Alright brethren, let's turn
to Exodus chapter 1. Exodus chapter 1. Now we saw
last time how Pharaoh ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill the
male babies. To kill the male babies and spare
the women, the female babies. And it said in Exodus 1.22, And
Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born
you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall
save alive. Since the midwives did not obey
Pharaoh, they did not obey his command to kill the male babies.
These Hebrew slave midwives refused to do what Pharaoh commanded.
They feared God rather than Pharaoh. So now he's commanded all his
Egyptian soldiers, all his Egyptian guard to do it. He's commanded them now, since
the midwives wouldn't do it, to take the male babies and cast
them into the river, drown them in the river as soon as they
were born. Now can you imagine how terrifying it would be in
that time if you knew you were pregnant and about to have a
child. If you knew your wife was going
to have a child, don't you know how terrifying that would be?
Verse 1, the next chapter says, And there went a man of the house
of Levi, his name was Amram, Am-ram, and he took to wife a
daughter of Levi, In the same tribe, they married within the
tribe. Her name was Jochebed. And the woman conceived and bare
a son. Miriam, at this time, was around
15 years old. That was the eldest child. Aaron
was about three years old. And now they have Moses. And
when she saw him, that he was a goodly child, she hid him three
months. And when she could not longer
hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed
it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein. And
she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister,
Miriam, stood afar off to wit what would be done to him." You
know what I think of when I read that? Do you remember somebody
else that stood afar off to see what would happen? The apostle
Peter. When they arrested our Lord Jesus,
it says He stood afar off to see what would happen. It says
verse 5, And the daughter of Pharaoh 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 maid
to fetch it. They just so happened to be walking
along the river at that time. Sure were lucky, weren't they?
Do you believe that? God was ruling everything that
was taking place right here. And when she had opened it, verse
6, when she had opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the
babe wept. She had compassion on him and
said, this is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister
Miriam to Pharaoh's daughter. Miriam was standing by and she
sees her open this ark and that little baby starts crying, her
little brother starts crying and Miriam just runs right up
to Pharaoh's daughter. And she said, Shall I go and
call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the
child for thee? You want me to go call one of
these Hebrew slave women to nurse this baby for you? And Pharaoh's daughter, verse
8, said to her, Go. And the maid went and called
the child's mother, called Moses' own mother, Jochebed. And Pharaoh's
daughter said unto her, Now you take this child away, and you
nurse it for me, and I'll give thee thy wages. I'm going to
pay you to take care of this baby for me. And the woman took
the child and nursed it. That's the first paid babysitter
in the scripture. First paid babysitter we know
of at all, right there. Paid to take care of her own
child. Verse 10, And the child grew,
and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. That means she provided everything
for Pharaoh out of Pharaoh's treasure, the finest that could
be had. She gave it to Moses. And she
called his name Moses, drawn out. And she said, because I
drew him out of the water. Now everything that comes to
pass in time, everything, is God working his eternal decree. Let me read you some scripture
just real quick. Ephesians chapter 1 says this. It says, we have received an
inheritance. being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will." Everything after the counsel of his own
will. Somebody will say, I don't understand how God could predestinate
everything, how He could work everything after the counsel
of His own will. Isn't that good? That God is
a lot bigger than you? Isn't that great that God is
more powerful than you? That He can do what He will like
we can't? I wouldn't have any other kind
of God. In fact, there is no other kind. There is no other
kind. Romans chapter 8 says this. It says, We know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom
he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called,
them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who
can be against us? Who can be against us? Now, God
works everything that's, everything that's coming to pass is God
working His eternal decree. So what's His eternal decree?
Well, in eternity, God decreed that He was going to glorify
His Son and give Him all preeminence. It pleased God that He have all
the preeminence. And He's going to do it by sending
Him to save His people by Him honoring and magnifying the law,
satisfying justice and bringing in righteousness. You see, that's
God. He's holy and righteous and just. And God's going to have everything
that He is made known to His people in the person of His Son,
by the work His Son did. You take that away and you just
start preaching these moral stories that men preach, and you have
no gospel. You have no gospel. And God's
decree was not only to glorify His Son, it was to save His people
through Christ, His finished work. And so here's what I want
you to see today. God works all things in providence. Everything that's come in the
past, God's working it to exalt Christ and save His people as
He decreed from eternity. And we're going to see it today.
We're going to see God work everything that took place right here to
show me and you a picture of that very thing. Of how God works
everything to exalt Christ and save His people. You know, you
sit down to paint a picture. Emma paints, and she'll sit down
to paint, and she'll take a brush, and she'll just put these strokes
on there, and she'll start working on it. And before long, there's
a picture there. Well that God can take you and
you and you and me and things and the weather and everything
that's at His disposal and work it all together just like a painter
working a paintbrush to paint you and me a picture. Using real
people and real events to show us that He really does work everything
for His people to glorify Christ. And that's what He's doing here
today. in this text. Now, I've titled this, Christ
in Moses' Birth. I'm going to show you first an
example of faith. I want to show you Christ in
the ark, and I want to show you God's sovereignty bringing it
all to pass. Now, first of all, an example
of faith in Christ our Deliverer. When I talk about faith, I'm
not just talking about some random thing. I'm talking about faith
in Christ our Deliverer. Look at Exodus 2, verse 2. Abraham and Jochebed married,
and Jochebed conceived and bare a son. And when she saw him,
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. Now herein,
Moses, we begin with by saying Moses is a type of Christ here.
He's a type of Christ here. We're going to later, maybe in
another message, I'll show you a lot of ways Moses is a type
of Christ. But we see it right here. Because
he's hidden in Egypt during his infancy, and so was Christ. The Scripture says, The angel
of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, Arise,
take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt,
and be thou there until I bring thee word. For Herod will seek
to destroy the young child. And that's what Pharaoh was trying
to do to Moses, kill him. And so he was hidden in Egypt,
just like Christ was when he was a baby. He's a picture of
Christ. Now God, the Holy Spirit, tells
us this was an act of faith. This is an example of faith.
Go to Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11. What they did, Moses' mom and
dad, was an example of faith. Hebrews 11.23 says, By faith
Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents.
You could read it like this. Moses when he was born, you can
read like, by faith he was hid three months of his parents.
His parents is who we're focusing on here. By faith they hid him
because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid
of the king's commandment. It says by faith they saw. We're
not talking about just the natural eye. We're not just talking about
her heart strings being tugged at because of her new baby. We're
talking about she saw something with the eye of faith and the
father saw something with the eye of faith. What did they see?
Go back to Acts 7 and look at verse 20. Acts 7 verse 20. This is what
faith always sees. Acts 7 verse 20. It says in which time Moses was
born and was exceeding fair. Now if you have a margin, you'll
see what it says. Fair to God. He was fair to God. Beautiful and comely to God.
And that word exceeding carries the meaning of God's representative. God's representative. That's
why it was fair to God. Now Christ is fair to God, and
all his elect, therefore, are fair to God in Christ. So he
looked at Moses, he saw him just as he saw Christ, and he was
fair in Christ. But here it's telling us that
God looked upon Moses as being fair because he would be God's
representative. He would be the one God would
use to deliver his people out of Egypt. And so God revealed
this to the mother and the father. How do you know that? Because
it was said to us that this was an act of faith. Faith cometh
by hearing and hearing by the word of God. They had heard the
word of God passed down from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They
had heard the word of Joseph that said God will send a deliverer. He will visit you and he will
bring you out of Egyptian bondage. And apparently, God had declared
to them that Moses was going to be that deliverer. Because
later we're going to see, they had taught Moses this, he knew
it. It says there in Acts 7.25, he supposed his brethren would
have understood how that God by His hand would deliver them.
He knew this. And they knew this. So God, by
His Word, by His grace, by His gift of faith, He gave them and
understanding spiritual discernment, and they believed God. And they
saw Moses their deliverer. And faith will be tried. When
God gives that faith, it's going to be tried. Now, this was a
trial. Pharaoh, we saw last time, he's the most powerful man in
the world at that time. And what he says goes. He could
kill you without even... He don't have a Senate and a
Congress. All he's got to do is do it. Order it done and it's
done. This was a trial. But you know
what faith does? Faith believes God's Word. Faith beholds Christ, our Deliverer. And faith rests in God, obeys
God and trusts God rather than men. Even when to the natural
senses it appears like everything is against us and that we're
surely going to perish. Faith believes God. That's why
when men tell me, I just can't believe your gospel, all you
do by that is support it. You're right, you can't. You
can't. Faith is believing what the natural
senses can't grasp. Faith is the evidence. Faith
is the concrete evidence of things not seen. That's what it is.
And so they believed God, and so by faith Moses was hid three
months of his prayers because they saw he was a proper child
and they were not afraid of the king's commandments. Do you see
faith in Christ here? That's what faith in Christ does.
Faith hears God's word and believes Christ and doesn't fear men.
If I was going to fear men, I'd be doing it right now because
we got worse and worse about running for the presidency. and
it would be horrendous if I was fearing what man and what man
is going to do. I believe God and I trust Christ
is the head and ruler and everything for His people and His person
is going to be put there. It doesn't matter which one is
elected. It is going to be the one He will have there and He
is going to work His will through that person. The Lord turns the
king's heart withersoever He will. I don't have to worry about
what is going to happen. He is going to do it. Now, I'm not
going to be a fatalist. I'm going to do like we're going
to see here that Amram and Jochebed did. They knew the providence
of God, and they knew the sovereignty of God, and they knew the eternal
decree of God, but they took measures to protect this child
and do things to provide for this child, knowing it. I'm going
to go vote. Even though I know God's gonna
put his man there. You see what I'm saying? Sovereignty
doesn't make you a fatalist. Sovereignty trusts God and therefore
obeys God doing what God's put in your hands to do. And only
that. So this is an example of faith.
And you know, Kevin, I'm glad you read what you read. Because
that's the end of that roll call of faith in Hebrews 11 is what
he read. See, and we have all these great
cloud of witnesses. They were examples of faith overcoming
great trial, is what they were examples of. And they overcame
one way. One way. And it's what the exhortation
is. Run this right, lay aside every weight and the sin that
so easily besets us, that sin that's opposite to faith, unbelief. Run this race with patience that's
set before you, God set it before you, looking to Jesus, the author
and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set
before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat
down at the right hand of the Father. Run this race looking
to Christ. That's what we see first. That's
what they did. Now secondly, we see Christ our Deliverer in
the ark. I want you to understand, you
that may have not heard this before, this morning when I said
that God saved according to the scriptures and we looked at the
scriptures and talked about how He saved according to the scriptures,
that's telling us that in everything that He's doing here, there's
some types, there's some pictures in there that show us something
about Christ. So we're not just reading here
about this nice little story about Moses and his mom and dad. We want to see Christ in it.
We want to see Christ in it. Well, Christ is in this ark.
Now look here at verse 3. When she could not longer hide
him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes. Read it carefully. She could not longer hide him.
And she took for him an ark of bulrushes. and daubed it with
slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid
it in the flags by the river's brink, in the edge of the river.
Now the law of the land sought Moses, and he could no longer
be hidden. The law of the land sought him,
and he could not be hidden. Now brethren, God is all-knowing. And God's law will seek every
sinner. Because we've all transgressed
God's law. And you can't hide from it. You
can't hide from God's law. Job 4.18 says, Behold, he put
no trust in his servants and his angels he charged with folly.
How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation
is in the dust which are crushed before the moth. We're no match
for God and His justice. He said in Job 9, 2, How should
man be just with God? That's the question. That's the
question of all questions. How should man be just with God? If he will contend with Him,
he cannot answer Him one of a thousand. If I justify myself, my own mouth
shall condemn me. If I say I'm perfect, it shall
prove me perverse. When we talk about being just
with God, we're not talking about I'm better than that one, or
I've done the best I can. We're talking about being perfect
with God. As perfect as God. If I try to say I'm just with
God, I'm saying I'm perfect with God, and my own mouth condemns
me. I'm not that way. You're not that way. But it must
be perfect to be accepted of God. How then can a man be justified
with God, or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? That's
the two things that have to happen. We got to be justified, cleared
of all our sin, and found not guilty, and found righteous,
having obeyed and magnified and honored the law. And we have
to be clean, because our nature is corrupt as well. In other
words, we got to be created anew. How can we do that? How can we
do that? Well, the answer is in the Ark
of Bulrushes. Notice there, She took for Him
an Ark of Bulrushes. By His unmerited grace, by His
unmerited grace, God took for His chosen children, Christ Jesus,
our Ark. He took Christ. He said in Isaiah,
Behold My servant whom I uphold, Mine elect who I have chosen. He shall bring judgment in the
earth. He is going to save My people.
He is going to magnify and uphold the law and I will delight in
His righteousness. He chose Christ for His people
just like she chose for him an ark of bulrushes. And this bulrushes
was a reed that grew by the Nile River that's so flimsy and light
and just pliable that any vessel made out of it, you could just
fold it up and then unfold it and use it. Like when they would
make boats out of it, they would just literally fold up the boats
and carry them on their shoulder and then unfold them and get
in them and ride in little canoes, you know. Well, the Son of God
took for His people this light and pliable thing called flesh,
like His brethren. Hebrews 2.17 says, Wherefore
in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren. The Son of God came down and
made like his brethren. Why? That he might be a merciful
and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. We needed
somebody to go in and represent us to God. We needed somebody...
We couldn't approach God. We needed somebody who could
approach God and who could eternally affect everything that we needed. To be faithful then to come to
us and know the feeling of our infirmities and deal with us
and instruct us and teach us. We needed that. And that he might
make reconciliation for the sins of the people. That's what we
needed. So she took an ark. God took
Christ for his people. And then she daubed it with slime
and with pitch. She daubed it with slime. This
is what's going to keep any of that water from getting in the
ark and getting to that child within the ark. She daubed it
with slime and with pitch. It means she smeared it. She
befouled it with slime and with pitch. We laid that stone over... We laid some stone at the church
the past two days and the whole time that I worked on it and
was spreading that mortar and making a mess, the whole time
I kept thinking about this passage. That was smeared on that ark. And this is what prevented that
water from getting to the child. It was smeared on that ark. Christ
took flesh for a reason. He took flesh so that all the
slime of His people's iniquities could be smeared on Him. And therefore, God would be just
to pour out judgment on Him. The slime and the pitch of the
sins of His people. He hath made Him sin for us. That's the art being That's the
picture here of this ark being daubed. That means smeared, befouled
with slime and with pitch. He made him sin for us. That we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. Why was that necessary to make
him sin? Because God said sin is not imputed
where there is no law. God will not impute to make somebody
sin. Sin's not imputed where there
is no law. Sin's only imputed where a law's
been broken. We need to learn the true scriptural
teaching of imputation. Sin's not imputed where there
is no law. Unless there is somebody that's
broken a law, Sin's not imputed to them. So that's telling you,
you're not made sin by imputation. By one man's disobedience, many
were made sinners. That's why God imputed sin to
you. My Greek lexicon says, if you
have five dollars in your wallet, then you impute five dollars
to your wallet. It said you don't put $5 in your
wallet by imputing it to it. You impute $5 to your wallet
because that's what's in your wallet. God made him sin so that
he might impute sin to him. That is totally contrary. Most
people teach imputation as God treating you as if. God's not
treating those that Christ died for as if we are righteous. By one man's obedience, Many
shall be made righteous. And the reason God imputes righteousness
to us is that's what we are in Christ. He said, Reckon ye yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God. That means imputed
so. Paul said, Account us to be stewards
of the mysteries of God. He wasn't saying impute to us
something we're not. He was saying account to us what
we really are. You want God to just be treating you as if, or
you want Him to say, this is how it really is. Blessed is the man whom God will
not impute sin. He's just pretending he don't
have any. In Christ they're gone. When he by himself purged our
sins, he sat down. That's why God won't impute sin
to you. In Christ there are none. In Him is no sin. He made him
sin, brethren, that he might be just. The whole purpose he
came was to be righteous. I don't have to get into how
he did it or what the implications of that are. I just see this
is the proper teaching of Scripture. This is what it says. I believe
him. That's enough. We can't comprehend the shame
Christ bore on Calvary's cross. It was a real thing that he was
going through. He owned the sins of his people
to be his own sin. And at the same time, he was
perfectly fulfilling the law of God in his heart, never wavering
from looking to God and trusting God. In Psalm 40, in verse 7,
it says, Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it's written of me,
I delight to do thy will, O God, yea, thy law is within my heart.
The same Psalm, speaking the same words of Christ, says, "... innumerable evils have come past
me about, mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I
am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs
of mine head, therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O Lord,
to deliver me. O Lord, make haste to help me."
We can't enter into this It was not, he wasn't pretending something
that wasn't real and he wasn't just doing some legal transact.
Our Savior knows His touch with the feeling of our infirmities
more than you and I can comprehend. How could He do that and be holy
still? I don't know but He was. He was. I don't have to answer everything.
That's a blessed place to be when you know I don't have to
answer all the questions people come up with. Read God's Word,
believe God's Word, and rest in it. That's right. But it's
all got to mesh. It's all got to be consistent. If this is how he says he imputes,
this is how he imputes. So therefore, this is what I
know to be true. So, you see there, the law was in his heart
while at the same time he was bearing the sins and owning those
iniquities as his own. And yet, looking to God to deliver
him. Never. That's perfect faith. That's perfect sin bearing. That's
perfect judgment being born. That's perfection right there.
That is the righteousness and holiness God is. Strict, perfect
righteousness and holiness. Aren't you glad it's that way?
That means, brethren, our salvation. God's not going to pretend today
you're righteous and tomorrow decide, well, I'll just pretend
now you're not. No. It's done. It's so real what
Christ did. And it can't be altered. It can't
be changed. All through Scripture, Paul just
kept on and on and on. Reckon yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, brethren. There is now therefore no condemnation. Over and over and over, he's
saying, don't say it's as if. He's saying, say it is so. That's
how you reckon it, because that's how God imputes it. And then
look, she put the child therein, in this ark. Now we usually look
at Moses as a type of the law. He's also a type of the law.
He's the one through whom the law was given. And the only way
that that law could be upheld and God be honored and justice
be satisfied and righteousness be magnified is in Christ. So you can look there at the
picture of the law being put in Christ. But I'm going to stick
with our type here as a sinner being saved by grace. And I want
you to see here, Moses had no hand in any of this. He didn't
have a hand in any of this. You and me, who God saved, all
who God shall save, are as helpless as this infant child Moses to
save ourselves. We're just that helpless. He
couldn't do anything. He couldn't see the evil going
on. He didn't know the decree going
on. He didn't know what was transpiring, what was taking place. And that's
about as ignorant as you and me are. We don't see the powers
and principalities and evil that's warring against us every day.
We don't. We don't understand the depths
of God's mercy and the depths of His love and the depths of
His eternal decree and the depths of how He works all things together
for us. We can't see that. It's not by
works of righteousness which we've done but according to His
mercy He saved us. I declare thy righteousness and
thy works, God said, they shall not profit thee. So then it's not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that shows mercy.
Moses didn't even put himself in the ark. He was put in the
ark by somebody else. And likewise, before the world
was made, none of God's people put ourselves in Christ. He put
us there. 1 Corinthians 1.29 says that
no flesh should glory in His sight, but of Him are ye in Christ
Jesus. Paul said, He saved us and called
us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to
His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began. You know, one thing occurred
to me, one thing that is proof that everything that the gospel
teaches is true, is this. It's that men take the same book,
go through this whole same process we're going through right here,
and preach a lie from it. Change it and preach something
else from it. That's proof that what we're teaching is true.
Because men hate it so bad, they want to imitate it. They want
to be looked at as being a holy people. But in order for them
to stomach it, they have to change the message and put it in man's
hands rather than God's hands. That ought to tell anybody sitting
right there that what we're saying is so. Most of religion is not
preaching this. And then look, she laid the ark
with the child inside it in the flags by the river's brink. In
the reeds there by the river's brink. That river is a picture
of justice. That river is a picture of death.
And when she put that there, now you see in judgment fall
on Christ. You're seeing judgment. He's
daubed with that slime and that pitch, Christ bearing our sins,
but now He was not only made sin, when God poured out judgment
in righteousness upon Him now, now He's made a curse. That's
even further into shame than sin, to be made a curse. But brethren, Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it's written, Cursed is everyone
that hangeth on a tree. That means He did it. That means
He redeemed His people from the curse. That means everybody for
whom He was made a curse are redeemed from it. They'll no
more come into condemnation. They'll no more suffer the curse
of the law. The wages of sin have been paid
for them. They won't die. They have life.
It's in Christ. It's just a matter of him giving
it to them through faith now, making them understand it. Wouldn't
that be great if that soul of somebody sitting here that don't
believe him today, somebody walked in here saying, I'm not going
to believe on him, I think it's a bunch of hocus pocus, and walked
out of here saying, I believe God. That's what happened to me. Exactly
what happened to me. Being in Christ on the cross
because divine justice fell on Him, it fell only on Him, only
on the ark. That water and that vessel sitting
in that ark, sitting in that water, that water only touched
that ark, but none of it touched the child inside the ark because
the ark bore it. We died in Christ. We suffered
justice in Christ. So real to God that God says,
now, you're dead to sin. You died in Christ. And yet,
because it was all in Christ, we were in Christ, none of that
judgment touched us ourselves. It touched Him. And it was really
touching us when it touched him because we're one with him. But
we don't have to bear the pain and suffering and shame that
he bore because he bore it for us. No condemnation. No condemnation. Can't you just picture that little
child Moses in that ark, comfortable, probably swaddled and wrapped
up and warm. It had a lid on it so the sun's
not getting, it's dark in there. And that ark's all got so much
pitch on it. Don't you know, I bet she didn't
spare putting that slime and that pitch on that ark either.
I bet she slathered that thing down good so wouldn't a drop
of water get in it. And she put him in that river
and he just sitting in there, kicked back, enjoying the cruise,
safe as he could be. That's God's people in Christ,
safe. Now lastly, I want to briefly
show you God's sovereign providence to exalt Christ and draw out
His people. Verse 4, Moses' sister Miriam
stood afar off to wit what would be done to him. Just like Peter
did, looking to Christ. And the daughter of Pharaoh came
down to wash herself at the river. God moved her to do that. And
her maidens walked along by the riverside, and when she saw the
ark among the flags, she said her maid to fetch it. God moved
them to do that. How do you know? Because God
told Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, I'm going to send a deliverer,
and he's going to bring them out. And God said, this is Him.
God's not going to let anything happen to Him. Look at this now. Verse 6, And when she had opened
it, she saw the child, and behold, the babe wept, and she had compassion
on him. God made him cry right at that
minute, so He'd grab her heart. And she said, This is one of
the Hebrews' children. And then said Moses' sister to
Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, Go! God made Miriam come up without
a suggestion and turned Pharaoh's daughter's heart so that she
said, That is a great idea. Go get me one of them Hebrew
women. And a maid went, called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's
daughter said, Take this child away, nurse it for me, and I'll
give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child
and nursed it. You know how often God's providence happens to us
and we think this is going to be horrible, this is going to
be terrible, I don't, this is going to be, oh, why did this
happen? Don't you know when she put that, her baby, her flesh
and blood in a river, in an ark and let him go, is that not faith?
And let him go in there and she's thinking, Lord, I don't know
what you're going to do. I don't know how it's going to
turn out. God always does it better than
we'd have done it. He not only saved the child,
He's going to use Pharaoh to provide and pay her to raise
the child. We couldn't have come up with
that. We couldn't have made that happen. Sometimes the tears are
just to bring you to a happy end. So just bear with the tears. Bear with the suffering. Verse
10, And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter,
and he became her son. Pharaoh's greatest enemy was
raised in Pharaoh's house with Pharaoh's resources because God
made it to happen. And she called his name Moses
because I drew him out of judgment, out of death, out of the water.
Now Pharaoh's aim was to destroy Israel so they'd never be delivered
from him. That was his aim. Destroy them
so they'll never be delivered from him. And yet God used Pharaoh's
own daughter and his own resources to provide the very best housing
and education and clothing and everything that could be provided,
the very finest of it, God used Pharaoh to do it for the very
one God's going to use to deliver them. And Pharaoh don't have
a clue what's going on. Not only that, God brought Moses
to his own mother and had her paid out of Pharaoh's house to
raise her own child. Do you see what God means when
He says, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness? And the
counsel of the forward is carried headlong. You don't have to fight
back and argue when men are going against God and against you and
it looks like they're going to have their way and it's going
to trample on you. You don't have to. Just wait
a little while and see what God does. He takes the crafty and
just turns it right around on them and provides for his people.
That very river of death Just think now, that river of death
that Pharaoh thought, this is where I'll kill all these Melvabies
right here. This is how I'll destroy Israel
right here in this river of death, this river of judgment right
here. That's what the devil thought. He thought, I'm going to destroy
Christ on this cross and he made his seed say, I'm going to destroy
Christ on this cross and I'm going to destroy God and his
kingdom and his people right here. And that was God's way
of delivering them. That's right. When they drew
Moses out of that water, you might as well have said all Israel
was saved when they drew him out of there. Because the judgment's
over now. Now all that's left to do is
just train him up to deliver him. And when Christ came out
of that grave, brethren, all his people came out of that grave
with him. And you can rest assured this now, from the garden to
this very minute, right now, everything that this wicked world
is doing to seek to destroy God's church, God is working to save
His church, using our enemies, to exalt Christ, to bring His
children to the church, to provide for us, and to deliver every
one of His elect children. I see a picture of the church
in this, where she brings Pharaoh out, Moses out of that water,
and brings him to the mother, and the mother nurses him and
brings him up. That's God raising His child
up, bringing His child to His church, and raising His child
up under Christ's bride, the mother. while at the same time
using everything, all the enemies and all the world to provide
for us. Right there. Everything that happens is God
working all His eternal decree for whom are all things and by
whom are all things. And we see here it's from the
least to the greatest action. God's ordering and working everything
for His glory and the salvation of His people. Every elect child
of God has been drawn out in Christ when He was raised. And
everyone is being drawn out in irresistible grace to faith in
Christ right now. And at last, everyone will be
drawn out of this world into heaven's glory in Christ. When
you look at that story, I can't read that story and hear
that message and not believe on God. I have to, I just read
that thing, that is, that is, that's the amazing, wonderful,
sovereign God right there. That is the God of salvation.
Can you say that? Can you believe on Him? It'd
be so foolish to put yourself in the camp of Pharaoh, in the
camp of the wicked, and say, no, I'm not going to believe
Him. Do you think you're going to overcome Him? Do you think
you're going to out, last and outwit and outplay Him. You think
you're going to be the survivor? It ain't going to happen. You
look at what God is, how He works. Trust Him. Believe Him. He will
save you. Amen.