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SPEAKER_01 (00:10):
All right, Hebrews chapter 11.
Uh verse 23 is where we'llstart.
We'll recap.
You know we are in the hall offaith, taking a little break
from our usual going through abook until uh well we're done
with this, and maybe if God putssomething on your heart, let me
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know what you're thinking you'dlike to go through.
We can always consider that.
Um, but in the meantime, we'rein no rust.
We're going through Hebrewschapter 11.
It's known as the Hall of Faith,and it's really just uh a
demonstration of people who havelived by faith.
Um, the direct purpose of thebook of Hebrews is kind of good
to keep in our mind every sooften that the author is writing
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to a group, a group of Hebrewbelievers uh who are being
tempted to go back to the law.
Uh they're being tempted todepart from salvation by grace
through faith and go back to thelaw of doing all the right
things.
And that's where salvation comesfrom.
Now that's never been the case,and that's really what the
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author is showing us in the bookuh chapter 11 here.
This hall of faith is that thosewho have loved God and lived for
God have always lived by faith,all the way back to Abel.
We saw Abel, a guy who lived byfaith and worshiped by faith.
We saw Enoch, a guy who walkedwith God.
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We saw Noah, uh, who by faithstepped out and and and built
the ark.
Um, we spent a little bit oftime considering Abraham, uh,
the father of the faithful, whoreally lived his life by faith.
That's what made him great.
Um and and we've considered thisthat the life of faith is
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something that you can do.
You can live by faith, a trustin who God is and what he's
like, living your life on thosethings.
You can do that, and it'sabsolutely worth it.
I think that's really themessage behind all of these.
Now, here we find ourselves inverse 23.
Um, we've gone from the book ofGenesis to the book of Exodus,
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and we have jumped right intothe life of Moses.
Moses, right?
Uh uh big in in the Hebrewfaith.
Uh Moses.
Uh, the law that he gave us, Godgave the law through Moses, is
oftentimes called the law ofMoses, right?
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And and so this is a big playerin in the Hebrew mind.
And the author wants us to knowthat the bottom line is he also
lived by faith, not by the law,but he was saved by faith.
Now, faith is simple trust, andit comes out in our life through
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the way we live.
And of course, that's what we'llsee again today, in a different
perspective, in a different way.
Let's look at verse 23 and we'llread to verse 27.
By faith, Moses, when he wasborn, was hidden three months by
his parents, because they saw hewas a beautiful child, and they
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were not afraid of the king'scommand.
By faith, Moses, when he becameof age, refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter,choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people ofGod than to enjoy the passing
pleasures of sin, esteeming thereproach of Christ greater
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riches than the riches of Egypt,for he looked to the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, notfearing the wrath of the king,
for he endured as seeing him whois invisible.
We'll stop there.
Moses.
Now, here we read by faithMoses.
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Uh uh, actually, we don't readthat.
Yeah, I know we do.
Moses, when he was born, butwe're really talking about
Moses' parents, aren't we?
Uh Exodus chapter 6, verse 20,we got names for him.
It's Amram and Jacobed.
And you know the story.
As the time came, uh the peopleof Israel were in Egypt, and
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there arose a king who did notknow Joseph.
And that king was paranoid.
He was quite paranoid and wasworried that the Hebrews would
begin to overpower the Egyptiansand become too numerous.
So he devises this plan to thinthem out a little bit.
Um, there he makes the command: all baby boys are to be thrown (05:06):
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into the river.
Infanticide, right?
And and you know the story, it'sresistance.
Moses's parents resist thatcommand of the king.
They put him in a basket, theylet him go.
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Moses washes up near Pharaoh'sdaughter as she's bathing down
by the river.
She collects him.
Exodus chapter 2 says that whenshe opened the basket, he cried.
And who can who can resist acute little baby like that?
And and she took him into herown house, Pharaoh's daughter.
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She's smitten.
Now, read the whole story.
Um, but but you know how itgoes.
Pharaoh's daughter releasesMoses to be nursed by what she
thinks is just one of the Hebrewmothers.
Uh, but it's actually Moses' ownmom, as you read the story,
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raises and nurses the childMoses until a pretty decent age.
Most will say this process ofraising him could have been to
age five or at latest age 13.
So what a cool thing, right?
Here, this thing of faith whereMoses' parents release him into
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uh the river and God takes careof Moses.
And Jochebed ends up raising herchild for a good part of his
life.
Um now notice a couple thingshere.
Verse 23.
Um Moses was hidden three monthsby his parents.
We read about that in Exodus.
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They saw he was a beautifulchild, and they were not afraid
of the king's command.
Also, if you would notice, verse27 about Moses, by faith, he
forsook Egypt, not fearing thewrath of the king.
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So here we have Moses and hisparents.
Um, what do they show us?
They weren't afraid.
Now, that's what we read here.
Um, but was that true?
Likely not, as far as uh Moses'parents go.
Uh, they were human beings.
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I'm sure when the king said,throw your child into the river
or your dead meat, I'm sure theygot nervous.
I'm sure the conversation atnight was was uh pretty heavy.
But let's talk about Moses herefor a second and this issue of
fear.
Uh hold your place here inExodus and turn, I mean, sorry,
in Hebrews and turn to Exoduschapter 2.
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Exodus chapter 2.
It's the beginning of this wholeaccount, life of Moses.
My pages are sticking together.
SPEAKER_00 (08:13):
What do you do when your hands have no moisture?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (08:16):
Alright, Exodus chapter 2, verse 11.
We read a little bit more aboutthis issue with Moses.
Now it came to pass in thosedays when Moses was grown.
So time has gone on.
We're talking about Moses.
This is 40 years later.
He saw an Egyptian beating aHebrew, one of his brethren.
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So he looked this way and helooked that way, and when he saw
no one, he killed the Egyptianand hid him in the sand.
And when he went out the secondday, behold, two Hebrew men were
fighting.
And he said to the one who didthe wrong, Why are you striking
your companion?
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And he said, Who made you aprince and judge over us?
Do you intend to kill me as youkilled the Egyptian?
Notice, so Moses feared andsaid, Surely this thing is
known.
The jig is up.
Uh when Pharaoh heard of thismatter, he sought to kill Moses.
But Moses fled from the face ofPharaoh and dwelt in the land of
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Midian, and he sat down by awell.
So we read here the honesttruth, as Moses himself writes
it down in the book of Exodus.
Moses was scared when he heardthat the thing was known, that
this murder of his was known tothe people, but obviously to
Pharaoh, it says he feared andfled.
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So not only was he scared, buthe acted upon that fear and he
fled.
He left the country for 40 moreyears and lived in the uh land
of Midian.
But here's the thing we want torealize the people in the Hall
of Faith are human.
That's something we forget aboutBible characters.
They were human.
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Moses' parents, human.
They faced threats and uh the uhthe threat to kill their son and
they resisted it.
But man, I'm guessing as humanbeings, they were scared.
They were fearful.
Um, fear is in many waysinvoluntary.
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Just to talk about fear for asecond.
Um, we feel fear, and I thinkit's built into us for safety,
isn't it?
Uh when I was in sixth grade, wewent to a camp and uh stumbled
as I was out hiking.
Uh, I stumbled upon arattlesnake, a real
honest-to-goodness rattlesnakecoiled up and doing his little
thing with the tail.
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I don't like snakes to beginwith, but he was ready.
You know what I mean?
I was not.
I didn't have to think aboutwhat I would do next.
I ran.
I just kept running and runningand running.
And I got all the way back tothe camp before I stopped.
But that fear was, I think,built into me to get out of
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there, right?
And it did a good job, right?
Fear is not necessarily a badthing, it's an involuntary
reaction.
Um, and many times it's forsafety.
Fear is an emotion, butsometimes we embrace it and we
live in it.
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And honestly, embracing fear andliving in fear is sin like
anything else.
A little later in the book ofJoshua, we find Joshua, who's a
guy that had a reason to beafraid, right?
He was a general, so he had beenthrough a lot, but he was
leading an entire nation ofpeople there in the book of
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Joshua.
He was leading them into thepromised land.
There were battles.
And God tells him in chapter 1,Joshua 1, 8, this book of the
law shall not depart from yourmouth, but you shall meditate on
it day and night, that you mayobserve and do according to all
that is written in it.
For then you will make your wayprosperous and have good
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success.
Check this out in verse 9.
Have I not commanded you, bestrong and of good courage, do
not be afraid nor dismayed, forthe Lord your God is with you
wherever you go.
So, straightforwardly here, Godtells Joshua, I've commanded
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you, do not be afraid.
Now, God tells you not to beafraid, and you don't do it.
What is that?
It's sin, right?
Now, let's be fair.
Fear, like any emotion, is somany times involuntary, and it's
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part of who we are as humanbeings.
It's part of our flesh, right?
You could just as easily go downthe list.
Anger.
Anger is a natural feeling.
Um, Paul, quoting Psalm 4, 4,says in Ephesians 4, be angry
and do not sin.
Do not let the sun go down onyour wrath, nor give place to
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the devil.
So the honest truth is we canfeel angry when we see injustice
or when someone has wronged us.
We can feel angry, but if wehold on to it, then well, we've
got bitterness or resentment.
We start thinking aboutretribution.
Some even led to murder whenthey hold on to their anger.
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Um, physire is a natural thing.
God created physical desire formarriage.
It's healthy to keep a marriagestrong.
But outside of marriage, thosefeelings of attraction and lust
can be used for sin outside ofGod's plan.
The feeling is not necessarilythe sin, but the holding on to
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it and living with it and actingon it is sin.
So all these things you can godown a huge list: bitterness,
uh, regret, all these things.
They're natural feelings in ourflesh and emotions in our heart,
but when we hold on to them,they can become sin.
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Here's some scriptures that dealwith fear, because that's what's
at hand here.
Uh, just let them kind of washon you.
All right.
Isaiah 41 10.
Fear not, for I am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I am yourGod.
I will strengthen you.
Yes, I will help you, I willuphold you with my righteous
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right hand.
Second Timothy one, seven.
For God has not given us aspirit of fear, but a power and
of love and a sound mind.
Romans 8, 12 through 15.
Therefore, brethren, now listen,therefore, brethren, we are
debtors not to the flesh, tolive according to the flesh, for
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if you live according to theflesh, you will die.
But if the spirit, if by thespirit you put to death the
deeds of the flesh of the body,you will live.
For as many as are led by thespirit of God, these are the
sons of God, for you did notreceive a spirit of bondage
again to fear, but you receivedthe spirit of adoption by whom
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we cry out, Abba, Father.
So all these emotions of fear,they're realistic, right?
They're part of being human.
But we don't want to let themhijack our lives.
Um fear is like a a poison thatcan get in our blood.
Um, and what do we do?
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Well, that's what we want tofind out here in Hebrews chapter
11.
What's the remedy to all thesethings?
Um, Hebrews chapter 11, it'sfaith.
We don't even need to look hardto find that in this this list
in Hebrews chapter 11.
It's faith.
Faith and trust in God willcounteract fear and the other
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issues of the flesh.
So let's look at the details offaith that are spelled out for
us here.
Uh, number one, it's an exampleof Moses' parents.
Uh, they saw godly potential intheir child.
They saw notice that he wasbeautiful.
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Now, this is a tricky word,isn't it?
Because there aren't too manyparents who don't look at their
kid and say, beautiful, that'smy child, beautiful, right?
Um, and and certainly uh thatwas true.
Now, here's something ironic tofind out.
Who really wrote down Genesis,Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy?
Moses.
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It's actually stated there thatMoses was a beautiful child.
And who wrote it down?
Moses.
I like that.
He was also the humblest guythat ever lived, according to
Moses, right?
So, anyways, a little tricky,right?
Uh, Moses was beautiful.
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What does that word mean?
It could mean proper.
King James says he was proper,he was eloquent.
Some traditions actually statethat Moses had a sort of glow
about him.
I don't think that's true, butthat's some of the tradition,
right?
Beautiful.
There was something his parentslooked at and said, There's
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something special about thischild.
Now, interesting.
That was true.
Of course, God has a plan forevery single person, I think.
Moses had a special plan, andand his parents saw that.
Seeing godly potential is agreat thing as a parent to see
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that in our kids.
But what I think was interestinghere is realize this what
Jacobed, Moses' mom, did afteruh Moses was in her care.
I believe she shared the wordwith him, she shared truth with
him because it came around laterin his life.
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These are God's people.
These are my people.
Uh, obviously, she whisperedthat truth to her baby.
It matters.
Um, I've always appreciated withmy wife that she has tried to do
this, I think, in the lives ofour kids.
Sometimes she's a little craftyabout it.
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Uh, it's in the form of songs,Bible songs.
Those are classic, those aregreat.
Giving truth to our kids thatway, but it's bringing God into
every part of our life.
Um, she obviously told him thetruth about things, but I think
it's also good to see she livedit.
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And an interesting way that wefind that she lived it is really
about how she took care of themin the first place.
You remember, throw all the babyboys into the river.
Well, Jacobed's idea is to putthem in a basket, to put tar and
pitch in that basket.
Interesting, Moses uses the wordark, the same word that he uses
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back in Noah's day for the ark,which was a structure coated
with tar and pitch on the insidethat preserved the people
through the flood, preservedNoah and his family through the
flood.
Moses uses the same word.
And that word is nowhere else inthe Bible.
That Hebrew word is used nowhereelse.
Ark.
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And so here's what I see.
I see Jacobed going, we've got aproblem.
We got to throw this kid intothe water, right?
Well, what should I do?
Well, God preserved peoplethrough the water.
He had them build an ark, hecovered it with pitch on the
inside and on the outside.
It floated and it preservedthem.
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And she goes, I'm gonna takeGod's word and I'm gonna use it
for my baby.
And she lived it.
She lived it in a very simpleway.
And that, of course, is one ofthe best ways that we can
inspire faith in our kids, ourgrandkids, and the people that
are in our life is just to liveit, to take it seriously.
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God, you said it, and I'm gonnatrust it.
And she lived it.
And that faith, I think, stuckwith Moses.
And when he was faced with afearful situation, Moses knew.
I mean, how else did he writedown the first five books of the
Bible, especially the book ofGenesis, if he hadn't heard
about it?
Um, he faced a fearful situationand he faced it with faith.
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Notice some more examples hereof this faith and how it
affected Moses' life in verse24.
When he became of age, we'regonna say that happened around
40, he refused to be called theson of Pharaoh's daughter.
So Moses, of course, was adoptedby uh Pharaoh's daughter.
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And in that, he had all theprivileges of royalty.
I mean, we just kind of put itout there like, yeah, Moses was
part of the royal family.
But you know that the Egyptiansthought their kings were gods on
earth.
They were literally gods onearth.
What goes along with that?
Every royal privilege that youcould imagine, if the king or
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the royal family said it, it wasgonna happen.
So Moses was afforded a verypleasant life, I would say.
He was raised in it, he waseducated to it.
No work, just enjoying.
And yet he took that word, Ibelieve, that his mother put
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into his life and he started tocompare it with what he had.
Um, it grew in his life.
Now, take this to heart.
Whether it's our kids orsomebody that we have an
opportunity to be in their life,um, we don't always see the
growth of God's word in theirlife.
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Uh, that was one of the hardparts about youth ministry.
You know, you do it for years,and you know, you have one or
two people that you're like,well, I really feel like that
person's getting it.
And then they fall off, youknow, the truck, you know, and
you're like, okay, does anybodycare?
And there are remnants in theroom, right?
Uh, but you know, you look andyou go, are these kids getting
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it?
Are my kids getting it?
Um, and here's the thing Paulsays uh to the Corinthians, I
planted, Apollos watered, Godgave the increase.
And we trust that.
Uh, Moses' mom, 40 years, Idon't even know if she lived to
see it.
40 years, um, that word was justkind of growing in Moses' heart,
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and then one day there's a fruitof it.
He desired to be um uh one totake care of God's people.
It's the word growing like aseed in our hearts, and and um
and again, that's theencouragement to us.
Give the word to the peoplearound you and trust that God's
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gonna bring the spiritualgrowth.
It happened, though, when hebecame of age, and again, we
realize that's when he was about40 years old.
He saw an Egyptian beating uh aJew, and he looked one way and
he looked the other way, and hekilled the Egyptian.
Now, we're just gonna say thatthe way he went about God's will
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was not the way that God haddesired, I don't think, because
the result was he had to run forit.
Uh, but he still did it, right?
And here again, we we read thatit affected the way he lived.
He refused to be called the sonof Pharaoh's daughter.
Um, he laid that down.
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Notice also, um verse 25, hechose rather to suffer
affliction with the people God,people of God, than to enjoy the
passing pleasures of sin.
Uh, we see here that Moses beganto have like a realistic view on
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the value of sin.
Sin, as we read here, includespleasure.
That's why it's tempting, right?
Sin generally includes some kindof pleasure, whether it's lust
or greed or bitterness.
Uh it somehow ministers to ourflesh, doesn't it?
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Think about bitterness.
Isn't that one of the strangestones?
The sin of being bitter atpeople.
Somebody does you wrong, and youbegin to think about it.
You think about it all the time,and you mull it over, and you
turn it upside down and youbring it back, and you just you
sit there and you meditate onit, and it's the worst feeling,
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isn't it?
Isn't resentment and bitterness,unforgiveness, just the worst
feeling?
But it's my feeling, right?
You know what I mean?
I just, you know, you walk awayfrom you, go, I'm not gonna feel
this way, but I love it so much.
Um, but yet it's passingpleasure, even in that sense,
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it's it has consequences, itdoesn't last forever.
It's all passing, it can't besustained.
Um, sin, it's a greatillustration, I think.
Sin is like a pancake for me.
You know what I mean?
Right?
Does anyone else love pancakes?
I love pancakes.
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And let's think about it rightnow as lunch is coming up.
Melting butter on top of afluffy pancake.
You put some real maple syrup,the real deal.
You put maple syrup on it, andyou take a bite and you go, oh,
that's so good.
And two minutes later, you feellike you're gonna die.
What is it?
Like, I can't move.
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What happened?
I ate a pancake, you know?
And it's like that's sin.
You're just like, I mean, itministers to me.
Um, you know, that's sin.
You go, oh, this is gonna be sogood, and then you just feel
like trash, you feel like uttertrash, and you can't even get
away from it, and that's theconsequence.
Sin is passing pleasure.
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By the way, use yogurt in yourpancakes, and that'll help a
lot.
I'm just saying.
Now, Moses looked at it and hesaid, It's a passing thing.
All that Egypt has to offer me,it'll be passing.
We can know that in our head,but to really believe that in
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our heart is where it comesdown.
That's where faith really comesinto action.
Notice verse 26.
He esteemed the reproach ofChrist's greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt, and helooked for the reward.
So, Moses, as he thought thesethings through, he esteemed the
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reproach of Christ's greaterriches and the treasures of
Egypt.
Egypt had a lot of treasures.
Somebody pointed out when theyfound the tomb of King Tut, you
know, the famous tomb of KingTut, it took nine months to get
all the treasure out of there.
And I'm sure they worked hard todo it.
It was a lot of treasure.
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And yet, as Moses kind of put itin the balance, that's what this
word esteemed is, as he put itin the balance, he's like the
treasures of Egypt and reproachwith God's people.
He said, treasures of Egypt arenot worth as much as being
reproached with God's people.
Uh, that's the real value ofthings.
That's where Paul in Philippianschapter 3 gets toward the end of
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his life and he says, What do Iwant?
I want to know him.
I want to know Jesus.
I want to know him, uh, thepower of his resurrection and
the fellowship of his suffering.
And and Paul would agree, it isworth more to suffer with God's
people and do God's will thanall the treasures of earth.
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Now, we believe that, but it's awhole eternal perspective on
life, that the things of God areworth more.
Now, look at verse 26.
Um, he looked to the reward.
Um, as you look at the OldTestament, it's interesting.
There's not a whole lot of talkabout heaven in the Old
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Testament.
We talk a lot about heaven, likeone day I'm going to glory.
I can't wait.
And I can't, right?
But the Old Testament, there'snot a whole lot of talk until
you get to David, when he losesa child and he says, I can't,
uh, he can't come to me, but Iwill go to him.
And you go, David had anunderstanding.
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There was more to life than whatwe see on this earth.
However, I think Moses had timeto think about it as he heard
all the stories from his mother.
We considered, he wrote it downin Genesis chapter 5, Enoch, a
man who walked with God and thenwas not, for God took him.
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Well, where did God take him?
We're gonna say he took him toheaven, wherever God was, is
where he took him.
And Moses wrote those words.
Also, Job, Job, about the timeof Abraham most would say, wrote
this, Job 19, verse 26.
After my skin is destroyed, thisI know, that in my flesh I shall
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see God, whom I shall see formyself, and my eyes shall
behold, and not another.
Oh, my heart yearns within me.
So there was this idea.
Life is more than what we see.
There is eternal life availableand promised to those that trust
God.
So check it out.
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Moses lived his life in light ofthat reward.
He looked forward to thatreward.
Verse 27 quickly, he forsookEgypt, not fearing the wrath of
the king, for he endured asseeing him who is invisible.
Moses endured in this life.
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Now you look at it, and Moseshad some challenges, right?
He faced off with Pharaoh,pretty stubborn guy.
He uh, you know, he faced offwith the people, even at a
certain point, saying, God, youknow what?
Just kill me.
I've had enough of these people.
Uh Moses faced uh a lot ofthings, but he endured.
He persisted, he patiently wentthrough life.
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Why?
Last thing, because he saw himwho was invisible.
And this is faith.
He saw the one that wasinvisible.
God is invisible.
No one has seen God personally.
Now, sometimes in the Bible wesee these kind of visions of the
person of God, but uh John, weread that no one has seen God at
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any time.
Um, and and and yet Moses did.
He saw the invisible God, andthat was faith.
He looked around at the worldand he said, I see creation, I
see a creator.
He may be invisible, but he'sreal in my heart.
Um, this is what faith does.
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It takes the truth of theinvisible, the truth of the
invisible, and it makes itreality in our life.
Um, it's not just wishfulthinking, it's the honest truth
of who God is and what he does.
And Moses lived his life on thatfaith.
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And in verse 5, again, you canlook back, but that kind of
faith pleases God.
Moses pleased God.
So a good opportunity, though, Ithink.
The issue of fear.
Fear is a real thing.
We can feel fear.
Um, but not to let it rule ourlife, but to instead hold on to
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faith.
Maybe it's one of those otherthings, other issues of the
flesh.
Maybe it's anger in your life orbitterness.
My goodness, it's beenbitterness in my life for a long
time sometimes.
Um, regret.
Maybe it's something else, butfaith counteracts that and looks
forward to rest all that you areon God.
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God, um, we all struggle.
We all struggle with things likefear and regret, lust, anger,
bitterness, all these things.
It's our flesh.
And these emotions come andstart to strangle us.
But God, we don't want to liveby fear or any of those things
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or the flesh, but God, we wantto live by faith.
God, we would actually see youand realize that you're worth so
much more than the passionpleasures of sin.
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God, it's one thing to say it and intend it, but
it's another thing to do it.
We realize we need your spirit,we need your help, your
strength, to crucify the flesh,to let go of the flesh.
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God help us this week to walk inthe spirit and not the flesh.
In Jesus' name we pray.
All right, Hebrews chapter 11.
Uh verse 23 is where we'llstart.
We'll recap.
You know we are in the hall offaith, taking a little break
from our usual going through abook until uh well we're done
with this, and maybe if God putssomething on your heart, let me
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know what you're thinking you'dlike to go through.
We can always consider that.
Um, but in the meantime, we'rein no rust.
We're going through Hebrewschapter 11.
It's known as the Hall of Faith,and it's really just uh a
demonstration of people who havelived by faith.
Um, the direct purpose of thebook of Hebrews is kind of good
to keep in our mind every sooften that the author is writing
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to a group, a group of Hebrewbelievers uh who are being
tempted to go back to the law.
Uh they're being tempted todepart from salvation by grace
through faith and go back to thelaw of doing all the right
things.
And that's where salvation comesfrom.
Now that's never been the case,and that's really what the
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author is showing us in the bookuh chapter 11 here.
This hall of faith is that thosewho have loved God and lived for
God have always lived by faith,all the way back to Abel.
We saw Abel, a guy who lived byfaith and worshiped by faith.
We saw Enoch, a guy who walkedwith God.
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We saw Noah, uh, who by faithstepped out and and and built
the ark.
Um, we spent a little bit oftime considering Abraham, uh,
the father of the faithful, whoreally lived his life by faith.
That's what made him great.
Um and and we've considered thisthat the life of faith is
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something that you can do.
You can live by faith, a trustin who God is and what he's
like, living your life on thosethings.
You can do that, and it'sabsolutely worth it.
I think that's really themessage behind all of these.
Now, here we find ourselves inverse 23.
Um, we've gone from the book ofGenesis to the book of Exodus,
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and we have jumped right intothe life of Moses.
Moses, right?
Uh uh big in in the Hebrewfaith.
Uh Moses.
Uh, the law that he gave us, Godgave the law through Moses, is
oftentimes called the law ofMoses, right?
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And and so this is a big playerin in the Hebrew mind.
And the author wants us to knowthat the bottom line is he also
lived by faith, not by the law,but he was saved by faith.
Now, faith is simple trust, andit comes out in our life through
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the way we live.
And of course, that's what we'llsee again today, in a different
perspective, in a different way.
Let's look at verse 23 and we'llread to verse 27.
By faith, Moses, when he wasborn, was hidden three months by
his parents, because they saw hewas a beautiful child, and they
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were not afraid of the king'scommand.
By faith, Moses, when he becameof age, refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter,choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people ofGod than to enjoy the passing
pleasures of sin, esteeming thereproach of Christ greater
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riches than the riches of Egypt,for he looked to the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, notfearing the wrath of the king,
for he endured as seeing him whois invisible.
We'll stop there.
Moses.
Now, here we read by faithMoses.
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Uh uh, actually, we don't readthat.
Yeah, I know we do.
Moses, when he was born, butwe're really talking about
Moses' parents, aren't we?
Uh Exodus chapter 6, verse 20,we got names for him.
It's Amram and Jacobed.
And you know the story.
As the time came, uh the peopleof Israel were in Egypt, and
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there arose a king who did notknow Joseph.
And that king was paranoid.
He was quite paranoid and wasworried that the Hebrews would
begin to overpower the Egyptiansand become too numerous.
So he devises this plan to thinthem out a little bit.
Um, there he makes the command: all baby boys are to be thrown (05:06):
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into the river.
Infanticide, right?
And and you know the story, it'sresistance.
Moses's parents resist thatcommand of the king.
They put him in a basket, theylet him go.
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Moses washes up near Pharaoh'sdaughter as she's bathing down
by the river.
She collects him.
Exodus chapter 2 says that whenshe opened the basket, he cried.
And who can who can resist acute little baby like that?
And and she took him into herown house, Pharaoh's daughter.
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She's smitten.
Now, read the whole story.
Um, but but you know how itgoes.
Pharaoh's daughter releasesMoses to be nursed by what she
thinks is just one of the Hebrewmothers.
Uh, but it's actually Moses' ownmom, as you read the story,
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raises and nurses the childMoses until a pretty decent age.
Most will say this process ofraising him could have been to
age five or at latest age 13.
So what a cool thing, right?
Here, this thing of faith whereMoses' parents release him into
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uh the river and God takes careof Moses.
And Jochebed ends up raising herchild for a good part of his
life.
Um now notice a couple thingshere.
Verse 23.
Um Moses was hidden three monthsby his parents.
We read about that in Exodus.
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They saw he was a beautifulchild, and they were not afraid
of the king's command.
Also, if you would notice, verse27 about Moses, by faith, he
forsook Egypt, not fearing thewrath of the king.
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So here we have Moses and hisparents.
Um, what do they show us?
They weren't afraid.
Now, that's what we read here.
Um, but was that true?
Likely not, as far as uh Moses'parents go.
Uh, they were human beings.
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I'm sure when the king said,throw your child into the river
or your dead meat, I'm sure theygot nervous.
I'm sure the conversation atnight was was uh pretty heavy.
But let's talk about Moses herefor a second and this issue of
fear.
Uh hold your place here inExodus and turn, I mean, sorry,
in Hebrews and turn to Exoduschapter 2.
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Exodus chapter 2.
It's the beginning of this wholeaccount, life of Moses.
My pages are sticking together.
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What do you do when your hands have no moisture?
Okay.
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Alright, Exodus chapter 2, verse 11.
We read a little bit more aboutthis issue with Moses.
Now it came to pass in thosedays when Moses was grown.
So time has gone on.
We're talking about Moses.
This is 40 years later.
He saw an Egyptian beating aHebrew, one of his brethren.
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So he looked this way and helooked that way, and when he saw
no one, he killed the Egyptianand hid him in the sand.
And when he went out the secondday, behold, two Hebrew men were
fighting.
And he said to the one who didthe wrong, Why are you striking
your companion?
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And he said, Who made you aprince and judge over us?
Do you intend to kill me as youkilled the Egyptian?
Notice, so Moses feared andsaid, Surely this thing is
known.
The jig is up.
Uh when Pharaoh heard of thismatter, he sought to kill Moses.
But Moses fled from the face ofPharaoh and dwelt in the land of
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Midian, and he sat down by awell.
So we read here the honesttruth, as Moses himself writes
it down in the book of Exodus.
Moses was scared when he heardthat the thing was known, that
this murder of his was known tothe people, but obviously to
Pharaoh, it says he feared andfled.
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So not only was he scared, buthe acted upon that fear and he
fled.
He left the country for 40 moreyears and lived in the uh land
of Midian.
But here's the thing we want torealize the people in the Hall
of Faith are human.
That's something we forget aboutBible characters.
They were human.
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Moses' parents, human.
They faced threats and uh the uhthe threat to kill their son and
they resisted it.
But man, I'm guessing as humanbeings, they were scared.
They were fearful.
Um, fear is in many waysinvoluntary.
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Just to talk about fear for asecond.
Um, we feel fear, and I thinkit's built into us for safety,
isn't it?
Uh when I was in sixth grade, wewent to a camp and uh stumbled
as I was out hiking.
Uh, I stumbled upon arattlesnake, a real
honest-to-goodness rattlesnakecoiled up and doing his little
thing with the tail.
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I don't like snakes to beginwith, but he was ready.
You know what I mean?
I was not.
I didn't have to think aboutwhat I would do next.
I ran.
I just kept running and runningand running.
And I got all the way back tothe camp before I stopped.
But that fear was, I think,built into me to get out of
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there, right?
And it did a good job, right?
Fear is not necessarily a badthing, it's an involuntary
reaction.
Um, and many times it's forsafety.
Fear is an emotion, butsometimes we embrace it and we
live in it.
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And honestly, embracing fear andliving in fear is sin like
anything else.
A little later in the book ofJoshua, we find Joshua, who's a
guy that had a reason to beafraid, right?
He was a general, so he had beenthrough a lot, but he was
leading an entire nation ofpeople there in the book of
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Joshua.
He was leading them into thepromised land.
There were battles.
And God tells him in chapter 1,Joshua 1, 8, this book of the
law shall not depart from yourmouth, but you shall meditate on
it day and night, that you mayobserve and do according to all
that is written in it.
For then you will make your wayprosperous and have good
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success.
Check this out in verse 9.
Have I not commanded you, bestrong and of good courage, do
not be afraid nor dismayed, forthe Lord your God is with you
wherever you go.
So, straightforwardly here, Godtells Joshua, I've commanded
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you, do not be afraid.
Now, God tells you not to beafraid, and you don't do it.
What is that?
It's sin, right?
Now, let's be fair.
Fear, like any emotion, is somany times involuntary, and it's
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part of who we are as humanbeings.
It's part of our flesh, right?
You could just as easily go downthe list.
Anger.
Anger is a natural feeling.
Um, Paul, quoting Psalm 4, 4,says in Ephesians 4, be angry
and do not sin.
Do not let the sun go down onyour wrath, nor give place to
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the devil.
So the honest truth is we canfeel angry when we see injustice
or when someone has wronged us.
We can feel angry, but if wehold on to it, then well, we've
got bitterness or resentment.
We start thinking aboutretribution.
Some even led to murder whenthey hold on to their anger.
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Um, physire is a natural thing.
God created physical desire formarriage.
It's healthy to keep a marriagestrong.
But outside of marriage, thosefeelings of attraction and lust
can be used for sin outside ofGod's plan.
The feeling is not necessarilythe sin, but the holding on to
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it and living with it and actingon it is sin.
So all these things you can godown a huge list: bitterness,
uh, regret, all these things.
They're natural feelings in ourflesh and emotions in our heart,
but when we hold on to them,they can become sin.
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Here's some scriptures that dealwith fear, because that's what's
at hand here.
Uh, just let them kind of washon you.
All right.
Isaiah 41 10.
Fear not, for I am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I am yourGod.
I will strengthen you.
Yes, I will help you, I willuphold you with my righteous
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right hand.
Second Timothy one, seven.
For God has not given us aspirit of fear, but a power and
of love and a sound mind.
Romans 8, 12 through 15.
Therefore, brethren, now listen,therefore, brethren, we are
debtors not to the flesh, tolive according to the flesh, for
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if you live according to theflesh, you will die.
But if the spirit, if by thespirit you put to death the
deeds of the flesh of the body,you will live.
For as many as are led by thespirit of God, these are the
sons of God, for you did notreceive a spirit of bondage
again to fear, but you receivedthe spirit of adoption by whom
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we cry out, Abba, Father.
So all these emotions of fear,they're realistic, right?
They're part of being human.
But we don't want to let themhijack our lives.
Um fear is like a a poison thatcan get in our blood.
Um, and what do we do?
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Well, that's what we want tofind out here in Hebrews chapter
11.
What's the remedy to all thesethings?
Um, Hebrews chapter 11, it'sfaith.
We don't even need to look hardto find that in this this list
in Hebrews chapter 11.
It's faith.
Faith and trust in God willcounteract fear and the other
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issues of the flesh.
So let's look at the details offaith that are spelled out for
us here.
Uh, number one, it's an exampleof Moses' parents.
Uh, they saw godly potential intheir child.
They saw notice that he wasbeautiful.
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Now, this is a tricky word,isn't it?
Because there aren't too manyparents who don't look at their
kid and say, beautiful, that'smy child, beautiful, right?
Um, and and certainly uh thatwas true.
Now, here's something ironic tofind out.
Who really wrote down Genesis,Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy?
Moses.
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It's actually stated there thatMoses was a beautiful child.
And who wrote it down?
Moses.
I like that.
He was also the humblest guythat ever lived, according to
Moses, right?
So, anyways, a little tricky,right?
Uh, Moses was beautiful.
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What does that word mean?
It could mean proper.
King James says he was proper,he was eloquent.
Some traditions actually statethat Moses had a sort of glow
about him.
I don't think that's true, butthat's some of the tradition,
right?
Beautiful.
There was something his parentslooked at and said, There's
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something special about thischild.
Now, interesting.
That was true.
Of course, God has a plan forevery single person, I think.
Moses had a special plan, andand his parents saw that.
Seeing godly potential is agreat thing as a parent to see
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that in our kids.
But what I think was interestinghere is realize this what
Jacobed, Moses' mom, did afteruh Moses was in her care.
I believe she shared the wordwith him, she shared truth with
him because it came around laterin his life.
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These are God's people.
These are my people.
Uh, obviously, she whisperedthat truth to her baby.
It matters.
Um, I've always appreciated withmy wife that she has tried to do
this, I think, in the lives ofour kids.
Sometimes she's a little craftyabout it.
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Uh, it's in the form of songs,Bible songs.
Those are classic, those aregreat.
Giving truth to our kids thatway, but it's bringing God into
every part of our life.
Um, she obviously told him thetruth about things, but I think
it's also good to see she livedit.
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And an interesting way that wefind that she lived it is really
about how she took care of themin the first place.
You remember, throw all the babyboys into the river.
Well, Jacobed's idea is to putthem in a basket, to put tar and
pitch in that basket.
Interesting, Moses uses the wordark, the same word that he uses
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back in Noah's day for the ark,which was a structure coated
with tar and pitch on the insidethat preserved the people
through the flood, preservedNoah and his family through the
flood.
Moses uses the same word.
And that word is nowhere else inthe Bible.
That Hebrew word is used nowhereelse.
Ark.
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And so here's what I see.
I see Jacobed going, we've got aproblem.
We got to throw this kid intothe water, right?
Well, what should I do?
Well, God preserved peoplethrough the water.
He had them build an ark, hecovered it with pitch on the
inside and on the outside.
It floated and it preservedthem.
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And she goes, I'm gonna takeGod's word and I'm gonna use it
for my baby.
And she lived it.
She lived it in a very simpleway.
And that, of course, is one ofthe best ways that we can
inspire faith in our kids, ourgrandkids, and the people that
are in our life is just to liveit, to take it seriously.
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God, you said it, and I'm gonnatrust it.
And she lived it.
And that faith, I think, stuckwith Moses.
And when he was faced with afearful situation, Moses knew.
I mean, how else did he writedown the first five books of the
Bible, especially the book ofGenesis, if he hadn't heard
about it?
Um, he faced a fearful situationand he faced it with faith.
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Notice some more examples hereof this faith and how it
affected Moses' life in verse24.
When he became of age, we'regonna say that happened around
40, he refused to be called theson of Pharaoh's daughter.
So Moses, of course, was adoptedby uh Pharaoh's daughter.
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And in that, he had all theprivileges of royalty.
I mean, we just kind of put itout there like, yeah, Moses was
part of the royal family.
But you know that the Egyptiansthought their kings were gods on
earth.
They were literally gods onearth.
What goes along with that?
Every royal privilege that youcould imagine, if the king or
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the royal family said it, it wasgonna happen.
So Moses was afforded a verypleasant life, I would say.
He was raised in it, he waseducated to it.
No work, just enjoying.
And yet he took that word, Ibelieve, that his mother put
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into his life and he started tocompare it with what he had.
Um, it grew in his life.
Now, take this to heart.
Whether it's our kids orsomebody that we have an
opportunity to be in their life,um, we don't always see the
growth of God's word in theirlife.
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Uh, that was one of the hardparts about youth ministry.
You know, you do it for years,and you know, you have one or
two people that you're like,well, I really feel like that
person's getting it.
And then they fall off, youknow, the truck, you know, and
you're like, okay, does anybodycare?
And there are remnants in theroom, right?
Uh, but you know, you look andyou go, are these kids getting
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it?
Are my kids getting it?
Um, and here's the thing Paulsays uh to the Corinthians, I
planted, Apollos watered, Godgave the increase.
And we trust that.
Uh, Moses' mom, 40 years, Idon't even know if she lived to
see it.
40 years, um, that word was justkind of growing in Moses' heart,
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and then one day there's a fruitof it.
He desired to be um uh one totake care of God's people.
It's the word growing like aseed in our hearts, and and um
and again, that's theencouragement to us.
Give the word to the peoplearound you and trust that God's
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gonna bring the spiritualgrowth.
It happened, though, when hebecame of age, and again, we
realize that's when he was about40 years old.
He saw an Egyptian beating uh aJew, and he looked one way and
he looked the other way, and hekilled the Egyptian.
Now, we're just gonna say thatthe way he went about God's will
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was not the way that God haddesired, I don't think, because
the result was he had to run forit.
Uh, but he still did it, right?
And here again, we we read thatit affected the way he lived.
He refused to be called the sonof Pharaoh's daughter.
Um, he laid that down.
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Notice also, um verse 25, hechose rather to suffer
affliction with the people God,people of God, than to enjoy the
passing pleasures of sin.
Uh, we see here that Moses beganto have like a realistic view on
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the value of sin.
Sin, as we read here, includespleasure.
That's why it's tempting, right?
Sin generally includes some kindof pleasure, whether it's lust
or greed or bitterness.
Uh it somehow ministers to ourflesh, doesn't it?
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Think about bitterness.
Isn't that one of the strangestones?
The sin of being bitter atpeople.
Somebody does you wrong, and youbegin to think about it.
You think about it all the time,and you mull it over, and you
turn it upside down and youbring it back, and you just you
sit there and you meditate onit, and it's the worst feeling,
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isn't it?
Isn't resentment and bitterness,unforgiveness, just the worst
feeling?
But it's my feeling, right?
You know what I mean?
I just, you know, you walk awayfrom you, go, I'm not gonna feel
this way, but I love it so much.
Um, but yet it's passingpleasure, even in that sense,
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it's it has consequences, itdoesn't last forever.
It's all passing, it can't besustained.
Um, sin, it's a greatillustration, I think.
Sin is like a pancake for me.
You know what I mean?
Right?
Does anyone else love pancakes?
I love pancakes.
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And let's think about it rightnow as lunch is coming up.
Melting butter on top of afluffy pancake.
You put some real maple syrup,the real deal.
You put maple syrup on it, andyou take a bite and you go, oh,
that's so good.
And two minutes later, you feellike you're gonna die.
What is it?
Like, I can't move.
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What happened?
I ate a pancake, you know?
And it's like that's sin.
You're just like, I mean, itministers to me.
Um, you know, that's sin.
You go, oh, this is gonna be sogood, and then you just feel
like trash, you feel like uttertrash, and you can't even get
away from it, and that's theconsequence.
Sin is passing pleasure.
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By the way, use yogurt in yourpancakes, and that'll help a
lot.
I'm just saying.
Now, Moses looked at it and hesaid, It's a passing thing.
All that Egypt has to offer me,it'll be passing.
We can know that in our head,but to really believe that in
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our heart is where it comesdown.
That's where faith really comesinto action.
Notice verse 26.
He esteemed the reproach ofChrist's greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt, and helooked for the reward.
So, Moses, as he thought thesethings through, he esteemed the
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reproach of Christ's greaterriches and the treasures of
Egypt.
Egypt had a lot of treasures.
Somebody pointed out when theyfound the tomb of King Tut, you
know, the famous tomb of KingTut, it took nine months to get
all the treasure out of there.
And I'm sure they worked hard todo it.
It was a lot of treasure.
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And yet, as Moses kind of put itin the balance, that's what this
word esteemed is, as he put itin the balance, he's like the
treasures of Egypt and reproachwith God's people.
He said, treasures of Egypt arenot worth as much as being
reproached with God's people.
Uh, that's the real value ofthings.
That's where Paul in Philippianschapter 3 gets toward the end of
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his life and he says, What do Iwant?
I want to know him.
I want to know Jesus.
I want to know him, uh, thepower of his resurrection and
the fellowship of his suffering.
And and Paul would agree, it isworth more to suffer with God's
people and do God's will thanall the treasures of earth.
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Now, we believe that, but it's awhole eternal perspective on
life, that the things of God areworth more.
Now, look at verse 26.
Um, he looked to the reward.
Um, as you look at the OldTestament, it's interesting.
There's not a whole lot of talkabout heaven in the Old
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Testament.
We talk a lot about heaven, likeone day I'm going to glory.
I can't wait.
And I can't, right?
But the Old Testament, there'snot a whole lot of talk until
you get to David, when he losesa child and he says, I can't,
uh, he can't come to me, but Iwill go to him.
And you go, David had anunderstanding.
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There was more to life than whatwe see on this earth.
However, I think Moses had timeto think about it as he heard
all the stories from his mother.
We considered, he wrote it downin Genesis chapter 5, Enoch, a
man who walked with God and thenwas not, for God took him.
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Well, where did God take him?
We're gonna say he took him toheaven, wherever God was, is
where he took him.
And Moses wrote those words.
Also, Job, Job, about the timeof Abraham most would say, wrote
this, Job 19, verse 26.
After my skin is destroyed, thisI know, that in my flesh I shall
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see God, whom I shall see formyself, and my eyes shall
behold, and not another.
Oh, my heart yearns within me.
So there was this idea.
Life is more than what we see.
There is eternal life availableand promised to those that trust
God.
So check it out.
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Moses lived his life in light ofthat reward.
He looked forward to thatreward.
Verse 27 quickly, he forsookEgypt, not fearing the wrath of
the king, for he endured asseeing him who is invisible.
Moses endured in this life.
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Now you look at it, and Moseshad some challenges, right?
He faced off with Pharaoh,pretty stubborn guy.
He uh, you know, he faced offwith the people, even at a
certain point, saying, God, youknow what?
Just kill me.
I've had enough of these people.
Uh Moses faced uh a lot ofthings, but he endured.
He persisted, he patiently wentthrough life.
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Why?
Last thing, because he saw himwho was invisible.
And this is faith.
He saw the one that wasinvisible.
God is invisible.
No one has seen God personally.
Now, sometimes in the Bible wesee these kind of visions of the
person of God, but uh John, weread that no one has seen God at
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any time.
Um, and and and yet Moses did.
He saw the invisible God, andthat was faith.
He looked around at the worldand he said, I see creation, I
see a creator.
He may be invisible, but he'sreal in my heart.
Um, this is what faith does.
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It takes the truth of theinvisible, the truth of the
invisible, and it makes itreality in our life.
Um, it's not just wishfulthinking, it's the honest truth
of who God is and what he does.
And Moses lived his life on thatfaith.
(32:28):
And in verse 5, again, you canlook back, but that kind of
faith pleases God.
Moses pleased God.
So a good opportunity, though, Ithink.
The issue of fear.
Fear is a real thing.
We can feel fear.
Um, but not to let it rule ourlife, but to instead hold on to
(32:53):
faith.
Maybe it's one of those otherthings, other issues of the
flesh.
Maybe it's anger in your life orbitterness.
My goodness, it's beenbitterness in my life for a long
time sometimes.
Um, regret.
Maybe it's something else, butfaith counteracts that and looks
forward to rest all that you areon God.
(33:18):
God, um, we all struggle.
We all struggle with things likefear and regret, lust, anger,
bitterness, all these things.
It's our flesh.
And these emotions come andstart to strangle us.
But God, we don't want to liveby fear or any of those things
(33:38):
or the flesh, but God, we wantto live by faith.
God, we would actually see youand realize that you're worth so
much more than the passionpleasures of sin.
SPEAKER_00 (33:49):
God, it's one thing to say it and intend it, but
it's another thing to do it.
We realize we need your spirit,we need your help, your
strength, to crucify the flesh,to let go of the flesh.
(34:10):
God help us this week to walk inthe spirit and not the flesh.
In Jesus' name we pray.
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