The Faith of Moses -
Overcoming the Praise of Man (Hebrews 11:24-26)

(Class Notes)

• By faith Moses "refused" ... (Hebrews 11:24)
  • "... Pharaoh's daughter "took him up, and nourished him for her own son" (Acts 7:21)
    • When Moses was "come to years" (Hebrews 11:24)
    • When Moses was "grown" (Exodus 2:11) - the LXX rendering is "having become great"
    • Stephen says "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds" (Acts 7:22)
  • Moses was also taught by his Hebrew mother Jochebed, who "nursed" him until he "grew" and was presented to Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2:7-10)
    • The prophecy of "affliction" and "coming out" (Genesis 15:13-14)
    • The promise of "bringing them again" to the land of Israel (Genesis 48:21)
    • The promise of God "surely visiting them" and "bringing them out" of Egypt (Genesis 50:24)
    • His parents' faith in God's Word concerning him (Hebrews 11:23 cf. Acts 7:20) as Israel's deliverer (Acts 7:23-25)
      • "... when she saw him that he was a goodly child ..." (Exodus 2:2)
  • By faith Moses "refused" the royal adoption offered by Pharaoh's daughter (Hebrews 11:24), as also His Lord "refused" Satan's offer of all the kingdoms of the world, according to the Word of God, "it is written"
    (Luke 4:5-8)

• By faith Moses "chose" ... (Hebrews 11:25)
  • By faith Moses chose "... to suffer affliction with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season" (Hebrews 11:25)
    • He believed the words of the Psalmist, "... at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore" (Psalms 16:11)
    • He believed God's covenant promise of the land to the patriarchs and their seed for an "everlasting possession" (Genesis 17:8; Genesis 48:4)

• By faith Moses "esteemed" ... (Hebrews 11:26)
  • By faith Moses esteemed "... the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt", because "he had respect unto the recompense of the reward" (Hebrews 11:26)
    • Moses exhibited the same testimony as Paul did in reckoning "... that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18), because "... our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (II Corinthians 4:17)
    • The "tribulation" will be the "fiery trial", which will prove the faith of the Jewish remnant as "being much more precious than of gold" (I Peter 1:7; I Peter 4:12 cf. Zechariah 13:9)
    • The faithful Jews who fear the Lord in the Day of the Lord are spoken of as "His jewels" (Malachi 3:16-17) and will be healed rather than consumed by the "Sun of Righteousness" (Malachi 4:1-2)
    • The faithful Jewish "tribulation" remnant are said to be "rich" (Revelation 2:9-10) concerning the "crown of life", while the others are warned about being falsely "rich" and counseled to become truly "rich" (Revelation 3:17-18)
      • At His coming, His reward is with Him (Revelation 22:12) and will be given to His "servants, prophets and saints" (Revelation 11:18)
    • It is for the encouragement of the faithful Hebrew remnant in their enduring "reproaches" and "afflictions" (Hebrews 10:32-33) that the "great cloud of witnesses" of Hebrews 11 (Hebrews 12:1 cf. Hebrews 11:13) are presented as examples of the patience of faith that "receive the promise", "the great recompense of the reward" (Hebrews 10:35-36 cf. Hebrews 11:13)

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