said one who heard it, "the Lord have mercy on your miserable stingy soul, for if you had been saved you would not have been con tent with a cent a year"--a halfpenny per annum! Besides, we all know with what inconvenience Abraham must have removed. There were a number of young men that I had played cards with, that I had sinned with, and transgressed with: the first thing I did was, to go to their houses to see what I could do for their salvation, nor could I rest until I had the pleasure of seeing many of them brought to the Saviour." Let your reply be We no longer live in the region of argument as to the Word of the Lord; but we dwell in the realm of faith. He shall dwell in God's house and be still praising him. fly to him! Yet faith is the instrument of accomplishing the whole work. He received the righteousness which God gives through Jesus Christ to all them that believe. I will show you that it is so; for, if I should hear a voice, how am I to know that it is divine? 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. A sense of great obligation, an apprehension of the fitness of obedience, and spiritual renewal of heart, work an obedience which becomes essential to the sanctified soul. They are so highly "cultured" that they prefer to be original, and map out their own way. "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. Out of weakness you shall be made strong by faith. The Apostle tells us, however, that the people of God were not forced to continue, because they could not return. Could he not have kept us from temptation?" God makes faith and obedience the way of safety. God sees the poorest child of God as he will be in that day when he shall be like Christ, for he shall see him as he is. Go to God in prayer and faith. Notice, next, that there is this about a Christian, that even when he does not enjoy something better, he desires it. He must have other people feel what he feels. 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. The Year of Grace, 1872. If we were our own, Ye might repine at our circumstances, but since we are not, let this be our cry, "Do what thou wilt, O Lord, and though thou slay me, yet will I trust in thee;" we are not true to our profession of being Christians, if we pick and choose for ourselves. 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. "Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." Have you not sometimes heard of a man who has become rich and has risen in the world, who has had some poor brother or some distant relative. Let each one hear the question in the singular number. He knows thy poor body, and he permits it to be frail, and permits thy heart to be trembling, because he will glorify himself in his tenderness to thy weakness, wherein he will make thee strong. no; thy name may yet be written among the mightiest of the mighty, and thou mayest stand as a memorable and triumphant instance of the power of faith. But is it so with all of you? Hare you not been obliged to say, after you have had all that the world could give you, "Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity?" The men of that generation mocked him. Now is the hour for faith in the great Lord, who holds even lonely seas in the hollow of his hand. Some of you are engaged in the midst of ungodly men. It was by no means a liberal creed which they received, but what they held operated on their lives. These three ancient believers are declared in Holy Writ to have pleased God. faith, didst thou fight with hideous lust? But, believe me, you cannot have faith in the promise unless you are prepared to have faith in the threatening also. Now, what shall be said to those who are not strangers and foreigners? "Pray, sir," said she, believing that he understood the matter, and looking frightened, "What have I left out?" what a world of misery there is in this great city, among even good and gracious people! IV. She, and she alone was delivered, a solitary one among a multitude. "Well," said the other, "and you believe that you are God's elect, do you?" Now, you may have a dead faith which will ruin your soul. The brother went home weeping; but he was not the only one who felt his heart breaking. I beseech you, have faith in God that he will direct you, and have faith also to follow that direction when you receive it. Henceforth in this world we have no home, no true abiding home for our spirits. I met with a little incident in company, the other day, after preaching. II. Yet he devises means, and brings about the purposes of his grace. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. A. Moses' choice to obey God by faith resulted in short-term suffering. We have to rise superior to it. We either curse or bless those around us. "Without faith it is impossible to please God." You have let your grandmother's religion come to you with the old arm chair and the antique china, as heirlooms of the family, and you go to a certain place of worship because your family have always attended there. You have a sort of hereditary religion in the same way as you have a display of family plate; pretty battered it is, no doubt, and rather light in weight by this time, but still you cling to it. Obedience is hard work to proud flesh and blood; indeed, these ingrained rebels will never obey through our own efforts. What did come of it? No, he was commanded to go, and he went without hesitation. True faith exclaims, "The thing is unlikely, yet I believe it." 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. But I must close with the sweetest part of the text. The Tempter he is, the Destroyer he would be, if we were not delivered from his snares. But one of his neighbors felt forced to go to him very early in the morning, and to say to him, "I beg your pardon for intruding so early, but I lay awake all last night thinking about you; and I cannot rest till I tell you something." Another reason why we should follow with simplicity and faith all the commands of God, is this, because we may be quite sure they shall all end well. That is to say, do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleasing to God unless they be mixed with faith. It is in the Scriptures, certainly, but how do you reconcile it with science?" 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. 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. Trust his wounded side to smite through the heart of your evil desires. Friends tell you that you are making much ado about nothing, or that you are uncharitable, narrow-minded, and bigoted. 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. Did Rahab continue a harlot after she had faith? Do not expect to find the comforts in this world that you crave after, that your flesh would long for. The Abrahams of to-day will not go out from their kindred; they will put up with anything sooner than risk their livelihoods. Now, perhaps, God is beginning some good thing in her heart. 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. If the man obeys because he has no opportunity of doing otherwise, and if, were he free, he would at once become a rebel there is nothing in his obedience. 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? 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! Cling to your works, and there you go dashing down the gulf! The modern believer must have no mysteries, but must have everything planed down to a scientific standard. If we have faith in God, we shall bless our children, as Isaac and Jacob blessed their sons. But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenlycity." We are not our own, we are bought with a price. If the Lord be God, he must be infallible; and if he can be described as in error in the little respects of human history and science, he cannot be trusted in the greater matters. Our business, though suddenly blighted when flourishing in one place, has been, when removed amidst sad misgivings and dark uncertainties, even more flourishing in another; or if not, if trials have multiplied and poverty has succeeded wealth, yet grace has increased, and as our afflictions abounded, our consolations have much more abounded. If they do, be afraid. If not, thou art nothing as to spiritual things. He resides, seated on His throne in heaven, as our High Priest guaranteeing this right standing with God. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 174, 655, 658. They simply blow a number of rams' horns; her neighbors say, "Why, Rahab, you do not mean to say you believe now? Thy sin was laid on him: it is forgiven thee. "O men and brethren, trust not your faith, unless it has self-denial with it. His blood has cleansed us and speaks a powerful word of righteousness on our behalf. To-day, the tried one suffers alone, and misses the encouragement of Christian eyes. We sometimes put blinkers upon horses that they may not see too much, I fear we might wear such things ourselves to great advantage. Faith and self-denial, like the Siamese twins, are born together, and must live together, and the food that nourisheth one must nourish both. May I pass the question round these galleries, and put it to you also in this vast area? "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. 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. Christ Superior To Angels Moses And Aaron A Comment On The Epistle To The Hebrews. We cannot think that religion can be true if such a man is a hypocrite. To tell a very familiar story, and even the poorest may not misunderstand what I say: a minister was one day going to preach. The gospel has about it a divine authority, and is not to be trilled with. Who wants to be a child and do easy things? 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." To begin with: FAITH MAKES MEN STRONG FOR HOLY DOING. Opportunities to return, as long as you are in this body, will be with you. But, then, notice that when Abraham started he made no stipulations with his Lord. A man runs a great risk When he steers himself. If you have faith in God, you can lead others out of the bondage of sin, and through the wilderness world, as Moses led the children of Israel; for faith is a great guide. Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Brethren, you desire something better than this world, do you not? 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. And explaining it more fully to her, he said, "It is Christ, and Christ alone, that can open heaven to you, and not your good works." God's blessings are blessings with both his hands. We will not have it that God, in his Holy Book, makes mistakes about matters of history, or of science, any more than he does upon the great truths of salvation. I remember one who was very foul-mouthed, and used oaths habitually. If then, we be right in saying that to please God is to be happy, the one important question is, how can I please God? 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 a while in this country, and in a certain measure become citizens of it, they are still uneasy; their citizenship is in heaven, and they cannot rest anywhere but there. 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. Trust you in Christ to overcome by his Spirit that which he has put away by his death. He had a considerable property in flocks and herds, and probably had the ancestral dwelling house in which to reside. The obedience of faith springs from a principle within, and not from compulsion without. O my brothers, believe up to the hilt in prayer, and you will find it to be the most remunerative work on earth! God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God Again let me affectionately give the invitation to the vilest of men, if so they feel themselves to be. 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. Has the world ever satisfied you? 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. 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. i. Hebrews 1, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon StudyLght.org. When you have opportunity to return, if you do not return, that shall prove you are his. Many of us may never have to brave the fiery stake, nor to bow our necks upon the block, to die as Paul did; but if we have grace enough to be out of weakness made strong, we shall not be left out of the roll of the nobles of faith, and God's name shall not fail to be glorified in our persons. All glory to his grace! Now let us look at this preparation just a minute; "he hath prepared for them"--them. He that pleases God, is, through Divine grace, journeying onward to the ultimate reward of all those that love and fear God; but he who is ill-pleasing to God, must, for Scripture has declared it, be banished from the presence of God, and consequently from the enjoyment of happiness. "Yea," says faith, "I did encounter this abomination of iniquity; I delivered this woman from the loathsome chambers of vice, the wily snares of enchantment, and the fearful penalty of transgression; yea, I brought her off saved and rescued, gave her purity of heart, and renewed in her the beauty of holiness; and now her name shall be recorded in the roll of my triumphs as a woman full of sin, yet saved by faith.". You must do as Lot did, when the angels presses him and said, "Haste to the Mount lest thou be consumed." Do you want a greater source of consolation than you have got? We see by faith what cannot be seen by our eyes; we grasp by faith what cannot be grasped with our hands. When you get nearest to God, Satan will sometimes seem to get nearer to you. It will be something else that will prevent you, for these opportunities are plentiful indeed. Spurgeon, Sunday August 18th 1889. Out of this weakness in prayer you can only be made strong by faith. Why, the people of Israel are on the other side of Jordan, and there is no bridge: how are they to get over? So sure as our faith is real, it will want to bring others in. 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? Others mentioned in Scripture, have done something; but God did not accept them. dear friends, we have so much talk, and so little obedience! By Vernon J. Charlesworth. Download Christ Superior To Angels Moses And Aaron A Comment On The Epistle To The Hebrews full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. The 11th chapter of Hebrews is the chapter of the men who pleased God. There be some who could tell you a tale of standing up alone. He did not know where his way would take him, but he knew that the Lord had bidden him go. Faith in God made the cripple at the temple gate stand, and walk, and leap, and praise God; and even so does faith make our sin-crippled manhood obey the will of the Lord with exultation. We are not saved by obedience, for obedience is the result of salvation. 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." Abraham's slips--for he made one or two--were made when he had left the land and gone down among the Philistines. Our lease of mortal life is fast running out. Your aim is to make a noble exit. Trust thou in thy God, in his love to thee, in his care of thee, and then thou shalt be as the lilies, which toil not, and spin not, and yet are clothed; or as the ravens, which have no store, and yet are fed. I tried the other day to say a good word, and I am afraid that I made a failure of it. He does not like to say, "That is my relation," or "That is my brother." Dear struggler, you will never overcome sin except by faith in Jesus Christ. Dost thou love his people? "But suppose," he said, "I had some keys, they might not fit your lock, and therefore you could not get the articles you want. "What! Who that knows himself does not find strong, incentives to return. Ah, how frequently will solitude have temptations as severe as publicity could possibly bring. 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?" Or if your occupation keeps you alone, yet, my brethren, there is one who is pretty sure to keep us company and to seek our mischief--the destroyer, the tempter. This woman's faith was A SELF-DENYING FAITH. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row, and all Booksellers. And yet more: he that has true faith will have true obedience. Having commenced the separated life, Abraham continued to dwell in tents, and sojourn in the land which was far from the place of his birth. this is well!" The people just go round the city, and all hold their tongues, except the few priests blowing rams' horns. Obedience let us pray for it for ourselves and others! He sees in him a dignity and a glory second only to himself. He sees in him a dignity and a glory assimilated to his own. That pettifogging king of Sodom wanted to make a bargain with him, but the grand old man replied, "I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abraham rich." Foremost among Abraham's trials was that of being called away to a land which he had never been; as this may be our trial also, I pray that my words may be adapted to our present condition. "Hast thou faith? This woman's faith was A SYMPATHISING FAITH. it is a noble thing to be the lonely follower of despised truth. Sprang there not even of one, and him as good as dead, as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable? The more they draw us to heaven, the more they withdraw us from the world. 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. But there is no praying without believing. 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. 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. I do not think if any of us had such a family as God has, we should ever have patience with them. Being connected with the living and incorruptible seed, it lives and abides for ever. It is nothing short of Godhead's utmost stretch of might that preserves a Christian from going back to his old unregenerate condition. wouldst thou touch with thy hallowed fingers foul and bestial debauchery? I shall endeavour to pack my thoughts closely this morning, and be as brief as I can, consistently with a full explanation of the theme. Not now do they gather in the great amphitheater, where sits the emperor in state, with all the proud citizens of Rome in the nearer gallery, tier on tier, and the multitude up yonder, gazing with their cruel eyes into the vast arena below. 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. We cannot even have, when we judge ourselves rightly, patience with ourselves; but how is it that God bears with the ill-manners of such a froward, weak, foolish, forgetful people as his people are? Prayer makes us "rich towards God," and this is the best of riches; but it must be believing prayer. "According to your faith be it unto you." 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." But," said he, wishing to improve the occasion, "have you ever heard of the key of heaven?" Let us consider, secondly, THE KIND OF OBEDIENCE WHICH FAITH PRODUCES. Cry to him in the secret of your soul, and you will bear your load; yes, you will bear it calmly, and you will win those who hate you. A softer spirit has come over the human mind; but there is as much enmity against God as ever; and now it finds a less public arena, and a meaner mode of torture. Said he, "I have no keys." Do you feel in prayer as if the sinew of your strength were shrunk, and your knee out of joint? He prepared the right materials; he prepared the different parts so as to fit together: he prepared his mind, and then prepared his work. How stern is the conflict to keep under the body, lest corruption should prevail. One thing it implies very obviously is that you thoroughly admire their example and fervently emulate their spirit. V. Not to detain you too long, another point very briefly. They called his warning "an old wives' fable," and he himself was "an old fossil." First, notice that in Noah's case FAITH WAS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE. If Christ should make thee repent, thou hast no need to think that thou shalt be the least in the family. When God began with many of us, he found us very low down beneath the flood of evil. "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a plane which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." We must be going to our Father's house, be that where it may. We have to close with two or three words about what was THE RESULT OF ABRAHAM'S ACTION. The departures from the faith of those whom we highly esteem are, at least while we are young, very severe trials to us. --Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan "Although commentaries on the Gospel of John abound, far too few of them combine careful scholarship, deep theological reflection, and a pastoral heart. Trials are the winds which root the tree of our faith. Hebrews:2:9. 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