<TITLE>12. Par 101-110</TITLE>L-101   Now, here again we read that, "Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt." Now, he esteemed the--the reproach of Christ.

L-102 Now remember, "the reproach of Christ." See, there is a reproach in serving Christ. If you're very popular with the world, then you cannot serve, you're not serving Christ. No, you cannot. Because, you see, there is a reproach that goes with It. The world always has reproached.

L-103 Way back there, thousands of years ago, there was a reproach that went with It. And Moses to be pharaoh, he was the next coming pharaoh, Pharaoh's son. And he was coming the next pharaoh, with favor amongst the people, and yet he "regarded..." Esteem means to--to "regard." "He regarded the reproach of Christ greater things than all that Egypt could afford to give him." Egypt was in his hands. But, yet, he knew to take the way of Christ was a reproach, but he was so happy to know that there was something within him, that made him regard this approach of Christ, reproach of Christ, rather, greater than all the glamour that he--he inherited. He had an inheritance inside of him that was far greater than what the outside inheritance had give him.

L-104   Oh, if we could be like that today, and let the Holy Spirit anoint that that we have within us, that faith, to a godly life, consecrated to Christ!

L-105 Now, with such faith as this that he had, he noticed, and he regarded that reproach a honor.

L-106 Today, somebody can say, "Hey, are you one of those people, those?"
"Uh, uh, well, uh." You're just a little ashamed of it.

L-107 But he regarded it a greater treasure than all the world, because that there was something in him that he could speak out and say, "Yes, I--I regard this. This is highly honored. I'm glad to be one of them." See? "I'm glad to number myself as a Hebrew and not an Egyptian."

L-108   The Christians today should say the same thing. "I'm glad to regard myself a Christian, to abstain from the things of the world and the order of the world. Not just as a church member, but as a born-again Christian who lives according to the Scripture. Though I be called, even by the members of the church, 'a fanatic,' yet I--I--I esteem that a greater--greater thing than what if I was the most popular person in the city or in the nation. I'd rather be that than President of the United States, or--or the king over the earth. You see? I--I esteem that so highly, because God in His mercy, before the foundation of the world--world, saw me, and--and placed a little seed in there, that my faith would fly above these things of the world. And now He's called me, and I--I regard my place."

L-109   As Paul said, he regarded his office with high... see, and, oh, that God had called him from being a great teacher like Gamaliel. But Paul had been called to be a sacrifice for Christ. See? Now the same thing.

L-110 Notice, with such faith, he never relied on his sight, what he could see. Now, he seen nothing out there but a bunch of--of mud-handling people, slaves, in prison, being killed every day, beat with whips, made fun of, their religious beliefs, was "fanatics." And there was a pharaoh sitting on the throne, that didn't know or regard anything about their religion. He knowed nothing about it. He was a heathen, so he just... What a picture of today! And there it is, a different religion. And how that if--if this Moses, yet in the very seat with the president, or the--or the great man, Pharaoh, to take his place at his death, and he was an old man. And yet Moses thought that that call... He looked out there, and the same window that Pharaoh looked out of, 'cause he was in his home.


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