Fear. Fear is One of the greatest hindrances to fruitful Christian living. And we Fallible and weak human beings are fearful about a lot of things. And the more we fear, the less we can accomplish for God. And Satan knows this.
And so he stirs up our fears. He plays upon our fears. He raises the fears that he knows we have. He introduces new fears into our lives. He exaggerates the fears that we consider.
And so it's important that we learn from the Word of God how to conquer our fears. And the life of Moses. He's given to us in Hebrews chapter 11, that great chapter of faith. to help us understand how to overcome our fears. And there are a number of things said in this chapter about the faith of Moses.
Some we have already considered, and we still have a few ahead of us. But we read in verse 23 of Moses' parents' faith. By faith Moses when he was born. We read in verse 24. about m Moses' faith himself.
By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. And today we take up the faith of Moses that overcame his fears in verse 27. where we read by faith, he that is Moses forsook Egypt. not fearing the wrath of the king. For he endured as seeing him Who is invisible?
Moses by God's help and grace conquered his fears. And let's learn from the life of Moses how we too can conquer ours. And so, in our text today, in verse 27, we should consider, first of all. about Moses, his departure. Secondly, his courage.
Third, his perseverance. And then finally, his understanding. His departure. By faith he Moses. forsook Egypt.
Egypt was all that Moses knew. until he was forty years of age. He was born in the land of Egypt. He was reared in the land of Egypt. He had enjoyed the abundance of the land of Egypt as the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter.
He had found Egypt to be a wonderful place of plenty, of prominence, of power. And so why would he depart Egypt?
Well, we learned a little bit about that last week. how he chose not to be called refused, actually, a stronger word than chose not, but refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer the affliction of Christ with the people of God than to enjoy the riches of Egypt. But he departed from Egypt, we told in our text for this morning, And yet the question comes up in studying this text: which departure is our author of Hebrews chapter 11 talking about. Because the Bible actually tells us about two times when Moses departed from Egypt. Once, when he was forty, years of age, and once when he was eighty.
And both of those are significant departures from Egypt in the life of Moses. And so, when we read by faith he forsook Egypt, is that the time that he departed Egypt to go into the land of Midian? Or is that the time that he left Egypt with a company of nearly two million Israelites? to leave Egyptian bondage and to travel to the promised land of Canaan. The departure to Midian.
took place As we read in Exodus chapter 2 last Sunday, At the time that Moses had gone out, To visit his countrymen that he probably had not spent a great deal of time with during the first 40 years of his life. He was enmeshed in the intrigues of the palace, the power of the palace, all the things that were going on in the courts of Pharaoh. But something, some crisis of which we have no details occurred in his life. And he went out from the palace of Pharaoh out to spend time with his countrymen, and when he was there, he observed one of his countrymen being abused by an Egyptian. no doubt an Egyptian taskmaster who was beating a slave, a fellow Hebrew.
And Moses, though he'd been reared as a prince, the son of Pharaoh's daughter, knew that he was actually an Israelite. And that God had a claim upon his life for him to be the one to deliver the Israelites from the bondage of Egypt. And there he saw this Egyptian taskmaster. beating this brother of his, and he intervened, looked this way, that way, killed the Egyptian taskmaster, buried him in the sand. Moses must have been a pretty strong, vigorous man.
He was no wimp. In hand-to-hand combat, he took on A burly Egyptian taskmaster, and overcame him and killed him and buried him in the sand. And then the next day he came out again, as you know. And he saw two of his brothers, two Hebrews, fighting with one another. And he said, Why are you quarreling with one another?
And one of them said, Why who made you? And Um Officer over us. Who made you in charge of us? Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday? Uh-oh.
Moses didn't think anybody knew that. But it was known. And he realized that when that Information came to the ears of Pharaoh that he was in danger of his own life. And so he scuttled out of Egypt as quickly as he could. He went out into.
The wilderness across that area that he would later lead the children of Israel across. went into the land of Midian. And there, God had prepared everything for him. He met a shepherdess feeding. Watering the flock of her father, and he watered the animals for her, and then.
She told her father about it and he said, Well, go get him. Why didn't you bring him home that I can meet him and thank him for being kind to you? And so she went and. Got Moses, and he found himself in the household of one who was identified as a priest in the land of Midian. And Jethro.
who also I think goes by Another name that escapes me at the moment, but Jethro gave one of his daughters to Moses as his wife, and Moses settled down and was enjoying the quiet, peaceful life of a shepherd in a quiet place and did that for 40 years and I suppose was Happy and content with his wife, with the children, the two sons that were born to him, with the extended family and friends that he was with, why would he ever leave Midian? But he did. He did. But was that? The departure that verse 27 of Hebrews 11 is talking about.
when it says by faith he forsook Egypt. There are a small number of commentators who do believe that is the reference. in our text for today. But there are some problems with that, even though there are some things to commend it. That particular departure seems to fit the flow of the narrative.
They narrative about the life of Moses that we find in Hebrews 11. And it may seem to fit best the chronology of verse 28, because the next thing. is m that is mentioned is by faith he that is Moses kept the Passover. and the sprinkling of blood. And of course the Passover was instituted before Moses left Egypt the second time, just before, right on the threshold of his leaving Egypt the second time.
But nevertheless, it took place before that second departure occurred. And so that would seem to fit better into our text for today. But there is a big problem with that interpretation, and I think this verse settles it all. And that is in Exodus chapter 2. The account that I just gave you a moment ago It came to pass when Moses was grown that he went out to his brethren.
And he looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting. And he said to the one who did the wrong, Why are you striking your companion? Then he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?
And then this.
So Moses Feared. And said Surely this thing is known. Moses feared And so When Moses went to Midian, he was afraid. He went because he feared. He was fleeing the wrath of the king.
And yet our text says, by faith, he forsook Egypt, not fearing. The Wrath. of the king. And therefore, I think it is almost certain, I would I'm convinced, totally convinced, that the departure, verse 27, is indeed the departure of the Exodus. When Moses departed from Egypt, In the face of the anger and rage of Pharaoh, who was mightily stirred up against Moses and would have killed him if he could.
And there were many reasons, humanly speaking, for Moses to be afraid of the king, even more, I suppose. than upon the first departure, but he did not fear. Pharaoh, and he completed his assignment faithfully to God. That's the departure, the Exodus. The second question, oh, I should just.
point out that he did that by faith. By faith. Moses forsook Egypt. Not fearing the wrath of the king. What is faith?
Believing the revelation of God and acting accordingly. What did Moses believe? He believed the promises of God, that God would guide him, God would protect him, God would take him safely out of Egypt with a company of his people with him. God had made those promises, and Moses said, I believe God. And if God promised that, then I know that's what's going to happen.
Pharaoh can't harm me. And he forsook Moses, he forsook Egypt. By faith. But secondly, we must consider Moses' courage. By faith, He forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for...
Well, for he not fearing the wrath of the king, let's camp on that for a moment before we move on. Not fearing the wrath of the king. And now we come to Yeah. Central theme of my message today, which is Human fear. and how fear stops us so many times from doing what we ought to do and what God has told us to do.
and how fear so often keeps us from From um completing those things that That we want to do and that we know we ought to do, and to fulfill the gifts and potential and opportunities that God has laid before us. But fear is so prevalent to all of us because we are sinful fallen sons of Adam and we Fear because we are sinful and we therefore fear. We fear many things, don't we? We fear disease. Whenever we hear of somebody, particularly somebody we know, some member of our church, someone that is dear to us, that has come down with a serious illness.
The first thought that enters the mind of some of you I'm sure. Is what if that happens to me? That could happen to me. I might be next. We fear disease, don't we?
We fear poverty. What if I lose my job? What if My savings are wiped out. What if our country goes into a deep depression and uh Suddenly I find myself in poverty. And we fear.
The loss of the material things that are necessary to continue life as we know it. We Don't want to return. I don't think most of us fear Actual starvation, but we enjoy life as it has. As God has brought it to us at this particular stage, and we don't want to go back even to tighter years in our own previous. Time upon the earth.
We fear poverty. We fear the disapproval of others. The fear of man can be one of the greatest fears that we have.
Well, I ought to do this, but if I do that, so-and-so won't like it, so-and-so and my family won't like it. They will be critical, they will be hateful, I will have to suffer the loss of relationships if I do that. We fear the possibility of a failed marriage. We see people around us whose marriages seemed on the surface to be in good condition and then sometimes, quite surprisingly, the marriage ends abruptly and we say Is that going to happen to me? Is there something going on in my marriage that I'm not even aware of?
Is there something going on with my spouse that could bring the. Conclusion, the termination of my marriage, and that causes us to fear. Or, on the other hand, if we're not Married, we fear singleness. What if I don't get married? Aren't we strange?
When we're not married, we fear the. The awful Possibility of a life of singleness, which people who have lived that way. In walking with the Lord, can tell you isn't quite as bad in most cases as we often fear that it will be. It's quite manageable, and we can do so with the help and grace of God quite enjoyably as we learn to. Believe the promises of God and to trust His providences in our lives.
To believe that he's the one who leads us into marriage, or in some cases, leads us not to become married. That's God's will. That's God's choosing, God's direction for our lives. And if God has directed us that way, then He will make us content if we'll look to Him for it. But if we're not married, we fear the possibility of lifelong singleness.
And if we are married, we fear the possibility of a broken marriage.
So I'm just trying to show you, our lives are filled with all kinds of fears, aren't they?
Some of you are afraid of heights. I am. I I'll tell you that. That followed My cancer treatments and my chemotherapy. I didn't used to be afraid of heights, and then after the chemotherapy, which did some damage to my hearing and affected my sense of balance.
I don't like to even get up a few steps on a stepladder. That unnerves me.
Sometimes it has to be done. But it unnerves me. I understand the fear of heights. I don't want to climb up in a tree to cut off branches as I used to do. And I've done that even after chemotherapy, but I never, I'm always afraid of what may happen.
I don't like to get up on my roof and blow the, clean out the gutters or blow off the debris on my roof. I'm afraid of heights. And if I asked for a show of hands, I'm sure a good many of you. Share that same fear.
Some of you are afraid of flying in an airplane.
Now I don't know any of you that can fly any other way except in an airplane. Don't know too many supermen around here.
Some of you have never been in an airplane because you're afraid to fly.
Now I can tell you all day that the statistics Show us. But you are Not just a little bit, but far. Far Far far safer in an airplane than in a car. That you are far more likely to get in a serious accident in a car that will take your life than you are. To lose your life in an airplane.
But there's just something about the airplane. In a car, at least you're on the ground. I in the car, at least in in many cases, you're the one behind the wheel. In a car, you think even if there's an accident, there's a possibility that you will not. Be killed.
That happens many times, but it doesn't happen too often in airplanes. When airplanes go down, most of the time there are no survivors. And so some of you, in spite of all of the statistics that say that you're thousands of times more likely to be safe flying than you are driving in an automobile, would still rather get in an automobile. And drive The three days or four days it takes to get to California than to get in an airplane and fly there. Why is that?
Fear. Fear of flying. And on it goes. Water, some of you are afraid of water. You don't like to get in a boat.
Every time you read about somebody, tumbling off a cruise ship and drowning. You say, I'm not going to get on one of those. In fact, I don't think I'll get in any boat at all. I'm afraid of the water. You know, you can get so many fears.
If you get so many of these that I've mentioned and others and they begin to pile up, pretty soon you're afraid to go out of your doors. There's some people that. Don't come to church because they're afraid of being with people and the diseases they might get from people and so forth. Our lives tend to be Directed, and in some cases, even controlled by fear. of one kind or another.
And yet here's Moses. He had probably more justification. and being afraid of Pharaoh, than anybody else, but he did not fear the wrath of the king. faith Moses Forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king. Why not?
Why did he not fear the wrath of the king when most of us in that situation would have been? tremendously afraid. of the wrath of Pharaoh.
Well, we read The beginning, I think, of the accumulated things that God did to prepare him to not be afraid in our passage this morning in Hebrews chapter 3. Out tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, one day, he encountered a bush that burned and burned and burned, and it didn't burn up.
Now, no doubt, out in the desert, he'd seen bushes on fire before. But every time he saw one, it didn't take long until they were gone. It didn't take them long to burn up at all. But this one didn't burn up. Just kept burning and burning and burning and didn't ever consume the bush.
And he said that's Unusual, I've never seen that before. And so he approached that particular bush to examine it more carefully, and God spoke to him. He heard the voice of God. And God said to him, Take the sandals off your feet, you're in holy ground. And Moses realized he.
Had encountered, was now encountering the presence, the immediate presence of Almighty God. God gave him his commission and said, Go to Egypt, and I'm going to use you to deliver the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage. And you're going to speak to Pharaoh, and you're going to tell him to let my people go. And he's not going to listen to you, and you're going to perform miracles, and my power is going to be displayed, and you're going to bring them out. And Moses heard all of these assurances in this encounter with God, and the point is that he believed them.
Some.
Sometimes we hear the word of the living God and we don't believe it. And therefore we don't act according. to the word that we have received. But Moses not only heard it. He believed it.
That gave him courage. He was able. Two depart from Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king. And so leaving Vidian, He returned to Egypt. Encountering not only the opposition affair on the Egyptians, but the Unbelief and critical spirit of his own people.
He told them what God had told him, and he thought they'd be rejoicing, and they started complaining. As soon as Moses started into this. Task of Telling Pharaoh that he must let God's people go, Pharaoh doubled down on the. On the hard work for his people, and the Israelites were saying, Cut it out, Moses, stop this. You're making things harder for us.
We'd rather be slaves in Egypt than to endure this extra hardship. And Moses saying, No, no, be patient, trust God. It'll be a little time of extra hardship, but the end result is going to be freedom from bondage, freedom from Egypt. You're going to be a free people, a new nation that God is going to bring to existence. We were unbelieving and critical, and Moses had not only to face the opposition of Pharaoh, but even the opposition of his own people.
But it didn't stop him. He faced the obstinence of Pharaoh. He performed a series of miracles that God. Had appointed for him to perform, all of which were designed to show some. fault some foolishness in the false Gods of Egypt that those people worshipped, and they had their supposed characteristics, and every one of the plagues showed their inability to.
To do anything. They had no ability to stop these plagues, these so-called gods that they were worshiping, who were supposed to have power. They had no power in the face of Israel's God. He left Egypt, and then, even when he left, Pharaoh changed his mind and pursued him with his great army. But Moses ultimately succeeded in his appointed task and He didn't all.
without Fearing Feral. That is what is so astonishing. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king. And so, though fear is prevalent, fear is evidently conquerable. Though we all wrestle with various fears, there is a solution given to us by God, and we can find it in His Word, that if we will pursue it, will conquer our fears and allow us to serve God with joy and without fear.
But we need to find it, don't we? And we need to employ it. We need to apply these things to our lives that we may serve God acceptably and well. The bottom line about Moses, not fearing the king, was simply this. He had come to fear God more than he feared Pharaoh.
Pharaoh was great and mighty, but God was greater and mightier, and that's the bottom line. And Moses believed it. Everyone here would say that you believe that, but every time you fear something that God is in control of, you demonstrate you don't fully believe it, do you? Because if you believed it, you wouldn't be afraid of that, would you? God is mightier, and God has made promises, and God is faithful, so why are you fearing?
these things. That's how we conquer. Our fears. That's how success is attainable. To fear God.
More than circumstances, to trust God's promises instead of the unknown possibilities. We tend to fear what may happen. Even when it hasn't happened yet. That's why Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount said: Take no thought for tomorrow what you shall eat, what you shall drink, wherewithal you shall be clothed. That's what we tend to do.
Well, I've got enough food today, but what about tomorrow? I'm properly clothed and sheltered today, but what if something happens tomorrow? I'm Well enough today, but what about tomorrow? And we start. Not that we we can't even find enough things that are actually there to fear.
We start manufacturing ones that haven't even come yet so that we can be afraid of those. Aren't we foolish, foolish people? The way to conquer fear is to trust God's promises instead of the unknown possibilities. The God who has brought us safe thus far has promised it to be safe, to take us safely through tomorrow and all the days to come, right? Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come.
How did that happen? His grace. Has brought me safe thus far.
So I know his grace will lead me home. That's what the Bible teaches us. You do believe that, don't you? That's how you conquer. Your fears.
You Conquer your fears by knowing God. More Than you fear the unknown. Knowing him as he truly is. will help you to dismiss Those unknown things that whatever they are, They aren't greater than God. You trust his greatness.
You trust His graciousness. He is both great on the one hand and gracious on the other hand. He is all-powerful on the one hand and exceedingly gracious to those who come to Him by faith.
So what do we have to fear? We have the almighty creator and ruler and sustainer of the universe as our heavenly Father. And we can go to him and say, Daddy, I have a need. And he loves us and he will meet our needs according to his wisdom, his power, his love, his grace. Isn't that good enough to dispel all of these fears?
Surely it is. And so, when we believe in His greatness and His graciousness, the things we fear tend to melt away. If God is for us, Who can be against us, right? We heard that this morning, didn't we? Thank you, choir.
Straight out of the Bible. If God is for us, He is, isn't He? You're trusting him, aren't you? You believed these promises, haven't you? You're holding on to his son, aren't you, for salvation?
Hasn't God shown you that He's for you? God who so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son? If God is for you, then Who or what? can overcome him even if the who or the what is trying to damage or destroy you. How can they overcome the power and the protection and the provision of Almighty God?
We see Moses' courage, not fearing the wrath of the king. Because God spoke to Moses. God made promises to Moses. God demonstrated his faithfulness to Moses. And by faith, Moses believed the revelation of God.
and acted in accordance with what God had revealed and what Moses believed. It's really pretty simple, isn't it? It's not we don't need We don't need a whole series of sermons in order to figure out how to conquer fear. We don't need a lot of counseling sessions to know how to conquer fear. We just need to believe the revelation that God has given.
and act accordingly. Fears. Conquered. We could stop there, but we go on. The third thing we consider in our text today is Moses' perseverance.
By faith he forsook Egypt, his departure. Not fearing the wrath of the king, his courage. And he endured, we read next, he continued. Many begin in the Christian life. They profess faith in Christ.
They begin a Christian walk. They may attend church for a while. They may even begin a devotional life for a while, reading their Bible and maybe something else to help them to understand it. They may even engage in prayer. And possibly even get involved in Christian service, take an assignment in the church and serve the Lord, and then fall away.
How does that happen? Because they don't endure. Many begin. but far fewer persevere. And the Bible tells us that.
Many begin, but they grow wary in well-doing. and they do not continue until they reap. Many begin well in the Christian life, but they let other interests. Crowd out. Christian involvements.
and they gradually, gradually fade away. They failed to persevere. What's the pea in the tulip? T-U-L-I-P-P, perseverance, the perseverance of the saints. The Bible teaches, and we believe, that those whom God truly saves will persevere, and therefore, those who fall away, we have every reason to be exceedingly concerned about.
Those who fall away really ought to be concerned for their own souls. Remember the parable of the four soils? Jesus told it. He said, some of the seed of God's word fell on the hard ground and didn't penetrate at all. There was nothing visible that happened.
But he said, then some of the seed fell among Thorny.
Soil. And it sprang up. But the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choked it out. And it had no Fruit. And then he said, Some fell.
Oh, the stony ground was tribulations and persecutions, Matthew 13, 21. And the thorny ground was cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches. And these and other things will often take people away from what seemed to be an initial. step of faith with Christ. And with the Christian walk.
There are fleshly addictions that have a powerful hold. It may be drugs, it may be alcohol, it may be sexual. Um Immorality. or something else that pulls us away. And These things, when they do, pull us away.
According to the Parable of Jesus. Gave with the parable of the four soils, when those things do pull us away completely so that we don't return, that indicates that there never was genuine salvation to begin with. Many begin, but only some persevere. Many begin, but only those who are God's true children persevere. Many begin, but those who fall away and stay fallen away demonstrate that they need the work of God's regenerating spirit in their lives.
So don't. Don't. Say Of your children.
Well, I know they don't go to church, and I know they don't walk with the Lord. I know they live. Ungodly lives, but I can remember when he prayed a prayer and asked Jesus into his heart, so I know he's going to heaven. You don't know that at all. In fact, the Bible would tell you just the opposite.
Don't encourage people to believe In a false assurance of salvation. Don't encourage people to believe in a counterfeit profession of faith. Help people to understand that if you aren't persevering in the Christian faith, then it's because you need Christ. You need the new birth. You need salvation.
You need the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in your heart. It doesn't matter what you professed. Nobody is saved because they prayed a prayer. If you prayed a prayer unto salvation, it's because God first worked in your heart to bring you to that prayer. And you're saying the words aren't going to be the magic.
key that's going to assure your eternal salvation. And you need to be brought to that understanding. You need to be brought low. You need to understand, I can't save myself. I need God.
Help! There!
Now you're in the right place. Help God. If you don't help me, I'm forever lost. Help, God. Hi.
am desperately in need. of your gracious power. I think we're getting somewhere now, right? That's what we want. And so Talking of perseverance, here's some things to help you in perseverance.
Cultivate an understanding of God. You need to understand how great God is. The God of most Christians today is a lot smaller than the God of the Bible. You need to learn who God truly is. When God is big, man is small.
When man is big, God is small. I'm talking about the way he's perceived. When God is big, man is small. He sees himself as a creature in the dust before Almighty God, and he cries out in Desperation for God to do for him what he cannot do for himself. And that's exactly where he needs to be.
When God is big, when God is big in your thinking, then the people around you, the ones that you fear, become small. When Moses saw how big God is, then Pharaoh shrank. He didn't fear the wrath of Pharaoh because big old Pharaoh, the greatest king of the world of his day, with all of his pomp and power and armies and authority that many people feared. didn't seem so frightening to Moses because when he Looked at Pharaoh beside God Almighty, then Pharaoh looked pretty puny, didn't he? And so Moses persevered.
Develop your relationship with Christ. Get in the Word. Commune with Christ in prayer, fellowship with God's people. You need to Be in the Word both privately and in the gathering of the saints. You need to be in prayer privately and in the fellowship of the saints.
You need that. And To help you persevere, do like Moses did, keep your eye on the final day. The verse before it tells us that, right? The one we saw last Sunday. Esteeming the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.
For he looked to the reward. He was looking for the end game. All right, you're living for now and worrying about all the things of today. Let God take care of those, but you keep your eye upon the final day. You keep your eye upon the day of Christ.
You keep your eye upon the day when you are received into the presence of Christ. You keep your eye upon the riches and the promises of that time and then the trials and difficulties of this life. Will shrink down into their proper size as you keep your eyes. Upon The future. Here's what John Brown said, Not the terrors of the wrath of the king, nor the ingratitude, unbelief, and waywardness of God's people prevented him from succeeding.
Right. He believed in the revelation of his appointment to deliver Israel. And he therefore took up his part by faith, believing the promises of God. And God did not fail. God did not make a promise to Moses and then say, well, I don't think I'm going to keep that one.
And God didn't make a promise to you in His Word. And then is going to say, I don't think I'm going to keep that one. Do you think God would do that? And then finally, we'll have to wrap this up. There's one further.
consideration that is Moses understanding. We read four. He endured as seeing him who is invisible. He saw the invisible God, not with the eye, the physical eye of faith. But he saw it by the spiritual eye that only faith allows.
We live in a world of seen realities, physical substances and present circumstances. And that's where Moses was. What could he see all around him? The grandeur of Egypt, the power of Pharaoh, the weakness of the Israelites, their inability to do anything. Many discouraging circumstances he could see with the physical eye.
And that's all that many people could see. That's all that many of the Israelites could see. As Moses was telling them, no, no, God has made promises to you, believe them, but they couldn't see. beyond the physical, and so they were unbelieving and doubting. and fearful.
But Moses saw unseen realities, spiritual realities, future certainties. He saw the grandeur of Egypt, but he saw the greater grandeur of God. He saw the power of Egypt, the power of Pharaoh, but he saw the greater power of God. He saw the real unseen world. cannot be seen except By faith in the Word of God that reveals it to us.
I don't think we can even begin to imagine how vast and complex. That unseen world is. The world. of heaven, the world of where God is on his throne, the world of angels. It may be a bigger reality than the whole physical universe that our telescopes haven't even gotten to the end of yet.
But, however, big it is, and I suspect it probably is bigger than what we can see. But one thing is Clear, and that is that is just as real as the things that are physical. But it takes faith. To know that, doesn't it? To understand that.
That's why the chapter opened in verse 3 by saying, By faith we understand. That the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen. are not made of things. which are visible. They're made of things unseen.
made by the unseen God. And so we wrap it up. We must learn to conquer. our fears. Moses knew that he had a power greater than Pharaoh.
It wasn't his. It was God. God had made promises to Moses, and he believed them. And dear friends, we know the same if we Believe the Bible. We can trust God with the things that we fear.
We can trust unseen realities to be real if they have been given to us in the Word of God. If God has revealed them, they are real. There are a lot of imaginary things that. I wouldn't put a lot of stock in unseen things that people think might be real. What do you think about UFOs?
I don't want to go in that direction. I don't know. I don't care. But I know that everything that the Bible reveals about the invisible God and the invisible world beyond this world are true. If God reveals them, they're true.
And therefore, I'm looking forward to seeing more of them some day. Those who forsake Egypt, said Matthew Henry, must expect the wrath of men. But need not fear it. Those who forsake Egypt must expect the wrath of men. But need not fear it.
So, dear friends, seek God. Seek regular encounters with God. Spend time with God and His Word. Every day. and see your fears.
Melt away. Father, We are weak. But you are strong. We are small, but you are great. We are unable.
But you are omnipotent. We need help. and you are gracious to help all who come to you with a humble heart. Help us, O Lord, to believe these things to the honor of Christ. Amen.
