{"id":211,"date":"2011-07-08T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:02","slug":"when-moses-became-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"When Moses Became A Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writer of Hebrews tells us Moses did three things when he became a man; he refused, he chose, and he esteemed.        Heb. 11:24-27<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: He Refused:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter.<br \/>\n2. He refused to become a man of leisure &amp; power in the courts of Egypt.<br \/>\n3. He refused to become bound by the wealth of Egypt.<br \/>\n4. He refused to remain idle while his people remained slaves. Moses became a Master in the use of the word NO. God&#8217;s men and women learn to say No.<br \/>\n5. The Hebrew Children, Daniel. Our young men today need to learn how to say a definite and final No. &#8220;Have courage my boy to say No.&#8221; A young woman of our day will never grow up to be used of God unless she learns to say No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: He Choose, &#8220;To Take.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Moses deliberately chose to suffer affliction with God&#8217;s people.<br \/>\n2. He refused the pleasures of sin for a season. He was not fooled by the pleasures of the court for he knew these would pass away. Young people stand on the threshold of a life that has many choices to make.<br \/>\n3. There are many paths to travel but no one can travel them all.<br \/>\n4. Joshua said, &#8220;As for me &amp; my house.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. Elijah said, &#8220;Choose ye this day.&#8221;<br \/>\n6. Jesus said, &#8220;There were only 2 roads over which the whole human race traveled, one was broad and one was narrow, one led to death, and one to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: He Esteemed: To Set A Value!<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Moses valued the hope of a slaved people above the fleeting riches of Egypt.<br \/>\n2. He thought it more valuable to be accounted with slaves that looked for a Messiah than to be a prince to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.<br \/>\n3. He learned as Paul the apostle learned that the present afflictions were out-weighed by an eternal weight of glory. We have the choice to make today the church or the world; the church with its burdens or the world with its fleeting pleasures.<br \/>\n4. Refuse, choose, and esteem are words that can send us to Heaven or Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer of Hebrews tells us Moses did three things when he became a man; he refused, he chose, and he esteemed. Heb. 11:24-27 I: He Refused: 1. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter. 2. He refused to become a man of leisure &amp; power in the courts of Egypt. 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}