THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT<br> <br>

PROGRAM AIR DATE – 4-5-15

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LESSON TITLE:  “MOSES.”<br> <br>



WELCOME<br> <br>

      THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING, LET ME WELCOME YOU TO THE PROGRAM.  THE LIVING WORD IS A WORK OF OUR LORD, DEDICATED TO DOING GOD’S WILL IN HIS WAY!  AS ALWAYS, IT WILL BE OUR PRIVILEGE TODAY TO SING SONGS OF PRAISE AND TO STUDY FROM HIS WORD.  IN THESE ACTS OF WORSHIP, MAY WE ALL BE ENCOURAGED, BUT ULTIMATELY MAY WE EACH PRAISE GOD ACCORDING TO THE SACRIFICES TO OFFER TOWARD HIS THRONE.  IT WILL ALSO BE OUR HONOR THIS MORNING TO SPEAK WITH GOD THROUGH PRAYER.  WILL YOU BOW WITH ME AS WE TALK TO OUR CREATOR?  <br> <br>

      PRAYER:  DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS DAY AND THE MANY BLESSINGS OF LIFE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE THAT WE HAVE TO BE CALLED YOUR CHILDREN, TO BE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF YOU. AND FATHER, WE ARE ASKING THIS DAY THAT YOU MIGHT HELP US TO ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU AND SERVE YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL SO THAT WHEN THIS LIFE IS OVER - THROUGH YOUR GRACE, LOVE, AND MERCY - WE MIGHT RECEIVE THAT GREAT PROMISE AND REWARD OF HEAVEN. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.<br> <br>

      WELL, LET’S GET RIGHT TO OUR FIRST SONG OF THE MORNING! WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO LIFT UP OUR VOICES IN PRAISES TO GOD, AS HIS FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS. SO, WON’T YOU JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME AS WE SING TOGETHER, “WE PRAISE THEE O GOD.”<br> <br>

 

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS<br> <br>

      THINK FOR A MOMENT THIS MORNING ABOUT JUST HOW GREAT WE HAVE IT AS AMERICANS. ISN’T IT WONDERFUL TO BE A CITIZEN OF THE GREATEST AND MOST BLESSED COUNTRY ON THIS EARTH?  FURTHERMORE, THINK ABOUT OUR HOMES AND WHERE WE LIVE. ISN’T IT ALSO EQUALLY GREAT TO HAVE A FAMILY AND TO BE A PART OF A SOCIAL STRUCTURE WHICH WAS PLANNED AND ORDAINED BY GOD HIMSELF?  <br> <br>

      NOW READ WITH ME FROM EPHESIANS 2:19, WERE PAUL TALKS OF ANOTHER GREAT BLESSING WE HAVE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.  THERE WE READ, “NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.”  PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR THIS GLORIOUS TRUTH!  NOT ONLY ARE WE MEMBERS OF A GREAT COUNTRY AND A PART OF A PHYSICAL OR EARTHLY FAMILY, BUT BEST OF ALL WE ARE CITIZENS IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD! THE VERSE PROCLAIMS US AS SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE WHICH GOD BUILT. ISN’T THAT WONDERFUL? ISN’T THAT PRECIOUS TO KNOW?  <br> <br>

      CONTINUE WITH ME AT THE NEXT VERSE, 20, AS IT GOES ON TO TELL US WHY WE HAVE THIS BLESSED OPPORTUNITY AND FROM WHERE IT IS FOUNDED.  THERE WE READ, “HAVING BEEN BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNER STONE, IN WHOM THE WHOLE BUILDING, BEING JOINED TOGETHER, GROWS INTO A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD, IN WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER FOR A DWELLING PLACE OF GOD IN THE SPIRIT.” THANKS BE TO GOD AND HIS SON, FOR IT IS THROUGH CHRIST THAT WE ARE A PART OF THAT PRECIOUS HOUSEHOLD OR FAMILY OF GOD.  FOR CHRIST ALONE IS THE “CHIEF CORNERSTONE;” IN WHICH THE WHOLE BUILDING, TEMPLE AND FAMILY ARE JOINED TOGETHER IN.  <br> <br>

      NOW THE QUESTION YOU MUST ASK - ARE YOU A PART OF THE FAMILY? ARE YOU IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD? HAVE YOU DONE WHAT GOD REQUIRES THAT YOU BE CONSIDERED A PART OF HIS PRECIOUS FAMILY?  IF YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED GOD AND DONE WHAT HE COMMANDS IN HIS WORD, RESPOND TODAY BEFORE IT’S EVERLASTINGLY TO LATE!<br> <br>

      THIS MORNING WE WILL BE CONTINUING OUR SERIES TOGETHER WHICH IS ENTITLED, “SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.” AS FAR AS OUR SPECIFIC LESSON OF THE DAY WE WILL FOCUS ON THE LIFE OF, “MOSES!”  SO PLEASE STAY WITH US THIS MORNING AND AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER, WE WILL BE LEAD IN OUR MAIN THOUGHTS OF THE DAY.  <br> <br>

      AS FAR AS OUR GUEST SPEAKER OF THE DAY, WE ARE HAPPY TO AGAIN HAVE BROTHER BRENT GREEN.  BROTHER BRENT IS A FULL TIME INSTRUCTOR AT THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF MISSOURI RIGHT HERE IN SPRINGFIELD. HE IS ALSO THE MINISTER FOR THE HWY 13 CHURCH OF CHRIST IN BOLIVAR. WE THANK HIM FOR BEING WITH US TODAY TO LEAD US IN THE STUDY OF GOD WORD.  NOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN IN OUR SECOND SONG OF THE MORNING, THE NAME OF THIS HYMN, “WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS.”<br> <br>



LESSON<br> <br>

BY BRENT GREEN<br> <br>

      WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS AGAIN TO OPEN GOD'S WORD AND STUDY FROM IT. IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, WE LEARN ABOUT THE GREAT HEROES OF FAITH. AND WHEN WE STUDY THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN THAT CHAPTER, EACH OF THEM IN THEIR OWN WAY TEACHES US SOMETHING ABOUT FAITH AND HOW TO LIVE TODAY AS CHRISTIANS WITH THE PROPER FAITH. THERE IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, WE DEAL WITH MANY CHARACTERS BUT ONE WE WANT TO LOOK AT NOW IS MOSES; HOW MOSES LIVED BY FAITH. AND EVERY TIME WE LOOK AT ONE OF THESE DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF THESE CHARACTERS WHO LIVE BY FAITH, I WANT US TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM. AND AS WE THINK ABOUT MOSES I WANT YOU THINK ABOUT WHETHER YOU'RE LIVING BY FAITH. WHETHER YOU IN YOUR LIFE HAVE THE FAITH TO OBEY GOD FIRST - WHETHER YOU HAVE THE FAITH TO LOOK TO GOD'S REWARD - AND WHETHER YOU HAVE THE FAITH TO KEEP GOD'S WORD. THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT, AS WE LOOK AT MOSES LIFE, HOPEFULLY WE SHOULD ABLE TO SEE IN HIM HOW HE DID THOSE THINGS. AND HOW BY FAITH HE COULD ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS BY THE ACTIONS OF HIS LIFE.<br> <br>

      THERE IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, IF YOU'LL BEGIN WITH ME IN VERSE 23, WE READ IN VERSE 23 IT SAYS, “BY FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE WAS BORN, WAS HIDDEN THREE MONTHS BY HIS PARENTS, BECAUSE THEY SAW HE WAS A BEAUTIFUL CHILD AND THEY WERE NOT AFRAID OF THE KING'S COMMAND.” AS WE BEGIN TALKING ABOUT MOSES, WE ACTUALLY START WITH TALKING ABOUT THE FAITH OF HIS PARENTS. BY FAITH OBEY GOD FIRST. THAT'S WHAT WE SEE IN THE LIFE OF THE PARENTS OF MOSES. MOSES' PARENTS WERE NOT AFRAID OF THE KING.	<br> <br>

      THE KING THERE, PHAROAH, HAD GIVEN THE COMMANDS AND HE THOUGHT THAT BECAUSE THE ISRAELITES WERE GROWING IN NUMBER THAT THEY MIGHT OVERPOWER THE EGYPTIANS. HE WAS AFRAID OF THEM. HE MADE THEM TO SERVE IN VERY RIGOROUS CONDITIONS. WHEN THAT DIDN'T WORK, HE EVEN GAVE THE COMMAND TO KILL THE MALE BABIES. AND THE MIDWIVES WERE THE ONES WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. AND THEY SAID WELL, WE CAN'T DO IT. AND SO, BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T DO IT AND WOULDN'T DO IT, HE THEN GAVE THE COMMAND ULTIMATELY FOR ALL THE MALE BABIES TO BE CAST INTO THE RIVER. IN EXODUS CHAPTER 1:22, WE ACTUALLY READ OF THAT SPECIFIC COMMANDMENT THAT PHARAOH HAD GIVEN THERE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT CONCERNING THE HEBREW MALE CHILDREN. EXODUS CHAPTER 1:22 SAYS, “SO PHARAOH COMMANDED ALL HIS PEOPLE SAYING EVERY SON WHO IS BORN, YOU SHALL CAST INTO THE RIVER. AND EVERY DAUGHTER YOU SHALL SAVE ALIVE.” <br> <br>

      SO HERE ARE MOSES' PARENTS LIVING IN EGYPT AMONG THE ISRAELITES. THE NATION THAT THERE THAT'S NOW ENSLAVED IN EGYPT AND THE COMMAND IS GIVEN TO KILL ALL THE MALE BABIES. AND YET MOSES' PARENTS WERE NOT AFRAID OF THE KING'S COMMAND. WHEN MOSES WAS BORN THEY ACTUALLY HID HIM FOR THREE MONTHS. THAT WOULD BE NO EASY TASK TO HIDE A CHILD WHO'S A NEWBORN ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL THREE MONTHS OLD. CHILDREN CRY - CHILDREN MAKE NOISES - THERE'S A LOT TO DO WHEN TAKING CARE OF A NEWBORN BUT HIS PARENTS HID HIM FOR THREE MONTHS. AND THEN WHEN THEY COULD NOT CONCEAL HIM ANY LONGER, THEY DEVISED A PLAN BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO KILL THEIR CHILD. AND MOSES' PARENTS INTENDED TO OBEY GOD FIRST. <br> <br>

      AFTER THOSE FIRST THREE MONTHS HAD PASSED, MOSES' MOTHER MADE A SPECIAL ARK FOR HIM AND THEN DOBBED IT WITH PITCH AND ASPHALT SO THAT IT WOULD BE WATERPROOF - SO IT WOULDN'T SINK, THEN PLACED HIM IN A SAFE LOCATION THERE IN THE RIVER - IN THE REEDS. - AND THEN IN THAT LOCATION THEY PUT HIS SISTER MIRIAM TO WATCH OVER THAT SO THAT NO HARM WOULD COME TO THAT CHILD IN THE RIVER, EVEN PUT IN A PLACE WHERE THEY WOULD MAKE SURE THAT PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER WOULD FIND HIM. ALL THIS SO THAT CHILD WOULD NOT DIE WHEN IT WAS PLACED IN THE RIVER. WHY IS IT THAT MOSES' PARENTS DID THAT? WHY IS IT THAT MOSES' PARENTS - AMRAM AND JOCHEBED - WOULD TAKE SO MUCH CARE AND CONCERN FOR THIS CHILD? BECAUSE THEY, BY FAITH, OBEYED GOD FIRST. THEY WEREN'T CONCERNED SO MUCH ABOUT THE KING'S COMMANDS AS THEY WERE ABOUT GOD'S COMMANDS AND THEY WERE WILLING TO OBEY GOD ABOVE EVEN THE COMMAND OF THE RULER OF THE NATION IN WHICH THEY LIVE. <br> <br>	

      WHAT DOES THAT TEACH US ABOUT FAITH? BY FAITH, MOSES' PARENTS OBEYED GOD FIRST. AND WE, IN A SIMILAR WAY TODAY, SHOULD ALSO TAKE THAT SAME STANCE AND SHOULD ALSO HAVE THAT SAME ATTITUDE TOWARDS GOD AND HIS WORD. IN OUR LIVES TODAY, BY FAITH, WE SHOULD OBEY GOD FIRST. THERE AS YOU CONSIDER WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN TODAY WE, JUST LIKE MOSES' PARENTS, SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF MEN. DO NOT FEAR WHAT MEN CAN DO ABOVE WHAT GOD IS ABLE TO DO. IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS ONCE AGAIN, A COUPLE CHAPTERS OVER IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 13:5, IT SAYS, “LET YOUR CONDUCT BE WITHOUT COVETOUSNESS; BE CONTENT WITH SUCH THINGS AS YOU HAVE, FOR HE HIMSELF HAS SAID, ‘I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.’ SO WE MAY BOLDLY SAY:  ‘THE LORD IS MY HELPER; I WILL NOT FEAR. WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?” THE QUESTION THERE IS POSED: WHAT CAN MAN DO TO US IF GOD IS ON OUR SIDE? YOU SEE, WITH GOD WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID OF.<br> <br> 

      NOW, WE MIGHT KNOW THAT THERE WOULD BE THINGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN TO PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD. EVEN KINGS AND RULERS WOULD DO THINGS TO DO HARM AND PERSECUTE GOD'S PEOPLE. THAT'S WHAT REALLY WAS HAPPENING TO THE HEBREWS THERE IN EGYPT TO THE ISRAELITES LIVING THERE IN THAT PERSECUTION. AND YET AMRAM AND JOCHEBED, MOSES' PARENTS, SAID THEY WERE NOT AFRAID OF THE KING'S COMMAND. THEY WEREN'T AFRAID OF MAN BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF GOD. THEY HAD A PROPER FEAR AND RESPECT FOR THE ONE WHO HAD MADE THEM. AND SO THEY WERE WILLING TO OBEY GOD FIRST. AND SO WE SHOULD ALSO BE WILLING TO OBEY GOD FIRST. ANOTHER POINT OF COMPARISON IS THAT MOSES' PARENTS TRUSTED IN GOD. AND WE SHOULD TRUST IN GOD. PROVERBS CHAPTER 3:5 SAYS, “TRUST THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS.” IF WE WILL TRUST IN GOD, WE CAN KNOW THAT HE WILL LEAD US, HE WILL GUIDE US, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. THAT'S WHAT MOSES' PARENTS TEACH US BY FAITH - THAT THEY TRUSTED IN GOD AND WE AS WELL SHOULD TRUST IN GOD. AND AS WE TRUST IN GOD, THAT WILL LEAD US TO OBEY GOD FIRST. <br> <br>

      ALSO, MOSES' PARENTS - AS THEY OBEYED GOD FIRST - THEY TEACH US HOW VALUABLE THAT LESSON IS. I AM REMINDED ALSO OF THE WORDS THERE IN ACTS CHAPTER 5:29 WHEN SOME OF THE APOSTLES WERE CHASTISED FOR PREACHING AND TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD. AND THEY SAID IN RESPONSE - WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN. THE FACTS OF WHAT WE LEARN HERE ARE SO PERTINENT TODAY. AS MOSES' PARENTS OBEYED GOD FIRST AND BY FAITH THEY DID THAT WHEN THEY HID AND TOOK CARE OF THAT BABY MOSES. WE AS WELL SHOULD OBEY GOD FIRST IN OUR LIVES. NOT FEARING MEN BUT PUTTING OUR TRUST IN GOD AND ALWAYS OBEYING GOD FIRST ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD. BY FAITH THEY OBEYED GOD FIRST.<br> <br> 

      BUT AS WE CONTINUE IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS - HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 - THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT POINT THAT BEGINS IN VERSE 24. AND THIS REALLY BEGINS TO DRIVE HOME WHY IT IS THAT MOSES HIMSELF IS REMEMBERED FOR HIS FAITH. READ WITH ME THERE BEGINNING IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:24. IT SAYS, “BY FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED TO BE CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER.” BEGINNING HERE IN THIS VERSE AND GOING TO VERSE 27, THE NEXT FOUR VERSUS BEGIN TO POINT OUT THAT BY FAITH MOSES LOOKED TO GOD'S REWARD. THERE WERE DEFINITELY THINGS THAT MOSES WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO HERE IN THIS WORLD WHEN HE LIVED IN EGYPT AS THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER. BUT MOSES LOOK BEYOND THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND LOOKED TO GOD'S REWARD. AS WE JUST READ THERE IN VERSE 24, MOSES REFUSED TO BE CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER. THIS IS WHEN MOSES HAS REACHED THE AGE OF 40. AND THERE, AND ALSO IN EXODUS CHAPTER 2 AND ACTS CHAPTER 7 WHEN THE THINGS ARE RECOUNTED THERE OF HISTORY, IT SAYS THAT MOSES LEFT THE THINGS OF EGYPT; LEFT THE HOUSE OF PHARAOH TO GO TO HIS OWN BRETHREN. HE WANTED TO BE AMONG THE HEBREWS. HE WANTED TO BE AMONG GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. MOSES DID NOT WANT TO BE CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER ANY LONGER. AND THAT'S WHAT WE SEE THERE IN VERSE 24 THAT HE DID BY FAITH. HE LEFT HIS PLACE IN HER HOUSEHOLD TO GO TO HIS OWN PEOPLE.<br> <br>

      CONTINUING THERE IN VERSE 25 IT ALSO SAYS ABOUT MOSES THAT BY FAITH, “CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN ENJOY THE PASSING PLEASURES OF SIN,” HERE'S A CHOICE THAT MOSES MADE BY FAITH. AND JUST LIKE IT SAID IN VERSE 24, HE LEFT THE THINGS OF EGYPT. HE WOULD HAVE HAD ACCESS TO ALL THE THINGS OF EGYPT - ITS LUXURIES, NOT ONLY ITS LUXURIES, BUT ALSO ITS HONORS BUT ALL THE IDOLATRY AND ALL THE SINS THAT WERE READILY AVAILABLE TO HIM IN EGYPT. WHAT DOES IT SAY HE DID?  HE LEFT ALL THOSE THINGS BEHIND. HE CHOSE RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION THAN TO ENJOY THOSE SO-CALLED SINS OR THOSE SINS AND THEIR SO CALLED ENJOYMENT THERE IN EGYPT. AND HE CHOSE AFFLICTION. AND BY CHOOSING GOD'S PEOPLE - BY CHOOSING GOD AND CHOOSING AFFLICTION - HE WAS ACTING BY FAITH. CAN YOU IMAGINE HAVING ACCESS TO ALL THOSE THINGS IN EGYPT AND GIVING THEM ALL UP? MOSES MADE THAT CHOICE BY FAITH. <br> <br>

      CONTINUING ON IN VERSE 26, WE LEARN SOMETHING ELSE. IT SAYS THAT MOSES AGAIN IS, “ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST'S GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES IN EGYPT; FOR HE LOOKED TO THE REWARD.” TYING IN WITH ALL THE THINGS WE SAID SO FAR ABOUT THESE VERSES, MOSES ALSO MADE ANOTHER CHOICE. HE CHOSE REPROACH AND RICHES. IMAGINE THERE AGAIN BEING IN EGYPT - BEING MOSES - AND GIVING ALL THOSE THINGS UP. MOSES CHOSE THAT REPROACH. MOSES UNDERSTOOD THAT WHEN HE WOULD LEAVE EGYPT TO BE AMONG THE ISRAELITES, HE WAS GOING TO SUFFER REPROACH. BUT THAT WOULD BE REPROACH FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND HE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THAT CHOICE. AND HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE WAS GIVING UP BECAUSE, WHEN HE MADE THE CHOICE, HE UNDERSTOOD THAT WHAT HE WOULD HAVE IN GOD WOULD BE GREATER RICHES. MOSES CHOSE THE GREATER RICHES IN GOD THAN THE RICHES OF THIS WORLD. AND AGAIN, HE DID SO BY FAITH. <br> <br>

      BUT NOT TO LEAVE OUT ONE FINAL VERSE IN THIS SECTION - LOOK AT VERSE 27. THERE IT SAYS, “BY FAITH HE FORSOOK EGYPT, NOT FEARING THE WRATH OF THE KING; FOR HE ENDURED AS SEEING HIM WHO IS INVISIBLE.” MOSES FORSOOK EGYPT - HE WASN'T AFRAID OF THE KING, THAT IS PHARAOH, ABOVE GOD. MOSES FEARED GOD, HE TRUSTED IN GOD, AND HE LEFT ALL THOSE THINGS BEHIND. AND AGAIN, HE DID THAT BY FAITH. MOSES ENDURED SEEING GOD - LOOKING TO HIM WHO IS INVISIBLE. YOU TAKE WHAT IT SAYS THERE IN VERSE 27 AND YOU CONNECT THAT WITH WHAT IT JUST SAID IN VERSE 26, IT SAYS MOSES LOOKED TO THE REWARD. MOSES LOOKED TO GOD - THE ONE WHO IS INVISIBLE. HE COULDN'T SEE HIM THERE WITH HIS EYES BUT HE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BEYOND THE THINGS THERE IN EGYPT. <br> <br>

      WHAT WE LEARN FROM ALL THESE VERSES IS THAT MOSES LOOKED TO GOD'S REWARD. HE WASN'T FOCUSED JUST ON THE THINGS OF EGYPT. HE WASN'T TIED TO THE THINGS OF THIS EARTH. BUT HE LOOKED BEYOND THOSE THINGS - AND AS HE LOOKED AT GOD'S REWARD - HE TEACHES US HOW TO DO SO BY FAITH. THAT'S A LESSON FOR US - TO BE THOSE WHO LIVE BY FAITH AND TO LOOK TO GOD'S REWARD EVEN TODAY. BY FAITH WE SHOULD CHOOSE TO BE SONS OF GOD, NO LONGER CHOOSING TO BE SONS OF SATAN AND THAT OF SIN, BUT CHOOSING BY OUR LIVES AND BY OUR OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WORD TO BE GOD'S SON. BY FAITH WE SHOULD DO THAT. BY FAITH WE TO SHOULD CHOOSE AFFLICTION OVER SIN. NOT INDULGING OF THE SINS OF THIS WORLD BUT CHOOSING AND TO LIVE A LIFE FOR GOD AND TO BE AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE AS WE LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD'S COMMANDS. <br> <br>

      THERE IN 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3:12, “ALL WHO DESIRE TO LIVE GODLY WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION.” WE CAN KNOW THAT, IF WE CHOOSE GOD, WE WILL SUFFER LIKE MOSES DID. BUT BY FAITH WE SHOULD CHOOSE THE REPROACH THAT COMES WITH LIVING FAITHFUL FOR GOD, KNOWING THAT IF WE MAKE THAT CHOICE, WE CAN HAVE THE RICHES THAT GOD OFFERS - THE RICHES THAT OUTWEIGH ANY RICHES THAT WE MIGHT HAVE HERE ON THIS EARTH. BY FAITH, CHOOSE TO LOOK TO GOD'S REWARD. IN 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 4:17, IT MENTIONS THAT OUR AFFLICTION HERE IS BUT FOR A MOMENT. BUT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REWARD THAT GOD HAS TO OFFER. BY FAITH, LOOK TO GOD'S REWARD. <br> <br>

      ONE OTHER VERSE THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO SEE IN THIS PASSAGE - IT ALSO TEACHES US ONE FINAL LESSON ABOUT MOSES FAITH - IS IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 AND VERSE 28. THERE THE VERSE READS, “BY FAITH HE KEPT THE PASSOVER AND THE SPRINKLING OF BLOOD, LEST HE WHO DESTROYED THE FIRSTBORN SHOULD TOUCH THEM.” MOSES AND ALSO ISRAEL HERE IS INCLUDED IN THIS, KEPT THE PASSOVER OVER OF GOD. AND THEY DID SUCH BY FAITH. GOD IN HIS WORD COMMANDED THEM TO KEEP THE PASSOVER. NOW REAL BRIEFLY, I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT ENTAILED. THE PASSOVER WAS GIVEN TO MOSES AND GIVEN TO ISRAEL AND HAD VERY SPECIFIC DETAILS. IN EXODUS CHAPTER 12, YOU LEARN THAT THEY HAD TO SELECT A LAMB OF THE FIRST YEAR THAT WAS WITHOUT BLEMISH. AND THEY SELECTED IT THE 10TH DAY AND THEY KEPT IT UNTIL THE 14TH DAY OF THE MONTH OF NISSAN, AT WHICH TIME THEY WOULD SACRIFICE IT. AND THEN THEY WOULD TAKE THE BLOOD AND PUT IT ACROSS THE LINTEL AND THE DOORPOST THERE OF THEIR HOMES ACCORDING TO GOD'S COMMANDS. THEY WOULD EAT THAT LAMB THAT NIGHT OR THE FOLLOWING NIGHT THERE WITH UNLEAVENED BREAD. GOD GAVE VERY SPECIFIC DETAILS. WHAT DOES HEBREWS CHAPTER 11:28 TEACH US? BY FAITH, HE KEPT THE PASSOVER. EVERY ONE OF THOSE DETAILS - EVERY DETAIL GIVEN IN GOD'S WORD - MOSES AND ISRAEL KEPT. AND THEY DID SUCH BY FAITH. NOT BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO MEN, NOT THAT IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO THE EGYPTIANS, BUT BECAUSE GOD COMMANDED IT BY FAITH THEY OBEYED. <br> <br>

      THAT LESSON IS ONE FOR US TODAY AS WELL. JUST AS MOSES KEPT GOD'S WORD BY FAITH, WE AS WELL SHOULD KEEP GOD'S WORD BY FAITH. BY FAITH WE MUST KEEP GOD'S WORD, JUST LIKE JESUS DEMONSTRATED. IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 IN VERSE 18, JESUS SAYS HE THE LAW DOWN TO THE JOT AND TO THE TITTLE. WE WOULD SAY TODAY THAT JESUS DOTTED HIS I'S AND CROSSED HIS T'S. HE KEPT ALL OF GOD'S WORD. WHAT DOES THAT TEACH US? THAT JUST LIKE MOSES - JUST LIKE JESUS - WE MUST KEEP ALL OF GOD'S WORD. IF WE LOVE HIM, WE MUST KEEP HIS ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS - JOHN CHAPTER 14 AND VERSE 15. WE SHOULD NOT ADD TO OR TAKE AWAY FROM WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN, REVELATION 22. ALL OF THESE THINGS TEACH US, THAT BY FAITH, WE MUST KEEP GOD'S WORD. <br> <br>

      AS WE LOOK INTO THESE HEROES OF FAITH AND AS WE CONSIDER THE LIVES OF MEN LIKE MOSES AND OTHER GREAT HEROES OF FAITH, THEY HAVE ALOT TO TEACH OTHERS ABOUT HOW TO LIVE FAITHFUL LIVES. THINK ABOUT THIS MOMENT NOW - ARE YOU LIVING BY FAITH? ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ONCE AGAIN - ARE YOU OBEYING GOD FIRST? BY FAITH, ARE YOU PUTTING HIM FIRST IN YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU ALSO LOOKING TO GOD'S REWARD? NOT JUST THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE BUT ARE YOU LOOKING, BY FAITH, TO THAT REWARD THAT GOD HAS TO OFFER? AND ARE YOU KEEPING GOD'S WORD BY FAITH? ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOUR LIFE IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. BY FAITH, ARE YOU LIVING AS MOSES LIVED? MAKE SURE THAT YOUR LIFE IS A TRUE EXAMPLE OF FAITH.<br> <br>



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