Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Will ye always resist his Spirit? His blood has cleansed us and speaks a powerful word of righteousness on our behalf. There be some who could tell you a tale of standing up alone. Alas! Are your girls light and trifling? there is no great right in a man, no strong-minded right, unless he dares to be singular. 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. I can only pray the Lord to give you to believe in him. Remember, "By faith Abraham obeyed." He looks to the iron safe: he would be quite sure that it is well secured. Trust in the precious blood: that is the great sin-killer. 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. The very meaning of a church is called out--by Christ; we have been separated. What will you do then if you have not faith? Nevertheless, he left behind him all the associationof his youth, the house in which he had been trained, the family with which he had been nursed, all those whom he had known and with whom he had taken sweet counsel; and he must go forth into exile from the family of his love. But we must pass on (for we have a very wealthy text tonight) to notice the second point. To-day, the tried one suffers alone, and misses the encouragement of Christian eyes. Just as the thunder followeth the lightning's flash, instanter, when the storm is near, so when faith is near, the thunder of our obedience follows the mighty flash of God's influence in our hearts. Remember, upon whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder. Years made Noah's faith more mature, and not more feeble. The spirit of proselyting is the spirit of Christianity, and we ought to be desirous of possessing it. The brother went home weeping; but he was not the only one who felt his heart breaking. "No, I don't; I'm prophesying; for you read preaching, and call it preaching, and I read prophecies, and, on the same rule, that is prophesying." "Weakness" is all we possess. I knew a little humble Dissenting chapel, of the straitest sect of our religion. Well, young man, will you kick against love like that--love that will bear your kicks, and will not turn round against you, but love you straight on still? 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. There is enough in the world for sinners, but there is not for saints. Whatever may be the precepts of the law, or of the gospel, they are pure and holy altogether. Then did the world accord them the name of "great." Preaching is not taking out a manuscript sermon, asking God to direct your heart, and then reading pages prepared beforehand. Let God be true, but every man a liar." II. Whatever we believe to be true, to the last jot and tittle we will speak it out. By the time of Christ, many thought God chose Abraham because he was a righteous man in a godless world. Price Sixpence. There is a high and blessed duty and privilege--I will call it both--which is to every Christian the necessity of his life, and that is to pray. says one, "I have prayed for my husband these twenty years!" He hated the very mention of religion. Your mother is dying, and one thing which makes her death-bed bitter is, that you scoff God and hate Christ. 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. 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. Noah went on obeying under daily scorn. He went out and preached to them; but many would not hear him, for they thought him mad. Have you not been obliged to say, after you have had all that the world could give you, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"? Of Abel, it is said that God testified of his gifts. But while it continues with me I shall find opportunities to return. take comfort. We may bear the discomforts of the eventide and the night, for the morning will break so soon. Oh! The Apostle tells us, however, that the people of God were not forced to continue, because they could not return. I trust we know what it is to have gone without the camp, bearing Christ's reproach. 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! If thou wilt trust thy soul with Jesus, thou art saved. "What! For by it the elder obtained a good report._ So it was written, in the olden time, that believers obtained a good report; and this second verse shows that they obtained it by their faith. ", May God grant to us grace to be Daniels, even if the lions' den should threaten us. Moses chose to suffer the pain of alienation and misunderstanding from his adoptive family. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. These people heard God's promises and believed them in spite of "Ah!" How much of character is revealed in our desires. Hebrews 11:1. ABRAHAM'S FAITH was of the most eminent order, for he is called the Father of the Faithful. Do not try to deal with your husband otherwise than by faith in God. Hold you to God's Word by faith, and you will be strong. And I know that come prosperity or come adversity, come sickness or come wealth, come foe, come friend, come popularity, or come contempt, his purpose shall be worked out, and that purpose shall be pure, unmingled good to every blood-bought heir of mercy on whom his heart is set. God will vindicate his own cause; but it may be his way to let error prevail for a while. They are mad." 2 Indeed, by faith[ c] our ancestors received approval. Whatever happened, he had always been under the divine smile, and all things had worked for his good. There is a sort of faith which does run well, but it is soon hindered, and it doth not obey the truth. If we have a faith which is greedy in hearing, severe in judging, and rapid in self-congratulation, but not inclined to obedience, we have the faith of hypocrites. 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. III. calhfa loan limits 2022 Fiction Writing. O! 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." How strong is the evil in the most upright man! of both universities. Again, it was meet that Noah should follow close upon Enoch, as one of two who are described as having "walked with God." If they have such a separating, salutary, sanctifying influence upon our heart, and effect upon our character, in keeping us from the world, let us cultivate them much. It is a city too possessing immunities, and conferring dignity upon its residents. He shall dwell in God's house and be still praising him. then get alone, and, like Abraham, cry to God, "O that Ishmael might live before thee!" Nobody here will actually declare that he will not, but many will reply that they hope they shall. I turned to the good father and remarked that I was not quite sure about the truth of the last remark, for I believed he would love him if he were ever so bad. I pause for your reply. She was saved, and so mayest thou be, if God shall grant thee repentance. If you are what you profess to be, you are strangers. saith one. Opportunities to return as long as you are in this body will be with you to the very edge of Jordan. The solitary place shall be glad for you, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. Hebrews 11:8 . The call as given by the book of inspiration ought to have over your minds a masterly power, and if your hearts were right before God the word spoken in the Scriptures by the Holy Ghost would be at once obeyed. If you are in real earnest, you might possibly do more by a break-down than by anything else. III. In a city such as this there are plentiful occasions for intercourse, where mutual interests shall enhance mutual joy. you dwell in a land where you find some sort of repose, but I have heavy tidings for you. We either curse or bless those around us. An insatiable desire has been implanted in us by divine grace, which urges us to:--. It recites the victories of faith. Faith is that handful of corn, the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon. "No," they say; "the walls of Jericho are strong; can the feeble host resist us? A man might study London till he turned his brain. 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. 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. A dead world may satisfy a dead heart; but ever since you have known something of better things, and brighter realities, have you been ever contented with earthly things and emptier vanities? If we believe for our whole house, the promise will be fulfilled to us and to our house; for it is made to faith. PASSMORE & ALABASTER, Paternoster Buildings; and all Booksellers. that he would bring her now, though seventy years of age, to love the Saviour! To be a burgess of the City of London is thought to be a great honour, and upon princes is it sometimes conferred; but we shall have the highest honour that can be given when we shall be citizens of the city which God has prepared. There is no heaven for us hereafter, let us make the best of the present." Faith, then, is an union with Christ. The last thing Noah earned by his faith was this, he became heir of the righteousness which is by faith; for God said of him, when he bade him come into the ark, "Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." Ah! But there are other forms of suffering than these of daily life and of bodily pain. But, we must pass on (for we have a very wealthy text) to notice the second point. Perhaps they lived in a comfortable home before, and now they have to take a room where there is no comfort, and where sounds of blasphemy meet them. Hence, it is not relaxed in the time of temptation, nor destroyed in the hour of losses and sufferings. Now what shall be said to those who are not strangers and foreigners? There is, however, for us no "garden walled around," no "island of saints," no Utopia; we sojourn among those whose ungodly lives cause us frequent grief, and the Lord Jesus meant it to be so, for be said, "Behold I send you forth as sheep among wolves." "Wife?" I sigh to think of how many that appeared very earnest Christians when they were struggling for bread have become very dull and cold now that they have become rich. then we shall come into our wealth, to the mansions and to the glory and to the presence of Jesus Christ our Lord. Without faith it is impossible to please God, but with faith we become "accepted in the Beloved." The obedience that comes of faith is of a noble sort. 2 For by it the men of old gained approval. These all sprang from plain, humble men, who knew their Bibles, and believed the doctrines of grace. May the Lord convince you, yea, at this moment, may be lead you to decision, and enable you henceforth to live by faith. Prudent consideration of consequences is superabundant; but the spirit which obeys, and dares all things for Christ's sake where is it? This will be sure defensive ground; but if you get off that rock, you will soon find yourself sinking or staggering. I. Take heed of your good works; get them after faith, but remember, the way to be saved is simply to believe in Jesus Christ. Sir, you speak falsely; you do not believe in Christ. Oh! The very meaning of a church is, "called out by Christ." Ahab did, and yet his sins were never forgiven. But a man may know a thing, and yet not have faith. We desire something better. Let us follow the Shepherd, with a ready mind, because he has a perfect right to lead us wherever he pleases. "Ah!" Alas for those who dare to talk in that fashion! We tarry for a night: we are away in the morning. We are all in heavenly things so weak, that the idea of being made strong should be very attractive to us. There may be truths non-essential to our salvation; but there are no non-essential truths with regard to our comfort. Do I speak to a youth here who fears God, and who lives in an ungodly family? There are snares in company, but there are snares in our loneliness. If so, I should ask him to do an absurdity. There was communication kept up between them and the old family house at Padan-Aram. We have gone too far in sin already to dream of pardon and favour. 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. WE HAVE FOR THIS REASON GREAT BLESSEDNESS. Settle this in your heart: "Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus Christ is the same. Yet if you soar to the skies, you are very apt to drop below the sea-level. Commend me to firm faith for power to bear the daily cross. 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. Do you feel bewildered as to how to behave yourself? 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. There are some things which are quite customary with them which you will not endure. 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. 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. When the Lord commanded Abraham to quit his father's house, he did not say that he would think it over; he did not discuss it pro and con, in an essay; he did not ask his father, Terah, and his neighbour to consider it; but, as he was called to go out, he went out. Let us not forget those members of Christ's mystical body that are in the fire: "his feet are like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." Have we obtained these gifts of the Spirit? And methinks that by what he has prepared for them he esteems them and loves them; esteeming them by what he means them to be rather than by what they appear to be. Has the world ever satisfied you? Let no man say, "I shall never fall." Now let us look at this preparation just a minute; "he hath prepared for them"--them. He who does not believe that God will punish sin, will not believe that God will pardon it through the atoning blood. Notice, next, that there is this about a Christian, that even when he does not enjoy something better, he desires it. 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 was bidden to leave his country, and he left it; to leave his friends, and he left them all. I believe she has sons too, and she loves them. 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. All glory to his grace! Who among us can do this, unless a power outside of himself shall come to his aid? He will pray, "Refine me from the dross of rebellion, and let the furnace be as fierce as thou wilt." The departures from the faith of those whom we highly esteem are, at least while we are young, very severe trials to us. Amen. "According to your faith be it unto you." III. Here a tapestry is unfolded, depict Amen. Had my voice been strong enough, I could have enlarged, for it is a subject upon which much might be said extremely interesting to the spiritual mind. There is death everywhere else, but there is life in his death. 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. Dogs don't bark when a man goes by that they know--they bark at strangers. If any of you are prospering in this world, oh watch, for you are in imminent danger of being mindful to return to the place whence you came out. You belong to an infidel club; if you should make them a speech after your own conscience, they would hiss you; and if you forsook their company, they would persecute you. You will find, in one case, the thousand battles of a Napoleon recorded, and in another, you find the victories of a Nelson pictured. I. Strength to do right at the head of a household must come by divine gift; and that gift will only be placed in the open hand of faith. You may resolve to overcome a sin, and, perhaps, any one sin you may conquer for a time; but sin itself, as a force, in all its armies, is never to be overcome, save through the blood of the Lamb. Alas! Meanwhile, the tremendous blow made their future antagonists in Canaan to tremble. And Jacob, he had found a wife, nay, two, in Laban's land, but he was not content. (1-2) A summary of points previously made regarding Jesus as our High Priest. For instance, how often have professors, when they have prospered, found opportunities to return? I have spoken to you of what Abraham left, and whither he went; now I would have you observe for a moment how it was that Abraham went. The old writers, who are by far the most sensible for you will notice that the books that were written about two hundred years ago, by the old Puritans, have more sense in one line than there is in a page of our new books, and more in a page than there is in a whole volume of our modern divinity the old writers tell you, that faith is made up of three things: first knowledge, then assent, and then what they call affiance, or the laying hold of the knowledge to which we give assent, and making it our own by trusting in it. Shall I help you to answer that question? By "these all" we understand Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Jacob. Brethren, you desire something better than this world, do you not? There was a little boy at the corner of the table, and his father asked him, "Why does your father love you, John?" He resides, seated on His throne in heaven, as our High Priest guaranteeing this right standing with God. The kind of faith which produces obedience is lord of the understanding, a royal faith. 11 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11:1-13 Hebrews 11:1. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 913, 652, 504. We have to close with two or three words about what was THE RESULT OF ABRAHAM'S ACTION. 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. V. Not to detain you too long, another point very briefly. They have stronger, sharper, and more vehement desires, for they have a nobler life within them, and they desire a better country, and even if they get entangled for awhile in this country, and in a certain measure identified with citizens of it, they are ill at ease--their citizenship is in heaven, and they cannot rest anywhere but there. Happy people! To help them, we shall consider, first, what was Abraham's special experience which led to his being what he became? Noah was a stranger to this paralyzing fear: he bestirred himself, and built an ark. The thing is to stand alone. pray for him. And, indeed, I have not wondered when I have seen some professors grow cold when I have thought how they were compelled to live. But thou, poor sinner, with all thy sin about thee, if the rope is round thy loins, and Christ has hold of it, fear not! Give me thyself, and take these all away, if so it please thee, but do not, my Lord, do not think I can be content with Egypt since I have set forth for Canaan, or that I can settle down in the wilderness now that I am journeying to the land of promise. Why, if grace was a sort of chain that manacled you, so that you could not leave your Lord; if it had become a physical impossibility to forsake the Savior, there would be no credit in it. And I thought, while meditating upon this text, that the time must come to each of us, when, in a certain sense, we must go forth from this world, not knowing the place to which we are going. and there you are young man! "No; the fact of it is, I think, if I look to myself that is quite enough." Why, in this, that they stood as firm in the storm as they stood in the calm--that they were as content to serve God alone as they were to run by fifties. The promise was to them as "strangers and sojourners," and so they continued. Shall I for charity's sake weaken my testimony. It is a talisman, believe me, against the contagion of an evil atmosphere that might otherwise instil poison into your constitution. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Psalms 119:33-40 . Every truth is essential. The timid Israelites would always have been afraid that Pharaoh would follow them and capture them; but when the forces of Egypt and all her chosen captains were drowned beneath the waves, all fear of them was gone for ever. but here it is that God exercises his great husbandry. 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. Our reply is, it did so gloriously. 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. Your sins will be forgiven, your transgressions cast away, and you shall henceforth go and sin no more, God having renewed you, and he will keep you even to the end. "Weakness" meets us everywhere. 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?" He might well be ashamed of that. You need not even appeal to friends for consolation. By faith alone can you bear persecution, and turn it to account for the good of others. 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. They achieved everything that was necessary in the form of service, and they bore up gloriously under the most fearful pressure of suffering, simply and only by faith in God, who became their Helper. Go to God in prayer and faith. He believed, and, therefore, walked before the Lord in a perfect way. Hebrews 1 In this chapter our Saviour's glorious person is very plainly set before us, and it is made the ground of our faith, and a reason why we should give the more earnest heed to his words, lest at any time we should let them slip. Many of the truest children of God are at first possessed by a dumb spirit; and it needs the Lord Jesus to cast it out. Take the children to God, take them to God, I pray you. At the same time, when I rise, as upon eagle's wings, in joyous rapture, I feel right glad to be capable of the blissful excitement. Ah, you dwell in a land where you find some sort of repose; but I have heavy tidings for you. 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." There is a sort of faith which doth run well for a while, but it is soon ended, and it doth not obey the truth. We must accept every single word of precept, or prohibition, or instruction, as being what it ought to be, and neither to be diminished nor increased. "Trials of cruel mockings" are common yet. They are the trainers, drilling God's young soldiers, and teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight. There is a secret virtue in the confession, if it be steadfastly adhered to and zealously maintained. The things that we have, that we value, are ours today by faith. And oh! Look at the miser. I think my heart will break unless I see you saved." It must be sooner or later exercised. Whether I stand on Tabor's summit, or am hidden in the vale of Baca, the covenant standeth fast, and everlasting love abideth." Whatever you believe, carry it out. All you can see in that poor child of God is a hard-working laboring man, mocked and despised of his fellows. fly to him! 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 a single hour. Now, our position is very similar to theirs. If all the world would obey the Lord, what a heaven on earth there would be! 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. The King will send his armies against that guilty city and destroy it, and if you are citizens of it, you will lose all you have--you will lose your souls--lose yourselves. They may not be well apparently while they are going on, but they will end well at last. I cannot see my Lord, I cannot enjoy his presence, and though it may be a little thing to desire, let me say a good desire is more than nature ever grew. 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. Yet, remember that the obedience which comes of true faith is often bound to be altogether unreckoning and implicit ; for it is written, "He went out, not knowing whither he went." Abraham returned not; Isaac returned not; Jacob returned not. And ah, my brethren and sisters, if some of us were to return, we should have this opportunity--a cordial welcome from our former comrades. -- Hebrews 11:15-16. 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