By faith he forsook Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him
who is invisible." Seeing him who is invisible. How do you
see the invisible? Moses said he endured as seeing
him who is invisible. He was enduring looking at someone
he couldn't see. But let me tell you, God became
visible in His blessed Son. Christ is the image of the invisible
God. No man hath seen the Father at
any time, save the only begotten Son of the Father, who is in
the bosom of the Father. He hath declared Him. And God,
who dwells in a light that no man can approach unto, made himself
seen, made himself known, unveiled himself in the person of his
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, our Lord says, you know,
if you believed Moses, you'd believe me, because Moses wrote
of me. Moses wrote of me. Now Isaiah
saw the Lord. Here Moses saw him as enduring
And during seeing him who is invisible, Isaiah saw the Lord,
high and lifted up. And he cried out, Woe is me,
I'm undone. The blind man in John 9 saw the
Lord Jesus Christ, and he said this, Whereas I was blind, now
I see. That's how much I know. That's
how much I know. And I know that it was Jesus
who done it for me. I know that. And when Peter,
James, and John were on the mountain with the Lord Jesus Christ, when
He was transfigured there before their very eyes, and He became
brighter than the sun, Peter wrote about it later and
says, we were eyewitnesses of His majesty, when that excellent
voice spoke from heaven. And Saul saw the Lord Jesus Christ
on the way to Damascus when Christ slowed him down. And the Lord
began to speak to him. But what do all these people
have in common? What do all these saints have
in common? Those who saw the Lord Jesus
Christ as Moses did. As Moses did in the burning bush. As Moses did on the mountain
when he asked to see his glory. As Moses did in so many times. They all became, and all because
of the sight that they had. All because of the view they
had. It changed them dramatically. And every single one of them
endured. Every single one of them kept
the faith. Every single one of them entered into glory. And
all of them kept on keeping on in spite of every obstacle that
came their way. In spite of every obstacle. They
may have had ups. And they had damns. But they
never was in for a while and out for a while. None of them
had to be renewed up. None of them ever bachelored.
Every one of them believed God right to the very end and entered
into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And those whom
God had gave sight and ever saw the Lord Jesus Christ, they never
got over it. Have you ever got over it yet?
I ain't got over it yet. Moses here, he had an enduring
sight. What was it made him to have
this enduring sight? By faith he pursued Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured, as seeing him
who is invisible. What made it an enduring sight? What makes us see in God? What
makes us see in Christ to have an enduring sight? First of all,
look what it says there. And last part of the verse, he
endured as, watch this, as seeing Him. As seeing Him. How do you see Him? Who you can't
see. But he endured as seeing Him. That's the key. What a glorious
sight. He's seen Him. Now look with me over here in
Exodus. I want you to look in Exodus chapter 3 with me just
a moment. And you know, we'll look there
off and on, but you know, when the God of glory appeared unto
him in this burning bush, and when God of glory appeared unto
Moses and made himself known to Moses, look what it says here
in verse 2. Exodus 3. Exodus 3 in verse 2. Now look at verse 1, Now Moses
kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian, and he led the flock to the backside of the desert,
and came to the mount of God, even to Horeb. And the angel
of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the
midst of the bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush was not consumed. So he said, oh, here he is looking
at this thing. He said, let me turn aside and
see what this is. And then God spoke to him. Look
down in verse 8, what happens now? Down in verse 8 here. And this is what God said to
him. He said, I have come down to deliver them, my people, out
of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that
land into a good land, and a large land, flowing with milk and honey. And so you see, beloved, what
this glorious sight was. We saw Him when we saw Him in
this burning bush. First of all, He said, I'm going
to turn aside and here's the message that God gave to Him.
He said, I have come down to deliver. I've come down to save. And in that flame of that bush,
He beheld the King, the Eternal, the Immortal, the Invisible God.
And this is how we see Christ. This is what we see in Christ.
God came down in the person of His Son to deliver His people. To bring Him into a good land,
to bring Him out of the bad land into a good land. To bring Him
out of the desert into a good land. And this is what God came
down to do in Christ, is to save, is to deliver. Thou shalt call
His name Jesus. Why? For He shall save His people
from their sin. Why in the world would it say
He shall save? Why would you call Him Savior
if He can't save? Why would you call Him Savior
if He can't save who He come to save? And that's why a lot
of people say, well, He'll be your personal Savior. If He's
your Savior at all, He's going to be personal to you. But here's
the thing is, beloved, you can't call Him Savior unless He actually
saves. And that's what God said, I've
come down to deliver. Did He deliver? Did He save Israel
out of Egypt? You reckon Christ's not going
to save His people out of this world? You reckon Christ is not
going to save His people from their sin? He said, I've come
to seek. You reckon He'll find what He's
looking for? He says, I come to lay down my
life. For who? The sheep. Oh, beloved, this
run and run. What a glorious sight. Wasn't
it to you? What a glorious sight to see
the Lord Jesus Christ is actually the Savior, as actually the Redeemer,
as actually someone who had the power to save you, to call you,
to make Himself known to you, and to tell you that He came
to save you. I'll never forget, I know a deacon. Years and years ago, he was a
deacon of a big church, Sovereign Grace Church. Henry Meaghan was
the pastor, been pastor there for years and years. And this
deacon of the church, one day he was driving in his car and
he was listening to a message. And he heard in that message
Christ lifted up, Christ suffering, Christ dying, Christ bearing
his sin, the substitutionary death of Christ. And he said,
I saw Christ dying for me the first time in my life. I saw
Christ suffering for me. And he was converted in his car
listening to the gospel. Deacon in a Baptist church. Henry
Mann was his pastor. And that's what I'm talking about.
Moses saw God for himself. You got to see Him for yourself.
Ain't that right? Have you seen Christ actually
as your Savior? Have you seen Him with the power
to save you? Has His blood cleansed you? Has His blood given you peace
in your heart? Has His voice gave you a joy
in your heart that you've never had before? Huh? Oh, beloved,
let me tell you something else about this site here. Back over
here in Exodus 3 with me. Continue to look there. And I
know it was a glorious site. I mean, you see God in a burning
bush. What a glorious site. Not only
that, but it was a sight that changed Moses. It transformed
him. It made him a different person.
It says here in verse, start there with me in verse 2 again.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of the bush. And he looked, and behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses
said, I'll turn around here and see this great sight. And beloved,
what a great sight it is. It's a sight, beloved. You know,
that's one of the sayings down here that people use all the
time. Oh, what a sight. You sure are a sight. Scott Richard
said to me, he said, boy, ain't he a sight. I heard that a lot
of times. Well, Moses saw a sight here.
He said, let me turn aside and see this great sight. Let me see this great sight.
And then he says this. And I want to see why this bush
is not burnt. You know, as Christ suffering
under the wrath of God, and yet, beloved, he wasn't burnt. Life
come out of that. God spoke out of it. Oh, listen,
and the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto
him out of the bush. God spoke to this man now. God
spoke to him, and he, listen here, I know my sheep, and I
call my sheep by name. Moses, Moses! It's like Zacchaeus being up
that tree. He was a little meaty fellow,
no stature, tall. That's the way we are. We're
just people of no stature. We have no stature. The one thing
I know that whenever Christ looks up that tree, and that's where
we are, little people of no stature, and he called him by names, I
guess. Everybody he's ever called, he calls them by names. Moses,
Moses. He said, here am I. That's the
first thing you say. It's me, Lord. It's me. He knows me. That bush is talking
to me. Watch this now. And he says,
don't you dare go here now. Put off your shoes from your
feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." Now,
this guy describes himself to him. I am the God of thy father. The God of Abraham. Remember
Abraham when he was tried, offered up his only begotten son. The
God of Isaac. The God of Jacob. That worm,
Jacob. That's the planter, Jacob. And
Moses, this is what happens. He hid his face. Afraid to look
on God. Oh, my. He is like that publican,
James Moody's breast, and I'm not worthy to lift up my head
even to look into heaven. And listen, he says, the Lord
said, I've surely seen the affliction of my people. He sees our affliction. He sees our sin. He sees our
affiliation with Abraham hooked under the rock from which you
hew. And he says, listen, And I've heard their cry by reason
of their taxmaster. I've heard their cry. Oh, when
that sin becomes so burdensome to you, your guilt becomes burdensome
to you, your life becomes burdensome to you, your sin, your guilt,
your shame, the things you've sinned, the things you've done,
your life becomes such a... Sin becomes a taxmaster. He said,
I'm going to know, and I know their sorrows. And now here's
what he said, I come down to save them. Come down to save
them. And then look what he says there
in verse 9, Now therefore behold the cry of the children of Israel,
Come unto me. I've seen their oppression. And
oh, beloved, sin oppresses us so bad. The Egyptians oppress
us, and that Egyptian and Egypt represents the world, the people
of the world, how they oppress God's people. Come now therefore. Now watch what he says. I'm going
to send you unto Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt." And, oh, beloved, this
is what I'm telling you. This changed Moses. When he turned
aside to see this great sight, he was never the same. And then
look what he said. God said, I'm going to send you.
I'm going to send you. And He said, I'm going to send
you with a message. Now, you're not going to preach
to the Egyptians. I didn't come down to save the Egyptians. I'm
not sending you down there to save the Egyptians. I'm not sending
you down there to tell them Egyptians how much I love them. I'm not
going to send you down there to tell them Egyptians how much
my son loves them and I put him on a cross for them. No, no,
I'm not going to send you down there with a message of judgment
for Egypt, a message of judgment for Pharaoh. But a message of
mercy, a message of salvation, a message of grace, a message
of power for my people. And oh, beloved, his purpose
and his attitude toward God that day changed. From then on, beloved,
the only time he opened his mouth was when God put something in
it. Every time he stood for a Pharaoh,
he says, Thus saith the Lord. First thing he said to him, God
said! God said! That's the first thing
he said to him. And oh, beloved, listen. And
that's what happens when Saul of Tarsus, who smoked down on
the Damascus road, he fell to the earth. What was his life
like after that? When John saw the Lord Jesus
Christ And he saw Him in His glory. He saw Him in His golden
girdle. He saw Him with His snow-white hair. He saw Him with His flames
of fire. He saw Him with His legs and feet of brass. He saw
Him with that rod. He said, I saw the Lord, and
I fell down as a dead man. And the Lord laid His hand upon
him and said, Fear not. I am He that was dead, and I
live, and I am alive forevermore. And oh, beloved, when men see
the Lord Jesus Christ, their beauty turns into corruption,
and they're never the same after that. They're never the same. And if God ever sends a man with
a message like He did Moses, He sends him with one message
to a particular people, and that message is a message of mercy
and grace and deliverance and salvation. And you mark her down
when God says you're coming out of Egypt, you're coming out of
Egypt. When God says, I'm going to take you through on dry land,
you're going through on dry land. And everybody else, you're going to face the same
thing that Pharaoh faced and the Egyptian army faced. And
that's what you've got to understand. You've got to get this. You've
got to understand this. That God Almighty is not waiting
at somebody's heart's door to do the best He can for them.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's a message of judgment to
those who don't believe. A message of grace and salvation
for those who believe. Ain't that right? And you stiffen
your neck and do like Pharoah. Who is the Lord to talk to me
like that? And that's the way a lot of people
react when they first hear the message of grace. Pharoah said,
well, who is the Lord that I should obey Him? And that's the first
thing a lot of people say. Who is the Lord that He don't
tell me? That it's not up to my salvation, it's not up to
me. My salvation's not up to my power. My salvation's not
up to my free will. My salvation's not up to my decision. My salvation's not up to me doing
good. You go ahead and you know, people
will say that all over the world, but one of these days God will
do them just like he done Pharaoh. Except he'll drown them in a
lake of fire. And that's awful to think about, ain't it? I don't
like to say, I don't even like to say things like that, but
it's true. I know it's true. Let me tell you something else
about that here. It says in Hebrews 11, 27. He endured to see in
Him who is invisible. What caused him to endure? First
of all, he had a glorious sight. He saw God in a burning bush.
It was a transforming sight. His attitude toward God changed,
and God's attitude toward him. And listen now. And it was a
separating site. It says, He forsook Egypt. He forsook Egypt. That's what
it is. You know, when God saves His
people, when He calls His people, they leave Egypt. They don't
put their hand to the plow and start looking back and say, Boy,
look what all I left behind. Why did those folks leave behind
when they left Egypt? They left the brick kilns. They
left slavery. They left bondage. They left
hard taskmasters. And for us to say that what we
left, and we left, you know what we left? We left the pig pen,
the hog saws, the dogs who is vomiting. That's what we leave. And, oh, beloved, that's what
the world, you know, he translates us from darkness to light. Moses
standing on the mountain, all of a sudden, light come out of
a bush. Whoa, look at this light. God spoke out of that bush. God
speaks out of Christ. And he translates us from darkness
to light. And it says, Moses, endured a
sin, him who is invisible, he esteemed the repulses of Christ
greater. than all the wealth in Egypt.
I would rather be identified with Christ than to have this
world and all the gold that's in it. I'd rather be like that
woman that sat down to eat with John Bunyan and she sat down
a glass of water and had a piece of bread and broke it in two
and handed it to him and said, Lord, I thank you that I have this bread. One piece of bread and a glass
of water. And oh, beloved, this is where
we're at. And then I've got you. I have
the bread of life. May not have much in all of Egypt's
wealth. Ceases to impress the Lord's
people. When he walked in that palace, Moses wasn't impressed
with that palace. He wasn't impressed with Pharaoh
sitting on that throne. Pharaoh with all that gold on
him. Now everybody and their brothers impressed with gold.
Now all you can hear on television, buy gold, buy gold, buy gold. Tonight I'm going to preach out
of James 5 where it says you're silver and you're gold, cankers
and rust. Oh, he looked at that gold and
that wealth and that throne and all them people around him. He
wasn't impressed. You know why? He'd seen God. He wasn't impressed with his
power. Boy, a lot of people, a lot of
preachers are impressed with folks that come in with some
power, with some authority, and some prestige, and some money,
and there's somebody in the community. Moses didn't care. He wasn't
impressed with all that glory down there. And all the appeal
of it. And I tell you, we're no longer
friends with the world. No longer enjoy the pleasures
of sin. And let me show you something
over here in Isaiah 42. This is talking about Christ
our Lord, and this is talking about God's people, too. This
is a separating sight. If you ever see Christ, it will
change you and the world. I'd like to say that the thing
that impresses God's people more than anything else, and I believe
this with all my heart, is people's commitment to Christ and their
spirit and attitude toward other people. You know, with the grace of God,
there's some graciousness. With the love of God, there's
some love. When you've seen God, there's some commitment. That's some faith. Instead of
going out here and trying to be impressed and impress the
world, the only person in the world you care about is, have
I accepted of God? Do I know God? And oh beloved, here in Isaiah
42 and verse 19 says this, Who is blind but my servant? What does he mean by that? Huh? Who is as deaf as my messenger
that I sent? What he means by this, he's blind
to everything but me. He's deaf to everything but my
voice, my message. Watch this now. And who is as
blind as he that is perfect? Blind? That's what our Lord Jesus
Christ says. That's why God spoke, this is
my beloved Son, and do mine well, please. Because Christ only saw
the glory of God, the voice of God, the obedience of God, the
will of God, the perfection of God. His whole life was taken
up with honoring God. And that's what he says, and
blind is the Lord's servant. And beloved, that's what we need
to be. We need to be blind. You know,
they put blinders on mules so that when you're working them,
and the horses, you know, so that they can't see you back
there beating and thrashing, knocking around, so they won't
jump this way or that way. If God gave us blinders, we won't
jump this way or that way when we get spooked by things. We
wouldn't get spooked if we just had those blinders on and saw
Christ. And the will of God, the glory of God in Christ. And
let me tell you something else about this. Hebrews 11, 27 here,
by faith he forsook Egypt. Always separates you. He'll forsake
Egypt. And watch this now. Not only did it, this sight,
it saved him from fear. It relieved him of his fear.
It says there, not fearing the wrath of the king. Not fearing the wrath of the
king. Oh, my. What is it worth? You know, now,
before he, you remember, before he fled, you remember that he
killed, he saw these two, this Egyptian mistreating this fellow.
And he slew this Egyptian. And then Pharaoh said, I'm going
to kill that man. I'm going to kill Moses. I'm
going to kill him. Moses headed for the desert. He fled. But after he met God on that
mountain, he didn't fear Him what I would anymore. He walked
right up to his face and says, I am that I am, said me, and
I've got a word for you. Let my people go. I mean, listen, he let him go. Oh my! You know, when he had
fled before from Pharaoh, he hadn't seen God yet. And I ask
you this, why in the world should anyone fear man? What in the
world can man do to us? What's the worst he can do? You
know, folks get upset because people say something ugly to
them. Get upset because somebody says
something ugly to you. Remember that old saying, sticks
and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me? We don't practice that much. But oh, why should we fear men? What can they do? If God be for
us, who can be against us? I want to show you something
over in 1 Kings 22. Here's a man. Here's a man that
In 1 Kings 22, there's this prophet named Micaiah, and you know these
fellas are really, really interested in going to war. These kings, Jehoshaphat and Zedekiah, these fellas, they
want to go to war. All these false prophets get
up and they tell them, oh my, you just go on. You're going
to win this war. You're going to defeat the enemy.
You go on down there to Samaria. And all the prophets told them,
says, you know, one fellow took a set of horns and held them
up and said, you'll be like these horns. You'll just run over them. And the king had already said,
In verse 7, look back at what it says up here. And Jehoshaphat
said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, besides that we
may inquire of him? And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Mekhi the son of Imlai,
by whom we may inquire of the Lord. But I hate him, for he doeth not prophesy good
concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not
the king say so. So the king of Israel called
and said, Hasten here, Micaiah the son of Iblis. All right,
so look what they've done. They go down to Gideon, and he
said, All the prophets, it says down in verse 13, And the messengers
that was going to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold,
now the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with
one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be
like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto
me, that I will speak. So they got down to verse 15.
He came to the king. The king said unto him, Micaiah,
shall we go up against Ramoth, Gilead, and Abaddon, or shall
we not? And he said unto him, Go and prosper, for the Lord
shall deliver you into the hand of the king. And the king said
unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell
me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?
And oh, here is what he said. I saw all Israel scattered upon
the hills, and sheep that have not a shepherd. And the Lord
said, These have no master. Let them return every man to
his own house. Now watch it. And the king of
Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did not I tell that he would
prophesy no good concerning me, but evil? How would you like
to be a prophet to go stand in front of the king and tell him
that you're nothing and you're nobody, and you're going to cause
the Lord's people a lot of suffering? How would you like to stand in
front of that king? I remember reading about John Hus. He stood
before the king of England. The king of England, King Edward,
King Henry, if I'm not mistaken. This is why he started the Church
of England, because they thought all these preachers were not
prophesying good concerning him. But he had eight wives, you know.
He's like Herod. He took Philip's wife and killed
John the Baptist for telling him that it was sinful to do.
But anyway, to make a long story short, old John Hus stood there
in front of that king, and he says, you know, a priest on adultery.
How awful it was, how ungodly it was, how wretched it was,
how inscriptural it was. And the king says, Mr. Huss,
I'll give you another chance to come back next Sunday. And
hopefully you'll have a more profitable message, a better
message. He says, remember who you are standing before. And
you know what John Huss told him? He says, O king, you remember
who you're standing before, for I know who I'm standing before.
And he prophesied the same thing, and it cost him his life. They took him out, burned him
at the stake. There's not many prophets like
that around nowadays, but I think there's a few around. If a push
comes to shove, I believe there's a few around. All right, let
me tell you this. The Lord Jesus, and this is why,
beloved, we'll not fear. The Lord Jesus, the things that
we should fear more than anything, sin, God, judgment, and wrath,
and justice, our Lord Jesus Christ conquered every single one of
them. So what in the world should we fear? Sin? He put it away. Judgment? He bore. Justice? He satisfied. Wrath? He endured. So what should
we fear? No wonder we'll say, the Lord
is my helper. I shall not fear what man shall
say unto me. And let me tell you something
else about this enduring sight that he has. It was a sight that
sustained him. It sustained him. It says there,
he endured. He endured as seeing him. And, beloved, when it talks about
enduring, and our Lord said, In your patience possess ye your
soul. He that endureth unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And He's not talking about enduring in some seven-year tribulation
on the earth. He's talking about through much
tribulation, we enter into the kingdom of God. And beloved Moses
had to endure an awful lot in his life. First thing, when he
was started out of Midian, going back down to Egypt, and he had
his wife and he had his sons, his wife hated his God. His wife
hated the truth that your children have to be circumcised. Your
children are in a covenant. Your children are the descendants
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Her daddy was a priest of the
pavilion. And so they were on their way
down there, and God stops them and says, Now Moses, if you don't
circumcise these children, you're not taking another step. You
know why he hasn't circumcised? Because of his wife. She just
She put down that iron fist and said, My boys are not going to
believe what you believe. My boys are not going to have
the God you have. My boys are not going to worship
the way you worship. God said, They're going to do
it, or you're not going to go. And boy, he took a knife right
there and there. And you know what she said? You bloody man,
and you're a bloody God, and you're a bloody religion. That's
what she said. Don't want no part of it. That
would be tough to have a wife like that, wouldn't it? It would
be tough to have a husband like that. That's why. That's why. If you're a believer, don't you
dare marry an unbeliever. Stay single every day of your
life. It would be better to do that than to marry an unbeliever
and just fuss and fight all the days of your life. Oh, beloved, look, and he suffered
at the hands of Pharaoh. O Pharaoh, beloved, when Moses
went up there, what do you want him to do? He just doubled the
workload on the Hebrews. And when he actually done that
for a while, man alive, he just made them tougher and tougher
and tougher and tougher. Suffered at the hands of Pharaoh.
Then he had to suffer at the hands of his unbelieving brethren.
Moses, you come down here and you cause us all this trouble?
We don't have no trouble until you come here and start telling
us about God, telling us about salvation, telling us, oh my! What have you done to us? Well,
let me tell you how you and I are going to endure. Look at Hebrews
12. I'll tell you exactly how we're going to endure. The same
way Moses did. I see him. Hebrews 12, verse
2, look at this. He endured by seeing. How will we endure? How will
we endure? Looking, seeing, looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. He
says, now you consider Him. You think about what he went
through. He endured a contradiction of sinners against himself. He
came here to save sinners, and they cried out, he saved others,
but yet he cannot save himself. If you're really who you say
you are, come down off that cross. They mocked him. He endured this
contradiction of sinners against himself. He endured Peter denying
him. He endured the saints forsaking
Him and fleeing from Him. They come to save sinners, but
they contradicted what He come to do. But yet, beloved, that
contradiction, the way they acted, never kept Him from saving them. And He says, you consider such
a one that endures such a contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
you be wearied and faint in your minds. That's where it starts
right up here. Talking to yourself. Instead of talking to yourself
and talking to your circumstances, look unto Jesus, the author and
finisher of faith. Because listen here, you've not
yet resisted, you've not yet resisted unto blood. You know,
we all strive against sin, but we ain't shed any blood striving
against it yet. Have we? So, oh my, we're going to do
just like Moses did. We're going to endure sin, look
over here in Hebrews 10. You see, beloved, here's the
thing about it. It's Christ who saves us from sinking. When we're
in the storm, when we're in the storm and we're walking along
and think we're okay, and then all of a sudden we start sinking,
you know who it is that reaches out His hands and saves us? It's
the Lord Jesus Christ that does. You know, He has saved us. He does save us. And He will
save us. being confident of this one thing,
that He, He, He, which hath begun a good work in you, what's He
going to do? He's going to perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ.
It's God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His
good pleasure. Here in Hebrews 10.35, for you
have need of patience, and that word patience right there means
endurance, waiting. Remember, don't be like Job and
cast away your patience. Job patiently endured. That's
what it said. You have need of patience after
that you have done the will of God. We do the will of God. Believe in Christ. Do the will
of God. Believe in His Word. Do the will of God in calling
on Him. Do the will of God in trusting Him. Do the will of
God in praying for one another. We do the will of God in trusting
Christ. After you've done the will of
God, you might receive the promise." What's the promise? Eternal inheritance. For yet a little while, just
a little while, and He that shall come will come and will not tarry. He won't wait. You don't have
to wait forever. Now, listen. Now, the just shall
live well by faith, not by sight, not by feelings, not by circumstances, But if any man draw back, if
any man turns around and goes, I'm going to go back, my soul
shall have no pleasure in him. Now watch it now. But we are
not. Those who have seen God, those
who have seen Christ, we are not of them who draw back under
perdition. That perdition means damnation,
judgment, condemnation, utterly forsaken of God. But we are of
them that believe. How long? To win our souls in
her glory. Huh? That's why Paul said, he
said, I fought a good fight, I finished my course, and the
time of my departure is at hand. All right, let me give, let me
hurry on. Let me show you something else here about this sight that
Moses had. It was a satisfying sight. Look
down at verse 26. It is satisfying. He saw him who is invisible. He esteemed the reproach of Christ
greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. For he had respect
under the reward that he is going to give. You know, All the riches
that they had in Egypt. Egypt was the world power at
that time. It's like America. Great power. Great power. But the Lord Jesus, I tell you,
He said, I'd rather be who had the reproach of Christ. And I
tell you, He was reproached there. When they reproached Moses and
they said, Who is the Lord? There's a first reproach out
of His mouth. The fact that He caused His people to suffer showed
that He had reproach for Christ. But our Lord Jesus Christ is
despised by this world, and I mean even by the religious world.
You all might have noticed here a while back, Britt Hume said
something about a fellow, you know, if he had become a Christian,
because then he'd find some comfort in him, he'd find some peace,
he'd have some forgiveness. He said, that's the only place where
a man can have forgiveness and have redemption. And I mean the
media went absolutely awful, said, who in the world does he
think he is telling somebody that they ought to believe on
Christ? Is that the only reason in the world? And he got on there
and instead of getting back and down from it, he got stronger
about it. He said, it don't surprise me of the reaction of these people.
The Lord Jesus said they'd react that way. He said that he would
be hated. He said we'd be despised. So
why should we be surprised that the media and everybody else
hates him and don't want nothing to do with him? But I tell you
that I'm a believer and that I wish everybody's a believer. And I tell you, beloved, that's
so you know His person. When you start talking about
His person, as long as He's little Jesus, boy of the manger, they
like Him. But you put Him on His throne
with all power and authority, it's a different story. You say
He's God, and He's the only one to put away your sins. He's God,
and He's the only one you're worshiping. He's God, and He's
the only one you can approach God by. You say that He He'll
all put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And He don't need
your help. He don't need your permission.
He don't need your authority. He don't need nothing you got
to offer. He's the only Savior. Huh? And oh, beloved, in His
power, oh, I tell you, do we go out here in this world and
bear His reproach? Do we count Him to be more than
all the riches in this world? Huh? Are we like those disciples
who said, Lord, to whom shall we go? Huh? That's why Paul said, I count
everything but lost but done, that I may what? Make a decision
for Jesus? This whole winter for Jesus?
Walk an hour for Jesus? Do a great work for Jesus? No,
that I may win Christ. Be found in Christ. Oh, to have
Him above everything. Listen, do you want to be identified
with Christ? Oh, my. Do you want to be identified
and say, I'm one of them sheep for whom He died? Whenever He's hated, when you
talk about His power and His glory, and they say, oh, my Jesus
is not like that. You're going to be identified
with Him and say, mine is. Huh? Who's going to stand with
Him? Who's going to stand for Him? And who will claim I'm one
of His? I'm one who He loved and He gave
Himself for me. And the life I now live right
now, I live by the faith of Him that loved me and gave Himself
for me. Huh? He loved me. He didn't love
everyone. And He doesn't love everyone. Oh, when you start laying the
rubber to the road, putting that plumb line to it, that's when
you find out just exactly how despised Jesus Christ is. And
it's preachers that will fight you to the nail over this business. Here's my last point, and I'm
through. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath
of the king, for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
You know why this is an enduring sight? Because it's a spiritual
sight. By faith he endured. It's a spiritual sight. You don't
see him with these eyes. You see him with these eyes.
The eyes of the heart. The eyes of the soul. The eyes
of the affections. And it's only by faith did he
see Him who was invisible. You know, that's why Peter said,
whom having not seen ye love, And you rejoice with joy unspeakable. Huh? And Moses believed God's
promise. He said, I've come down to deliver. He believed that. And he is one
of those fellows that need to be delivered. And God saved him
on the mountain, sent him with a message. And God told him,
he said, certainly I will be with you. Wherever you go, I'm
going to be with you. Whenever you're in front of prayer,
I'm going to be there. When you're on the backside of the desert,
I'm going to be there. When you're in the middle of the Red Sea,
I'm going to be with you. When you get over on the other side,
you got all those folks murmuring and complaining and griping,
I'm going to be with you. Let me close looking here at
John 20. And I'll close with this. I'll close with this. John 20. John 20, 28. What a glorious gospel we have.
You remember when Thomas was with the disciples, and he wasn't
with them when they first saw Christ, and he said, except I
see that ribbon in his side, and except I see the hands and
the print of his nails, and put my finger in the print and thrust
my hand in his side, I will not believe. He said, I will not
believe. I'm just not going to believe. Well, eight days later,
and eight days always means resurrection. Eight days means new ground.
Resurrection means resurrection ground, new life. Because it's
starting a new week, starting a new day. Now watch this now. Well, the door's being shut,
and Jesus said here in verse 27, This saith he to Thomas,
Reach hither your finger, behold my hand. Reach hither your hand,
thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas never wretched forth a
hand. You know what he did? He says, My Lord and my God. When he saw Christ, he didn't
have to touch Him. He didn't have to do anything. He said, I'm going to have to
do for I believe. He just saw Him and said, Oh, my Lord and
my God. And watch what our Lord said to him. Thomas, because
you have seen me, you have believed. But blessed are they that have
not seen Me, those who endure as seeing Him who is invisible.
Blessed are they that have not seen and yet believe." I believe. I believe. I believe. Do you believe? I
believe. I believe.