The Moses Model

Hebrews 11

It may seem a little odd to be talking about Moses in Hebrews rather than Exodus, but stick with me and it will make sense.

Hebrews 11 is often called the faith chapter. It defines faith, explains it a little and gives a lot of examples from the Old Testament. It starts with “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen, it gives us assurance about things we can’t see”. Each example after that starts with “It was by faith that…”

When we arrive at verse 23 we get to Moses.

It was by faith that….

..Moses’ parents hid him for three months, they saw God had given them an unusual child and they weren’t afraid of to disobey the King

..when Moses grew up be refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter

..he chose the hard way of his people, over the excesses of Pharaoh’s household

..he chose God over the treasures of man

..he left Egypt unafraid of the king and kept going because he kept his eyes on his invisible God

If you read Moses’ story in Exodus 2 and onwards, you’ll get a fuller picture of the man.

The one thing I’d like to highlight in all of this is faith isn’t passive it needs choice and action.

Verse 24 says “when Moses grew up”, literally ‘became large’, when he matured he realised some things and made choices based on those grown up revelations. He joined his faith with his life.

What did he actually do? Moses

CHOSE God over the wealth of the world

REFUSED to be known as anything but a man of God

COMITTED to Gods ways, absolutes, values, boundaries and word over the worlds ‘treasures’ of money, fame and power

LOOKED ahead to his purpose and created future, not to his past or the culture of the world

LIVED COURAGEOUSLY ignoring what others thought, worldly definitions and expectations, instead embracing Gods Kingdom culture

PERSEVERED believing he could achieve the impossible by believing in the invisible

SOUGHT God, for the rest of his life

REALISED that Gods faithfulness was the basis of his faith

The Moses model - understanding that by committing to and growing a relationship with God produces a life based on his faithfulness.

If you want to go deeper go to Listening isn’t always Hearing