Endurance
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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 had respect unto the recompence 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 firstborn should touch them.
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Endurance
Endurance - the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
It’s like the experience of Bill Broadhurst, who entered the Pepsi Challenge 10,000-meter road race in Omaha, Nebraska. Ten years earlier, surgery for an aneurysm is the brain had left him paralyzed on his left side. But on a misty July morning in 1981, he stood with 1,200 lithe- looking men and women at the starting line. The gun cracks! The crowd surges forward. Bill throws his stiff left leg forward, pivots on it as his right foot hits the ground. His slow plop-plop-plop rhythm seems to mock him as the pack fades into the distance. Sweat rolls down his face, pain pierces his ankle, but he keeps going. Six miles and two hours and twenty-nine minutes later, Bill reaches the finish line. A man approaches from a small group of bystanders. Bill recognizes him from pictures in the newspaper. He’s Bill Rodgers, the famous marathon runner. "Here," says Rodgers, putting his newly won medal around Bill’s neck. "You’ve worked harder for this than I have." Broadhurst had also been a winner. He didn’t win but he was faithful and finished the race.
There never came a time in the life of Moses when he regretted his decision.
Jesus after garden never turned back, the decision was made.
2. Have you made your decision.
He made his decision and then pressed on in his way.
There came days of trial, when his heart was hard pressed, and when, with sorrowful voice, he cried unto God:— But he never turned back.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
— But he never turned back.
Paul said:
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
— But he never turned back.
But, there was a special reason for Moses’ endurance. He “endured as seeing Him Who is invisible.”
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
He had One at his side who gave him grace for every time of need.
There is a special sense in which Christ is with us, today.
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Is very precious.
It is true, too, that the saints of old had visions of Christ.
David said:
I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Illustration:
A girl of the world, suddenly changed her whole way of living. From a society belle, given wholly to pleasures, she became one of the most faithful followers of Christ. Some thought she must have been disappointed in love; some imagined a great sorrow had come into her life. To those who questioned her, she replied that the reason she had become so changed, was explained by the locket she wore around her neck. After years of true, Christian service, when she was dead, a loved one quietly opened the locket to get the girl’s secret. In the locket was found a crumpled piece of paper, and on the paper were printed the words: “Whom having not seen, ye love; in Whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
We, too, should run our race “looking unto Jesus.”
No wonder Paul wrote: “There stood by me this night, the angel of the Lord, Whose I am and Whom I serve.”
Only as we walk and as we talk with Jesus Christ will we endure.
Peter walked the water while his eyes were on Christ!
But Peter began to sink when he looked away and saw “the winds and the waves boisterous.”
To be faithful we must see Him, Who is invisible.