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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 52
The Father’s Chastening
Hebrews 11:24 – 12:17
All right, in our last program we were in Hebrews chapter 11 and we left off with verse 23 with the review of the faith of Moses. And remember that Hebrews chapter 11 is a chapter that just simply reminds of the faith of all the Old Testament Patriarchs. Well, the Jewish people were under the same kind of a dilemma. Many people will call and ask me, "Well what was the basis of salvation back in the Old Testament?" Well, it’s always been by faith. "For whatsoever things were written aforetime (Old Testament, they) were written for our learning,…" So repeating the verse again:
All right, come back to Hebrews chapter 11 and we’ll move on. And now it’s by faith then in verse 24:
"By faith Moses, when he was come to years,…" Twenty-one years old. But it wasn’t 21 in the case of Moses - it was 40. When Moses was 40 years old, after having spent those first 40 years in the house of Pharaoh (as Pharaoh’s daughter, remember, picked him up out of the river Nile). Acts chapter 7 verse 20. Now look at verse 22, as a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, living in the palace:
Acts 7:22
"And Moses was learned (educated) in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds."
Egypt was the consumer nation of antiquity. Egypt was the high point of civilization. So Moses isn’t stuck in some antiquated, pagan, uncivilized society - it’s a thriving economy. All right, now come back to Hebrews and I’m doing all this to show what Moses turned his back on. All right, chapter 11 verse 24:
Hebrews 11:24-25a
"By faith Moses, when he was come to years, (when he was 40 years of age. Having been educated and enjoyed all of the good things of Egypt,) refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; 25. Choosing.…" Choices. Choices. Bad choices. All right, Moses was no different. These people were just as human as we are. Second man in Egypt. Hebrews 11:25
"Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, (now I’ll add the word, ‘rather’) than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" You see why I made reference to our present day athletes? Moses had the same thing and he had all the opportunity for the pleasures of sin. Now even for young people today, that’s not an easy choice, is it? Not for the time. Drug addicts. Well, you see, Moses was in the same place. He could enjoy the pleasures of sin for a little while. Now verse 26:
Hebrews 11:26a
Now you’ve got to remember that the word Christ, we do not have it back in the Old Testament. In other words, when you read about Moses in Exodus, you don’t see the name Jesus Christ. Hebrews 11:26a
"Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt:.…" Quite a choice, wasn’t it?
Hebrews 11:26b
Eternity is forever. How long is eternity? As long as God lives! As long as God lives! That’s eternity. And He’s from eternity past to eternity future. Moses considered that these pleasures of Egypt for a little while were nothing compared to the rewards of eternity. Verse 27:
Hebrews 11:27a
"By faith, he forsook Egypt,.…" Moses didn’t just take off blindly. Moses knew that God was in control. It’s just mind boggling of how ignorant most of our younger people are of Scripture. "God Bless You?" It wasn’t a Bible verse. Hebrews 11:27a
What kept Moses going was his faith in the invisible God, and he never lost that. Now verse 28:
Hebrews 11:28a
"Through faith he kept the Passover,…"
Because 40 years have gone by from the time that Moses flees from Egypt; goes to the backside of the desert, remember? Well, after he stopped to see the burning bush (it was God speaking), the Lord told him that now it was time to go back into Egypt and to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Now if you know your Old Testament at all, I hope you realize that that in itself was not a shock to Moses, to lead Israel out of Egypt, because that’s what he wanted to do in the first place. Acts 27 verse 23.
So what did Moses really have on his mind when he went out to visit the children of Israel? Moses was hoping to do it under his own power, because of his own ability, his own political situation instead of waiting for God. All right, so come back to Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 28. After skipping those forty years on the back side of the desert, we skip that time of the plagues with the Pharaoh’s there in Egypt and we come down to the last event that Israel experiences in Egypt. Hebrews 11:28a
"Through faith (taking God at His Word!) Hebrews 11:28b
"…lest he that destroyed the firstborn (that is of Egypt. All the firstborn of Egypt remember, were stricken) should touch them." The blood of the Passover lamb kept the death angel from touching the children of Israel. Faith! Faith. Our faith has to be in what God has said. And what has God said?
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