Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Hebrews 11:25

"choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" — Hebrews 11:25 (ASV)

Moses’ decision involved the ready acceptance of oppression as he cast in his lot with God’s people instead of with the pleasures he could have had at the court. He was fully committed to “the people of God.” Moses is seen not as a revolutionary but as a man of faith deliberately aligning himself with God’s own people, even though doing that meant ill treatment. “The pleasures of sin” implies that once he saw where God’s call lay, it would have been sin for him to turn away from it and align himself with the Egyptians. There would have been pleasures, but they would have been enjoyed only at the expense of disobeying God. Moreover, they would have been purely temporary. Moses had a sense of true values.