By this shall you know whether you are Christ's or not. This is too much neglected nowadays; and yet it is the most profitable of all holy service, and the hope of the future. Or do you put out your thinking to be done for you, like your washing? 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. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God There is enough in the world for sinners, but there is not for saints. I think they were mistaken in the notion that they would be despised. IV. "I will be your God," saith he, and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. This will be sure defensive ground; but if you get off that rock, you will soon find yourself sinking or staggering. Bible Study Tools Language Tools If a little flood had happened and moved his ark a little, he would have had some evidence for his faith; but there was no flood at all; and his ark lay high and dry for a century and a quarter! Children usually exaggerate their models; but there will be no fear of their going too far in faith, or in obedience to the Lord. Then you can set almighty forces in operation. Earthly comforts are not yours; but if you grasp the spiritual and the eternal you will not repine. The words of the Lord are like fine gold, pure, precious, and weighty not ono of them may be neglected. O! We want the religion of hands and feet. 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. He left behind him his native country, and to a patriot that is no small struggle to leave all the associations of one's country, and bear with us one's native songs to be sung in distant valleys. I trust we know what it is to have gone without the camp, bearing Christ's reproach. You are deceiving yourselves if you think so. We have faith dividing seas, and casting down strong walls. There was never such a task as that since time began. Some one asked Alexander to what he owed his conquests, and he said, "I have conquered because I never delayed." 445. 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. They are often furnished by the example of others. Depend upon it a grain of truth is a grain of diamond dust, and it is precious. 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. It is true that just after his first call, his own father, Terah, died, having gone a part of the way with Abraham and detained Abraham a little while by sickness. you have a father, and he hates the Saviour. Above all things, dread the intoxicating cup in all its forms. And how frequently will even solitude have temptations as severe as publicity could possibly bring! 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. They are the trainers, drilling God's young soldiers, and teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight. Amen and amen. If all the world would obey the Lord, what a heaven on earth there would be! Remember the Philippian jailer, to whom Paul said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." And what know I of the journey? ONE IS STRUCK with the practical character of this verse. Dear friend, have you this kind of faith? If not, thou art nothing as to spiritual things. I will give you three tests, as briefly as ever I can, not to weary you, and then farewell this morning. It may be now or never with you. But he was not easy there; he must come back again. First, then, he had a call. C.H. I feel much the same myself, and would do nothing of which God would not approve." That faith which saves the soul is a real faith, and a real faith sanctifies men. Do not give a penny for that man's piety which will not spread itself. 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. Now, what shall be said to those who are not strangers and foreigners? This land in which you dwell, and all the works thereof, must be burned up. Opportunities to return as long as you are in this body will be with you to the very edge of Jordan. I have read you this glorious eleventh of Hebrews, which describes the mighty men of faith, the men of renown. for obedience, if it be of the kind we are speaking of, is faith in action faith walking with God, or, shall I say, walking before the Lord in the land of the living? Picking and choosing are great enemies to submission. But, the peril is as instant every whit in adversity. Hebrews 11:15-16 ABRAHAM left his country at God's command, and he never went back again. 11 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11:1-13 Hebrews 11:1. Hold you to God's Word by faith, and you will be strong. Notwithstanding that grace is its main characteristic it has all the authority of a command. You would not have dreamed that sober Noah should be found drunk; nor that righteous Lot should commit incest; nor that David, whose heart smote him when he only cut off the lap of Saul's garment, should be guilty of murder; nor that Peter, who said, "Though all men should forsake thee, yet will not I," would have denied his Master with oaths and cursing. what a world of misery there is in this great city, among even good and gracious people! I fear I should never have touched his case if I had not been in the miry clay myself. 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. Even when he does not realize as yet, or actually enjoy, that infinite good, which is something better than creature comfort or worldly ambition, the desires themselves become mighty bonds that keep him from returning to his former state. Dost thou believe on the Son of God? Some allow a presuming fear: "If I am to be saved," say they, "I shall be saved; and if I am to be lost, I shall be lost. From an unit they had multiplied into a countless host. He had no Pentateuch, no Psalms, no Gospels, no Epistles; but he so believed that little Bible of his, that he expected that Christ in him would bruise the serpent in the world. This is real faith. I felt an agony of spirit, for I was under an awful sense of being forsaken of God, and yet I could not understand why I was surrounded by such thick darkness. Let no man say, "I shall never fall." Commentary on Hebrews 11:1-3. I felt greatly encouraged when I read this, "Now they desire a better"--The word "country" has been inserted by our translators. We all wish to be strong. You see his outward attire, not his inner self--you see the earthly tabernacle, but the spirit newborn, immortal and divine--you see not that. Let him say, "God commands, and he will recompense me," and he will be strong. "Ah!" 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. The religion of mere brain and jaw does not amount to much. If God bids us do, we should do at once. But oh, how reluctantly it was done. I have sometimes envied those good people who are never excited with joy, and consequently seldom or never despond. There is enough in the world for sinners, but not for saints. But, I must close with the sweetest part of the text, wherein it is shown that we have a great and blessed assurance vouchsafed to us as an acknowledgment, on the part of God, of those opportunities, and those yearnings persisted in. He has hit upon the happiest mode of living under heaven a mode of life akin to the perfect life above. 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. As parents, we wish so to live that our children may copy us to their lasting profit. Then we have faith combating the allurements of a wealthy court. If you are chosen to be a leader and a helper, or a mother in Israel, be satisfied to endure hardness with the full belief that it is all right, and that God will not only bring you through, but will also bless somebody else by the means of your tribulations. Shall I only bear testimony to points on which I may agree with other people, and hold my tongue about the rest. Where Jesus died, there you shall live. He is in very fact a brother, born for their adversity, able and ready to redress their grievances, he is not ashamed to call them brethren. 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. there hath no sorrow befallen thee but what thy noble ancestors have celebrated in cheery tones, and set to music in cheerful strains. "Hast thou faith? Out of weakness we shall be made strong, if we fully rely upon the faith "once for all delivered to the saints.". The obedience that comes of faith is of a noble sort. There is a secret virtue in the confession, if it be steadfastly adhered to and zealously maintained. You cannot be blessed with Abraham unless like him you come out, and stand forth as true men. If you are in real earnest, you might possibly do more by a break-down than by anything else. While he calls himself their God, he never forbids them to call him their God. Amen. Among his children, they are best who best know their Father's mind, and yield to it the gladdest obedience. His great anxiety is to do the will of God, or acceptably to suffer that will; and if he can obey, he will make no terms with God, and stand upon no reservations. "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that . answer it, Yes, or No. O! A city is a place of social joy. Listen to their names: "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice;" "By faith Enoch was translated;" "By faith Noah built an ark;" "By faith Abraham went out into a place that he should afterwards receive;" "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise;" "By faith Sarah bare Isaac;" "By faith Abraham offered up Isaac;" "By faith Moses gave up the wealth of Egypt;" "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob;" "By faith Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph;" "By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel;" "By faith the Red Sea was dried up;" "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down;" "By faith the harlot Rahab was saved;" "And what more shall I say? Look at this preparation just a minute. ActiveChristianity Hebrews 11:39-40 Hebrews 11 is all about the heroes of faith. But note what it is. He might be. "Come now and let us reason together," he has said. Do the young men refuse to be advised? There is no heaven for us hereafter, let us make the best of the present." Rahab's house stood alone upon the wall, a solitary fragment amid a universal wreck, and she and her household were all saved. "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. In watching with the eyes of carnal reason for objections to God's precept and providence, it would be well if our eyes were burnt out, for better for us to enter into life having no eyes than having two eyes to follow our own devices and find our end destruction in hell fire. 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. It is not so. He believed, and, therefore, walked before the Lord in a perfect way. 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? This true Jerusalem blade was long annealed before it gained its marvellous edge and matchless temper. But God has comforted us, and we have said in our hearts, "Every tree in the forest of earth is doomed to the axe, why, therefore, should we build our nest here? Persecution is still abundant, and many a man's foes are of his own household. All you can see in the poor child of God is a hard-working, labouring man, who is mocked at and despised, but what does God see in him? A city is a place of genial associations. 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. saith one. I bade him sit down, and I talked with him. I could not come to the point." Some of you are engaged in the midst of ungodly men. He dreams of it. If you are what you profess to be, you are strangers. Take heed of your good works; get them after faith, but remember, the way to be saved is simply to believe in Jesus Christ. There is enough out there in the farmyard for the hogs, but there is not for the children. It is a city too possessing immunities, and conferring dignity upon its residents. "Nay, my Lord," they would say, "don't put me off so, don't give me these husks, though thou give mountains of them. Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. And the man was not far from right. "But how?" Yes, and Christ did not find fault with them for doing so; what he found fault with them for was this--"When ye have found him ye make him tenfold more the child of hell than yourselves.". Said the dear little lad, very prettily, "Because I'm a good boy." Have we obtained these gifts of the Spirit? Noah had no evil fear. That is not the faith to which the promise is given. How much of character is revealed in our desires. Now, young man, dare you think for yourself? 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. She dared to risk her life for the sake of the spies. Obedience let us pray for it for ourselves and others! What was it? To refuse to keep his own promise when it is pleaded would be to falsify his word, and change his character; and neither of these things can ever be. JEHOVAH ROPHI is his name: "The Lord that healeth thee." Ay, thou mayest conclude with absolute certainty that thou shalt never see perdition. Others mentioned in Scripture, have done something; but God did not accept them. "Well," said the other, "and you believe that you are God's elect, do you?" Now, brethren, you see we have here a very strong reason for not returning. Because they are strangers, and because they will not go back to their old abode, therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God. Faith and fear together led Noah to do as God commanded him. We sometimes put blinkers upon horses that they may not see too much, I fear we might wear such things ourselves to great advantage. But in this age preaching is much despised. The Lord was leading me where I should be taught to know my man, and should be made willing to sit side by side with him in the dark prison-house, and lend him a hand to escape. 1368. 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. So the text says, "Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God." The mother of Sisera thought him long in coming, but what shall we say of this laggard season? Share. Failure itself would be success as long as we did not fail to obey. 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?" The first duty of a Christian man is to obey God. As many of us as have believed in Christ Jesus have been called out. Remember that your greatest joy, while you are a pilgrim, is your God. Do you long to be of some use? Have as many good works as you please, still put your trust wholly in the Lord Jesus Christ, for if you do not, your key will never unlock heaven's gate." I will just have a little talk with Rahab this morning, as I suppose old Unbelief did commune with her. Who that knows himself does not find strong, incentives to return. It was blotted out when he nailed the handwriting of ordinances to his cross. Dost thou believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with all thy heart? Ah, how frequently will solitude have temptations as severe as publicity could possibly bring. Spurgeon, Sunday August 18th 1889. Moses chose to suffer the pain of alienation and misunderstanding from his adoptive family. I trust we know what it is to have gone without the camp bearing Christ's reproach. You heroic man who, yesterday, when the house was burning, climbed the creaking stair-case, and, almost suffocated by the smoke, entered an upper chamber, snatched a babe from its bed and a woman from the window, bore them both down in his arms, and saved them at the peril of his own life, he can tell you what a great thing it is to save a fellow-creature. If you want to go back to sin, to carnality, to a love of the world, to your old condition, you never need to be prevented from doing so by want of opportunities: it will be something else that will prevent you, for these opportunities are plentiful and countless. This grieves the hearts of those who know and love Jesus, and the question arises with them, "What shall I do?" 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. There is this about a Christian that, even when he does not enjoy something better, he desires it; of that, verily, I am quite sure. And, dear brethren and sisters, these opportunities to return are prepared for us in any condition of life and any change through which we may pass. The true believer believes in God beyond all his belief in anything else, and everything else. I reckon that many of you in business are quite content to get written orders for goods, and when you get them you do not require a purchaser to ask you in person, you would just as soon that he should not; in fact, you commonly say that you like to have it in black and white. It is the easiest thing in the world to believe as every body else believes, but the difficulty is to believe a thing alone, when no one else thinks as you think; to be the solitary champion of a righteous cause when the enemy mustereth his thousands to the battle. Meanwhile, the delayer's case waxes worse and worse, and, if there were difficulties before, they are now far more numerous and severe. In the one hand he gives pardon; but in the other hand he always gives holiness; and no man can have the one unless he has the other. But we must pass on (for we have a very wealthy text tonight) to notice the second point. There is no doubt he could, but it never was the Master's intention that we should all be hothouse plants. I do not bargain for comfort, and peace, and joy, if I can be more helpful to thy poor, weary children without them. When you have opportunity to return, if you do not return, that shall prove you are his. God alone can help you to fill up with roses that grim memory of danger and suffering. You can not have faith, and yet live in sin. As to the scope and design of this epistle, it is very evident that it was clearly to inform the minds, and strongly to confirm the judgment, of the Hebrews in the transcendent excellency of the gospel above the law, and so to take them off from the ceremonies of the law, to which they were so wedded, of which they were so fond, that they even Trust his pierced hands to pierce the hands of your lusts. The Lord give you, my brothers, to believe to the utmost degree, for his name's sake! Well doth Paul say, "They have not all obeyed the gospel": for to many the call comes as a common call, and the common call falls on a sealed ear, but to Abraham and to those who by grace have become the children of faithful Abraham, to whom are the blessings of grace, and with whom God has entered into league and covenant, to touch it comes as a special call, a call attended with a sacred power which subdues their wills and secures their obedience. Does that thought burn within your heart? 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. The current does not run that way. Who shall tell which of the three grand deeds of faith is the greatest? If we are really Christ's Christians, let us say,"It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good." Abraham was prepared for instant obedience to any command from God; his journey was appointed, and he went. 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. Jesus' sacrifice for us, made us righteous, holy and cleansed from the guilt of sin. You must endure, "as seeing him who is invisible." In fact, they are not at an consistent therewith. God does. we answer, "We buy the truth." So the first important thing to see . Might it not, even if it were divine, be suggested to me for many reasons that I was mistaken, that it was most unlikely that God should speak to a man at all, and more unlikely still that he should speak to me? These opportunities to return are meant to try your faith, and they are sent to you to prove that you are a volunteer soldier. He even offered up his son Isaac. O! I should be ashamed of the Christian who would despise his fellow because God was dealing with him somewhat severely in providence, yet there is that feeling in the human heart, and though there may be no unkind treatment, yet often times the spirit is apt to imagine it, and I have known some absent themselves by degrees from the assembly of God. Then you are not like Jacob, good at wrestling. He might well be ashamed of that. She rims in the way of obedience, or rather she mounts on the wings of eagles, and so speeds on her way. We serve a jealous God, and a holy Saviour; wherefore let us mind that we do not grieve his Spirit, and cause him to withdraw from us. Note what it is he has made ready for them. You will say, "You want to make proselytes." "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob," and while he calls himself their God he never forbids them to call him their God; and in the presence of the great ones of the earth they may call him their God--anywhere. Oh, this flesh, the body of this death--wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from it? We are not alone by ourselves, and we can neither live nor die apart, for God has linked us with others. He knew whom he believed, and was persuaded that he had a favour towards him. The fact soon comes home to us that we are weak where we most of all desire to be strong. Alas! If he had not believed the threat, he would not have prepared an ark, and so would not have received the promise. WE CANNOT TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK BECAUSE WE DESIRE SOMETHING BETTER than we could get by going back. Two men are going along a road, and they have got a dog behind them. Abraham was the hero of Israel, so his inclusion in the Hebrews 11 chapter on faith was vital to the original Hebrew readers. He has invited sinners to do it. 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! 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