Address—G. George
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Hebrews 11.
I wonder if anyone would like to take a guess on?
Who in the Bible other than the Lord Jesus? Or I should say, who in the New Testament?
Whose name would be mentioned the most? And he's been young guys want to take the guess of who Who's name? It's a character from the Old Testament. Whose name do you think would be mentioned in the most in the New Testament?
Do you have a gift?
Thank you. Oh, really?
Well, we can't know what you're thinking of unless you tell.
How about your boost? Do you have any idea?
And who do you think would be second?
See. What's that, David? He's up there.
There's two persons that I want to speak on tonight, and incidentally, I didn't think of this till after I was going to speak on them. These two characters names appear the most in the New Testament. And did you say Moses? Yeah, Moses is right. His name appears 75 times the New Testament, and the one whose second is Abraham, 11 Time, 74 times.
Almost the same 75 and 74 times these names appear in New Testament. Now in the book of Hebrews, we find that, uh, uh, Moses name appears 11 Times in Abraham's name appears 11 Times in the book of Hebrews. So, uh, there's no doubt that the Spirit of God has these two characters before us for lessons and for, uh, profits for our souls. So I would just like to speak on, uh, make some comments tonight on Abraham and Moses from, uh, the book of Hebrews Chapter 11. So could we read it the eighth verse?
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By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should have to receive for inheritance, obey, and he went out not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as an estranged country, and dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the ears of him of the same promise. For he looked for city which have foundations whose builder and maker is God.
Through faith also Sarah herself received strength and conceived. Thea was delivered of child, and she was past age, because she judged in faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one in him as good as he had as many as the stars of the sky and multitude.
And as the sandwiches by the seashore innumerable. 1St 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isis. And he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten Son, of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting, that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from whence also he received him in figure. Now down to Moses in the 23rd verse by Saint Moses, when he was born was his three months of.
His parents, because they thought he was a proper child, or beautiful child, calmly, that is, and they were not afraid of the King's commandments. By faith Moses, when he was coming, he has 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. Proceeds assuming the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. For he had respect unto the recompense of the reward by taking forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king.
For He endured as seeing Him who was invisible. Through faith He kept the Passover and the sprinkling of Buffalo, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.
Well, when we read the book of Hebrews.
And in the earlier parts of it, we have great elaboration on the preeminence of Jesus Christ when he exceeds the angels, he's greater, he's mightier than those angels. He has by inheritance, uh, a better name than they do. And therefore, because of the preeminence, as the first chapter brings out of Christ over all other created beings, the 2nd chapter begins by saying therefore.
We ought to give the more earnest team to the things which we have heard less. At any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels and angels of the Jewish economy were highly esteemed, and if the word spoken by angels receives just recompense of reward, and every disobedience received a punishment, medicals want to say, How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which has to 1St begin?
To be focused by the Lord, by the Lord. And so right away the writer of Hebrews wants to draw attention to the, the preeminence of Christ. And because of his preeminence, his word must be heeded. Because God has in these last days spoken to us in Son, not through prophets, not through the patriarch. But it is not in the last days, the last days of God's economies. God has spoken to his Son. So there's, there's far more responsibility.
In our economies and there were in the economy's past. So right away the the readers are are on their attention is drawn to the person of Christ. And then the third chapter says holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. It's a heavenly calling. And then when we get to the 11Th chapter, we see holy brethren acting.
They have spaced out. We see the action of faith in the 11Th chapter and in this honor roll of men and women, these men of faith. The 12 Chapter says, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, what witnesses we have laid out for us in the 11Th chapter, just reading the 11Th chapter ought to make a stop and pause and consider our own pathway. But he doesn't stop with the Abraham's and The Isaacs and the Moses's and the David's.
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He says, but looking unto Jesus, the Author and the finisher of the faithful, for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and his bed down at the right hand of the majesty and hind, so on. So He brings us right to the zenith of all characters that live the life as a true pilgrimage stranger. Yes, there was a joy that was before Him.
That could enable him to walk and even entice these men of the 11Th chapter walked. And this is my subject tonight. It's it's pilgrimage, it's Ranger ship that ought to characterize the people of God. A holy for every we are with a heavenly calling.
We sometimes don't emphasize enough the sovereignty of God. I think that's the reason why there's much carnality and there's a lot of indifference to the things of God because we have a latent idea in our minds and hearts that we have something to do with salvation. That is wrong, absolutely wrong. Jesus says you have not chosen me.
But I have chosen you. I'm not trying to undermine the responsibility of man. And I realize that that is a valid doctrine, man's responsibility. And I heard it illustrated nicely this way. That means responsibility and God's sovereignty are not so much like too attractive. Maybe we have heard that things are unparalleled that our parallel and seem to meet somewhere, but we can't really detect it. I like the way this was illustrated when he said it's like 2 ropes.
They're dropped side by side down through its ceiling, but that are tied on the other side so that we really cannot fathom it. We can't fully comprehend how human responsibility and God's sovereignty are really reconciled in the Bible. And they're both set forth. But I want to emphasize tonight that God's sovereignty and particularly God's sovereignty in calling you and me, we have no doubt entertained the thought at times. Why did God ever choose me?
And we look at us maybe, umm, uh, someone we grew up with or a relative, and we model that God shows us more than, rather than choosing them. And we might compare ourselves with them and think, well, it seems to be more in my, my, uh, relative or my friend, uh, neighbor. Why did he choose me? I'm not very good stock. Well, that's right. We're not very good stock. We're bad stock, as a matter of fact, but the truth of it is that he chose them.
And this.
Is very much emphasized in the word of God, but not enough emphasized by us in God called Abraham out of the ear of the Chaldeans. We don't read anything about Abraham thinking for the Lord or searching for him. You know some have bumper stickers on their car to say I found it or I found him. I, I I that's wrong. He found out when we were Wanderers far from God.
Our ears were deaf to His voice, His counsels were setteth not, our death was to His light, and our faith was to the pit. And hell would have been a place of more comfort to us if we die in our sins, than heaven would have been without a doubt.
But he called her sovereignly.
But there are some implications of God's calling us in these I want to draw our attention to tonight. We read about the children of Israel and Deuteronomy seven and six, and says the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all the people that are upon the faith of the earth, a special people. Psalm 43 it says the Lord have better time him that is godly.
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Himself we'd be the first 50 of 619 and 20. We are not your own. Ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God. Then when we turn to the second chapter, it talks about though we are servants, that is, that we may have earthly masters that we are under the authority with still nevertheless the Lord.
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Freeman, the Lord's freeman, that's what we all are. Though we are free, yet we love to be in obedience to him. As Paul could write to Romans and say I call an apostle of Jesus Christ, of rather a bond slave of Jesus Christ. He brings right out in the book of Romans how he was a bond slave to him. It was not by any means a a task. It wasn't a burden.
To be a bond servant to the Lord. It was a great joy to him. He's going. The Lord calls Abraham. He calls them out of the error of the Chaldeans. Come out of thy country and thy kindred and thy people.
When God called us, he called us from something we had in our reading. How did Thessalonians? They turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
Turn. So when the Lord called us, there was a desire that we be separated from what he takes us out of. Jesus says in the book of Luke. He says, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Jesus says, Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all in half, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14 and 33 Whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh not all that he has.
See, you said, if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and his brethren and sisters, yeah, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Look, 14 and 26.
Now those are very sobering declarations by Christ, and discipleship is strongly emphasized by Christ. There was one that wanted to follow the Lord.
In Jesus test these ones that want to follow him. Luke 958 Fox as it holds. If you want to follow me. Foxes have holes, birds of the year have men, but the Son of man.
Path not clear. Do you really wanna follow me?
No me and draweth a war that doesn't first count the 'cause there is a cost of discipleship. And maybe we're reminded of something that we heard at the outset of God's sovereign call when he saved us, that we have been full of death to ever since. But might we be reminded tonight by these two characters who were disciples for the Lord?
Call and they go to speak. Walked worthy of that calling. We're told to walk worthy of the Lord. This calling that has called us on a nation's darkness, that has dynamited us out of nature's quarry and has make up to be costly precious stones. A part of the temple in which God by his Spirit dwells is that God that would desire his people to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
We think the world is so bad that a child of God can't live godly in it. The world could not get bad enough for God's standard to ever be lowered, if not lowered. Regardless of how low the morality of society might get, regardless of how corrupt the system of the world may become, the Spirit of God still teaches us to live righteously and godly in the present world, denying ungodliness and worldly luck. That's what the Spirit of God is.
Trying to teach us.
So Abraham, he comes out of the ur of the calories and I can't in the time that we have and I'm not prepared anyway to go through the history of Abraham, but just make a few points.
Sometimes we are bent on expecting earthly privileges and earthly benefits from this world, and we have that. There are some legitimate desires that we would have a home and shelter, clothing and so on. This is all contemplated in description, but I'm afraid that we are trying to dig our pegs too deep in this world.
And rather than like in Abraham, and it talks about Isaac and Jacob here, who wanted to dwell in the land of promise, though they didn't inherit it, they were going to dwell in it in their tent. When you turn to 18th of Genesis, Abraham is in his tent with his wife, the 19th lot, which is contrasted with the heavenly man, Abraham dwells in a house.
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You can see the permanent residency was making of this world.
So much so that when the call of the Angel came to lock to leave, Lot was reluctant to leave. The Angel had to take his hand to drag him out. What is it going to take for the Lord to speak to you, to take you out of those things that are bogging you down, Those things that are nothing but weight, that are hindering you from running the race for the Lord Jesus Christ?
While Abraham's wealth in the pen, he didn't reckon, uh, the, the earthly things so valuable that he made it his heaven on the earth. And uh, Paul asked to criticize the Corinthians, He said he's praying as king. Shame on the Corinthians raining when it was a time for suffering.
Then we must do much tribulation enter into the Kingdom. Paul tells those in uh dirty is it in Acts 14 verse 22 and then is appointed unto us to suffer all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persistence. Second Timothy 3 and 12. This is the part of the calling of God. God saved us not just to uh take uh to have Christ die for us to be a fire state from him.
Definitely not. He has something far better than just, uh, delivering us from that horrible pit. He has the desire that while we're in this wilderness to conform us to his sons, to teach us lessons. Lessons as we were hearing of the lessons that God wanted to bring in Job's life. That as the trial you're facing much more precious than a goal that perishes. So if you try to fire might be found under praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Yes, there's going to be the heaviness time, there's going to be the sorrows, but all these God used the precious like the colors in the diamonds in the in the jewels that that man digs in the minds from Europe are all caused because of the pressure under the earth that forms these colors in these stones. And so why don't we rather allow the circumstances that may not be favorable from our standpoint to be.
Permitted and to receive so that we might realize that the Lord is using these.
So that they're might form a color enough that might have eternal glitter that will be like a crown on the on the head of Christ that will all be to his glory in the coming days. Abraham went out and he dwelt that way. He dwelt in a tent. You know why? Because God gave him a promise of something better. He looks for a city which has foundation whose builder and maker is God.
When Peter writes in Second Peter Three, he talks about things that all these things shall be dissolved.
Thinking of him, they have even for spawned that that these things are going to dissolve the way there's gotta be something more stable than earthly pain. There's a heavenly side of things that God wants us to lay hold of and Abraham lay hold on. And so when the Melchizedek could come along, it makes the offers and give all the gold he could refuse them and not even take a shoe ashes from them.
It's not no physical.
When it wasn't fatigue had come to, uh, Abraham. Forgive him that. No, you know why? Because he was enjoying the bread and wine of Melchizedek so that he was feasting on something that was of a suitable character for a new nature that he had that he was feeding on and stolen earthly prospects come our way. When the world says, follow me. When the devil puts his traps on our pathways, can't we say we're feeding on the bread and wine of our Melchizedek?
That we have come in contact with and he's given us that wine to cheer up. Isn't these heavenly things that really are the thrill of our souls? David wanted to be the tree planted by the rivers of water.
Because he wanted to bring forth fruit to God. He wanted to be a godly man that would not walk in the council of the ungodly. They're standing in the way of sinners who sit in the feet of scornful. But his delight was in the law of the Lord. No wonder he could say, the Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want.
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He could have had much, but he refused that. He wanted to maintain a heavenly character to Abraham. The city was more valuable to him than all of the well wet, watered plains of joy. So he embraced the promise of God, and he could confess that he was a Pilgrim and a stranger on earth.
Heaven is our home.
We read Peter says that God has begun us against relying living a lively hope.
To an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that faith is not away reserved in heaven for you.
Are we savoring the things that are of God or of the things that are of men?
We have a reservation in heaven. We should have been in the hell fire for eternity, but we've got a reservation in heaven because God has begotten us again by a lively, living hope. And what kind of interest are we going to have into that eternal Kingdom? Are we going to go with our failed blistered and beacon and bruised? Are we going to go with the field clean and white, blowing by the breeze?
And discharging our cargo along the shores and the harbors and in the ports that we shop along.
As we go through life, can we have the heavenly deposit within our souls? Are we wherever we go? Are we bringing a scent of the heavenly things that we have as God born again children of God?
Are we discharging this valuable cargo when we get reeled in by the world? Do we have the silver coin in our mouth, the gospel, to give them for the redemption price of the penalty of their sins?
Sensify the Lord Jesus Christ in your heart, Peter says, and that will enable you to be ready to give an answer to every man that ask if you a reason of the hope that is in you.
Abraham looked for that city. What are we looking for really? It really causes me and it should cause us all to really search ourselves. What is our hope? What is our glory? What are we boasting? Paul said, God forbid that I should glory things in the cross of Christ. He saw the bitter, watered me sweet and he drank of them all of his life time so that at the end he could say, I thought by the grace of God.
A good fight, and I finished my course with joy. And now, now He came to the time when He could be further. Now there is later for me a crown of right, for I know whom I have believed, and I have persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him again before that day We are our restoring.
Our treasures are they on the earth and often roughed up, corrupt? Or are they in the heavens, where neither Moss nor roughed up, corrupt and thieves cannot breakthrough nor seal? For we are, your treasure is.
There will your heart be also. Do you know why your heart is not right with the Lord child of God? It's because of where your treasure is.
Where is your treasure? That's where your heart is for what a man thinketh.
That is what he is.
You are what you think, and what you think is where your treasure is. But are our treasures similar to the treasures of the Abraham and these honorable men that God put in the New Testament for us to be instructed by?
He can fatter that he's a Pilgrim and a stranger on Earth, Peter says.
As pilgrims and strangers abstain from fleshly life which wore.
Again, a soul first. Peter 2 and 11, a war against the soul. Are you concerned? Am I concerned of what I confront every day? The one that dwells on a high we get Isaiah 3350 and 16 is the one that sausage is from hearing of evil and stopping the deals from hearing of blood and shutting his eyes from seeing of evil.
He shall dwell behind.
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That's the one that will be dwelling on high. Avoid it, count, not buy it, turn from it and pass away. Proverbs 4 and 15 abstained from fleshly luck, which war again of soul. It is important to keep our soul in the right condition before God because your soul is the regulator, so to speak, of your character. The way you're going to live is the way your soul.
Is enjoying the things of Christ.
The Lord had rained down for the children to be able to man up for them to feed on and he said, I noticed this in our family reading at home for the first time. It struck me, the Lord is going to give them this man and suggest them to see that they would be obedient.
And they were instructed to go daily, and that laid on the dew of the ground, and they had to stoop down to get it. It was small and it was round.
And you know, the Lord wants us to feed on this book. We are what we read, if I can put it that way. We are what we read. And are we reading with a listening ear to the voice of the shepherd that is in this book. It's really in this book. This book is life giving and powerful. We can pick up literature and even good ministry and be really blessed by it, but it falls far short. It takes a long back second seat.
To this book because this book is salted with heavenly flavor unlike any other literature ever produced in the history of mankind. And the ones who know it are those that are safe and only those that are saved. The natural man does not receive the things that serve God. But Abraham abandoned it all. There was total concentration to the one that called them out of the earth. Chelsea grantee had trouble. His father Tyra went along with him, and it wasn't until Tyra died in Haran said Abraham really fulfilled God's purposes of calling him.
Is there something that we have to allow to die in our life that we might go all the way to the promised land, so to speak? Are there those things on the pathways that were still allowed to live when God would have us to reckon them dead?
But to recommend this, you know, Gideon put out a fleet at night and the fleet was wet.
And the ground was dry. And the other order is reversed, that the fleet was dry and the ground was wet. Well, you know, what we are is in contrast to what the world is.
Had all these earthly benefits and all these, uh, temporal things. But oh, I wonder if Abraham said, I look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Second Corinthians 4 and verse 18. Our light affliction is but for a moment, but it worked for us, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Is that where our hope is? If our hope is here, our walk will be heavenly. It will be heavenly. We'll be willing to take off the, the lightest of weight so that we can more, uh, uh, with more facility fall across.
And I don't want to pose in images if I don't have any weight. I want this word to reach me as much as hopefully will reach you. We really do need to recognize the high and the holy calling that God has called us with. We are pilgrims and strangers. Paul says that Timothy, when Timothy was under much pressure, there was a Hymenius in the Pleadiuses. There was the Alexander, the coppersmith that were greatly withstanding the words of the Lord, so to speak.
But Paul stirs up Timothy. Timothy, what is that to these, so to speak, follow Christ and regardless of what may be happening around you?
Don't let it get you away from your holy heavenly calling. God has called you individually. That's very precious to lay hold on that you are individually valuable to Christ and he would go to speak loose you and he he says that the as it were, the Lord passed me up thee and so whatever it is that you're hitched to whatever brain you're whatever post your reins are being wrapped around.
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Might say, get them loose to realize that the Lord hath lead of me, and he might say, well, I don't really have a gift and I'm not much of A reader. The Lord hath need of thee. The Lord hath need of thee. If he didn't, he wouldn't have died for you. That weak brother for whom Christ died, the Son of God dying for a weak brother. He's a precious brother. He's a valuable vessel because the blood of Jesus was spilled.
To buy his party and to make him a child of God. And that's what you are if you consider yourself weak. You're one for whom Christ died. You're valuable to him, and he has much need of thee.
Now moving on to Moses. Moses, I think if I'm right in my understanding of history, that Moses would have been next in line to Pharaoh, brought up in Pharaoh's court in all the learning of Egypt, and he had quite a career ahead of him. But he esteemed the reproach of Christ, greater riches and the treasures in Egypt. Christ, he has seen that reproach for him.
Do we have seen it, You know, when the apostles were being in Act 5 verse 41, it says they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. It's not a humbling verse. We do all that we can to avoid persecution. We do all that we can to avoid saying I know the man, but here at that time, and Peter is in that was in the voice instead that he rejoiced that he was kind of worthy of shock suffer for his name.
Just weeks before.
He, he wasn't willing to suffer for his name, but now that name is valuable to him and at whatever cost would be paid to suffer for that means and to glorify that name, it was worth it to the apostles and it should be worth it for you and me to suffer shame for his name. Well, if we can only get back to Calvary. I think it's the key. And I have to tell myself time and time again.
When I survey the wondrous cross upon which the Lord of glory dies my richest gains, I comfort lost, and poor contempt on all my promise. We need to get back to our first love, to the cross. And Steve, what Christ bore on the tree in the awful darkness, the thick darkness that came on Him, the darkness due to me, so that we might want to yield ourselves.
And give ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable or intelligent service. It's only reasonable that if Jesus, the Son of God, who when Spirit became flesh and in that body would be nailed to the tree, and have my sins upon him and bear the wrath of God, how can I want to serve anyone other than Him?
He deserves my heart, my life, my all. Can we all not confess that tonight He deserves everything and he should be like it says in Colossians that Christ is all and in all. Mr. Dolly, I think, says Christ is everything. And so we need to consecrate Christ to our souls and get back to him and look away from whatever it is that is discouraging us and that is getting us away from the sovereign call of God.
When he chose to hit his son before the foundation of the world and by grace called us in time and made us his own. And now he says follow thou me. Now he says what before me and be perfect. That's what he wants for us. And he's equipped us with the capacity to be able to do it. And maybe you just haven't been walking worthy of the heavenly calling. And you say I'm not capable of doing it. I get a call from a brother in my city.
He's in marvelously saved, stays in a Patty wagon. After being arrested about 11 Times, he finally cried out in desperation. Lord Jesus, praise me. And the next morning he woke up and the word of God was on his heart and he wanted to read it. But the poor brother has fallen several times, but he gets back up because God began to work and he's not going to let it go unfinished. And he called me every so often just to get encouragement. It says how can we live in this world around us?
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Well, I'm glad to hear and ask questions like that because I'm a man of light passion, and I need to hear about these things that God's Word encourages us about so that we can live in a way that is more in character with the holiness and the heavenliness of our college.
But the reproach of Christ to him was greater riches than the treasury. Oh, what can we get out of this world? Is it worth it? Is it really worth it?
But Jesus said, what shall prompt a man if he gave the whole world and loses his soul? Can we apply that to a Christian?
Tinley Appliance for a Christian. It's not that we would lose our salvation, I'm not implying that. But would we be losing rewards that we could have had?
And only then, if we go in for the things of this life, won't we be giving up the joy of salvation and the things that really ought to invigorate us, things that really ought to excite us and stir us up. Why, Christianity is the most exciting thing in the world, for the one that saved the word of God is the most valuable tool in the whole of the universe, and we've got it, and it means something to us.
Because we got a nature within us that when we read the book, it, it rebounds right into our souls and we stay in our hearts deep down. Amen, Amen, Amen. Because it's real. It's real and we should know the effect. All right. To the Thessalonians, when you receive the word of God, you heard of us. You receive it not as the word of men, but as it is the truth, the word of God. Notice this which effectually.
Worketh also in you that believe.
God's Word works for the believer, but if we're not reading it, how can we expect it to be working? By where did I get in my heart that I might not sin against Thee? Are we putting it there so that the Spirit can bring to our remembrance those things that are in the Holy Scripture, so that when we do come up against the challenges of our employment in a school, we can rise to the occasion because His Word is working effectually in Him, and then we can confess that we are pilgrims.
And strangers Jesus confessed before Pontius Pilate, Paul said he had a good confession. Timothy, thy professor, good profession before many, many witnesses because he was told to flee youthful life, the fleet to fight and to press on for the things of the Lord. But then it goes on to say by safety forsook Egypt. Yeah, he went all the way, all the way with the Lord. And there were times that he was meeting a lot of opposition. Every time we go to Farrell, Farrell seats and put in the cog in the wheel. I think Moses had the impression that he was going to go to go to the Pharaoh and Pharaoh was going to say, OK, Moses, that's enough, you go.
Moses came back. He came back. We're not going to worship here. We can't stay here. No books going to be laid behind. The children aren't going to stay. We're taking our families with us. Brother and sister, you've taken your families out of Egypt, or are you bringing Egypt into your home?
Are we bringing Egypt into our homes? The Lord wants us to be separated from it all. He wants us to forsake Egypt.
And here we're letting Egypt come right into our lives. We're inviting Egypt into our home. Literature, other instruments of the home.
Inviting invitations to the world to come into our lives.
Is Christ not enough?
He's feeding on the heavenly manner. Not enough do we have to resort to the hust that the swine, uh, beats. Uh, we wanted to fill our bellies with these things. You know, when Paul talks about, uh, there are many that want of whom, uh, uh, how's that verse go of whom I told you often and outside even we think that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end of destruction.
Whose glory is in their shame, and whose God is their belly?
What I think that means is God being their belly is simply allowing temporal things to have a monopoly or control of my being.
Is it that the things of this world are so enticing that it has a monopoly on my person so that I'm in ******* to it? Look, I don't want to be misunderstood. Paul says all things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful unto me. But this is the key. I will not be brought under the power of any.
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A hobby can have a dominion over you.
Scripture says I will not be brought under the power of any. So if you have a strong hobby, read that verse first. Christians don't send Christians 6:00 and 12:00. I think it is tells us to not be brought under the power of enemy. And so these things might seem insignificant, but brothers and sisters, I cannot from the word of God minimize the heavenly calling that you and I have been called to by the sovereignty of God.
Not just to save them from hell, but he leaves us in the wilderness to walk in a world that hates Jesus Christ, but that we still have the potential to walk heavenly in the world. So Moses for for some Egypt, even though he may have been the next in line to the king. You know, I understand that that Pharaoh historically had no son but daughter.
Moses was adopted.
So to speak, and he likely would have inherited all that the Pharaoh had. What an opportunity always is. How can you pass that up? Moses choosing rallies to suffer affliction with the people of God there to enjoy the places of sin for a season. He waited before God. This is a season, God. God, give me an eternity to spend with him.
Yeah, we have a time here below we've got a pilgrimage pathway, but it's so small. But for a moment, Moses says.
Sin for season, just a season. It's going to be spring before we know for season isn't willing. Is it worth it to to go into the things that are only seasonal? Why don't we go into the things that are eternal that'll make us more heavenly?
To value those things that are eternal and those are the things that are valuable to God.
When I can't, I have to repeat the verse, when the Lord says to Peter, Thou favorites the things that they have men, and not the things that they have of God. Excuse me, In Psalm 49 and 18 it says, When they'll do us well to thyself, thou shall have praise of men.
And when we turn to Loop 12, that man says sold out, has laid up many goods for many years, and now he makes a resolution. I will eat and drink in the merry I.
I think that's what is meant when it says while he lives, he blessed his soul and men will praise thee when thou doest well tonight time. Do you ever meet an unsafe relative or a friend in the shopping Plaza? And they say the questions are something like this. So how you doing, how you feeling good. How's the family? How's your job? Where you living? Oh, you've got a, you just bought a new home. Oh, you're, you're, you, uh, were, uh, elevated to the vice president of your company and on and on and on.
While he lived, he's left the full mineral praise when I'll do as well as I but you know we read in contrast in Jesus puts his stand for this proof, so to speak, on those who love the praise of men more than the praise of God and don't misunderstanding. I'm not saying that we shouldn't provide for our family in all these necessities. These are known of God. I'm talking about laying up for ourselves praise on earth.
Are we favoring the things that we have men? Are we, uh, living on the approvals and the applauses of men, Or do we value the things that are valuable to God?
Jesus, he deserves it all, my heart, my life, my love. Might we be encouraged tonight by these two men who confess that they will tell these and strangers on earth and movers, as you know, didn't even get into the promised land. And when he knew that he wasn't going to go in, yes, it's just hot in him, we must admit. But he still pressed on. He still saw something beyond the milk and honey of Canaan.
He saw places like the Mount of Transfiguration where he could speak to Jesus about his deceased. He esteemed the reproach of Christ. Christ wasn't even born there, but he esteemed it. He had the faith like Abraham. I I'm a little perplexed to tell you the truth about the heaven, heavenly desires of Abraham, an Old Testament patriarch. I could see it of a New Testament. Think when there is.
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Far more revelation. Abraham didn't have near the revelation that you and I have, but yet he confessed his pilgrimage and strangership on earth and he saw something that was eternal. He saw something was heavenly, and he was mindful of that and he did not want, he had no desire to return. When the children were in the land of Egypt, in the land of Israel, they were told not the king, especially to multiply horses. Why? Because they would be going back to Egypt.
The horse could gallop them down to Egypt in no time, and then they would resort back to the things of their past. Brothers and sisters, let's be careful about our stalls. What do we put in the stalls? Are they horses to get us back to Egypt? It doesn't take much temptation. There's a lot of temptation there. And just get on the back, put the saddle on it. Off you go down to Egypt because you made the mistake of putting your horses in the stars.
We might have to have salt, but we don't have to have bosses.
So that we won't allow ourselves to be tempted to stay from fleshly lumps which war against the soul. But Jesus, he is the supreme example. The joy that was set before him. What was it? Oh, Jesus, before the cross. Yes, the cross was there, but he saw what was next. It was the throne. It was the throne, brother. You and I better cross the beer. But look what's on the other side of the frost.
What's at the end of it all when we drop our crosses behind it? Isn't that what the hemorrhagic says and exchange it someday for a crown?
Exchange. Yeah, brother, uh, heavenly quality. Jesus, look for the right hand of God, the cross. He defies the shame of it. Yes, we might be spies. The shame of what we have to go through It's it's rough, it's tough, it's difficult. But look what's on the other side, brothers and sisters that ought to motivate us. Like brother Dobby says that rewards.
I'm not a uh, is not the umm, what's the word used? The rewards are not the uh, motivation. I think of the word he used for us and our pathway, but they are an encouragement to us of what we will receive at the end. And can we see the end? We need to look to the end of all these things. Look to the end of all flesh. Think that all these things shall be dissolved. O brothers and sisters, what are we going to have if the judgment seat of Christ?
When we have to be looking back badly anymore.
Didn't pay that. Those rules, in all of its places enticed my soul. It snatched me away from service to Christ.
Overly pomp and glory. Your charms are spread in vain. I found a clear story. I found a truer game. Yet, brother, we can forsake it all, Paul says. I endure all things for the elect.
He was willing to endure all things Oh might we be willing to endure it all, might we from the word of God tonight the examining our souls as to whether we're really living heavenly or not. Are we allowing Egypt in our home or have we forsaken it all because of Christ because of Christ. Jesus says that we get in first. John 14. These things are written in your joy may be full. What's gonna really satisfy us.
Feeding on.
The roasted lamb.
And I suggest for the sake of so briefly, it says that Moses verse 29 and says that he kept the Passover.
And the sprinkling of blood, you know, that's interesting that he kept the Passover, doesn't say Israel kept the Passover. You know why? I think because he's a type of Christ and Christ kept the Passover or sacrifice Christ our path over in sacrifice, you know, it says.
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That they killed the Passover, not the Passover or the Passover land, plural. There was only one Passover lamb, and it was kept by Moses. And it says lest he that destroyed the first one should destroy them, not not the first born of the Israelites. You can check me on that, but I don't think that there was any threat to the first born of the children of Israel. The threat was.
To the children of Egypt, they are first born were in danger of being destroyed by the Angel because I think it's uh, Exodus 423, the Lord says is real. My first born, that nation was God's first born. And so when Christ died, when the Passover lamb was killed.
And those that kept it, they are households.
That's why it's called by some the gospel that we preach as a Passover gospel, a lamb for a house.
Fathers and mothers, are we providing a gospel atmosphere in our home with our children? A land for the house? Do we have the lamb in the house? Do we telling of the roasted lamb that went in the fire and that had blood shed on the cross of Calvary?
And the sprinkling of blood, children, if you don't have to blood your life.
I read something and I just want to share with you it was most enjoyable to my medication.
The bloodiest war that was fought in all of the First World War were fought in a city called Verdun. A city in in uh, France was a a fortress city and the mightiest battle of all the battles of the First World War was fought and were done.
There the French put up a battle and destroyed the incoming foes.
And a in a tremendous way, it was a fee above all other fees that were ever accomplished as far as war warfare is concerned. And in celebration.
In in Paris, France, of the honesty that is of the cessation of the First World War.
There is the act of triumph.
That is, I think it is in Paris, if I'm not mistaken. And what they do on this day of celebration, they erect the platform on the top of the arc of triumph.
And they have a flyer up on the platform.
In 20,000 Frenchmen on foot approached the act of triumph.
And the choir things out. What right have you to come here to the act of triumph? And they repeat it. What right have you to come here to the act of triumph? In 20,000 voices united together in ecstasy.
Faith, we come by the blood red banner of Verdun.
Think of that of the battle that Jesus fought on the cross when his blood was shed. And we are going to go into the arc of triumph, so to speak. And it's only going to be, we're only going to be able to March in, so to speak, because of the battle of the victory that Jesus fought on Calvary's Christ.