The point of this rather wonderful chapter, the great faith chapter in the Bible, is this: if those upon whom the life of the gospel of God’s divine grace was shown but in shadows (that they had not experienced the surpassing greatness of the revelation of God in Christ), yet they were willing to bear pain sorrow, and privation trusting in the promises of God to them of something better than mere material benefits, though they did not become beneficiaries of those promises while they lived (though they acted as though they possessed them), how much more should we believe, trust and obey in God’s instruction who have become the recipients of far greater revelations of grace than they.