You're in Exodus chapter 5 there.
Let's back up to Exodus chapter 1.
I want to preach about Moses this morning.
And the title of my sermon is The Enemies of Moses.
The Enemies of Moses.
See Moses is one of the central characters of the Bible.
In fact, he's the third most mentioned man in the Bible.
Number one is of course Jesus.
Number two would be David.
And number three would be Moses.
So in the Old Testament, he's one of the most central characters right there with David.
Moses is a great man of God that's talked about all the way from the very beginnings
of the Bible, even all the way into the book of Revelation.
Now 40 times in the Bible, Moses is referred to as the servant of God.
That's the thing that comes up over and over.
Moses my servant.
Moses the servant of God.
And in fact, the last time that he's mentioned is in Revelation chapter 15 when it says in
verse 3 that they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb,
saying great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are thy ways, thou king of saints.
What's interesting about Moses is that he was probably the most hated man in the Bible.
He probably faced more opposition, and I think you're going to see that in the sermon
this morning.
He faced more opposition than anyone.
I mean, he was getting attacked from all sides his entire life.
In fact, it started before he was even born.
People are after him, okay?
Look at Exodus chapter 1, verse 22.
The Bible says, And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye
shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save a life.
So this is the world that Moses is born into.
He's born as a Hebrew slave in a world where male children of the Hebrews are to be cast
into the river.
They're to be killed.
You see, the Egyptians were intimidated by the Israelites amongst them.
They said the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
So they put them into bondage, and they still felt that there were too many, so they
wanted to abort the male children in order to keep them from reproducing too much.
Now go to Exodus chapter 2, Exodus chapter 2, and look at verse number 10.
The Bible reads, And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and
he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, Because I drew him out
of the water.
Now let me explain to you the story how we got to this point.
So here's this baby boy Moses.
He's born into this family where it's illegal for them to have a male child in Egypt.
So his parents hide him for three months.
But after three months of hiding him, they couldn't hide him anymore because he got
to an age where he's crying more loudly, he's harder to console, they're afraid
that he's going to be found, and if he's found, he's going to be killed.
So after three months of hiding him, they basically build an ark.
And this ark was sort of like a little basket made out of bull rushes and daubed
with pitch.
And they put the baby Moses into this little basket or ark, and they put it in the river.
And then Miriam, his sister, goes along to watch and make sure that everything goes
okay with the baby.
And as it goes down the river, of course, Pharaoh's daughter is the one who finds
it.
Pharaoh's daughter takes him up and has compassion on him and wants this baby
Moses to be her own son.
So Miriam just kind of pops up out of nowhere, hey, do you want me to get one of the Hebrew
women to nurse it for you?
And of course, that Hebrew woman was Moses' mother that comes.
So Moses' mother comes and nurses the child because back then they didn't have
infamil.
So if you have a baby, they can't eat solid food, they can't drink cow's milk.
It's not good for them.
They can't do it.
They have to have mother's milk or some kind of a simulation thereof.
So back then, they would hire somebody to nurse that baby.
And there were women, that's what they did for a job, to make money.
They would nurse babies.
And so this woman gets wages to nurse her own son, the baby Moses.
She's getting paid to nurse him.
So she has him for the first couple of years.
And I'm sure she was able to be an influence on him and sing to him spiritual songs and
quote scripture to him and give him a spiritual upbringing, at least for those
first one, two years, even when he was just a toddler.
But of course, at a very young age, he's done being nursed.
He's delivered over to Pharaoh's daughter.
And so he's brought up in all the learning of the Egyptians.
They train him and teach him in all of their ways.
And he grows up to become a mighty man in word and deed.
Now the Bible says there in verse 10, the child grew, Moses.
And she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son.
And she called his name Moses.
And she said, because I drew him out of the water.
That's why she gave him that name.
Verse 11, it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown, that he went out unto
his brethren and looked on their burdens.
And he spied an Egyptian smiting in Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And he looked this way and that way.
And when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian and hit him in the sand.
And when he went out on the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews drove together.
And he said to him that did go wrong, wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
And he said, who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
And tendest thou to kill me as thou killest the Egyptian?
And Moses feared and said, surely this thing is known.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses, but Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian.
And he sat down by a well.
Now we're going to come back to Exodus throughout the whole sermon.
So keep a finger there, but go to Acts chapter seven.
We'll get a little more insight on this story.
When Moses is fully grown, we know that from the New Testament to be when he was
40 years old, he goes out to look upon his brethren, the children of Israel, and
he sees an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Israelites.
And so he looks this way, looks that way, and he kills the guy with his bare hands.
Okay.
The next day, he's trying to unite two of the Hebrews who are fighting with each other
and notice he rebukes the one who was wrong.
You know, in a fight, there's usually somebody who's right and somebody who's wrong,
unless they're both wrong.
But he says to the one who's wrong, you know, why are you smiting your fellow?
And what do they say to him?
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
You see that implies, and we get more insight on this from the New Testament, that
implies that Moses was beginning to try to be a leader amongst the children of Israel.
That's why he's trying to resolve a dispute between two people that are fighting.
That's why he's defending a Hebrew against the Egyptian oppression.
He's trying to be a leader.
He's trying to rise up and be a deliverer.
Look at Acts chapter seven.
I'll prove it to you.
Verse 23.
And when he was full 40 years old, it came into his heart to visit his brother and
the children of Israel and seeing one of them suffer wrong.
And he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian.
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them,
but they understood not.
So when Moses was 40 years old, he thought that he was going to be able to rally the
Israelites and basically deliver them from Egypt, free them from Egypt, lead them
to the promised land.
But they rejected his leadership, didn't they?
And as a result, it's 40 more years before he leads them out of Egypt.
He doesn't come back again and try until he's 80.
Think about that.
When Moses stood before Pharaoh and said, let my people go, he was 80 years old,
but he tried it when he was 40.
He tried to be a leader when he was 40.
They wouldn't listen.
They understood not the next day.
He showed himself unto them as he strove, as they strove verse 26 and would have set
them at one again saying, sirs, your brethren.
Why do you wrong to one to another?
And he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away.
Basically he shoved Moses saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?
Then fled Moses at this saying, it was a stranger in the land of Madian where he
begat two sons.
The Bible says, uh, you go ahead and turn back to Exodus four.
But the Bible says in Hebrews 11 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.
And here's the part I want to emphasize is steaming the reproach of Christ.
Notice that word reproach is steaming the reproach of Christ, greater riches than
the treasures in Egypt.
For he had respect under the wreck of bits of the road.
You know what reproach means?
It's when people speak evil of you, when people talk bad about you, it's when people
are ashamed of you, when people reject you.
At that point, you are a reproach.
I've got here a list this morning, my points of the sermon, if you will.
I've got eight points.
Number one point is that people were trying to kill Moses before he was even born.
Number two, the Hebrews rejected Moses as their deliverer when he was 40 years old.
He was rejected by the people of God at age 40.
He was rejected as being a judge or a prince or a leader or a deliverer.
They didn't want him.
But thirdly, let me show you this, even Moses' wife was rebellious against him.
I mean, this guy's getting it from all sides.
He's a baby.
They want him dead.
He tries to be a leader.
The people that he's trying to help won't even accept him.
Thirdly, even his wife was rebellious against him.
Look at verse 24 of chapter 4, and it came to pass by the way in the end that the Lord
met him and sought to kill him.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast
it at his feet and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
So he let him go.
Then she said, A bloody husband thou art because of the circumcision.
You know, when your wife's throwing a foreskin at you, I mean, that's a rebellious wife
calling him a bloody husband just because he's fulfilling the commandments of God here.
So his wife was rebellious against him.
And the Bible teaches also that a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country
and in his own house.
It's sad when wives won't support their husband.
Now, thank God my wife is very supportive.
Pastor, man, his wife is very supportive.
You know, lots of wives are supportive of their husband, but it's pretty sad when
people's own family won't even support them.
What a shame.
And this is a sad thing about the life of Moses.
Look at chapter 5, verse 1.
The Bible says, And afterward, Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go?
I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us.
Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice
unto the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with sword.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from
their works get you under your burdens?
So number four, Pharaoh rejected Moses and rejected the word of the Lord.
So he's rejected by the Egyptians, rejected by the Israelites, rejected by his wife,
rejected by Pharaoh.
This guy's being attacked from all sides.
So let me just bring you up to speed in the story here.
Moses, after he tried to be a deliverer at age 40, well, once it's found out that he
had killed that Egyptian and nobody's backing him up, well, then he had to flee from Egypt.
So he fled into the wilderness and he dwelt in the land of Madian, okay?
He ends up staying there for 40 years.
He ends up, that's where he gets married to the woman who throws things around.
And that's where he dwells and has a child and everything.
He lives there for 40 years, okay?
But after 40 years, God comes to him in the form of the burning bush, right?
And speaks to him and tells him that he's going to send him back to Egypt.
And Moses is reluctant.
He knows how it went the first time, number one.
Number two, he's humble and he feels that he doesn't have what it takes and he's
not eloquent, he's not powerful enough, and God's trying to bolster him.
And God's being patient with him, but then eventually God starts getting mad at him and
telling him, you know, you just need to go do it.
Just take Aaron with you.
He's a good speaker and so forth.
So anyway, Moses goes with Aaron and he confronts Pharaoh and Pharaoh will not let
the people go, okay?
Now before he went to talk to Pharaoh, he met with the Israelites, okay?
And he showed them some miracles and he preached to them and they're on his side.
At first, okay?
But then when he goes and confronts Pharaoh, Pharaoh, because he's mad at what Moses
confronted him with, Pharaoh decides to punish the Israelites as a result, okay?
So look down at your Bible.
Well, before you look at your Bible, let me just explain what he did.
He tells them, you have to keep doing the slave labor that you've been doing because
remember that the Hebrews are slaves in Egypt and the slave labor that they had
to do was to make bricks and build these great structures that, you know, are over
in Egypt.
They loved to build great buildings back in those days to show their glory, you
know, and to boast before men.
So they had these slaves of the Hebrews making bricks and building great monuments
and buildings, building entire cities.
Well, they made the bricks.
One of the ingredients was straw.
So he tells them, I'm not going to give you any straw anymore, but you have to make
the same bricks and build the same buildings and structures that you've been building.
You have to go out at night and gather straw and then work all day.
So instead of just being a slave all day, now you have to slave all day and go gather
straw at night.
And then they're not able to get it done, obviously, because it just wasn't even humanly
possible.
So look what it says in verse 13.
And the taskmasters hasted them, meaning they rushed them, saying, fulfill your works,
your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Then the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had said over
them were beaten and demanded, wherefore have you not fulfilled your task in making brick
both yesterday and today as heretofore?
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, wherefore
dealest thou thus with thy servants?
There's no straw given unto thy servants.
And they say to us, make brick and behold thy servants are beaten, but the fault is
in thine own people.
But he said, Ye're idle, ye're idle, therefore you say, let us go and do sacrifice to the
Lord.
Go therefore now and work, for there shall no straw be given you, yet ye shall deliver
the tally of bricks.
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were an evil case.
After it was said, ye shall not menish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
And this is what the Israelite leaders say to Moses.
Look at verse 20, and they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way as they came forth
from Pharaoh.
And they said unto them, the Lord look upon you and judge, because ye have made
our saber to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants
to put a sword in their hand as less.
So now the Israelites are mad at Moses again, right?
You've made our saber to be abhorred.
Basically, what's a saber?
A saber is like a smell or a taste, okay?
Basically what he's saying is, you've made us to stink before the Egyptians.
You know, we stink unto them now.
You caused our saber to be abhorred unto them.
You put a sword in their hand to slay us with.
It's all your fault, Moses.
It's your...
Now look, who told Moses to do what he did and to preach what he preached?
God.
He's following the Lord.
He's preaching God's word.
And what happens as a result of the man of God standing up to the forces of evil?
What happens?
You know, the world comes down on Christians.
The world comes down on God's people.
And instead of getting mad at Pharaoh, instead of getting mad at the Egyptians, instead
of saying, hey, we need to rally behind Moses because things are getting worse.
Now is the time to rally with Moses.
Boy, if we ever needed to be delivered, it's now.
I mean, we wanted deliverance for 400 years, but let me tell you, now we really need deliverance.
Man, let's all rally with the Lord.
We've seen the miracles.
We've heard the preaching.
Let's get on board with Moses.
What do we do?
We got to get out of here.
We got to get to the promised land.
No, no, no.
It's, oh, you made us to stink before Pharaoh.
And you know what?
This is exactly what we have going on today.
Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 2.
Keep your finger in Exodus, of course, but go to 2 Corinthians chapter 2.
See these Israelites that said, hey, you made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes
of Pharaoh.
They're sort of like Christians today who want to be accepted by the world.
Hey, we don't want to stink in the eyes of the world.
You know, we don't want the world to think poorly of us.
And they say things like this.
They say, it's preachers like you or people like you who give Christians a bad name.
You're putting a sword in their hand to slay us with.
I mean, I can't even tell you how many just lame Christians, spineless Christians
have said this about Pastor Jimenez.
And let me just make it clear.
I stand with Pastor Roger Jimenez 100%.
I agree with every syllable he preached in his sermon.
Every jot and every tittle of that sermon I agree with.
No equivocation here, friend.
I support Pastor Roger Jimenez.
And listen, what are the lame Christians saying about Pastor Jimenez?
Here's what they say.
Oh, you know, yeah, Pastor Jimenez preaches that and that's why the world hates Christians.
You know, Pastor Jimenez is causing our savor to stink in the eyes of the Egyptians.
That's what they're basically saying, aren't they?
It's funny, my brother, Clint Anderson, you know, my physical, literal older brother,
Clint Anderson, who's a member of Verity Baptist Church, he called me up on Monday
and he actually gave me this point.
He gave me this sermon idea.
He said, you know what it reminds me of?
He said, these people are saying this about Pastor Jimenez.
He called me up and he said, Pastor Jimenez is like Moses.
And basically instead of them getting mad at the world, you know, the lame Christians,
they're getting mad at Pastor Jimenez and say, oh, man, now you made us stink.
You know, now you've made our savor to be abhorred.
And he told me, he's like, I got this sermon idea for you.
And he went and he looked up the scripture and he was reading up on the savor and everything.
And I said, yeah, I'll preach it because that's exactly what it's like, right?
Our savor has been made to be abhorred.
No, here's the true story, friend.
The reason why the world hates Christians is because they hated Jesus.
In fact, they nailed him to the cross.
You know, this isn't in my notes.
Where did I have you turn?
Yes.
Stay in Second Corinthians.
This isn't in my notes, but this is a key verse that popped into my mind because it's
something that's real key.
This is what Jesus said.
Let me introduce you to Jesus of the Bible, okay?
Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, the word made flesh.
Here's what he said in chapter seven, verse seven of the Gospel of John.
The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth because I testify of it that the works thereof
are evil.
Now, why did Jesus believe that he was hated of the world?
Did Jesus believe he was hated of the world because he was too loving?
Oh, man, they hate me because I'm soul winning.
Is that what Jesus said?
I'm so loving that the world hates me.
I'm so loving that, you know, they get mad.
No, no, no, he said the world can't hate you.
He said that to his compromising brethren.
The world can't hate you, but me it hateth because I testify of it that the works thereof
are evil.
See, God didn't just call Pastor Jimenez to just only do soul winning, just only win
souls, only preach the Gospel, only evangelize Sacramento.
No, no, no, he told him to preach the word, to reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long
suffering and doctrine, all the doctrine.
Everything needs to be taught, the whole counsel of God, okay?
So Pastor Jimenez preaches the word of God, and of course people are going to hate
him.
He does.
Now the Jesus of most people's imaginations would be loved of the world today because
the way most people think of Jesus, like he was like a Gandhi or like a Martin Luther
King Jr. type guy or something, you know what I mean?
That's what they think.
Oh, yeah, we would have, you know what?
They're like those Pharisees who said, well, if we'd been in the days of our fathers,
we wouldn't have killed the prophets, right?
But really they would have though because, you know, Jesus was hated of the world.
He was hated of both Pharisee and Sadducee.
He was hated of all men, and that's why he said, you shall be hated of all men
for my name's sake.
Why is the greatest man of God of the Old Testament, the most hated man, Moses?
Pastor Jimenez is likened to Moses in the sense that he confronted evil and then
the people of God want to throw him under the bus and say, well, you're the reason why
people hate Christians.
No, no, no.
If you want to ever say these words, you're the reason why people hate Christians,
be sure you're talking to Jesus.
Jesus, you're the reason why people hate Christians because we're like you.
You gave us this book that makes everybody so mad.
Then you told us to preach it from the housetops, but you know what?
I love Jesus.
I don't hate Jesus.
I love Jesus.
I love the whole Bible.
I love all of it.
I love when people try to show me things about what about this?
I'm like, yeah, I like it.
I like all of it.
There's not a chapter in this book that I don't like.
I haven't found a chapter yet that I don't like.
It's great.
But look at 2 Corinthians 2 verse 14.
Haven't you heard that though?
Oh, no.
Oh, great.
Great.
Now Christians are going to be persecuted because of Pastor Jimenez's message.
Bring it on!
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
You know what?
Ninety-nine percent of pastors have their tail between their legs right now.
They're like a little doggy like...
And Pastor Jimenez is like...
And they're like...
And then everybody wants to go to the Chihuahua Baptist.
Why don't you go to Bull Mastiff Baptist Church?
But in 2 Corinthians 2 verse 14, it says, Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth
us to triumph in Christ.
Every single time.
We're on the winning side.
Whether in life or death or imprisonment, you know, we're more than conquerors.
Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh
manifest the savor, remember the savor from Exodus?
The savor of his knowledge by us in every place, for we are unto God a sweet savor
of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish.
To the one we're the savor of death unto death, and to the other the savor of life
unto life.
And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as
of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
See, I love this scripture.
It's saying, you know what?
To God, we're a sweet savor.
We're a sweet savor unto God as Christians.
God loves us, okay?
Now the people in this world on the other hand, to some people, we're a savor of life
unto them.
You know, when we run into other believers, don't you love it when you're out soul
winning?
You run into other people that are saved, which happens to me almost every time I go
soul winning, I run into at least one person.
And there's that instant camaraderie, you know, it's like a breath of fresh air to
them.
Hey, it's not the Mormons at my door, it's not the Jehovah's Witnesses at my door.
Hey, you're a Bible believing Christian.
Thank you so much for spreading the gospel.
Why?
When you show up, you're a sweet savor unto them as a fellow Christian.
Smells good to them.
Okay, when you show up to someone who's damned and who doesn't want the gospel and
rejects the gospel, you're a savor of death unto them.
What that means is all you're doing is basically reminding them of the fact that
they're not saved.
You know, to an unsaved person, the gospel is not good news because it means that they're
going to hell because they didn't believe in Jesus.
They would wish that God just didn't exist or that the Bible didn't exist, right?
But to the saved, the gospel is great.
It's salvation through Jesus, it's the best gift ever.
So when we preach the Bible, when we take a stand with Jesus, we're going to be
a sweet savor unto the saved and we're going to be an ill-saver unto the world.
But at the end of the day, we're always a sweet savor to God.
And you can't sit there and say, oh, well, you made our savor distinct to these.
Your savor already stank.
You already stank before there ever was a pastor, he meant, is there anybody else?
The world already hated you.
These bunch of sodomites already hated you.
All four of them out there, although they left like 45 minutes ago, but anyway, they're
not out there anymore.
They took their toys and went home.
But anyway, Exodus chapter six, if you're still there, I got to hurry up here.
Verse seven, this is Moses preaching, and I will take you to me for a people.
It's God's word, but this is what he's going to preach.
And I will take you to me for a people, and I'll be to you a God, and you shall
know that I'm the Lord your God, which brought you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians.
And I'll bring you into the land concerning the which I swear to give it to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I'll give it you for an heritage.
I'm the Lord.
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel.
He repeats this message from God.
But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.
So number one, they wanted to kill Moses before he was born.
Number two, he was rejected by the Israelites when he was 40 years old.
Number three, his own wife disrespected him.
Number four, he was rejected by Pharaoh.
Number five, he was rejected by the Israelites when he confronted Pharaoh because he made
their savor to stink.
You made our savor to be abhorred.
Boo hoo.
But number six, the Israelites wanted to stone Moses even after he delivered them
from bondage in Egypt.
Even after he took them across the Red Sea, one of the most amazing miracles in the
Bible, when God parted the Red Sea, and they went across on dry land.
Not like these phony Hollywood movies or these phony Bible scholars would say, well,
it was up to their knees in water, and they were able to wade across.
No, no, it doesn't say they wade across, it says they went across on dry land.
God parted the Red Sea where it was a wall of water on one side and a wall of water
on the other side, and they walked across on dry land.
That's one of the most amazing miracles in the Bible.
Can you imagine being there?
Can you imagine being with millions of Israelites, literally millions, and just crossing the
Red Sea with a million, two million, several million people, however many.
We know there were 600,000 men of war, so there were probably four, five, six million
people.
Imagine being in that group and just looking at the wall of water.
I like to use my imagination sometimes and think that there were maybe fish falling
out of the wall of water.
You know, little fish just kind of swimming along, and it gets that wall and just kind
of pops out and just kind of flopping on the ground.
Who knows, right?
But I do believe that it was a wall of water on each side, and I do believe that
they were on dry land.
That's what the Bible says.
This was an amazing miracle.
And then, you know, and I always wonder, how did the Egyptian army drown in knee-deep
water?
Because they say, well, he didn't really cross the Red Sea, he crossed the Reed Sea
and it was shallow and blah, blah, blah.
So I guess that the chariots and the pharaohs, pharaohs like laying on his back drowning
in like two feet of water, you know.
But look at chapter 17 of Exodus, this is after the Red Sea miracle, after freedom,
after rejoicing, after watching the Egyptian army drown.
Exodus 17 verse 2, Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said, give us water
that we may drink.
And Moses said unto them, Why chide thee with me?
Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and
said, Wherefore is this that thou has brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our
children and our cattle with thirst?
And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people?
They be almost ready to stone me.
I mean, is Moses getting attacked by all sides or what?
Now even the people who he delivered are turning on him.
Go to Numbers chapter 16, Numbers chapter 16, I'll show you the eighth and final point
that I want to show you.
And I'm sure I'm missing some points here, I'm sure I'm missing some stuff.
I'm just showing you eight examples of Moses being attacked, just to show you how it
came from all sides.
It came from all angles.
And actually I had another point too, I think I might have accidentally skipped one.
I skipped point seven, Numbers 12, go to Numbers 12, then we're going to go to Numbers
16.
Numbers 12, yeah, point seven was that Moses was even spoken against by his own brother
and sister, right?
Because in Numbers chapter 12, verse one, Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because
of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses?
Hath he not spoken also by us?
And the Lord heard it.
Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.
Flip over to Numbers chapter 16, it's funny because brother Jimenez, you know, they
had on the news some supposed sister-in-law or whatever.
Anybody see that one?
That video going around?
Hey, this is brother Jimenez, a sister-in-law, you know, condemning him or whatever.
But the truth of the matter is, it's not even really, from what I understand, maybe
I'm wrong, but from what I understand, that's not even really his wife's sister.
It's like a step-sister, okay.
Now look, my parents are divorced and remarried, okay, unfortunately.
And my dad, you know, is married to a woman other than my mom now, okay.
And you know, I love my parents and everything, I'm not bad-mouthing them, that's just
the fact of the situation with them.
So my dad married a woman who has a daughter, I've never even met her.
But I guess that's my step-sister, right?
I've never even met her, you know what I mean?
My dad's wife's daughter.
So they're putting this on the news like, oh, this is his sister-in-law.
Yeah, what, like five times removed?
I mean, yeah, okay, so it's his wife's step-sister, not even a blood relative.
But let's say it was a blood relative.
Let's say it really was.
Let's say that his brothers and sisters really were condemning him, which they're
not, to my knowledge.
You know, I believe that they're supportive of him.
But you know what, even if they did, then he'd just be like Moses at that point.
Because Moses was even attacked by his own brother and sister.
Look if you would at number 16, verse 1, and this is the final thing I want to show
you, that Moses was attacked by Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, okay.
And this is what's known in the New Testament as the gainsaying of Korah.
And it says in number 16, 1, now Korah, the son of Ishar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, the sons
of Reuben, took men.
And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel, 250 princes of
the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown, and they gathered themselves
together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, you take too much upon
you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them.
The Lord is among them, wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of
the Lord.
Now, what this represents is basically being attacked by the people who claim to agree
with him doctrinally.
They claim to agree with him biblically, but they're just trying to take him down
a notch.
Just trying to take him down a notch, like, well, you make yourself better than everybody,
just because he's the leader.
Now look, leaders aren't better than everybody, but they're the leader.
And when someone's the ordained pastor, the ordained man of God, that's a leadership role.
So they're not, you know, Moses isn't trying to say that he's better than anybody or lifting
himself up.
No God raised him up to be a leader.
And so you have these people who are infiltrating the church, infiltrating, you know, the congregation
of the children of Israel.
And these people are saying, well, yeah, I mean, I agree with the doctrine.
I believe in the Lord too.
I believe the Bible, but it's just that, you know, this man of God, you know, he shouldn't
have any authority.
It should be that everybody, we all are holy.
We all are the same, you know, kind of like a communist kind of a thing of just
having no, no stratification of any kind of authority or, or, or any kind of a ruler,
you know, the, the dictatorship or the proletariat mentality.
So in summary, we've gone through eight points.
In summary, Moses was hated by the Egyptians before he was born.
He was rejected by the Hebrews at age 40.
He was disrespected by his wife.
He was rejected by Pharaoh.
He was rejected by the Israelites.
When he confronted Pharaoh, he was despised by the Israelites that he actually led out
of Egypt.
They said at Mount Sinai, well, as for this Moses, I mean, look at the way they
talk about this Moses as for this Moses.
We want not what became of him make us a golden calf.
He was despised by the Israelites that he led out of Egypt.
He was spoken against by his own physical brother and sister, and he was spoken
against by the gainsaying of Cora.
So if we were to take a symbolic view of this and apply it to the new Testament,
he was hated by the world.
He was hated by God's people.
He was attacked by his own church members.
He was attacked by the politicians and leaders.
He was attacked by his own family, and he was attacked by people who claimed to agree
with him, but just wanted to take him down a notch.
Moses, the servant of God.
And I want to close with this thought.
People still hate Moses today.
Go to Matthew chapter five.
Even today, they hate Moses.
I mean, this guy, it just never ends with him.
I mean, before he's born, they want him dead.
Every stage of his life, every stage of the story.
Go home and read the book of Exodus.
Every stage, they're hating him, and not just the world.
God's people are, I mean, I didn't even take you to all.
I gave you eight examples that I felt showed eight different types of hating him.
But I mean, if you want to just look at the examples of his own church members
murmuring against him, that's a whole sermon in and of itself.
So this guy's getting hated and attacked.
Finally, after 40 more years of wandering in the wilderness,
finally after he's 120 years old, and even though he was 120 years old,
God kept him pretty young.
It says his natural force was not abated.
He was, God kept him healthy.
God kept him alive until he was 120 years old.
And finally, when he's 120 years old, he looks at the promised land.
The people are there.
As soon as he dies, they go into the promised land.
They conquer.
Everything's great.
His words are all written down in the Bible, and he's, you know,
the third most mentioned man in the Bible.
You know, you think, well, you know, he was hated while he was alive,
but after he died, you know, he's revered.
But no, no, no, they still hate him.
Even after he's dead, the hatred for Moses continues.
OK, what do I mean by that?
Well, the Bible's real clear.
It says the law was given by Moses.
Moses is the man today that's associated with the law of God.
Which five books are we talking about?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
These are known as the books of Moses.
Now, in English, we call them Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy.
In a lot of languages, like, for example, German,
you get a German Bible, you know what they call it?
First Moses, second Moses, third Moses, fourth Moses,
and fifth Moses.
In the original Hebrew, they're just called
by the first few words of that book.
So basically, Genesis is just called in the beginning,
Beresheet.
Exodus is just called, these are the names.
You know, whatever the first wording is,
that's what that book is called.
We call them by the Greek names, Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
But in many, many Bibles in this world and other languages,
they're called first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Moses.
And what does the Bible tell us?
The law was given by Moses.
And in fact, in Luke 16, with the parable
of the rich man and Lazarus, what does Abraham tell?
You know, they have Moses and the prophets.
What did he mean when he said they have Moses?
Did they physically have Moses walking amongst them?
When he said they have Moses and the prophets,
you know what he meant?
The books of Moses.
So Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
are called in the Bible, Moses, right?
In Luke 16 and other places, you know,
the law of Moses, the books of Moses,
they have Moses through those books.
Look what the Bible says in Matthew 5, 17.
Think not that I'm come to destroy the law
or the prophets as Jesus.
I'm not come to destroy but to fulfill.
For verily I say unto you,
till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle,
shall in no wise pass from the law
till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever shall break one of these least commandments
and shall teach man so,
he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven,
but whosoever shall do and teach them,
the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Go to Romans 3, Romans chapter 3.
Now, here's the thing.
The New Testament very clearly states in Hebrews
that the priesthood being changed,
there is of necessity a change also of the law.
So has there been some change to the law?
Yes, the Bible says because the priesthood is changed
from that Levitical priesthood
to the priesthood of Melchizedek, Jesus.
The priesthood being changed,
there is made also a change of the law
of necessity it says.
So what that means is that God didn't just make
just random changes to the law
or just change the law willy-nilly.
He said, no, no, no.
The only reason that any change is made to the law
is because some of that stuff was fulfilled by Jesus
and we've moved from a Levitical priesthood
to the priesthood of Melchizedek.
Okay, so let me ask you this.
What does the Melchizedek priesthood
have to do with homos?
Nothing.
What does it have to do with all the moral laws
of thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal,
thou shalt not commit adultery,
don't uncover your nakedness
to these people or that people.
I mean, that stuff hasn't changed.
He didn't say, oh, the law is eliminated.
Did the Bible say the law is eliminated in Christ?
It's eliminated folks.
No, no, no.
The only things that are changed
are the ceremonial things.
You know, from the Levitical to the New Testament.
So there's the ceremonial law
and then there's the moral law
and then there's the criminal law.
He didn't change anything about criminal law or moral law.
He only changed things that had to do with the priesthood
and the meats, the drinks, the divers, washings.
And the Bible's real clear in Hebrews
about what the changes are.
They have to do with food.
They have to do with drink.
They have to do with washing yourself.
They have to do with physical carnal things,
not with spiritual things and not with moral things.
Rights, right, wrongs, wrong.
That's why the Bible says in Romans 3.31,
do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid, yay, we establish the law.
Now let me ask you this.
Does the average evangelical Christian church today
get up and say, we established the law around here?
We established Moses.
We established the law.
Would they say, man, God forbid
that we would make void the law through faith.
We established the law.
And what do they call you?
What do the Baptists call you
and the evangelicals call you
when they want to insult you for being a fundamentalist?
They say, you're a what?
You're a legalist.
What's legalist mean?
Well, break it down.
The ist ending, I-S-T means someone who believes in.
Like an atheist, a means no, the means God,
ist means believe in.
So atheist is one who believes no God.
Everybody get it?
Okay, what about a Buddhist?
Believer in Buddha.
Everybody got that, right?
Okay, how about a legalist?
What do they believe in?
Yeah, are you a legalist?
Amen.
I'm a legalist.
Go ahead, tell everybody.
Pastor Anderson's a legalist.
He believes in the law.
We established the law.
That's in the New Testament.
That's Paul, that's Romans.
And he said, we established the law.
Okay, so does the Baptist Church down the street
establish the law?
Does the evangelical church down the street
establish the law?
I sure hope so.
Because that's what the New Testament tells us to do.
But no, no, no, they still hate Moses today, don't they?
You know what the most hated book
in all of the Bible is?
66 books, the most hated book is Leviticus.
They hate it.
The only reason they don't hate numbers
is just because they haven't even read it.
But they'd hate it even more.
I mean, I think numbers is gnarlier than Leviticus.
But they hate Leviticus, don't they?
Now turn to Leviticus if you would
to chapter 18 of Leviticus.
Go to Leviticus chapter 18.
Because isn't it amazing how this guy's hated
before, during, and after his life?
At all stages, at every step of the story.
He's hated of all men, okay?
And today, no one wants to establish Moses
or side with Moses.
They don't wanna defend Moses.
They wanna throw Moses under the bus, even today.
Think about the three so-called major religions
that claim to believe in Moses, right?
Moses is a prophet unto the Jews.
Moses is considered a prophet unto Christians.
Moses is a prophet unto the Muslims, right?
But none of those three,
none of those three will stand for Moses today.
See, 99% of Christians,
when you try to show them anything in Leviticus,
they say, oh, that's Leviticus.
They despise Leviticus.
They just, they reject it out of hand.
Whenever you show them, oh, it's coming from Leviticus,
don't wanna see it, but no Leviticus, all right?
So here's my question for you.
Why is Leviticus even being printed in our Bibles?
If Christians don't accept it,
we know the Jews don't accept it, no way.
The Muslims don't accept the teachings of Leviticus.
So who is this?
I get, you know what?
I've decided the book of Leviticus is just being printed
for independent fundamental Baptists, apparently.
You know what I mean?
I mean, you know, there's a whole printing industry,
printing millions and millions of Bibles,
and they actually have a book in there
that's just for us,
because we're the only ones who believe in it.
You know, I mean, I feel honored,
because I'd hate to have to, because you know what?
If they took out Leviticus from the Bibles,
we'd have to start printing our own.
Because we'd put Leviticus back, yeah, put that back.
We'd have to print our own Bible, okay?
But they just have it in the Bible,
but just like, you know, we all know,
stay away from it, you know?
Don't quote it, don't preach it.
I mean, I've literally heard a pastor laugh and say,
I'm not preaching out of Leviticus.
You fool, Jesus is the greatest preacher that ever lived.
Jesus was God in the flesh.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.
Jesus was the truth incarnate,
and Jesus was asked this question,
what is the greatest commandment in the law?
And he said, the greatest commandment in the law
is that you would love the Lord your God
with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
And when he said that, he was quoting Deuteronomy.
But he threw in a little bonus commandment, right?
He said, that's the first commandment.
That's what they're asking him.
But he said, here's the second commandment.
The second is like unto it.
So they asked him to give the best commandment,
the greatest commandment.
He said, I'll give you the greatest
and the second greatest, okay?
He said, the second greatest commandment in the law
is to love your neighbor as yourself.
And he said, on these two commandments,
hang all the law and the prophets.
These two commandments,
these are the two greatest commandments.
Guess where the second one's from?
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
It's only found in one place.
You can search Genesis, search Exodus,
search the whole Old Testament,
search Psalms, search Proverbs.
Jesus said the second greatest commandment in the law
is love thy neighbor as thyself.
You're only gonna find that in one place.
Did you know that?
One place.
One place in the Bible, love thy neighbor as thyself.
And where is it?
It's Leviticus 19, verse 18.
Look at Leviticus 19, verse 18.
This is the source
of the second greatest commandment in the law.
You know, I was thinking I should make a meme for Facebook.
You know those memes that are a liberal logic meme?
You know what I'm talking,
does anybody know what I'm talking about?
Any millennials out there?
You know, the liberal logic,
it shows this woman
who's like the quintessential liberal feminist
and she has like dreadlocks.
Who's seen it?
Come on, put up your hand.
Should I see that hand?
I wanna make a meme sorta like this.
That liberal logic poster child,
and it's gonna say like,
rejects the book of Leviticus,
quotes Leviticus 19, 18 as proof.
Right?
Rejects Leviticus,
quotes Leviticus 19 as the reason
why she rejects Leviticus.
Because look, I walked out there
and saw our four homo protesters this morning.
I went out there and that's, you know,
hey, Jesus said to love thy neighbor, right?
It's like, you're quoting Leviticus.
Put that thing in a museum where it belongs, right?
But get this.
But look, I wanna show you something real interesting.
Listen, if you only get one thing
from the sermon this morning, I want you to get this.
I'm rehabilitating Moses this morning, okay?
If you only get one thing from the sermon,
pay attention for the next five minutes as I close.
This is key, all right?
Everybody, I want you to pay attention.
Where did the quote, love thy neighbor as thyself,
where did that come from?
Only one place.
Everybody say it to me together.
And what's the reference?
Leviticus 19, 18.
Everybody got that?
Okay, so let's go to chapter 18.
Let's go to chapter 18 of Leviticus, okay?
I'm gonna make a sandwich for you, okay?
Now, it's Father's Day,
so somebody should be making me a sandwich,
but I'm gonna make you a sandwich.
I'm gonna make you a spiritual sandwich right now.
Look at Leviticus chapter number 18, verse 22.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind,
as with moment kind its abomination.
Neither shalt thou lie with a beast, any beast,
to defile thyself therewith.
And by the way, the same people who do the one,
are the same people who do the other.
Neither shalt thou lie down with any beast,
to defile thyself therewith.
Neither shall any woman stand before a beast,
to lie down there too.
It's confusion!
Defile not yourselves in any of these things,
for in all these things, the nations that are defiled,
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble reading these,
for in all these the nations are defiled,
which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled.
Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it,
and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Man, I love Leviticus.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments,
and shall not commit any of these abominations,
neither any of your own nation,
nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
For all these abominations have the men of the land
done, which were before you, and the land is defiled,
that the land spew you not out,
spew is synonymous with vomit in the Bible,
spew not you out also, when you defile it,
as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit them,
shall be cut off from among their people.
Therefore, shall ye keep mine ordinance,
that ye commit not any of these abominable customs,
which were committed before you,
and that ye defile not yourselves therein.
I am the Lord your God.
Now look, what does the Bible say?
It's often quoted all by its lonesome, 1822.
Leviticus 1822 is often quoted alone.
But when you keep reading, he says,
man, it's so sick what these people did.
It's so filthy that even the land itself
wants to throw up.
Like even the earth wants to just vomit and spew.
It's so nasty.
And he says, look, you shouldn't even let foreigners
do this stuff.
Israelites shouldn't be doing it.
The foreigners shouldn't be allowed to do it.
I guess that's why Putin had to make that rule
that when the Americans come,
they can't be a public homo there.
Don't let the foreigners do it.
He said that whosoever shall commit
any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit them,
shall be cut off from among their people.
So he's saying, look, cut these people off.
Does that mean have fellowship with them?
Have them over a barbecue?
He's like, look, it's so sick.
It's so abominable.
I mean, it's so disgusting.
It's so, oh, I got a note.
Whoa, this says you're not going away,
but it looks like you guys are going away.
Whoa, you guys are going away.
You said you wouldn't go.
You promised you wouldn't leave.
At least when Jesus says he won't leave, he's serious.
It says, Matthew 7, one, we are Orlando
and we're not going away.
Define irony.
You're preaching a sermon.
Someone walks up and hands you a note
that they're not going away
and then they walk away.
Go figure.
But anyway, he said, look,
the souls that commit these things, it's so gross.
Even the earth is gross out, even like Arizona itself.
You know, I know you've been one who talked about,
hey, how can the state of Arizona have an opinion?
You know, where you go to court
and it's like state of Arizona versus,
you know what I mean?
Like, well, you know,
how can the state of Arizona have a complaint against me?
But you know what?
The state of Arizona does have a complaint
against these homos, if you think about it, right?
Cause even the land itself was vomiting them up.
I'm not critical of what you're saying.
I'm just showing you, you know,
sometimes the, you know,
the United States versus homos,
cause you know, you know, but anyway, okay.
So everybody got the teaching from Leviticus 18.
Everybody got that?
Okay, now let's continue to make our sandwich.
Let's go to Leviticus 2013.
And the Bible says this,
if a man also lie with mankind,
as he lies with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination.
They shall surely be put to death.
Their blood shall be upon them.
Okay, now let me ask you this, okay.
And let me just kind of finish assembling
the sandwich here, okay.
Slice of bread number one, Leviticus 18.
Everybody got this?
Slice of bread number two, Leviticus 20.
What's in the middle of the sandwich?
What's in the middle of our Levitical sandwich?
Leviticus 1918, right?
Now look at your Bible.
Does everybody have your Bible open?
Does anybody need a Bible?
We can hand out Bibles.
Okay, everybody got your Bible open to Leviticus?
Now notice that, you know, in my Bible,
Leviticus 2013 and Leviticus 1918,
they're on the same page.
So here's my question for you.
Is everybody getting this?
Here's my question for you.
If Leviticus 18 is not compatible
with the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself,
then why is it right next to the commandment
to love your neighbor as yourself?
And if Leviticus 2013 is not compatible
with loving your neighbor as yourself,
why is it on the same page in the Bible?
And why are these people lying and saying,
Moses said that the Sodomites should be put to death,
but Jesus said, love thy neighbor as thyself?
That's a lie.
Moses said, love thy neighbor as thyself.
Is everybody listening?
Moses says, oh man, these people are gross.
Arizona wants to puke.
And then he's like, hey, love thy neighbor as thyself.
And then he's like, man, these Sodomites,
they shall surely be put to death.
Well, it's all the same guy, folks.
You know what?
I'm sick of people teaching that the Old Testament God
was not a loving God.
The Old Testament God is the New Testament God
because there's only one God.
And he's the same yesterday and today and forever.
So isn't it just bizarre to sit there and say,
oh man, you're quoting Leviticus.
I mean, I just want to go up to these protesters
and say, how dare you quote Leviticus
when you tell me to love my neighbor as myself?
Why are you trying to bring me back under the law?
You legalist.
And so the last thing I'm going to say is this.
You know what?
Moses was a great man.
He was a successful man.
He had a great impact on this world.
He saved millions of people from slavery.
He preached the word of God.
He's a godly, righteous, powerful man.
And at the end of his life, I say he was a success.
Even though he had some stumbles along the way,
even though he didn't get to physically walk
in the Promised Land, so what, he got to go to heaven.
Look, I'd bring in a million people in the Promised Land
and then I don't get to go.
You know what?
You're still a success.
Okay, so you know what I learned from the life of Moses
is that even if everybody's against you,
if God be for us, who can be against us?
You know who never forsook Moses?
God.
You know who never turned on him?
God.
Oh, his family turned on him.
Brother and sister turned on him.
Wife turned on him.
Egyptians turned on him.
Israelites turned on him.
Christians have turned on him in the 21st century.
Give the guy a break.
I mean, Moses is up in heaven like,
is it ever gonna end?
You know?
Everybody turns on him.
One person never turned on him, God.
And you know what?
That was enough for him to do the greatest works.
I mean, think about all the Old Testament characters.
Think about David, right?
David got mentioned more.
Think about Elijah.
But you know what?
Nobody accomplished more than Moses.
Moses is the number one character of the Old Testament.
Why?
He led several million people out of Egypt.
I mean, that's amazing.
Look, it's hard.
We had a sony marathon.
It's hard to feed 150 people Chinese food.
Feeding Chinese food to 150 people is real challenging.
Because just the, you know,
you think it's gonna be easy,
but like, I thought about Jesus feeding the 5,000.
It's mind blowing, right?
That's a lot of work.
It's complicated.
You know, just the logistics of, you know,
getting it all to go smoothly.
And then like, you think about Moses,
he had to basically provide for like millions of people.
He couldn't do it.
That's why God sent the manna and provided the miracles.
The quail, the manna, the water from a rock.
But just imagine, you know,
when we're, we think we're cool, you know,
when we're like organizing a sony marathon
with a hundred people, 150 people.
But I mean, how do you organize millions of people?
And they didn't have the technology.
They didn't have computers, cell phones, GPS.
You know, the guy was amazing.
You know, and it was all done
through the power of the Lord, right?
So let me ask you this.
Who do we need to side with us
in order for us to succeed as a Christian?
Whether you're a man, woman, boy, or girl,
who do you need on your side
if you want to get the victory?
You only need one person and that's,
some people said, God, Jesus, the Lord, you're all right.
That's the only person you need.
You don't need anybody else to side with you
because you plus God makes a majority right there.
And if God be for us, who can be against us?
We're more than conquerors.
Let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for the great man of God, Moses,
that we could learn so much from, Lord.
Help us to be like Moses and help us to read Moses.
Help us to read those five books, Lord,
because they're all profitable for doctrine.
And they're all expressive of you, Lord,
and your divine nature.
Help us to know you and to love you, Lord,
and help us to love our neighbor as ourself
and vomit at the sight of homos.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.