0:00 Lord, you know every heart in this place. You know the things that every person is either struggling with or praying about or hiding, whatever it may be. But, father, we we submit to the authority of the word of God by faith. We call out to you by faith knowing that you can meet every need in this house. And so we call upon you, Lord, in desperation.
0:20 And we pray against every distracting spirit. We pray against every distracted mind. We pray against every heart that might not have reverence towards the word of God. We pray against every scheme of Satan that might come against this word, that might come against robbing the seed of the word. We pray, father, for hearts to have the right soil, that it might be planted deeply into the lives of individuals, that they may bear fruit thirty, sixty, hundredfold for the glory of God.
0:47 And so, Father, we pray and we believe that Christ will have victory tonight through this Bible study. And we ask, Lord, that we would all leave here sanctified. We will all leave here with a greater understanding of our savior, Jesus Christ. We would all leave here with a greater desire to know him more, and we pray against apathy. We pray against lukewarmness.
1:08 We pray against secret sin. We pray God for the fire of Almighty God to change us tonight. We pray this in Jesus name. I'm sure you agree with me that every single time we open up the word of God, we should believe that something happens. Amen?
1:23 And the Holy Spirit honors his word, honors this word. The Holy Spirit does not work against the word of God. The Holy Spirit upholds the word of God, takes the word of God, and cuts hearts with the word of God. So every time we open this book, it doesn't matter if there's four people in a room, it doesn't matter if there's 40, it doesn't matter if there's 4,000. We should believe every single time that God the Holy Spirit will do something with it.
1:46 So we're in Exodus chapter two. We talked about Exodus chapter one being introduced to this pharaoh who doesn't have any God fearing bone in his body. But But we're gonna realize that despite Satan and his tactics against the generation, against the people, God will prevail. God's purpose is prevailed. We learn about how Joseph and that generation died off, but guess what?
2:12 God's gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ, his purpose on the earth is not dependent upon you and me. That should humble us. That if God ever uses us, it's not because he needs us, it's because he gets glory out of it. And if we are willing to be used by him, glory to God. If not, you'll find somebody else.
2:33 I say it that way because we kind of think that we can do this thing or we or God can't do this thing without us. And God's like, are you kidding me? I can raise up the rocks to praise me. I don't need you, but I use you because out of you, I can get much glory. And we talked about these God fearing women, these midwives that would not kill these babies.
2:54 And so, the last thing that we stumble upon is verse 22 of chapter one of Exodus and it says, then Pharaoh commanded all his people, every son that is born to the Hebrews, you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live. And so, he didn't even trust in the midwives anymore. He says enough is enough. I'm gonna bring this up a notch. He told all his people, you see any of these guys, you see any baby boy, throw them in the water.
3:21 Let's get rid of them. And so, we see this increasing persecution. We see this increase of hostility towards the people of God and we're going to be introduced to a man of God in this chapter. The man Moses. But, we're going to read in a moment that we're not really talking about Moses in the first few verses, we're talking about Moses's parents, specifically Moses's mother, and we're going to learn something about Moses's mother, that she is a godly mother.
3:51 Whenever you see a man of God, it's very likely that there's a godly mother behind him that's been praying for him. Not all the time, but it's likely. And before we're introduced to the man of God, Moses, we're gonna see his mother, a godly mother, God's fury mother. And this theme of the fear of God is gonna continue in this chapter. And so we read together in verse one.
4:14 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levi woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. When she could not hide him no longer, when she could not, rather she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket of meat, bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the riverbank, and his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. Now, the daughter of pharaoh came down to bathe at the river while her young woman walked beside the river.
4:50 She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, this is one of the Hebrews' children. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call a nurse from the Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go.
5:12 So the girl went and called the child's mother, and Pharaoh's daughter said to her, take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed him. When the child grew older, in verse 10, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses because she said, I drew him out of the water. What can we say in this?
5:35 Just general observations from the first 10 verses of this fascinating chapter. Whenever we're introduced to a biblical character, it should excite us because there is this biblical hermeneutic, this this interpretational tool of when you're first introduced to somebody in the Bible, you should look at the first thing that this what it says about the person and what the person says, it's first action because most of the time, it reveals something about the person's character. We're gonna talk about that in a moment. So this should excite us. But let's talk about general observations in the first 10 verses.
6:07 What can we say? Yeah. He was a fine child. He was a fine child. If you have a different translation, can you name something else that it describes him as?
6:16 Yeah. Where's our KJV guy? Yeah. Goodly child. Goodly child?
6:21 In Hebrews it says proper child. Sure. Yes. That's right. Any other trans Any other?
6:27 What does it say in the Arabic if anybody has an Arabic bible? Do we have our, inter interesting international version? No? Beautiful. Beautiful child?
6:35 Beautiful child. Beautiful child. That's a good translation. Any other translation? Yes.
6:39 Who has the NIV? What does the NIV say?
6:43 It's a special child. A fine child.
6:45 A fine child, special child. Some translations say proper child. That's a good observation. Any other observation? Godly.
6:52 These first 10 verses? Godly. Godly. Goodly. Goodly.
7:00 Yeah. Any other observations other than that from these first 10 verses? Yeah, Gil. Levi. Sorry?
7:07 House of Levi. House of Levi. So it's telling us that these cup this couple are Levites, and that's that's important because there's a prophetic picture there of Moses being born out of the Levites and how he's gonna have a priestly role and all that. So, yeah, that's a good observation. Levites?
7:29 Eddie? Is there anything worth three months? She's in three months right now. Maybe, maybe not. Tamara?
7:36 He wanted them to kill the kids. Her house. Technically, she did what he said, but did it.
7:46 Yeah. So we're gonna get to that. When she puts Moses into the water, was that out of faith or out of fear? Was that we're gonna talk about that in a moment. Faith.
7:56 Faith? Fear? We'll see. We'll see. That's a that's a good observation.
8:00 The sister followed all of the followed the water to see where he climbed up. Mhmm.
8:06 The sister did follow. So this is planned in my observation. This is not just some random act. What else can we say? Yeah, Paul?
8:20 really I can't say this definitively, but I think that there's a little bit more than him just looking like a a pretty child. I think that, possibly his mom saw potential in him and that's why by faith, like Hebrews eleven twenty three said, by faith, they hid him. And it's possibly because they saw potential in him or they knew something about him was different. I don't think maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it is just looks.
8:44 It seems a bit shallow. I don't know.
8:46 Yeah. That's a good we're gonna talk about that when we get to that verse. It's a good observation though. Was it because it was a good looking kid that they're like, you know what? It's cute.
8:53 I think it's deeper than that as well. Yeah. Any other observations? Yes? I think
8:59 it's crazy though because, like, she ends up taking care of her own son and then she gets paid for it. Yeah. And it's just like how God worked that out. We're
9:08 gonna see how God likes to reverse Satan's plans for the good of his people. He's good at that. He's a master chess player. Satan thinks he's gotta move and God goes, you know what? I I made this.
9:20 And he starts moving the pieces and he knows how to do that. Yeah.
9:23 And verse nine and, how can he ended up becoming the pharaoh's father, so pharaoh had him. He said pharaoh wanted him to die, but it ended up being his grandson.
9:35 Isn't that amazing? Pharaoh wants all the Hebrew male childs to die and then Pharaoh ends up paying Moses's bills. Because god does that. We're gonna find that out too. Let's just even you know, it's important to understand context.
9:53 It's it's important. Let's get into the text. Let's dive in here. Think about the fear amongst the people of God with this latest verdict made by the king. Here's the latest.
10:03 You have any male children? I'm gonna find your kid and I'm gonna throw him in the water. And so you know what they do? They get they have a kid. I mean, is this is this their first child?
10:19 Is this their first child? Is this the the couple what's the couple's name, by the way? Anybody know the couple's name? I think the wife is Jochebed. Yeah.
10:29 Jochebed. Who's the husband? Amram. Yeah. We learned that in Exodus six twenty.
10:33 And so, we know Amram and Jochebed, they have a child. Now, is this their first child? Who is who is who else is there? Aaron. Aaron?
10:43 And? Aaron. Very good. So, he he has two older siblings. You know what?
10:47 Let's just be let's just be human. Okay? Let's not be hyper spiritual for a moment. Let's just be human. Here's a verdict in the land of America.
10:54 You have a male child, we'll we'll find that child, we'll kill that child. Here's Amram and Jorobeh. You know what they could have said? Hey, we already have two kids. Praise God.
11:04 He's given us two kids. This verdict wasn't given when they were, you know, when I wasn't pregnant, when I was pregnant with them. Let's just move on with our life. Why risk it? Why have another child that risk its life?
11:15 Why don't we just move on with our lives? So what drove them to have another child?
11:24 In Hebrews eleven twenty three as well, it says they have more fear in
11:28 the king. That's it. Right there. Hebrews eleven twenty three. That's the verse.
11:33 It's so exciting to know that the New Testament gives us commentary on the Old Testament. This is what it 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. You know why they did it? Because they had faith.
11:53 You know why they did it? Because they were not afraid. The same way the midwives were not afraid, these parents were not afraid. And so they, instead of being fearful of what this king has made to be a law, they obeyed the command of God which was to be fruitful and multiply, and they moved on with the commands of God. And, this is this is a spiritual lesson for you and me.
12:19 You and I should not be intimidated by the devil. That when you and I have the word of God, when God calls you to do something, don't let the devil treat you like a punching bag. Move on. Move forward. Don't be afraid.
12:32 Don't be fearful. You know, there's so many people, even in our generation, and we we've had this kind of conversations almost jokingly, but there's a sense of seriousness. It's like, people now, when they say, I don't want to have children. I don't know if I even wanna have kids in my day when I get married and have a family because of how wicked this generation is. Don't let the devil push you around.
12:52 Don't let the devil intimidate you and your family. Doesn't matter how weak is it getting as wicked as this? God, hope not. Where he kills every firstborn child or any male child. We shouldn't let the devil push us around.
13:06 You know, there are people that are intimidated to go into the ministry. Why? Because their family becomes a target by the devil. Their children become a target. I remember listening to a pastor once, and their one child ran away.
13:19 They were doing mighty things for God. And, Satan was bringing the wife into fear by saying, I got your one child, I'm going to get the next one too. And, trying to push her into a place and she was trying to convince her husband, let's just get out of the ministry. This is not worth it. Our family is at risk here.
13:35 Don't let Satan push you around. Don't be intimidated by what he says about you. If he's called you to do a ministry, do it. There's greater power in your little pinky by the Holy Spirit than what the devil has in his whole kingdom
13:50 All I can do is intimidate. All I can do is talk, but greater is he in me than he is in the world. Now, listen. There are those also who have this this kind of, oh, who's the devil thinking? He's powerful.
14:03 He is powerful. He is strategic. We shouldn't mock him in the sense of, oh, you can't do anything. Oh, you can't do something if you let your guard down, but we shouldn't be afraid of him. We should be aware of his tactics.
14:14 But I'm not gonna let Satan push me around. I love the faith of this couple. They say, okay, he commands us, who cares? We're gonna be faithful to the word of God. God will protect us.
14:23 God will lead us. God will be there for us. And so even in our own life, we should not let at any time and if you wanna do things for God, guess what? Satan will push back. We We should not be intimidated by him.
14:34 We should not be intimidated by the circumstances of this world to do big things for God. You know, if they did not go forward with this, there wouldn't have been a Moses. If they would have let the circumstances, oh, this generation is so wicked, oh, why do you diminish it? And they they could have hindered God from birthing something through them, but they were fearless. They didn't care what the king king said.
14:58 They didn't care what the law said. They knew what God's word said, and they held on to that, and they moved forward. And guess what? They birthed a deliverer, a prophet. Yes.
15:09 They did this out of faith. Can we say anything else about that in verse one? Well, verse two says, then the woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. So, here's the question. What did she see in Moses?
15:31 Now, we shouldn't interpret it this way. I don't believe it should be interpreted this way. Where it's like, wow, there's something about this child. You know what? We were thinking about throwing it into the river, but because it's a beautiful child, I think we'll keep it.
15:43 I don't think that's what they're thinking. I think they saw something special in this child. I think that they saw it. And the bible doesn't want to tell us what they saw. The bible doesn't want to tell us how they knew, But look at Acts chapter seven verse 20.
15:57 This is another commentary on this story, and this is what Stephen said by the Holy Spirit. At this time, Moses was born, and he was beautiful, not in his parents' sight, in God's sight. In God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house. I'm not gonna try to pretend to know what this is.
16:18 It's amazing how you read some people, they say, oh, his face shone and We don't know. The Bible doesn't tell us what it is. All we know is that the parents knew that there was something different about this child. Maybe it was his behavior. Maybe it was just God revealed something to them, but they knew that there was something about this child.
16:37 There was a purpose. There there was something special about this little baby. They maybe had some intuition. There was something in their heart that said, there's something different about this baby. And so they risked their lives by keeping this baby for three months.
16:51 I was gonna say, couldn't that be kind of like the circumstances also? You know, how he kinda uses that to show you what to do. They can like you said, they conceived him out of faith. And when they couldn't hide him any longer, they left with the guy. They put him in the river to, see where he can go.
17:11 Right. Yeah. So are you saying that maybe the fact that this baby was born in these kind of circumstances, that it was special? Yeah. That's a good observation, I think.
17:18 The fact that there is this verdict against these baby boys and here's this baby boy, it's like, maybe this is a special boy. Can you imagine the nine months for Jehobada? Imagine the nine months. What gender is it? What I hope it's a girl.
17:31 I hope it's a girl. I hope it's a girl. I hope it's a girl. I hope it's a girl. They're prank.
17:34 Who knows? We don't know. And then out comes this boy. Yeah. Oh, boy.
17:40 But there's something special about this boy. So they kept this boy for three months, and then it says here, when she could hide him no longer. This baby boy was making too much noise. Who knows? It wasn't sleeping as much as it, you know, babies do when they're young, and this is still fairly young.
18:01 But they came to the point where they realized maybe there was close calls, people heard a baby the neighbors heard a baby boy crying, who knows? And they're like, we can't do this anymore. So we have two options here. Either we keep this baby as long as we can and it will most likely be found and killed, but we come up with a plan b. So what do they do?
18:20 What does the mother do? She took from a basket made of bulrushes and dollied with, bitumen and pitch, and she put the child in it and placed them on the reeds of the riverbank. Now, if you've ever seen any kind of Moses type movie, this is how you've probably seen it. She puts the baby in there, and it's going through the river, and crocodiles are jumping up, and all these different things, and people are watching this thing going. It was like dramatic music.
18:43 You know how it was real? Like she went through a bunch of grass and put it there and stayed there. Dramatic, right? I think not just this is strategic. I believe this woman is operating in so much faith.
18:57 Look at this godly mother. I believe she puts it in a strategic spot. Where do you think she'd put it near? Pharaoh's house. Yeah.
19:07 She put it near Pharaoh's house, and we don't know her what her thought process is, but I'm sure her thought process is hopefully someone in authority will find this baby, the right person, maybe she knew, maybe because she knew Pharaoh's daughter comes by and she takes a bath in the river, so she says hopefully she'll find out. I know she's a compassionate woman. I know she'll maybe be able to convince Pharaoh, her father, not to destroy this baby. So who knows what's going on in her mind, but I believe she's acting in faith. Now, some people would disagree, she's saying she's acting in fear and she's partially fulfilling what Pharaoh said to throw the baby into the water.
19:40 I I don't believe that. I don't see that here. Maybe you can maybe you disagree with me on that, but I don't see her saying in the sense of, I'm gonna throw this baby away. I'm done with it. Why I don't believe that is because verse four.
19:53 The daughter goes out to see what would happen to this baby. I believe this whole scene is planned out by the mother. She's strategically operating out in wisdom, faith because you don't know what the outcome will be, but wisdom and say, I'm gonna place her by Pharaoh's palace. I know that, Erel, maybe this time, Pharaoh's daughter comes out, she takes a bath, and as soon as she finds it, I'm gonna have my daughter go up and say, can one of the Hebrew women nurse her? Would you disagree or for sake of discussion, maybe you see something differently?
20:30 Doesn't look like my mother told the
20:33 Doesn't look like the mother told the sister
20:34 no after. I mean, she just went after to see what would have with her problem.
20:38 Yeah. There's a lot of and this is tough with text like this because it's not very detailed. And so we kinda we try to make connections where we where we don't see any. That's that's a good observation.
20:51 Why would she keep him in the hands of someone who's back?
20:56 Yeah. Exactly. Well, I think she's hoping that because the daughter would find it, there would be some kind of compassion and compassion and convincing of the father not to destroy this baby. That's what I it's not there. That's what I'm just that's what I interpret here.
21:11 You can either interpret it as she has a plan here or she is, in a sense, partially getting rid of the baby by putting it in there and letting it stay there. But why would she let it stay in there? Let it starve to death? I mean, what's what's going on through her mind, Diego? I think she does realize that that's the safest place for her child, that growing up in the pharaoh's house among his family itself would be the only way that this child lives in a body.
21:36 Right. I believe she's operating in faith here. I believe the reason why she's doing this is because she saw something with this baby. She saw God's hand on this baby. I believe that she saw that.
21:49 I believe she saw something special and I believe act seven gives us that kind of commentary that it was beautiful even in God's sight, it was beautiful in their sight. There was something about this child that made them feel confident enough to do something and literally, here we go, put this baby into the hands of God and let this baby now move on by the sovereignty of God. Because it's almost like they lose win. Either you're gonna do it, you're gonna lose, or you take the risks and if she loses, she loses, she would have lost the baby anyway, but she's acting in faith by saying, God, I'm putting it in your hands now. I'm putting this baby in your hands.
22:23 You gotta take the baby where you gotta go. I can't keep the baby. They're gonna kill the baby. So I'm putting this baby in your hands, you leave this baby where it needs to go. If this is really you, if this is you making it beautiful in the sense that you have something for this this life, it's yours.
22:39 So, what happens? Now, the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river while her young woman walked beside the river. She saw the mask among the Greeks, and we know. We go down verse seven. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?
22:54 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go. So the girl went and called who? The child's mother. And look what Pharaoh's daughter said, take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you as your Isn't that awesome how God reports faith? Look how faithful God is.
23:15 She could have kept him for, who knows, maybe a few more months and she would have had that experience with that baby and maybe it would have been taken away. But in faith, she gives the baby up to the Lord. The Lord says, I'm gonna pay you to be a mom. You're gonna do it for free. Here's some wages.
23:32 I see that as God rewarding her. So the woman took the child and nursed him. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. What can we say about this mother? From verse three even to this verse in verse nine and ten, what can we say about this mother?
23:52 Very self sacrificing. Very self sacrificing. You want to talk about giving your children to the Lord? Not just once, twice. She was willing to do it at three months and she did it when he was older.
24:09 And there's something there because we we see this kind of, not too much, but we see it. We see it in another place. Can you think of another mother who gave up their child for the Lord and was invited? Hannah. Hannah and Samuel.
24:24 Right. They didn't hold on to their children. They didn't say, they had this revelation. God gave me this child. I give this child back to God.
24:32 Those children were used mightily by God. You know, in evangelical circles, we do baby dedications. Right? How about we don't take those as traditions because God takes those very seriously. You wouldn't go up and dedicate your baby.
24:46 Have you ever seen the, has anybody in here seen a baby dedication? Has anybody here not seen a baby dedication? They go up to the the pastor, they have this new baby and they just want the pastor to pray over the baby and dedicate the baby to the Lord. God said, okay, I'll take that seriously. I need a missionary.
25:07 I need a preacher. I need somebody to go in ministry. I need somebody to go to the jungles of Africa. And then the parents are like, why are you doing this? This doesn't pay well.
25:16 This doesn't do this and it. And it's like, didn't you dedicate me to the Lord when I was a baby? Now, god wants to take and use that baby. He's like, no. But this mother, Hannah, you give me a child, I'm giving it right back to you.
25:32 And god wants us to do the same, your future children. That If you dedicate your children to the Lord, he'll use them. He'll take your word on it. She was willing to let go, and God was able to work with somebody like that. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son.
25:55 She adopted Moses. She named him Moses because she said, I drew him out of the water. The irony. The irony. What's the irony?
26:05 That's where everyone's getting
26:06 killed. Exactly. Pharaoh says throw the babies into the water. God says, oh, yeah? I'm gonna raise somebody up and name him, I pulled him out of the water.
26:19 And not only that, Pharaoh, you're gonna feed him, you're gonna provide for him, you're gonna educate him, you're gonna raise him up in your own home. God loves to do stuff like that. We serve an awesome God. The devil and God are not in the same par. They're not on the same level at all.
26:39 The devil's on a leash. Oh, he roars like a lion. Yeah. But that lion is on a leash and god's holding that leash. You can only go that far, devil.
26:49 Get back here. He's in he's totally in control, and we're on God's side. So why are we afraid? We shouldn't be afraid. Spiritual attack?
26:59 Alright, Lord. You're letting it happen. I'm you're on my side. Give me the power. Give me the strength.
27:05 Something happens in the church, Lord, this is your church. And if the devil has anything on me, it's because God gave him permission unless I let some stupid sin in my life. But if I'm walking righteously to be godly and Satan's doing something against me, against my mind, against my life, against my family, must be because I'm doing something good and God you're on my side. Drew him out of the water just to make a point. And then when Pharaoh and later Pharaoh would see Moses and hear Moses, he would know what his name meant.
27:41 When he grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. There's an interesting New Testament verse that talks about this though because that's risky business. You let Pharaoh take in your son to teach him who knows what, To bring him up who knows how? But what does Hebrews eleven twenty four say? Does anybody know?
28:05 Yeah. By faith, Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter. Refused to be called a son, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God and to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt. Why?
28:35 For he was looking to the reward. Now, where did Moses learn all of that? When he was raised by his mother. See this godly mother? Gave him up by faith, had the baby by faith, and now when she has this window of opportunity to raise him up, you know what she's saying to him?
28:57 Moses, remember who your God is. Remember there's an eternity. Remember, Moses, that you might have a call in your life. Maybe God is putting you in this position to deliver our people. Moses, remember who you are.
29:10 Remember your people. Remember what God has done in the past. Don't let Egypt get into your head, Moses. Don't let the treasures get into your head. Don't let the the wealth and and the opportunity and the privileges get into your head.
29:21 Remember, there's a greater reward, Moses. And you can just imagine this godly mother teaching and teaching and teaching. Now, look at Hebrews eleven twenty seven. By faith, he left Egypt not being afraid of the anger of the king. Why wasn't he afraid?
29:35 Because his mother wasn't afraid. He wasn't afraid of the king. Why? His mom wasn't afraid of the king. What you can do to a child if you train him up in the ways of the lord?
29:50 I believe wholeheartedly that the mom is they credit all those to mom raising this child up in the ways of the lord, that when he moved on in life, when he went to Egypt, into the world, so to speak, he didn't let it get to his head. Do you realize something in this first two chapters of Exodus? We kind of automatically think of Moses as the man of God, but think about all the women that contributed to his life. Think about all the women up to this point, not just in his life. Think about the midwives, didn't fear the king, feared God.
30:21 His mother, didn't fear the king, feared God. The sister boldly goes up to Pharaoh's daughter. And so we see godly women in this text, and how they contributed to the man of god. So it's not just about men of god, there's women of god in here, working powerfully. And so, yeah, he grew up.
30:46 He was he was adopted, but he was not going to be regarded as Farrah's daughter. No. No. No. No.
30:53 My mom taught me otherwise. And you hear prodigal stories all the time when people that grew up in the church, they go back to the, you know, they go into the world, they come back to church. I'm sure, at one point in their lives, they could attribute that reality because of what their parents have planted into their hearts. Can we say anything else about verse 10? When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.
31:23 She named him Moses. What happened to Moses? In Acts seven twenty two, let me read this verse. Moses was a guy who was saying, I I can't I can't speak. Doesn't say that here.
31:54 It says he was mighty in words and deeds. He was well educated. He was brought from the greatest university, so to speak. And now we're introduced to Moses in verse 11 as a grown man. It fast forwards here and it says, one day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
32:25 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hit him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together.
32:35 Now he sees two Hebrews fighting.
32:37 And he said to the man in the wrong, why do you strike your cupani? He answered, who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid and thought, surely the thing is known. When Pharaoh heard it, he sought to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
32:59 Does anybody know how old Moses was at this point? Yes. 40. How do we know that? How do we know he was 40?
33:09 Acts seven. But before we go there, what observations can we make about this man Moses? This is the same much as he was a kid other than he was a beautiful child, but what can we say about this man Moses as we're introduced to him? What are some characters, what are some traits that you can pull out of this man?
33:32 He was worried and he uses your he renounces
33:36 his word and looked up the words.
33:38 Do you guys see Moses have a sense of justice in his heart? Yes. Yes? Eddie? Say anger.
33:46 Does Moses have an anger problem? Yeah. Do we see him have an anger problem again? Yes. He killed somebody.
33:53 K. Listen. I don't care how much justice do you have in your heart. You don't kill somebody for the sake of justice. Do we see him get angry at another point in his life in which it was really bad?
34:02 What point? When he struck the rock twice. And prophetically speaking, he struck Christ's right twice when Christ was crucified once. And God's like, you're not going to the promised land. And so he, from the beginning, we see something that we see in Moses' throughout his life.
34:21 We see that he has this sense of justice in his heart and God uses him for the sake of justice. And we see that he has a little default in his life, and it's this anger problem. This anger problem. Yeah, Yeah. So his whole life, he knew he was a Hebrew.
34:43 He knew he was a Hebrew. So we see him here. He has a sense of justice. He he has this care for the Hebrew people. There's another observation too.
34:49 He's he's strong. I know that might not seem significant, but it will in a moment. He's strong. How do you you punch a guy once and he dies? What is that?
35:02 We'll get to you in a second. Hold on. That's easy. You punch a guy once and he dies. He struck him and he buries him.
35:10 And not only that, it's premeditated, it's just he looked that way and this way. So he goes like this, goes up to the guy and knocks him out and buries him. Why did he do this? That's the better question.
35:24 To protect his people from being beaten.
35:27 From protecting his people from being beaten. Yeah.
35:30 Act seven as well talked about physicist. At twenty forty five, it's seen one of them suffer wrong,
35:46 Did you guys hear that? Yes. In acts seven twenty four 25, so he partly true. He wanted to defend his people, but there is something even deeper than that within him that caused him to do that. What was it?
35:58 He had a sense of calling. He had a sense of calling from God. That's what acts seven twenty five says. Look what it says. He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand.
36:11 You know what that tells me about Moses? Moses had a revelation from God to a certain extent. God brought me up for this purpose, to deliver my people, to deliver the Hebrews, to deliver the Israelites. And so, what does he do? He attempts to step into that calling, but listen, the calling might be right, but the timing might be off.
36:33 Did you guys hear that? The calling might be right, but the timing and the method might be off. And Moses is stepping into his calling just a little too early. He's going ahead of god. And so, he goes, God put out my heart to be a deliverer for my people.
36:49 So, what does he do? He goes ahead, you see something happening, beats the guy up, kills him and buries him. You know what God, I'm sure was thinking? Moses, you might have graduated from Egypt but you still have to go through the school of God. You might have learned a lot Moses.
37:09 You might have got wisdom and mighty deeds and stuff but you know what? You still have to get your degree in what? Learning from God. And so I'm gonna enroll you in something called the school of God. Yes?
37:22 It's very similar to Joseph where like he understood his calling whereas Moses wanted to protect the other human people but, yes, the timing's off. Yeah. The timing is off. And so what does he do? He attempts to step into it, and what does he what happens?
37:41 How do the people react? Look what it says here in verse 14. He answered, who made you a prince and a judge over us? Exactly. Who made you a prince and judge over us?
37:49 Why are you trying to step into your position before God assigned you the position? Who made you a prince and judge over us? God didn't give him the position yet. But he tried to step into the position before his time. And he probably justified it in his mind like so many people.
38:09 Look, I'm 40 years old. I have strength. I'm in the prime of my life. I'm educated. I got my seminary degree.
38:18 I have it all. Here we go, God. And God's like, yeah, but you didn't you still haven't gone through my school. As a favorite preacher of mine says, you can still have 33 32 degrees and still be frozen. You still didn't go through my school.
38:37 You need to still be educated in my university. And so what does he allow happen? He allows circumstances to push Moses out of Egypt into the wilderness. What does he do? He makes him and places him in a place of hiding.
38:56 He hides Moses. Whenever God calls somebody, usually there's a season of hiding for that person. Whenever God calls somebody to do something great and whenever somebody has this burning passion in their heart to do something great for for God, usually God allows them to go through a time and a season of hiding. I want you to think about David for a moment. David was anointed as a child, as a as a youth.
39:28 I mean, you're anointed by the prophet Samuel. You know what would go through my mind if I was anointed at that age? Surely, it's only gonna go up from here. And so what happens? He kills a few bears and lions in private when nobody's watching.
39:42 Here's this Goliath guy comes, he makes this grand scene, this amazing amazing thing happens, people sing about him, all the And you know where he's from? Oh, here we go. I'm going up from here. Here's my popularity. Open doors for ministry.
39:55 All these different things. You know what God does? Is I'm gonna put you in a cave. I'm gonna put you in a cave because I gotta teach you some things in a cave. I'm gonna teach you how to depend up upon me.
40:06 I'm gonna teach you how to pray. I'm gonna teach you how to, in sorrow, in times where you feel like everybody's against you to depend depend on me. And he had so many times to step into his calling, but how? How how did he have opportunities to step into his calling?
40:21 To kill Saul? And you know what David does? Instead of killing Saul, he says, I'm waiting on God's timing. I'm waiting on God's timing. Think about Elijah in first Kings 17.
40:34 Elijah, we're introduced to Elijah. He steps on the scene, he says, according to my word, there's gonna be a drought. And you go, yes, here we go. Here's Elijah's prophetic ministry started. You know what God says in verse three?
40:45 Go hide yourself. Say, Lord, I just started. Yeah. But I gotta teach you some things. Go into the wilderness.
40:56 John the Baptist, filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb. I mean, how much earlier can you start? And in Luke one eighty, it says that he goes into the wilderness until God makes him known to the public. Apostle Paul, what do we know about the apostle Paul? We think that he had this road to, not road to Emmaus, road to Damascus experience where Jesus reveals himself, and right off the bat he's doing crusades.
41:25 Is that what happens? What happens to Paul the apostle? Arabia. Right? Galatians four.
41:32 Not Galatians four. Early on in Galatians, she goes and he's into Arabia for how long? Two years. Three years. Three years.
41:39 Okay. So think about it. Moses, Moses, Elijah, David, John the Baptist, Paul the Apostle. May I remind you? Jesus Christ.
41:55 So what makes you think it's gonna be different for you and me? He puts you and he hides you. Why? Because he wants to teach you things in that season. He wants to strip you of your strength.
42:09 He wants to strip you of your pride. He wants to strip you of your own abilities. He wants to strip you of everything and anything. He wants to teach you some things that you cannot get from school. It's a season of hiding.
42:22 It's a school of God. And you might have that burning desire in your heart. You might be wondering, I don't understand God. You put this in my heart in the first place. You called me clearly.
42:31 You've gifted me, and I'm not seeing the fruition of what you called me to do. And God's saying exactly because you're in hiding. And I'm trying to tell you and teach you some things. And the longer you make this process harder, the longer it's gonna be for you to walk into that. So just yield to me.
42:46 Yield to me. So he allows circumstances, life, trials, tribulations. He lets Moses and he pushes him into the wilderness. Here he is into the wilderness and the first semester starts in verse 16. Now the priests of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the trust to water their father's flock.
43:15 The shepherds came and drove them away but Moses stood up and saved them and watched water their flock rather. When they came home to their father's rule, he said, how is it that you have come so soon today? They said, an Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock. He said to his daughters, then where is he? Why have you left the man?
43:38 Call him that he may eat bread. And Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. She gave birth to a son and he called his name Gershom for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. What do we see here? Yes.
44:02 of rural ethnicity, they son Egyptian. Yeah. Isn't that interesting?
44:07 They couldn't even recognize him as a Hebrew. He was so Egyptianized. Maybe that's part of the school. I gotta take some of Egypt out of you there, Moses. Yeah, good observation.
44:18 Anything else we see here? Well, he's delivering to people. Right? On a smaller scale, he is delivering his people. But it's not his people.
44:40 It's a different nation. So he doesn't just have a heart for his nation, he has a heart for all people. See, if you wanna be used by God, you can't be racist. You can't be racist. You can't favor one culture over another culture.
44:55 You can admire your culture. You can love your culture. You can operate in your culture, you can't be against different races if because God you know, when we get to the tribe, we're gonna see a lot of nations, when we get to the throne rather, we're gonna see a lot of nations. We're gonna see Chinese people, we're gonna see Indonesian people, we're gonna see black people, we're gonna see see all kinds of people. You can't favor a culture and expect God to use you.
45:16 God can't use racist. What else do we see? Yeah?
45:25 With verse 21, it says Moses was content to dwell upon him, and I think that both that like, he wasn't proud to say I don't wanna, I don't wanna sit and eat with you. I'm on friends of this I'm friends of Eve, but I don't wanna come and sit with you and eat.
45:43 So you're saying you don't see that? I don't see pride. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
45:47 We see he's willing to be yeah. With the lonely people. Absolutely. Which is another thing too. Just I just need we need to see a before and after of Moses here.
45:58 Yeah. Somebody say sorry. Go ahead.
46:00 We see Moses in a palace. He's adorned with Egyptian clothing. And within a few moments, he's in the wilderness with these desert people, and he's serving them. He marries one of them. He's in a wilderness, and look how he identifies himself in the last verse here, verse 22.
46:23 I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. I've been a sojourner. So we see the school of God already working here in so many ways. Moses, you're gonna be the deliverer for my people, so let's practice. Here's a well, and here's some people being mistreated.
46:42 What are you gonna do about it? Drives them away, protects them. Thank God he didn't kill them. Good. Pass.
46:50 Moses, you're gonna guide my people through the wilderness. So what am I gonna do with you? In Exodus three, I'm gonna make you a shepherd. I want you to deal with some sheep before you deal with some people. I'm gonna teach you patience.
47:04 I'm gonna teach you how to love. I'm gonna teach you to be compassionate. Let's start with some sheep before you start with some people. Moses, you're gonna lead people through the wilderness. So what better way to learn the wilderness than live in the wilderness and consider yourself a sojourner because you're gonna lead people to be sojourners.
47:27 Moses, you're a little too strong for me to use you. So I'm gonna make you dependent upon my power. See Moses, you know what Moses' desire was? I have this calling on my life, and I'm strong. And so you know what I'm gonna do?
47:40 I'm gonna take care of these Egyptians so he kills one. Now think about how long it would take to do that. Killing one Egyptian at a time. You know what God says? Listen, if you depend on my power, all you can do now, if you really depend on my power, all you need to do is lift up your hand and I will drown them all at once.
47:59 Depend on my power. I don't want you to depend on your strength. I don't want you to depend on your gifts. I'm gonna teach you how to depend on my power, Moses. I'm gonna humble you.
48:09 I'm gonna strip you. I'm gonna make you lowly and we're gonna know later on in numbers that he was considered the most humblest man on earth. And I believe that was not possible until he went through this. How long did it take God to do that for Moses? How long is God's school?
48:29 About four years. Forty years. Forty years. And we thank God. Why?
48:38 Because I wanna make you weak. I I really want to strip you of any ability to or anything in your mind that might think this is because of me. I'm going to make you old. And some people would say that Moses who was mighty and worthy indeed, lost that ability because he hangs around sheep all the time. And so he comes up to God in the next chapter and he goes, I can't even talk.
49:02 I've been hanging around with sheep for so long. Stripping him of everything. Why? So that God can get maximum glory out of him. And God will do the same for you and me.
49:14 Not necessarily that long, though we could. But God, it's amazing about the Lord. This one thing I never understood. We we think, you know, Lord, use me now in my youth. And God says, yes, I'll use you to a certain capacity.
49:27 Use me now in the vigor of my strength. And God says, okay. I can work according to your understanding of how things work. But my timetable is not the same as your timetable. So this is not for the person that doesn't wanna be used by God.
49:43 This is for the person that really wants God to use them. Know that God might enroll you into his school. And it's a season of hiding. Nobody knows your name. Nobody may never know your name.
49:58 He'll let you go through trials. He'll let you go through tribulations. He'll let he'll let persecution come into your life. He'll let he'll do anything and everything in order to prepare you to be who you need to be and to be the most effective person you need to be for what this called you to do. If it was up to Moses, I'm sure he would have said I would I would have loved to start at 40, but think about how that would have worked out for him.
50:25 David, same thing. All these different men of God had to go through a season of hiding for preparation, for character, all these different things that could not be done otherwise. Yeah, Paul. I can't help but
50:39 think about, you know, he he kills the situation and he's burdened and he has this passion to be used by God and he messes up and instead of God lifting that call from him, he leads him into this wilderness area and teaches him the things of God. Right. I've seen that passion
50:54 in his heart. Absolutely. Being merciful
50:55 to him. Yes. And continuing to teach him.
50:57 God is so merciful. God didn't. Hey, you messed up. Done. No.
51:02 Because he did it with the right heart. He was not like, you know what? I'm kinda bored of this whole being a prince thing. I'm gonna just kill somebody. That wasn't his mindset.
51:11 Something was burning in his heart, and he really wanted to step out. He's with he really wanted to preach his first sermon. Oh, he really wanted to do it. He really wanted to go out into the mission field. Whatever it may be.
51:22 Doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be full time ministry. And God says, okay. Okay. Come on back here.
51:27 Alright. Alright. We gotta go through school. Let's train you a little bit. Let's teach you a little bit.
51:36 Let's straighten up your character. Let's strip you of your strength. He does it. God is a master, and we all we need to do is yield to it. Say, Lord, I trust in you.
51:44 And in this season, let me know you, love you, worship you, adore you, and serve you at the level that you've given me. See, he's still serving God, though he's in the wilderness. In that season of hiding, we don't become idle. I say, well, God people think like this. People literally think like, if God really wants to use me, he'll make a way and he'll open a door.
52:03 I felt like God called me to do this, but it never happened in my I'm talking about older people. God I felt like God called me to do this, but it never happened. It's like, yeah. Because you played Xbox instead of praying and seeking his face. I'm dead I'm not trying to be rude.
52:17 I didn't say it like that. That would be messed up if I actually said that to somebody. But you talk you talk to young people and they say, well, God really called me to this. I believe it. And then I was like, okay, well, what are you doing with your life then?
52:28 Well, if he really called, he's not gonna pick you up by the head, and put you in your calling. That's not how it works. You walk with him, and you serve him, and you seek him, and you wait on him, and you let him mold you and shape you. When David was in the cave, he wrote the greatest Psalms. When when Moses was here, he was he was he was taking care of sheep.
52:55 And so God in those seasons of preparation and waiting for what he wants you to do, he doesn't want you to do nothing. That defeats the purpose. You serve him to the capacity in which he's allowed you to serve him, and you trust him, and you wait on him, and you yield, and you then he'll let you open the door when he wants to open the door. He'll bring the burning bush when it's time. So we should look at stories like this and say, yes, it happened to these men of God, it happened to these women of God, it's gonna happen to me as well.
53:20 And I can cling to these stories and say, Lord, if they were faithful for forty years, so how much more can I? I can wait. So we see God saying, I got a calling for you, but not yet. Wait. Wait.
53:40 I'm gonna rule you in the school of God. Verse 23. During those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groan because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God and God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel, and God knew.
54:09 What a beautiful scripture. And it's pretty straightforward. What can we say about those verses? You have it? It's not changing the character of God.
54:30 Yes. He is present. He's there. When it's saying God remembered, it doesn't mean you forgot. That's not what it's saying there.
54:42 In a sense, it's saying now he's acting upon what he promised. But there's something there that is so crucial we could miss it. This is during those many days the king of Egypt died and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their hope was not in government. They were not maybe they were hoping that once this king dies, a new king will rise up and then they'll liberate us.
55:09 But their hope neither is our hope in the government, neither is it in laws, neither is it in the secular world. What's amazing to me is that God we don't see God moving and about to move when they were in the deepest of their troubles, though he does move sovereignly. He does move sovereignly. He does move behind the scenes, not that he doesn't move. But God is about to act in a mighty way.
55:35 And what instigated that? Prayer. Prayer. Is that we're gonna jump into Acts chapter three where God is about to say what? He's gonna say, I'm coming to deliver my people, and I firmly believe that what made God move in that certain direction was because the people finally got it, they got fed up, and they called out to God and said, God, we need you.
55:56 We need you. Our hope isn't in Pharaoh, our hope isn't in the future Joseph. We need you. And God says, now I can move. Now I'm gonna come down and make some moves.
56:09 Yes, I use people for my glory. Yes, I use deliverers. But you call upon me, now I'm gonna intervene. Do we see that? It was when they prayed that God says yes.
56:18 I remember my covenant, I'm coming in now. What a valuable lesson on prayer. And I believe in America, things will only get worse and worse and worse until the people get it, until the church gets it and realize it's not until we pray that we're gonna see change. We're hoping for the next president. We're hoping for this president.
56:39 Yeah. We praise God for all those things, but our hope is not in that. And God is able to shake things up until we realize, man, it's not until we get to our knees and call upon him that we're gonna see something happen. Yeah. It's Joey.
56:56 weird observation. Up until now, it's not weird, but, it's crazy how God like Abraham seeked God, Isaac seeked, like they all sought after God, but up until now, Moses hasn't even, declared anything. Like any Right. It's
57:13 Didn't even have seen him calling upon the Lord or anything. Is that what you mean?
57:16 Yeah. Exactly. Until the Lord shows himself to Moses.
57:20 Yeah. Absolutely. And I agree. And I think that's part of what God is gonna teach him, to make Moses dependent upon God. Before that, you know what Moses was dependent upon?
57:33 His strength. Oh, yeah. I got this calling. God's like, no. You're you're too strong.
57:41 I'm gonna make you dependent. So what am I gonna do? I'm not gonna use your hand. I'm gonna put a staff in your hand. And whenever you lift up that staff, things are gonna happen.
57:51 Why? Because it's your strength? No. It's because it's my power. It's the authority I've given you through that staff.
57:55 God is literally gonna reshape and mold this guy, and it's gonna take him forty years to do it. And what's amazing is, we're gonna learn in in Exodus chapter three, that as the people cried out to God, you know how God answered? By raising up somebody. He raises up Moses. So while the people are praying, God's preparing.
58:20 While the people are praying, God is preparing. And what does he prepare? What does God usually do when he wants to move on the earth? He raises up men of God. He raises up voices.
58:31 He raises up fearless prophets that will speak the word of God without compromise. He'll raise people up. Let's pray together. Let's ask the Lord tonight with that same heart posture.
