a soul wearying to ascend; receiving a little light, and a little more light, and a little more light; but yet far from being clear of the dark waters of iniquity. An insatiable desire has been implanted in us by divine grace, which urges us to:--. said he, "my good woman, that is a broken key, for you have broken the commandments, you have not fulfilled all your duties. You will find, in one case, the thousand battles of a Napoleon recorded, and in another, you find the victories of a Nelson pictured. Read Hebrews 11 bible commentary & study from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com To be a burgess of the City of London is thought to be a great honor, and upon princes is it sometimes conferred; but, we shall have the highest honor that can be given, when we shall be citizens of the city which God has prepared. No, no child of God can be, whatever he may find in this world. For instance how often have professors, when they have prospered, found opportunities to return! Plug in, Turn on and Be Enlightened! Perhaps you have tried to fill your soul with the daintiest provisions the world can offer; to wit--God has prospered you, and you have said, "Oh, this is well." Hebrews 1:1, 2. 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. Do not try to answer cavillers; but if you do, mind that faith is your weapon. 445. At once, I say, he went. Opportunities to return! They may call him a brother. Abraham returned not; Isaac returned not; Jacob returned not. 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. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." "THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL." It is a kind of instinct in a young Christian. Friend, I am not careful in that matter, nor need you be. 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. Juda repented, and went and hanged himself, and was not saved. You will never be able to cut down this huge upas tree except with the axe of Christ's atoning sacrifice. An insatiable desire has been implanted in us by divine grace which urges us to--. 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. If we should mount upon the wings of the wind, could we find "a lodge in some vast wilderness" where we could be quite clear from all the opportunities to go back to the old sins in which we once indulged? Our Puritan forefathers reeked little of property or liberty when these stood in the way of conscience: they defied exile and danger sooner than give up a grain of truth; but their descendants prefer peace and worldly amusements, and pride themselves on "culture" rather than on heroic faith. Make the attempt by faith in God; for it is written, "Out of weakness were made strong." Amen. "Oh, yes," says one, "I would attempt great things for God, but I am terribly weak." People do not go to heaven in the fashion of "hop, skip, and jump." Why, the most of you are as afraid as you ever can be to go out of the fashions, and you spend more money than you ought because you think you must be respectable. Yet if you soar to the skies, you are very apt to drop below the sea-level. It is smoothing the way to return to your old place; and, indeed, I have not wondered when I have seen some professors grow cold, when I have thought where they were compelled to live, and how they have been constrained to pass their time. Was it gambling? 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. So the text says, "Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God." "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark." 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