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*HEROES OF FAITH*
*LESSON #4 – MOSES*
For our last lesson, we are going to look at a man God called to bring the nation of Israel out of Egypt.
Hebrews 11 is about the primacy and excellency of faith and the long list of OT men and women who illustrated it.
Moses was just another ordinary man (a sinner saved by grace) who accomplished extra-ordinary things in his life.
Why was God able to use Moses is such a significant way?
Our text gives us the answer.
In his life, Moses settled four basic questions of life.
I submit to you that if we want to be used in an extra-ordinary way, if we want to live a life of faith (which is the only life that is pleasing to God) we must also settle these four basic questions.
*Read Hebrews 11:23-28*.
Before we get to Moses in verse 24, let’s not skip over verse 23.
We obviously covered this in the lesson on Joseph, but notice the faith of Moses’ parents.
This verse is very interesting to me.
Do you think that Amram and Jochebed saved Moses because Moses was a beautiful child?
I think that they knew God’s special concern for this child.
It was by faith in God they hid him and opposed Pharaoh’s order.
Moses’ parents were willing to risk their own lives to follow God.
Again, there is much more to a Christian home than just taking our kids to church.
If we want our kids to be heroes of the faith, we must model it for them.
Jochebed not only nursed Moses, but trained and taught him Israel’s promises from God – that they would inherit the land of Canaan, be a great nation, and bless the world.
She instilled in him the promise of a great deliver.
Did she know why he was to be raised in the court of Egypt, in the very house of the one who ordered his death as a child?
I would guess not.
She new, though, that this was God’s plan and she was faithful to God and to her son in that she helped build in him the faith that was to become the characteristic of his life.
I pray that I leave that kind of legacy in the life of my son.
…Back to Moses.
*Hebrews 11:24* says /“By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.”/
The first key to living an effective life or the first question Moses settled was:
*I.
WHO AM I?*
We all need to realize that God has a purpose and a plan that is just for us.
Remember Noah, God has given us all an ark to build.
Nobody can be you except you.
Don’t try to be somebody else.
Be yourself.
In being the person that God has called you to be, you do not have to worry about being like someone else to be a hero.
In being myself and living in the center of God’s will, doesn’t that qualify me as a hero of the faith?
For forty years Moses had been the prince of Egypt, the wealthiest, most cultured and advanced society of that day.
He was highly educated and skilled.
He could and did enjoy everything that Egypt had to offer.
When Moses reached the age of forty, he faced a crucial decision.
He was born Jewish but raised Egyptian.
He had to decide between becoming a full fledged Egyptian, with absolute loyalty and no reservations, and joining his own people, Israel.
Moses had to decide, “Who am I?” This one crucial decision would determine the rest of his life.
If he had decided he was Egyptian he could have lived a luxurious and easy life.
If he said, “I am Jewish,” which he did, he would be humiliated, kicked out of the palace, and sent to live with the Israelites.
The Bible says that/ “By faith Moses…*refused* to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.”
/He rejected, denied, he totally disowned a promising career as an Egyptian because he refused to live a lie.
The deciding factor was his faith in God.
In all those years Moses had never waivered in his devotion to the Lord.
From the worldly standpoint, he was sacrificing everything for nothing.
But from the spiritual standpoint, he was sacrificing nothing for everything.
It is interesting that Moses was now in a situation similar to that of Joseph, but God had a much different work for him to do.
Joseph used Egypt’s power for the good of God’s chosen people.
Moses would have to oppose Egypt’s power for the same purpose.
Moses could have tried to be like Joseph, and looking at his circumstances he possible could have, but he chose rather to be himself – the man God wanted him to be and here he is in the “Hall of Faith!”
It is very liberating to be yourself.
It is also the first key to having an effective life.
The second question we need to settle is:
*II.
WHAT ARE MY CHOICES?*
*Hebrews 11:25* /“Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”/
Life is made up of decisions.
Some are simple and unimportant; others are complex and extremely important.
When we put off deciding, a decision is made for us.
Still it is our decision, because we decided to put it off.
The course and the quality of our lives are determined much more by our decisions than by our circumstances.
Christian living involves making right decisions.
You can note the maturity of a Christian by the decisions he makes.
When we have opportunity to witness, we either take advantage of it or we don’t.
We decide whether or not to take time to read the Bible and pray.
It is no a matter of having time but of taking time, and taking time requires a decision.
Holiness is making right decisions, carnality is making wrong ones.
Right choices are made on the basis of right faith and the opposite of choosing God’s way is always Satan’s way.
We need to accept responsibility for ourselves.
Too many people seek to blame somebody else or something else for their choices in life.
The simple fact is, I have choices I can make in life and so do you.
God has given us the freedom to make our own choices.
What we choose today will determine our tomorrow.
That is called accepting responsibility.
The Bible makes it clear that people who accept responsibility for their own lives tend to lead effective lives.
One of the signs that we are maturing is when we accept responsibility for our life decisions.
When Moses grew up, he made a choice.
He could not blame somebody else for the direction in his life.
Do you realize that Moses lived most of his life before the covenant of Mt.
Sinai, with its system of commandments and rituals?
But both before and after Sinai he lived by faith, not works.
No person in Scripture, other than Jesus, illustrates the power of right decision better than Moses.
His decisions were right because his faith was right.
You and I cannot live off of somebody else’s spiritual commitment either.
Moses did not live off the faith that was exhibited by his parents.
He had to decide for himself whether or not he was going to have a personal relationship with God or not.
We, too, have to make our own decisions.
I hear people say all the time, “My parents are Christians,” or “My brother or sister is a Christian.”
Well that is great.
But just like Paul told the Jews in Romans 2, your heritage does not give you spiritual security.
Neither does your knowledge of God or your works of righteousness.
You have to make a personal commitment on your own to accept Christ by faith.
Your happiness will be determined by your character in life.
Your character is determined by the choices you make and your choices are determined by your faith.
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