Of Abel, it is said that God testified of his gifts. Each man's calling may seem to him to be more full of temptation than his fellow's. Oh! I stammered a good deal, and I said little that I thought to say, and some things which seemed to weaken what I did say. I do not know to which of them that dog belongs, but I shall be able to tell you directly. You will say, "You want to make proselytes." Let us fear lest we should fall into sin, and perish with the rest of the sinners. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. If you have proved by your works that the grace of God is within you, God will not forget you; he will not leave you, he will not cast you away. Yon noble-hearted youth who, yesterday, sprang into the river, at the hazard of himself, and snatched a drowning man from death, he felt, when he stood upon the shore, what a great thing it was to save life. It is awful work when through disobedience to the command of the gospel it becomes a savor of death unto death instead of life unto life, and instead of a corner-stone it becomes a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. You cannot take hold upon the angel, and win the victory. Oh! Let us rest assured that nothing but repeated and fiery trials could have trained his faith to so great a strength as that which it exhibited in his preparation to slay his son at the command of God. "Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering." Read Hebrews 11 bible commentary & study from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com "Turn ye, turn ye; why will ye die, O house of Israel?" "Pray, sir," said she, believing that he understood the matter, and looking frightened, "What have I left out?" The Pastors' College Conference Address, 1891. Price Sixpence. 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. said the father, "he would not love you if you were not a good boy." Thou art more glorious than all the mountains of praise. This true Jerusalem blade was long annealed before it gained its marvellous edge and matchless temper. I do not know to whom that dog belongs, but I'll tell you directly. Another thing strikes me. 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. He might well be ashamed of that. "Whither away?" Add now I conclude this sketch of the Patriarch's call, by observing that Abraham's faith was well rewarded. She rims in the way of obedience, or rather she mounts on the wings of eagles, and so speeds on her way. A city is a place of social joy. There is no doubt he could, but it was never the Master's intention that we should all be hothouse plants. We may rest assured that when Abraham started, he asked no questions concerning how far or to what place he was journeying. 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. So the text says, "Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God." "Well," said he, "my good man, I will offer it, but it's not a bit of use while the wind is in the east, I'm sure." But this woman was so strong in faith that all her family were saved from destruction. The Christian's Condition In This World Hebrews 11:13, 14 W. Jones These all died in faith, not having received the promises, etc. I. Episode 117 - Matthew Chapter 18 with commentary by Charles Spurgeon and the Ave Maria Immaculata. Let God be true, but every man a liar." 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. In the presence of the great ones of the earth they may call him their God--anywhere--and he is not ashamed to be so called. Do not try to deal with your husband otherwise than by faith in God. The will of the Lord is to be done by his servants, whether on earth or in heaven. 1. 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. art thou loathsome to thyself? If believers could form a secluded settlement where no tempters could intrude, they would perhaps find the separated life far more easy, though I am not very sure about it, for all experiments in that direction have golden down. If thou wilt trust thy soul with Jesus, thou art saved. They died in faith. Is it not so? Or, if you have spiritual discernment to perceive the spiritual creature, you only see it as it is veiled by reason of the flesh, and beclouded by the atmosphere of this world; but he sees it as it will appear, when it shall be radiant like unto Christ, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. By the time of Christ, many thought God chose Abraham because he was a righteous man in a godless world. Hence, it is not relaxed in the time of temptation, nor destroyed in the hour of losses and sufferings. Oh! Their faith, though at times it was sorely tried, continued unto death. 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. God has prospered you, and you have said, "Oh! that he would bring her now, though seventy years of age, to love the Saviour! Dark is my path. By C. H. Spurgeon. The people just go round the city, and all hold their tongues, except the few priests blowing rams' horns. 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. I am weary with hearing men saying, "Yea, we know that such a course would be right; but then the consequences might be painful: good men would be grieved, the cause would be weakened, and we ourselves should get into a world of trouble, and put our hands into a hornet's nest." There all the inhabitants shall be united in one glorious brotherhood--the true Communism; Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in the highest possible degree. 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. I do not care for your parsons a bit; but that neighbor of ours has been in here, and he says he shall break his heart unless I am converted; and that beats me." Then you can set almighty forces in operation. And all of us might say that we find in our avocations from hour to hour many opportunities to return. He dreams of it. The mountain of safety is Calvary. Should we have any other ambition, within the walls of our Father's house, than to be perfectly obedient children before him, and implicitly trustful towards him? May I pass the question round these galleries, and put it to you also in this vast area? we may not trust ourselves; but we ought to stand in daily fear lest we be guilty before God. 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. Thankfully, this commentary by Rick Phillips is one of those few. It is a good key, but you have broken it." Notice the text, "Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." And how frequently will even solitude have temptations as severe as publicity could possibly bring! But by the preaching of God's word, foolishness though it seem to some, harlots are reformed, thieves are made honest, and the worst of men brought to the Saviour. For we are not resident traders in this Vanity Fair, we pass through it because it lies in our way home, but we are ill at ease in it. By this shall you know whether you are Christ's or not. saith one. Even Abraham's obedience failed somewhat in this at first; for he started at once from Ur of the Chaldees, but he only went as far as Haran, and there he stayed till his father died; and then the precept came to him again, and he set off for the land which the Lord had promised to show him. Our life is quite long enough for the trial of faith. At times you and I are assailed as to our faith in the Bible, by people who say, "How do you make that out? The city of which you, who have never been converted to Christ, are citizens, is the City of Destruction, and as is its name such shall be its end. When fear is grafted upon faith, it brings forth good fruit, as in this case. This is a first-fruit of the Spirit. PASSMORE & ALABASTER, Paternoster Buildings; and all Booksellers. 1368. What a great thing it is to save a soul! But the speciality of the strangers and pilgrims is that they all died in faith. As many of us as have believed in Christ Jesus have been called out. O my brothers, believe up to the hilt in prayer, and you will find it to be the most remunerative work on earth! yes," she said, "I have lived long enough, and I have gone to Church long enough, to know that if we work hard and get our bread by the sweat of our brow, and act well towards our neighbours, and behave, as the catechism says, lowly and reverently to all our betters, and if we do our duty in that station of life in which it has pleased God to place us, and say our prayers regularly, we shall be saved." Hebrews 11:1. Hold you to God's Word by faith, and you will be strong. He who knows how to pray has his hand on a leverage which moves the universe. Oh! And now we come to the ARGUMENT, why, without faith, we cannot be saved. That is the inquiry of most people, and within proper bounds it is not a wrong question. Even if in your own house you find your worst foes, hold on, and never doubt. It is very interesting to read about their faithfulness, and the faith that they had. They were quite as weak as the weakest of us; but by their faith they laid hold on heavenly strength until they could do all things. Do you think that we meditate enough upon heaven? Believe the threat, even though it should chill your blood; believe, though nature shrinks from the overwhelming doom; for, if you do not believe, the act of disbelieving God about one point will drive you to disbelieve him upon the other parts of revealed truth, and you will never come to that true, child-like faith which God will accept and honour. If you feel incapable, throw yourself upon the infinite capacity of God. "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that . Therefore, in your heart of hearts you feel that you cannot go back. Edited by C. H. SPURGEON. Perhaps some of you fear the Lord; and yet he has never given you your Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Oh! It is said that when he was commanded, he obeyed. Here is one that can never be diminished, much less exhausted. The faith that makes us obey is alone the faith which marks the children of God. Take care you have it; for if not, cling to your works, and there you go floating down the stream! Take the children to God, take them to God, I pray you. Well, now, that is a capital thing if a preacher preaches with his feet by walking with God, and with his hands by working for God. Where can we fly to escape from these opportunities that haunt us everywhere and peril us in every thing? It will be something else that will prevent you, for these opportunities are plentiful indeed. Dear brethren, cultivate these desires more and more. He hath put all things under the foot of such a man as that, and crowned him with glory and honour in the person of Christ, and the angels themselves are ministering servants to such a one as that. He had a considerable property in flocks and herds, and probably had the ancestral dwelling house in which to reside. He knows better than we do when to strike for victory. Jesus' sacrifice for us, made us righteous, holy and cleansed from the guilt of sin. Did not you find very soon that there was a thorn in the flesh? Does that thought burn within your heart? Thy sin was laid on him: it is forgiven thee. We are not our own, we are bought with a price. This woman said, "If I must die for these men, I will; I am prepared, bad name as I have, to have a worse name still; as a traitor to my country I am prepared to be handed down to infamy, if it be necessary, for having betrayed my country in taking in these spies, for I know it is God's will it should be done, and do it I will at every hazard. Perfect obedience to God would mean love among men, justice to all classes, and peace in every land. 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. By faith he was adopted and became a son, an heir. 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. Can you pray, my brother? I charge you who profess to be the Lord's not to be unbelieving with regard to the terrible threatenings of God to the ungodly. Upon this simple but most practical matter I am going to speak to you at this time. Here is one that can never be diminished, much less exhausted. Do not try to answer cavillers; but if you do, mind that faith is your weapon. That is nothing. Have we obtained these gifts of the Spirit? 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. Some are permitted to sink a long way down in sin; and when God begins with them, they have a desperate ascent even to reach common morality; what must the conflict be before they attain to spirituality and holiness? So the text says, "Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God." Do the young men refuse to be advised? Oh, this flesh, the body of this death--wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from it? Has not the Lord said, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness"? may grace be given you so that if others play the Judas, instead of leading you to do the same, it may only bind you more fast to your Lord, and make you walk more carefully, lest you also prove a son of perdition. It cannot be wrong to do the right thing at once; nay, in matters of duty, every moment of delay is a sin. It is a city. I shall this evening first speak to you upon:--. How slow to cut off right hands, and pluck out right eyes! 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? Ah! "Without faith it is impossible to please God." Do you the same. Now what shall be said to those who are not strangers and foreigners? Dark is my path; I cannot see my Lord; I cannot enjoy his presence; sometimes I am like one that is banished from him; but I desire his blessing, I desire his presence; and, though to desire may be but a little thing, let me say a good desire is more than nature ever grew: grace has given it. That is what we should have done; but Jehovah did something better. Both in doing and in suffering, if we are earnest and observant, we soon discover our own weakness. I hazard this assertion, that there is nothing in the faith of that man who does not exercise self-denial. the Spirit of God comes to many when they are in much the same condition; and what a work it is to bring up from the horrible midnight, and to give strength to rise out of the inky waters! That was the first day; probably the next day Rahab thought they would come with scaling-ladders and mount the walls; but no, rams' horns again, up to the seventh day; and this woman kept the scarlet thread in the window all the time, kept her father and mother, and brothers and sisters in the house, and would not let them go out; and on the seventh day, when the people made a great shout, the wall of the city fell flat to the ground; but her faith overcame her womanly timidity, and she remained within, although the wall was tumbling to the ground. Let no one run away, when I shall have expounded the first point, and miss the rest, for you can not apprehend the whole power of her faith unless you remember each of those particulars I am about to mention. "Yes." But you must take distinct note that at the back of everything was his faith in God. God's time is best. Commend me to firm faith for power to bear the daily cross. 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. Even among the most attentive hearers how many there are to whom the word comes with small practical result in actual obedience. May it be said of everyone here that by faith he obeyed! Let me ask you to note, first, faith makes men strong for holy doing; and, secondly, faith makes men strong for patient suffering. I mean this Dare you begin to think for yourself? But I must not dwell on this, delightful theme as it is, for I must close by noticing you, who are the children of God. He received the righteousness which God gives through Jesus Christ to all them that believe. Perhaps their views on baptism may have changed, and seeing nothing in Scripture to warrant infant sprinkling, they have come out with a determination to practice believer's baptism. Our home is beyond the flood. It is not ours to judge the Lord's command, but to follow it. Young woman! ye perishing and guilty souls, may God give you Rahab's faith, and you shall have this salvation, and shall with her stand yonder, where the white-robed spotless hosts sing unending hallelujah to God and the Lamb. What did come of it? 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? I leave this word with you. Father, mother, husband, wife, sister, brother, servant, master--whatever your relation, I beseech you, if you feel weak in the discharge of your duty, exercise faith in God about it, and out of weakness you shall be made strong. Is not this enough to cheer the rank and file of the church, IV. In fact, they are not at an consistent therewith. There are snares in company, but there are snares in our loneliness. 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. Did not Rebekah come from thence? The obedience that comes of faith is of a noble sort. fly to him! Now our position is a very similar one. Again, there is another thing; you have joined yourself to an ancient fraternity that has something more than rules to guide or legends to captivate; for it has a combination of both, seeing it is rich in poetic lore. It staggers us: we cannot make it out. Thus you see the reason why the Christian cannot go back. Who shall tell which of the three grand deeds of faith is the greatest? Enoch, before his translation, had this testimony, that he pleased God: and Noah "found grace in the eyes of the Lord." Before long you will find that the wind is dead against you, and the course to be followed is hard to keep. Noah had no evil fear. Five or six families, attending that despised ministry, learned to believe what they did believe, and to live upon it. If you are a stranger, they naturally bark at you. This shall be our last removal, to dwell for ever with him we love, to dwell in the bosom of God. She was disappointed, expecting that everyone would have some keys. Viewed as they are, they may be compared to a rabble in so many respects, that it is marvellous he is not ashamed of them. We are sure that God is true! If Baal be God, serve him; but if God be God, I charge you by Jesus Christ, fly to him as he is revealed, and come forth from the sin of the world and be separate, and walk by faith in God. This is the sweetest support in the presence of a threatened operation. True faith exclaims, "The thing is unlikely, yet I believe it." January 1, 1970. Oh, what a privilege it will be if you yourself and all your house are saved! You see, then, they had many opportunities to have returned, to have settled down comfortably and tilled the ground which their fathers did before them; but they continued to follow the uncomfortable life of wanderers of the weary foot, who dwell in tents, who own no plot of land. Dogs don't bark when a man goes by that they know--they bark at strangers. If Christ should make thee repent, thou hast no need to think that thou shalt be the least in the family. You will meet with temptations when you sit gasping on the banks of the last river, waiting for the summons to cross; it may be that your fiercest temptation may come even then. But in this age preaching is much despised. It is a long time to wait; but what would you do with a hundred added on to it? He climbed a hill on his road. Dost thou believe on the Son of God? It would be unreasonable if we did not vehemently resist every opportunity and every solicitation to go back. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 913, 652, 504. But know this, it is not a sanctuary merely, it is an hospital too; for it heals their sins, delivers them from their diseases, and they are not afterwards what they were before they received the gospel." Yet if you soar to the skies, you are very apt to drop below the sea-level. Faith alone can confirm feeble knees. -- Hebrews 11:15-16. "We know that this earthly house of our" tent "shall be dissolved, but we have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Oh, for such a faith as this! That faith which saves the soul is a real faith, and a real faith sanctifies men. Cry out to God for him. 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. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 287 pages. Did it answer Abraham's purpose? Now when Christ and the world go together, you cannot tell which a man is following; but when there is a separation, and Christ goes one way, and your interest, your pleasure seems to go the other way, if you can part with the world, and keep with Christ, then you are one of his. I dare say he wished him a long way off, especially if he had some haughty acquaintance with him at the time, who would perhaps turn round, and say, "Why, who is that wretched, seedy-looking fellow you spoke to?" I should not like you to overlook it. Arise and take thy last journey." An American once said, "I have got a good religion; it's the right sort of religion; I do not know that it costs me a cent a year; and yet I believe I am as truly a religious man as anybody." They say, "The thing is likely, therefore I believe it." I. Their descendants, of the third generation, are not all of them of their way of thinking; but they have risen through God's blessing on their grandfathers. ActiveChristianity Hebrews 11:39-40 Hebrews 11 is all about the heroes of faith. Abraham's faith, then, was a tried one. 445. We are looking for it among the unseen things. This singularity is demanded of every believer in Jesus. i. Even if other gracious things be not in thee as yet, they will be ere long produced by faith. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. One more head, and then we have done. Suffer me first to go and bury my father." Here we are tent dwellers, and the tent is soon to be taken down. No, wherever God in his providence guides you, let it be your joy to know that he is too wise to err too good to be unkind. Ah me! Though I delight to preach a free gospel, and to preach it to every creature under heaven, we must never forget to remind you of the speciality. How splendidly he bore himself; no king ever behaved more royally. Well, then, let me bring the text before you. says one, "I have prayed for my husband these twenty years!" His blood has cleansed us and speaks a powerful word of righteousness on our behalf. Sir, you speak falsely; you do not believe in Christ. 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. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. Yet there is a feeling in the human heart, and, though there may be no unkind treatment, yet, oftentimes, the sensitive spirit is apt to imagine it, and I have observed some absent themselves by degrees from the assembly of God with a sense of shame. We should find that none of our old friends would refuse to receive us. They accomplished all their feats by a power which was not in them by nature. Frequent opportunities came in their way; there was communication kept up between them and the old family house at Padan-Aram: they had news sometimes from the old quarters. Acts 9:31 New Living Translation (NLT) 31 The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord. 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. Don't come here with your cant." it was a mighty deed which faith accomplished when he bore her off in safety. We must be separate in character from those with whom we may be called to grind at the same mill, or sleep in the same bed; and this I warrant you is by no means an easier task than that which fell to the patriarch's lot. 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. If there is anything in religion at all, it demands a present surrender to its claims and a present obedience to its laws; but if you judge it to be a lie, say so, and we shall know where you are. Thy faith out of weakness shall make thee strong. 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. He that can fly, can faint. This grey father of the age went on with his preaching, went on with his intercession, and, without a doubt, waited for God in his own time to justify his servant before the eyes of men. Do I speak to a youth here who fears God, and who lives in an ungodly family? I beseech you, have faith in God that he will direct you, and have faith also to follow that direction when you receive it. IV. and, secondly, what was there peculiar in Abraham's conduct? We read of the children of Ephraim that, being armed, and carrying bows, they turned back in the day of battle; and therefore they were never to be relied on in the time of war. If a man receives a written letter from his father or a friend, does he attach less importance to it than he would have done to a spoken communication? no", said the man; "she never goes anywhere." The things that we have, that we value, are ours today by faith. Again let me affectionately give the invitation to the vilest of men, if so they feel themselves to be. Alas! She stood alone. Oh sirs, some of you do not require more knowledge, you need far more to put in practice what you know. It may be that an awful temper broke over us in surging waves. 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? 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