(1) This comfortable converse with God is greatly obstructed when it is apprehended that only the benefits and effects of Christ's righteousness are communicated to believers, and not the very righteousness itself. Looking To Jesus . MAN'S PLACE IN CHRISTIANITY IS RELATED TO THE ATTRACTIVE RATHER THAN THE TERRIBLE. Sermon Hebrews 12:18-29. O God, it is a chain for God in heaven which binds the victim to the horns of the altar, a chain of everlasting love, of illimitable goodness." Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. "EXCESS BAGGAGE" HEBREWS 11:29 - 12:2 REV. 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Minor Prophets (4) A believer's converse with God the Judge of all is promoted and maintained by his coming often to the blood of sprinkling. 4. To an innumerable company of angels. It always remains a plea with God, and a testimony to men. If we all understand that this period is not comparable to a battle, whereof the result hangs in the balance, but comparable to those deeds of prowess wherewith of old men celebrated a victory, then the face of things is altered, and our toils are transfigured. Pentateuch So, by looking, heaven becomes clearer; as we look, it comes more near. The vessel at each moment overflows: but at every moment it also is enlarged. The One who always was, always is, and always will be. Peter when he explained the healing of the lame man by the gate of the temple said, "It was in the name of Jesus and through faith in His name that this once lame man whom you have seen and known was able to walk." (3) Another instance wherein believers have comfortable converse with God the Judge of all lies in their referring themselves to His righteous judgment with respect to their state, their frames, and all their actions. We come to that unseen and glorious company BY OUR KNOWLEDGE. There are not only the angels and the chariots in their thousands of thousands — there is another train! "The Judge of all, and the spirits of just men made perfect." Then, further, these spirits are "perfect." All beside is left in the grave. The Church of all time is one. Are we forgotten? 4. William L. Lane writes, (Hebrews 9–13, WBC 47B; p. 428) "Jesus' deliberate disregard for disgrace and his endurance of hostile opposition from those who understood neither the depth of God's redemptive love nor the extremity of their own plight provide a pattern for emulation whenever Christians experience an antagonistic response from the world. 3. Certain facts suggest themselves as the necessary accompaniments of such a condition. Not by mere birth, not by profession, but by a new creation in Christ Jesus. The death of Christ is ever present to the Divine mind and determines the Divine action. The depth of the thought is only reached when we recognise His divinity and His humanity. When we look away to Jesus we look, not only to an example, to an inspiration, but also to a goal. What are your own reflections as to what that blood says to God? 3. It is the robe of Deity. (7) A daily application to the Spirit as the glorifier of the Father and of Christ. This is called an accepting of the punishment of one's iniquity (Leviticus 26:41) and a clearing and justifying God when we are judged (Psalm 51:4). of Scripture. Is it so solemn a thing to converse with God the Judge of all? "From the miraculous to the macabre, the faithful of Israel's past provide the encouragement this congregation needs to keep running their own race of faith." Listen; Downloads Sermon Audio; February 25, 2018. It may be a map of a country on which we seldom look, or on which we trace with careful finger every mountain ridge, every river and plain. Commentary, Hebrews 11:29-12:2,Amy L.B. it will never condemn thee then. There is no exaggeration. It is described as subsisting in intimate union with the Saviour. See a fine description of this city (Revelation 21:10-22). Jesus’s Pursuit of Joy. 1. And these considerations will be still further heightened in proportion as we remember, on the one side, our own worthlessness even at the best; and on the other, the vastness of that mercy, the boundlessness of those promises which are held out to us. Oh, the bliss of feeling that even nosy heaven is begun below, and the sufferings of this present life are but a part of the glory of the Lord manifested in His people! The people were sanctified to-day and to-morrow, and washed their clothes to be in readiness against the third day (Exodus 19:10). 3. TO WIN YOU MUST BE FOCUSED ON THE GOAL. 8. There is endearment. 5. It is very significant that they should be closely associated in our text with " God the Judge of all." 1. The stripping off of this carcase gives a sympathy, gives a contact, gives an intuition of love such as cannot be had here. Hebrews 12:2. This subject presents a motive for —. Sermon. Now you and I could not see a man suffer out of pure benevolence without being moved by his sufferings, and shall God be unmoved? Johannine Writings The majesty and glory of the great God makes it awful conversing with Him. This entry was posted in New Park Street - Vol 5 and tagged charles spurgeon audio, Hebrews 12, sermon 236, shameful sufferer, Spurgeon gospel on November 19, 2019 by zachkispert. Consider Christ, our Mediator, in His GRACES: these are the sweet savour of His ointments that make the virgins love Him. Observe, that this voice is identical with the voice of the Lord Jesus. The disembodied saint ascertains the future stage to which it constantly approaches, which is the last of all, and which is only wanted to complete his entire being. -------------------- If we knew ourselves we should bless God for our sorrows. To mingle with them in many relations is a necessity of life. It is the duty of the members of Christ's Church, as heirs of the celestial inheritance, to set their hearts and hopes on heaven. Sermon Hebrews 11:29- 12:2 Eagle Rock Presbyterian Church April 19, 2007. 2. 1. The One who created the universe, and holds it together. John Piper Jun 30, 1991 116 Shares ... Scripture: Hebrews 12:2. But this is asserted as a privilege unknown before. (3) This comfortable converse with God is promoted and maintained by earnest endeavours after conformity to God in righteousness and true holiness (1 Peter 1:16). Was there not added to this fact that our Lord died to vindicate the honour of His Father? God said to the people, "Come now, let us reason together saith the Lord, though your sins are as scarlet, you can be as white as snow.". 1. And then, more awful still, a voice, a voice of words — but not an earthly voice, of human words. And even the best of brother believers have their moments of failure and misapprehension. WHERE ARE WE? Hebrews 11:2-6, 39 ~ The Commendation of Faith PDF, Sermon Audio. There is no limit to progress in love and knowledge. She said, "It is my last visit to you: to-morrow I am to see Him, and after that sight I shall have no eye for aught else." Then, further, these spirits are " perfect." The Spirit of God must make you a new creature in Christ Jesus, and then the porter will open the wicket, and say, "Come in, and welcome." THEY CONSCIOUSLY LIVE IN A SPIRITUALLY ACCESSIBLE STATE. It would be well for us to remember that we are always in sight. Abraham, a liar. Poetical Books For the idea in the verb is that of looking away from one thing to some other thing. The worship and service of God (1 Thessalonians 1:9). 9. God has knit together His elect in one communion and fellowship. Hebrews 12:1-3 Hebrews 12:2-3 "Let Us Fix Our Eyes on Jesus" Introduction Run the race. WHAT WE LOOK AWAY FROM. 5. (4) Another instance wherein believers have comfortably conversed with God the Judge of all lies in a hearty approval of all providential dispensations to themselves and others. You must first be born again, and become one of the firstborn. The adoring gratitude must be very earnest. To these models our Saviour Himself leads us in the form of devotion He gave to His disciples; in which He teaches us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven." The apostle says, "We are come to the blood of sprinkling." It is begun in the conviction or sensibleness a soul has that he is a guilty lost sinner. We are summoned to meditate them in a new condition. (3) Believers' comfortable converse with God is further prevented or interrupted by a changing or shifting the foundation of our faith and hope. The contemplation of departed saints is calculated to animate us in the discharge of duty, and to make us persevere in the practice of holiness. II. III. It is seen only here and in Philippians 2:23, and it signifies, “looking away from all else to fix one’s gaze upon.” When we take our eyes off of Him, our circumstances are sure to weigh us down. And all these comings, need we say? conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy He is "received up into glory!" God promised the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendants (Gen. 17:8) and He later gave them that land (Josh. Oct 28, 2018. 4. Our desire is to them. The apostle speaks of it as a privilege attending their state, not a blessing peculiar to some extraordinary frames. Hebrews 11:29-12:2 - By faith the people passed through the - Bible Gateway. Prophets Go forth to rest and home! Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. I. The Prophet s Potent Poise Elijah said to her, Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. It is said, I scarcely care to ask whether in history or fiction, that there was one from whom had been taken away by the stroke of death " the desire of his eyes," the wife of his youth. He saw more with his sense of truth, his power of insight, his superiority to this world's considerations, than we can see. Then disgrace not your family. Where are we right now? Introduction To The Epistle; God's Perfect Spokesman (1:1-3) Jesus' Superiority To Angels (1:4-14) Lest We Drift Away (2:1-4) Advantages Of Jesus' Humanity (2:5-18) The Supremacy Of Jesus Over Moses (3:1-6) A Warning From The Wilderness (3:7-19) The Rest That Remains (4:1-11) God's Powerful Word (4:12-13) … Johannine Writings 4. It is a body. There is the great Reservoir from which all men may fill their tiny cups. How can we in reason expect to be " numbered with God's saints in glory everlasting," if it be not our constant study to follow them as they followed Christ, "in all lowliness and meekness, in long-suffering and loving forbearance"? What a world of private wickedness will they develop! Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Hebrews 4:12 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources "THE WORD OF GOD." That in my secret heart, no other love competes, No rival throne survives and I serve only Thee. Must a soul be brought to submit to the rights of God's justice in order to a comfortable converse with Him as Judge of all? 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The one is endearing. Come to the Mediator, so as to be united to Him; participate a new nature through Him (2 Corinthians 5:17), rely on His sacrifice, obey His commandments, and, according to the aforementioned figure, to be taken by Him at last to the city of God (Revelation 3:21). Here, then, is the voice of the gospel; it is not the voice of a trumpet, nor the voice of words spoken in terrible majesty; but the blood speaks, and assuredly there is no sound more piercing, more potent, more prevailing. — which hast long walked in darkness, brooded in sorrow, pined in weariness — spirit! Will you run for the crown? Then hark again! It is a glory perceptible from the common historian's point of view. I know we have come to church and have assembled for worship, but what is this worship thing all about? Dare we go to holy ordinances drowned in the cares of this life, reeking in the filth of some unsubdued lust? IN WHAT INSTANCES AND BY WHAT METHODS THIS CONVERSE WHICH BELIEVERS HAVE WITH GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL IS MAINTAINED AND CARRIED ON. This work of mediation is carried on by His Word, by His servants speaking in His name, by the ordinances of the gospel, and by the influences of His Spirit. When I am afraid, He stands by my side. The source of all is in the Infinite Plenitude. 3. FAITH CARRIES US WHILE LIVING TO THE SOCIETY OF THE LIVING DEAD. The Church is as Mount Zion that standeth fast for ever, and cannot be removed. The Paperback Bible. They belong to a very different sphere. Then hark! (2) It was the joy of union. It is no bathing in Lethe, for the obliteration of earth's memories and the annihilation of human affections, which the gospel opens to us as the prize of the race to him that overcometh. "That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, He might gather together in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in Him." Watch; March 4, 2018. 3. They of this household are all they who are the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Correspondent to the first-named privilege there is the duty of loyalty to Christ. Where your treasure is, there let your heart be also. Its spirituality. (1) By looking often to the everlasting settlements and grace of the covenant; what God does in time is by virtue of covenant-agreement with His Christ and our Surety in eternity (Psalm 98:3). Is worship anything more than just gathering together with friends on Sunday morning for prayer and singing some familiar hymns? Happy are they that be of the Church. A. -------------------- Watch Queue Queue. John Piper Jun 30, 1991 116 Shares Sermon. which wast long tossed with tempest, harassed by hostility, vexed with care — spirit! (1) A great part of this comfortable converse with God lies in those high and honourable thoughts which believers have of His righteousness as Judge of all. The intellectual faculty must be very clear. Let me point you to one other consideration bearing not so much on the condition as on the place of these perfected spirits. b. Paul desired to fulfill God's purpose for his life. "Rest with us" is something different from this selfish, this isolated, this drowsy repose. -------------------- God judges of all my thoughts and actions by the same law now that sentence is to be passed by in the great day of accounts.Use: 1. And so again, because it was sensuous and artificial, it was terrible. It comprehends patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs — angels. Pauline Epistles Were it not a great privilege, it would be less envied, less obstructed. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point He understands its nature. He is goodness, kindness, gentleness, and He is God. e. To the woman that was brought to Him taken in the very act of adultery. 2. Now, in the second place, let us view the contrast, in all its particulars, which marks THE DISPENSATION UNDER WHICH WE ARE PLACED. These sermons were preached from October 2015 - September of 2016. OUR ACCESSION OR RELATION TO IT. Would you see God now? We are joined to the Lord, and are one spirit. IV. He is the rebuke of all men's guilt-born fears about God, and all their hard thoughts of Him. We come to them in earnest hope.Lessons: 1. Let us conclude with two questions. (1) This comfortable converse with God is greatly obstructed when it is apprehended that only the benefits and effects of Christ's righteousness are communicated to believers, and not the very righteousness itself. 3. You are guilty and you feel ashamed. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Hebrews 4:12 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources "THE WORD OF GOD." Let the views of these glorious and animated prospects raise our souls to God in grateful adoration of His goodness and love (Psalm 31:21; Psalm 72:18, 19). Hebrews 12:2 What Does Hebrews 12:2 Mean? in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. But that even then we shall be absolutely alone is only conjecture; and if we must conjecture, I for one would rather take the other side, and believe that since God gives us company here from the moment of birth to the moment of death, He will have other company awaiting us there, so that we shall take no step in loneliness or dread, but enter at once and easily into the higher fellowships, and go forward with a cheerful confidence through the valley of transition. The self revolves upon its own centre, ever substantiating what it really is, ever enjoying its proper exercises of understanding and emotion. By Dr. Philip W. McLarty. I. Lastly, as to THEIR ADORATION OF GOD IN HEAVEN. THEY CONSCIOUSLY LIVE IN A MORALLY PERFECT STATE. There it was! Grace in Christ is after a more eminent and glorious manner than it is in any of the saints. 1. He had laid her in the earth; yet night after night she visited him in his chamber, herself yet not herself, the same but a thousandfold more beautiful — and in that periodical converse, making night day for him and darkness light, he half forgot his bereavement and his desolation. How may this state of spiritualism be conceived? There is another matter in the text with which I conclude. Yes, they are "the spirits of just men made perfect": their guilt is wholly cancelled, and their depravity is completely done away. Furthermore, JESUS' BLOOD SPEAKS BETTER THINGS TO US IN OUR OWN HEARTS than the blood of Abel. Hebrews 12:2(NASB) Verse Thoughts. Pauline Epistles Sometimes I think I've had it bad when someone has made a sluring remark about my faith. Instead of fixing our thoughts on "pre-sin," what does God say is the best focus for our thoughts? The author and finisher of our faith - Who begins it in us, carries it on, and perfects it. Hebrews 12:2, 3: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. 3. 1. He lays His Cross athwart the threatening law, and takes away its curse. A. Protected by them (Psalm 34:7). A great, sensuous thing, that could not but make its own impression on those who saw and heard it, and, through them, might gain the ear and heart of posterity and all the world. The author now turns to my particular favorite set of words in Scripture by saying, “looking unto Jesus.” The word “looking” is from the compound Greek word aphoraó. Well, first, ye are come to the hearing of the gospel of the atoning sacrifice. Are now our affections set on things above? It arises from the new covenant in contradistinction from the old. Only a storm, say you? Privilege is the measure of responsibility. Praise and worship Him for He is the prize for which we run and only He can give us endurance. Even nature demands something different. Make a Name for Yourself - Genesis, 2 Samuel; Delight in Discipline - Hebrews 12; The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength - Nehemiah 8; Scriptures: Hebrews 12:4-11. Is it so solemn a thing for believers in Christ to come to God the Judge of all; how or "where then must the sinner and the ungodly appear"? THEY CONSCIOUSLY LIVE IN A GLORIOUSLY SOCIAL STATE. Luke-Acts It makes the objects of our cognition so real and vivid that we possess in our thought the very substance of them. For all of eternity Christ is in the bosom of the Father, exchanging love and being loved. Hebrews 12:2 Christian Joy. The true answer, Divinely written, at the first, upon the heart and conscience and intelligence of man; ay, written, too, on every leaf of nature's living page, in golden letters of the sunlight, in silver gleamings from the moon and stars, sharp graven on the mountain edges, on azure page of heaven, had faded from man's heart and eye and ear. They are no more seen in a compound nature. A. WE ARE COME TO THEM AS PATTERNS, whose example we are to imitate. General assembly and Church of the firstborn. Instead of being excluded from the beatific presence of Jehovah, and falling under the condemnation of the Almighty, they are now reaping the honours and the felicity of the righteous. God's omniscience is another thing which makes it solemn conversing with God as Judge of all (Hebrews 4:13). The first and least thing here said — itself great and glorious too — is the union of the Christian living with the Christian dead in their faith and in their example. 23:13-14). He is the outstretched hand of God to every repenting sinner. Scripture: Hebrews 11:39–12:2. b. 12. Jesus Christ, our Mediator, hath perfection in every grace. SermonAudio.com - Hebrews 12 Sermons. Insensibly they affect that standard of excellence at which we ought to aim. Scripture: Hebrews 11:39–12:2. He is a panoply, magazine, and storehouse of all heavenly treasure, all fulness. How needful is a doctrinal clearness in the business of a sinner's justification in the sight of God! 1. From which I infer that Jesus Christ shot some rays of His victorious and all-reconciling power from His Cross into the regions of darkness, and brought thence those who were waiting for His coming through many a long age. It is wrought out into its fullest development. And then there is, not merely the city of the believer's habitation, but his associates and his friends. 1. He wanted but this consummation. Alas 1 there is too little of it in our churches and assemblies. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. 3. I. Think what the example of angels teaches us in this great portion of the Christian life. It still " follows on to know the Lord," it still "follows hard after God.". Paul asked, "Who is he that condemneth? Barnes's Hebrews 12:2 Bible Commentary Looking unto Jesus - As a further inducement to do this, the apostle exhorts us to look to the Saviour. Jesus as much as said, "That's none of your business, you just stay focused on Me.". The Gospels Johannine Writings Surely a believer's converse with God must be very precious when Satan finds out so many ways to prevent and interrupt it. long lacerated and bruised with inward wounds — spirit! He is forever the Beloved Son of the Father in Whom God is well pleased. Hebrews, Expository Sermons - From The Executable Outlines Series by Mark A. Copeland - Hundreds of free sermon outlines and Bible study materials available for … The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, Last week we established that the Bible is the word of God, and as such, we should give the more earnest heed to the things that we have heard, for in the Bible, the eternal God the Creator is speaking to His creation. Because God dwells in Him, and the Word became flesh, He is able to lay His hand upon both, and to bring God to man, and man to God. When we take our eyes off of Him, our circumstances are sure to weigh us down. Ye live in a state of union and friendship with Him. 1-2. 3. By what means this comfortable converse with God as Judge of all is prevented and interrupted? Hebrews 12:2-3 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. You must, then, appeal to some lower part of his nature; to his self-interest, if he is capable of perceiving it, if not, to his fear. Ye abide in Him by faith and love, and ere long shall ye be for ever with Him. 2. When it was done, there was not a vestige of the sensuous left. You know with what solemnity and preparation they of old attended on God when giving the law. He saw her no more. Instead of fixing our thoughts on "pre-sin," what does God say is the best focus for our thoughts? 20. 4. Sermon. Hebrews 11:29--12:2 | Search Results | Sermon and Worship Resources This Week It was the sense that He would be united with you and me; that was the joy of Jesus Christ. There is an instinct as well as a revelation of this advent of the living to the departed. But he went on to say, "The faith which is by him has given him this complete healing in the presence of you all.". (2) This comfortable converse is interrupted by supposing that the great God has put all His creatures, believers as well as others, into a state of probation or trial, and that a man cannot be fully persuaded of the safety of his state till the day of his death. The men and women of faith listed in Hebrews 11 were not perfect people. Lastly to think of their happiness! They that run in a race, run all, but only one receives the prize, so run that you might obtain. The Whole Bible We see the faith of one who submits to death with the certainty that he will rise again, and in due time he does rise again. Hebrews 12 Commentary; C H SPURGEON. 4. THE NATURE AND PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Hebrews 12:2(ISV) Verse Thoughts. (cf. Our knowledge may be a lamp unlighted as well as burning. Running with the Witnesses. What warrior blast is that? They were children, and wanted to see in order to believe. But because it was sensuous, it was artificial, unreal. III. 2. 23 DAYS LEFT. The heaven of perfect spirits must be chiefly this. If you notice in the second text, this blood is called "the blood of sprinkling." And so, to the world has been given the unalienable possession of the knowledge of the "better country, the heavenly," which is on the other side of death, in which the Saviour is, into which He has already gathered myriads of His friends, to which so many of our own friends have gone, and to which we ourselves are travelling. Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission! It is His work as well to convince of sin as of righteousness (John 16:8). How then do we come? The necessity of laying aside every weight and running with patience the race that is set before us. And there are two classes of beings that will contribute much to our satisfaction and improvement. The Old Testament NOT ONLY DID HE BEGIN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION IN ME, HE WILL FINISH THAT WORK. Minister to them (Hebrews 1:14). Born again, or born from above, is to have enrolment and citizenship there — it is to have our treasure there and our heart also. Again, let us consider, that if we are indeed faithful servants of Christ Jesus, then we are members of that Comumnion of Saints, that mystical body, whereof He is the Head. It makes no appeal to our fears; only to our reason and our love. 5. Ye are come to the spirits and souls of the righteous in their sympathy. THESE SEPARATED SPIRITS ARE REPRESENTED TO US AS IN A STATE OF EXALTED ADVANCEMENT, DEPENDING UPON THEIR DISEMBODIMENT. 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