By faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac 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 for once also he received him in a figure. By
faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith
Jacob when he was a dying blessed both the sons of Joseph and worship
leaning upon top of his staff. By faith Joseph when he died made mention
of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning
his bones. By faith Moses when he was born was hit three months of his
parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid
of the King's commandment. By faith Moses when he was come to years
refused to be called the son the 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's greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By
faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured
that seeing him who was 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 is saying to do were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho
fell down after they were compassed about seven days. By faith the harlot
Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the
spies with peace. And what shall I more say for the time would fail me
to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthah, of
David also and Samuel and of the prophets who through faith subdued
kingdoms, brought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of
lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the
sword out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their
dead raised to life again and others were tortured, not accepting
deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. And
others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with a sword. They
wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute,
afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They
wandered in deserts and mountains and in dens and caves of the
earth. And these all having obtained a good report through
faith received not the promise God having provided some better
thing for us that they without us should not be made
perfect. Let's pray. We thank you, Heavenly Father, for
the King James Bible, dear God, for every precious word in
it. Thank you for every precious soul in this church,
dear Lord. We thank you for our pastor and please bless him
this evening as he preaches your word on to us in Jesus'
name, we pray. Amen.
Amen. Okay, we're continuing this evening with our Bible
study of the book of Hebrews, and this is part two of chapter
11, the Hall of Faith. And we covered part one last week,
but we're only able to cover the first couple of verses
there up until Abraham. And really, when you when you read
this chapter, there's two particular people that God spends
a lot of time talking about when it comes to their faith.
One being Abraham, a good amount, a good portion is
dedicated to talking about Abraham because essentially he is
what what many call the father of faith. And it required
a lot of faith to do what he did. And then the second
person that chapter 11 seems to hone in on a lot is Moses.
Okay, and of course, we know that Moses is the mediator
per se of the old covenant. And so it required a lot of
faith to do what he did. And so there's a lot of things
that are being talked about Moses, not just him as a
person, but even his parents, and things that he did prior
to even delivering the children of Israel out of Egypt
that required a lot of faith. So tonight we're going
to cover the remainder of Abraham all the way up until
the unnamed of those who are unnamed at the end of the
chapter. Now, last week, we talked about Abraham, and how
him and Sarah exercise faith in the fact that God had
promised them that he would give them a seed. Look at verse
17. We're going to look at Abraham's faith when dealing
with Isaac, it says by faith, Abraham, when he was
tried, offered up Isaac, and he that hath 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 a figure.
So what we see here is the story of Abraham, of
course, back in Genesis, where God commands Abraham to
go and sacrifice his only son, which is Isaac. And
this is a very trying thing for Abraham, because
they've waited so long for a child, right? This is
the promise that God had given to him, that he's
going to bless him with the son, he's going to
bless him with the child, he's going to bless him
with this person, and of course, many other
children. But then as soon as he gets it, he's
like, All right, now I need you to give him
back, right? I want you to sacrifice him and give
him back. And you know, put yourself in Abraham
sandals, right? You just waited for this for so
long, you're 100 years old, you finally get
your one son that God has promised you. I mean,
you got a long way to go, especially if you're
going to have children as the stars in the sky,
and the sand of the sea. And then all of a
sudden, God says, All right, I need you to give
him back. So required a lot of faith. And here's
the thing is that the reason why Abraham was
so obedient unto the Lord, because when you
read the story, you see that he didn't
question God, he just went and he did it. And
he commanded Isaac to go with him. And they
brought all the instruments necessary the
wood. And when Isaac asks him, Hey, you know,
here's the altar, here's the wood, but
where's the sacrifice? You know, Abraham kind
of tells them, God shall provide himself a
sacrifice, right and offering. And of course,
that has a double meaning there, meaning
that God's going to provide himself meaning
Jesus Christ, a sacrifice. But here's the
thing is that now in the New Testament,
because we have more information to work with,
we actually see that the reason Abraham was
so willing to sacrifice his son at the
commandment of the Lord is because he knew
that God was going to resurrect him. Because
it says there in verse 19 accounting, the
God was able to raise him up. Now we can
conjecture that he's referring to when he
offered him right there on the spot that he
was going to raise him up right there on
the spot. But I would say that he's
probably referring to the resurrection, okay,
of the last days. And this is very strong
proof to show that people in the Old
Testament knew about the resurrection. It was
definitely a doctrine and a belief that Old
Testament, Old Testament saints held to
know why. Why make a big deal about that?
Well, because you have dispensation lists that
will claim that, oh, Old Testament saints
didn't know about the resurrection, and the
disciples didn't know about the
resurrection. And obviously, when you read
the Gospels, and you read some of the
statements of the disciples, you can see
that they were essentially ignorant of the
chronology of things, right? They didn't
know when things were going to take place.
They didn't know if when the Messiah came,
if he was going to establish his millennial
reign, his earthly kingdom, when all these
things were going to come to pass, but they
believed in him. And in fact, you know, I
preached an entire sermon on the
resurrection in the Old Testament, proving
conclusively that many of the prophets and
saints knew about the resurrection. That's
what their hope was about, man. David
talked about the resurrection when he
spoke of Jesus Christ resurrecting. I mean,
when the Bible says that his soul was not
left in hell, neither did his flesh see
corruption. That was David speaking of the
resurrection. When Jonah was swallowed up
by the whale, and we have the book of
Jonah being given to us, we see that he
talks about the resurrection. We see
Abraham referring to the resurrection. We
see that the promise is given to Daniel,
that in the last days he shall stand in
his lot, referring to the resurrection. So
you can't say the Old Testament saints
didn't know about the resurrection. You
think they just, oh man, we're just
going to die and just be in the grave.
But the reason dispensationalists will
say this is because they need to promote
the stupid doctrine of Abraham's bosom.
Because, you know, in their minds, and
according to their theology, everyone who
died in the Old Testament went into that
motel called Abraham's bosom that was
right next to hell and didn't vacate
that until Jesus Christ died and
brought them all out. We obviously know
that is a false doctrine. Abraham's bosom
is simply the chest cavity of the
patriarch Abraham. Amen. And of course,
they'll try to use Luke 16 to try to
prove that. But, you know, it's a stretch.
Okay, it's so much of a stretch is
the tear because they're tearing
context, the scripture out of context.
Amen. What we see here, even prior to
the Old Testament being instituted, is
that Abraham had the faith of knowing
that if God required of him to
sacrifice his only begotten son, which
is obviously a picture of God the
Father, giving his only begotten son
Jesus Christ, that he was able to raise
him from the dead.
Okay, and of course it says from whence
also he received him in a figure. Now
this is important because I'm telling
you a lot of dispensations believe
this stuff. But, you know, 1st
Corinthians 15 gives us essentially one
of the best definitions of what the
gospel is. And it says in 1st Corinthians
15, let me read to you verse 3,
For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sins, listen to
this, according to the scriptures. Now
that's not a hard argument to make, right?
We can see throughout the scriptures
that Jesus Christ was going to die to
pay for our sins. Dispensationalists
agree with that too. And I want you
to notice that it says according to
the scriptures. It's not referring to
the New Testament scriptures, it's talking
about the Old Testament scriptures. Now
everyone collectively agrees that
that's what that's talking about. But
then it goes on to say, and that he
was buried, and then he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures.
So dispensationalists will have a hard
time convincing us that the Old
Testament did not talk about a
resurrection if the Apostle Paul, when
given the definition of the gospel
here in 1st Corinthians 15, is talking
about the resurrection that he learned
according to the scriptures, referring to
the Old Testament. You understand? And so
the Old Testament did speak on
the resurrection. Now obviously the new
testament is far more detailed in its
doctrine of the resurrection. Like we
know way more about the resurrection
than Abraham did. Right? Then David,
then Moses. I mean anybody in the New
Testament has a far more greater
plenary understanding of what the
resurrection actually is because everyone
in the Old Testament saw through a
glass darkly. So it's like this
dirty glass, right? And they're just,
they can see the resurrection, they can
make out certain figures and you know
they can surmise a conjecture what is
taking place but they don't, they can't
really see the entire picture yet.
It's not until Christ came and
expounded unto them the things
concerning himself. He came and he
showed them what the resurrection is. He
expounded unto them the parables that
gave greater understanding to these
doctrines that boom, you know, they're
able to connect the dots and see oh
man it was under our nose this entire
time in the Old Testament but we
needed these New Testament teachings to
kind of bring light to that, okay? And
so the point that I'm making here is
the fact that the resurrection, which
is something that we celebrate every
Sunday but especially on Easter, amen?
You know it's great that in our
country we have, you know, this
holiday where everyone is forced to
just listen to us celebrate the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. You know
whether you're a Muslim or God
hating reprobate you have to listen
to us say happy Easter, resurrection
Sunday and I'm good with both, amen?
Because it's the day when the doctrine of
the resurrection is exalted, okay? And
so beautiful doctrine, wonderful doctrine
and this is why it says that Abraham's
faith was great in this regard is
because he had limited information to
work with. So he believed in the
resurrection, he believed in the power
of God, he believed that God can raise
up Isaac in the resurrection but he
didn't have what we have today. So it
requires like a lot of, I mean quite
frankly he didn't even have the book
of Genesis to work with. He just had
whatever verbal revelation was given
at that time to him, right? And of
course to others but just very limited
revealed doctrine and just from that
limited amount of information given he
still had faith and he was willing to
sacrifice his son. I mean that's
powerful. I mean we who have the entire
Word of God, I don't know if we can
say we would do the same thing, you
understand? Because for scarcely will a
righteous man dare to die the Bible says.
And so this man was willing to give
up his son even with the limited
information given to him because he had
faith that he was going to receive him
in a figure and of course now in the
New Testament we have Isaac being that
beautiful symbolic representation of Jesus
Christ, Abraham representing God the
Father, great faith there. Look at verse
number 20, it says by faith Isaac blessed
Jacob and Esau concerning the things
to come and it says and it came to
pass that when Isaac, excuse me, this
is talking about Genesis 27, let me
read to you from verse number one, it says
and it came to pass that when Isaac
was old and his eyes were dim so
that he could not see he called Esau
his eldest son and said unto him my
son and he said unto him behold here
am I and of course we know the story
when Jacob ends up blessing or excuse
me Isaac ends up blessing Jacob
instead of Esau but the reason the
Bible is telling us here that
Isaac had great faith is because in
spite of the fact that his eyes were
dim which is a physical thing it's a
physical element that he had that you
know he couldn't necessarily see that
he made the mistake of blessing the
wrong person he knew in the long run
that all things were together for
good right so in spite of the
deficiency of his physical eyesight that
caused him to bless the wrong person
in his mind right we see that in the
long term God ended up working all
things together for good and you
know that is a testament to us all
that when we make mistakes when we
fail when we sin if we just love the
Lord and continue to serve him he's
gonna work it all together for good
all the bad ingredients that we
threw into the mix called our life
and the bad decisions that we made you
know God is an amazing cook so to
speak right let him cook right and you
know when you're serving God you gotta
let him cook you gotta let him do
what he can with what he has which
is you know your life right and the
bad mistakes that you made or even the
good and obviously I'm not saying like
let's just go ahead and just make all
kinds of bad decisions because you
know he can make steak out of
whatever at the end of the day we
need to strive to live a life that's
pleasing unto God and strive to live
according to his commandments but the
point that I'm getting at here is
that even when you fall short of
that when you don't hit the target
and you do fall short and you make
mistakes it's okay just keep going
forward keep serving God keep reading
the Word of God keep serving him and
God redirects that plan maybe you have
to take a different route but it's the
same destination as long as you're
serving God right and so Isaac even
though he made the mistake at the end
of the day God worked it out together
for good even though his eyes were
dim he could not see him God still
blessed it in the long run look at
verse 21 by faith Jacob when he was
dying blessed both the sons of Joseph
and worship leaning upon the staff the
top of his staff now why does it say
this about Jacob having great faith to
bless his grandchildren and the fact
that it mentions that he's leaning upon
the top of his staff well why is he
leaning upon the top of his staff
because he wrestled with God if you
read the story of Jacob he wrestles
with God and you know the Bible says
that he prevails against him this is
when he gets the name change to
Israel but in the midst of winning
the victory he's permanently disabled so
to speak because God touches the his
thigh and sin you shrinks and then he
essentially has this limp for the rest
of his life and it's this like you
know lifelong mark that he has on him
that he wrestled with God and what
did it cause him to do it caused him
for the rest of his life to lean upon
a staff and what I believe it's
figuring there is the fact that staff
is God so in spite of the fact that
he's broken in spite of the fact that
he had that encounter with the Lord
that created this disability in him it
made it forced him to be dependent and
to rely upon not just the physical
staff but the spiritual staff which is
God right and this is a great
principle that you know what we don't
want to become so independent that we're
no longer dependent upon God right and
it's always great to when God blesses
us when he gives us a raise when he
blesses our possessions our finances
whatever it is that we have and but but
here's the thing the danger and all
that is that you become just this
independent person where you no longer
pray right you no longer depend on the
Lord you no longer ask God to bless
you because you already got it whereas
the Bible says to pray for the rain
and laddering you know pray for
rain when it's already raining and we
don't know anything about that because
it's just like why are you gonna
pray for rain I'm sick of rain you
know tired of rain you know it always
leaks and on those days rain was
necessary in order to grow food and for
life right and it was an agricultural
type of a society then but the point
that is being made here is is we
need to be rely on the Lord for all
of our needs and make sure we're
seeking the kingdom of God first in
his righteousness and that these
things shall be added unto us and so
you know the the thing with Jacob is
that his wrestling with God really
helped him to see how you know weak he
really was right for the rest of his
life and so as he's blessing the sons
of Joseph leaning upon a staff he has
faith that his the generations that
come after him will likewise be
leaning on the Lord and rely upon
him for their blessings understand and
it should be that with us as long as
we keep serving God and we're
exemplifying what it is to love the
Lord and to serve God may we also
have the faith that the generations
that come after us from our loins and
the loins of our children that they
would continue to serve God you know I
would say that one of my greatest
fears quote-unquote as a father is
that my children would not serve God
they I would pass off the scene and
then my children would cease loving the
Lord Jesus Christ that they would get
out of church and not serve God and
not win souls and not dedicate their
lives into the Lord that's like my
worst nightmare right but the thing is
you know as long as I train up a child
in the way he should go when he is old
he will not depart from it and
obviously I have to exemplify what it
is to serve God but at the end of
the day when I pass off the scene I
just need to make sure that my kids
see me leaning on the staff okay that
I'm leaning on that spiritual staff
that you know how I am here at church
is exactly how I am at home that I'm
constantly relying on the Lord for
his power for his provisions for his
protection and then I'm conveying it to
my kids because you know I'm not always
going to be there for them right I'm
going to die one day I'm going to go
the way of all the earth as the
Bible says and you know it's at that
point that they need to supervise
themselves and govern themselves to
serve the Lord and so you know this
is great faith of Jacob because you
know parenting hasn't changed in the
sense of the mentality that every
parent who is a believer wants their
kids to serve God not every parent has
the same standard for their children but
at the end of the day every parent
wants their kids to get saved they
want their children to love the Lord to
serve God and there is this this
how should I say this is somewhat of
anxiety that the parents can get where
they think of the future like man I
just hope that my kids keep serving
God thereafter well how about your
grandkids right and so obviously Jacob
had a lot of faith to the point
where he not only blessed Joseph who is
serving God but he's blessing the sons
of Joseph in hope that they would
continue to do so themselves and so it
takes great faith to do that and
obviously we know that when the Bible
talks about faith in this matter it's
the belief but it does require our
works right you know that's the
whole James 2 principle not about
salvation and in fact the only work
that's required for salvation is the
work of Jesus Christ so you know if
you want to say it takes faith and
works to get saved then I agree with
you as you as long as you understand
that it takes our faith but it takes
the finished work of Jesus not our
works in order to be saved but you
know thereafter we do have to put in
some work as we extra that's called
exercising our faith in order to see
the blessings of God upon our life
look at verse 22 it says here by
faith Joseph when he died made mention
of the departing of the children of
Israel and gave commandment concerning
his bones now this is pretty
interesting in the Old Testament Joseph
of course is like essentially the vice
pharaoh of Egypt right and he has an
incredible story in the book of
Genesis where he is essentially betrayed
by his brother sold into slavery lied
about by Potiphar's wife he's in
jail I mean just everything that can
go wrong went wrong Murphy's law was
his life it's just like and he's like
and the guy loves God and in fact it
says that the Lord is with him now
think about this like what if you're
just faithfully serving God you're
living a life above reproach and just
everything is going wrong going
wrong not just for a week for years
like 14 years you know you might be
like you know what God I'm not cool
with this you know most of us I
think would have be tempted to point
a finger at God and say well you know
hey I'm like being loyal to you I'm
serving you you know but Joseph did
it he he did with what he could in
the circumstance that he had which
shows that he had a great faith right
and so you know he's he's lied about
from his boss's wife who's trying to
commit adultery with him and he's
thrown into prison and then you know
you have two men in the prison with
him a baker and a cupbearer who are
thrown into prison as well and they have
this dream okay and they don't know how
to interpret the dream but you know
Joseph can interpret the dreams not
because he's talented but because God's
hand is on him so he interprets the
dream for these two and one's a good
dream one's a nightmare because one
dream is just like hey you're gonna
be reinstated to your position with
Pharaoh and then the Baker is just
like you're gonna be hung so you're
gonna die you know and both of them
come to pass so the cupbearer is
reinstated to serve Pharaoh once again
and then the man the Baker is hung
he's killed he's destroyed he's
executed but before the cupbearer
leaves Joseph tells him hey you know
don't don't forget about me you know
mention me to your boss you know if
you could put a Google rating please
you know and just put a good comment
there I'd really appreciate it it's like
oh man yeah don't worry about and
then he just forgets about him just
like everything else and he's just like
man everything else is just the guy
just forgot him well fortunately
because all things work together for
good God ends up giving a dream to
Pharaoh regarding seven years of
plenty and in seven years of famine
well you know he doesn't know what
that dream is all about and so he's
kind of really he's troubled about the
whole thing so he's looking for
someone to interpret the dream and
then the cupbearers like oh that's
funny actually I know a guy you know
who can interpret dreams so they end up
calling Joseph Joseph interprets the
dream Pharaoh is so impressed by
Joseph's interpretation that he
basically promotes him to be the vice
Pharaoh of Egypt so he's like the
second in command okay and now he's
like rich he has everything he needs he
gets married to an Egyptian he has a
family he actually knows how to steward
the plenty that comes in those seven
years and how to prevent people from
starving during the seven years of
famine I mean he becomes a great asset
to Egypt okay well throughout that you
know the famine also hits Canaan where
his father and his brothers are so his
father sends his brothers to go to
Egypt so they can buy corn Joseph I'm
giving you a summary here okay Joseph
ends up he sees that it's his
brothers and you know it's not like
reunited and it feels so good he's more
like oh it's on I'm gonna get on these
guys bad and you know what that's like
my favorite part of the story because
I'm like Joseph mess with them do it
you know and he's doing it I mean
he's he's getting on them he's
accusing them of being thieves and spies
and then he's setting them up he's
putting his cup of divination in their
bags so he has reason to accuse them
so then they go back and he requests
for the youngest to come back which is
Benjamin which is actually his brother
from his mother who died you know and
so he comes back and he keeps one of
the brothers with them and he's just
going back and forth just like messing
with his brothers and the thing is his
brothers they're like you know why
this is happening to us because of what
we did to Joseph you know and it's
just like yeah you know so then
Joseph finally he just can't take it
anymore and his bowels are just
yearning for his brothers because you
got to take into consideration that even
those brothers are jerks and they're
busters you know he still loves his
father he met and his father thinks
he's dead because his brothers told his
father that he was torn of beasts I
mean what a horrific news for any
parent to receive like Oh brothers dead
he got eaten by wild beasts so he's
carried this narrative for years okay
Joseph misses his mother his mother's
obviously she's passed away he misses
his father he misses his brothers and
then he finally reveals himself unto his
family and they're just kind of like
you know it they don't even know
what to say their mouths are stopped
okay so then he shows them
compassion he sends for his father they
all end up coming to Egypt and he
just gives them the best of the land
he blesses them he's just becomes a
really big blessing to his family he
saves them essentially and then he
explains to his brothers after the death
of his father like God sent me here to
preserve much life you know the reason
all that happened so I can preserve
your life so I can preserve the life
of my father and the life of those
in Egypt so he understood that all
things were together for good that God
used all of the turmoil that he
experienced for a greater good now he
gets old and he's about to die so he
prophesies and he tells because at this
point the children of Israel have grown
exceeding in numbers like they're
becoming a nation and even though it's
it's great to dwell in Egypt that's
not their home you know that's not
where they belong you know God wants
them to dwell in Canaan land which is
known as the promised land and so
Joseph ends up prophesying and saying
that when I die one day you will
carry my bones back to the promised
land and if he's saying his bones
he's referring to the fact that this
is not going to happen for a very long
time because anybody who dies in Egypt
is obviously embalmed you know they
they they do the custom of the
Egyptians where they embalm people they
don't necessarily bear him according
you know to the customs of the
Israelites and believers and so he
understands that one day his bones you
know there or all that's going to be
left of him our bones but it's okay
because one day they will be carried
out back to Canaan land and what we see
in the Old Testament is that the
children of Israel are sojourning
enslaved in Egypt for 430 years not
200 or whatever you know people are
saying it was 400 numbers literally laid
out 430 years okay that's a long time
that's a long time and yet Joseph you
know when he died he made mention of
the departing of Israel and he basically
says he didn't say if when if when we
go back to Canaan land he's like when
we go back you're going to take up my
bones with you what does that mean
means he has a lot of faith because
obviously you know Joseph doesn't have
you know he's not omniscient he
doesn't know everything but you know
we know the rest of the story and
the children of Israel suffered a lot
under the rule of the next Pharaoh that
came into power I mean there were cruel
taskmasters unto them they were
enslaved they were in bondage I mean
it was hell for them okay and they
cried unto the Lord and of course God
raises up Moses but the point that
is being made here is the fact that
Joseph was able to see far beyond his
own life and even the preservation of
his own body after death to know that
God was going to fulfill his promise
even if he wasn't there to
experience it and that takes a lot of
faith you know because he was never he
didn't die in his homeland he died in
a foreign land he left his homeland
never to return again alive and it
required a lot of faith to know like
even though I'll never see that land
you know you will carry my bones and
I will be buried in that land because
I know that God is faithful I mean
that's a powerful testimony of faith
from a man who and it was in the
Old Testament look at verse 23 by
faith Moses when he was born was hit
three months of his parents because
they saw he was a proper child and
they were not afraid of the King's
commandment now this particular faith
is actually accredited to Moses but
it really who's it for it's his first
parents because by faith his mother did
not abort him right and in these days
Egyptians you know it was very common
practice to to practice infanticide
they're very big on it which is one of
the reasons why the Israelites outgrew
the children of Israel excuse me yeah
the Israelites outgrew the Egyptians
in number because the Israelites are
having babies and the Egyptians are
killing them so abortion was very
common for the Egyptians and they
wanted it to be common amongst the
Israelites because they felt that the
Israelites were growing too much
they're just having too many babies
and if they grow too much then they're
going to revolt and you know they're
going to try to fight against us so
Pharaoh put out a decree that he wanted
all the males to die you know he
wanted them to be aborted well you
know the the midwives are not cool
with that so they lied about it and
the women would bear and they would
say oh yeah he's just you know
before we even come to kind of you
know deliver the baby the baby's
already there so you know we can't
really abort them and of course Moses
is born and his parents hide him for
three years because he's a proper child
and you know the principle we can learn
there for Moses mother is the fact
that you know abortion is wrong it's
wicked it's murder and it doesn't
matter what circumstances you find
yourself in it's always wrong and
it's always murder because here we see
that Moses is going to be born in a
world where everyone wants to kill
him before he even comes out of the
womb I mean that's a pretty hostile
environment if you ask me but in
spite of that his mother was willing to
have him because she didn't care about
the circumstances the principle still
applies is a proper child he's a life
and therefore who cares what the King's
commandment is we're going to have
Moses and we'll figure it out right
but you know if you have all these
people always say well you know what
if a woman's raped or something oh
yeah oh yeah great logic so a woman
is raped so let's let's go ahead and
kill the baby and not kill the
person who raped a woman yeah great
logic liberals that sounds great yeah
let's kill the innocent person who
has nothing to do with it he didn't
choose to be born and let's let the
other guy go free or something it's
nonsense my friends and so you know
abortion is still murder is still
wicked and you know people are like
well we don't want to bring them into
this really bad world and it's just a
really wicked world well you let him
decide how wicked this world is but
you know what you should have thought
about that before number one you had
a baby and even if it was you know
through rape or whatever may be
incest or whatever you know
hypothetical scenario that people always
put out even in that case they still
deserve to live because they did
nothing worthy of death you know the
people who are worthy of death are
those who actually violate the
individual and so kudos to Moses mom
who was willing to have Moses and raise
him three months because he's a proper
child and she's not afraid of the
consequences of her actions through the
king you know that that's that's great
okay and I wish more Christians would
have this attitude but you know we
have Christians today even in
fundamental Baptist circles that are
promoting birth control which is
abortion they promote that garbage
where you have fundamental Baptist is
just like get your 2.3 and then you
know take the pill and this is like oh
you're just promoting murder and I'm
not just talking about fundamental
Baptist as in the congregants I'm
talking about the pastors talk about
the pastor's wives who are promoting
that nonsense folks you know part of
being a fundamental Baptist is that we
know we love having children amen
because part of being a fundamental
Baptist that we believe the Bible and
we esteem life and you know what
you know people are like yeah but
how we're gonna afford it you'll
figure it out okay you'll figure it out
God will provide for you and in fact
you know it's like 1k per child every
year so you're happy you know so
you're not living in these days
anymore okay God will provide for you
God will take care of you and so
follow Moses mother's example look at
verse 24 by faith Moses when he was
come to years refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter so obviously
the story of Moses is that when he's
three months you know his his mom is
trying to hide him but obviously at
three months anybody who has a
three-month-old knows that they're
loud four months and then they only
get louder as they as the months go
by okay very loud and so they can
only hide him for so long so they
essentially devise a plan and we can
conjecture this based upon the story
that they're going to put them in an
archibald rushes in order for Pharaoh's
daughter to find him so it's not like
you know the Prince of Egypt where
they just throw them in a river and
we'll just see what happens to me
the Prince of Egypt is great movie
but there's all kinds of bad doctrine
in it okay I know I'm messing with
your childhood movie but you know
the mood of the book is better okay
and it's always funny with the
Prince of Egypt at the end it shows
Moses coming down with the with the
tablets and it finishes it's just
like all right now let's get to the
part where Aaron makes a golden calf and
then the people are worshipping idols
and committing fornication then he just
kills a bunch of them can we can we
animate that how did that look you
know of course they're not gonna talk
or how about when Miriam actually
becomes leprous you know for for
for usurping the authority of Moses
you know they don't show that part of
the movie or whatever I digress yeah we
need we need a part two the
wilderness edition you know that's the
part I want to see but I digress you
know what really happens is that they
put Moses in the book archibald rushes
in order for the Pharaoh's daughter to
find him so that in turn she will
raise him but she actually notices that
it belongs to one of the Hebrews you
know she obviously knows whose child
this is so she decides to keep the
child and then of course Moses mother
is called to feed Moses and
essentially to kind of raise him you
know but he's growing up in the house
of Pharaoh though and Acts chapter 7
tells us then not only does he grow
up in Egypt and Pharaoh's house he
grows up in all the knowledge and
wisdom of Egypt so that he becomes
mighty in word and indeed so this man
becomes a military genius in my in my
opinion because of what we see taking
place later on in the wilderness he
learns the wisdom and the knowledge
he's a great orator he's a man who
accomplishes great deeds and these
are things that he learned while he
was in Egypt okay but there came a
point at the age of 40 that he
refuses to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter okay and it seems to
imply here that he kind of knows where
he's from you know he knows what he's
about he knows where he's from and you
know obviously the scriptures don't tell
us explicitly however if you're to
compare this chapter to Acts chapter 7
it would almost imply that Moses
somehow knew what his purpose was that
God was going to use him to deliver
the children of Israel in the future
the problem was is that he was
trying to do it the wrong way which
is why he ended up killing that
Egyptian with his bare hands when the
Egyptian was beating on the Hebrew his
Hebrew brother okay and so it says in
verse 25 choosing rather to suffer the
affliction with the people of God than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a
season esteem of the reproach of
Christ's greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt for he had respect
unto the recompense of the reward so
what do we see here with Moses well
think about it you know Moses he's
growing up in Pharaoh's household he
probably gets everything he wants
might be a little spoiled he has I
mean he's part of the greatest
powerhouse of that time he probably has
access to unlimited funds resources
possessions he's smart he's mighty in
word and indeed but he knows that the
reproach of Christ's riches are
greater than any riches that he could
receive in Egypt and it required faith
to say you know what I'm not going to
be a part of Pharaoh's household
anymore I want to be a part of God's
household and I actually want to serve
God okay and if it requires me getting
reproached and so be it because I esteem
the reproach of Christ's greater
riches than the riches of Egypt now
not everyone's going to be put in
this position but spiritually we kind
of are right spiritually we can be
because Egypt is a picture of the
world Pharaoh is a picture of Satan
right and each and every one of us has
a choice and the choice is are you
going to continue your living in
Pharaoh's house in Egypt or you're just
going to go all in and serve God
instead and really what it comes down
to is this what riches do you esteem
more because obviously from a practical
spread was like well man Egypt's got
a lot of money though you know it's
just so many riches there and he has
he could you know he could use it
such a great testimony to Pharaoh you
know if he just remains there but at
the end of the day Christians have no
place in Pharaoh's house though like we
don't belong there and you know what
even though Moses probably look like an
Egyptian because he's dark because
they that's how they both look okay
regardless of what Netflix says you
know I don't know if they're changing
the race of whatever but they always
do yeah I think they make Cleopatra
black right is that correct some of you
with a Netflix account you guys can
tell me go ahead okay well you know
he's there but instead he's like you
know what I'm going to serve God
instead and he understands that serving
God is going to cause him to be
reproached and in fact if he serves
God now Pharaoh is 100% against him
and you know what once you start
serving God Satan is 100% against you
too okay and now it's like the
positions are now polarized and now
you know like if you're going to be on
this side fighting fighting for God and
trying to get the riches of Christ
and his reproach you know it's going
to be a lifelong fight but you know
it comes with great reward and the
reality is this you know the rewards
that Christ has to offer you for
your service to him far outweighs
whatever Egypt can offer okay because
at the end of the day the riches
that Egypt has to offer they vanish
away the riches that Egypt has to
offer isn't worth much it'll vanish
it'll rust these will break through and
steal they don't really matter okay
and so it took them great faith to
say you know what I'm going to go
ahead and suffer the affliction with
the people of God then to enjoy the
pleasures of sin referring to Egypt
for a season and therein we learned a
great principle right that sin is only
pleasurable for a season don't be
deceived by sin and making you think
that sin will keep you happy for the
rest of your life because it won't
it'll deceive you into thinking it'll
manipulate you into thinking it will
but it's only for a season you know
Moses understood that he understood
that the pleasures of sin in Egypt
were only for a season and if if he
fulfilled that season he would miss out
on Christ greater riches so he's like
you know what I rather just choose
affliction choose the reproach and now
we have like Moses the mediator of the
Old Testament I mean Moses is like
boss we love Moses and look let's just
be honest we're thankful Moses made
that decision when we read the Old
Testament he's esteemed as the I mean
when we talk about when they were
when people in the New Testament
reference the Old Testament what do
they call it Moses and the prophets I
mean that's just a way to describe the
Old Testament Moses and the prophets I
mean there's some great prophets out
there Moses gets his own category and
so a lot can be said about Moses but
we see the faith that he had there
and the decision he had to make and
it was a hard decision okay and no he
didn't have a brother named Ramses or
whatever you know my kids love that
movie but you know every once in a
while my kids you know and they know
too you know if they listen to it or
they watch it they're like that didn't
happen in the Bible ha ha dad yeah he
that was that's not even true there's
no Ramses in the Bible on it exactly
don't don't get carried away with
this stuff now okay you know they
know what's up okay it says in verse
27 by faith he forsook Egypt not
fearing the wrath of the king for he
endured a seeing him who is invisible
you know what is he saying you know
he doesn't care how powerful Pharaoh is
he's not going to be afraid of him
because greater is he that is in us
than he that is in the world if God
before us who can be against us and
you know serving God doesn't just mean
serving him by serving others it also
means listen to me fighting against the
devil fighting against the world and
fighting against your flesh being a
Christian is actually a fight it's not
just a matter of service it's actually
a fight and you know what if you're
keeping the law then you're
contending with Satan you're contending
with your flesh you're contending with
the world so obviously Moses
understood if I take the side then I'm
going to be in this continuous
battle with Pharaoh and what an
incredible battle it was but he had
faith and he knew that God would come
he would come and show himself strong
on his behalf look at verse 28 through
faith he kept the Passover and the
sprinkling of the blood lest he that
destroy the firstborn should touch
them by faith they passed through the
Red Sea as by dry land which the
Egyptians are saying to do or drown
and of course we know the story in
the Old Testament where God the last
plague that was going to be unleashed
upon Egypt was the plague of killing
the firstborn and the destroyer was
going to come and destroy all the
firstborn and God instructed the
children of Israel if you don't want
this if you want to be catch like a
straight bullet here with the
destroyer you need to make sure you
sacrifice the lamb place the blood of
the lamb upon the post of the door so
when the destroyer comes and he sees
the blood he'll pass over you that's
why they call it the Passover it's
the destroyer it's the wages of sin
that passes over you when he sees
the blood and obviously the New
Testament symbolic representation of that
is that when we get saved meaning we
believe on Jesus Christ exclusively for
salvation the blood of Jesus Christ is
imputed upon us so that when we die
hell passes over us it doesn't touch
us the wages of sin the sting of
death passes over us because it sees
the blood of Jesus Christ the wrath
of God passes over us because it sees
the blood of Jesus Christ and he did
it through faith because none of this
stuff was like new all the stuff was
new sacrificing animals was not new
but this whole Passover thing was
new so receiving these very in cryptic
enigmatic instructions is like okay and
then having to go to Israel and say
hey if you don't want to die just do
this just put the blood you know he
did it by faith and of course it
passed over them but not just that when
they escaped Egypt with Egyptians some
of them went with them you know by
faith they went through the Red Sea on
dry land and not because it was like a
foot of water either regardless of a
National Geographic says or Discovery
Channel how are they all when they
want to explain away the miracles of
the Bible okay talk about great
waters because the Bible says there was
a wall of water on each side okay
you know Prince of Egypt I think got
it right on that part okay look look
pretty cool okay that is an incredible
miracle and of course when they went
through during the night and they
reached the other end the Egyptians
also decided to go through and it
closed upon them you know and it
killed all of the Egyptians and they
were drowned and so you know we said
why does that require faith because
there's a wall of water on each end
and you're just like are we gonna do
this or are we not gonna do this you
know and obviously both of these
picture that the Passover picture
salvation the Red Sea pictures baptism
and the New Testament but the point
that I'm making here is that Moses
didn't have a Moses to go off of
right like he didn't have like he's
like well let me just read about
someone's great faith of the old time
you are that's you who you better
make sure you do a right bro because a
lot of people reading your story and
building their faith upon what you do
what a man of great faith he says a
verse 30 by faith the walls of Jericho
fell down after they were compassed
about seven days this is another
incredible story I'm not gonna get all
into it but you know you would think
that in order to conquer a city you
have to just go in and you fight
you have these swords and you kill
people and that's it but God is
telling them to come pass the city
seven times blow a trumpet and then
the walls would come down and you
know I'm sure those people are like
okay give those instructions one more
time I miss the part about stabbing
people or I miss the part about
breaking the walls down it's just like
you're not breaking the walls down
you're compassing the set the city
seven times and then you're gonna
blow a trumpet and the walls are just
gonna come down so it sounds to me
like God is the one who does all the
work right and we just need to make
sure we base our faith around the
Word of God and just obey him in that
area and he does the rest of the
work and it took faith for Joshua to
believe that but he did it and you know
what let's just related to salvation a
lot of people make salvation super
complicated they're just like all
right well you know yeah believe but
it's not just believe though don't you
have like don't we have to like do
something yeah the thing you have to
do is believe yeah but isn't there
something on top of that yeah I'm
sorry I missed it believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ but I'm saying don't you
have to like live a godly life no you
don't have to live a godly life
because you don't even know how to do
that you know aren't you supposed to
be able to obey the commandments of
the Lord you don't even know all the
commandments so how are you gonna do
that super simple to be saved but
some you know you have these clowns
who always want to promote a workspace
salvation claiming that you have to
participate somehow and if faith without
works is dead being alone when James
who has nothing to do with salvation
and they probably couldn't find James
2 in the Bible if you gave them one
to look at they want to do deeds they
want to get baptized for salvation
whereas salvation is super easy it's
the easiest thing in this world
literally the easiest commandment to
keep in the Bible is to believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ it's as easy as
compassing a city seven times you're
not really doing anything to win that
battle because God has already won it
for you through the death of Jesus
Christ on the cross and that's the
only by the way that's the only
payment that he accepts anyways so he
doesn't accept your little monopoly
money of your righteousness you can do
all the righteous works you want but
God looks at he's like that's like
monopoly money doesn't doesn't pay
for anything the only purchase the
only money he accepts is the blood
of Jesus Christ it's only accepts no
American Express accepted here know your
righteousness accepted here only the
righteousness of Jesus and so it took
great faith to do that but then when
the walls fell they were able to go
in and overcome the city it says in
verse 31 by faith the harlot Rahab
perished not with them that believed not
when she had received the spies with
peace now we already talked about
Rahab and the sermons on Sunday but
you know Rahab obviously believed on
the Lord and she had already heard of
what God was doing in with Israel even
40 years prior you know they had
already heard about the news of what
God can do and she believed and now
that she believed but she was willing
to hide the servants the spies there
excuse me with peace in order for
them to carry out the plan to
overcome Jericho look at verse 32 and
what shall I have more say for the
time would fail me to tell of Gideon
and of Barak and of Samson of Jephthah
David also and Samuel and of the
prophets and I love this part it says
who through faith subdued kingdoms
who would that be I think that would
be like David subdued a lot of
kingdoms but the Bible says he did it
through faith wrought righteousness okay
I would categorize that under Samuel
Samuel was able to bring
righteousness to nations and through
his preaching obtained promises and
stopped the mouths of lions now we
obviously know who that is even though
he's not necessary name is Daniel when
Daniel is thrown into the lion's den he
wasn't afraid of the mouth of the
lion he was just there and he knew
that God would stop the mouth of the
lions because of his faith right quench
the violence of fire escaped the edge
of the sword out of weakness were
made strong who do you think that's
talking about
Samson I believe hundred percent that's
referring to Samson you know and I
know you probably a lot of people don't
think that only because when they see
Samson in modern-day movies he's like
super jacked and you know he's like
a Samoan dude or something you know
he's like Dwayne Johnson and they
always picked the most jacked guy to
play Samson but let's just be real
honest you know the reason Samson was
incredibly strong was not because of
his muscles it's not because he was
physically strong it's because he was
strong in the Lord and the power of
his might that's what made it a
miracle because the Spirit of God will
come upon him and you know he's
probably victim weight you know he's
probably probably super small you know
then physically look like he could
bench 225 or squat 400 or deadlift
500 or whatever he probably couldn't when
the Spirit of God wasn't on him but
when the Spirit of God was on him I
mean he tore a lion in two he could do
what no amount of lifting could ever
accomplish right no trend could ever
do that to a person no amount of deca or
trend d-ball that you take could ever
accomplish what Samson was able to do
with his bare hands when the Spirit
of God came upon him so out of
weakness were made strong so you have
this man who's probably physically
visibly weak but yet because he had
the faith that the Spirit of God
will come upon him he was made
extremely strong and he was used
mightily unfortunate till the end of his
life okay but you know what even then
even at the end of his life when his
eyes were gouged out God still
allowed him to have the Spirit of God
him upon him one more time so we can
break down the pillars and destroy
the enemies of God in one sitting
and so you know he did finish his life
well pun intended by the way you'll
get that at lunchtime tomorrow where we
at here it says here quench the violence
of fire escape the edge of the sword
out of weakness were made strong wax
valiant in fight now you could
attribute a lot of the judges to this
you could attribute Gideon to this you
could attribute Bayrak to this and of
course it says turn to flight the
armies of the aliens now you know I
just have to explain because we live
in a day and age where everyone
believes in like ET and alien this is
not talking about those aliens okay this
is not talking about UFOs UAPs you
know extraterrestrial life out there
and you know that these ancient
prophets and judges were fighting these
ancient aliens you know turn off
Discovery Channel at through don't be
watching Discovery Channel 3 o'clock in
the morning right you're always gonna
get some weird story of like aliens
and Egyptians and Nephilim and all that
garbage history that's what see how do
you know that see how do you know that
how do you know that history he's been
wanting to correct me on that the
entire sermon because he's been
watching the history channel 3 o'clock
in the morning aliens are just
foreigners right and so anytime there
was a foreigner that was oppressing the
children of Israel in the Old
Testament for example throughout the
book of Judges it required a man of
great faith to become a judge and
turn to flight the armies of the
aliens where they are destroying the
oppressors through faith through the
power of God okay that's what it's
referring to he says in verse 35 woman
received the dead race to life again
we see that with Elijah and others
which were tortured not accepting
deliverance that they might obtain a
better resurrection I want to just
pause real quick before I finish up
here and I want you to notice that up
until this point names are being
dropped right and we know these names
you know there's a lot of famous
people in the Old Testament but you
know verse 35 says others there's some
people that are just not named you
know what we're gonna be surprised
when we get to heaven we're gonna
meet some people they probably did
even greater works than these people
that we see that are named but they
just were not named because they are
the people of whom the world was not
worthy they're just others they're
just known by God I mean think about
that where God doesn't want to
divulge your name it's like this VIP
that they get or it's just like you
know it's like if we were to make a
parallel to Instagram okay and God had
an Instagram this is very shallow
illustration if God had an Instagram
it's like God is following them right
like he recognizes them you understand
what I'm saying and this is really
shallow but it's like what if a famous
person just followed you right you
would have to be pretty special you
know and I see at least at least
someone understood the illustration okay
you understand what I'm saying you
think of your favorite I don't know
famous person or whatever I hope you
don't have them but let's just you
know what if they just started
following you know because they
recognize who you are right well here
we see that God speaks of others and
he's not even willing to tell us
their names but you know what you
know who's the only one who knows who
they are is God he's like what's the big
deal about that because God is the most
famous person in existence he's God you
know when the Bible says that he and
what is it Psalm chapter 3 that he
is sanctified the godly for himself
I think that's how it words it you
think about there's certain people
that God just keeps to himself because
he's so pleased with them to the
point where he just doesn't even name
him he's like others because there's
prophets in the Old Testament are just
not named I mean there's literally
someone called the unnamed prophet
because he's you guys is like I'm not
gonna divulge your names because it
doesn't really matter to you but it
matters to God though and you know
what they do have a name because
their names are written in the book of
life so he talks about others and it
says that they were tortured and
this is one of the reasons why they're
not named tortured why not accepting
deliverance now that's powerful right
there because up until this point
we've seen the faith of those who have
asked God to deliver them right and it
requires great faith to go through
trials mockings and scourging to
experience everything that they
experienced Gideon and Barak and God
like came through on them like he
delivered them right but then there's
others is like I won't even take
deliverance I'll just die whoa this
guy's serious business and it says
and if you're to ask him take the
microphone and ask him like why and
there they would say because I want a
better resurrection basically they're
like well I want you know I don't
want to point on one 2.5 glorified
body and so I know God would deliver me
if I asked him to I know that he
would save me out of the hand of my
enemies if I prayed into him right now
but you know what I won't do it
because I want a better resurrection
now there's one person in the Bible
that we do know his name and he was
martyred his name is Stephen and I
legitimately believe that he allowed
himself to be martyred because he
wanted a better better resurrection I'll
be preaching on that on Sunday but
they didn't accept deliverance they
wanted a better resurrection others had
a trial of cruel mockings and
scourging a moreover of bonds and
imprisonments they were stoned they
were sauna sunder and historically
people would say that was Isaiah but
we don't know but who cares though
sauna sunder were tempted were slain
with the sword they wandered about in
sheepskins and goatskins being
destitute afflicted tormented of whom
the world was not worthy they
wandered in deserts and in mountains
and in dens and caves of the earth
and these all listen to this this is
why their faith was so great having
obtained a good report through faith
receive not the promise now what is
that talking about referring to the
Christ because these are all people in
the Old Testament they did all this
before they even saw what their
physical eyes the Christ they didn't
receive the promise yet they did it
so that should be a challenge to us
New Testament believers that if we
have these Old Testament Saints who
didn't have this and yet exercise
great faith in God in spite of the
limited information given to them they
didn't receive the promise meaning
you know Christ had not physically come
to this earth as of yet they were
still saved but you know they they
look forward to the cross how much
more should we have faith if Christ
has already completed the work for us
and now we have this because faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of God so I think the Apostle
Paul is challenging us right now he's
calling us out a little bit saying
like how much more should we have
faith in God when we experience trials
tribulations hardships persecutions
difficulties we have way more to work
with than these people did then the
others right and he says God having
provided some better thing for us that
they without us should not be made
perfect referring to the fact that
they look forward to the cross whereas
we look back to the cross for our
salvation what's the sermon for
chapter 11 hey let's work at an
increase in our faith and I mean any
time I read Hebrew chapter 11 I'm always
inspired by that I'm incredibly
inspired because faith can move
mountains amen but we also see that
it can do all these other things and
there's certain people that have so
much faith they're like I wouldn't
even I'm choosing not even to just not
even come out as the victor in this
story that's a lot of faith to say
you know what you win I die and I'm
fine with that cuz I'm gonna receive a
better resurrection that's an incredible
amount of faith may it challenge us to
have the same amen let's pray father
we thank you so much for your word
and thank you for the wonderful
testimony of all of these saints of
the Old Testament Lord and I pray
God that you would help us to increase
our faith in you Lord to serve you
and to be faithful unto death Lord I
pray that you would help us to do so
as we read the Word of God as we pray
as we are confronted with different
circumstances in our life that would
cause us to step out in faith and I
pray Lord that you would stretch our
faith a little bit Lord as the years
go by and may we continuously resort
back to Hebrews 11 to think about
those who came before us Lord and
bless us as we go underway we love
you we thank you praise things in
Jesus name amen