Hebrews chapter 11. And our text will be found in verse
24 through verse 27. And the title of the message is,
Willing Repentance. Willing Repentance. Scripture says, by faith, Moses,
when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, choosing rather the afflictions with the people of
God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of
Egypt. For he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king. For he endured, as seeing him
who is invisible." Now, as we look at the faith of Moses, let
us be reminded again of the spirit of God's purpose in this chapter. It's so as to show us different
aspects of faith Different characteristics of what true faith in Christ
is. He uses these saints as examples. And the examples of the faith
of these saints, we may see the benefits and characteristics
of true faith in Christ. Everybody in this country, go
ask them, just anybody, if they believe in Jesus. You'll find
many in this country that know factually about Jesus. Everybody
in this building knows that Jesus was, that he died, that he rose
again. Everybody here knows that without
a doubt. But just having head knowledge
of this is not true faith. True faith is much more than
just a head knowledge or understanding with the mind. It has to do with
the heart. It has to do with the new nature.
It has to do with the power of God. And so if we have faith, and
it is not real faith, if it is not genuine faith, then it is
not saving faith. And what good then is your faith?
This is what the Spirit does, is He shows us what real faith
in Christ is. By the saints that have gone
before us, we see characteristics of real, genuine faith. The apostle before had witnessed
that there would be some who would apostate themselves. Some
who would profess to believe, to be believers in Christ, and
they would make shipwreck the faith, they would go away. And
that's not because they were saved and then lost. It's not
because they had faith and then lost their faith. It was because
they never had true faith to begin with. If a man claims to
believe and is baptized and joins a church and does all of the
ceremony, the ritual of believing, and everybody accepts him, they
say, oh, well, yeah, I accept you at your word. I can't look
at your heart. And yet, they come for a while,
they're enthused for a while, they're energized for a while,
and then all of a sudden, they're gone. Where'd they go? Why did
they leave? Because their faith was not genuine. It was not real. It was not of
God. It was their imagination. These
are apostates. If one professes to believe Christ,
but because of afflictions and difficulties and persecutions,
he draws away from Christ, drawn back to the vomit of his sins,
who once professed to adore Christ. This is because he never truly
believed at all. He was never born again of the
Spirit of God. For our Lord makes it very clear
concerning those elect sheep. You remember He told those Pharisees,
He said, you don't believe. Why? Because you are not of My
sheep. You are not of those that the
Father gave me. Christ knows who's His and who's
not. I don't. I have no idea who's Christ and
who's not. I can only see by what you tell
me. You say you believe. I see that. Okay. But Christ
knows who's His sheep and who are not. And this is the evidence
of the sheep. He said, My sheep hear My voice,
and I know them. And listen, they follow Me. How
long? All their life. All the time,
from the time that they believe until the time that they die,
they hear His voice, they follow Him. How? By faith, by believing
on Him, trusting in Him. And listen, He says, I give unto
them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any
man pluck them out of My hand. Our Lord said, all that the Father
giveth me, I should lose nothing, but raise it up again. You see
how faith is, genuine faith is enduring faith. It's going to
continue. It's going to continue. And so
John in his epistle makes it very clear. He said, there's
antichrist all over the place. He said, this is the last time
you heard that antichrist shall come. Listen, I'm telling you
right now, there are many antichrist. Who are they? They're false churches. They're false churches. People
who believe that salvation is by the works or the will of man.
That is a false Antichrist. That is a church that is not
of God, but of the world. And he said, "...whereby we know
that it is the last time." They went out from us. John had some people leave his
church. John had some people that professed to believe and
they went away. They followed after Antichrist.
And what was John's comfort? But they are not of us. They weren't of us. How do you
know, John? For if they had been of us, they
would have no doubt continued with us. See, true faith is continuing
faith. It continues. But they went out
that they might be manifest that they were not all of us. Therefore,
if we know We know true faith is bestowed upon the elect of
God, sinners by birth, depraved by nature, unwilling and unable
to come to Christ, yet God bestows upon them faith. Faith. He bestows upon His sheep faith
in Christ. Faith in Christ through the gospel
and love for His people. You know, it's Him we're just
saying, I was a wandering sheep. He said, I did not love the foal.
What are you talking about? I didn't like the people of God
at all. You know, before God saved me, neither did I. I didn't
care for this, what we're doing here. I had no interest in it.
Nothing. Why? I was dead. But when God
gave me life, now I love the fold. I love the people of God. Why? Because I love Christ. We're
of Christ. I love His people. I love His
gospel. and listen not one of these chosen and redeemed saints
that are called by jesus christ shall be lost facial all be saved
now let us again then by this scripture by the scripture in
our text what i'd hope that the lord would help us do we claim
to believe on christ we should hold up our faith in light of
this text and it should resemble the characteristics of the saints
that have gone by these characteristics of these examples of these faith
look at your text by faith Moses and all scripture Moses is a
is a remarkable man a revered man in scripture he was a man
chosen of God to deliver Israel from one of the mightiest nations
the mightiest nation in his day Egypt he was chosen of God To be a
dual type. That's something, isn't it? To
be a type of Christ. Moses was a type of Christ. He
was a meek man. How much more is Jesus a meek
man? He says, come unto me, you that
are weary and heavy laden. He says, I am meek and lowly
in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. Moses was
a type of Christ. As He delivered Israel, so did
Jesus Christ deliver His elect by blood and by water. Remember
the Passover? By blood, by the Red Sea, by
water. When Jesus was pierced, what
came out of His side? Blood and water. See, Moses was
an imminent type of Christ who delivered His people by His blood
and by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
But he was also a type of the Law. That's something that most
men are not, in Scripture, is dual types. He was a type of
Christ, but yet he was at the same time a type of the Law. You remember when they were in
the wilderness and that rock was there. And Moses smote the
rock. and out flowed the water. We
remember Christ is the rock and the law is being pictured by
Moses. As Christ was on the cross, what
was striking him was the law. Justice was striking him. And
out when he died, out flowed the rivers of living water by
which we are saved. But when Moses was told to speak
to the rock, you remember he didn't. He struck that rock the
second time. And because of that, he was not
allowed to enter into the promised land. Listen, this is a type
of the law. Any man that tries to come to God by law shall not
be able to enter. Or not able to enter into heaven.
The law cannot save. It can only condemn. And so Moses was a great man.
That's the point of that, that Moses, this man Moses, he was
used of God greatly. And so Moses was a great man
of faith. He was a man that believed God.
He heard the Word of God and the promise of God, first of
all, from his parents. His parents were believers. And
you remember, after he was put in the Nile, that his mother
was the one that nursed him and raised him up in the house of
Pharaoh. So he had heard the Gospel by
his mother, by his parents. And even though he was most of
his life raised in the house of Pharaoh, he also learned the
arts and religions of Egypt. Yet there came a day, there came
a time in Moses' life that God spoke to his heart. God spoke
to his heart. I like what Stephen says about
this in Acts chapter 7. He says, Moses was learned in
the wisdom of the Egyptians and mighty in words and deeds and
when he was full of years it came into his heart. See, salvation
is a matter of the heart. You don't need new habits, you
don't need new friends, you don't need these things outwardly to
change. What you need is a new heart.
It's out of the heart perceived evil thoughts, adultery, murder,
fornication. So, whether you religious outward
deeds cannot affect the heart, what a man needs is a new heart.
And when Moses was come to full year, he was 40 years old, he
came to a point and God spoke to his heart. And what was this that he spoke?
To visit his brethren, the children of Israel. our text testifies
that his faith was not some youthful emotional action i see this a
lot in our day in it you get little children you get them
all hyped up in uh... you that you try to scare the
death and say hail hail you know you try to make a fear and then
you rush in down now and they get baptized nothing sincere
about that not because they really believe now i know the young
people can and do believe but i don't dare try to uh... tell
my children uh... a lot i know it's in parents
they say you know when your child is afraid they say well don't
worry to be all right i don't know if it'll be all right with
you i can't comfort you that way
god don't save you there's no hope for you salvations of god We don't dare try to make this
about just some emotional plea. God must save. God must save. And so Moses here, his faith
was not some youthful emotional action, but rather it was a calculated
one. It was one that God entered his
heart and he moved in a calculated manner. Moses was 40 years old when he,
by faith, sacrificed and forfeited and rejected all the riches and
honor and power of Egypt. Now listen, I want you to see
what great sacrifice Moses made by this faith. Moses was next
in line for the throne of Egypt. He was the son of the daughter,
the only daughter of Pharaoh. He would inherit all of the riches
and treasures that this world could offer a man. All of the
pleasures that the world could offer a man, Moses was next in
line for it. And yet, in a willful, deliberate
act, he forfeited. He forfeited. By faith, he forfeited. When he took that Egyptian soldier
that was beating his fellow Israelite, and he killed that Egyptian soldier,
make no mistake about it, he knew exactly what he was doing.
It was not some youthful, passionate thing. He deliberately did it,
and he did it by faith. How do we know? Because in Acts
chapter 7, that same part where Stephen is speaking about Moses,
he said this, that, let me go over there and read it. I don't want to misquote it again. It says this, "...it entered
into his heart to visit his brethren, and seeing one of them suffer
wrong, he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote
the Egyptian. For he supposed that his brethren
would have understood how God by His hand would deliver them,
but they understood not." You see, Moses knew that he was the
man of God. He knew by faith that he would
deliver Israel. And so he willfully rejected
it. Now, Moses was not ignorant of
the prophecies. The scriptures that was given
to Abraham, he said, look, your people are going to go into bondage
for 400 years. And after then I'm going to deliver
them. And Moses knew this. And by faith
he knew in his heart he was the man that God would use. And so
when he killed that soldier, it was not an act of passion,
but an act of faith. And when he did that, I want
you to see what he forfeited. He forfeited everything. This choice of Moses was not
made out of necessity, but one deliberate and calculated. It
was one that he had these things by right, the treasures and luxuries
of Egypt, but he willfully rejected them. By faith, Moses, when he
was come to years, refused, deliberately, calculatively, refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Now listen, it would be easy
for you and I to give up such things, wouldn't it? Because we don't have them. It's
easy for you to give up other people's riches, right? Yeah,
that's good. I'm glad Moses did that. If it was your riches and your
treasures, We by nature would never give
Him up. Consider then the greatness of this sacrifice. His choice
was not one without cost. And so it is with faith. I want
you to understand this. True faith in Christ is going
to cost you everything in this world. It's going to
cost you everything. But when you see what the world
is, you're really not giving up anything anyway. When you actually see what the
treasures of Egypt are, you're not really giving up anything
in light of the treasures of Christ. That's what he did. He
made a deliberate calculation. He saw by the Scripture, by the
Word of God, what was in Christ. And then he looked at the treasures
of Egypt that was only for a season, and he made a deliberate decision
here. He chose Christ. There's no doubt about that. He gave it up. He gave up these
things. And if you're ever going to come
to Christ, you listen, you're going to need to give up everything.
And that rich young ruler, he said, what shall I do to inherit
the kingdom of God? And Jesus said, well, what does
the law say? He said, oh, I honor your father and mother and love
the Lord your God with all your heart. He said, OK, you'll do
that. And this young man was so deceived,
he said, well, these have I done from my youth up. We know he hadn't. The Lord knew
he hadn't. So the Lord said, okay, you lack
one thing. Sell all that you have. Take
up your cross and follow me. What was it going to cost him?
Everything. He had to realize that he had no righteousness
at all. That man went away sorrowfully.
And it's just not the giving up of these possessions that
saved Moses, but it was rather the rejecting of what these things
represented, sin, and the world, and the pleasures of the flesh.
When a man believes in Christ, he is going to reject the pleasures
of this life, the world, and the flesh, and cleave only to
Christ. Power and wealth in this life
is not sinful in and of themselves, but those things that are in
opposition to the will of God, the believer in Christ, must
willfully reject them, and does. Therefore Moses, by faith, rejected
all of Egypt's treasures, its riches, and embraced by faith
the riches of Christ, which is salvation. now i'm gonna give
us i want to give you three characteristics but i i'm i'm a given to you
and then probably only get through one the first characteristic
of moses faith was this repentance moses by faith refused
rejected turned from the treasures of egypt a steaming christ to
be greater Second aspect of faith in this is that faith, not only did he reject, faith
is also willing. Willing faith. Choosing, verse
25, choosing rather to suffer the afflictions with the people
of God. And the third aspect of faith
is enduring. Look at that in verse 27, "...by
faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he
endured as seeing Him who is invisible." These are three aspects
of true faith. First of all, repentance. Our
Lord Jesus said this, "...the kingdom of God is at hand." Repent
ye and believe the gospel. I want you to understand that
faith and repentance are two sides of the same coin. They
go together. You cannot have faith without
repentance, nor could you repent without faith. Repentance, what
is that? It means simply turning from
one direction to the other. In the military we call it about-face.
You would be going this direction, they'd say about-face, and you
would turn and go in the opposite direction. That's all it is. That's what the word means. It
is a turning around. But this is not just a turning
around of the body. It is not a change of habits
as religious men believe. That's what religion is going
to tell you. What you need to do is you need to clean up your
life, you need to get better, okay? You need to start going
to church, you need to stop doing this, start doing that. Law!
They start binding you with law and they say, do this, then everything
will be okay. You need to stop and repent of
this sin. You have a sin you're doing and
they say, well you need to repent of that sin. No, you need to
repent of all of your sins. including your religion. You
get that? Matter of fact, your religion
is the worst of your sins. Your religion. What you think
about God, naturally, is the worst sin you can commit. Who
did the Lord get on the most? Was it sinners? It was self-righteous
Pharisees. He said they have the greater
condemnation. And so then what repentance is, is not just a
repenting of this sin or that sin. Now although this, I know
this, when a man is saved, he does change his life. There's
no doubt about that. Men don't continue in sin. Shall we continue in sin that
grace may abound? God forbid! We know that's not so. We know
that grace moves us to a desire to be holy as our Father is holy. We desire these things. Paul
says this, we know that no sinner will enter into heaven and such
were some of you. Not such are. So we know that
it does change a man's life. But repentance is much more than
a change of habits and lifestyle. Repentance, like faith, is a
grace of God. It is given to us to turn to
Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. This morning, I can tell
you, turn. Turn to Christ. Believe on Christ. I compel you. I will try to persuade
you. But I know this, except God do
it, you shall never turn. You'll never do it. You'll never do it. Repentance
is the turning of a rebel, a man who by nature is set against
God to surrender completely and absolutely to the dominion of
Jesus Christ. That's what it is. Repentance
is turning from self-rule to the rule of Christ. It is bowing
down in utter submission of everything. That's what it is. To turn is to turn from self
and to trust solely and completely on the work of Jesus Christ.
This matter of repentance is not produced by the power of
man's will. Try as you may, you cannot repent
of yourself. But of your own power, you won't
be able to do it. You're like the dog that returns to his vomit. He's like the pig that was washed.
What does a pig do once he's washed? What is his nature to
do? Turn back to the mud. So this matter of repentance
is something that only the sovereign power of God can do. Moses, like
all of Adam's race, we would have never refused the riches
and pleasures of Egypt had God not moved in his heart. I want
to show you this by scripture. Go over to Jeremiah chapter 31.
Jeremiah chapter 31. And look at verse 18. Scripture says, I have surely
heard Ephraim, that's Israel, bemoaning himself thus, Thou
has chastened me, and I was chastened. As a bullock unaccustomed to
the yoke, turn thou me, and I shall be turned. For thou art the Lord
my God. Behold the picture here. Ephraim
is a picture of God's elect, God's children, God's chosen
people. And Ephraim is bemoaning his
sin because of his captivity. You remember that Israel was
put into captivity because of their rebellion against God.
Their worship of false idols. And there he is in his captivity,
and he comes to himself. He's being brought to the end
of himself, and he sees his sin. And what is he doing? He's weeping.
He's crying before God. He said, I am as a bullock, unaccustomed
to the yoke. I am a rebel. I'm stubborn, and I would not
Obey. This is a picture of one of God's
elect under the conviction of sin. It is the work of God in
the heart of the sinner to convict him of his sin. To expose. to expose the guilt of his soul
and lay him bare before God." Listen, if you've never been
laid out before God as guilty, you've never been saved. This
is the first part. This is the first of God's moving,
is that a man must be convicted of his sin, convinced of his
sin. And Jesus tells us this is the
work of the Holy Spirit. He said, "...when the Comforter
shall come, He shall convince men of sin." Righteousness and
judgment. I know this, when the Holy Spirit
convicted me, He convicted me that I was the sinner. You see,
I didn't have to go around comparing myself to others, trying to find
myself to be better than anybody. I knew I was the sinner. I didn't know or care about anybody
else's sins. I knew this, I was the sinner.
And you didn't have to convince me of it. Why, the Spirit of
God did it. He convinced me I'm a sinner.
And I, like Ephraim, cried, you've chastened me, you've pinned me
down, I am as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, I'm a rebel, a sinner. And once a sinner is stripped
and exposed, he's like that woman that was caught in the very act
of adultery. You have this woman, she was
caught in the very act of adultery. They drag her out of her house.
They throw her in the midst of Christ, in the midst of all the
people. There she is, stripped, guilty before the law, and the
law says she should die. You see, I can identify with
that woman. I identify with her. You see, I'm like that woman.
I had no plea, no excuse. I was caught in the very act.
No way to justify myself. I am the sinner. And when a man is convinced of
this, the only thing he can do is cry. And what does he cry? Turn me. I realize something when I'm
a sinner, I cannot turn myself. I cannot do it myself. I cannot
turn from one sin, much less all my sin. And what does he do? He cries
to God, knowing that God is the only one who can do it. Turn
me. And you know what, God? If you
turn me, I shall be turned. That's faith. That's faith. That's the beginnings of faith,
is to know that salvation is of the Lord. And if you don't
turn me, I should die in my sins and I should get what I deserve. Turn me, and I shall be turned,
for thou art the Lord my God. You know, God, in His Word, commands
everyone everywhere to repent. This is good news for you who
can't repent. Listen, God's Word calls you
to repentance. Ho! Everyone that thirsteth,
Come ye to the waters, come and buy wine and milk." How? Without
money, without price. Wherefore do you spend your money
for that which is not bread? Isn't that what Egypt was? That
was not satisfactory. That was never going to satisfy
the soul of Moses. It could never save Moses. Why do you spend your money for
that which doesn't satisfy? Why do you continue in your sin
when it does not and has not satisfied you? Why do you labor for that which
satisfies not? Hearken diligently to me and
live. Eat of that which is good. Let
your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear and come unto
me. Hear, and your soul shall live.
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David. And this is it. Let the wicked
forsake his way. This is repentance. Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. What is this? The way of a wicked man is sin. Only continually, perpetually
sin. What are the thoughts of an unrighteous
man? That he can somehow trip his way into heaven. Well, I'll make it. Don't worry about it. No, you
won't. except you repent and believe, you shall never enter
the kingdom of heaven. Never. Never. Never. Let him return unto the Lord
and he will have mercy. Anyone need mercy? I didn't say anything about merit. Gospel has nothing to do with
your merit, has everything to do with Christ's merit, but nothing
to do with yours. Is there anyone that needs mercy?
Let him return unto the Lord, not to the preacher. Not to your
friends, not to your family, to the Lord. And He will abundantly
pardon. This is what He calls. He calls
men who need repentance. Is there anyone who needs to
turn who cannot turn? Then you should call upon Him
who can turn you. You should forsake all and plead
for mercy. Do you thirst? Do you have need
of righteousness? Then come and repent, the scripture
says, return unto the Lord. True repentance is turning from
sin and self and the world and self-righteous, from the vanity
of religion, the relationships of men, and turning to Christ
alone for complete salvation. If anyone is to repent from sin
and self, he must of necessity turn to someone or something. Isn't that right? If you're repenting
from something, you've got to be turning to something. And
how can you turn to something unless you believe it? You see
repentance and faith going together? You have to have one or you can't
have the other. If you know your need and you
know you can't, what are you doing? You are turning by faith
to the One who can. And so by faith you've already
done, you've already believed before you even knew it. If you
repented, you've already believed. Look at that, what he says in
Jeremiah again. Let me turn back over there,
I lost my place. Jeremiah 31, let me see, it's
verse 19. Yep, wrong page. Surely, after that, I was turned. What? I repented. You see the order here? He cries,
I cannot turn myself, turn me. And after I was turned, guess
what? I repented. I turned. After he turned me, guess what?
I turned, which leads me to the second thing. True faith is always
willing faith. True repentance is always willing
repentance. Moses, here, it says this, that
Moses, by faith, choosing rather. True faith, true repentance is
willing repentance. Willing faith. Moses repented from Egypt, he
turned from the treasures of sin and the riches of Egypt to
the riches of Christ, and his conversion was not passive but
active, choosing rather to suffer with the people of God." See,
when God turns a sinner by the act of omnipotent grace and power
and regeneration, the sinner, having now a new nature, willingly
turns under God's divine influence. See, we as believers in the sovereign
grace of God, we don't do away with the will. You see, the will
is part of it. But the will of man is not the
cause of it. Therein lies the difference.
The cause of my repentance, the cause of my faith is God, is
the power of the irresistible work of the Holy Spirit, so that
when God gives me a new nature, that nature then is willing to
come. Deliberately it comes. You see,
I come to Christ not in some purr adventure. I come to Christ
deliberately knowing that He alone can save my soul. That
His blood alone can atone for my sins. His righteousness alone
can cover me and make me accepted with God. I deliberately choose
the riches of Christ over the treasures of Egypt. Deliberately. Over the vanity of this world. Is this not so with you, believer?
We who have by the grace of God been turned, do we not willingly
come? Did anybody have to drag you
here? You have to drag you to hear this again. I know the lost,
you've got to drag them. Because they don't want to hear
it. But you who have been saved, you don't have to drag me. I
have to have it. I have to have it. I want it.
I need Him. I need Him." We lamented over
our sins, we were turned, and we willingly came. We chose Him. We gladly forsook
the vanity of self and the vanity of works religion, the vanity
of this world and its relationships, and we seeing the riches that
are in Christ. What are the riches in Christ?
Forgiveness of sins. That's good, isn't it? Pardon.
Peace with God. That's what the riches of Christ
is. Wisdom. How God can be just and
justify the ungodly. You see, that's the treasure
that I have. That's the things that I treasure. That's the things
that believers treasure, are the things of Christ. Esteeming
the riches of Christ greater than the riches of the world.
Why? Look back at your text and see this. Why did he choose the
affliction rather than the riches? Why? Because the treasures and
pleasures of sin are only for a season. Verse 25. Rather than
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Oh my friends, sin
is only for a season. It's only until your body meets
the ground. and your sin turns to immense
terror and pain forever. Our Lord asked that amazing question,
what is it profited if a man gain the whole world and lose
his own soul? What would a man give in exchange
for his soul? You who will not come to Christ
and will not repent, make no mistake about it, you've exchanged
the pleasures of sin for the glories of heaven. And you counted
the riches of Egypt, now you counted them, you deliberately
count them better. than God's Son. We who believe
count Christ better than the treasures of the world. Deliberately,
willingly count them. Our Lord said, count the cost. Count the cost. Moses counted
the cost. He repented, believed, willingly. Why is it that you have believed
and others have not? Have you asked that question?
Look at Psalm 110. I'll close with this. Psalm 110. Psalm 110. This is the Coronation
Psalm. This is the Lord Jesus Christ,
after He has, by His one offering for sin, put away sin. Put it
away. Died. And rose from the dead. And now God has ascended Him,
raised Him from the dead, and set Him on the throne of glory. And this is a prophecy of that.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until
I make thine enemies thy footstool. Oh, I want you to know this.
Jesus is King. It matters not what men think about Him. He
is King. God hath made Him Lord and Christ. Now, you should bow to Him as
Lord and Christ, but you're not going to make Him Lord. God has
already done that. God's already done that. He's
already your God, whether you like it or not. He is your God,
and He will judge you. There's no mistaking that. He is set upon the throne, and
listen to the promise of God who sits on the throne. The Lord
shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. What is that? The
Holy Spirit. He will send the Holy Spirit
out of Zion, out of His church, through the preaching of the
gospel. The Holy Spirit comes to sinners. And what does He
do? Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. Isn't that what we're doing right
here? He rules in the midst of this enemy. He came and conquered
me. He conquered me. Oh, I'm so glad. I'm so glad he put down this
rebel and put his foot on my neck. He said, I conquer you. Not with violence, but rather
with love. He did that, didn't he? He conquered me with love.
He came in and ruled over me. Now look at this. Thy people
shall be willing He conquered me and put down
that old man. He gave me a new nature that made that was made
willing thy people shall be willing When in the day of thy power? Why is it that you are willing
to repent and forsake Egypt and cling to Christ suffer with the
people of God now believing in Christ? Suffering is involved
in it I'm not a used car salesman.
I'm not here to try to sell you something. I tell you to believe
in Christ, it's going to cost you everything. It's going to
cost you the world. It's going to cost you your friends.
It's going to cost you your family. It's going to cost you your time,
your money, your efforts. Yeah, it's going to cost you. And it's going to cost you suffering.
And you know Moses, he did that willingly. And so do we. So do
we. we were made willing that's the only reason we came to christ
we were made really peep dot people shall be willing win in
the day of that has he made you well there's no praise to your
will tall praised his power willing to what to believe on
the sun to forfeit all the pleasures and the religion of man and believe
on Christ alone. That's what true faith does.
True faith repents. True faith is willing. And last
thing, true faith endures. It's going to always be. When
God gives a man faith, it never goes away. Oh, I know it diminishes. I know at times it's weak and
at times it's frail. But I know this, true faith endures
the sufferings of this life. For what? The glories of heaven
I'm not living for this life, I'm living for glory! Heaven
is our home. Praise God for His grace that
turned us. His grace that saved us. His grace that made us willing. Are you? May God even now give you such
power to come. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer.