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I would like to go home.
11 Ottawa, Florida.
That's right.
How grateful we are.
That we can look forward to that day when we will see the Lord Jesus face to face.
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And we'll know how great indeed He really is. He really was, and we don't really will always be. And we thank Thee, our Father, that that was mindful of our need of salvation, and Thou did bring us into the light of that precious One.
And we would ask to be father that should there be any in the room that have not yet.
Don't let him leave this room farther until they are fully convicted that without Christ.
They are forever lost.
Never to see the ones that are saved in this room again.
And all the coming of the Lord draweth 9.
And soon we'll be taken out of this place.
So we thank you for what we have heard thus far and enjoyed and and from thy word.
And we would just ask the to touch our hearts, but not only to receive it, but to give it a that other might come to know their sin are covered with that precious blood of Christ. We ask that all give anything in the Lord Jesus name.
And then I wonder if it would be a profit for us to look at some of the verses in, uh.
In Hebrew Chapter 11 That pertained to Moses.
In Hebrews Chapter 11.
I can suggest that.
My brother in here would think I would be profitable.
Well, versus what are you thinking, brother?
Well, I was thinking of umm a verse 23 down to the end of verse 29.
OK, that'd be nice.
Hebrews, Chapter 11.
Verse 23.
By faith Moses, when he was born was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the King's commandment. 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 for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ. Greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. For he, for he had respect under the recompense of the reward.
By faith He forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King, for He endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.
By faith they pass through the Red Sea as by dry land, when the Egyptians are saying to do were drowned.
Maybe just to share what particularly I have in my heart, maybe we could look at the perk of Joshua for a moment.
Joshua the 1St chapter.
The first verse we read now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake on the Joshua the son of Nun the minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead now. Therefore arise over this Jordan now, and all the people under the land which I do.
Give to them even to the children of Israel. We have a number of places, umm, where we have Moses referred to as the servant of the Lord. I was just thinking about this morning. We had before us the perfect servant and uh, this one that we had before us now was the servant of the Lord. We have him referred to that in the book of Numbers. The number of times I was thinking of this portion we have umm, we have brought before us in the previous meeting.
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The failure of Abraham. But then he went on as we have in this Hebrews 11. If we could look at it in, uh, the eighth verse of Hebrews 11 by faith Abraham when he was called.
To go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed, and he went out not knowing whither he went.
I made the soldier in a land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in the Tabernacle with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. And in this verse I was thinking of where he looked for a city which hath foundations.
So his builder and maker is gone. He thought of how Abraham yes, there was failure in his in his life, but he had before on the end of the road we had in this portion. He looked for a city with builder and maker is gone. And as we go through this.
Portion concerning Moses.
And I was thinking as I looked around the room that there are a lot of young children running around here. And so there must be some parents as well. And I thought here of this first verse that we read is really the faith of Moses parents. And perhaps we could glean some instruction, umm, for our hearts as we look at this, umm, at these, uh, these parents of Moses who, umm, who are very careful as to, uh, their conduct where Moses was concerned.
There is the portion that umm, that we have in Exodus chapter 2 as well concerning Moses, and the portion that, uh, we have in Acts Chapter 7 where Stephen brings before us many things concerning Moses.
Well, I just thought that perhaps that could be a profit for us.
Perhaps we could turn to, uh, Acts Chapter 7.
Chapter 7.
Even in his discourse here he goes through the patriarchs and takes up Jacob. He takes up Joseph, and then we find another king that rises that didn't know Joseph.
On the 19th verse we read the same dealt subtly with our kindred and evil entreated our father so that they cast out their young children to the end they might not live.
Now with neither desire of the enemy of our souls wouldn't be is that our children would not live.
Well, then, we read in which time Moses was born and was exceeding fear, for as we read in the margin, he was fair to God and nourished up in his Father's house three months.
When he was, Pharaoh's daughter took him off and nourished him for her own son. And Moses was learning all the wisdom of the Egyptian, and was mighty in words, and indeed well in the chapter that we have before us.
We have there when Moses was born and here's one who is fair to God and he wasn't, he wasn't the first born. This couple had already had two children that we know of. We have Miriam and we have Aaron that came before, but now here's Moses. And there was an exercise of the heart of Amram and Jacob had that they would take this one and they would hide him.
I'm thinking of David, of that expression. Moses was fair to God.
And umm, uh, each one, each person on this world at the current time that it has a new life, has divine life. And God can look down and see that divine life within each individual. And here this afternoon too. And he takes delight in that, seeing that divine life in that person. And of course, Moses would have had divine life, umm.
But he's even, I'm sure, more pleased when he sees that divine life in action in our everyday life. That is, we're walking by faith and walking close to the Lord and doing things for him. So I think in that way, every believer would be fair to God. But certainly there's many that I know that outshine anything that I have.
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And I'm sure Moses is one of them. And marvelous examples of the.
Just thinking of a question that the Lord.
Ask Moses in Exodus 4, verse 2.
He asked him what's in your hand And, uh.
Just, uh, the thought really that, uh.
The Lord sees that divine life. He also, uh, prepares each one and, and there is something in each one of our hands and something different.
But whatever it is, the Lord has a purpose for us to use it for Him.
The story of Moses really begins with the face of its parents and the.
Dave was mentioning about the parents that are here today. I think it's nice to notice that in Exodus chapter 2, there's a focus really on his mother nurturing him and raising him for the personal while and then.
In Acts 7, that's been referred to as speaks about his father's house and then here it's his parents. And it's nice when together as parents we can have faith for the blessing of our children.
And really, uh, pray for their faithfulness and years to come and just watch out for them spiritually and seek to have something to nurse them and to give them even as little children as they grow and things of the Lord Jesus.
When our first born came into this scene.
I was uh.
Speaking with an older brother and I was bemoaning the fact that it was a terrible world, umm, that we live in and that, uh, I had this little one and I was just seeking as to what to do with, with this little one that the Lord has given to us.
Well, the brother said to me, he said, you know, it's a wonderful time to have children. He said think of your and you had a son and you had to throw him in the river.
I know you came to realize that the Lord has made every provision for our little ones. Maybe we could see that in Exodus the 2nd chapter.
Exodus Chapter 2.
And we find the the first verse that says there went a man of the House of Levi, and took to wipe the daughter of Levi, and the woman conceived and bear a son. And when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hit him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an hour of bulrushes, and dogged it with slime.
With pitch and put the child there, and she laid in the flags by the river's brink. You know, the little story books and the coloring books that the children have show, umm, forming this little ark and making this ark and putting Moses in it and pushing it out into the water. But that's not the way it happens.
It doesn't say she made an arc, it says she took an arc.
And So what this dear sister did was, was she availed herself of the provision that God had already made for her children to be spared. And she just availed herself of that provision. She didn't make an arc. All she has to had to do was to avail herself of the provision that God had made. And so it said that she took an ark. It means that wonderful that God has made every provision for our children to go on in a manner that's consistent with the truth.
She couldn't hide him anymore and he was pretty young.
Just three months.
She couldn't hide him any longer, and our children are not too old before we find we really can't hide them from the world and its influences and its effects.
But she takes this arc and.
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Well, it says she that they weren't afraid of the King's commandment.
But nonetheless, she does what the king commanded, and she throws that child in the river, but not before putting him in the ark. And you know, our children are going to have to enter the river of this world, so to speak.
And all its opposition to Christ.
And his deadly currents and the provision to protect them is Christ himself. He's the ark. You know, we, our greatest fear, fathers of ministry is our own little homes with our own children. And it's our greatest gospel work too, is right there at home with our own. And, uh, so insulated, protected, really, uh, surrounded.
By that which is fed to them in the home, they're protected even though they have to enter the river of this world. Other than that, it would have been death.
Other than that, it would have been dust. And so to go with the course and current of this world unprotected without Christ is certainly going to be death, spiritual death. And in another sense too, doesn't she really own, uh, typically speaking, that, uh, this child was, was born in sin and iniquity, just like every one of us and deserve to die. The edict had gone out that all those male children should.
Be cast into the river and perish.
The soul that sinneth it shall die. Our children are born in this world and sin and iniquity and outside of being in Christ.
There's certain end is to to perish.
So the wonderful provision and taking an arc is that God has provided in Christ that which will, uh, keep them through all the opposition of this, of this world that we pass through. That's the only thing that can keep them. And so here's this obstacle for faith. That commandment goes out and faith just rises above it in a wonderful way. And he's put right in that river, right in that river.
But he's fully protected.
The next obstacle to faith is not with Moses parents, but with Moses himself.
Now the question comes, will he be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter? You know the Lord Jesus? When he came of years, he said, wish ye not. I must be about my father's business.
His mother said, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing, but he refused to be called in a certain sense, their son. He said, wish ye not. I must be about my father's business. And so there's a time in each of our lives where it's no longer the faith of parents.
Uh, it's ours. And what are we going to choose?
He could have been the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and I suppose they might have still uncovered his tomb someday over there and and put him in a museum.
But he refused that.
Just like to make a comment in connection with what Paul mentioned. Umm, he referred us to Exodus chapter 2.
Chapter 2.
For the daughter of Pharaoh comes down to wash.
And she sees this arc in the fifth verse, among the flags.
And she sent her. Once she had opened it, she saw the child and behold, the babe left.
She had compassion on him and said, this is one of the Hebrews children and said his sister, the Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call the nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for me. And Pharaoh's daughter said under her goal. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And I just like to draw attention to what Pharaoh's, uh, daughter says to her. She doesn't just simply say take this child and nurse it for me, but she says, take this child away.
And nurse it for me and I'll give you my wages.
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Or they would speak to us woodlanded of the separation that is needed.
For this child.
I suppose it was like Samuel.
When he was weaned.
So he would have been fairly young.
It means that such a.
Wouldn't the mother have been so cast on the Lord, and to such a demonstration of the grace of God, that Moses?
How vital for us to be.
On our knees for our children.
I'm glad you could also say how we failed and attempted being on our needs for our children.
And and they would have faith.
When they're put to the test.
Make a decision to make a choice to make a stand.
Who's as to who they're going to serve and who they're willing.
They they belong.
It's sort of surprising to me, but in act seven it when Moses was 40 years old that he says in verse.
23 When he was full 40 years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
Just appreciated what you said, uh, Dave, in terms of our children.
Never want to stop praying for their exercise and for their desire for the Lord doing it. Moses was 40 at this point when it entered into his heart to be a help to the people of God.
25th verse of our chapter, we have umm, as you brought before us earlier, uh, Steve, the the thought of choices and choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God. But before he could ever make that choice, we have the previous verse which says he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. And so before he could rightly choose, he first of all had to refuse that which had been presented.
The choice that he made, had.
Some very great implications for him, didn't it?
You see in the Exodus too, and also in Acts 7 that the choice really happened. And then he was only in Egypt what seems like a day or two more, because after he murdered, the Egyptians killed him. He tried to bury him in the sand, tried to hide it. And burying someone in the sand is not a very, it's not a long term solution. And so he ended up having to flee in and then Act seven makes it clear that he was 40 more years.
In the in the wilderness it was seen where God was dealing with him and teaching him, instructing him. And then the other verses in our Chapter 11 seem to more or less dwell with the last 40 years of Moses life when he was a a deliverer of the people of God. And so Acts 7 is actually a good study for the young people in terms of the three 40s that are there and how God worked in Moses life for real blessings.
Yeah, the 2nd 40 years. So they were really like a training time to make Moses fit, to be able to, uh, lead the children of Israel through the wilderness.
As you know.
The scripture says that we are his workmanship. We're not a finished work. We're, we're a work in progress and those things in our lives that the Lord has to bring us through a training period, so to speak, uh, so that we can be, uh, uh, profitable servant for him, our Savior.
We walk in close to the Lord for a number of reasons and think.
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In one of those reasons is because life is a series of choices and decisions and umm, all of them refers early on. Our parents make those choices. As soon as we get older, we start making more and more for ourselves. So we're making them pretty much all for ourselves. And, uh, some of the choices are tremendously important. That and we have to live with the results of those.
So it's a marvelous, uh, reason.
And many do be close to the Lord and be guided by the scriptures and speak his mind and wisdom.
In making all of these choices, I look forward to the day when they'll be home with the Lord and there won't be any more difficult choices or difficult decisions planned.
Yesterday at our meetings in UMM, the meetings ended with an address by an older brother who, uh, who stood up and he uh, made some comments.
Specifically for those who are younger, he said. You know, I was brought up in a Christian home.
And, uh, I loved it all.
And I went and enjoyed the pleasures of sin, and they're only for a season.
He moved away from home and moved to another umm, another city and Ontario and the Lord saved his soul.
And he started to come to the assembly again.
And, uh, was not.
Where he's brought up, but he was, he was coming to the assembly and, uh.
He went on for a period of time and, uh.
He spoke to an older brother there in the assembly. He was the assembly of Hamilton and he said, umm, I've been saved for a little while now. I'd really like to do something for the Lord. I'd like to do something for the Lord and the older brother. He said this, He said the greatest thing that you can do for the Lord is to continue on. He brought before us the expectation that the apostle brought the Timothy. Well, I can't help but think of of the things that were brought before Moses in his early days.
When that time came and he had all the treasures of Egypt before him, that he could have, he could have had, and he chose to continue on in those things that he had learned and his father and his mother's household.
We could find a parallel in the life of Abraham in the Genesis chapter 14 when he is met by the king of Sodom.
14.
And verse 21.
We know that a lot.
King of brought forth bread and wine, and it was the priest of the Most High Gods, and he blessed him, and he said Blessed be avarice of the Most High God for sister of Persian evident hurt.
And let's be the Most High God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hands, when he gave him the title of verse 21, we read. And the king of Sodom said unto Abraham, Give me the person, and take the goods to thyself. And Abraham said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord, the most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a tread, even from a shoe latcher.
And that I will not take anything that is dying.
Unless I shouldn't say I have made Abraham French.
What gave Abraham the strength to to refuse the good of Sodom?
It was an encounter with no kisses.
Communion.
Will the Lord will help us to refuse things of the world? We have to face different challenges in our life.
But the Lord is sufficient.
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In the 26th verse we had a steaming the approach of Christ, greater riches and the treasures in Egypt, where He had respect under the recompense of the reward. Just like to turn to a verse in the Book of Games.
The Book of James.
And the eleven first.
We have this far of the end of the Lord. We have the thought of Abraham looking for a city that had foundations.
You have the Apostle Paul's at the Grove before him.
So we think of how.
Moses had before in the reward here in James chapter 5, we said, behold, account them happy which endure. You've heard of the patience of Job and seeing the ends of the Lord. Sometimes it's difficult for us to see the end. Sometimes, particularly when we're in the midst of trial, we can see the trial. We can see what led up to it.
But the Lord will have us here, this picture of Job and how we have the trials of Job.
Now he was in the trial. So the Lord shows us the end as well. And what is the end here? That we read of hell, that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy, not just pitiful and merciful. What an end it was for Joel. Joel. Well, that's a different line of things, but what we have in our chapter is Moses. He had a glimpse of that which was ahead, that which really mattered our brother in his prayer at the end of the last meeting.
He prayed that we would be found laying hold on the things that are really light.
That which is at the end of the pathway.
I'd like to ask a question on verse 26, umm, earlier on.
Says the seemingly repro, surprised. Greater, richer than the treasures. He gets it. So I can understand that in the New Testament we grabbed somebody could explain.
How this was true of Moses?
And that is proceeding to reproject.
I wondered, brother, if it has reference to the character of reproach, because as you bring out, how could He suffer for Christ when the Lord Jesus Christ had not even yet come into this world? You know, sometimes with little prepositions. Give us a clue into it. And we think as the Lord Jesus came to His own and His own received him, not so Moses came to his brother, and he meant to do them good. He thought they would understand what He is going to do, but they didn't. They turned on him. Will you kill us as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?
And we find that the reproach that Moses endured is of that same character, is the reproach that the Lord Jesus suffered.
So perhaps not so much for him as to that character of reproach. And what a challenge this was for Moses. So we read these verses and we say, well, he chose you that he, he chose, He refused, He chose, He esteemed. But it wasn't just done in the snap moment, was it? The decision may have been, but I think of that expression as steaming. Think of the sleepless nights, the hours that he was there in the palace wondering what am I going to do? He could argue on the one sense Providence has brought me here.
I have a position of influence within Egypt. Now why don't I exercise the control I have and use this for the good on behalf of my people, that to get them out of this place. But not that would have all been reason, wouldn't it? And this chapter is a chapter by faith.
Pay tax according to the word of God and the call of God. But it's not without exercise. So these great decisions are sometimes made in a moment, but what leads up to that is the great thing. And to consider how Moses weighed that reproach. First, the rejection of his brethren and the repudiation of the Egyptians. But he says, I'll take that and go with the people of God and all of their weakness, their needs, their failure and their complaints that.
Will be greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt.
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We read in verse 27 by faith he per SE Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king pre interior. Seeing him who is invisible. It takes courage not to fear the wrath of the king.
Every time I drive from Rockville to Smith Falls, there's a little Anglican church there and a hamlet between.
Where I I pass through it, it gets to the meeting and falls and there is a sign. There has been there quite a while and I really enjoy it and it says.
Uh, courage will follow when faith takes the lead. Courage will follow faith takes the lead in it. I, I really enjoyed, you know, every time I drive by that little church and see that sign there.
Moses made these decisions with a sense of weakness, I believe, and he was reminded of that I believe when umm.
In, in the book, Book of Exodus, when we have the, uh, burning Bush and he approaches the burning Bush and there's this discourse between himself and the Lord. The Lord has him take 3 signs to Egypt.
The one is the to take his rod and he needs to throw it down, and it became a serpent.
And he took it by the tail and became a rod again.
And then he used to pour the water from the river and it was to become blood. And we know if that took place.
In the plagues. And so there was those 3 signs. The third one was used to take his hand and put it into his bosom.
Well, the two signs.
The rod and the water being turned to blood were done in front of Pharaoh, but when he took his hand and put it into his bosom, that was a sign for himself. We don't read of him doing that to Pharrell, and I believe there's a sense.
That he he recognized that within himself there was no good thing. And take his hand and put it in his booth. And we can all do the same thing, can't we, when our hand comes out and it's leprous white as snow.
A place of dependence to realize that we're nothing.
As Moses realized, and it was for great blessing for the people of God.
But there is a great encouragement to us. Paul read earlier about when he he slew the Egyptian. He looked this way and that way and then when the thing was known, he fled. But in our verse here it says he forsook Egypt not during the wrath of the king. I take it here. That's after the 40 years in the wilderness. And that provides encouragement for us too, doesn't it? Many of us may have taken something up and and perhaps the desire was right, but yet there was fear and there wasn't courage.
Her faithfulness connected with it, but here I take it as He.
Those alpha measures not fearing the wrath of the king, thinking of what it says in the 10th chapter of Exodus.
When, uh, the judgments begin to.
Fall. Neither of them are falling. And Pharaoh said in verse 28. And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me. Take heed to thyself. See my face no more. For in that day thou seest my face, thou shalt die.
There is the threat of the king, and Moses responds.
And Moses said, thou hast spoken. Well, I will see thy face again no more. He's not quailing. He's not shaking in his boots. He responds to the king, not fearing his wrath. The king had threatened his life. And Moses responds.
Says you've spoken well, you will see my face again no more and so those years in the wilderness pay dividends for them if we can use the expression that he had learned to trust his God and he has that courage to speak. This is Elijah could speak today how?
And then it says not only did he forsake, but he endured, has seen him who is invisible. Let me see that's a contradiction of terms. How do you see what's invisible? What we do by faith. He saw it was the look of faith. And I thought in the context of the book of Hebrews, this really gives us insight to these dear Hebrew believers that were called by God to leave everything of sight behind, all the of the order and worship of the temple, the sacrifice and so on.
They're called now with that heavenly call to go out by faith. How are they going to endure? Because there was nothing by sight. They would endure by seeing Him who was invisible. And so, of course, this book begins with the person of the Son of God set before us in all majesty and Excellency and glory. Well, that's how we'll endure as well, isn't it? I seen him who's invisible by faith, laying hold of Him. And why so often do we fall along the way and grow discouraged and.
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Get out of the way. It's because our eye is no longer on him.
As the object for our faith, the 12Th chapter brings out so nicely.
I was impressed in going through the Book of Numbers where we have the various encampments.
Of the children of Israel and the number of times that the Lord brought that company back to the Red Sea. They just didn't go through the Red Sea and that was the last they saw the Red Sea. The Lord brought them back times and time again.
The Red Seat I would speak to us of the death of Christ, that which is so needful for us and our halfway down here, Lord, would ever have us to bring that to our remembrance. And so here we find by faith they passed through the Red Sea.
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Our God and our Father, we thank Thee for the example of faith given to us in Hebrews 11 and this little portion in the path of Moses, Thy servant.
In this scene, through every opposition and affliction and enduring and seeing him who is invisible think about the end of his life, could say His natural force was not abated, neither was his eye. Dim grace endured to the end of his eye upon that One who was invisible.
Our God and our Father help us to rise up in faith, to lay hold on the blessedness of that path and to walk in it and enjoy it, to forsake this world. Do not turn back to look at it again.
We know the enemy will oppose the wrath of the God and the Prince of this world.
Go, thou wilt keep us to rise up to those claims.
A vine upon us and.
We do, uh, pray that thou just keep feet of each one of us in that path. And so we do commit ourselves to thee now and for the rest of the day. The gospel meeting to follow. Yes, thy blessing on it, the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. Amen.