Heb. 11
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Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
“you need endurance” - remain under vs. throwing away
remain in battle
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
“By your endurance you will gain your lives.
And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
‘Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
“when you have done the will of God” then you receive the reward it after you have been faithful.
v. 37 Christ will return Hab. 2:3-4 be faithful he will return
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!
But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,
and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,
v. 38 my righteous one shall live by faith (endure = faithfulness)
the one shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him. you have no hope you have no confidence, you have no high priest, you have no sacrifice.
the faithful don shrink back they persevere
great men and women of faith endure/ obey. they do something (note all the verbs). there was no precedent for what some of these of faith were going to do, they did it solely on faith (it was new) they believed even when they din’t receive the promise in this life.
here we have a list of the faithful. Are you thinking about shrinking back let me tell you about those who didn’t. you thinking about growing weak and turning back
v. 1 assurance = substance or confidence - stands under, its the basis - faith gives reality to things not yet seen so that they are treated as virtually present.
conviction = evidence - full persuasion, a thing is shown to be true or false of things not seen
Therefore, “faith is to be put in place of things not seen (to fill that gap as it were)
and serves as full persuasion that something (Christianity) is true even though
not testable by physical means.” - WW
they want to go back into what is seen actual physical high priest and sacrifices but the Hebrew writer goes back and show us that it was faith in the unseen that cause men of old to endure, and a s a result , to obtain the promise and reward of God
v. 2 for it - faith in the unseen - the bible tells about them because they were faithful.
The basis of the material world lies in the immaterial word. Therefore it is not irrational
to have faith in the unseen, since it was the unseen (i.e., the word of God) that caused
the seen (i.e., the universe).
v. 4
more excellent = higher value
no one had ever offered sacrifices before - faith in the unseen
1. They had been commanded to offer a blood (animal) sacrifice
(kind) but Cain did not do so.
2. Abel was truly sorry for his sins, but Cain was merely going through
an outward formality (attitude/spirit). To do anything by faith was to
do it as God has commanded. When God specifies, He does not
accept anything else
! The sacrifice was not being given by faith.
3. “First lings” (Gen 4:4) versus fruit of the ground (quality). (Could be
amount [quantity].)
obtained witness
so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
He still speaks - you may die but your faithfulness still speaks
v. 5 Enoch
lived a life of faith, a life in which he pleased God his reward not tasting death
no one had gone to be with God before without dying, faith in the unseen
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
v. 6 What pleases God is faithfulness
“comes to” - same as draw near
Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
he rewards those who seek him
Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
v. 7 warned by God about the unseen. no one had ever seen a flood before let alone one that would destroy the world
test:
not seen (rain or flood)
long time working in obedience 120 years
ridicule
failure as a preacher
by his actions he condemned the world and became the heir of righteousness
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.
Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.
he had no bible of examples of faithfulness to go by, no one had gone out not knowing where he was going
he never received any portion of the land promise Gen. 26:3-4
v.12 Gen. 22:7 Deut. 1:10
v. 13 they did not receive the the promise the land or the seed promise
And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.
strangers and pilgrims on the earth
v. 14 they seek a homeland do you want heaven on earth or a citizenship in heaven Phil. 3:20
v. 15 they desired to go towards the unseen and not the seen
desired a heavenly country - what about you do you desire a heavenly country
He’s not ashamed to be called their God
He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
God has prepared them a city, who, those who he is not ashamed of, those who desire a better country, those who live by faith
v. 17-19 offered up Isaac - no one had risen from the dead before
obeyed even when it meant giving up his son and even when he didn’t know why
Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”
The lesson for us is to strictly obey God’s every command and to trust in His
promises. Nothing less is a demonstration of faith.
v. 24 preferred fellowship with God more than self advancement in the world
v. 25 choose to suffer now rather than latter. Its greater to suffer with christ than receive all the riches of Egypt
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
choose spiritual reward over the physical reward
v. 27 the presence of God was more real to Moses than the kings army
Faith in God’s Promise of the Coming Messiah
faith that God would keep his word and not destroy those with the blood on the doorpost
v. 29
they were obedient, they did
v. 35 assured themselves of a better resurrection
The “better thing” was evidently the new and better covenant which was established
on new and better promises (8:6). The phrase “without us” could be taken
as the equivalent to “without the religion which through Christ we now actually
enjoy” (i.e., those in the “reality”. “Shadows” cannot exist without the “reality” of
8:5
12:1-29—Exhortations to Same Kind of Confidence and Perseverance as in Chapter 11
). For Christ Himself is the essential bond of union which binds together the
saints of all ages. And as it were not, and could not, be perfected without the
cleansing efficacy of His blood, it may accurately be said, that they were not perfected
“without us” and the “better thing” which we by the grace of God now actually