Come out of Egypt
Ex 13:3
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
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Heb 11:1
11:1 now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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FAITH
Heb 11:1, “the substance of things hoped for (i.e., it substantiates God’s promises, the fulfillment of which we hope, it makes them present realities), the evidence (elengchos, the ‘convincing proof’ or ‘demonstration’) of things not seen.” Faith accepts the truths revealed on the testimony of God (not merely on their intrinsic reasonableness),
James 2:14
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?
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Ex 13:9
[And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand] This direction, repeated and enlarged Ex 13:16, gave rise to phylacteries or tepillin, and this is one of the passages which the Jews write upon them to the present day. The manner in which the Jews understood and kept these commands may appear in their practice. They wrote the following four portions of the law upon slips of parchment or vellum: “Sanctify unto me the first-born,” see Ex 13:2-10. “And it shall be, when the Lord shall bring thee into the land,” see Ex 13:11-16. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord” see Deut 6:4-9. “And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently,” see Deut 11:13-21. These four portions, making in all 30 verses, written as mentioned above, and covered with leather, they tied to the forehead and to the hand or arm.
FAITH
Heb 11:1, “the substance of things hoped for (i.e., it substantiates God’s promises, the fulfillment of which we hope, it makes them present realities), the evidence (elengchos, the ‘convincing proof’ or ‘demonstration’) of things not seen.” Faith accepts the truths revealed on the testimony of God (not merely on their intrinsic reasonableness), that testimony being to us given in Holy Scripture. Where sight is, there faith ceases (John 20:29; 1 Peter 1:8). We are justified (i.e. counted just before God) judicially by God (Rom 8:33), meritoriously by Christ (Isa 53:11; Rom 5:19), mediately or instrumentally by faith (Rom 5:1), evidentially by works. Loving trust. James 2:14-26, “though a man say he hath faith, and have not works, can (such a) faith save him?” the emphasis is on “say,” it will be a mere saying, and can no more save the soul than saying to a “naked and destitute brother, be warmed and filled” would warm and fill him. “Yea, a man (holding right views) may say, Thou hast faith and I have works, show (exhibit to) me (if thou canst, but it is impossible) thy (alleged) faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” Abraham believed, and was justified before God on the ground of believing (Gen 15:6). Forty years afterward, when God did” tempt,” i.e. put him to the test, his justification was demonstrated before the world by his offering Isaac (Gen 22). “As the body apart from (chooris) the spirit is dead, so faith without the works (which ought to evidence it) is dead also.” We might have expected faith to answer to the spirit, works to the body. As James reverses this, he must mean by “faith” here the FORM of faith, by “works” the working reality. Living faith does not derive its life from works, as the body does from its animating spirit. But faith, apart from the spirit of faith, which is LOVE (whose evidence is works), is dead, as the body is dead without the spirit; thus James exactly agrees with Paul, 1 Cor 13:2, “though I have all faith … and have not charity (love), I am nothing.”
In its barest primary form, faith is simply crediting or accepting God’s testimony (1 John 5:9-13). Not to credit it is to make God a “liar”! a consequence which unbelievers may well start back from. The necessary consequence of crediting God’s testimony (pisteuoo Theoo) is believing in (pisteuoo eis ton huion, i.e. trusting in) the Son of God; for He, and salvation in Him alone, form the grand subject of God’s testimony. The Holy Spirit alone enables any man to accept God’s testimony and accept Jesus Christ, as his divine Savior, and so to “have the witness in himself” (1 Cor 12:3). Faith is receptive of God’s gratuitous gift of eternal life in Christ. Faith is also an obedience to God’s command to believe (1 John 3:23); from whence it is called the “obedience of faith” (Rom 1:5; 16:26; Acts 6:7), the highest obedience, without which works seemingly good are disobediences to God (Heb 11:6). Faith justifies not by its own merit, but by the merit of Him in whom we believe (Rom 4:3; Gal 3:6). Faith makes the interchange, whereby our sin is imputed to Him and His righteousness is imputed to us (2 Cor 5:19,21; Jer 23:6; 1 Cor 1:30). “Such are we in the sight of God the Father, as is the very Son of God Himself” (Hooker) (2 Peter 1:1; Rom 3:22; 4:6; 10:4; Isa 42:21; 45:21,24-25).
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