Hebrews 11:23-27

Faith has to the and the .

📖  Hebrews 11:23 ESV By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Exodus 1:22 ESV Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Exodus 2:2–3 ESV The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

Moses’ parents the of the world and their child for God. 

1. Faith chooses .

📖  Hebrews 11:24 ESV By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 

📖  Exodus 2:7–10 ESV Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

📖  Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

2. Faith chooses God’s over sin’s “ ”.

📖  Hebrews 11:25–26 ESV choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

📖  2 Timothy 2:22 ESV So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Discipleship is .
Discipleship is .

📖  Romans 6:13 ESV Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

3. Faith chooses over life’s .

📖  Hebrews 11:27 ESV By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 

📖 Exodus 3:11–12 ESV But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “But I will be with you…”

📖 1 John 5:4–5 ESV For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Eventually, faith has to the world and :

A. – I to God. 

B. – God’s blessings are . 

C. – God’s is greater.

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