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Hebrews 11.
21.
By faith, Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped leaning on the top of his staff.
By faith, Joseph, when he died.
Made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones.
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By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw you with a proper child, and they were not afraid of the King's commandments.
By faith, Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin. Four Seasons.
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured us, seeing him who is invisible.
Through faith he kept the Passover on the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.
By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians are saying to do, were drowned.
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days.
By faith, the harlot, Rehab perished. Not within that believe, not when she had received the spies with peace.
And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell a Gideon and a Barrack, and of Samson, and of Gypsy, of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets.
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
Quench the violence of fire, escape the edge of the sword out of weakness, were made strong.
Wax valiant. Infight. Turn to flight the armies of the aliens.
Women receive their dead, raised to life again, and others were tortured.
Not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, Yeah, moreover of bonds and imprisonment.
They were stoned, They were sawn asunder, were tempted. They were slain with the sword.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dins and caves of the earth.
And these all having obtained a good report through faith, to receive not the promise.
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
I always get the blessing when I read about Jacob.
I suppose Jacob means supplanter.
But there's a portion that would encourage us this afternoon. The Lord of Hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
I was thinking while our brother was reading, I'm so glad that Abrahams name didn't come in there. For I wonder where this poor Sinner, saved by the grace of God would have come in. It's not the God of Abraham, but it's the God of Jacob. We are just poor Jacob, beloved, but the Lord of hosts is with us.
God of Jacob is our refuge. And if you wouldn't mind if I made a little.
Observation of what happened on board ship.
I don't want to take very much time.
I was coming out from Brazil in an old Fraser and I didn't know that they had realized that it was my birthday.
So the captain with whom I had been speaking concerning the Lord Jesus and I had a meeting or two on that ship. He had arranged for a cake.
And when I got into the end, he also arranged for loudspeaker on the ship.
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And when I got into the dining room.
It was a happy birthday to you.
And the lady sitting at my table said Mr. Smith, how old are you?
Well, I said I was so, so many. I was left age. And I said to to her, it's not quite prudent to ask you how old you are. And she said, Mr. Smith, I'm 60 years of age, but I'm only 55 years of age. And then tears came down her cheeks, she said the Lord Jesus saved me.
Yeah, so I'm only 55 years of age, but I'm 60 years of age. She was saved as a little girl. Well, I wondered what the what to say. And the captain and the officer said speech, speech. And I said, Lord geez, what shall I say to this bunch of folks?
So I opened the by my Bible, it's at Genesis 47 is most interesting.
And the verse.
7 If you pardon me, just going on a little here. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
And so this was my theme for the speech How old art Thou?
And Jacob said unto Fear of the days of the years of my pilgrimage earned 130 years.
Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my father's in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
So I mentioned to them that I had been saved a number of years.
And I asked them.
Were there any in that company, who would be desirous of being saved for sins of the Lord save my soul. It's been full of many sorrows as well as many joys.
And I preached the gospel to them, with the result that three of the passengers came out for Christ as the result of the How old are you?
We trust that this may have been the experience of these meetings, that we can tell how old we are, how old we are. Then the captain invited me to his cabin. He was very interested.
And he has a little notice in his above his cabin, the seat of his cabin, and it said.
Lord Jesus.
My ship is very small and I see is so great.
Isn't it so? This came to my mind, brethren. And you'll excuse me mentioning these personal things, but isn't it wonderful? Can we say that few and evil have been our days, beloved, since we came to the feet of Christ? They've been the happiest years of our life to know that the Lord Jesus on the cross of Calvary.
Met our terrible need and dealt with the question of sin forever. There, Oh, happy.
You would be to know that as the result of these meetings, souls would go home rejoicing in the Lord Jesus as their Savior.
Another what he has to say on chapter 41 Isaiah in connection with the children of Israel. It's very blessed to notice that in the 41St chapter of Isaiah and verse 14.
Is very blessed. I have often taken for myself with your brother. I say chapter 41, verse 14, What an encouragement that must have been to the children of Israel.
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She is now dog warm Jacob.
And ye men of Israel, I will help thee say of the Lord very significant warm of Jacob as our dear brother, just say that's what we are. But what a wonderful lesson we can learn. In this verse here in our chapter, Jacob went through many trials, and some of those trials, they were very deep. And I suppose he brought upon himself as sometimes we do it, and as he went along the way, especially when he had to meet with his brothers, with his brother.
He had to lie and cry the neck who got an experience with for him.
And and each and every child, I believe that you learn to learn more and more to another. And here we find here at the end of his life, leaning on something else. What a wonderful lesson that is for us. Who is this one, someone else that we need to lean on as the blessed Lord Jesus Christ himself. Isn't he to lean on someone else? He was leaning upon a staff. And you know when we lean upon the blessed person of the Lord Jesus ourselves.
Then we are able to be of a blessing to others. Then Jacob, blessed is your children.
Very soon to end the hospital and our brother has mentioned Isaiah 41 and there are two verses there which I proved to be a great comfort in my own soul while I was in hospital. So the benefit of these two brothers, I'd like to read them to encourage their hearts.
And Sci-fi 4110.
There are 7 precious truths in this verse. And the Lord begins with fear. Thou not, he wants to remove all fear from our hearts first, because we do become fearful at such times.
For I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yeah, I will help thee. Yeah. I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
And the 13th verse. For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand.
Saying unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee.
So I trust you and your brothers, Oregon, soon to enter hospital, may get a little cheer and encouragement from these verses, because I read them many, many, many times when I was there, and they were such a comfort to my own heart to think the law would not only holding my right hand, but speaking to him at the same time. Fear thou not, I was healthy.
And as the nurses were pushing me along the corridor to guard the operating room, when we got to the door of the operating room, one nurse said to the other, I wonder what the patients think when they arrive at this door. I was just about to quote this verse, which have been such a joy to my own soul. And they opened the door and pushed me in and I didn't get a chance to say a word. I was out in about a minute.
But what accompanied these verses are?
Precious of the Lord wants to remove all fear from our hearts. First of all fear, thou naughty, begin for that.
You have seen that the failure of Isaac in connection with blessings, blessings of Esau and Jacob, that it took Jacob a whole lifetime to learn his.
Sad failure.
And the way he got the blessing, he and his mother, as you remember, connive together.
To deceive poor old Isaac, because he was blind and made savory meat out of out of goat meat or kids to kids and made savory meat and he got the blessing that.
Isaac would have given to Esau.
Well, the result of that failure, he had to suffer a whole life of trial.
God would have seen to it that.
Isaac's mind was corrected if he'd awaited his mother had waited on the Lord about it. But it would seem that in the life of Jacob we have a dear child of God.
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And yet he it took him a lifetime to learn this simple truth, to leave things with God.
And God will bring things about in his own way, if we're subject to him. So you have a Saint of God who got away from the Lord, and of all the sowing and the sad truth that it bore because of his failure, and, you know, as far as his mother.
Rebecca was concerned. She never got to see her saw her favorite son, Jacob, again.
They had to send him away to save his life from Esau. That was the discipline that came upon her. And what sad reaping, and I remember it might have been right in Des Moines, Brother Potter making this remark. He said I'd rather be a Jacob than an Isaac. Well, that seemed a kind of an extraordinary statement.
But he explains it this way, that Isaac had a very easy life.
Everything went favorably in connection with his pilgrimage.
He had no great trial.
But Jacob had.
Untold trials.
And so we find that.
How that God used these trials to develop in him?
This beautiful closing scene, just like the sunset of a life. How beautiful it was at last. He has fully submitted to the to the will of God in connection with the blessing and there leaning on his staff.
A helpless man. Now he's a worshipper at the end.
So I just take it this way that for our brother, aged brother said to us that going through trials and we may bring them on ourselves.
May not be the the most distressing part of God's ways with us.
For to have no trials at all, I think someone has said a life without trials is no life at all.
It's the trials that develop in us that acquaintance with the Lord, and break our wills and fit us for a greater enjoyment of the coming scene of glory.
Objected to that little hymn, You know, how can we sync with such a prop as the eternal God? But I believe that there's a principle there that in this passage.
That.
May apply as well to any here today who are not saved. It would be a sad thing to be an old man and weak and not be able to have a staff, wouldn't it?
We get that in the end of the book of Ecclesiastes, the same principle.
Of the old person or man and leaning on the staff, Well, it's a picture in scripture of man coming to the place where he has learned.
Through experience, to lean on someone that's stronger than he is.
Now there's an expression.
And you know, the Bible is taken up with a great deal about the history of Jacob. But there's one expression that we him was built around, I believe Lord Tisina. Remember that when he said Lord, it's enough He sees his.
His children.
All brought back and you know, brethren, it's marvelous what?
Resurrection life will bring marvelous God will never disappoint faith.
And Jacob was a man of faith. He didn't express it here very much outwardly, but he was a man of faith just the same. And deep down in his soul, when he finally saw Joseph, the one who he thought was dead, he said, Lord, it's enough. And we we sing that little hymn, you know?
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Thy grace around us for us it's rich and non exhaustive store. What's the rest of it? I can't recall.
And all his joy is ours, isn't it? Well, that's the heart of Jacob. At the end of his course he had, he had reached the place where he learned to lean now in the in the history of Israel.
I know it's bringing in Israel in the coming day, but I believe Jacob as well as Peter are both a picture of this, that in the coming day when the children of Israel.
We'll finally come back to their land. He brings them back to their border and they come in by faith into the land. They're going to remember their ways.
And my people shall be willing in the day of my power.
That will begin in Psalms 110. My people shall be willing in the day of my power. Well, that's the end that God has in view. But now the application to the center, if he's without Christ here today. Do you have a staff?
Do you have something to lean on outside of yourself?
Do you have a savior? You'll go hard with you and that day if you don't?
Here we have a man who has at the close of his days, he has the staff to lean on.
I think of the difference between what Jacob said and what the Apostle Paul said. I think we can say that the Apostle Paul had a stop, Jacob said. All these things are against me.
The Apostle Paul said none of these things move me.
He was relying upon the grace and strength of God. He certainly had a good style.
I like to notice too, the distinction between the beginning and the ending of the Psalm of Solomon. It was pointed out to us that at the beginning the statement is made. Draw me, we will run after thee. That's a very, very commendable energy. We will run after the But in the last chapter of the Song of Solomon we read Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness?
Leaning upon her beloved, the days of the eager running are ended and the days of leaning our present. And I'm sure that the one attitude is just this sweet to the heart of the Lord Jesus as the others. The eager running of early youth is very, very precious to see, and so is the leading of later life. Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved. We're just about at the end of the wilderness, that's sure.
And what a sweet thing it must be to the Lord Jesus to see his people lean.
Lovely examples we have of instruction in these different ones. How beautifully the spirit of God has woven these different ones into this chapter of faith. So the next.
Is Joseph.
By faith, Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones.
Now when you think of the high position that Joseph was brought into as Lord of the whole land of Egypt, and all the people of the world came up to Egypt to buy corn and Pharaoh said go to Joseph.
Well, with all the honors he had of wife given him by Pharaoh and having a happy children.
And his family, all these things that enriched him naturally as a man with earthly blessings. But at the end of the journey, what about it? His whole heart is in another scene altogether.
Egypt has never weaned him away from the promises of God for his people, and he doesn't want even to have his bones left in that land where he'd been such an honored leader and given such a place of importance down here in this world. And his one thought was not connected with the building up of Egypt.
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Or any worldly greatness that it was, he made mention of the departing of the children of Israel. His thought was to get God's people out of that country where he had provided for them into the land that God had promised to Abraham so long before. Well, what a lesson for that, beloved, is whatever our circumstances are down here.
And however God may favor us with temporal things, may our hearts never become attached to things below, but our hopes, our joys, our prospects be always in another scene altogether.
Well, that leads to a happy life, deliverance from the snares of the enemy, to have our hopes in another world altogether.
The bold speak of resurrection. And do they we find in the 21St chapter of Second Samuel. Is it that there was famine in the land?
And.
We find that the combination of it was that as soon as David had taken the bones of Jonathan and Saul and bury them in the land of their inheritance, the famine was lifted.
They hadn't been buried in the right place.
It seems to me that there's a thought there of resurrection and.
Theirs where the blessing is and resurrection light, and so.
Looking ahead Joseph here.
Made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, but it was looking on. Was it not in in type at least to resurrection, the day of resurrection and blessings? Resurrection for Israel, of course, the nations taught, but.
I believe it's right at this point in our chapter.
Between the faith of Joseph and the 22nd verse and then taking up the faith of Moses in the 23rd verse.
We get the division of the chapter, the first part of it, the 8th of Romans, we get the patience of faith and the last part, beginning with verse 23, we get the energy of faith.
2 views of faith, Faith waiting for.
The promise?
Not settling down.
Willing to be a stranger here all that is the patience of faith and Abrahams, long years of waiting for the promised Son. But now you begin with Moses, a man that was used to leave the children of Israel out of the House of *******.
Into the blessings that God had promised. So we see the energy of faith, and I doubt not.
That both are needed in the Christian life.
Seems Brother Barry that from versus 8 on 2/22 we do get, as you mentioned, the patience of faith.
And in verse 23, it seems to me you get faith, energy, the energy of it. I think it's something really to think about.
This patience of faith.
Those verses 8 seemed to me right off to the 22nd verse would speak of the patience of faith. Had you thought of that, Brother Gordon?
Oh, see that there was a waiting time. But then, as it was remarked, there was a time for action too, wasn't there? There was a time when they must get up and leave the land of Egypt. Wouldn't have been the right time when Moses was there to have.
Or rather, when Joseph was there to try. And that wasn't God's time. But there came this time, And we see how the faith of Joseph had the effect, even though it was many years later, because it tells us that he had made mention of the departing of the children of Israel. And now the time comes that there was this promise that had been given, and there's that faith to act upon it.
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I think it's nice about Moses and says when he was born he was hit three months of his parents because they saw that he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the King's commandment that the parents said at all. I or thought for all the glory of Egypt for their child.
But rather he was sheltered and head, and then they saw that he was a proper child, as that is according to what we have in Acts. It tells us he was fair to God. That's the marginal reading in the 7th chapter of Acts. So they looked on their child, they saw him as one given to them of God, but they saw the whole nation of Egypt against him, and they were not afraid of the King's commandments.
I thought too that when you go back and read the account in Exodus, you would certainly think they were afraid, because it tells us about placing him in that little ark and how they stationed Miriam there to watch and see what would become of him. And yet when we come to this chapter, we find another side, that God saw that confidence in him even in the midst of their fears. And I thought how often this is true of us as parents.
We certainly have fears as we see what the world and the world system is like. We see what our children are exposed to and that we can only shelter them from a certain for a certain length of time from it. And we do fear. But there's also a confidence of faith, and God sees that confidence of faith in the midst of our fears. I think that's very lovely to see because we might feel that we were very much like Moses parents who were afraid of what would happen to their child.
But we can take this time that's right before us here and know that God sees that faith that he has given. And many dear parents, I'm sure here this afternoon, have the mixture of those fears and also of that confidence of faith that counts upon God for the deliverance of our children.
Interesting, isn't it that?
When the Dave is found by the daughter of Pharaoh.
The mother of Moses isn't standing off down the road somewhere looking to see what became of her babe. It was Miriam, the sister, and she asked to go and tell her mother about what had taken place that here the the the Princess had taken the baby and wanted a nurse for him.
So it shows how how faith had operated in the heart of that mother, that she could put that beat that she loved. Must have been a beautiful child and proper child, put him in that little ark and going off and elective. But the sister stood at a distance and watched to see the outcome of it all, and even if the most remarkable thing, to see how the purposes of God.
Defeat all the schemes and plans of Satan. Now the Pharaoh had commanded to cast all the male children into the river. Well, isn't it? You might say a piece of irony, that one of the very children that he had commanded to cast into the river becomes one of his households.
And becomes the means of the deliverance of the very people that he was trying to destroy.
How God's wisdom?
Exceeds all the wisest of men. God is working out his plans in his own way and his own time, and those into the comfort as we see things getting right for judgment in this world. Sometimes you hear of the awful persecutions in communist country and see that condition getting into these lands.
To just realize this, that all that is taking place among the governments of the world, after all, is just working out God's purposes. And then when God's purposes are worked out, where then God puts into it. Perhaps someone remembers that verse that says he maketh the wrath of man to praise him.
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And.
The remainder thereof? What's the rest of it?
The remains are thereof. He restrains.
For some of us, we saw Moses going back to Egypt. After that, he spent 40 years in the wilderness, just to give an illustration of what God can do, How wonderful can God work? And you ask to Moses, where are you going? Well, you say, I'm going to go to Egypt. What for? To deliver the children of Israel from the slavery of a pharaoh by the people that will train as they scratch their head and say, this man was, he's crazy.
He has nothing with them, just a donkey.
And he drowned, rode in his hand. But here again we have the case of 1 linen. Another I believe that rod that speaks of God the power of God, doesn't he? But it's wonderful to see the what the grace and the power of God can do. Moses went back to Egypt. Absolutely have nothing by himself without to say, well, I have enough power to defeat Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out. But he had a rod and he said.
And God with him.
Story told Mr. Darby there was a Mr. Doctor Brooks, a very prominent preacher in Saint Louis and Mr. Darby Day, and he spent some little time with him, and this dear man was getting so much truth that it was really exercising him. So he said one day to Mr. Garvey. He said. I believe, though, that Providence has put me in the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Darby promptly replied that Providence put Moses in the court of Pharaoh, but faith took him out. Well, you might think that Moses in the high position that he occupied, that he could have used his great influence to have relieved the children of Israel of their of their burdens, and made life more.
Agreeable to them.
But still, they've been in Egypt, wouldn't they?
No face action is complete deliverance from every phase and and character of this Egypt world.
7610 Brother Berry, that verse you quoted was Psalm 76 and 10.
It's important to see that there is God's time. And just like when the children of Israel stood by the banks of the Red Sea, they wanted something to be done right away. And God said stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. There was a time to wait.
And God would come in. But then there was also a time when they perhaps felt like standing still when he said, speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. Now there was a time for action. There was something that was to be done. And so we find here that these verses before show us that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph we were brought, are brought before us as those who had the patience of faith, who would wait God's time.
About In Moses and in Moses parents we find those who acted in faith and we need the Lords mind to discern in our lives when we should stand still and when we should act. There are sometimes that faith is to be put into action for to go forward. There is something to be done. We said was read to us about Joshua. When he saw the defeat of AI he fell upon his face.
And the Lord said that, Wherefore, Elias saw upon thy faith.
Israel has sinned, and something was to be done to deal with that evil that was there. Well, it was right that he should get on his face that he should own before God the condition of the people of God. But they're also at the time when God would have him to act in faithfulness to him.
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And so these two things are brought before us in the Faith chapter, and it's most important for us to see this and to also know that only in communion with the Lord do we discern the right time to wait and the right time to act in the pathway of faith.
Connection with the strength of Moses. We have seven things here mentioned which are very instructive, I believe from verse 24.
First of all we have the refusal of faith. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. And verse 25 We have the choice of faith, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season. And verse 26 We have the calculation of faith, the steaming, the reproach of Christ, greater riches, and the precious in Egypt.
And in the 26th verse, again the prospect of faith.
Who had respect under the recompense of the reward, And in verse 27 the separation of faith by faith, and again in the 27th verse the courage of faith, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured a seeing him who's invisible. And in 28th verse we have the feast of faith.
By faith he kept the Passover.
Several things in connection with the faith of Moses.
How many years that you notice that the spirit of God brings in this chapter. What we will not find in the historical account in the book of Genesis, we don't. We're not told in Genesis that he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
That was the highest honor that anyone at that time in the world.
Could be given.
The the son of Pharaohs daughter and history says that at that time that the Pharaoh that was on the throne had no air and there was every reason to.
To have supposed that Moses would have been the next Pharaoh, but isn't it?
A remarkable thing, that when he reached the very pinnacle of what this world offers that he refused it. And what was the the choice that he made?
He refused the highest thing that the world had to offer them, but he chose to suffer affliction with the people of God and beloved, What was it that led him to be willing?
To identify himself with a down problem.
Of company of slaves there in Egypt.
It was what was in the future. He had respect. On to the recompense of the reward he saw a great reward that enabled him to refuse one of the greatest offers the world could ever offer to one down here. I remember years ago, our dear brother that I love very much that.
Had an offer, he said. That was a very dream of his life.
He started out to study law, and he was offered to be the attorney for some large country at a large salary.
He said he got the thing that over, for he was one that visited hospitals and went to the poor house and preached to the poor and went to the sanitarium where the.
Patients there with the TB were kept. He had many openings and he thought, well, now if I take this job, I won't be as free to go and and visit these places as heretofore.
And he said he looked at the paper and he said, I have thought to myself, the sooner I destroy this the better for me. So he just crumpled it all up and through it and the offer of of a lifetime that he had labored to to reach. He gave it all up to go and minister Christ to a poor soul and different places and like in the Home for the Incurable.
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Rather, fill in that little service for the Lord you think brethren is that Brother has lost in any way for that decision.
Thanks so much the brother presence, a present remarkable evidence of the glory of the world, that compared to that which Moses chose, that the tombs of these Pharaohs today are among the wonders of the world.
The pyramids of Egypt, the tombs of the very Pharaohs, and no man knows the tomb of most.
No man knows it. What a conference, what a comparison. No man knows the tomb of Moses. But the tombs of the Pharaohs are renowned all over the face of the earth. That's as far as earthly glory goes. But think of that which Moses will enjoy forever, and what he enjoyed here too, along the way, in the company of God. I suppose some here remember brother Clifford Brown saying one time that Moses could have been an old dried up mummy.
In Egypt.
And instead of being an old dried up mummy in Egypt, where he was on the Mount of Transfiguration with Christ.
Might say, well, think of all the good things Moses could have done for his people if he'd stayed in the palace. That's natural reasoning, isn't it? But if he had, he would have been living a lie, wouldn't he? Because he was not the son of Pharaoh's daughter. And so the Christian who was in the world is living a lie, because he's not of the world.
And if we take our place in the world with the world, we're just living a lie. That's all. We're not of this world that passes away. We belong to an entirely different world. We belong to the heavenly regions, not the earthly. And so we'd be living a lie. And Moses refused. And there we have the righteousness. Do we not coming in?
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One Scotsman by the name of Tyler to Christ before he died.
And.
Father had a section of his residence reserved for this dear man who went into the work of the Lord in the South of New Zealand.
Ah, old Crystal. Rather Crystal was his name, and he had a room with his key, and he had a bed and a table and a candle and so on for him in that room. And Mr. Crystal would turn in when he was tired to his room. But he had one brother who was a Brewer.
And a rich man, he left Mr. Mr. Crystal the sum of £50,000. In those days that would be 1/4 of $1,000,000. And so Mr. Crystal was called up to accept and take the with that which was willed to him, and he refused it. I always remember that this dear old man with his white beard and living in poverty.
He said never. This is blood money, he said. Let the government have it and use it as the government desires. I wouldn't touch it well. I've often thought of faith. Faith affects the heart, the affection of the heart and.
Our conduct is the result of the heart's affection, and he wouldn't touch that money.
He died a poor man who had died a poor man.
That's the important thing, where the heart is, because Joseph had the mind of the Lord in the high position that he was in, and he was faithful to the Lord in it. And Daniel had the mind of the Lord in the position that he was in, and he was faithful to the Lord in it. Because with neither of these men was their heart really in the position With certainly with Joseph his heart wasn't there.
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And at the very end of his life he proved that by talking about his true portion being elsewhere, and not in all the charms that he had as a such a high position. So is Daniel willing, perhaps toward the end of his life to be in the den of lions, rather than be in the exalted high plate that he might have enjoyed. But God does allow men and women too sometimes to be in positions where they can honor him.
I think the important thing for us is, rather than us to where our heart is. If if the Lord has given us anything in the way of possessions or possession, and may the Lord grasp at our heart, might not be in it. But that we could use what He has given us for him, and be concerned to be called us, as He did Moses, to leave the whole thing, and count it as nothing, misceiving the reproach of Christ greater riches in the tragedy of Egypt.
I've often wondered about how he could esteem the reproach of Christ.
Before Christ was born and lived in this world. Grab someone. I've tried to explain it, but I'm sure someone could explain it better than myself.
All right. He identified himself with old playing. That was certainly our approach, to be identified with these slaves. But he saw them as the ones who were chosen of God. He saw them as the ones who were destined to occupy this wonderful place that they will occupy in another day. Or in thy sea shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And Jerusalem and the people of Israel are just signed to be the standard of worldly glory, not Egypt.
And saw it was a reproach to be identified within that. But he had respect to the recompense of the reward, and so with us today to be identified with those who are associated with a rejected Christ in the reproach we have in Hebrews 13.
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the cap bearing his reproach. And it's in the measure in which we become identified with a rejected Christ, that we share that across here in this world. Why? Why do we do it? Well, we see him as the one whom God has appointed, who is going to be the whole center of his plan and councils, and glory, and other days. So Moses saw this by faith.
And we can see it too in our measure now.
And that's what caused him to make this choice. And it's the only thing that will enable us to make the right choice. And this day is to have the same true evaluation of things Witness. It's been said that faith never makes a mistake. Unbelievable makes many mistakes.
And so that is proven all through this chapter, isn't it? We can see it especially here in in Moses, that choice that he made. And he was acting in faith when he when by faith Moses, when he came to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, Well, he couldn't see the outcome of all what it was going to cost him and so on, but he saw that it was God's mind.
And he knew God promises and where God promises would place him. And so he acted in the faith and confidence that God's Word and God's.
Promises are true. Well, blood. Let's just remember that that faith never makes a mistake.
Or how sad it is that unbelievable.
When we're not trusting as we should and happens the confidence.
And letting the Lord bring things about, and to bring deliverance and give show his mind and his way how much we've had to lose and suffer as a consequence.
I just wondered this could the could this be the spirit appraisal of the faith of Moses in referring it to the reproach of Christ?
Somewhat similar to the Lords appraisal of the woman who anointed his body to the burial. Perhaps she didn't realize this as she poured that ointment on him, but the statement of scripture is in as much as she has done this, she has.
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Done it for my burial, I've wondered if perhaps the statesman hear the reproach of Christ. Is the spirits appraisal of that which Moses decided so, so long before Christ was born.
Thank you, Larry. I believe that's very helpful.
The blessing was to be in the promised city, and he knew that the blessing was to be in the promised sea, who was to be Christ, the Messiah of Israel.
And so the glory of Egypt was is nothing. It's all that there was that looking on the Old Testament saying look down to Christ, we look back to it by the Cedars of vessel, it says.
Speaking of those who prophesied searching water, what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them that signify when it testified beforehand the suffering of Christ and the glory that should follow, they all look forward to that.
But only faith made it real to them and enable them to go out. I was thinking, too, of this expression to suffer affliction with the people of God. When the children of Israel came down from the time of Joseph, while they were nourished, they were given the best of the lamb. They were cared for in a wonderful way. But at this time it wasn't so to be identified with the people of God.
Meant to be a position of rejection of slavery, of of being.
Unwanted. Well, you know, I think in the second, in the early part of the Acts, as Paul preached, he told them that we must do much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God.
I've often thought of this generation in which we live, when we get saved and our parents rejoice, were brought into a nice company of friends. We can have many happy times together, but I believe we should be prepared, brethren, and that it's not always going to be that way. If the Lord leads us here, it may be to be identified with those who are not going to have these kind of good times.
But I'm going to have to suffer for Christ sake. It's important for us, when we decide to be identified with Christ, not to think that it's choosing to have a good time with the people of God. The Lord may allow that in goodness, but that isn't what we look for. Instead, we expect to be identified with one who rejected. We expect they have. The Lord doesn't come. We may have to suffer too. And the yield is given on the behalf of Christ, not often to believe in him, but also to suffer for His sake.
An American thought that we should bring this before our children and our young people, although Moses had this brought before him by his parents, because his mother brought him up, as we know, and she must have told him Why, Moses? You can't start to have a good time. If you're identified with God's people. Can't you see they're in slavery? They're hated? Well, first time maybe, when things went quite pleasantly for him, the court of barrel. But it was the wrong association.
And now he makes his choice not to have a good time, not to be identified with the people that could have many good times together on a suffering path. And the theory all. And as the dear young people grow up, be mindful of this fact that if the Lord doesn't come, if the path of faith is not going to be more easy, it's going to be more difficult.
There's another thing that we should notice.
Because there may be young people that think that we don't realize what.
Places the world has.
We shouldn't say that the world doesn't have its good times if they're not.
Wonderful places for recreation and all kinds of entertainment and and the world has all the sort of.
Well, to say that there's no pleasure in in this this world and in the life of those that live have for the world, well, that isn't true. But what brought Moses to the absolute decision? Because when he saw these pleasures were but for a time and all if we could only view things.
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In that light, how soon all of this world has to offer is over, and there are great opportunities to make money, to get ahead, to get a fine home, and to get all the good things that this world is offering. Well, let's remember.
That over all this wonderful.
Civilized age that we're living in is written. The song works, but for a season.
Oh, Brevin, we don't know how soon this season is over and over forever.
The vultures eye hasn't seen. That's this next verse, isn't it? Seeing him, he endured. Seeing him. Who's invisible, that is.
Natures Keenest Eye, or the Lion's well, which is the suggest the strongest of these. They do not enter into this, but there is a path, there is a a vision.
And that belongs to faith. And so we find that he endured on this basis. Now we would like to have circumstances just right so that we can carry out what we'd like. Someone goes out to do missionary work, and he would like to have things work out.
Just just right and have converts and so on immediately. But I was thinking of what instruction the apostle gave Timothy.
Take thy share of suffering according now from another translation.
Timothy was to remember that.
He must labor 1St, and then be partaker of the fruits. And so the so Moses here was.
With that long range sight that he had by faith, he looked on to the end, the time of the reward.
He wasn't looking at the circumstances around that might be favorable because everything was against him.
But.
It's worthy of note, too, that he he spent 40 years.
Learning what was necessary to carry out his work, and that was meekness. He was never said he was meek until he came off of the after keeping the sheep in the wilderness was it? He needed that as well. He had a he had a great deal of preparation that was necessary. Well, all this.
Entails suffering and trial and separation from his brethren, even for a time. But then at the end it proved worthwhile, and I think that this leads us again to the subject we began with, and that is that.
As seen him who is invisible.
There was an object before Moses. There was a person before Moses.
Now we know he didn't know Christ as we know Christ. But the Spirit of God gives us the clue In John where the Lord could say of Abraham, he rejoiced to see my day, and he was glad. Well, he didn't see exactly with his eyes. He didn't see the Lord. Abraham didn't. But still there was that faith that looked on.
To the object that had been set forth in the very beginning of Genesis, because there was no promise made to man. It was made to the seed of the woman in Genesis. And there the promise rests, doesn't it? It's Christ. And wherever you find faith, you'll find that same one object, Christ.
That not so.
Connection with this at seeing him who is invisible, I suppose to it was in contrast with what the children of Israel were doing at this time as slaves. They were building treasure cities for feral rhapses and so on. And these must have been very wonderful feasts that these treasure cities. And as he saw them he could have thought, well, if I become the the Pharaoh of Egypt, why?
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People can share in all its blessings, but he saw something beyond all that, and we're living in a very materialistic age, and it's a great temptation for us to get taken up with the visible, with those things that we can see. The only way that we can go on the path of faith is to look beyond all this and see that which is invisible and see that God has delivered us from this whole scene. That's why the next verse comes in.
What has changed the whole character of this world?
Well, as someone mentioned to him, thy cross has severed ties which bound us here. The death of that lamb, the blood sprinkled, had brought its different character upon Egypt. They saw the end of all this which man boasted, and God taking his people out of it. And we need to look back to the cross. And there we see the end of the first man, and we see that which is brought us blessings, the work that Christ accomplished His precious blood.
And that brings us into the midst of those better things that await us.
I wondered too, if perhaps the thought of enduring might perhaps be associated with the 40 years that he spent with the people of God in the wilderness. For as far as I know, all those who have been mentioned previously didn't really have any great time of service with others of the Lord's people. There was something about their faith which seems to have been.
Individual. But in the case of Moses, he was associated with those who were God's people, and very closely associated with them for 40 long years. And it's only in connection with Moses faith that the word endured is used. And it certainly has been a searching thought to me. I don't know whether it's right or not, but it just seems to me to suggest that it may have at least had something to do with the spirited displayed by this dear man of God during those 40 years.
With.
God, people in the wilderness. And when we read the account, we know what a rough time he had that everything that went wrong, they seemed to blame it on Moses. It's all your fault. Why didn't you leave us in Egypt, where there are not enough grades? There? We're going to die of hunger. We're going to die of thirst, one thing after another. But for all those long years he endure, that's a wonderful word he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
He loved God's beloved people because he had his eye upon their God, and I wonder if this might be a bit of a test for us here. At an occasion like this, we don't feel that we're enduring very much. We're enjoying instead, and we thank God for it. But perhaps when we return to our home assembly and we go along with our dear brethren, we may learn a little bit of the meaning of endurance.
And we will be able to by the grace of God, if we also see Him who is invisible.
Moses lost his patience. You don't get that recorded in Hebrews 11. There isn't a mistake, a failure mentioned. It's a chapter of faith.
But you said when he?
He lost his patience and said here, now he rebels.
God had to deal with him in his government and told him he couldn't cross the Jordan, he couldn't take the people into the promised land. But when that was taken from him for he chose a successor in Joshua. I think you were the one that were speaking, so you can bring it out better than I could, but I enjoyed it very much.
But you remember, think what your dear father that used to say.
When you return to your home assembly sometime your bread, and they got to use a little bit of a sandpaper to take some of the roughness for you. Is that your dad for daddy? You told me you forgive me for repeating that when you return to your home assembly, they'll have to use perhaps a little bit of a sane paper to take some of the roughness. Well, that's very nice.
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However to mention.
And that word is during there it might be an intimation curly of of the wilderness, but I just noticed here in this, in this chapter, I don't want to go ahead of where we are, but in the.
In the 29th verse it mentions the Red Sea. By faith they passed through the Red Sea and by dry land, which the Egyptians are saying to do, were drowned in the whole 40 years.
Is omitted. You'll notice in the next verse says by faith the walls of Jericho fell down. Perhaps someone could give me just a little word on that Brother Prairie. Well, don't you think Brother Thailand the subject here?
Has the subject, of course, of faith, and the wilderness, properly speaking, is not.
Is not where.
We see faith.
And exercise. It's part of the ways of God. They brought themselves into that long drawn out wilderness journey because they hadn't faith to go in and possess the land. So in looking at Israel's journey, in the view of that is here given us of faith. Why it says they pass through the Red Sea and the next thing the walls are Jericho fell down and all the wilderness of Germany.
Journey is omitted so as to say it's a part of God's ways.
Not his purposes. He brought them out that He might bring them in. But we learned lessons ourselves that as soon as Christ was our Savior and we're trusting in His precious Blood, we were ready for the glory. But why has the Lord left us here? To wander in this world and to have so many sad experiences and heartbreaking trials?
As the Lord allowed all this, it's a part of his ways.
Not a part of his purposes.
But you're saying to the stage chapter of Exodus, I like to leave a little thought in connection with the name of that God that takes you with Moses. I think it'll be encouraging, especially to the young people in these last days when there are so many that deny the deity of our blessed Lord Jesus. I want to thank you, just very briefly to the third chapter of Exodus.
And 1St and I say, no. Therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is camel to unto me. And I have also seen their oppression, where with the Egyptian oppressed them came. Therefore and I will send you send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou must bring forth that my people, the children of Israel, are of Egypt. Verse 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh.
And that I should bring forth the children of Israel from out of Egypt. And in verse 12 He received this assurance very blessed and he said certainly.
I will be with thee. Oh, what a wonderful encouragement.
And then it says at the end of the verse, And when thou has brought the people out from Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Now verse 13 says, And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come, and to the children of Israel, and I shall say unto them, The God of your Father has sent me unto you, and they shall say unto me, What is his name?
What shall I say unto them? And God said unto him unto Moses.
I am that I am.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am has sent me. Now you're trying to the Gospel of John, chapter 8.
The Gospel of John chapter 8 is very blessed to see the connection what the Lord Jesus has to say to the children of Israel.
To those that they were present with him in that day.
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The 8th chapter and I believe that it's verse at the very end of the chapter.
Now the people there that they were present, the Jew, they say unto him, and verse 27.
And they said, The Jew, and the Jew unto him, Thou art not yet.
50 years old.
And thou and hast thou seen Abraham? Now notice the ends of the Lord Jesus. And he said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was.
I am, oh beloved brethren, who is this that is speaking over here, this blessed Savior, the Son of God, that presented us in the Gospel of John? Oh, I believe that is the same blessed person that gives the order to Moses saying.
You told them that I am that I am this, is the one and the very same blessed person is this.
Well, I think our time is just, but I was thinking of the last verse of the chapter. God having provided some better things for us, that they without us did not be made perfect. Someone has said you could write over the whole book of Hebrews, Better things.
You see how Israel was blessed and the blessings of these men of old.
But for the Christian, isn't it wonderful to consider God has some better thing for us, and we should search the word and learn more of what those better things are. And then the the meaning there that they without us should not be made perfect. It means perfect in the resurrection state that is the.
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and these men of old are still in their graves, and they will not get their glorified bodies until we get our glorified bodies. So perfect is in the resurrection state.
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Lord, we can see.
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The way where all the time shall start to hear it in the life of the flourishes. And why are you still alive?
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