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Beware of the unbelief which enables you to trifle; for trifling with eternal things is the suicide of the soul. that ye were wise that ye would care now, and if any of you feel your need of Christ, let me beg of you, for Christ's sake, now to seek faith in him who is exalted on high to give repentance and remission, and who, if he has given you repentance, will give you remission too. how often will our imagination paint sin in very glowing colours, and though we loathe the sin and loathe ourselves for thinking of it, yet how many a man might say, "Had it not been for divine grace, my feet had almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped." O! No, he was commanded to go, and he went without hesitation. Don't expect the men of this world to treat you as one of themselves--if they do, be afraid. 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? III. 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." The bearish man grumbled, "Mind your own business." There shall be delightful intercourse. His faith in God has become to him the crown of all his believings; the most assured of all his confidences. 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. Jesus said, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" 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. If not, thou art nothing as to spiritual things. "Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering." 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. He was the favourite of the ballroom once; he was the wit that set the table on a roar; he was the man who, above all, was courted when he moved in the circle of the vain and frivolous; glad enough would they be to see him come back. It delivers the sinner from the stream of sin, and so, laying hold upon the omnipotence of the Spirit, it rescues him from that great whirlpool of destruction into which his soul was being hurried. Do the young men refuse to be advised? May faith enable us each one, like David, to bless our household! Whatever you believe, carry it out. Where can we go to escape from these opportunities to return? It makes them say, "Lord, thou hast forgiven me my sins; I will sin no more. Note what it is he has made ready for them. I fear I should never have touched his case if I had not been in the miry clay myself. Certain saints are summoned to active marching duty, and others are ordered to keep watch on the walls. I. God will hear your prayer and bless Ishmael also. we answer, "We buy the truth." 'The Pilgrim's Longings ' and 'Go Back? And now we come to the ARGUMENT, why, without faith, we cannot be saved. Do you feel in prayer as if the sinew of your strength were shrunk, and your knee out of joint? Obedience arises out of a faith which is to us the paramount principle of action . Obedience has become as much his rule as self-will is the rule of others. As a dog, which is chased away from the house, returns again and again to its former master, so does an evil lust turn again even to the soul that loathes it. Thus we have Abraham before us; may the Holy Spirit make us like him. You dare not move in opposition to your brethren and sisters in the circle in which you move; and therefore you involve yourselves in difficulties. The end of the chapter reminds us that faith is and it is for we who follow in the footsteps of the faithful men and women of previous ages. He was beaten. The Lord teach them better! God sees the poorest, the least proficient disciple as a man in Christ; a perfect man come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; such indeed as he will be in that day when he shall see Christ, for then he shall be like him as he is. Alas! The obedience of faith creates a form of life which may be safely copied . Gathering together such substance as he had he exiled himself that he might be a sojourner with his God, and took a journey in an age when travelling was infinitely more laborious than now. There is many a Christian who, if he were to go back to the gaiety of the world, would find the world await him with open arms. Ah, my dear friend! He lived when the rest perished; he was secure in his ark when the myriads were sinking in the deluge: he became "heir of the righteousness which is by faith" when others were condemned. Now, our position is very similar to theirs. Now what shall be said to those who are not strangers and foreigners? We should find that none of our old friends would refuse to receive us. The obedience of a slave ranks very little higher than the obedience of a well-trained horse or dog, for it is tuned to the crack of the whip. Be assured, beyond all questioning, that he that believeth in the Lord Jesus is not condemned. First, notice that in Noah's case FAITH WAS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE. If he saith, "Go," they go; if he saith, "Stay," they abide in their places. Noah lived two of our lives in this way. The two things must go together. The victory was complete. But note what it is. That is reading--not preaching. Dost thou seek to serve him? Though now residing in the midst of all nations, it is still true "the people shall dwell alone, they shall not be reckoned among the nations." Now, have you ever felt that it is a very hard thing to have a singular faith? No traveler hath returned to tell. Friend, I am not careful in that matter, nor need you be. Oh! 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. This woman's faith was A SYMPATHISING FAITH. Let the personal question go round and cause great searching of heart, for I fear that in many instances precious faith is absent. Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation. What harvest will come of our sowing we must leave with the Lord of the harvest; but we ourselves must look to the basket and the seed, and scatter our handfuls in the furrows without fail. There is a sort of faith which does run well, but it is soon hindered, and it doth not obey the truth. It is said that when he was commanded, he obeyed. Depend upon it, faith that is never tried is not faith. Would you wonder if I should grow weary of telling some of you the way of salvation any longer? The bearish one went away from his forge, and said to his wife, "I can always answer these religious fellows. There may be truths non-essential to our salvation; but there are no non-essential truths with regard to our comfort. Trust his pierced hands to pierce the hands of your lusts. Whatever we believe to be true, to the last jot and tittle we will speak it out. You look to those who agree with you, and they are lukewarm; you turn to old associates, and they do not share your concern. Yet we read in Abraham's life, after a whole host of troubles, "And Abraham was old and well stricken in years, and the Lord had blessed Abrabam in all things." ONE IS STRUCK with the practical character of this verse. 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. The people just go round the city, and all hold their tongues, except the few priests blowing rams' horns. "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." I believe that since it is all the Word of God it is all most assuredly true." the great sinner may become great in faith. 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. Wrapt in this he stood before the Lord, justified and approved. "No," they say; "the walls of Jericho are strong; can the feeble host resist us? I do not know to whom that dog belongs, but I'll tell you directly. "Nay, my Lord," they would reply, "do not put me off with these biding presents; feed me not upon these husks. What shouts of triumph would they raise, and how would they welcome him! Our life is quite long enough for the trial of faith. He looks to that iron safe to be quite sure that it is well secured--he cannot forget his dear gold. It never built an ark like Noah; it never offered a sacrifice like Abraham; it never subdued kingdoms like Joshua; it never quenched the violence of fire as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. The Year of Grace, 1872. Even if in your own house you find your worst foes, hold on, and never doubt. He that can fly, can faint. The old fable speaks of the Augean stable, foul enough to have poisoned a nation, which Hercules cleansed; but our sins were fouler than that. 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. Spurgeon, Sunday August 18th 1889. 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?" I am sure it has been so with you. He that trades with God in prayer enters upon a business whereof the merchandise is better than silver or gold. ABRAHAM'S FAITH was of the most eminent order, for he is called the Father of the Faithful. He even offered up his son Isaac. I would have laughed at the idea of any body else talking to me about these things; but when she prayed, and said, "Lord, save my son Charles," and then was overcome, and could not get any further for crying, you could not help crying too; you could not help feeling; it was of no use trying to stand against it. Great men, in the best sense, are bred in holy households. God does not create useless things. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 10th, 1859, by the REV. saith one. Yet, we repeat it again, the chief of sinners are as welcome to Christ as the best of saints. No, no, she did not. But perhaps that woman--I saw her weep just now--had a mother, who has gone long ago, and she was married to a brutal husband, and at last left a poor widow; she calls to mind the days of her childhood, when the big Bible was brought out and read around the hearth, and "Our Father which art in heaven" was their nightly prayer. How strong is the evil in the most upright man! Well, then, let me bring the text before you. There is not all the enjoyment that you may think to be gathered in retirement and in ease, but, on the contrary, luxury often puffeth up, and abundance makes the heart to swell with vanity. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 649, 653, 650. They accomplished all their feats by a power which was not in them by nature. I. fly to him! Some one asked Alexander to what he owed his conquests, and he said, "I have conquered because I never delayed." It is sustained by the mind's soberest reasoning and the heart's warmest passion. Couldst thou die for him? Here we are in midsummer again, and yet Felix has not found his convenient season. You and I may be very weak at this time, but we can be made strong out of just such weakness. Ah! But yet it must be done; and only faith can do it, by calling in the aid of the Almighty One. Without faith it is impossible to please God, but with faith we become "accepted in the Beloved." then get alone, and, like Abraham, cry to God, "O that Ishmael might live before thee!" . God makes faith and obedience the way of safety. What do they know about your inward sorrow? So long as you are willing to be used, so long as God has given you an anxiety and travail of spirit for the souls of others, you need not fear; but may with faith get to work in all your feebleness, for as your day your strength shall be. Now, Rahab's faith, sinner as she was, had this glory, this crown about its head, that she stood alone, faithful among the faithless found.". Ah, you dwell in a land where you find some sort of repose; but I have heavy tidings for you. Henceforth, in this world we have no home, no true home for our spirits; our home is beyond the flood; we are looking for it amongst the unseen things; 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. It was blotted out when he nailed the handwriting of ordinances that were against thee to his cross. Thou hast a sacred right; for here sinners are invited, and thou art such. 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! "My Father is the husbandman," said Christ. By C. H. Spurgeon. Does he not himself sometimes say of them, "How can I put thee among the children?" I should do so altogether if I did not know that all the saints are permitted to enjoy the same privileges. What had he to leave? Upon this simple but most practical matter I am going to speak to you at this time. 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. And Jacob, one of the patriarchs, was driven to go down into the land, but he could not stay there; he was always unrestful, till at last he stole a march upon Laban and came back into the proper life--the life which he had chosen, the life which God had commanded him, the life of a pilgrim and a stranger in the land of promise. An insatiable desire has been implanted in us by divine grace, which urges us to:--. "Ah!" Or do you put out your thinking to be done for you, like your washing? If a man says he has faith, and has no works, he lies; if any man declares that he believes on Christ, and yet does not lead a holy life, he makes a mistake; for while we do not trust in good works, we know that faith always begets good works. The first duty of a Christian man is to obey God. I think they were mistaken in the notion that they would be despised. There is, in this chapter, a special commendation for faith in a pleasing variety of operations. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 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 for you to forsake your Saviour, there would be no credit in your abiding faithful to him. To the very edge of Jordan you will meet with temptations. If the Lord has given you substance, and you are prompted to be generous to the cause of God, do not count every sixpence over, and calculate what others would give; count it after you have given it, if it must be counted at all, but it would be better still not to let your left hand know what your right hand doeth. Saul did it. "Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." "I will be your God," saith he, and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man. Each man's calling may seem to him to be more full of temptation than his fellow's. A strange mystery is the simple act of faith. You must endure, "as seeing him who is invisible." They are coming to a crossroad: one goes to the right, the other goes to the left. And O! His faith begat his fear: his faith and his fear produced his obedience. 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. It is a great thing to be desirous. This is a first-fruit of the Spirit. He has placed him in due order of time after Abel and Enoch; but he had also another reason for the arrangement. However low his people may sink, he is not ashamed to call them brethren. 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. But if you have grace in your heart you will dare to do right. Above all things, dread the intoxicating cup in all its forms. They may not be well apparently while they are going on, but they will end well at last. 3. He hated the very mention of religion. "Where can I find comfort then, and security?" We must be going to our heavenly Father's kindly home, where Jesus is: to that royal city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. To what mountain, say you, shall I go? 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. Let each one hear the question in the singular number. More than that, there were messages exchanged; servants were sometimes sent. God of Peace and Our Sanctification, The. We would be humble, and learn to believe what we cannot altogether comprehend, and to expect what we should never have looked for, had not the Lord declared it. Lay hold on him, touch the hem of his garment, and ye shall be healed. Bide your time when the cause is an eternal one, for you can afford to do so. 'The Call of Abraham'; 'The Obedience of Faith'; 'Abraham's Prompt Obedience to the Call of God'. 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. Stars cannot reach the zenith of the heavens by one sudden flash, nay even the sun himself must climb to his meridian. influencers who have died 2021. chesterfield valley food options. If we do as God commands, and do not seem to succeed, it is no fault of ours. To begin with: FAITH MAKES MEN STRONG FOR HOLY DOING. 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. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 913, 652, 504. "Thou hast kept the best wine until now." His choice is neither wealth, nor ease, nor honour; but that ho may glorify God in his body, and his spirit, which are the Lord's. Abraham was prepared for instant obedience to any command from God; his journey was appointed, and he went. That is what we should have done; but Jehovah did something better. Christ himself has said it, and so it must be. Do not say that you would accept that call if it were spoken with a voice rather than written; you know that it is not so in daily life. And lo on the morrow the troops are out, and what do they do? Alas for those who dare to talk in that fashion! If they do, be afraid. Then I understood why I must feel like one forsaken. Nobody here will actually declare that he will not, but many will reply that they hope they shall. Some of you are engaged in the midst of ungodly men. In no tent of all the fair can we rest. -- Hebrews 11:15-16. You see, whether you grow rich or whether you grow poor, you will have these opportunities to return. It is a city too possessing immunities, and conferring dignity upon its residents. and yet he does. Meanwhile, the more fully we obey at this present, the nearer we shall be to his temple-gate. He is not ashamed to call them brethren. O that God might sanctify some that are here! Few, if any, are without sorrow, and many saints have a double portion of grief in their pilgrimage. Thus Abraham obeyed! 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." Many a man has felt keenly enough the separation from home and kindred, and next to that, the sad banishment from his native land. Oh! Howbeit, God does. That is the one business of your life; and I believe that if you have faith in the Lord as to your family, your beloved ones shall be given you as a prey. 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.". God's blessings are blessings with both his hands. He knows better than we do when to strike for victory. Perhaps some of you fear the Lord; and yet he has never given you your Shem, Ham, and Japhet. "Yea," he said; "' he is a fellow that preaches with his feet." Update: 2023-04-16. Ah, how frequently will solitude have temptations as severe as publicity could possibly bring. saith one. Click to Sign Up Now! Ah! But you can do nothing aright for others without faith in God for yourself and them. "Along the cool, sequestered vale of life they hold the even tenor of their way." Dear brethren, let us cultivate these desires more and more. They are the trainers, drilling God's young soldiers, and teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight. The woman's seed, and the Lamb's sacrifice, which Abel had seen, these were almost all the revelation he had known. 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. Like the countryman who waited to cross the river when all the water had gone by, he waits till all difficulties are removed, and he is not one whit nearer that imaginary period than he was years ago. "According to your faith be it unto you." "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. This indicates a permanent abode. Not Yet a Member? "Yes," says one, "I own that it is an urgent service to make known to others what the Lord has done for me: but, somehow, I cannot discharge my conscience by fully doing as I would. Descend, O sovereign love, descend, And melt that stubborn soul! The mountain of safety is Calvary. He cannot forget his dear gold. We are sure that God is true! 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