Brother Gary Sunday Morning 8/3/14

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 8/3/14

Exo 2:1  And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

Exo 2:2  And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

Exo 2:3  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Exo 2:4  And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

Exo 2:5  And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

Exo 2:6  And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

Exo 2:7  Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

Exo 2:8  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

Exo 2:9  And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

Exo 2:10  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.

Act 7:20  In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

Act 7:21  And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

When you see children, you look into a face that is totally innocent; a gift from God that is to be nourished by their family and then in God’s plan by the body of Christ.  Your heart is made sad when lives miss that which God designed that is so beneficial to their life.

Moses was nourished in his father’s house, then he was placed in an ark, and then he was found and returned to the home for maybe five years in which he was nourished in his father’s house.  Then we read in the 21^st verse that he was nourished by Pharaoh’s house and by all the understanding and wisdom of the Egyptians.

I studied briefly about their gods.  They are a people with strange gods.  We don’t need to be alarmed by that.  There isn’t any god that has been worshipped other than the true and living God that isn’t strange.  They have the thought that their god is reincarnated into some kind of an animal. 

They have 100 or so gods.  Think of a little child being exposed to such damnable heresy. 

Parents pray that their child would be protected from the gods of this world.  People say and repeat and say again, “What is happening that people live in this world without restraint or thought to what is decent and acceptable.”  When people leave God then they leave all restraint.

Moses was somewhat educated in war.  He was such a gifted leader, intelligent and capable, that he may have been a general in the Egyptian army that won a battle for the Egyptians when the Ethiopians came to take them over.

Moses was taught math and was taught geometry.  He was taught something that rang a bell with my heart.  He was taught symbolic writing.  I thought, “Isn’t that an interesting factor.  God knew that one day he would record the first five books in the bible.” 

He was a poet and had great musical ability.  I read Psalms 90 and it says it was a song or prayer of Moses.  I think that Psalms 136 was written by Moses; Three or four times he says, “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for His mercy endures forever.”  In verse 15 he says, “Who closed up the red sea on Pharaoh’s army.”

He was a gifted young man.  He was exposed to the worship to Pharaoh’s gods.  For everyone in this audience, there will be times when we will be faced with exposure to strange gods.  God has a way of protecting us if we will mature spiritually.

It is when people don’t take salvation seriously or the vitalness of having Christ as the cornerstone that there is danger. 

If you build a house it is vital that you have a right foundation.  It is the same way with us spiritually.  It is vital that we have a hunger in our heart to mature spiritually, to grow, to be nourished in the father’s house, to allow ourselves to grow spiritually, so that we can have that discernment that we need. 

It is vital that we have our senses exercised so that immediately we recognize that “This is dangerous to my mind, my heart, my eternity.”

Moses was also exposed to all the pleasures of sin and the treasures of Egypt.  I think this morning of how immaterial material things are.  It is only a matter of how many ever years and everyone in this audience will leave behind all the treasures that we have labored for.

All the pleasures of sin, no matter what they are… I have seen the one that has paid the price for sin.  Sin and the pleasures of sin come at an extreme high price.  I don’t know how many in this audience have visited those that are dying from alcoholism.  It is not pretty or those that die from diseases that come from unholy living, their mind goes. 

It is a pain to see what sin does to lives that were healthy and strong, articulate, and had a balance where they could walk a small lodgepole without falling off of it.  Sin messes up the balance so not only can they not walk but they cannot think.

We are here today, sin is on the rampage.  I don’t think you would need to go to Harvard or anywhere else to know that Satan has been loosed for a season.  It is hard to believe that in Paradise Montana we lock our door at night.  My father never had to look for his car keys it was always in the car.  You never had to lock the barn. 

There are sadder things.  People are destroying themselves. 

I thought of Moses, as he lived that life of being Pharaoh’s daughter’s son.  All the pleasures that were afforded him were afforded him at the expense of someone else’s labor and harsh work.

Heb 11:23  By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Heb 11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

I am happy that you all are here this morning.  There is one common denominator that we must have and that is that our house is a house of faith.  I am not talking of that house on 160 Railroad Avenue.  We want our literal homes to be full of faith.  Does faith or peace dwell in houses? 

Sometimes people get so spiritual that they lose sight of reality.  When people come they need to know that this literal home is established on the principles of God.  Our house is a house of faith, when I was so sick, we were so poor that I wasn’t able to make the payments and the bank didn’t foreclose. 

A house of faith:  what matters is those years are gone and to my knowledge there is not a delinquent payment.  But the house must still be a house of faith because we must still have faith to go on.

Our individual life must be a life of faith.  To all of you that are young enough to enjoy whatever it is that is fun that is not sinful: I am not taking that away from you this morning.  I want you to be able to enjoy the hills and mountains and the river.  Without faith in God there is no happiness.  There is no enjoyment.

All that pharaoh had to offer Moses in Egypt would not satisfy.  There was something lacking in all that they had to offer that young man.  They didn’t have faith in God.

By faith Moses’ parents hid him.  I used to have enough insurance to help Karen bury me and so that she would have some money when I died.  The time came when they said they wanted a few thousand dollars to insure me because I was sixty.  We don’t have that insurance anymore.

Moses’ faith was in God.  He was among heathen gods.  They allowed them to live however they wanted.  That is how gods are out there.  They have no standards and no lines.  They don’t take a stand against moral sin of any kind.  That is because they don’t serve the true God.

Moses’ parents had faith in God.  May God help you and me to have faith in God.  I see in my mind’s eye Moses’ parents placing him in the ark by faith.  Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

When our brothers and sisters go out we want to have our faith in God so that He will keep them. 

Salvation delivers us from the pleasure of sin.  We don’t have to be looking for something to give us a thrill.  We have faith in God.  It is a silent thriller and a noisy thriller in that it can be expressed.

She placed that ark in the river as a matter of faith.  You dads and mothers that work can be praying and have faith, “Oh God keep my son.  Keep my daughter.”  All of you fathers can be fathers of faith.  Among the first is, “Keep me.  If you will keep me then I can pray for my children and you can keep them.”

That ark was pitched without and within that Moses was placed in.  There are times when we can hardly separate ourselves from children without crying.  They are beautiful, pure, and in a contaminated world.  We look at them and our heart is melted.

Think of Jochebed this morning placing that precious child that God had given and ordained to serve Him.  We were blessed with these children because God has a purpose for every life.  God has a purpose for the handicapped child.  Don’t you ever get twisted on that.

We can get so tangled that we lose faith.  Sean told me that he lost his faith and was in trouble.  May God help you and I to be nourished in the Father’s house so that our faith is growing and not diminishing. 

In the days of Enos he began to call upon God.  If you feel that your faith is shrinking, get a hold of God.  Where are we going to go if God cannot handle it?

You say, “I’m going to do this or that, or I’ll drowned it with this or that.”  None of that works.  Have faith in God. 

I am enjoying this message because it speaks to me.  Those that we love that we cannot always be with; faith is a better policy than any insurance company in the world.

She placed that child in the ark.  His sister stood over there in faith waiting for the opportunity.  There are times to be quiet, there are times to be noisy, and that is fine.  There are times in faith to be quiet.  Just standing there waiting for the opportunity, just believing God.  Mom was home working dad was out making straw bricks.

Pretty soon Pharaoh’s daughter saw the ark.  Miriam stood there quietly in faith.  In the home the mom was believing God. 

Sister Peter walked into that hospital, the surgeon came out and told her, “Your son Johnny has a head injury and has need of the biggest plate that we have ever put in.  We are going to put it in but there is no hope.  Your son will die.”  She looked at him, “My son cannot die; he is not saved.”  Johnny lived and went to camp-meeting and got saved.

We must be nourished in the Father’s house.  We must be nourished by faith. 

By faith, Moses was returned.  Miriam stood there silently.  There doesn’t have to be noise or thunder and lightning to have faith.  “I am going to believe God.”  Soon she approached, “Can I get you a nurse.”  She didn’t go into long detail.

By faith he was returned.  There are those that believe that his parents had that child for five years.  He was nourished in father’s house, nourished in love, in faith.  The effects of faith on Moses:  Moses chose to believe in one true God.

I love that scripture, “All my springs are in thee.”  He was among multitude of gods.  He chose. 

In the hearts and lives of everyone in this audience, and everyone that we can have any effect and bearing on, we want to implant the seed that there is only one true God.  There is only one true God that can do anything about anything.

By faith Moses stepped away from the world.  It takes faith in God when the world is offering those things that are essential that you can feel, when they appeal to the eye, to the moment to step away. 

When my wife asked one, “You are drinking and you profess to be saved?”  She said, “I am only young once.”  My wife asked, “Doesn’t your church preach against drinking?”  Babylon has let the standard down so low that they cannot take a stand against anything. 

My daddy drank and drank and drank.  One day the scene changed.  Isn’t that wonderful?  Stand against everything that is wrong.

You may say that if you take a stand your friends will be few.  If your friends are few then you need a new group of friends.  “I’ll never walk alone if I walk with Jesus.”

By faith Moses knew that the pleasures were for only a season.  They are there for a short season.  I have a friend that is 75 and he tells me that every day is full of regrets.  It is not funny anymore.  It is not a big time anymore. 

How do you weigh regret?  You don’t weigh it with grams.  “I have this one grain of regret.”  No, it is as a river of regret.

Moses weighed the unseen God.  Moses didn’t have anyone to teach him of Jesus but God.  He esteemed the riches of Christ greater riches.  God has a way of letting us know, “Serve me son, there are things out there worth serving me for.”

There is a God that cultivates a clean conscience and answered prayer.  However closed the door is and however scared you are, He can open the door.  He can comfort hearts.  He can nourish.

By faith Moses forsook the pleasures.  Serving God is too joyful to think that sin has anything to offer.

They tell us that he was in line to be a king.  King of what?  King of abuse.  He forsook the treasures.  I don’t know what sin is offering you, but if it is treasures on earth and will keep you from laying up treasures in heaven then forsake it.

Moses was nourished in his father’s house as a child then he made the choice to forsake the world.  When we make the choice to forsake what sin has to offer, we must let God make the choice of what we are filled with. 

Eph 3:19  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

That we might be filled with the fullness of God:  His love, His faith, His strength, His vision: your eyes anointed so that you can see.  That we might be filled with His wisdom, and His joy.