DISCORSO: 2317 LA NATURA DELLA FEDE Ebrei 11:1 . _Ora la fede è la sostanza delle cose sperate, l'evidenza delle cose non viste_ . CONSIDERANDO quanto le Scritture parlano di fede, ci si stupisce che il tema della fede occupi così poco l'attenzione del mondo in generale, o anche del mondo religio... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2318 ABEL’S OFFERING INSTRUCTIVE TO US Ebrei 11:4. _By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh_. IN reading the history of the saints under the... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2319 ENOCH’S TRANSLATION Ebrei 11:5. _By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God_. AMONGST those who obtained a good report through faith, Enoch bears... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2320 THE NECESSITY OF FAITH Ebrei 11:6. _Without faith it is impossible to please_ [_God_.] THIS whole chapter is one continued commendation of faith: which is marked, throughout, as the one source of every good action, and as the certain prelude to everlasting felicity. But, in what is... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2321 NOAH’S FAITH Ebrei 11:7. _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_. OF all the principles which operate in... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2322 ABRAHAM’S LIFE A PATTERN FOR OURS Ebrei 11:8. _By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, d... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2323 THE PRACTICAL EFFICACY OF FAITH Ebrei 11:13. _These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth_. THE precepts contained in Scriptu... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCORSO: 2324 IL DESIDERIO DEL CRISTIANO Ebrei 11:16 . _Ora desiderano una patria migliore, cioè celeste: perciò Dio non si vergogna di essere chiamato loro Dio_ . OVUNQUE il Vangelo sia dichiarato fedelmente, è generalmente noto che dobbiamo essere salvati «dalla stessa fede che abitò nel nostr... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2325 ABRAHAM OFFERING UP ISAAC Ebrei 11:17. _By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCORSO: 2326 SCELTA DI MOSÈ Ebrei 11:24 . _Per fede Mosè, divenuto adulto, rifiutò di essere chiamato figlio della figlia del Faraone; scegliendo piuttosto di soffrire afflizione con il popolo di Dio, piuttosto che godere dei piaceri del peccato per una stagione; stimando il biasimo di Cristo ri... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2327 FAITH SEEING THE INVISIBLE GOD Ebrei 11:27. _He endured, as seeing him who is invisible_. NOT any one of all the catalogue of worthies in the Old Testament, not even Abraham himself, stands higher than Moses; who, when possessed of all that rank and affluence could confer on man, a... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2328 MOSES’ FAITH IN RELATION TO THE PASSOVER Ebrei 11:28. _Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them_. PERSONS, when speaking upon the comparative excellences of faith and works, are very apt to overlook the... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2329 THE WALLS OF JERICHO THROWN DOWN BY FAITH Ebrei 11:30. _By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days_. HOW intelligent creatures should be affected by any principle, is easy to be conceived; because the human mind is susceptible of the stronge... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2330 RAHAB CONCEALING THE SPIES Ebrei 11:31. _By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace_. FAITH is usually considered merely as an assent to testimony; human faith having respect to human testimony, and divine to that... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2331 POWER OF FAITH Ebrei 11:32. _And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets; who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped t... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2332 GOD’S ESTIMATE OF HIS PEOPLE Ebrei 11:38. _Of whom the world was not worthy_. THESE words are introduced in a parenthesis; and are intended to obviate an objection, which might weaken, if not make void, the foregoing statement. The Apostle has been insisting upon the operations and... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2333 THE ADVANTAGES ENJOYED UNDER THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Ebrei 11:39. _These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect_. WHEN we hear or read of the saints... [ Continua a leggere ]