Deliberately Choosing to Live Like a Child of God

Please open God's word to Hebrews chapter 11, I had not intended to say anything about verse 23, but I will says by faith Moses when he was born was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

They did this by faith, your faith is. Faith is believing what God has said, especially when the only reason for believing it is because God has said it and we don't read God's special revelation to Moses parents, but there must've been one because when they hid him they did it by faith and I thought I would make a comment on this because, as several of you know, today is my 60th birthday. And so I look back over six decades. First few years.

I don't remember but I would gather that being born is a fairly stressful event until some from observation that it stressful on the mother side of things, but it also must be a great shock to be born when you're a little baby and to leave the cold warm place to leave the warm wet place where you have lived all of your life and be born into what must seem like a very cold and dry place and not on my birthday. I almost always think back to what must've happened on that day in remember that there was a young, pretty, 23-year-old woman who loved me well and there was a young 24-year-old man who receive me into his strong hands, and I can never be thankful enough that and so well what what an enormous blessing to have godly parents and I wanted to bring it up, not just for the benefit of saying what I just said, but also to encourage those of you who were devoting yourself to the task. There is no more noble task in the world and rearing children for God and Moses was blessed and that he had he had parents who, while they could use the influence that they had to grow him up for God course.

Much of his childhood apparently was in the in Pharaoh's palace. But there came a time when he chose to chose to follow God and admit that he had to leave the palace pastor has just read the text to let me read it again beginning in verse 24 by faith Moses when he was grown up was coming-of-age refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God and to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin, he consider the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. One of my favorite books was written by a Christian brother who lived about 1500 years ago about the time that the Roman Empire was being overtaken by marauding tribes, the good Visigoths from the north. This man named Boethius lived. Now he has several unpronounceable first names and he just usually is known by the last name of Boethius, and it may surprise you because I daresay that many of your hearing the name Boethius, for the first time that Boethius was the most read book of the Middle Ages, so he wrote a book called the consolation of philosophy and is something in that book that has caused me to use him as the introductory example. Now do believe that he was a brother in Christ, he he had writings that were very influential in and the Christian churches understanding of the Trinity.

The doctrine of the Trinity has several theological tractate. He also wrote very influential tracks small books on mathematics on music on astronomy and and on geometry so those so those four disciplines along with grammar, logic and rhetoric make up the seven liberal arts and he is largely responsible for adding those for that I just mentioned astronomy geometry, mathematics and music.

He's largely responsible for adding those to the classical curriculum. So many of you have a liberal arts education in and I feel like I am when I graduated with my liberal arts bachelors degree.

I couldn't name the seven liberal arts that that that's that's the basis that's been. Consider these are the basic things that you need in order to be fully human and participate in the human conversation, and so Boethius wrote he was he was a scholar in philosophy and both Aristotle and Plato.

But when the Goths came down and hand overtook Rome, then the Goths were very much under the influence of a a theological perspective on the person of Christ that is known as Arianism the maintenance you may not know the term, but you're familiar with Aryans because Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons are Aryan and there Christology is that Jesus Christ is not eternal with the father but that he was created. The most important of all gets God's creation, but nevertheless Aryans are not Trinitarian's.

They believe that Jesus was created on the other hand, not too long before that a man name Athanasius had had argued that Jesus was the second person to the Trinity and that he he was eternal God with God and the wet Western Christianity. Rome embraced Athanasian Christianity, but the Visigoths were under the influence of Arianism and so one of the ways that they would test on whether or not someone was so loyal to the new government was they would try to determine what was his Christology what they believe about Christ and Boethius believed that Christ was eternally God and so bit Boethius was imprisoned. Exiled is gives you a better idea. So don't think of them as being put into a dungeon with bars, but he was exiled to a place where he was a fairly young man in his 40s and he was executed a brutal way and but before he died while he was in exile he wrote this book called the consolation of philosophy almost always have people ask me about the book, the consolation of philosophy afterwards. And so, if you're curious about it. I'll just tell you right now. You should get the addition that it is published by St. Ignatius press. I've taught out of other additions and I can tell you that the one by St. Ignatius Ignatius press is just so much easier to understand than anything else that is out there. The book has been highly valued for for centuries. The King, Alfred the 10th century translated Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century Queen Elizabeth I translated so it's been a highly valuable book and it's a very thought-provoking book and I do encourage you if you are interested in thinking thoroughly about these things to get the consolation of philosophy and read it very carefully but do in the consolation of philosophy Boethius identifies the five gifts of fortune, not Boethius writes the book in the first person, and while he's in in exile.

He imagines that lady philosophy comes and reasons with him. Why are you so sad.

You haven't really lost anything of value. The only thing that you have lost are the five gifts of fortune, and since they are the gifts of fortune you are never guaranteed them to begin with many of you are familiar with the game. The wheel of fortune, the name for that game is taken from an ancient concept that there was something like a goddess who had a wheel instead of being horizontal like the game show was more like a vertical and then the fortune would just give that wheel spin, and if you came out in a good place then you got some of the good gifts of fortune. If you came out in a bad place then you never got the gifts of fortune, but all of those people were considered fortunate who got the gifts of fortune and those five gifts of fortune are wealth, power, pleasure, positions of honor and fame and is a very insightful gathering of the five things that people have always longed for to the union wealth. Everybody almost everybody wants wealth, power, everyone wants to be in a position to tell other people what to do pleasures physical pleasures. Everyone is fighting to get some kind of physical pleasures positions of honor distinct from honor honors a good thing to pursue that is wanting to have a position of honor so that you will be admired and in the final thing is fame and seems to be more prominent in these days that perhaps it has been because it with all of the social media and the various things that are available on the Internet.

It looks like fame is within reach of the average person more easily than it has been in times gone by. So Boethius identifies these five things and says in is very interesting I I'm tempted to go on more about the book, but I'm just about to have to leave it there. He says none of these things are worth devoting your life for and I Boethius was a man who had enjoyed many of those things as well as Moses, the person who is talked about in set forth for us in the text as an example of the way that we should deliberately choose to live as sons and daughters of God I am so thankful that after having been a Christian since 1975 so for these 45 years so so thankful that there are some things that were a temptation to me in 1975 that are no longer temptation for me and then if you've been walking with Christ for any amount of time than you probably have sins over which you have gained similar victory. But then there are fresh challenges that come and that you can never just fold your hands and coast and say, well, I've got this now living the Christian life with purpose and meaning does take deliberation you have to think about it, you have to make decisions – sometimes those decisions come upon you unexpectedly and suddenly you're confronted with the having to make a decision that you never anticipated that you have to deliberately choose that you're going to live life like a son of God or like a daughter of God. Certainly Moses had to make that kind of a deliberate decision. He was a man who was blessed with the five gifts of fortune think about. He is a young baby was adopted into the family of the most influential ruler on earth. But when he became old enough he refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter while I'm starting to get in my text and not so let me go ahead and give you the three points. So the first one is I'm going to answer the question or let the text. Answer the question what did Moses refuse. What did Moses refute and then secondly similar question. What did Moses choose what did Moses refuse. What did Moses choose and then the third and the greater part of the sermon will consist of answering the question why why did he refuse what he refused. Why did he choose what he chose and so if you direct your attention to the text, or remind yourself of what it says is that Moses, when he was grown-up when he became a man he he refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter now living as the son of Pharaoh's daughter would probably have grant him access to all five of the gifts of fortune did he have wealth all yes the wealth of Egypt was stored and when some of us think of gold and silver, and in massive amounts. The things that we think of some of the gold golden artifacts that were discovered in the tomb of King tut had what did you have access to power all yes he has it. He had access to power, not in the Bible, but in other books that talk about Moses and his life in Egypt made part of the writings of Josephus.

Josephus says that Moses had the lead a very successful military campaign against some of the enemies of Egypt and he was a very powerful man so that access to wealth and access to power was was it a position of prestige. Can you imagine how many people slaving in Egypt thought that he had the nicest position in all the land be part of the royal family.

Oh what what a great deal of prestige and what a position of honor.

He had and how famous he was. He had it all and much of it was connected with his being in the household of Pharaoh's daughter but when he got old enough, when he became a man he was of age. He refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Not only did he refuse to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter, but if you look a little for further in the text. You'll see that he refused the refused pleasures in verse 25 chose rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin here were all these pleasures that were within his reach and he turned away from a pleasurable life.

Not only that, but if you see in verse 26 he made choices that meant that he had believe these great hordes of Egyptian wealth behind. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt so he he refused a position of honor and power.

He refused a position that afforded him pleasures. He refused a situation where he had probably unimaginable treasures at his disposal. This is what he refused. What did he choose it says that he chose rather to be mistreated with the people of God out who in his right mind would choose a life that entailed mistreatment when you and I are mistreated, we feel the smart of it. We feel the pain of it. We feel the injustice of it. I believe that God has so constituted us so that we feel a kind of resentment for it and and certainly Moses was not some kind of misogynist start warming masochist wasn't someone who just enjoyed being mistreated, but he chose mistreatment and not only that but he chose reproach you can see further in the text that he chose mistreatment and he chose approach now why would a man choose something like that. Why would a man refuse the things that were available to him. But most of the world wants and why would he choose these situations that no one wants mistreatment and reproach.

Why would he do it well. The first thing is that it's not because he was caught up in the hot-blooded ardor of youth.

So I think that the reason it tells us that he was full-grown when he did this is to say these is not some kind of hotheaded high school kid here is not some kind of crazy idealistic college kid who just wants to join a protest somewhere. He is thought through this and deliberately in in the coolness of thought. He said this is the decision I'm going to make. I'm going to refuse these things and I'm going to choose these other things.

So it wasn't because he was some kind of idealistic hotheaded youth and that he later on regretted his decision. But the Bible tells us that he chose this by faith he chose it by faith of Artie told you, but I'll say it again faith is believing what God has said, especially when the only reason that you have for believing it is because God has said is a great deal of misunderstanding about what faith is in this country and the most common misunderstanding is that faith is strong optimism. If I really believe that something is going to happen and if I hope hard enough that it's going to happen.

That's faith. So you hear people in distressing situations. Just encouraging one another. You've got to have faith. I think that everything is going to turn out. They will say because I have faith in what they really mean is I just have this strong optimism. Well, what your reason for having such optimism. I don't know you just got to believe you just got to have confidence that this is going to happen and I have seen this operate tragically in the lives of some of my friends when I was a young man there was a friend of mine that I would visit in the in the nursing home. He was a not that much older than I was. He had been a healthy, Marine, and when he was set in a bar one night someone hit him over the head with a beer mug and he woke up six months later a quadriplegic and so he had to learn how to talk. He had gained a little bit of movement.

In one of his hands and he could eat himself, but he couldn't chew and so his tray was always a mass in the always had this Bible on his tray that was wrinkled with saliva, but he knew that Bible very well and he was a brother in Christ, he would he tell me it is very slow why I'm not going to imitate the way that he spoke very very slow way would say I think God that this happened to me because as a result of this, I've come to Christ. But in his later years he came under the influence of people who had that misunderstanding of faith that faith is strong optimism. And if you just believe strongly enough that something is going to happen, then it will happen. And so, in those later years I would come in to see my calling by name, say, how you doing would say I'm healed I'm healed various not quite a quadriplegic.

He has little bit of movement one hand, but legs stretched out in front of him and people have to take care of almost his every need.

I'm healed he would say, and I never was mean enough to tell them.

Obviously you are not healed, you're still sitting here in this nursing home in this wheelchair that he would be continued to say that because he was under the influence of that wrong teaching which says that faith is strong optimism but faith is believing what God has said, and if you read through Hebrews chapter 11, you'll see that in virtually every case of people who are held up before us as examples of people who lived life by faith. The only reason they had for doing the things that they did was because God had told them to do it so they believe what God had said, and they obeyed him, and by faith Moses made these decisions, but there are a few things you know the faith is.

Faith is a legitimate way of knowing that there are people who act like faith is some kind of some kind of a cheating that if you say you know something because it's written in the Bible will that's cheating. That may be true for you though say, but it's not true for everybody else and I'm amazed that the Christians who have just kinda smiled a little embarrassed smile and shrugged her shoulders and said well you got me there. So get this get this clearly into your head. Faith is a legitimate means of knowing.

In fact, faith is the only way that you can know the most important things in life. The most important truths in life are not explained to us so that we can decipher them.

They are revealed to us so that we can believe that. And faith believes what God has said, especially when the only reason for believing it is because God has said that once you have granted that then reason is a legitimate means also of determining why this is so and so there are some reasons given in this text as to why Moses refused what he refused and why he chose what he chose.

Let's see what some of them are. It says in verse 24 by faith Moses when he was grown up refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God.

Now there is the first reason in order for him to affiliate himself with the people of God.

He had to leave behind other affiliations. You might say will thank God he hasn't called me to do that.

But the fact of the matter is, he has called you to do that. He has called me to do that the Lord Jesus has said, unless you hate your mother and your father and your sister and brother you cannot be my disciple. Another Jesus is speaking hyperbolic late.

The same Bible that contains those words of Jesus also tells us that we are to honor our father and our mother. So what Jesus is saying is that your devotion to me must be so great that every other devotion that you have even to your mother and your father and your sister and your brother and your children and your wife all of those other devotion's most pale into a far distant second place in comparison to your love and devotion to me you are going to be mine. Once Jesus was teaching in a woman called out and said, blessed is the mother who gave birth to you, and took care of you as a baby she was no more specific than that.

But that's essentially what she said and Jesus said blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it. Think what a blessing it would be to be Mary the mother of Jesus. What a blessing. But Jesus said if you hear the word of God and obey it. You're more blessed than Mary blessed for you to know the word of God and to obey it, and it was for Mary to have the honor to be the woman who was chosen to bear God's son and I trust that Mary became a believer and that she was only blessed to be his mother but she participated in this greater blessing that Jesus talked about and in being someone who hurt here heard the word of God and obeyed one day Jesus was in a northern part of his stomping grounds and he was met thereby woman sorrow finish and woman she wasn't a Jew. You know that in Jesus life. Jews never fraternize with non-Jews or special special rules about how you had to behave around them and this sorrow finish and woman had had a daughter who was possessed by a demon and was in bad shape and so she came to Jesus and she starts asking him will you heal my daughter and Jesus ignores her and so she just keeps on pastoring Jesus and the disciples until finally the disciples come to Jesus and they say send her away. She's about to drive us crazy and so Jesus then stops and says to her, what is it you want and she said I want you to heal my daughter. And then Jesus said it's not right to take the children's bread and give it to dogs. That's pretty rough. Isn't this Jesus nice loving Jesus. What's he calling this woman than you are a dog. It's not right to take the children's bread and give it to dogs. Now why would Jesus say such a mean thing where there was a lesson in it for her as a lesson in it for us. That woman was faced with the decision.

She might have said will tell you this Jew boy ain't nobody going to call me and my family dogs. You just keep your healing power.

And I daresay that's what some people would. Maybe that's what you would've done. Maybe that's what I would've done. But that's not what she did, she did not respond that way. Instead, she said yes Lord, but even the little dogs under the table get to eat the crumbs that fall from the children's play.

No, don't read anywhere in the Bible that Jesus left some using my imagination here when I say that I suspect that Jesus just threw his head back and laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks because she had passed the test with flying colors. It was a hard test. He had called her and her people group dogs.

It's not right to take the children's bread and give it to dogs but she came back with a response of faith yes, but can't you even give him few crumbs to the dogs under the table and Jesus said for this answer, you will receive what you have asked for, and I believe that she receive something else. She came from under the table and sat down at the table with the children and that is the lesson that was in it for her and that is in it for us.

We have to choose like Moses and say they may be a despised people. They may be looked down upon by the world but they are my my people are not. First of all white folks, my people are not. First of all, educated people, my people are not.

First of all, rich people, my people are not hunters. My people are not members of some political party. My people are the people of God, your people must be the people of God, and you I anybody is going down an extremely dangerous path when they say will first of all you have got to respect my political party before I'm going to fraternize with you first of all you got to respect my people group before I'm going to fraternize with you all.

That is so unimportant into the fact again comparison to the fact that you and I love the Lord.

We are adopted into his family. We are his people. Moses chose that's the people that I want to be with. They are despised, enslaved people, but there might people because they are God's people and so why did he choose as he chose, refusing to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter because of the state and that palace admit that he was never going to be with the people of God and Jesus tells us similar to something that he had to tell Moses you cannot serve God and man. You just can't do it, and there are Christian groups and Christian individuals all around the world were saying you can have it both ways you can serve God and you can serve Mammon. But Jesus says you can't.

One of them is going to be the master. And Moses said Weldon if it means that I have to leave the house of Pharaoh's daughter, then I will and I will affiliate myself with the despised people of God but say why LC refused what he refused and why did he choose what he chose, said that he chose rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin, all he refused pleasures, but he saw that these pleasures were just fleeting pleasures the pleasures of sin for a while.

There's no point in denying the fact that sin gives you access to pleasure but just understand this all the pleasures that sin affords our brief all the pleasures that sin affords our fleeting pleasures. They just last for a little while and so Moses looked at that he could imagine how it would be fun to enjoy those pleasures, but when he saw that there were other pleasures that were available to him.

He knew that he could not hold on to the pleasures of sin, so he turned away from it and neither can you.

Neither can I you cannot continue to devote yourself to the fleeting pleasures of sin and be a follower of the Lord must repent lessee while she Moses chose as he did, and why he refused it says in verse 26 he consider the reproach of Christ and why would he choose reproach was the reproach of Christ. It was the reproach that comes inevitably with being a follower of Jesus Christ. But it was the reproach of Christ. And so we consider that to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt. He put the tomb and the balance, and he said the reproach of Christ is worth more than all these vast glittering heaps of gold and jewels that are at my fingertips.

Christ is worth more than all of that some of us grew up singing a song that expresses this truth, I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame.

I'd rather be true to his holy name, but rather have Jesus than men's applause.

I'd rather be true to his holy cause then to be the king of a vast domain and be held in sins dreads sway. I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today when Moses looked at being with Jesus or having all of these pleasures and treasures of Egypt.

He said I'd rather have Jesus notice the last thing that is said in my text. It says that he was looking to the reward. There a lot of Christians are confused about this. They think that if you take the reward in the consideration that somehow it takes away from the legitimacy of the motivation of your obedience, but virtually every page of the Bible, will hold before you.

The incentive of reward as a legitimate motivation for doing what is right. Do what is right and God will reward you go into your closet and close the door and your God, who in your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

There are enormous treasures and rewards that are offered to people who are faithful and it is legitimate for us to look ahead to those rewards and say I wanted. I want what God has, I'm looking forward to it. However, the fought a good fight, I finished the course, I've kept the faith and henceforth there is laid up for me a reward, not just for me but for all who obey the Lord and look for his coming. He is coming, and he is going to reward people who have been faithful to him and is better than anything that you will give up this past summer, I was faced with the decision that I thought was a moral decision that you make the right decision meant that I was going to lose a lot of money and other was a certain amount of tithes and offerings that my wife and I give to the church where I'm the pastor and it was time.

The amount was going to be considerably more than our income on the surface look like it would support so we're going to church one day after this, I'd reach this decision. I told my wife I couldn't.

I couldn't do this wrong thing if they offered me $1 million and so we are on the way to church one morning and I said go ahead and write the check for today's tithes and offerings and she said how much you only make it for us and make it for the usual amount and she said, with Jim, you know, we don't have that money coming in now and my 18-year-old daughter spoke up from the back seat and said yeah data I don't think it's a good idea and I said look, let's let's keep giving this until we run out and everybody says you can't out give the Lord but nobody ever tries.

So let's let's give what we have been accustomed to giving and so my wife said I agree with that. So she wrote out the check for the usual amount that is said that week.

That week I received a letter and that in the letter. There was a check from an association I usually speak for that association during their summer camp and they usually pay me very generously so it's really good, but they canceled the camp so I wasn't going to get that income. But the, the head of the Association said. We decided that we are going to pay you for the camp anyway and I give you this extra just to incentivize you to come back next year with $6000 so I called my family into the kitchen where the conversation we had on the way to church last Sunday. Look this is pray. Thank the Lord I start off and oh God, you cattle on a thousand hills. As far as I could get.

He owns it all. There was a king of Judah, who got into a bad relationship with the king of Israel and they were going to go to battle together in a man of God came and said to the king from Judah, don't go with don't go God is not with Israel and the man in the king of Israel said but what shall I do for the 10,000 talents of silver that I have used two to hire these so these men of Israel to go into battle with me and the man of God said to him, the Lord is able to give you much more than this, and the king did what was right.

He sent those 10,000 hired soldiers from Israel back home.

They were mad and threw little fit in everything that that they won the battle. Without that, without the bad soldiers and then we're left with that Golden Nugget to encourage us in the decisions that we face that are similar to those that Moses was faced with because we are faced with the Lord is able to give you much more than this right on your heart. Remember it when you're tempted to maybe be a little dishonest because you can get a little bit more money maybe be a little quieter about Jesus when your conscience is telling you, you ought to speak up. Just remember, the Lord is able to give you much more than this. Have respect for the reward of the Lord offers to those who are faithful to him and conclude with telling you a story that's been set diverse was about a woman who lived about 300 years ago, although in this poem you can tell that the poem about her was written about 100 years after this event happened in the 18th century revival. There was a a man from a noble family name Rowlands Hill, who was converted to become a follower of Christ than he became a street preacher and as a street preacher.

He was able to attract fairly large crowds and I one day he was preaching in the Kings Highway and there was such a throng of people listening to him that the Kings Highway was blocked up and so that will set you the background for this story. So we listen kind friends for a moment while a story to you unfold the marvelous tale of a wondrous sale of a noble lady of all how hand and heart and auction marked soul and body.

She was so was in the kind Kings Highway near a century ago that a preacher stood of noble blood telling the fallen in the low of the Savior's love in a home above and a piece that they all could no all gathered around to listen and they wept at the wondrous love that could wash their sin and receive them in his spotless mentioned above, while slow through the crowd, lady proud in her gilded chariot drove make room tried the Hardy outrider you brought your blocking the Kings Highway. Their majesties weight and my lady is late give way they are good people. I pray the preacher heard in his soul was stirred and he cried to the rider may is I like the lightning flashes his voice like a trumpet rings your brand set days in your fashions and ways are all but perishing things is the Kings Highway today in the name of the King of Kings and bending his gaze on the woman and marking her soft fall and now in his name, a sale, I proclaim and bids for this fair lady call who will purchase the whole body and soul coronet Jules and all already see three bidders world steps up as the first. I'll give her my pleasures and all the treasures for which my votaries thirst should dance every day, more joyous and gay with the quiet grave with the word, but up steps the tempter boldly the kingdoms of earth are mine fair ladies I name with an infeed fame on their brightest tablets shall shine only give me thy soul, and I'll give thee the whole their glory and wealth to be thine, and pray what has now to offer thou man of sorrows, unknown, and he gently said my blood. I have shed the purchaser for my no the conch of the grave in her soul to save my bore the judgment alone. I'll give her my cup of suffering my cross of sorrow to share, but with an endless love in my home, above all shall be righted. There should walk in light in a row of white and radiant crown show where dollars per the terms fair lady that each is offered for the witch without shoes, in which without loose this life. The life to be the fable was mine, but the choices yet thine sweet lady. Which of the three near the stand of the preacher.

The gilded chariot stole and each had was about as over the crowd. The thundering accidents role every word is the lady heard burned in her very soul.

Pardon good people. She whispered as she rose from her cushion. It seemed full well they say the crowd made where you could hear her pulses beat and each had was bare as the lady fair knelt at the preacher's feet. She took from her hands. The Jules coronet from her brow. Jesus, she said as she bowed her head.

The highest bidder against for my sake, thy life and I take thine offer and take it now give me my cup of suffering welcome earth sorrow and loss let my portion be to win souls for the parish earth glittering dross. I gladly lay down her coveted crown Savior to take up the cross, preacher, and the people wept aloud years of rolled on and they all have gone who formed that awestruck crowd lady and throng of been swept along in the wind like a morning.

But the Savior has claimed his purchase around his radiant throne.

A mightier song a mightier throng with an endless song. Soon his praises. Repeat in a form more fair while bending there will lay her crown at his feet. So now in the eternal glory. She wrests from her cross in her care, but with an endless love from her home above.

She calls upon you to share in the joy of her Lord and her endless reward will you not answer her.

There is pray our father in heaven we thank you for the example of of great saints of the past like this woman who was converted through the preaching of row until like Moses, who, when he was old enough refused to be known as 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. Help us like him to walk by faith and to esteem reproach for the cause of Christ along with the people of Christ to be greater than anything that is offered to us by the world or by the devil or by Fortune help us Lord to believe you to walk with you. All of our days to deliberately choose to live like sons and daughters of God and