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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, Lord, as we are about to open the Word again this evening, we ask for your presence.

And I pray that you would speak to us from your Word.

Give us a double portion of Your Spirit to help us to understand.

And most of all, may Jesus Christ be uplifted now we pray, in Jesus' name, Amen.

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11.

By faith he, speaking of Moses, forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them." We've already seen when Moses left Egypt for the first time at the age of 40 when he killed the Egyptian soldier and Pharaoh was seeking for his life.

But now we've come to the point where God is about to pour the 10 plagues on Egypt.

And of course, if you know about the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, that is the 10th plague.

But there are a few parts that lead up to this before we get there, and so I want to go back a little bit in time.

Let's go to Exodus chapter 3, starting in verse 9.

This is talking about the burning bush experience when God calls Moses in the wilderness while he's taking care of sheep.

Now therefore behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me, and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppressed them." Verse 10, Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

God speaks to Moses, saying that He wants him to be the 1 that would lead the children of Israel out of Egypt.

God speaks to Moses saying that He wants him to be the 1 that would lead the children of Israel out of Egypt.

And Moses said unto God, Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

God gives him a reply that it's basically the rest of this chapter in chapter 3.

We're not going to read through it for the sake of time.

But you see Moses, he's being humble here.

He has lots of reasons and he does begin to give them in the next chapter.

But God basically lays out the whole plan and makes it very clear.

But he makes it very clear, Moses you are the 1 that I've chosen to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt.

And after God gives this whole grand plan and shares it, it's about 11 verses that He shares it in Exodus chapter 3, God is just speaking for the rest of Exodus 3, but now Exodus chapter 4, verse 1.

But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice, for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.

And then God responds again for the next 8 verses, and he says, look, here's a rod, throw it down on the ground, it becomes a serpent, take it back again, it becomes a rod again, put your hand into your bosom, take it out, it becomes all leprous, white as snow, puts it back in, takes it out, the leprosy is gone.

And then He says, look, this is ample evidence that I am the 1 that has sent you.

So if they don't believe it, then show them these miracles.

And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant, but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.

The Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth?

Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind?

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

So Moses says, look God, alright, you want me to go and they believe me but God I can't speak Egyptian anymore I'm slow of tongue I haven't learned the language anymore and God says don't worry I'll be with your mouth I'll give you the gift of tongues So at this point Moses has no more excuses if we could say that His humility That's it That's as far as his humility will take him.

God are you sure you're the 1 that sent me?

God has dealt with every single 1 of these reasons.

Now look at what Moses says in reply verse 13.

And he said, Oh my Lord, send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

You know, that doesn't sound like a statement of faith, does it?

And then Moses replies, God, send the man that you want to send.

Who else did God want to send except Him?

He's been talking to Him this whole time.

Moses at this point is not being humble anymore.

Doubting God, doubting himself and really when he's doubting himself he's doubting the God that's behind who's able to do all these miracles, who's able to give him the gift of tongues to speak the Egyptian language again.

Moses' faith has is really weak at this point.

You know friends we can get to this point in our humility that it actually turns to doubt where Moses is just reluctant.

But God, look, He had made it clear that He was ready to work through Moses.

Verse 14, And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?

And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

And thou shalt speak to him, and put words in his mouth, and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what ye shall do.

And he, speaking of Aaron, he shall be thy spokesman unto the people and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

So God says, okay Moses, now you got to the point where I made it so clear, now I'm angry, you're not just humble anymore, you're just doubting me.

So he says, I'm going to call Aaron and I'm going to get him to do what you didn't want to do.

God created this role for Aaron because Moses was reluctant.

And so, look, God could have given him the gift of tongues.

He didn't need Aaron to stand by his side and go into Pharaoh.

He wanted to work directly through Moses.

And sometimes, friends, we miss out on blessings because we make too many excuses, because we doubt too much how God wants to work through you and me.

And you know, friends, if God calls you, He will also qualify the call, meaning He will do it through us.

He will be faithful to finish the work that He has begun in each of us.

But because of Moses' excuses, and sometimes because of our excuses, God chooses to place his blessing on someone else instead.

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