A greater reward - 24 November 2009 |
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The invisible God is beautiful; growth to maturity is our reward; to suffer with God’s people is to endure the reproach of Christ; the treasures of Egypt are the pleasures of sin; and our eternal hope is for greater riches.
It’s all in Hebrews 11:23-28.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents,
because they saw that beautiful [was] the child,
and they did not fear the decree of the king.
24 By faith Moses, when he was full-grown,
refused to be called [the] son of the daughter of Pharaoh, 25 choosing rather to suffer with the people of God
than temporarily to have [the] pleasure of sin.
26 Greater riches
he considered [than] the treasures of Egypt
the reproach of Christ,
for he kept his eyes on the reward.
27 By faith he abandoned Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king,
for just as seeing the invisible, he endured.
28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, in order that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Bible, Minister's Blog