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Introduction
Today we are going to be face with a choice.
The OT Story:
Write to the Jew who have lost their personal identity and wanting to Go back.
Exposition
“By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.”
(Hebrews 11:24–26, ESV)
I.
He Refused
Refused
Would not consent to this false identity.
He was lying to himself.
Grown up- He knew exactly what he was doing
Three months to 40 years .
(Acts 7:23)
He was not of the blood of a Pharaoh but that of the King of Kings.
In his adult years he made his choice; he would not hide his true nationality to win a few short years of earthly fame.
The result?
Instead of occupying a line or two of hieroglyphics on some obscure tomb, he is memorialized in God’s eternal Book.
Instead of being found in a museum as an Egyptian mummy, he is famous as a man of God.
Stepping out and putting his fate in the hands of God rather than man’s
II.
He Choose
The people of God
They were in a state of slavery
Making bricks 10-12 hours a day
Building the cities
Under a task masters whip.
No say in the society
Fleeting or (temporary) pleasures of sin
Not necessarily that of lustful sin but the things of the world that would take you from God.
A position of power
Pure wealth
In either case, Moses was a prince, the son of the daughter of Pharaoh.
He had everything that a person on earth could ever want:
⇒ education and knowledge
⇒ fame and wealth
⇒ possessions and estates
⇒ power and authority
⇒ position and duty
⇒ purpose and responsibility
⇒ a home and love (Pharaoh’s daughter must have loved Moses to stand against Egyptian law to save him as a child.)
Moses renounced the status which he enjoyed in Egypt as a member of the royal household.
He could not identify himself both with the Israelites and with the Egyptians; he had to choose the one or the other.
Notice the phrase here in the text: “The people of God”
Religious not nationalistic
Moses is seen not as a revolutionary but as a man of faith deliberately classing himself with God’s own, even though doing that meant ill treatment.
“The pleasures of sin” does not mean Moses saw himself as a dissolute rake while at court.
It implies rather that once he saw where God’s call lay, it would have been sin for him to turn away from it and align himself with the Egyptians.
There would have been pleasures, but they would have been enjoyed only at the expense of disobeying God.
Moreover, they would have been purely temporary.
Moses had a sense of values.
He could estimate at their true worth the suffering and rejection involved in aligning himself with God’s people as contrasted with the transitory pleasures of the godless court.
III.
The Greater over the Fleeting
There were some Jews who held to the idea that the Messiah would be a new Moses.
One who would believed them from the oppression of others.
Jesus should deliver from the oppression of Roman
But Jesus suffered?
Here Moses suffered also before the deliverance
“He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt” (11:26).
The so-called “New Kingdom” of Egypt, which began in about 1552 B. C. and ended in 1069 B. C., saw the height of Egypt’s political power and considerable wealth.
It was a time of splendor and opulence.
We do not so much as know the name of the Pharaoh of his time; and even if we did, he would be of interest to us chiefly because of his link with Moses.
But the choice Moses made resulted in his influence still being felt.
It is not “realistic” to opt for the security of worldly safety.
Moses did not do this, and he was right.
It is faith that finally emerges triumphant, not worldliness.
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