Monday 28 January 2013

Study Number 35 - JEHOVAH GMOLAH - THE LORD WHO RECOMPENSES OR REWARDS(CONT.)

The study today is taken the life of Moses and His rewards for His Decision to follow God and suffer with the People of God. Our Key Verses are:

Heb 11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

M. Hickey says, “Moses encountered JEHOVAH GMOLAH, although He didn’t call God by this Name. He had been adopted by Hatshepsut, the daughter of Pharoah. She apparently was brilliant  but wasn’t allowed to reign because she was a women. Her half brother, who was practically mentally handicapped, would be the next Pharoah, simply because he was a male. To ensure strong leadership during the next generation, Pharoah arranged a marriage between Hatshepsut and her half brother.
Apparently she absolutely hated him, and had him poisoned.
Then In Exodus 2:6 she found this baby floating in the Nile in a Basket. She named him Moses. She started to groom him for leadership in Egypt. He would one day be the Next Pharoah in Egypt - the most advanced civilisation at that time.

Moses found by Pharoah's Daughter


Would He follow his adopted mother’s wishes or would he choose  God  and deliver the Israelites from slavery.  He had some weighty choices to make, just as we do today.
Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 

Moses a Prince in Egypt

  • John Wesley “11:26 The reproach of Christ - That which he bore for believing in the Messiah to come, and acting accordingly. For he looked off - From all those perishing treasures, and beyond all those temporal hardships Unto the recompence of reward - Not to an inheritance in Canaan; he had no warrant from God to look for this, nor did he ever attain it; but what his believing ancestors looked for, - a future state of happiness in heaven.”

Look at these Scriptures Heb_11:6, Heb_2:2, Heb_10:35; Rth_2:12; Pro_11:18, Pro_23:18; Mat_5:12, Mat_6:1, Mat_10:41; Luk_14:14

Applications.
1. We have to make a similar Decision now. Whether we will live for sin and pleasure which is fleeting and soon will pass away or whether we will choose to suffer reproach with the People of God now and live forever, through all eternity, blessed by God and with God. The choice is the passing, the temporal self gratification against suffering now and being rewarded for Eternity.

Heb 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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