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Hebrews 11- Faith

Benjamin Ng

01 The Faith of Abel

02 The Faith of Enoch

03 The Faith of Noah

05 The Faith of Sarah

08 The Faith of Jacob

09 The Faith of Joseph Part 1

11 The Faith of Moses’ Parents

10 The Faith of Joseph Part 2

13 The Faith of Moses Part 2

14 The Faith of Moses Part 3

12 The Faith of Moses Part 1

15 The Faith of Rahab

16 The Faith of Gideon

07 The Faith of Isaac

17 The Faith of Barak

19 The Faith of Samson

20 The Faith of Jephthah

21 The Faith of David

22 The Faith of Samuel

04 The Faith of Abraham Part 1

06 The Faith of Abraham Part 2

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this week.

Thank you Lord for the time that even now we can come and study together.

Thank you for giving us the strength, the wisdom to accomplish the tasks for this past week and that we can rest fully in you this day.

Will you please guide us Lord as we study now.

Lead us with your Holy Spirit, oh Lord, we pray.

Let's turn the Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11, the source of all our past studies as we're looking at the faith series.

And so Hebrews 11 we're looking at verse 23 today.

Hebrews 11 23, please turn with me in your Bibles.

Hebrews 11 23, by faith Moses when he was born was hid 3 months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

So obviously this was speaking about the parents, not Moses and his faith.

It was talking about how the parents were the ones that hid Moses for 3 months.

The mom is more famous, but the dad's name is mentioned in the Bible as well.

But look, there's some things to observe from Hebrews 11 and that passage there.

They were not afraid of the King's commandments.

Well, in Exodus 1, there arose this pharaoh that chose not to remember what Joseph had done for the nation of Egypt, which was pretty much save the whole country, the whole state, the whole city.

And he chose to ignore what Joseph had done and the Israelites began to multiply And guess what?

That Pharaoh obviously got worried that these Israelites might join someone else 1 day to fight against them So they made them slaves But that didn't work.

The harder they worked, the more they multiplied.

God was bringing a great nation growing up there in the land of Egypt.

And so this is where Pharaoh issued an order in Exodus chapter 1.

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew woman, and see upon them the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive." So these midwives, they were Israelites, they were Hebrews, but they were instructed that if you saw that it was a male, kill it.

But the midwives of course feared God and they refused to do that and God instead blessed them and the children of Israel multiplied even more.

Verse 22, Exodus chapter 1 verse 22, And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born, ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

So it became an executive order, straight from the highest authority in the land, from Pharaoh himself.

And look, friends, it takes courage if you want to follow Jesus.

It takes courage if you want to live by faith.

Going against the commandment of a king is not a small order.

Look, going against the wishes of your parents, going against the order of your boss or your teacher at school, that's nothing in comparison to going against what?

The prime minister or the king or the sultan or whoever the government.

Moses' parents, look, they looked at Moses when he was born and in Hebrews 11, it said that they saw that he was a proper child.

Look, that's nothing out of the ordinary.

Every parent when their child is born, and honestly I don't know how they always think that the kid is covered in white or in red or coming out screaming but every parent when the kid comes out they think that this kid is the most beautiful kid alive so this there was nothing really special about Moses's birth there was nothing that that seemed to make them to have to think this way that, okay, Moses is destined for greatness.

Obviously, they must have remembered the prophecies of Joseph and Abraham that we studied last week.

Look, they must have been students of prophecy, that they were willing to take the risk of their own life, disobey the Pharaoh or the King's command just to keep their son alive.

They were living in what we call unusual times, a decree from the king to kill their sons.

Not everyone was keeping their sons alive, I guess, for fear of Pharaoh and what he was going to do to them.

But we see here that Moses' parents were willing to take that risk.

By faith, they saw that he was a good kid, a proper child, and what did faith do?

Look, What was the prophecy that Joseph gave?

Let's turn our Bibles to Genesis chapter 50 and verse 24.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

You're not going to stay in Egypt forever.

No, God is going to bring you out and bring you to the land of Canaan.

But look, the people kept the promise in their hearts but many forgot it really.

And they forgot really that Abraham also had a prophecy.

Let's turn our Bibles to Genesis chapter 15.

That lines up with what Joseph said and is probably something that Moses' parents also remembered.

And he said unto Abraham, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them 400 years.

And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

So Abraham, he was given a time prophecy.

400 years, they would be in a strange land, Egypt.

And for those that were studying the prophecies, they would see and they could understand what?

That God, He was about to fulfill this prophecy.

And that it could have been possible that this child, who was born in unusual times, would be set up for the fulfillment of that prophecy.

But they were willing to take the chance.

Look, friends, I want to ask you, what is your part in the finishing of God's work on earth?

What is your part in this world for the hastening of the second coming of Jesus?

Have you looked at your life lately and wondered, God, what are you calling me to do?

We are living in a sense in unusual times.

Or do you think that your life is too ordinary and that there's nothing special so there's nothing that God would want to do through you, why would you go against the wishes of your parents or your boss or your teacher or your friend or even the government 1 day as what we're studying here?

As you look into the Scriptures and you recognize the winds of providence and act upon it, you understand your role in the wrapping up of God's work at the end of time.

Moses' parents looked upon this child, they were living in unusual times, and so, look, we've got to save this child, we're definitely not going to let him perish.

Maybe he's destined for something great in the Lord's work.

Now let's go to Exodus chapter 2, verse 1.

There went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him 3 months.

And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

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