Hebrews 11, we continue these
studies through this chapter of Hebrews, which my pastor one
time referred to this chapter as the Hall of Faith. Hall of
Faith. This whole chapter is about people. Verse 33, look at it, and it
says, "...who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the
violence of fire, and so on and so forth." Who through faith. These are examples given of men
and women who by faith did these things. Now one more time, what
is faith? What is faith? Well, the word
very simply means to believe. Believe someone. To trust someone. If you believe them, you trust
them. If you believe someone, you have confidence in them.
That's a good definition of faith. Very simple. But now, biblical faith, what
this is talking about. It's much more than believing
facts. You must believe the facts, yes, but it's much more than
that. As I quoted this morning, with
the hearts man believeth. It's not just, well, I see A
plus B equals C, so therefore I believe C. No, it's much more
than that. It's loving. It involves affection
and understanding of the affection. With the heart, man, believe
it. True faith. Number one, faith is to believe
that God is God. And someone may grow tired of
hearing me say this, but I don't grow tired of saying it. I honestly
don't. I never grow tired of saying
it. As a matter of fact, that's why I'm called to stand behind
this pulpit. Over in Isaiah, he told the preacher,
in Isaiah chapter 40, he said, you cry, get up and tell all
flesh, what? Behold your God. God is God. He's not trying to
be God, he is God. Man is totally in his power and sovereign will and
purpose and control. God is sovereign. God is holy.
God is just. God is merciful. God is love. God is gracious. God is God. He works all things after the
counsel of his own will, and none can say you can't do that. No one and no thing has any bearing
on what God has purposed to do. That's God. Faith is to believe
God is God. He's not God if he's not God. How simple could it be? He's
not God if man has a will just like his. He's not God if Satan has as
much power as he has. There's only one God, all-powerful. All right? Faith believes God's
Word. Faith believes God's Word, everything
it says. But it's more than just believing
what it says. It's loving it. It's loving the
truth. Loving the truth. Faith is to
believe God's Son. This whole book, folks, in a
nutshell, in a clamshell, You know what's in a clamshell, don't
you? A pearl. This whole book is about how
a person named Jesus Christ was sent by God Almighty to save
hell-bound people. And how he did it. He did it. 100%. He did it. God purposed
it. Jesus Christ came down here and
accomplished it. And the Holy Spirit, in time,
rounds them up and tells them about it. That's what this whole
book's about. That's what this whole book's
about. And the story after story of
how God did this for worthless people like me. A whole story. And before us this morning, we
have the story of a man named Moses. Moses. Now, none of these people in
this chapter Let me make this very clear. None of the people
in this chapter ever saw God. None of them. Abraham saw the Lord
in flesh, but God, the Spirit, no man has seen. None of them saw God, but they
believed and an unseen God. None of these people ever—well,
Moses was told by God about a promised land, but he didn't get there. He didn't get there. He didn't
see it. So here's what I'm trying to
say. Faith is such a miracle, such
an act of God. It takes this act of God to make
someone believe this. It takes an act of God, it takes
a miracle of God for someone to believe someone they've never
seen before. To believe an unseen God, an
unseen Christ. It takes a miracle of God for
someone to commit their whole life to someone they have never
seen. To go somewhere they've never
seen and been before. and commit all their life to
it. It's a miracle. We've never seen
God. None of us here. We've never
seen Jesus Christ. Never seen heaven. Nobody's come
back from heaven in our time and told us what it's like. Nobody. Nobody. I don't care what the
National Enquirer says. Nobody has come back from the
grave. Nobody. In our day. But we believe according
to this record right here, by God's grace. So it's a miracle. For me to
stand up here this morning in doing this, for you to sit there
this morning, real interested, is a miracle. It's a miracle.
A miracle of God's mighty power. Faith, we read in Ephesians 1
this morning, is according to the working of his mighty power. I started saying that before
we look at what Moses did, because it says, by faith, Moses. It
says this about every one of them, by faith, so and so. Why
does any believer, why do all these people subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteous to subtain promise, quenched the violence
of fire, and this and that and the other. Why? By faith. They
received it from God. They received this faith, this
miracle of believing in an unseen God, this miracle of believing
God's Word, this miracle of believing God's Son, this miracle of looking
for a promised land that they may never reach in this lifetime. and press on. See, God gets all
the glory for everything that these people did, including Moses. God gets all the glory for them.
No flesh can glory in his presence. Moses just stood up and one day
decided, well, I'm going to start following God. No. God chose
him to do that, and in the fullness of time. You have to say that, don't you?
God gets all the glory. And I'll never quit saying that.
We insist upon it. We repeat it over and over again,
because now more than ever, nobody's saying it. And somebody needs
to say it. If anybody believes God, it's
because God, in mercy and grace, made them believe him, caused
them to believe him. He gets the glory. If anybody
does anything, it's because God gave them the grace to do it. Now, in our text of Hebrews 11,
it says, by faith Moses, verse 24, when he was come to years. By faith Moses, when he reached
forty years old. He was forty years old at this
time. It says, when he was come to years, he refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter. When Pope Moses reads 40 years
old, it says here that he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, verse 25, choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God. So when he hit 40 years old,
it says he refused something but chose something else. Now
this is our subject, this is our text. Moses' refusals and
choices. Moses' refusal and choices. There is a better account, or
a more full account, of this than even Exodus. Stephen, in
Acts chapter 7, let's go over there. You read the account in
Exodus, but in Acts chapter 7, Stephen, the deacon, is standing
to preach before a group of people, and he brings up Moses. He tells this story of Moses,
all right? Acts chapter 7, and he gives
a fuller account of what was going through Moses' heart and
mind at the time, which made him do what he did. It says, we read there, when
he was come to years, forty years old, he refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Look at verse 21. When he was cast out, that is
Moses, when he was put in the ark into the river, Pharaoh's
daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son. And Moses,
now, he was nurtured and brought up in the house of Pharaoh's
daughter. Verse 22, Moses was learned in
all the wisdom of the Egyptians. In other words, he went to school
in Egypt. He grew up in the finest, well, he's the king's son. He went to the very finest private
schools in Egypt and learned. What did the Egyptians know back
then? A great deal. These weren't heathen, ignorant,
savages back then. These were scientific, cultured
people. Much like our society today.
They studied science in all forms, astronomy, health, politics,
arts, crafts, everything, music. He learned these things. He grew
up there. in the finest schools Egypt had
to offer. Now this is important. And it says, he was mighty in
words and in deeds. In other words, he became a very
polished man, very articulate. He was educated, he was talented,
he was being groomed for the throne. You understand that? This was Moses. Forty years old, articulate,
that is, he was a good speaker, destined for greatness, talented
in all fields, knowledgeable about many things, next in line
for the throne of heard by the masses, loved by
the masses, sought out by the masses, had many influential
friends and people, and I'm sure he was courted by and wanted
by every woman in Egypt. You think so? He could have his
pick. Now get this picture. Forty years old. Now this is
what human beings live and strive to attain to. This is the point. Moses has reached the point to
which human beings in our day and in every day strive to attain
to. This is what human beings work
for and strive for and live to reach this pinnacle of success
and fame and fortune and he was probably a good-looking man.
He had access to all the spas of Egypt and all the personal
care. This was some fella. He was a
sporting man. He had the best horses. Picture the scene here. Moses,
Prince of Egypt. It says when he reached that
age, when he reached that point, he is at the very top. It says
all of a sudden, he didn't want it. Refused it. Don't want it anymore. Don't want it anymore. He refused to be called the son
of Pharaoh's daughter, prince of Egypt, and all that that meant.
He refused it. He turned it down. The average person would say,
is he crazy? No. Lord's safety. That's what it was. No, he's
been saved, is what it is. There comes a time, too, and
it's God's good time, for every one of God's chosen, like Moses,
every one of God's elect, like Moses, they're brought to a point
in time, an impasse, a line in the sand. That's right, a fork
in the road. A fork in the road, like Moses. Let's look at this a little more
fully. He says he was the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and that was as high
as you could get. That's fame, recognition of the world, Pharaoh's
daughter. If there's anything that people
want more than anything else, even more than money, it's fame. Why would a billionaire run for
president? Remember that fellow, what was
his name? Ross Perot. Billionaire. A billionaire. If he spent $100,000 a day the
rest of his life, he couldn't spend all his money. But he had
to run for president. Why? Because that's how you can
go. You're it. Nobody higher than
you. Most powerful man on earth. That's
what he wanted. That's what he attained to. This
is where Moses got to. Son of Pharaoh's daughter. Somebody,
somebody, everybody in this world, everybody in this world wants
to be somebody. It says Moses reached a point in
time where he didn't want to be a somebody. It says he'd rather
be a nobody with a bunch of nobodies than to be a somebody with a
bunch of somebodies. That's what happened. You see
why I started all this? This is a miracle. God's power. God's grace. The refusal to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter meant to refuse the association with,
the companionship with, the recognition of, the approval of, all the
favors and perks and everything that comes with being somebody.
Lose all your Lose all your connections. The world. Now, I want you to,
boy, I've got too many scriptures
here for you to turn to, but I want you, I do want you to
see this. Proverbs 6. Turn over to Proverbs 6. Proverbs
6. I have to leave some things out.
Proverbs 6. Everyone needs to see this because God has determined something. Scripture says he's purposed
to stain the pride of all glory. If there's one word that describes
mankind that says pride, pride. People are proud of whatever.
proud of whatever, proud of how much they know, where they've
been, how good they look, how strong they are, how many toys
they have. Proud of something. How mean
they are, how bad they are. Proud of something. Pride. Pride. describes mankind. Proverbs 6,
verse 16 says, These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven
are an abomination unto him. Absolute abomination. That means
if something is an abomination to you, it means it makes you
sick. That you're just going to destroy
it if you could. these six things. Yes, seven. Number one, what's the first
thing it says that God hates? The very first thing God hates
the most. Are you looking at it? Verse
17. A proud look. A proud look. Now you tell me, you look at
the magazines and you look at the TVs and you look at the pictures
and look at things that bombard us. And you tell me what kind
of look human beings have on their faces. Haughty. And it's the worst place
of all is in religion. As a woman, a famous woman, and
again, I'm not trying to fit one. This always comes up, doesn't
it? It's a mark of the last days,
folks. As a woman named Joyce something or other, I'm not going
to bring up her last name, it's not worth saying, she's the most
healthy person I've ever seen. You know she's not of God. Nobody's
of God who has a proud look. Nobody's from God. Nobody knows
God who has a proud look about anything. About anything. 2 Corinthians 4, 7, I believe, says, what do we have
that we have not received? Why is a beautiful lady beautiful?
Why is she born beautiful and not born deformed? Does she have
anything to do with it? Why is a man strong? Why does
a man born with a aptitude to grow up in strength
and become able-bodied and not born a quadriplegic. Does that
have anything to do with it? Why is a person smarter than
somebody else? Does that have anything to do
with it? 1 Corinthians 1 verse 31 says,
No flesh should glory. Let not the wise man glory in
his wisdom or Strong man in his strength. Proud look. God hates it. God
hates it. He says it's an abomination.
An abomination. And that describes people, doesn't
it? Our Lord said in Luke 16. Now, you can go back to Hebrews
11, but you need to see that. You need to mark that Proverbs
16. Remember that. The Lord, the
Scripture says, resisteth the proud. Scripture says God hath determined
to stain the pride of all glory. Anybody glorying anything, God's
going to bring them down, going to bring them down, every one
of them. And our Lord said in Luke 16,
verse 15, he said, that which is highly esteemed among men.
Now listen, I want you to listen to what he said. That which is
highly esteemed among men. Now what do men and women esteem? Who do men and women esteem?
Celebrities, stars, sports people, beauty, knowledge. talents, what have you. That which is
highly esteemed among men, Christ said, is an abomination to God. It makes God sick. That's what
it said. That's a powerful verse, an abomination. Moses, by God's grace, reached
this point where it all made him sick. You know what? It made him sick
what he had become. It made him sick who he was hanging
around with. It made him sick, everybody around
him, what they were striving after and what they were doing. He was right in the middle of
it and he thought, what am I doing? Where am I going? Who am I? I'm a nobody who thinks he's
somebody." That's what happened. Now, why did he all of a sudden
think that? Well, God Almighty came to him
and revealed that to him. Moses, by God's grace, realized
the fame, the glory, the recognition of Egypt, everything is nothing.
It's an abomination to God. People, all that's in this world,
the scripture says, is not of God. Not of God. And the scripture says God's
going to do what to this world? What is God Almighty going to
do to this world and everything in it? Huh? Come on now. He's
going to burn it up. Why? Because it's an abomination
to him. And he's created a new heaven
and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. And one person
is going to get all the glory. And the only people in that world,
or that new world, are those that God brings to the point
that he brought Moses to. To see that this world is a filthy
place, full of proud people, and unless God saves us from
it, we're a goner. That's right. Moses began to realize, by God's
grace, the people of Egypt are just a bunch of self-centered,
proud, materialistic, career-driven, shallow—just as shallow as a puddle of water—fake. Isn't that right? And Moses said, that's the way
I have been, too. And Moses came to this point.
Now, he's a prince in Egypt. He has everything. Listen to
the scripture. Listen to this. It says, The
rich hath many friends. Listen to this. It says, Many
will entreat the favor of a prince. Every man is a friend to him
that gives gifts. Everybody loved Moses. Moses
one day thought, you know why they love me? You know why they're
my friends? That they can get out of me. You know, by God's grace, that's
what every one of God's people began to realize. I remember
well, as a young man, Lord blessed me. from a young man to work
various jobs so that I could make a good living. It blessed
me with parents to instill in me a good work ethic. I worked
hard and made a lot of money. I made a lot of money. I got
hired for jobs that paid good money at the time. Back in 1973, Brother Henry,
I got a job making $4 an hour. You've got a better story to
tell than that, I'm sure. Back in 1953, you made But that was big money. I remember
I had one of the best apartment money could buy, the finest car,
and a pocket full of cash. And a lot of friends. No good friends. They loved me. One day I thought, why is this
guy hanging around me? We'll see. You know, it's God's grace to
bring somebody to just, wait a minute, what's going on here?
What's all this about? Moses, by God's grace, began to realize
something about this world, about the people in it, that there's
nothing to it and nothing to them. It's all about that. It's all about that. Solomon
said that in one verse. Solomon said, money answereth
all things. Think about that. Money is behind
everything. Money. This world. I say love
makes the world. No. Money is what makes this
world go round. People begin to lose it, they'll
kill each other. Everything sells. But by God's
grace, one day Moses refused it all. He said, I don't want
it anymore. I don't want it. I don't want
it anymore. And it says in verse 25, look
at this, "...choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God." Affliction with the people of God. Affliction. Look at verse 13. It talks about
all of these people of God. It says they died in faith. It
says they didn't receive the promises, but were seen them
afar off, were persuaded of them, embraced them, and they all confessed,
we're just strangers and pilgrims here. We're just passing through.
This is not our continuing city. We look for one who's maker is
God, where God dwells, that's where we want to be, and that's
who we want to be with, and that's who we're really interested in,
and that's our life pursuit, is to know God and be with God
and worship him, believe him. And strangers and pilgrims. Believe
God, these people, they were strangers. They were strange to the world.
People like that are strange to this world. This world is
driven after things. They think that you live to obtain
things. But these people say, no, these
things are nothing. They're nothing but things. They don't last. So people that
pursue an unseen world, they're strange. That's strange. That's
not being realistic. That's being a believer. Being
a child of God. They're pilgrims. They're looking
for another place. not content to dwell here, but
they're looking for some place else. Pilgrim. Pilgrim. All right, these are the people
of God. And it says, Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God. Affliction. Affliction is the
lot of all of God's people in this world. Affliction. Trials and persecution. Trial, tribulation, persecution.
Trials. And you can read for yourself
Psalm 73 sometime. But if you'll think about it,
even in our little church here, think about the people whom God
has most greatly blessed spiritually are perhaps those who didn't
have too much in this world and those who went through difficult
times, real difficult times. severe afflictions, trials, tribulations,
because they're sent by God Almighty to his people to show them that
this is not where you're staying. You're not staying here. Don't
find your pleasure here. So God doesn't make this place
too, too pleasurable. He says, just enough pain to
make you want to leave it. God sends trials and tribulations
and afflictions that you won't find all your
peace here. But you won't find all your joy
here. You won't find your pleasure here. In other words, to wean us from
the world. To wean us from the world. Trials,
tribulations. And to cause us to see our frailty
and number our days and see how frail we are in the shortness
of this life and how the least thing could remove us and cause
us to look to the God in whose hands our breath is. And this affliction involves
persecution. Persecution. You see, the world
believes one way. The world believes the broad
way, Scripture says, the broad way that leads to destruction.
But God's people believe a narrow way. They believe a different
way. God's people truly believe exactly the opposite that the
world believes. That's all. Exactly opposite. And so they're scoffed at, they're
laughed at, they're ridiculed, they're maligned, and they're
excluded by the world as being a bunch of fanatics or cultists
or whatever, you know. And they say things like this,
can all the world be wrong and a handful of people be right?
Surely the majority is right and you few people are wrong. Asked a lot that. God destroyed
Sodom. Well, people don't believe those
stories. But so Moses said, in God's good time, Moses said,
I would rather hang out with God's people and suffer what they suffer and do without. I'd rather hang
out with God's people and be cast out of the world than to
hang out with the world and in the be cast out from God. And that's it in a nutshell. And
you have it all here with all everybody. Or renounce it like Moses. Verse
25, it says, the pleasures of sin are what? For a season. for a season. Think about it,
no matter what it is. Read Ecclesiastes for yourself
sometime. The whole book of Ecclesiastes
is about a man trying everything. Tried it all. He had it all.
He tried it all. Name something that men and people
love and go after. Name it. Career. Name it. Love. Possession. He did it. He had it. It was
all over. Ain't nothing to any of it. Nothing
to it. Verse 26, he esteems the reproach
of Christ's greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. Now,
I've taken too long to get to this, but he talks about the
reproach of Christ's great riches, more than these treasures of
Egypt that people call treasures. He's talking about the unsearchable
riches of Christ. We're going to sing that song
when this is over so you'll know why we're singing it. The unsearchable
riches of Christ is something that really I can't stand up
here and explain to you. It's something I really can't
stand up here and say, Boy, you need this, because it's something
experienced. It's something God has to show
a person. There was a man, an old man sent by Abraham down
to find a bride for his son named Isaac. an old fellow, his trusted
servant, an older man. He probably wasn't very handsome,
just an old servant, an old butler or something. And Abraham sent
him down to find a bride for his son Isaac. He went down into
this land and he met a woman at a well. I've got to try to
make this story short. Wonderful, you know the story.
He met this woman named Rebecca, and God sent her there. God Almighty
sent her there. That was the one that God determined
to go up and marry Isaac. Anyway, this old man came down
there, and Abraham told the old fellow, you tell her about my
son. You tell this young lady, God's
going to provide the young lady. Don't go out and, you know, ask
everybody if they want to be Isaac. No, no, no, no, no. God's
going to provide the woman. You're not begging and pleading,
you're not trying to find a bride per se, but you're going down
and God's going to bring her to you. And here's what I want
you to do. Tell her about my boy. Tell her
of his beauty, tell her of his glory, tell her of his riches,
tell her of what a fine I've got. One son, Abraham said, one
son, Isaac, the apple of my eye. He's the next in line. He's the
owner of the heir of all that I have, and he needs a bride. I've determined for him to have
a bride. You go tell her about him." So this old fellow, he knows Isaac. He's been around
Isaac. He loves Isaac. He's worked with
him for years and served him for years. He knows Isaac. Oh,
Isaac's a wonderful fellow. Isaac's a wise fellow. Isaac's a handsome fellow. Isaac's
a kind fellow. Isaac's a merciful fellow. A
gracious fellow. I'm so glad he's next in line
that I serve him. What a wonderful fellow. Surely
anybody would just love to be married to Isaac. But he's going
down there thinking, How am I going to tell her about Isaac? Me, an old fellow like me, try
to convince a beautiful young lady to come. And he thought,
Mr. Abraham, what about Isaac going
with me? And Abraham said, no, he's not
going down there. No, sir. God's going to bring
her up. You see in the picture, that
old man went down there and this kind of woman came up to the
well, and to make a long story short, he tried to tell her about
this wonderful fellow named Isaac, an old man. He tried to tell
her about his kingdom and his glory and his riches and all
that. Finally, he just said, Will you go? Will you go? And lo and behold, just out of
the blue, this young beautiful lady, prettiest of pretty, said
to an old man, Yes, I will. I'll go. I'll go
marry a man I've never seen before. I'll go with you, an old man.
I sure will. And try to tell you about the
riches of Jesus Christ, his glory, of his heaven, of his kingdom. He's the heir of all things.
I'm not trying to entice anybody. I'm not going to do it. I'm not
sent to beg anybody to accept this fellow and what all he can
give you and all that. No, sir. God Almighty is going
to have to do it. And he does. He makes Rebekahs,
he makes Rebekahs willing in the day of his power to fall
in love, they fall in love with somebody they've never seen before.
They're willing to go after a man they've never seen before and
marry him, be with him forever and leave everything, leave their
father, mother, brothers, sisters, life, everything to go to be
with him. That's this miracle. That's what
happened to Moses. That's what happened to Moses, steaming the
riches of Christ. He'd never seen Christ. He'd
heard about it. You'd never seen him. You'd heard
about him. So that's your student. Hey,
Jeanette, will you go? Yeah? Really? Will you? Jill,
will you go marry this man you've never seen before? That's what
glory is going to be. Marriage, supper of the Lamb.
Will you go? I ask you, one and all. Huh? The riches of Christ, greater
treasures than these things down here that rust and corrupt. Let
me ask you about old King Tut's tomb. The riches of Egypt. The riches of Egypt. Where is Egypt? Where is old
King Tut? Where are all these spare rooms?
Where is all their riches? Where is it buried under where
we've been digging it up, haven't we? It looks like we've learned,
doesn't it? God covered it all up with sand, and we say, oh,
we've got to have that, dig it back up again. God's going to burn it all up
one day and be gone with it, be done with it. Let me give
you a real good illustration. It says, by faith, there in that
chapter, it says, by faith he kept the Passover. By faith he
kept the Passover, Moses did. In other words, he left Egypt.
He left Egypt, didn't fear the wrath of Pharaoh. He stayed there,
if you'll notice, and Stephen's message says he stayed there,
even after he heard that everybody knew about it. He did. God's word says he didn't fear
the king, and so he didn't. Are you with me? Running scared
from man doesn't glorify God. It says, by faith he did not
fear the wrath of the king. He stayed there, but God in his
purpose said, Pharaoh's not going to kill you. You're going to
have to leave. And so he did. Just like Christ. Son of God, fear Herod. There was a time when he passed
through the multitude. It's not time yet. And then it
was later a time he came before Pharaoh and said, you better
let my people go. Right in the face of Pharaoh,
Pharaoh could have put him in jail immediately. Was Moses afraid? Well, let me give you this illustration.
It says, By faith he kept the Passover. Let me ask you this
question. Picture with me now, Moses has
left Egypt and he's dwelling in tents. You know, tents and houses and
dwelling in obscurity. Down there in Egypt, somebody
took his place. Some young prince, next in line
to the throne, some fellow who had always vied. There was a
movie. You remember the movie, don't
you? Ten Commandments. You remember him, don't you,
Ron? You people over fifty remember that fellow. Ewell Brenner was
Pharaoh's next son, so he ascended the throne. There sits the Prince
of Egypt in all his finery. It's all that Egypt has to offer.
Everybody in Egypt loves him. He's esteemed highly by everyone.
has a dozen wives or more. Finest house, everything money
can buy and more. The greatest man on earth. You
picture him? Sitting in that house, under
the gilded roof of Pharaoh's house. All right? Down in a little little sod house,
a little earthen house with a grass roof over it, sits Moses in an old wool coat with a stick
in his hand. That's about it. He's got a stick
in his hand. He's got a plate on it pork chop, lamb chop, a few herbs,
a little cup of something, under the blood-smeared door. Who would you rather be? Let me ask you. Would you rather
be under a golden roof or a blood-stained door? Your answer tells it all. God killed and drowned that old
Pharaoh and covered Egypt in sand. And everybody under that
blood, that fellow Moses, is right now sitting in the palace
of God Almighty. on standing on gilded streets
at the right hand of the Father. Think about it. By faith, that
is, by the act of God, by the grace of God, by the goodness
of God, he refused all that. It came to a point in time, God's
good time, made him realize what he was and what this all was,
and he said, I refuse, I refuse, I refuse it all. This is greater
treasure. being with God's people and someday
with Christ himself and in everything this world has to offer. What
do you say? Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ. Let's sing
that song. What number is it, Gabe? 495?
495. 495. Let's sing the first and last
verses, okay? Stand up. First and last verses. Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ,
well, that can never be true. Gifts of bliss and mercy and
grace Precious, more precious than gold Precious, more precious
Well, that can never be told Oh, the unsearchable riches of
Christ Precious, more precious than gold Oh, the unsearchable
riches that Christ could not gladly endure. Trials, afflictions, and crosses
on earth, riches like these to secure. Precious, oh, precious, wealth
that can never be told. All the inscrutable riches of
pride Precious, more precious than gold