Turning to Exodus chapter 2, a key character in this chapter
we're going to look at in these first 10 verses is Moses' mother. We all know the story. I figure
she's going to put him in a basket and in an ark and send him down
the river. With great faith, she did. And
the songs that we're singing this morning, the first one's
by Sarah Adams. And the one we just sang, Turn
Your Eyes Upon Jesus, is by Helen LaMelle. And then the last song
we're going to sing is by Fannie Crosby. And we're about to see
the faith of a woman that set her son in a river, and we read
about Hannah's prayer. and the Lord killeth and the
Lord maketh it alive. You ever quoted that? Hannah
said that, right? Recently I heard a horrible statement
in another state and I was hoping to give some comfort to one of
the Lord's saints and I thought of what we just looked at, that
those Hebrew women, they ain't like the Egyptian women. They're
lively. And the scriptures say a woman can't use up authority
over a man. They're not to teach. Now, that's like if I said that
doesn't mean they're incapable. They're fully capable of running
things and doing all those things, but the Lord commands it not.
We don't tell people at three feet tall they can't dunk basketballs,
they can't do it anyway. But it's because they're fully
capable, and they're saints just like we are, and they got brains
just like us, and they're taught of God just like we are, there's
no difference. But I'm so thankful for a lot of the women throughout
scripture and throughout time the Lord's used mightily to carry
his, sometimes literally, carry the letter to Rome, a woman in
a rough patch of land and a rough time in history. carried the
only copy of a letter written from Paul to Rome. What a thought,
huh? Good place to, good things to
look into and be thankful to the Lord for. Look here in Exodus
chapter two, the title of this was Down to Wash. The king's
daughter's gonna go down to the river. to wash, and that's gonna
be her hap for that day. Just like Ruth, it was her hap
to land on Boaz's field. Well, what just happened, Stance,
wasn't it? Well, ain't you glad she sure
was lucky? No, that's not what it is. I want to go through this second
chapter of Exodus, these first 10 verses, and I just want to
talk to you about it. I don't really want to preach.
I don't really want to draw out chronological points that will
be easy to remember. I read through this and I just
saw what I saw and I want to show you what I saw. That's all
I want to do. I just want to talk to you. I
pray, that's my title, Down to Wash. I pray the Lord will bring
us down to wash. We end at Genesis there, and
at the beginning of Exodus, chapter 1 gives us a little bit of genealogy.
He said that generation was over. And you know, I did the math.
That's about 310 years that take place until we get to right here. Nothing's mentioned. Nothing's
mentioned. That's a long time. 430 years
these Hebrews are going to spend in Egypt before the Lord brings
them out. And that's a long time. That's like from the last of
the Old Testament prophets, we're not talking about John the Baptist,
until the Lord came, the Lord sent John the Baptist, about
400 years. 400 years without any leadership, without any guidance,
without any word from God. Boy, what a mess they got themselves.
They had plenty of religion. There's tons of churches and
garments and people praying and swinging incense or whatever,
all this pomp and circumstance. There's no gospel in it. There's
no good news in it. I was thinking of dividing the
scriptures, rightly dividing the word of God. That's just,
that's kind of like me getting a Ruby and I just polish it up. And then I try to make, I see
the, see the light that it is and the beauty of it. And I just
want to draw a picture of it so others can see what I see.
What's there. Just tell you what's there and
then it's precious to them too. And there's times when the stone
it's perfectly cut. Like when it's in the hand of
a master and no matter how much you turn that stone, every face
of it's exactly the same. And the light shine through is
just clear and it's perfect. And it hits in the same spots,
the same light hitting the same way every time. Nothing changes. And there's other times, those
rubies, they're uncut. And you ever seen one of those,
an uncut gem? They're beautiful. We put our
hand in the stuff and say, we've made this pretty. Well, no, you
make it kind of makes me dizzy looking at it. I like the raw
one. And you take those and it's the
same light going through it. But what comes out is sometimes
it's towards us and sometimes it's away from us. And sometimes
it's brighter and sometimes it's more delicate. It's a beautiful
thing. We see the birth of Moses in
these first 10 verses. We see a picture of Christ. We
do, and we're going to see some other things. This rays that
are coming out of this gym. It's painting on the wall a sinner
being saved and all the similarities. We see a ray of light that resembles
Christ's bride nourishing those babes. And throughout these verses,
it's illuminated with just the power and the providence of our
sovereign God on his throne conducting all this. It's precious to me. It's better than bull yawn. I
think it's gonna be better than bull yawn at YouTube. I pray
so, I pray. Comfort folks and do something
for you. Put it in shoe leather. Moses
wrote about this. Did you know he's the author?
He's the one whose hand moved. God's the author, but his hand
moved to write this down. And he's telling about him being
born. What happened the day he was born? What happened a couple
months later, three months later, what took place? But you know,
this is about Moses, and he wrote Exodus and all that, but this
isn't his birth. If that's all we got, all we get's a history
lesson, a better theology or some garbage, we're gonna die
in our sins. Christ said, if you believe Moses,
if you believed him, he said, you would have believed me because
he wrote of me. Well, I thought Moses was writing
about Moses being born. Yeah, well, this ain't about
Moses, is it? This ain't about Moses. This begins here with
a man and a woman having a child in Egypt and all the sons of
Jacob, because of this child born and being cast in the river
and being favored, all the sons of Jacob are going to be coming
out of Egypt. Israel's bringing out their exodus
began with a child being born. So did ours. So did these sons
of Jacob coming out of this wicked world of Egypt and this wicked
self of Egypt. It began with a child being born.
It says in Exodus 2 verse 1, and there went a man of the house
of Levi. and took to wife a daughter of
Levi. This is, Levi's were the priest,
weren't they? Here's a priest that's there.
And he got a daughter of the Levites. And you know, John the
Baptist, he was born. He was born the son of a priest
of a Levite, wasn't he? He was a voice. But our Lord
was born of the tribe of Judah. Moses was of the Levites and
John the Baptist was of the Levites, but Christ was of the tribe of
Judah. Why? There ain't a high priest like him. There ain't
never been one like him, and never will be. He's after the
order of Melchizedek. That's God's high priest. This
isn't just because of what man declares, well, this is where
the tribe should come from, and we know that, and we don't know
nothing. We need to know Him. We need to be led to that rock.
That's what it says in Genesis 14. Speaking of Melchizedek,
it says, the priest of the most high God. Not a priest, not of
a tribe of priests, not having to be just one of a bunch you
got pulled out of. This is the priest. That's Christ,
our priest. It says in verse two, and the
woman conceived and bear a son. And when she saw him, that he
was goodly, he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. She
hid him three months. There's something different about
this child. He was a goodly child. She saw that. They was killing
all the males born in Egypt, weren't they? But this one was
born, and she thought, oh, he's different, he's different. In
Hebrews 11, I keep, I'm about to go through Hebrews on Wednesday
nights. I keep going back there, but Hebrews 11, it was speaking,
it says, by faith Moses, when he was born, he was hid three
months of his parents. His parents here, this Levi man,
Levi woman, the Lord records that and says, this was a great
act of faith. They hid him for three months because they saw
he was a proper child. It ain't just like any other
child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandment. King
said, kill every one of them. This one's different. This ain't
like him, other children. You know, every parent thinks
their children are proper and good. Other children's fine,
but y'all see my children. Let me tell you about my children.
And look out if I have grandbabies. There'll be pictures all over
the place, won't there? But you know, my children, and
here's what's gonna be shocking to some folks that may tune into
this on the airwaves, your children are evil, wicked enemies of God. That's how we come into this
world, and that's why we come in crying. We're lying, lying from birth. Do you ever teach your children
how to lie? I was real good at it from a young age, and I honed
my skills thereafter. That's every one of us. Well,
this woman, she thought this, why? Why would Moses' mother
think he was goodly, that he was proper, and he was different
than these other children? She's gonna hide him for three
months, and so be it if she gets her head chopped off. This represents,
remember Moses wrote a cross, this represents the only one
that is good, the only one that is proper. That's what the rich
young ruler came to the Lord, and he said, master, and he said,
good master, right? Oh, how proper, and how churchy.
And he said, why callest thou me good? There's none good, but
one, and that's God. You calling me God? This ain't
just a history lesson on Moses and how he happened to come to
power. This is a picture of Christ, isn't it? This is the picture
of the one born of a virgin that descended. He was all created,
he descended, and there's a body prepared for him, the only goodly
child. And I just, I dwelt on him being
an infant this week. And people talk about those horrible,
blasphemous nativity scenes at Christmastime, and a poor, sweet
baby Jesus. And that's what mankind likes
him, something you can pick up and swaddle and set down for
a nap and not have to deal with him for a while. But I just thought,
as this played out, it was Mary and Joseph. Could you imagine?
Does he keep you up at night? Do you get sleep? We always ask
young parents, do you get sleep through the night yet? He never
cries. I know he's hungry, we feed him,
and he's gotta be changed and burped, and he ain't never cried.
Was he alert, like something wrong with him? No, no, he's
got eyes like doves. The world's in that man's eyes,
in that baby's eyes. He's something that never fusses.
In time, Moses... what I read from the scripture,
as what we're told from the scripture, at three months old, he cried.
And he was hid for three months. Babies normally cry, but nobody
heard this one. Our Lord didn't weep. He didn't cry until he
did. And then he wept. And then he cried aloud. And
it says that often throughout scriptures, doesn't it? And Moses'
mother hid him three months. He was goodly, a proper child. And she saw he was goodly and
she hid him three months. You know, Christ was hidden for
30 years. That's three decades. Moses was hidden for three months.
The greater Moses, our great deliverer, he was hid for three
decades before anything was pronounced for his public ministry began.
And it was at that wedding of Cana, and his mother said, y'all
out of wine? Talk to him. Whatever he says,
do that. He rebuked her, didn't he? He
said, well, what do I have to do with you, woman? He said,
mine hour's not yet come. Because he was about his father's
business, wasn't he? But up until that point, I was
just Joseph's son, a carpenter. He's a carpenter like his dad.
He built my table. I know him. He was without honor,
wasn't he? He was hidden. Verse three says,
and when she could no longer hide him, she hid him for a while,
but she couldn't. You can't hide the son for very
long. Did you know that? If the Lord
works in somebody, that little boy said, well, if Christ is
in me, won't he stick out? I said, he sure will. If the
Lord's worked in somebody, you can't keep your mouth shut for
long. He's going to come out. He's going to show himself. He
will come forth. Won't he? When she could hide
him no longer, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and dabbed
it with slime and with pitch and put the child there in. And
she laid it in the flags by the river's bank. just like every
other son of Jacob. This son must go into the river. They were all being drowned in
this river. This was the king's decree, wouldn't it? Look here
in chapter one, verse 22. And Pharaoh charged all his people
saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river,
and every daughter you shall save alive. That was the law,
wasn't it? Moses was cast into that river.
In obedience to the law that he was born under, Moses went
into that river, just like every other Hebrew son. But this one
came out again. You see that? You picking up
what I'm laying down? Christ went into that river.
He went into that death for us that nobody's ever come back
out of. And he rose again for us. And you know, from this point
on, it's not mentioned that any other babies, any other male
sons were drowned in that river. Were they probably? It ain't
mentioned, is it? It ain't mentioned. Life came
after this one. And she took for him an ark of bulrushes.
That's the reeds that grow on the bank of the Nile River. And
that word is papus, papus. That's where we get paper from.
they use this the same reading they would tear it down and mill
it up like pulpwood mill and then make paper and that's what
they'd write on you getting that he's in the word he's in the
written word Those historians, they said, this reed was of the
greatest use to the Egyptians, the pith serving as food and
the woody part they built vessels with. Boy, how true that was. It's very useful, isn't it? This
word is. And in the Ark, it was dabbed
with slime and with pitch. Slime. That's what this world
is. That's what all these things
that we think are so wonderful and so great. You ever climb
into a stagnant pond? I guess I'm a city boy. I like
concrete ponds. I can't barely hillbillies. I
don't like swimming in rivers, really. And I sure don't like
swimming in ponds. Algae gets all over you. It's a looky, isn't
it? That's what she got. And that's what was pitched in
this. Christ had a body prepared for him and he came into this
sin-cursed earth. We get disgusted with this earth,
don't we? Do you get disgusted with stuff going on? And we're
evil. Think about him. Here's the word. Coming down
here housed in this slimy thing and with pitch. What's that show?
Why was it both? Couldn't they just say, is this
a lesson in architectural design of carriages? No. The Lord covers us and our filth
with his own blood. That's the waterproofing. Just
like Noah's Ark. It said it was pitched within
and without. Not just on the outside, but on the inside. Not
just in all that wrath of God to prevent that from getting
to us, but our own wrath can't touch it. We're prevented from
ourselves. He went before. Remember that?
How are all the sons of Jacob going to live? One of them has
to be cast in the river. How is this whole thing of Hebrews
that's in this captivity for 430 years, how are they going
to come out? This one has to be cast in the river. Look at
the providence of God in this, His power and His design. This
has to happen. Paul wrote to the church at Corinth
and said, We're going to learn a lot about Miriam here in the
future, but that was Moses' older sister. She's probably a young
teenager. She's probably 10, 12, 13 years older than him.
It says there in verse 4, to wit what would be done to
him. Here's Miriam standing out there, and she's got her little
baby brother that's three months old. Mama's took him and made a little
ark for him and laid him, it says the flag's down by the river,
that's the other reeds, and pushed him out in the river. And Miriam's
just standing back watching. She didn't know what was gonna
happen. She didn't know what was gonna come to pass. But she
was watching. She was attentive. Does it say
she's taking a nap down there? No, she was watching. I remembered
about those women seeing our Lord cast into the waters at
Calvary. Whenever the Lord turned his back on the Lord, God forsook
God. There was some women there and
they were watching. It says, when that centurion
which stood over against him saw that he so cried out, and
gave up the ghost, he said, truly, this man was the son of God.
And there were also women looking on afar off, among whom was Mary
Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less, and of Josie
and of Solomon. Them women were there watching.
Did they know what was gonna happen? No, the apostles didn't
really understand that. But they was watching. Was they
at home getting ready for the football game? No, they was watching. Come see a man, didn't she? Come
see a man, this is important. Miriam was brought to that river
to watch. She was brought to that river,
it's recorded for us, it's important, God wrote this down, to behold
deliverance. She was brought there to behold.
Anything change? Ephesians 2 says, 2.13 says,
you who were sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ. That's where we were. I didn't
even know what was going on. I just happened to be watching.
God showed me some things. He taught me some things. Well,
verse five, as luck would have it. Doesn't that make you have
chill bumps? Just so happens. That's not so,
that's sarcasm. The king's daughter came down
to wash. They're in verse five, and the
daughter of Pharaoh, this is the one that didn't know Joseph.
This is the one that had no idea what they was talking about.
I think I read that in a book somewhere. I don't know any people. We got
to go after him, kill every one of these babies. The king's daughter
came down to wash herself at the river. And her maidens walked
along by the riverside. And when she saw the ark among
the flags, she sent her maids to fetch it. This is the king's
daughters coming down. You remember in Psalm 45? It
says, king's daughters were among thy honorable women. Upon the
right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. And it says,
hearken, O daughter, you listen. So shall the king greatly desire
thy beauty, for he is thy lord, and you worship thou him. Here
comes a king's daughter. This is Pharaoh's daughter. And
where's she coming? Down to the river to wash. That's where we
have to be brought. We won't go by ourselves. I'm
so good at humbling myself. Let me tell you all about it.
I'm so good at it. No, it ain't. We have to be brought
down, like David was looking at last hour. We have to be overwhelmed. Here's a king's daughter. She
had a staff. Go fetch me some water, right?
It was a leper that happened to, wasn't it? Naaman. He was
the only leper that the Lord, there's a lot of lepers in Israel
in that day. And there was one, a Gentile,
and he went to God's prophet, and he said, you gonna fetch
me some water out here or do something to me? What you gonna
do for me? He didn't even, Elijah didn't
even go out there to him. He just said, sent a servant boy
and said, go tell him to get down to the river seven times.
You're telling me I gotta go down that dirty old river? We
got clean rivers back where I'm from. I ain't going in that river.
And an unnamed faithful servant of that general said, if he'd
have told you to do something, I'd have you done it. I want
you to just do something easy. He said, go get in that water.
Had to be brought down. To what? It ain't just brought
down. That's like, oh, I just tore
up over my sin. Yeah, well, yeah, then repent
and turn to God. Cry out. Not just brought down,
not just sad, not just, huh, huh, oh, woe is me. Wash. That's what we need. She's dirty. You ever found somebody dirty?
You ever found a sinner? They need washed in the blood, don't
they? She had to be brought down to this river to come down here
to wash herself. We must come down to what? Wash.
How are we washed? By seeing the ark. She come down
there to wash, and she saw the ark. What was in that ark of
the covenant? There's a couple different arks,
isn't there? My brother Don said, I knew everything about them
scriptures. I thought, how'd they get all them animals in a box this big? That's Noah's
ark. It's a different ark. In the
ark of the covenant, there's three things in there. There
was Aaron's rod that budded. You know what that is? Life.
Life from wood. You get it? And there was a cup
of manna from heaven. That cup was, you can't keep
it overnight or it'll spoil. This didn't. Oh, this is the
sustainment. This is the nourishing bread
of life is what's in there. And there was that law of Moses,
those two tablets of stone. That's against us. That slays
me. It's contained in that ark. We
got to see that. We got to see he's all life.
He's all sustainment. He's the fulfillment of the law. He's
all. That's when you washed, when
you brought down. Because that rock's higher than
I, remember that? Gotta be higher. When she saw that ark among the
flags, among those other reeds sticking up and cattails and
all those things, she sent her maid to fetch it. And you know,
when somebody, it's like that blind man, and John wrote about, he hadn't, the Lord said, you
know, would you worship the Lord? And he said, well, show me who
he is, and I'll do it. He'd seen 25 people his whole life. And
he sat in there, he said, well, he's a prophet. He didn't have
all his words sorted out right. He didn't, just like a little
baby, right? They'll call a spoon a fork. Well, you don't just
smack him in the face and beat him up. No, you teach him, right?
Here, she said, she sent her maids to go fetch him. There
in John 1, the Lord came to Philip and said, he came to Galilee
and he findeth Philip. And he said to Philip, follow
me. Who found who? The Lord found Philip, didn't
he? Well, down a couple of verses later, Philip findeth Nathanael.
And he said, we found him. We found him. He found us. whom Moses and the law and the
prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
We found him. We found him. This king's daughter sent her
servants to go fetch it. How did she find the Lord? The
Lord found her. If he's loving to us, we will
be loving to him. If he seeks us, we're gonna seek
him. If he reveals his commitment
to his child, his child will be committed to him. I won't
talk nobody into it. It's just gonna happen, isn't
it? If his love shed abroad, our love shed abroad. That's
so, look at verse six. And when she had opened it, she
sent her servants and got this ark, brought it over to her.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child and behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him
and said, this is one of the Hebrews' children. That's her
enemy's child, isn't it? But she had compassion, she had
compassion. to hide that child who was always
there, wasn't he? He was there. No one could hear
him. She couldn't hear him. She couldn't see nothing. And
then one day, he wept. For three months, Moses had been
on this earth. I don't think he cried. And then one day he wept. For
30 years, our Lord walked this earth and didn't have a public
ministry. And one day he started preaching, didn't he? Same way when the
Lord comes to us, our Lord wept. He cried aloud. When he was preaching,
he said he cried aloud. He'd yell while he was preaching.
Wake them folks up and make them hear it, at least with their
ears. He yelled out loud and he cried aloud when he was preaching.
But from those waters that he calmed for his people, that death
that he accomplished while he was on that cross, he cried to
us then too, didn't he? Mark 15, this is the ninth hour.
Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lam the sabachthani,
which is being interpreted. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? That's what we need to hear.
How can a man be just with God? Somebody's got to pay for it.
Somebody has to be forsaken. We need a lamb and we have to
hear him. He cried it out loud. He knew
why he cried it for us. Was Moses hungry as a little
three-month-old baby? He cried for that king's daughter.
That's why he was crying. And she had compassion on him.
Lord, when we hear him cry, we have a heart for him. After she
heard him weep, you see that picture? She heard of his sufferings
for sin. When she heard, it is finished,
she had compassion toward him. and said, this is one of the
Hebrew children. This was an enemy. This was an enemy. This
was the opposite of what I am. But she fell in love. She fell
in love. She knew what the law was. But
that law had been fulfilled. He'd been cast in it. Now she's
just got love left. She had compassion on him. Verse
seven, then said his sister, this is Miriam, to Pharaoh's
daughter, shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women? that she may nurse the child for thee? How many wet
nurses were in that day? Well, there's a mess of women
having boy babies getting chucked in the river. A lot of them to
choose from, wasn't there? Pharaoh's daughter said to her,
go, and the maid went and called the child's mother. She went
and got Moses' mother and said, hey, come here, I got something
for you. That's a good news, isn't it? Who's on our throne
in this? Who wrote this book? Well, man,
many different men wrote this book. No, there was one man wrote
this book. He used a bunch of different hands to do it. It
was precious, isn't it? Unlike that other Jesus that's
just conjured up by our old nature, that poor little Jesus, he doesn't
need our nourishment and our help and all that stuff. He's
the king, he's reigning. But this is a good picture. Stay
with me, this ruby's turning a little bit, okay? See what
kind of light gets cast off of it on this. This is a good picture
of us, babes in Christ. Those that are put into Christ
the ark, isn't it? Look here at this, verse nine.
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away and
nurse it for me. Nurse it for me, and I will give
thee thy wages. And the woman took the child
and nursed it. Moses' mother threw her child into a river,
trusting God, knowing he was goodly. Lord's going to use this
one. I'm convinced of it. And she threw him, that's a good
thing for parents to do. Put your children to the Lord.
Trust your children and your loved ones and your family and
your parents and everybody else to the Lord, because only he
can do it. I can't teach nothing. I can't convict nobody, nothing
in the heart. I might be able to convict them
in the head, and that's just as bad. The Lord can do that. Cast him
to it. And he brought Moses' mother
there. to nurse him and to take care
of him for her. And then she got paid to do it. She's on a government payroll,
on a king's payroll, to feed her own son. What a thought. The wages, the wages. That's
our job as a local assembly of Christ, is to feed the babes,
isn't it? Just to put this gospel forth,
part of the job, feed the babes. Being with some sincere milk
of the word. I thought of what our Lord said when he sent those
out. He said, the same house remain, eating and drinking such
things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his hire.
She was feeding a baby. It wasn't really hers, it was
on loan. She got her wage for it. Paul
told Timothy, the scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn, for the laborer is worthy of his
reward. And he wrote him again in 2 Timothy, and he said, study
to show thyself approved unto God. You fill them baby bottles
up with sincere milk. Divide it out the best you can.
A workman that needeth not be ashamed. Rightly dividing the
word of truth. I'll just be real honest with
you. The first ever month I get my paycheck, I just, I feel horrible. I always did until about two
months ago. And then I read that and I thought, well, I studied.
It's right. And I wonder if Moses' mother felt guilty about feeding
that child and getting paid for it. Well, it's right. It's right. But this is a picture of the
bride of Christ, isn't it? With a brand new baby, with a brand
new creation in her midst. And it says, and the woman took
the child and nursed it. She took the child and nursed
it. I want that spirit. I want that
tenderness. I want that wisdom that goes
with it, not just knowledge. I want some understanding to
go with it and have some sense. The Lord teach me how to nurse
his children, how to feed his sheep. whether that's for you
all or for brothers and sisters or those that's older than me
that's been doing this longer. I wanna be a comfort and have a little
bit of milk for my pastor when he's down. Or encourage him when
he's up too. That's what we read there to
start with. Paul said, we give thanks to God for you all, making
mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your
work of faith and your labor of love. You think Moses' mother
got mad that she had to feed Moses? Well, no, it was a labor
of love. She had to eat right and probably
get up early in the morning and stay up late at night and change
diapers. No, she loved him. That ain't no problem. Patience of hope in our Lord
Jesus Christ and the Son of God, our Father, knowing, brethren
beloved, your election of God. Paul didn't say, I think, I see
some things that might give some encouragement. He said, I ain't
a fool, I know. I know. You turned from all them
idols you used to be worshiping. You turned to God. You put this
gospel forth and there's fruits of the Spirit in you. I'm not
confused by those things. It's evident, isn't it? Verse
10, And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter,
and he became her son, and she called his name Moses. And she
said, because I drew him out of the water. Drawn out, that's
his name, drawn out. That's the exodus, we're going
out. How are we gonna go out? We're gonna have to be drawn
out. And here he is, here he is. They said, call his name
Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin. But that child grew, didn't it?
And just like Hannah took her child, took Sam down there to
the priest, and she said, there he is, take him. Moses' mother
did the same thing, turned him over. But the child grew. And
I thought, it says in Luke 2, and Jesus increased in wisdom
and in stature and in favor with God and man. Boy, it's a hard thing to understand.
I don't think it's gonna happen in this lifetime. Scriptures
say, though he were a son, yet he learned obedience by the things
which he suffered. He had to learn obedience. I
can't enter into that yet, but I know that Moses did, didn't
he? He's got 40 years ahead of him
before some things start happening, and he learned some things in
there. This man that's the meekest of all men ends up murdering
somebody, hiding the body. The Lord called that meek. We
have something to learn, don't we? We have something to learn about
meekness and obedience and growth. I pray the Lord will grow us
in that, that we'd see him. Let's pray together. Father, thank you for this word.
Thank you for our Redeemer that bought us and drew us to himself,
led us to the rock that's higher than I. Lord, allow us to see
your providence in these things and your power, your sovereign
will being performed in everything. here in Exodus, but Lord, let
us see it as we're being drawn out right now. Allow us to see
it all in our lives and the clouds and the air and the birds and
the trees and the King's hearts and our heart. Make us thankful,
Lord, and give us contentment and comfort that you do all things
well. And our King reigneth. Lord,
thank you for this hour. Forgive us for what we are and
be with us. Hear us as you have and as you
promise you will. It's because of Christ and because
of that one that was put in the river for us that we ask it.
Amen.