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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Norman McNulty

Moses, the Servant of God

Father in heaven, we thank you so much for bringing us here this Sabbath, and I pray in a special way that you will be with us.

Please send your spirit to guide us, and I pray that you would speak through me, that the words spoken would not be my words but yours, and that your spirit would be reflected in this message.

Well, the title of today's message is Moses the Servant of God.

What made Moses the great man, the great leader of God that he became?

And I want us to study a little bit more into who Moses was and how it applies to our lives.

Turn with me to Revelation chapter 15 verses 2 and 3.

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God, and they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Those who gain the victory down at the end of time go through a special experience and they sing a special song called the song of Moses and the song of the lamb.

Therefore there must be an experience that Moses had that those living down at the end of time also would have experienced.

And so I want to know, what was it about Moses that made him so special that the people living down at the end of time would be singing the song of his experience.

It's a very special experience, a very special song.

Not only do they sing the song of Moses, but they are described in the same way as Moses.

If you look in Revelation chapter 7, starting in verse 2, And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.

And he cried with a loud voice to the 4 angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

The 144, 000 are the servants of God down at the end of time, and they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God.

So here we see Moses was the servant of God, the 144, 000 of the servants of God, therefore there must be a similar experience.

Let's go to Hebrews chapter 11 and we're going to see just a brief snapshot of some of the things about Moses that made him a mighty man of faith, a mighty man of faith for God.

Starting in verse 23 of Hebrews chapter 11.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid 3 months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child, and they were not afraid of the King's commandment.

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction 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 in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward." Starting in verse 23, We see how things started off in the life of Moses that led him to become the mighty man of faith that he was, the servant of God that he became.

It says, by faith Moses when he was born was hid 3 months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandments.

I praise God for parents who seek to raise their children to love and fear God over the things of this world and Sometimes I think as we go through our lives we forget How important it is when we have a family?

How important it is to raise them to love and fear God.

And I wanted to read a quote from Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen White, where she talks about the role of Moses' parents.

Page 244, the whole future life of Moses, the great mission which he fulfilled as the leader of Israel, testifies to the importance of the work of the Christian mother.

There is no other work that can equal this.

No other work can equal the work of a Christian mother.

And I praise God for Moses' mother, amen?

And I praise God for all the godly mothers who have lived since that time and have raised their children to love and fear God.

And sometimes I think we get focused on thinking how great we can be in this world from a professional standpoint, but we forget how God sees things.

And he has a special place in his heart for godly Christian mothers who raise their children to love and fear God.

And she goes on to say, the mother is dealing with developing minds and characters, working not alone for time, but for eternity.

There's a better life, a better reason, and Moses' mother understood that.

You know, I wonder what Moses would have become if his parents had just let him do whatever he wanted.

If they had let him play video games all day, watch TV, watch football for 6 hours on Sunday, I don't think he would have become the mighty man of God that he became.

And I'm thankful for how his parents raised him.

Notice in verse 24 and 25, By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." Moses had the opportunity to become 1 of the leaders of Egypt.

He could have been a great man of the world.

We could be talking about Pharaoh Moses, so to speak, these days.

He could have a museum dedicated to his name, who knows?

But here again we see that the way he was raised by his parents so impacted his life.

And we know that he lived with his mother for 12 years, just the first 12 years before he went onto the courts in Egypt.

Those first 12 years so shaped his mind that when he went into the Egyptian court, nothing could shake him from what he had been taught in those first 12 years.

And so that really underlies the importance as we raise our children, who are especially when they're in their formative early years, how important that early training is.

And when he got to the courts of Egypt, none of the attractions, the pleasures, the parties, any of those things could shake him from wanting to serve the Hebrew God, the God his mother had taught him.

And he chose to refuse to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

And I wonder how many of us, if we were in that same situation, would make that same choice.

Moses had the opportunity to gain a great reputation.

He could have been revered by the entire kingdom of Egypt, but he chose to pass that by.

To suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

And do we have a similar choice to make today?

Maybe we're not going to be the king of Egypt, so to speak, in our time.

But I do believe that many of us are faced with similar challenges.

When we're faced with a decision, are we going to choose a professional life that will pay us an extremely high salary, even if we might have to sacrifice principle, or if we have to take a position where we will make a lot less, but we will be serving God.

So many of us, in our minds, make that decision to go the route of making the high salary, being esteemed by people on earth, rather than being esteemed of God in heaven.

And so that's a choice that we have facing us even now.

But it's a similar choice that Moses made.

He chose to suffer affliction with the people of God.

We are living in the day of atonement, a time to fast and afflict our souls.

And so I would challenge you, choose to suffer affliction with the people of God.

It may seem like we don't have what other people have, but really, if God is with you, none of the pleasures of this world can replace that.

And so I'm thankful that Moses set us an example, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

In verse 26, esteeming the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.

Do we have respect for what God wants to reward us with?

God is offering us eternal life through the ceaseless ages of eternity.

And Moses could have had the most lavish earthly experience that any of us could ever have by being the pharaoh of Egypt.

But he chose instead to focus on what he would be blessed with throughout eternity.

And that makes me wonder sometimes, as I think about my own life.

I can often tell for myself what is most important to me by the time I spend thinking about certain things or talking about certain things.

And a lot of times I catch myself thinking about and talking about all of the things that I want to accomplish here on this earth.

All of the things that I want to have in my resume, so to speak, when I come to the end of my life.

What did I accomplish here on this earth?

Moses was more concerned about how his choices would affect the blessing that he could have throughout the rest of eternity.

And I would just encourage all of you, if you haven't made it a habit to think about what heaven is going to be like, now is a good time to start.

Heaven is something that really is beyond our imagination, the greatest thing we could ever hope for.

And if we want to experience it, I would encourage you to be thinking about it now, as opposed to what we want to accomplish in this life.

So that was something that was helpful for me as I was studying more into the life of Moses.

Now this kind of gives us a basic overview of some of the choices that Moses made as he lived a life of faith.

And we know that God called him to be the leader of his people, to lead them from Egypt into Canaan.

And so God had a special work for him to do.

And I believe that God has a special work for us to do today as well.

God called Moses to call his people out of Egypt, and God is calling us to call his people out of Babylon, to give the 3 angels messages, to call people to live a life of faith, just as Moses called the Israelites out of Egypt to go on to Canaan.

And there was a few experiences that I wanted to focus on as God prepared Moses to be a leader, a leader of his people.

We know that Moses spent the first 40 years of his life in Egypt and he made the mistake of killing an Egyptian who was assaulting a Hebrew slave And so he then went and spent 40 years in the wilderness, a very valuable time.

And sometimes we want to go out and change the world and just, you know, make an immediate impact for God.

And sometimes God wants us to spend that quiet time in the wilderness first, where we gain that revival, that reformation in our hearts, so that we're ready to lead for God.

And so Moses spent those 40 years in the wilderness and then God appeared to him again 1 day, starting in Exodus chapter 3 verse 2.

Moses, the Servant of God

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