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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 for this time that we have to study together.

Thank you Lord for your watch care over us this past week.

And Lord now as we're about to open the word to study, we just ask that you'd please be with us.

Speak to our hearts so gently that we might understand the word that we're about to look at, and more than anything else, the message that you have for us, may that reign supreme above anything else.

May Jesus be lifted up at this time we pray in Jesus name, Amen.

So we are looking at the faith of Moses and I've entitled it part 1 because you see in Hebrews chapter 11 there is quite a lot of text, a lot of description that is given to Moses.

I think Abraham is probably the top in terms of his life and description given, but we're gonna spend a few weeks on the faith of Moses.

Hebrews chapter 11, starting in verse 24.

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect under the recompense of the reward.

We started there in verse 24, and about 3 weeks ago, we studied verse 23 about the faith of Moses' parents.

They would be the 1 that would set the foundation and lay the table for Moses to walk in this life of faith.

Do you know that Moses, the name Moses, was not actually given by his biological mother?

It was actually given by the daughter of Pharaoh, okay?

It was given by the daughter of Pharaoh that actually gave that name to Moses and you read it in Exodus 2, verse 10.

But anyways, in Hebrews 11, 24, we read this, "'By faith Moses, when he was come to us, he refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter.

When Moses was brought to the Egyptian palace he knew already where his loyalties lay.

We don't know much of his years in the Egyptian palace but we do know that he never acknowledged Pharaoh's daughter as his mother.

It was in those years that he was growing up as a baby up until about the age of 12 before he went in to the Egyptian palace.

Those were the years that he learned to be faithful to God and understand his role and especially his people.

And it wasn't the Egyptians, it was the Israelites.

How important is the role of the Christian mother?

We think that housewife is a degrading title but there is no other work that can actually equal this.

The greatest statesman, the greatest missionary, the greatest preacher that baptized thousands of people can never equal the importance of the role of the mother.

It is in the mother's hands and in her ability and her responsibility that she holds to a great extent the destiny of her children, who would go forth from the home and eventually shape or even lead nations.

The impressions that are made upon those that are young will remain with them throughout all their life for better or even for worse.

And so of course, look, there was 1 thing that Moses did not learn to do from his biological mother, and that was to kill.

That was what he learned in the Egyptian palace.

You know, in Acts chapter 7, verse 22, let's turn the Bibles there.

Acts 7 22 the Bible says, And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds.

His Egyptian education made him 1 of the greatest generals.

He was really the pride of the nation of Egypt.

And it was there that he would learn to be a leader of armies, a leader of people in a sense, from the worldly standpoint.

But yet the Bible tells us back in Hebrews 11 that he would choose to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

Look, although he was trained up in Egypt, he would never forget God.

He wouldn't bow down to the idols in Egypt.

He would always remember that God, Jehovah God, had a special work for him.

And he would eventually choose to suffer affliction.

You know friends, we forget that sin is pleasurable.

It appeals to our carnal senses, our old man of sin.

It's talking about the parable of the 4 grounds and 1 of these grounds is being described here.

And that which fell among thorns are they which when they have heard they go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection.

Friends there is a group in the church those that hear the word of God and they fall short of eternal life because why?

They love, the Bible says, they love the pleasures of this life.

2 Timothy 3, starting in verse 1, talking about our days.

It talks about the end times, the last days.

2 Timothy 3, verse 1, the Bible begins like this.

This know also that in the last days, perilous, dangerous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despises of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded.

And then it says this at the end of verse 4, Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

You know, in the last days, lovers of pleasures are 1 of the factors that make those days, our days that we're living in, dangerous, Do you know that?

People are just in pursuit today of pleasure, pleasure, pleasure.

Whatever makes me feel good, whatever makes me feel happy, whatever quote-unquote seems to bring joy and laughter into my life.

And As a result, we come short of bringing fruit unto perfection.

Let's turn the Bibles to Psalms 16 and verse 11.

Psalm 1611, Thou wilt show me the path of life.

In thy presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Looking at the pleasures of this world and telling yourself this is not good for you will never be convincing enough.

Just repeating to yourself over and over again, These pleasures of the world are not good for you.

The world and its pleasures are not good for you.

Don't go night clubbing, don't go drinking, don't go partying, don't go smoking, don't go out so late at night, don't do this and don't do that.

And repeating yourself to yourself over and over and over again will never make you hate the world and love Jesus more.

Hearing a sermon every week about it will not change your life.

What we need is an experience with Jesus.

In His presence there is fullness of joy and at His right hand there are pleasures evermore.

Many of us we still love the world because we've not learned to come into the presence of Jesus.

We haven't understood what it means to have a relationship with Him.

Pleasures, lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God.

And so, unless we have an encounter with Jesus, we will never hate the world.

And that's why some of these texts, let's turn to another text, Luke chapter 14 and verse 26.

If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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