Hebrews 11:24-26
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 than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
Moses was a Christian.
He considered Christ a greater treasure than Pharaoh’s favor. He looked for a reward from the Lord rather than from his landlord. Moses opted for mistreatment with the Messiah over and against pleasure in the palace. He did not do this for a vague sense of altruism, but for a clear faith in God’s Christ. He placed his faith in the Prophet yet to come and separated himself from the profit margins right before him. He left the righteousness of might for the righteousness of meekness.
1 Corinthians 10:1-4
For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Moses was a Christian,
He was baptized into Christ. He followed the footsteps of Jesus. He communed with Christ. He built his life on the Rock, that was Christ, and his life endured the storms that providentially beset him. For the sake of the Son, Moses endured exile; and the Son, for the sake of Moses, endured the cross.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Moses looked ahead to Christ and Christ looked back at Moses. May we, like Moses, look to Christ; and like Christ, look to our brothers.
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
