By the Spirit sanctified Teach
me, Lord, on earth to show By my love how much I owe Recognize
that? Robert Murray McShane, wasn't
it? It's a song that I first heard
Bridget Harding sing it years ago. And I've sung it several
times here for you. You might like to sing it. Hebrews 11. Go over to Hebrews
11. We continue these studies from
this chapter. Once again, I was a little tempted
to pass over this verse because of the difficulty of it, wondering
what we would see in all of this. But I hope we'll both be glad
that we looked at it after tonight. Look at verse 23. Hebrews 11,
verse 23, reads this way. By faith Moses, when he was born,
was hid three months of his parents. because they saw he was a proper
child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandments. Now, at first glance, when you
look at that, you probably, like I did, think, well, this is the
natural reaction of parents who fear for their child's safety. trying to save their child. How
can this, what is this, how is this by faith? Well, God says
it is by faith. And I hope we'll see what that
means after tonight. By faith. All right, now the
whole purpose, the whole purpose of this chapter, the whole purpose
of chapter eleven in giving these examples of the works of these
various persons, all these people, their works. And that's what
it is. It gives examples of the works
of these ones like Enoch and so forth. It's not to magnify
the people. It's not to magnify the people
or glorify the people, but it's to glorify God's grace in giving
them the faith to do what they did. Faith is not of ourselves,
but it's the gift of God, right? And this is to show, this whole
chapter was written to show God's marvelous power in fulfilling
his purpose through ordinary means, ordinary men and women. And things that the world does
not acknowledge the things God there's a scripture says who
have despised the day of small things. God works and moves in
mysterious ways. God. Doesn't speak out loud. God's you don't see. At least you don't see the. obvious
miracles that the children of Israel saw, like the rock smitten
and the pillar of fire and cloud and so forth. But God still controls
all things and works all things to fulfill his purpose for his
glory and for the good and salvation of his people. These are ordinary people. Moses'
parents, Amron and Jochebed, their name. Amron and Jochebed. They were ordinary people. They
had three children. Moses, well, the first one was
Aaron, Miriam, and Moses. Moses was the third of their
children. Ordinary people. But it says, by faith, they saw
something special in this child. As I said, faith is not of ourselves,
it's a gift of God. And here's what faith is. All
right? Here's what faith is. Faith is
belief, trust, and reliance upon an unseen God. Faith is belief,
trust, and reliance upon an unseen God and his unseen Christ. These
people never saw God, never heard his voice. There's no record
of it. They heard from God, but there's
no record that he spoke out loud to them. Scripture says, God
in sundry times and diverse manners spake unto the father's house
by the prophets, by the prophets. God always had his spokesman
whom he spoke to, and he spoke to the people through them. God
didn't speak out loud to the people, but he spoke to Most
spoke to Joshua, he spoke to Isaiah and so on and so forth.
The people were to hear from God, they heard it through a
man like you and me. They didn't see God, they didn't
hear God, but they heard the word of God. Somehow or another,
this husband and wife heard from God, I believe. I'm getting ahead
of myself. Faith, now here's, listen to
me. Faith, here's what faith is. Faith is the supernatural
work of God. in an ordinary human being which
causes them to do extraordinary things. Supernatural that is
unnatural things. Let me repeat that faith is the
supernatural work of God in an ordinary human being which causes
them to do supernatural that is unnatural things they wouldn't
do naturally. and extraordinary things. Ephesians
2 says, or Ephesians 1, 19 says, you believe according to the
working of his mighty power. If it were not for God's mighty
power working in you, you wouldn't believe this, any of this. We're worshiping a God, someone
we've never seen, never heard from, reading from a book 2,000
years old. Well that's a miracle itself.
All right faith is a supernatural work of God and that's what this
whole chapter is about OK. Let me give you go back and look
at these examples just briefly. Walked with God for three hundred
and sixty five years. Didn't have a Bible. There's
no record that God spoke out loud. He didn't say God. It's tough to live through this
life 40 or 50 years as a believer in it. It's hard. It's difficult.
Trials. Persecution. Afflictions. The
world. The scorn of the world. And you
walk alone most of the time. He did it 300 years. Barbara's sitting there. She's
going... See, Barbara wants this to end here real soon. Can't
take it anymore. Try 300 years, Barbara. 300 years. And as others that lived longer
than that. Noah. See what I'm saying? It's
a supernatural work of God in an ordinary human being. Enoch
was just a man. He's not some superman. Just
like John and Jesus. Just a man. Went to work. Had
a big family. Had a wife. Troubles and trials. Just like that. He walked with
God. 300 years. That's the work of
God. Noah, 120 years. Now, God did speak to him because
Noah was, well, when it was all over, Noah was it. Noah was a
preacher of righteousness. Noah was the only man left, wasn't
he? So he was God's prophet. The
only man left on the earth. But anyway, Noah, 120 years,
built a boat, a boat the size of three football fields. No,
the size of one football field in length. 120 years of. Western built a boat
on dry land and never ran for ever. Never ran. But he persevered and. He kept
for 10 years went by 20 years by 50 years. 70. You still build that boat?
Yeah. You still think it's going to
rain? Yeah. Now that's the work of God. Is it not? No man would
do that. No man would persevere five years,
let alone 120 years. On and on we can go. Abraham took his only
son, whom he loved, whom he'd been waiting on for years. Son
of his love. Apple of his eye. Dear, sweet,
young man. Bedient, just fine young man. The promise of God and his future. Everything wrapped up in that
sun, God says, take him up on a mountain and slit his throat. And he took that boy up on a
mountain and took a knife in his hand. See, we're not magnifying
the people. This is the work of God and ordinary
people causing them to do extraordinary and supernatural things. Turn
to John 14. Have you ever wondered What this
meant, what our Lord meant by this, I think this might be at
least partly what he meant. John 14. I've always wondered
myself about this, but in light, in context here, John 14, look at verse 12. The Lord said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall
he do also. And greater works than these
shall he do. Because I go to my father. Greater ones. Do you understand that? What
he means by that? I'm not sure I fully understand
it, but in light of what we were just talking about, greater works
than they know, our Lord lived by faith. Yes, as a man, he did
live by faith. He didn't do. anything supernatural
for himself. He could have, but he didn't.
He had to live by faith as a man. But now he was in constant communion
with God. He knew the will of God. He knew
the mind. He came from God. He came. He had seen God. No man has seen
God. He did. God spoke to him. He lived. He is God. He knew. He knew. So you see, any act of faith
on our part, by the grace of God, is a great thing. It's a
greater work. Does that make sense? All right. I go back now to Exodus 2. Let's
look at this story of Moses. And like I said, this whole chapter
of Hebrews 11 was written to glorify God's grace and fulfilling
his purpose through ordinary means. Ordinary man story of
the faith of Moses parents is not the story says by faith Moses
when he was born was hit is talking about Moses parent. All right
Moses is next in line Hebrew. All right. This is about Moses's
parents Amram and Jochebed. Now this is recorded. And I was going to skip over.
three times when it actually happened here and it's this to
Stephen when he was preaching in Act seven Stephen said he
spoke this whole thing and then Hebrews which is one of the most
glorious books in all the Bible in it but they had Hebrews which
is a summary of the whole Old Testament Hebrew which is the
one of the fullest books in Scripture mentions it briefly, but mentions
it must be worth looking at. It must be something there, must
be something there in the story. It must be about somebody even
greater than Moses. You reckon? You better reckon,
because everything is. It's not about Moses. All right,
Exodus 2. It says that they saw he was
a proper child, and he was hidden by his parents because the king
had given orders to kill every male child. Look at chapter 1,
verse 22. Pharaoh charged all his people,
all the Egyptians who were the overseers of the Israelites,
charged all these people saying every son that is born you shall
cast into the river and every daughter you shall save their
life. Pharaoh gave the king, Pharaoh
gave the edict or command to put to death every male child. Does that sound familiar? Is there another story like that?
Huh? There sure is. The Lord Jesus
Christ at his birth. came the decree because someone
said that the Christ child was to be born. And so the decree
was made to kill every male child two years and under. And the
Lord Jesus himself was hid by his parents, was he not? All
right, now chapter 2, verse 1. And when a man of the house of
Levi took to a wife to wife a daughter of Levi who's Levi. That's the
priesthood isn't it? Levi is the tribe of Jacob or
Israel from which the priesthood would come. Priesthood. Levitical priesthood. Levitical. Levi. Leviticus. All the orders
concerning the priesthood. But here's this man, and it was
in disarray before this. Back in chapter 50 of Genesis,
Jacob on his deathbed said, Levi is an instrument of cruelty,
and he'll be scattered, and the whole tribe and all of them were
in a mess. Well, along comes this man, Amron,
and he goes looking for a wife, and he must be a believer. He
looks for a believing wife of the house of Levi. And he finds
Jokabed and they get married and they're going to have a child.
And he's going to be of the house of Levi. He's going to be a priest,
isn't he? A priest. Levi, verse 2. And the woman conceived and bear
a son. And when she saw him, that he
was a goodly child, she hid him three months. The woman conceived
a priest. and his wife, they give birth
to a son who's a priest. Does that sound familiar? The woman conceived and bear
a son. Is this just another birth? There
must have been thousands or millions all over the earth at that time.
Just another baby? No. It says here, a goodly child. I go over to Acts chapter 7.
Acts chapter seven where Stephen preached his sermon and he mentions
this. OK. All right. It says in Hebrews
11 they saw he was a proper child. A proper child Moses' parent. In Exodus 2 it says they said
he was a goodly child. And here in Acts chapter 7, Acts
chapter 7, look at it. It says here, beginning with
verse 20, in which time Moses was born and was exceeding fair. This must have been a special
child, wasn't it? A proper child, a goodly child. Exceeding fair. Exceeding Fair. Evidently, it's
not just another birth, not just another child. No, this is the
long-awaited deliverer, isn't it? People were in bondage, and
they were waiting on the deliverer, and God promised the deliverer,
not just another child, this is the deliverer of Israel. Now, it says they saw he was
exceeding fair. I want you to look, do you have
a marginal reference? What does it say? That's the
reason I like this Cambridge Bible. See, this wasn't just
natural parents looking at their baby thinking, this is the prettiest
baby ever been born. Every parent thinks that. It
can be ugly as a wet noodle. They all are to me when they're
first born. Brother Barnard. man given his bluff honesty and
that people, you know, want to show him their baby. And one time he looked at this
baby and it was an ugly baby. And all he could say was, well,
well, it's a baby. That's how you can get out of
that. Next time somebody, isn't he beautiful? Oh, he's a baby. So this is not just the parents,
the natural parents, seeing a child thinking, isn't this the prettiest
baby you've ever seen? Right here it says he was fair
to God. Fair to God. Exceeding fair. Now, this is why it must be. Look over Luke chapter 2 now.
Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2. Moses here must
represent somebody greater than himself. Right? Moses is just
a man. Apparently he was—well, he was
a man arguably used greater than any man in all of Scripture,
he and the Apostle Paul. In the Old Testament, the man
used the most. He was a great man. He's still
a sinner. But the scripture says he was a goodly child, a proper
child, exceedingly fair. He must represent someone else.
Yes, he represents the fairest of 10,000, the bright and morning
star. Luke chapter 2, in verse 25,
let's read these verses, 25 and following. Behold, there was
a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. The same man was
just and devout. waiting for the consolation of
Israel. That's the Christ, consolation.
And the Holy Ghost was upon him. Everyone whom the Holy Ghost
is upon is looking for the Christ. Everyone who the Holy Ghost leads
will see the Christ. And behold, it says, it was revealed
unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before
he had seen the Lord's Christ. And it came by the Spirit in
the temple. He was often at the temple worshiping God, as God's
people are, and he came to the temple one day to worship God.
And when the parents—here came this Jewish man and his young
wife with a baby in arms—brought in the child Jesus to do for
him after the custom of the law, that is, had him circumcised,
an eight-day-old baby. saw something in this child. Simeon saw a proper child. Simeon saw, oh, a goodly child. Simeon saw, more than that, an
exceedingly fair child. Listen to what he said. Simeon
saw, verse 28, Then he took him up in his arms, and blessed God,
and said, Lord, now let us Thou, thy servant, depart in peace
according to thine word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." Now, he didn't say, Oh, what
a precious little baby. What's his name? Jesus. Oh, he's
cute. What a sweet little baby boy.
Uh-uh. He said, I've seen thy salvation. Listen to me now. The Scripture
says, Isaiah 53 verse 2 said, speaking of Jesus Christ when
he came to this earth from a baby, the Scripture says, he hath no
form nor comeliness. In other words, he had no exquisite
build, no beautiful body to look at, nothing to set him apart. It's different from anybody else,
just a very ordinary, very ordinary. He hath no form, nor comeliness.
That is, there's nothing attractive about him. And when we see him, it goes
on to say in Isaiah 53 too, when we see him, there's no beauty
about him that we should desire him. He wasn't a beautiful baby. But if Barnard had seen him,
like some men saw him, he'd have said the same thing. Yeah, he
did say the same thing. I die salvation. As a man. You see these idolatrous pictures
they have of this fair-skinned, Caucasian, blue eyes, naming
Jesus. He's always a handsome fellow,
isn't he? Not Christ. Not the one. No beauty. that we should desire
him. But with the eye of faith now, it's exceedingly fair, the
fairest of ten thousand. Thy salvation, lights, look at
this, read on. It says, verse 31, which thou
hast prepared before the face of all people. Verse 32, a light
to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel. But
Simeon saw in this baby God's salvation. The light of the Gentiles,
the glory of the people of Israel. Down in verse 34, Simeon blessed them
and said unto Mary his mother, this child is set for the fall
and rising again of men. Fall and rising. According to this child you either
fall or you rise. You'll be saved or damned, all
in this child. He saw something exceeding fair,
didn't he? Exceeding glory. Go back to Exodus
2 now. So Moses' parents, they saw in
him something exceeding fair, but this is a picture of Christ. This whole story is a picture
of Christ. It is a man and a woman. It is their baby. It is their
son, their third son, whom they loved dearly. At the same token, you know God
sees all his people from birth as exceeding fair. You know that? Oh yeah, all his people have
been chosen by him before the foundation of the world, put
in Christ, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world,
foreknown, foreloved, predestinated, and they're all, when they're
born, exceeding fair to God. Goodly children. proper children. God's children. Moses was brought
up in Egypt and he wasn't, you know, a believer until God revealed
himself to him. Same way with God's people. In
time, he reveals. We heard that from Mother Todd,
didn't we? All right. So Moses' parents saw him as
exceeding fair. How? They saw something special,
really. They saw, I believe God told
them through a prophet. And it doesn't say this, but
I, they had to have heard it from somebody. Faith cometh by
hearing. It says by faith Moses was hid
of his parents. Faith cometh out by hearing the
word of God. Nobody ever gets faith except
by hearing the word of God. And that either from God, like
the prophets, or through the prophets from God. Right? How'd they get this faith? Where'd
they get this faith? What'd they see in this? They
saw in this baby God's Deliverer. Yes, they did. Yes, they did.
They were waiting on the Deliverer, too. And I believe God told them,
this is He. This is He. Proper child, a goodly
child. I believe He did. Just like Samuel
was told by God that David was the one. Remember? Hammerman
and Chocobet had Aaron first, their first child, Aaron. That's
not him. That's not him. Miriam comes
along. Well, you know, that's not him. And here comes this third one.
I believe God said, this is the one. Just like Samuel, when he
had all the sons of Jesse come before him, remember? The oldest
one came. Oh, he looks good. This is it.
No, it's not him. seventh one was out there keeping
sheep, out there keeping sheep. Bring him in. He said, we'll
not sit down, but he comes hither. And that's a story in itself,
isn't it? God told Samuel, arise, anoint him. This is it. This
is the king of Israel. And I believe they told, and
Simeon was told by God, didn't he, by the Holy Spirit, you're
not going to die until you see the Christ. But I believe God
told them. Verse 2 says the woman, she hid
him three months. She hid him. Why? Because, as
we read, the king of Egypt spake and said to kill all the firstborn. Now Moses, Moses' parents heard
from God of this special son, so they hid him in their home
for three months. Hid him in their home for three
months. Now Hebrews 11 says this. Listen to me. Listen carefully.
Hebrews 11 says this. By faith they hid him. They were not afraid of the king's
commandment. Now were they afraid? Now the scripture says no. Is that
what the scripture says? By faith. So that's what it means. It says, by faith Moses forsook
Egypt. The scripture, we can go back
there, we'll read the story, says he fled. Scripture says, by faith he forsook
Egypt. Are you listening to me? That's
what the Bible says, by faith. Stephen in his sermon in Acts
chapter 7 says the same thing. When he was come to years, he
went out, it was put in his heart to go out and look upon his brethren
by faith. See, that glorifies God. A man
running doesn't glorify God. But by faith, it does. They hid
this child. Yes, they're human. Yes, they're
human. They had worries and fears and
anxiety. They were flesh, yes. You and
I, if we had a baby, a child, and the command was that all
male— were not afraid of the king's
command. They were not afraid. In other
words, they disregarded the king's commandments. They did not heed
the king's commandments. They weren't worried or fearful
of an earthly king's decree. They had heard from God, this
is a child, you protect him. Joseph and Mary were told by
God, flee. Right? flee there after the child, go
into Egypt. Why? He's going to call his son
from Egypt. He's going to call his son from
Egypt. This was all of the Lord. All
of the Lord. And let me tell you something.
All who truly fear God, really fear God, they don't fear men. Anybody who fears men more than
God doesn't fear God. And that's just so. That doesn't
honor God. You read the story of the martyrs. You see, this
faith honors God. It honors God. You read the story
of the martyrs. Anyone have the book, Foxe's
Book of Martyrs? You read the stories of the martyrs who were
burned at the stake, women, and in Hebrews 11 will tell us later
about all these things that people went through. People can't go,
the natural person can't go through those things without the power
and spirit of God doing something for them, can they, huh? A natural
person will spare their own neck. These parents hid this child
at the expense of their own life. If the child was found, not only
would the child be killed, but they would be too. But you read of the martyrs,
and they were just ordinary people, all of them, all of them. As I said, Hebrews 11 says, women
who received, they were sawn asunder, they were stoned, they
didn't accept uh, life that took death because of what they believe. If you believer, if you, if it
came down to it, now you, you think in your, yourself, you
think, I don't know what I do. I do. I do. I mean, I'm not saying I
know what I do. I know what you'd do. I know
whatever believer does. He'd do what these, what these
people did. The greater is he that sent you than he is in the
world. Scripture said, uh-huh. I can do all things through Christ
which strengthens me. If it came down to it, if it
came down to it and somebody held a gun at your head or a
knife at your throat or your life was in danger for the sake
of the gospel, come on. Asking you to renounce it, what
would you do? Huh? Now, you'd do what these people
did, by faith. Yes, you would. See, that's not
natural. But that honors God, you see.
Running the knot, but standing firm. Martin Luther, everybody
was against Martin Luther. He was alone, totally alone,
he said. And they threatened him, said,
we're going to burn you. Here I stand, I can do no other.
Peter and the boys, you know. The Lord had Peter fall. And
all the disciples run on purpose. Why? You know why, John? Why all the disciples had to
run and leave him? He had to do it alone. He had to go to
the cross alone. To fulfill the scripture, smite
the shepherd and the sheep will be scoured. He had to. Like Abraham
taking Isaac up on the mountain and told him, you stay here.
I and the boy are going to go worship. It had to be according
to the scripture. But now when it came down to
it, Brother John, all twelve apostles were killed. Trust in Christ. He was shortly
thereafter, they told Peter, we'll beat you to death if you
don't quit preaching now. He said, well, just go bring
out the whip. And so would you. Yes, you would. So would you. That gives me hope
for this cowardly fellow. Yeah, it does. When that child, listen to me,
when that child, Jesus, was hid by his parents, taken into Egypt. Was he spared by his parents? Did his parents save his life? No, they were just the means.
They were just instruments. God saved his life. God spared
him, like Moses. They hid him, but they were just
the means by the decree of God, according to the direction of
God. Now there's a couple of things I want us to see here. A couple of things. Pharaoh told the people to slay
all the children. And over in Matthew, you don't
have to turn, but Matthew 2, significantly, Matthew 2, Exodus
2, it says that all the children were killed. All of them. Every male child,
two and under, was killed, except one. What does that tell you? And
back here, apparently every male child was killed but one, Moses,
the deliverer. There's a couple of things I
see in that. Number one, everybody's going to be slain but those in
Christ. everybody in this whole world
is going to be slain but those, except those that are in Christ
by faith. And I see also that all people
are expendable but Christ. Right? Apparently so. All are expendable but Christ.
Verse 3, it says, she took him, I like this, she took for him
an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch,
and put the child therein, and laid it in the flags, or the
reeds, by the river's bank." She took this child, put him
in an ark, and before she did that, she daubed that ark with
slime and pitch. And then it says she cast it.
She put the child there. He went over, and Stephen's sermon
says, cast him out. Put him out there on the water.
Now, you tell me that didn't take faith. Huh? Would you put your baby in a
basket on a river, or would you keep it with you? You'd think, well, I can protect,
I don't want to just throw it out, cast it out on the river
to be, who knows what'll happen to it. I'll do my best, I'll
die trying to protect this child. No. Put it in a basket. Isn't that significant? Put it
in an ark, pitched, put in without, cast it on the water, for the
mercy and grace of God. By faith, that special child,
cast it on the river. What is that picture of? Every
believer, every believer must cast their care upon God. Everything. He says, cast your
care upon me, upon Him. He cares for you. You must cast
your soul on Him. Nowhere else. Nobody else. You'll
not be hid. You can't be hid. When the overflowing
scourge of God's wrath comes through, you can't be hid, except
In art, you must cast yourself on his care, cast your children
upon him. You can't do anything for your
children when you can do what you can, like they did. But when
it's all said and done, you cast your children upon the mercy
of God, right? Lord, here they are. Protect
them. May they be found in Christ. And in that art, cast all your
hopes, all your fears, all your cares on him, cast them in the
river of his mercy. I love this verse. Ecclesiastes
11 says, cast your bread upon the water. And you'll see it
again after many days. Oh, what a picture that is of
Christ, the bread of life, like this baby cast upon the water. They saw it. Verse 4, it says
his sister stood afar off to wit what would be done what would
be done to him. Wonder what's going to happen
to him. So here are these parents, and
I quote, and here are these parents saw in this child something special.
And they hid it as long as they could, but then finally they
put it in an ark with pitch, covered it over, and cast it
on the water. And the little girl, Miriam,
stood back to watch and see what happened. See what would happen? What's going to happen to that
baby? What's going to happen to that
child? Well, I tell you, neither hell nor high water could sink that little basket.
A little basket? It's just a little basket made
of reeds with a baby in it, a live baby on a river. Ron, we've grown
up. Can't get in the finest canoe,
me, and go down a little two-bit waterfall without tipping. Well,
some of us can. No kidding. A river, a little
baby in a basket. Neither hail nor high water is
going to sink that basket. Why? In that basket's the deliverer. That's the ark, and it's the
deliverer. And what's sealed it? And that baby is a picture of
Christ. From the cradle to the grave,
he was sought to be killed. Nobody's going to kill him until
his time comes. God had a purpose for him. He's
a deliverer. Nothing's going to... Nobody's going to kill him until
God does. Like Moses. God killed Moses,
didn't he? And Christ is that ark. Christ is all of these things.
His blood is that pitch. And if we're found in him, either
hell or high water is going to sink this ship. We're not going
to make shipwreck of the fact. But the little girl Miriam, this
is great, says she stood back to wonder what's going to happen
to him. And the mother is worried and
the dad's worried. Everybody's worried. Yes, they
are. But they cast all their hope. All their care on the mercy
of God, I sure hope it turns out all right. Turns out all
right, the way you see. Let's keep reading. If it didn't
strike you the first time. I sure hope it turns out all
right. I hope God has mercy. He's going to do more than that. Verse 5, The daughter of Pharaoh
came down to wash herself at the river. Now just, you know
how many women washed at this river? You know how many women? If Miriam if Jokabad is going
to put that ark in the river she's not going to put it there
where Pharaoh's daughter is. Pharaoh's daughter is going to
kill that baby. She's going to turn it into her daddy. Here comes Pharaoh's daughter.
Miriam thought oh no. Pharaoh's daughter. At this spot. Right when this little ark comes.
Read on. She saw that art or maidens walking
along and she saw the art and she set her maid to fetch it
and when she had opened it she saw the child and behold the
babe wept and she had compassion on him and said well this is
one of the Hebrews children. Was she going to do. Well up comes Miriam little girl
Miriam about 12 years old she just kind of Moses in, you know,
act like she just happened to be walking by that day. And,
you know, she wanted to see what's going to happen to her baby brother.
And she comes walking up and, you know, a little poor little
ragged girl and says, what you going to do with that baby? Pharaoh's
daughter says, I don't know. And Miriam said in verse 7, to
Pharaoh's daughter, How about I go and call thee a nurse of
the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? See,
Egyptian women didn't nurse. They didn't believe in it. It's
unfashionable. Animals do that. Hebrew animals
do that. And she thought, well, if I keep
this child, somebody's got to feed it, and I don't want to
feed it, and I don't want to wake up with it and all that, you know.
And she couldn't nurse it anyway. So she thought, that's a good
idea. Go call, go. Find us a nurse. And look at this. And Pharaoh's
daughter said, there you go. And verse 8, and the maid, that
is Miriam, went and called Jochabed. Come to get your baby back by order of the princess of Egypt. You get to nurse him. How long?
How long? When do you reckon she's going
to wean him, Jeanette? As long as she wanted to. Well,
she did. Called the child's mother and
Pharaoh's daughter. Look at this. Pharaoh's daughter.
Now, this is God working. See, get the picture here. They
cast this baby on the water. Oh, I don't know what's going
to become of it all if we lose our baby. Lose your baby. Read on. Pharaoh's daughter said
under here, take this child away. Take it home or somewhere. Nurse it for me and I'll pay
you to do it. I'll pay you to do it. Man, oh man. The woman took the
child and nursed it. And the child grew, and this
is the most marvelous thing of all, God's absolute power. The child grew, and she brought
him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son, son of Pharaoh's
daughter, the next in line to be king of Egypt, prince of Egypt. Now, Pharaoh had given a decree
to kill every male child, two years and up. Pharaoh had given
that decree. But God, now, but God, who is
rich in mercy, had given a much older and far greater and more
powerful decree before Pharaoh was ever born, that Pharaoh himself
was going to raise in his own house the very deliverer that would bring him down from
power. Pharaoh himself is going to be
cast into the river. That's what the scripture says.
Pharaoh himself and his army drowned in the river. This child of God, this seeding
All a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ and God's purpose. This is much deeper than just
a man and his wife scared and hiding a baby. This is a picture
of the Christ child, the deliverer. All right, stand with me. Our Lord, we pardon your suffering
and poverty, your goodness, your glory, your mercy, your grace,
your kindness, your wisdom, and all things, and we direct all
things You shed your words, all things, and we know all things
work together for good, and above God with us all according to
the conditions of the person. All the promises of God in Christ
are daily, and it's the story of God the Father in Jesus, and
there are five names, three names, four names, two names. All your
purposes throughout this world, throughout time and eternity
have all run across those skin tones. How thankful we are that
you've made this known to us. Father, let every fear that we
have show us that you work in all things. Though they be despised
men, though small, though ordinary men, if you're working all things
truly for your sovereign purpose, bring Christ the Lord to reign
through, as Moses spoke, to lead the people to the promised land. For this is your power, this
is your glory. Your glorified in the stories
always. Thank you for showing it to us. It's frustrating. I bet you're not. It's all about work. You're listening.