Faith Exemplified - Moses's Decisions of Faith - Part 1

I think that last song is one that we know probably if we were raised in a church, especially in the South, wherever he leads a go. But I want to ask you if you are willing to sing that honestly because you live that out. You very well may be dealing with a sin in your life that's crippling that you will not repent of fully and wholly. Will you follow him wherever he leads in relation to that sin? Some of you may be dealing with marriage difficulties and you just kind of exist with those difficulties. Will you follow him as he leads you to correct those marriage difficulties? Some of you have difficult decisions to make.

Family decisions, career decisions, life decisions. Will you just sit back or will you follow him wherever he leads you in those decisions? You see folks, we have decision after decision in life whether we are a young Christian or an old Christian. Decision after decision and we must sing that, Lord, wherever you lead I will go. The problem with most of us is we can go slowly, we can go temporarily, we can go half heartedly and in many ways we don't go all the way to where the Lord wants us to go. Wherever he leads I will go. Moses sang that song well folks. We're going to see that. Moses sang that song well. I love that old one.

Thank you Keith for leading us in that on him. Well if you would take your Bible, turn back to Hebrews 11. Back to Hebrews 11. In the message we will only be in verse 24 to 26 but behind these passages are quite a few verses in the Old Testament. If you go and do the background study with what we are looking at this morning you're going to spend some time in the book of Genesis and especially some time in the book of Exodus and I encourage you to do that. I always encourage you to be good students of what we study on Sunday mornings from the pulpit.

Make sure you listen to the message, take what we give you and pray over it and study it and make sure you get all the Lord wants you to get. Now last week we got back in our study of the book of Hebrews, specifically our study here in chapter 11 in what I call the Hall of Fame of the saints of God and here we are at number 9, number 10 and number 11 in this list of the great saints who live by faith. Amram and Jacobett who were Moses parents are number 9 and 10 in this list of saints and Moses is number 11. This is number 11 and I hope you have taken the time to revisit the saints that we studied some 4, 5, 6 months ago.

We need to get their unique examples of the life of faith in our minds and in our thinking. We need to get the flow of these examples in our mind. Let me explain what I mean by the flow of these examples. They all tie together folks. Abel worshipped God by faith, Enoch walked with God by faith, Noah obeyed God by faith, Abraham lived the life of faith his entire life including his wife Sarah and then Abraham also made a great sacrifice of faith. Look at that flow, worship, walk, obedience, the entire life of faith and the sacrifice of faith and Moses fits right in there with him and I will revisit this flow at the end of the message.

Now last week the entire message was about Moses parents, Amram and Jacobett. I believe their example is parents who by faith made certain daring and dangerous decisions according to God's will and plan for their life and Moses life. They can be a great example for us even today. The decisions they made were spiritually daring. Think about that. The decisions they made were certainly dangerous and some would even say the decisions they made were very dumb in man's perspective but each one was made by faith in their God. Isn't that good?

Each of these decisions were made by faith in their God and remember what we learned early on in this chapter. Faith has substance. Faith is not out there in the cloud. It's not a hope so. Faith is the confident assurance that things hope for and things not yet seen but the substance that is at the foundation of that confident assurance is God. Faith is hope in and a confident assurance in God. You see that? Faith is hope in God, a confident assurance in God. But back to Moses parents.

First we saw how they hid their son even though Pharaoh commanded that all the Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into the Nile River but they chose to protect Moses from death trusting in God instead of fearing the king. Second they saw that their child was beautiful but he was not necessarily physically beautiful but that he was beautiful in the sight of God. He was divinely favored. They recognized that Moses was marked out by God for the purposes of God. They saw that he was a child of destiny. We got that language from William McDonald.

They saw and understood that Moses was a child of destiny and this gave them the confidence to act and live by faith. And third they loved and obeyed God more than they feared and obeyed the king showing that true faith makes the decision and decision after decision to obey God even in the face of great life threatening danger. And the lesson that we learn here is this. We disobey the king only when the king commands us to disobey God's word. That needs to be repeated because there are a lot of people out there in the quote unquote Christian world who violate this.

We disobey the king only when the king's command commands us to disobey God's word. Otherwise we are violating scripture. Romans chapter 13. Amram and Jacobed's decisions were not rebellion for rebellious sake. No. They rebelled against the earthly king out of faithful obedience to God and God's word. You see? They were grounded in God, God's will and God's word and all these things. And as parents we are called to pour the gospel into our children. We're called to pray for them. We're called to seek their salvation and work for their salvation and teaching them that they were and are created by God for his purposes in this world.

And like Moses' parents we are to be about this twofold work hiding our children away from Egypt while at the same time preparing them to live in Egypt. Knowing and trusting in the fact that the only way they can do this successfully is if they are savingly converted to Christ. And Amram and Jacobed also showed us the importance of a godly heritage and a personal faith. They believed the Lord and because of their faith and their decisions of faith they were able to shape Moses in his early years even with great hindrances and limits. Therefore creating a godly heritage.

And ultimately their example reminds us that while God is sovereign we are responsible to faithfully raise our children for God's purposes and God's plans in the world. We are responsible to instill in them that they are children of destiny, God's destiny, for building a godly heritage for us, ultimately for him in us. Now I did not say this last week but I should have. Notice what we see in Moses' parents. They embodied and exemplified the life of faith. That is because they knew that faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. Remember that that we learned early in the chapter? They embodied Moses' parents.

They exemplified the life of faith. That is because they knew that faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. We picked that up early in this study from John MacArthur. All these saints in Hebrews 11 embodied and exemplified the life of faith. They all knew that faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. Now this morning we move on into the example of Moses. Remember how Moses ranks with these other Old Testament saints, especially when compared to Abraham.

I said that many considered Abraham as the greatest example of the life of faith because within all of these examples the author singles out Abraham for living the life of faith his entire life. We see Moses as the second greatest example of the life of faith. But within Judaism, Moses was esteemed as great in the eyes of the Jews because God gave the law through Moses. He was and he is so honored that the law of God is even called the law of Moses. How many times do we see that in the Old Testament, in the New Testament? The law of God is considered the law of Moses.

But here in our verses, verse 24 to 28, the author does not say that Moses lived the life of faith by giving the law and by keeping the law. He tells us that Moses lived the life of faith through many decisions that he made, through many decisions that he made by faith. And this morning we will see that Moses made many decisions, even daring and dangerous decisions and some are just plain dumb decisions by the world's standards, just like his parents. And that leads us to the title of the message, "Faith exemplified Moses' decisions of faith." It's real simple and it represents accurately what we have here.

Faith exemplified Moses' decisions of faith. Now let's read our verses again, but again we will not cover all of them. This will be a part one and a part two. Verse 24, "By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of the shame of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward." Now verse 27 picks up with the part two, but we'll read these verses.

"By faith he," that's Moses, "left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. By faith he kept the passover and sprinkled the blood so that the destroyer of the first born might not touch them, them being Moses and the people of Israel." Now the author shows us that Moses made certain, notice negative decisions and notice certain positive decisions. Moses renounced and rejected certain things in his life and conversely he reached out for and he received certain other things. And that is how we will approach the verses.

We will look at what he renounced or what he rejected and then we will look at what he reached out for, what he received. So let's get started in the verses. Number one, notice Moses renounced his life in Egypt. We see that in verse 24 and 25. Moses renounced his life in Egypt. Now for 40 years Moses had truly been a prince in Egypt as the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter. And at this time Egypt was the wealthiest, most powerful, most cultured and advanced people in country in the world.

And being the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter meant that Moses was very wealthy, very well educated and he would have had every opportunity open to him at the very top of society because he was at the top of the ruling class as a grandson of Pharaoh. Scholars point out that extra biblical Jewish writing from that time portrayed Moses as a great Egyptian military hero and a man of great learning and knowledge. And we'll see this kind of information alluded to in the New Testament. In Acts 7.22, Stephen spoke of Moses when he was preaching Christ before the Jewish religious leaders.

And he said in verse 22, "And Moses was instructed in all of the wisdom of the Egyptians." You see that? "Moses was instructed in all of the wisdom or education of the Egyptians and he was mighty in his words and deeds." This truly meant that he was trained in all the learning and wisdom of the Egyptians. And scholars tell us his education consisted of astrology, the interpretation of dreams, knowledge of medicine, a great amount of mathematics and science, as well as all of the ways of their religion which were concealed in and explained by their hieroglyphics.

And he would have been able to read, write and speak many different languages as well. So in every way, Moses enjoyed the life of a prince in Egypt. He was the son of Pharaoh's daughter, the grandson of Pharaoh. And for 40 years, Moses was surrounded by all of the pleasures of sin that the Egyptian culture could offer and the pleasures of sin that being the son of Pharaoh's daughter could offer. But here the author is not referring to the pleasures of sin and sinfulness from the world like we would explain it, but specifically he is referring to the sinfulness that came from living as a prince in Egypt.

One scholar says it like this and I'm quoting, "The author does not refer to the pleasure of gratifying sensual appetites and so forth, but to the satisfaction of a high ambition and the gratification of his finer tastes, which he might have had remaining in the Egyptian court. Simply these pleasures of sin were the sin and the sinful lifestyle associated with living as a prince in Egypt within the royal household. But we cannot forget that he was educated by his mother Jacobed as well. We saw this last week.

Although she certainly had a limited amount of time with Moses while she nursed him in those early years, it is safe to assume that she taught him the Hebrew language, the Word of God, the ways of God, and the promises and the plans of God concerning his people Israel. But the writer of Hebrews tells us Moses came to a point of decision. He made a choice. He made a series of choices. He renounced his life in Egypt and all that that life consisted of. You see that? He made a choice. He renounced his life in Egypt and all that that life consisted of. But a question we need to ask, what brought him to this decision?

What brought him to this moment of decision? Well that's simple. Just like Moses' parents knew that God had a plan and purpose for Moses' life, Moses knew as well. In some way, God revealed his plans concerning his people to Moses and how he would use him to deliver his people. In the words of William McDonald that we saw last week, Moses' parents knew he was a child of destiny and Moses knew he was a man of destiny. You see that? Moses' parents knew he was a child of destiny and Moses knew that he was a man of destiny, but this was God's destiny, not his.

And we can make that assumption based on what we see in the New Testament again, again from Stephen. In Acts 7.25, Stephen said of Moses, "He," that's Moses, "supposed that his brothers," that's his fellow Jews, "would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand." You see that destiny there? So notice two things. Moses renounced. First he renounced his life as a prince in Egypt. And second, he renounced the pleasures of sin associated with a life as a prince in Egypt. And this word renounce here really communicates what Moses did.

Webster's dictionary defines the word renounce saying it means to give up, to refuse, to resign usually by formal declaration. That's just what Moses did. Yet conversely, Moses chose a life with God's people instead. Look back at the verses, verse 24 and 25. My faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. I love what Leon Morris says here. He gets deeply theological.

It might be hard for some of you to understand this, but Morris says, and I'm quoting, "By any worldly test, this was a stupid decision." I just altered it to say dumb because I've been using the word D or the letter D throughout my teaching. By any worldly test, this was a dumb, a stupid decision. But look at how he gave up a life of extreme wealth and luxury to be mistreated along with the people of God. But a question, how were the Jews mistreated? Why were the Jews mistreated? Some of you know this.

The Jewish people were horribly mistreated as slaves under Pharaoh because the rapid reproduction stirred up fear and great insecurity in the Egyptian leadership, which led Pharaoh to see the Jews as a great threat to the nation of Egypt. We see this in Exodus 1, verses 8 to 10. So in response to this perceived threat, Moses worked to weaken the Jews and to control them through great mistreatment as slaves. He put harsh taskmasters over them to afflict them with the heavy burden of forced slave labor, which included building the great Egyptian cities of Python and Ramses. We see this in Exodus 1, 11 to 14.

Their slavery was characterized by great brutality as the Egyptians made their lives almost unbearable with never ending inhumane work in mortar and brick and all kinds of work in the fields. And Exodus 1, 12 tells us that the more they were abused, the more God blessed them. And the more they were abused, the more God multiplied them, which increased the fears of the Egyptians and especially Pharaoh. So Pharaoh ramped up his attempts to suppress the Jews by ordering the Hebrew midwives to kill the newborn Hebrew boys at birth. But when that failed, he commanded that all of the newborn Hebrew boys be thrown into the Nile River.

We see this in Exodus 1, 15 to 16 in verse 22. And this purposeful systematic oppression was both physical and psychological for the purpose of breaking the strength and the identity of the Jews and any future of hope that they had. But even in their suffering, God heard their cries and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, therefore setting the stage for their eventual deliverance. We see this in Exodus 2, 24, 23 to 25 in chapter 3, verses 7 to 8. And how did God deliver them? Well He sent them a deliverer, Moses, who certainly was and is a Christ-like figure. So notice the two things that Moses chose.

First he chose a new life with God's people and second he chose to be mistreated with God's people. Now take a step back from the verses and look at what the author is telling us here. Moses possessed a personal faith and his faith was in God. That is because faith has substance. Faith rests on the concrete. Faith has substance in that it rests on. It is rooted in God. So by faith in God, Moses renounced his life as a prince in Egypt and the temporary pleasures of sin that came from that life and by faith in God, Moses chose to be with the people of God and even to be mistreated with the people of God. Look at how Moses choices.

All the decisions that he made do relate to us in our day. When we come to saving faith in Christ, we renounce being the son or daughter of the world and we choose to be a son or daughter of God. Let me restate that. When we come to saving faith in Christ, we renounce being a son or a daughter, a child of the world and we choose to be a son, a daughter, a child of the king who is God. We see this in 2 Corinthians 6. You don't have to turn there. Verses 14 to 18. Listen to what the Apostle Paul says to the Corinthians in the Corinthian church. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness?

Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God as God said. I will make my dwelling among them and will walk among them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Or go out from their midst and be separate from them says the Lord. And touch no unclean thing, then I will welcome you and I will be a father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me says the Lord Almighty. Now what is the Apostle Paul saying here?

He's saying that these Corinthians were to come out of darkness. They were to come out of the world. They were to come to faith in Christ. And coming to faith in Christ, he would be their father. They would be sons and daughters of the king and they would have a new family. You see? And when we come to saving faith in Christ, we renounce being a son or a daughter, a child of the world. And we choose to be the son, the daughter, the child of God with a completely new family. And when we come to saving faith in Christ, we renounce one family but we gain the family of God. Notice God's people. Isn't that what we see in Moses?

When we come to saving faith in Christ, we renounce one family and we gain the family of God's people. You see? Paul says in Ephesians 2.19, "So then you were no longer strangers and aliens, but you were fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God." So when we come to saving faith, we renounce one family and we gain a complete new family, the family of God, God's people, the church. And when we come to saving faith in Christ, we renounce the temporary pleasures of sin and we gladly accept mistreatment as the people of God if God's will for our lives allows mistreatment.

Now is when you say, "Pastor, I'm not so sure." When we come to saving faith, yes, we renounce the temporary pleasures of sin and we gladly accept mistreatment as the people of God if that is God's will for our lives. Second Timothy 3.12, Paul's writing to Timothy who is the pastor at the church at Ephesus. He says, "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." We will be persecuted in some way, shape, or a fashion. So notice Moses renounced his life in Egypt while choosing a new life with God's people instead, even a new life that involved mistreatment.

Verse number two, Moses rejected the treasures of Egypt. Moses rejected the treasures of Egypt. Verse 26, "He considered the reproach of Christ or the shame of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt for he was looking to the reward." What a question, what were these treasures in Egypt? Well, during the time of Moses, Egypt was arguably the wealthiest, the most powerful nation in all the world. Biblical and other sources tell us that Egypt was a land of great material abundance, political dominance, and great economic power. Many scholars say that at this time, Egypt was the mightiest empire on the planet. Let that sink in.

And this wealth and power was founded on natural and governmental powers. The Nile River provided an extraordinarily fertile delta which provided great agricultural wealth that enabled Egypt to supply produce not only for themselves, but for the surrounding nations. In other words, they had a surplus to sell. Earlier in Egypt's history under Joseph's administration, Egypt accumulated vast stores of food and wealth which greatly centralized great economic power within the household of Pharaoh. We see this in the story of Joseph in Genesis.

We also see from Exodus 12, 35 to 36, the abundance of precious materials and luxury goods found in Egypt. When the Israelites left Egypt, they left with great amounts of silver, gold, and fine clothing that were given to them by the Egyptians, all of which speak of their great, great wealth at this particular time. Their great wealth could be seen in their massive building projects. I mentioned two earlier when they built the store cities of Python and Ramses, Exodus 111. Simply, Egypt in Moses' day was extraordinarily rich in agriculture, precious metals, luxury goods, manpower through slave labor, and political organization and power.

It is safe to say that as a prince in Egypt and the grandson of Pharaoh, Moses certainly would have possessed much, and he had the potential to gain even more. Some speculate that he could have even been a Pharaoh. He was a grandson of Pharaoh. Let that sink in. Some even speculate that he could have become Pharaoh. But how did Moses react to these treasures? He rejected it all. But notice how he rejected these things. The English standard that I read from says he considered the reproach of Christ better. The newer American says considering the reproach of Christ.

The legacy standard says regarding the reproach of Christ, and this considering regarding, it means to consider by giving very careful attention to. It is the opposite of making a quick decision. John MacArthur elaborates on this by saying, "Moses thought through his decision weighing the pros and the cons. He weighed what Egypt had to offer against what God offered. When he reached a conclusion, it was well-founded and certain." So the author shows us that Moses came to a point of decision. He considered carefully, purposefully, methodically, over some time the treasures of Egypt, and he rejected it all.

And to the contrary, Moses chose the shame, the reproach of Christ instead. Go back to verse 26. He considered, in other words, that was a lengthy, methodical, purposeful decision. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt. But isn't this strange that the author would connect the reproach of Moses with Christ? I mean, this was some 1,500 years before the time of Jesus. So isn't this strange? Is it this off? What does this mean? Now, if we do some study on our own, we'll see that many go round and round explaining this, but it's really not that complicated.

Moses carefully considered, and he gave careful thought to all, and he chose the reproach of Christ considering the shame of Christ greater than all of the treasure in Egypt. So Moses identified with and suffered the shame of Christ as the true and promised Messiah of God because he joined with and identified with God's people and God's Messiah long before the Messiah came. And we see the very same thing with Abraham in the New Testament. In John 856, Jesus said, of course he's speaking to the religious leaders, "Your father, Abraham, rejoiced that he would see my day." And he saw it and was glad.

Of course, here we have the religious leaders debating with Jesus. That happened often. And Jesus explained to them that by faith, Abraham looked forward to the day of God's promised Messiah and that by faith, he had actually seen this day and he was glad. And Jesus told the Jews that he was that Messiah that Abraham saw by faith, and he was glad. And it was the very same thing from Moses, you see. By faith, he looked forward to the day of God's Messiah. He identified with God's people. He identified with God's promised Messiah, even with the reproach and the shame of God's promised Messiah. You see?

Leon Morris says it like this, and I'm quoting, "Christ has always been one with his people." Let that sink in. Christ has always been one with his people, and thus when Moses was insulted, it was not only for God's sake, but for Christ's sake. But why? What motivated Moses in all of this? Well, the author of Hebrews tells us there at the end of the verse, he was looking to the reward, and this reward was the reward he would receive in heaven for being obedient to the purpose and the plan of God that God had for his life. You see that?

This reward was the reward he would receive in heaven for being obedient to the purpose and the plan that God had for his life, being obedient to God's destiny. So the author shows us that Moses made a choice, really several. He chose the reproach of Christ over the treasures of Egypt, seeing the shame of Christ as greater than all of the treasures of Egypt. Now step back from the verse here, and look at what the author is telling us here. Moses possessed a personal faith. His faith was in God. That is because faith has substance. Faith rests on the concrete. Faith has substance in that it rests on, it is rooted in God.

So by faith in God, Moses made a willful and deliberate choice to reject all of the treasures of Egypt because he saw the reproach of Christ as greater, all because he was looking for the eternal reward he would receive in heaven all by faith. And look at how this relates to that original audience. We can never disconnect from that original audience. Remember that church. We have seen that this letter was written to a Jewish congregation, and many in the congregation were struggling with a great, great temptation to go back to life under the Old Covenant. They would have been facing tremendous family rejection for choosing Christ.

They would have faced tremendous social rejecting for identifying with Jesus as the Messiah. They would have lost position in their communities. They may have even been persecuted for professing Jesus as the Messiah. And we know that Old Covenant worship at the temple was still there in place with all of the animal sacrifices and the Old Covenant priesthood and all of those centuries old beloved traditions. So these Jews in this church were under a tremendous pressure to go back to life under the Old Covenant rather than accept and live out the reproach and the shame of Christ.

The question we must ask ourselves today, will we accept the reproach or shame of Christ willingly? Let me restate that. This is rhetorical. We need the Holy Spirit to answer this for us. Will we accept the reproach or shame of Christ willingly? I mean is genuine born again Christians? You may say, "Pastor Chris, I did not know shame and reproach was a part of the Christian life." Well, if you don't know that, you need to be informed. First Peter 4, 12 to 16. Peter's writing to this church.

He's saying, "Beloved." In other words, brethren, brothers, sisters, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you as though something strange were happening to you. In other words, don't be surprised when trials come, but rejoice in so far as you share Christ's sufferings that you may also rejoice and be glad when His glory is revealed. If you were insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed because the Spirit of glory of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. Another words, the Christian life is always associated with persecution, shame, reproach. We will suffer for the name of Christ. So back to that question, will we accept the reproach or the shame of Christ willingly when it comes? For some, they face the reproach of Christ if they come to true saving faith. Let me restate that. For some, they face the reproach of Christ if they come to savingly believe in Christ. And if they are honest, the reproach of Christ is what keeps some away from coming to true saving faith. You see that?

You know that may be some of you here today. You may be rejecting Christ and resisting coming to faith in Christ because you know to come to saving faith in Christ, you will experience reproach for coming to saving faith, even from some family. Will you let family keep you from coming to saving faith in Christ? But I will add to all of that by asking a few other questions. Will we see the reproach of Christ as greater than the treasures of this world? You know, we are a rich people, folks. All you have to do is go somewhere else in the world and you will see that the average American is very rich as compared to the other.

Will we see the reproach of Christ as greater than all of the treasures that we possess? How should we respond to that question? I mean, I don't think that's a question we can answer immediately. Will we see the reproach of Christ as greater than all of the treasures in the world, even the treasures that the Lord has allowed us to have? And another question, if we had to choose the name and reproach of Christ over what the world has to offer, even what we have, will we see the reproach of Christ as greater? So Moses rejected the treasures of Egypt while choosing the reproach of Christ as greater.

Now at this point I want to pause in our progression through the verses. Next time we will look at how Moses renounced the king of Egypt. He renounced the king of Egypt and he chose a heavenly king. And he rejected the gods of Egypt and he chose to believe the promises of God and the provision of God. But I want to conclude in our message this morning by showing us how Moses' example of faith fits in with the flow of these other saints.

Remember, Abel worshipped God by faith, Enid walked with God by faith, Noah obeyed God by faith, and Abraham lived the life of faith his entire life from when he was called out by God and he did this with his wife Sarah and notice he didn't do it perfectly, no, he did it well. And then also the writer of Hebrew shows us that Abraham sacrificed for God by faith. So we learn how to worship God by faith by observing Abel. We see how we are to walk with God by faith by looking at Enid. We learn how to obey God by looking at Noah. We see how to live the entire life of faith by observing Abraham and Sarah.

And we see how to sacrifice for God by looking at Abraham again. And we see what it means to make the decisions of faith by looking at Moses. He teaches us what it means to make costly decisions, sacrificial decisions, life altering, life threatening decisions, decisions that the world would call dumb. But they are beautiful in the sight of God, all by faith and in faith. And get this church, Moses did all that he did because he knew that faith was a way to live life and faith was a way to live. So this is all about faith exemplified. See this example? Moses decisions of faith.

So part one, because in the part two we will finish out these verses. Now let's pray, as always, committing the message.