It must have got hot here this morning. Hey, turn over to Exodus chapter 2. Exodus chapter 2. The story we're going to consider this morning is the birth of Moses. I got to listen to Mike's message this morning on the way back, and I hope it complements it well. Mike, that was such a blessing. Thank you so much. What a powerful picture of Christ. Hopefully this evening, Lord willing, we'll see another powerful picture. Now Exodus 2, that's where we're going to take our text from. But before we do that, I want to give us the backstory in Exodus 1 here. So if you would look at Exodus 1, just across the page, and look at verse 8. It says, now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. Now, my understanding is that between Joseph, the death of Joseph and the birth of Moses, about 210 years passes. So it's a lot of water under the bridge, right? A lot of pharaohs have come and gone in that time. And finally, we end up with a pharaoh who doesn't know Joseph. And that doesn't mean he doesn't know who he is. Joseph was the savior of his generation for Egypt, typically. Everybody knew the story of Joseph. He just doesn't care who Joseph is. He has no interest in Joseph, he has no love for him, and he doesn't have any love for Joseph's people, the Hebrews. Here's what he does see. He sees the Hebrews and he says, they are stronger and they are more in number and they are mightier than us. And he has a fear. He's afraid that the Hebrews are going to join up with Egypt's enemies. He says, they're going to come along and they're going to fight with us. They're going to conquer us. So Pharaoh concocts this threefold scheme. He says, we're going to do something about these Hebrews. We're going to put them out of business. And as one scheme fails, he moves on to the next. And the first one is this. He says, we're going to put them under hard bondage and labors. We're going to make them slaves. We're going to put our thumb under them on top of them, and we're going to put them under bondage. And that way they'll know we're in charge and they are not. And that way they won't rise up against us. Let's see how that works out for him. Look at verse 12. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. Now that's gotta be incredibly frustrating for Pharaoh. He says, hard bondage, labors, that's what we're gonna do. And they won't rise up against us. And the more they afflicted them, the harder the bondage, the more they grew. And you think about that, just as a sidebar, just a side note. Do you have an interest in growth? I do, I truly do. I want to grow in grace. I want to grow in faith. I want to grow in the knowledge of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, grow in virtue, grow in brotherly love and brotherly kindness. I want all kinds of growth in grace. Well, when did they grow? When everything was downhill and winds at their back and things like that? No, it's an affliction. Affliction. When the Lord puts us under that trial, and he brings us to that place to where we've got no control, and we can see it. We can see it. We can't control our emotions. We can't control our attitude toward it. And he comes to us and he delivers one more time, and he whispers one more time, I am your salvation. And what happens? You grow. Grow. It gives a new perspective on that thing of trial. That's when we grow. But back to the story. He says, we're going to put them under bondage. And they grew. And that did not work. So he tries something else. Look at verse 16. And he said, when you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, you shall kill him. But if it be a daughter, then she shall live. So he goes to the midwives and he said, this is subtlety here. And he says, when you see a Hebrew baby and it's a boy, just kill it. Kill it immediately. Kill it at birth. And if it's a daughter, you let it live. And his idea was, we'll kill off all the males, and then we'll take their daughters to be our wives, and we'll kill them off and we'll breed them out. The Hebrews will be gone. But they wouldn't do it, says the midwives feared God. And they would not do what Pharaoh told them to do. And finally this, Pharaoh says, I've had enough. I've had enough of lesser means. I've had enough of subtlety. He makes an overt proclamation. And this is what it was, down to verse 22. And Pharaoh charged all his people saying, every son, everybody, every son that is born, he shall cast into the river and every daughter ye shall save alive." This is the king's command. This is his command. This is his law. Every son, everybody, they all have to go through the river. Either they're going to drown or the crocodiles are going to eat them, but everybody has to go through the river. And when you look at this threefold scheme Pharaoh comes up with, it describes human nature perfectly. What did he say? He said, kill them at birth. How is a man born into this world? dead in trespasses and sins. No spiritual ability, no natural love for God, no ability to look to the Lord Jesus Christ, to believe upon him, absolutely none, dead in trespasses and sins. He said, put him under bondage and hard labors. How is a man born in this world? In bondage to a law that he cannot keep. He can't make a step toward it. He can't satisfy God. In bondage to a law he cannot keep, in bondage to a sinful nature that envelops him, he can't stop. Sin is in everything we do and everything we think and everything we are. You take our best thought, our best motive, sin, because of this wicked heart, this natural heart that is in all of us. And finally, he says this. He says, they all have to go through the river. This is the king's command. The soul that sinneth It shall die. God is just, perfectly just and holy. When he sees sin, there's only one thing he can do, punish that sin in the person he finds it in. Now that is a terrible place for these Hebrews to find themselves in. What do they need? They need a deliverer, don't they? Someone to lead them out of all this, out of this bondage, out of this death. Take them through the river and put them safely on the other side. And you know what the very next thing that happens is? The deliverer is born, Moses. What does a sinner need? Someone who's dead and trespasses and sins in bondage. And the commandment is, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. He needs a deliverer. He needs the Lord Jesus Christ. And Moses, at least for the first two verses here in Exodus 2, he's a powerful type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's look at it. Let's read it. I'll make a few comments, then we'll go back. And pray the Lord to just give us the gospel significance here. Show us Christ. That's all we want. Let's get to Christ as fast as we can. Look at verse 1 of Exodus chapter 2. It says, And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took a wife, a daughter of Levi. And so these are Moses' parents. His dad is Amram, and his mother is Jochebed. And they're Levites. They're from the Levitical tribe. Verse 2, And the woman conceived, and bare a son, And when she saw him, that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. She looked at him and she says, he's beautiful. He's perfect. She says, I'm going to hide him. I'm not going to put him through the river. And you think about that, she's probably not alone here. How many of the Hebrew women did this exact same thing? They had a baby, a young boy. They said, it's a goodly child. I'm not putting him in the river. I'm going to hide him for as long as I can. And she makes it three months. OK, you made it three months. Now what? A year? Five years? Ten years? The Egyptian guards walking around Hebron, just waiting to hear a baby cry, just waiting to hear that coo so they can snatch him and throw him in the river. Eventually, he has to step out in the light of day. Eventually, he has to step out and everybody has to see him. And as soon as he steps out in the light of day, what happens? He's got to go through the river. That is the king's commandment. And she says, that's the king's command. We can't hide you any longer. You gotta go to the river. But she makes a provision for him. Look at verse three. And when she could no longer hide him, she took from 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. She takes reeds. and interweaves them together just like that, daubed it with slime and pitched this waterproofing substance. And she takes this baby, this goodly child, Moses, that which is most precious to her, and she puts it in this ark, and she does probably the hardest thing a woman has ever had to do. She takes that baby in the ark, and she sits it in the river, according to the king's commandment, and she lets go. And she turns around, and she walks away. And she trusts the goodness of God in his providence and that ark to keep him safe. Now, verse four, Q Mariam. And his sister, Moses' sister Mariam, stood afar off to wit. What should be done to him? She's standing afar off. What that means is she doesn't really understand. She sees her mother build this ark. She sees her put Moses in that ark. She sees her put the ark in the water, and she's standing afar off. She doesn't understand what's going on there, but what does she do? She just looks. The whole time, she just looks to that ark. She's standing afar off. She doesn't really understand, but she just looks. Let's see what happens. Look at verse five. 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. 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. She sees this ark. She says, fetch it. Go get it. Bring it here. She opens it up. Moses is completely encapsulated in this ark. All she can see initially is that ark. And she opens it up and there he is. And she has compassion. She has pity. She has mercy on him. And she knows her father's commandment. She knows all of them have to go through the river. She says, this is a Hebrew child. His mother must love him very much. She's built for him this provision to keep him safe. Let's see what happens here. Cue Miriam again. She's very savvy. Look at verse 7. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter. Miriam just slides up there. Shall I go and 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. And the maid went and called the child's mother. Now Miriam's like 12 to 13 years old right now, very savvy little girl. She sees Pharaoh's daughter pick up the ark and she sees that she has compassion on Moses. And so she just slides up and says, excuse me, ma'am, I see that you have a Hebrew baby there. I happen to know a good wet nurse, would you like me to go get her? Pharaoh's daughter says, yeah. And she runs home and she goes to mom. She goes to Jacob and she goes, you won't believe it. Pharaoh's daughter has found Moses and she has had compassion on him. She has had mercy on him. She needs a wet nurse. Come on, come on, let's go. So they go, they go to meet with Pharaoh's daughter. Look at verse nine. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, unto Jochebed, take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give thee that wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it 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. Now this is purely my opinion, so take it for what it's worth. I don't think that Pharaoh's daughter is duped in this at all. She sees this young girl who claims to have no connection to this baby whatsoever, and she's just intently looking to that ark the entire time. And she slides right up and just happens to know a good wet nurse for this child. And then the wet nurse comes. Turns out she's just about the right age to be the baby's mother. She was real eager to have the job. I don't think she's duped in this at all. This is part of her compassion. Moses is going to be raised by his mother. He's still going to be raised by his family. And she's going to get paid for it. The best she could have hoped for, just to have him back. Just have him back. Have things like they were before. We'll go back into hiding. That's the best she could have hoped for. Now, no. You're going to receive wages. You're actually going to get paid to raise this child. Before, he couldn't step out in the light of day. Now, in just a matter of seconds, just like that, he's literally the grandson of the king. He's already been through the river. The king's commandment is settled. It's satisfied. That's it. It's safe to say, I think everyone can agree, Things end in this story much better than when they began, did they not? Now, if you were like me, when you think of Moses in the scripture, what do you think of as his type? And he's a very powerful type of Christ in many scriptures. Mike pointed that out this morning, very powerful type. But when I think of Moses, generally speaking, I think of the law. And there's good reason for that. It was Moses who received the law on Mount Sinai. Many scriptures in the New Testament refer to Moses as the law. And he is, he's a brilliant type of the law, but this is his best type of the law. It's in what he could not do. Todd says it all the time, what could Moses not do? He could not bring the children of Israel into the promised land. He could not do it. Only Joshua could do that. The law, the law can't bring you to the promised land. The law can't save. This is what it says in Romans 8 3, for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh. God's holy law is beautiful. It's perfect in its purpose to express the righteousness and the holy character of God himself to expose sin. That's all it does. It was never prescribed as a manner of salvation. It cannot do that because of the weakness of the flesh, because we can't keep it. Salvation by law does not work. It's impossible for the natural man. Why? Born dead in trespasses and sins, into bondage, into a law we can't keep. With this commandment, you have to go through the river. The perfect justice of God has to be satisfied every single time. Very powerful type of a law. But in this, in these first two verses, he's actually a beautiful type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Go back to verse one. It says, and there went a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi. So Moses' parents, they're Levites. That means Moses is a Levite. And you say, well, as a type of Christ, that doesn't start off too good because the Lord Jesus Christ was of the tribe of Judah. It's true, but hear me out. Who came out of the Levitical tribe? The priests. The Levitical priests were all of the tribe of Levi. What is a priest? It's one who makes intercession for the people unto God. But I ask you this question, do you see any Levitical priests around nowadays? No, they're all gone. They existed for a very brief time in history as pictures and types and shadows of the Lord Jesus Christ, our great high priest, great high priest of his people, that one who makes effective intercession and brings his people before the Father in perfect acceptance, righteous, unblameable, unreprovable in his sight. That was their type. but they're gone. As soon as the Lord Jesus Christ came and manifested in the flesh and did what he came to do, that entire Old Testament economy of worship was done away with, including those priests. But the Lord Jesus Christ, he is our great high priest, but not after the Levites. He's a great high priest after the order of Melchizedek, that priest that abides forever, continually, our great high priest. If we want to know who Jesus Christ is, And that's the question, who is Jesus Christ and what did He do? We just need to look at Melchizedek. Turn over to Hebrews chapter 7 for a second. You know this Melchizedek. This is one that Abraham's paid tithes to. After he rescued Lot, Melchizedek met him with wine and with bread. And Abraham paid tithes unto him. Well, this is the encounter. This is the interaction. Hebrews chapter 7, verse 1. It says, For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, and note these next words, priest of the Most High God who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, who is the Lord Jesus Christ, the effective intercessor of his people. He is of the Most High God. That doesn't just mean he was sent from God, which he was. This is the will of him that sent me, that all that he has given me I should lose nothing but raise it up at the last day. He sent him, but it's more than that. To be the effective intercessor for his people, he had to be God. Only God can satisfy God. It's God's holy law that has to be satisfied. And only God could satisfy God. To be the effective intercessor, to be the effective savior of men, because he was dealing with God and the demands of God, only God could deal with God. Only God could satisfy God. But he had to be something else, too. He had to be a man. Remember the book of Ruth. Boaz, the kinsman redeemer. In those times, if you had Lost everything. You lost everything for whatever reason, all your possessions, all that. If you had a kinsman redeemer, he could come and he could buy back everything you lost and completely restore everything you had lost. And there were three conditions he had to meet to be that kinsman redeemer. You remember what they were? Number one, he had to have the right to redeem. He had to be bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh. The redeemer of men had to be a man. He had to be God because he had to do business with God, and he had to be a man to have the right to redeem. The Lord Jesus Christ, God, manifest in the flesh. all the fullness of the Godhead dwelling in Him bodily. Every attribute of God, Jesus Christ, is because He is God. Equal with God because He is God. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. That's Jesus Christ. He had to have the right to redeem by taking on this flesh. Bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. Only a man could save men, and only God could save men. They meet together in this glorious, glorious deity, Jesus Christ. He had to have the right to redeem. He had to have the ability to redeem. You could be a willing kinsman redeemer. You could have the will, you could have the bloodline, that could be just fine. But if you didn't have the ability, you couldn't come up with the goods. Oh, the Lord Jesus Christ is anything too hard for the Lord. Who else could bear sin in his body? Who else could withstand the wrath of God? Who else could suffer perfectly? Who else could raise himself from the dead? Nobody else. No, he has full ability. That's what makes him so trustworthy. He can't lie. He can't fail. He has our power. Nothing happens outside of his will. That's who we're talking about here. This is Jesus Christ, the one who has the right to redeem. He has the ability to redeem. And this was the third thing you had to be to be a kinsman redeemer. You had to be willing. Because that family member, that mess they had made, they had lost everything, that was their fault. That was their problem. No one could force you into being a kinsman redeemer. You had to do it willingly. Can you imagine, before the world began, the Godhead saying, who will go for us and who shall we send? Who will do this? Who will bear the sins of these people in his body? Who will suffer under the wrath of God? Who will we send? Who will go for us? And he stood up from eternity past and said, here I, send me. The willing volunteer. Isn't that beautiful? That's Jesus Christ. Now, look at verse two there. It says, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation king of righteousness, And after that also, King of Salem, which is King of Peace. Folks, we're sinners. We're all sinners, born dead in trespasses and sins. How could we have peace with God? How can it be possible that this holy and just God could be at peace with us? Because he is, he's at peace with his people. How is that? First King of Righteousness. first king of the establishment of righteousness and making his people righteous in himself. If you're a believer, you are the very righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. That's the truth. No sin, perfection in every way. He established first righteousness because he's a God of righteousness who demands righteousness and he is righteousness. And then what? Peace. We have perfect peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Verse three, It says, without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. No beginning of days and no end of life. This one is eternal. Jesus Christ is eternal God. I love thinking about this. I can't wrap my mind around it, but I love thinking about this. Eternally, everything he has purposed, he's already done. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. What does that mean? It means that everybody who is in Him, we have always been in Him, we have always shared that union with Him, and we have always been safe and secure. Before we came to this world and we did one sin, felt one sinful action, any of those things, that atonement had been made from the foundations of the world. We've always been perfectly secure in Jesus Christ. And he abideth this priest continually. And I love that. That means it's more than just it continues on. It means perpetually. It is constant. It is perpetually constant. And I love that. That he is perpetually my intercessor. That perpetually that one bringing me to God. And it's for this reason. I said with David, my sin is ever before me. It's perpetual. It's just ongoing and ongoing and ongoing. And the only thing that is more ongoing is his effective intercession for me. One day we're going to put down this flesh. I long for that day. We put down this flesh. We don't sin anymore. We don't even know what it's like to be a sinner. And that will stop. But his intercession, it will continue on. It's always, it's continual. As long as Jesus Christ is who he is before his father and he's immutable, he can't change. We have a perfect standing before God. That's the case. That's the truth. Go back to your text, look at verse two. Exodus 2.2, it says, and the woman conceived and bare a son, and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, he's beautiful, she hid him three months. I find it interesting when you read the Gospels, something is suspiciously absent, and that is largely any mention whatsoever of the Lord Jesus Christ up to the point that he's about 30 years old. We get stories about his birth, his incarnation. We get one story about him when he's 12 years old, when he says, know ye not that I must be about my father's business? It gives us some understanding of what he's doing at that time. He's doing his father's will the entire time. But the whole thing is obscure from scripture. And you wonder, what was happening? What's going on? It's just not written down here. I think this. This is what I think. The father was raising his son. I know he had earthly parents. He had Mary and he had Joseph. But it was God the father that raised him. He raised his son. And the whole time he looked at me and said, he's a goodly child. Look at him. He's beautiful. This is what was said of David. When David was anointed king, he was described in three ways. He says he was ruddy, he was earthy, he was of the earth. The father looked down at his son while he was raising him. He says, he did exactly what I told him to do. I told him to come to this earth in human flesh. God manifest in the flesh. Look at his obedience. The only man to ever live who keeps my law perfectly. All his thoughts toward me, toward everything, they're pure and they're holy. There's no disobedience in him. He's beautiful in holiness and righteousness. He's beautiful in everything he does. The only man to ever live that before God, he was absolutely beautiful. He just sat there and stared at him and said, look at this man, this God man, he's beautiful, he's goodly in my sight. It says he was ruddy, he was a beautiful countenance. And this is the last thing that's said of David as a type of Christ. It says he was goodly to look to. goodly to look to, and that's exactly what the father did. He looked at this one who he's so well pleased in, this one he loved so much, this one who could not fail, and he did the same thing that Jacob did. He took that which was precious to him, his elect, and he put them in what was most precious to him, his son, Christ. And she took that ark, Moses inside, and she put it in that river, and she let go, and she walked away, and she trusted the ark. And that's what God the Father did. He looked at his son, and he said, I'm giving you these people. I'm putting them in you. All their salvation is your responsibility. You're going to do everything. He put us in him. And you know what he did? He let go and he walked away and he trusted his son. He was the first one to trust Jesus Christ, God the Father did. And he's goodly for a sinner to look to. Listen to the scripture, this is Isaiah 45, 22. I love this. It says, look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else. Listen to that. All the ends of the earth. Who's that speaking to? It literally means people who are as far off as they can possibly be. People who are as far from God as they can possibly be. You can't take one step toward him. You've got nothing to offer. You can't stand in the brightness of his glory and his holiness. You take one step toward him, you'll be crushed. You can't approach unto God. Mike was talking about it this morning. The Lord only spoke to the children of Israel through Moses, through the intercessor. You can't take one step toward him. I've got nothing, nothing but sin, nothing to offer whatsoever. He says, yeah, ends of the earth, sinners got nothing to bring to the table. Here's the command, look unto me. Look to Christ, look to him, to look to everything for your salvation. And he says this, this is a command, it's a promise and a command, and be ye saved. There will not be one person in hell who ever trusted Jesus Christ. You write that down, not one person. We get an example of that. Look at verse five of your text there. It says, and the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river. When we read that the first time, did anybody wonder what the king's daughter was doing bathing in a dirty river with the commoners? It was an afterthought for me. But when I first read it, I didn't really catch on to it. She's got a palace. She's got baths. She has servants. They could have drawn baths for days for her. Why is it she's down at this dirty old river? It's because she couldn't get clean in the palace. Got to come down. Come down. Any thoughts of saving yourself? Any thoughts of anything coming from you that God would accept? Come down from all that. And I would have you note that that's where she found the deliverer. Down at the bottom right there. And the better way of saying it is, if he ever reveals himself to you and me, we'll come down. Down from all those palaces, down from all those lofty thoughts, where do you get clean? Down in the river, where things get dirty. Down. Now, look at verse three. The type changes here. Now, Moses is the type of us, the elect, and that ark, that's a type of Christ. And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein. She laid it in the flags by the river's brink." Once again, what did the father do? He put what was precious to him, the elect, in that which was most precious to him, Christ. And he was daubed with pitch and slime. You know what that word daubed means? Spoiled, befouled. besmeared, made disgusting, made putrid. Second Corinthians 521, for he hath made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the very righteousness of God in him. The ark was befouled, smeared, The sins of the elect were put in Christ. He was made our sin. The wrath of God came down. The waters, the waters came down on him. They crushed him. The wrath of God came down on him. But who is in the ark? You and me. All the elect. Everybody has to die. What's the commandment? They all have to go through the river. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Everybody has to go through the river. The question is, am I going to go through it on my own? have already been through the river in Christ. Because he was befouled, he was besmeared, what happened? None of those waters ever touched Moses. It touched the ark, but it never touched Moses. That's justification, folks. And we are made the very righteousness of God in him, safe at the other side. Now, do I fully understand this? an eternal salvation, an eternal union. The elect in Christ, but always. Him going and walking the paths of righteousness, establishing the righteousness. I did it too in him. He went to the cross bearing me, bearing every member of the elect and the fires of God's wrath came down and touched him so that it will never touch us. Preservation all the way to the very end, never being viewed independent of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you guys really understand this? I don't. I don't. But that's the way it's supposed to be. Look at verse four. And his sister stood afar off, she didn't really understand, to wit, what would be done to him. She's standing afar off, she saw all this, but she didn't really understand. She just looked. She just kept her eyes on that ark the entire time. I don't understand all these things. I believe them because they're written in this book. That is the declaration of God's Word. That's the only way I can be saved. Do I understand these things? These eternal things? These things that are way too high for me? No, I don't understand them. I believe them because they're written in this book. That's it. What does a sinner do? Just look to Him. Just try to keep your eyes on Him. Just look to Him. Lord, however you did it, however you did it, I'll know one day, I'll see the full one day, and I'll long for that day when we're in glory and we see the full picture, we see the full majesty of his glory. I think as Mike said, if it's even possible. One day, but not right now, right now I just look, just keep my eyes on him. Now, like I said, that's justification. Here's the results of justification, look at verse five. 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. 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. This is the result of justification. compassion from God himself, just pity, just mercy. She picked it up and said, I will have mercy on him. Because we were punished in Christ, because we are made the very righteousness of God in him, he now looks at us with compassion. Full pity, full mercy, full grace, and it does no damage to his just character whatsoever because it's a just salvation. It's a just compassion. Truly, when he looks at us, all he sees is Jesus Christ. I tell you what, folks, that's actually in the text here. Did you notice that she had to open the ark? When she opened it, that means he was completely encapsulated inside that ark. It means when she saw the ark floating there, she couldn't see Moses at all. All she could see was the ark. That's it. And when God the Father looks at his people, all he sees is the perfection and the merits and the righteousness and the perfection of Jesus Christ. That's real. That's true. That's the teaching of this story right here, and that's teaching the whole book. Isn't that beautiful? Compassion, but a just compassion. What else? We're fetched. Because we're justified now, God the Holy Spirit comes in time through the preaching of the gospel. He comes and he fetches us, goes out and gets us, and the illustration here couldn't be more perfect. More perfect is the word of God. It can't get any more perfect. I ask this question. Was Moses looking for Pharaoh's daughter? Moses is three months old. He's floating around in a basket. He doesn't know that there's a Pharaoh, and he doesn't know he has a daughter. He has no faculties whatsoever. He wasn't looking for her, but she saw him. And she fetched him. That's fetching grace. And when we're fetched, we cry, and note the order there. When she fetched him, he cried. It wasn't he cried, and then she went and fetched him. It was she saw him. She had always purposed to see him. She fetched him, and then he cried. When does a man cry out for mercy? When does he beat on his breast and say, God, be merciful to me, the sinner? When Christ reveals himself to him, when he fetches him with fetching grace. I can't see my sin. We see so little of it. Even though those of us who have been enlightened, we see so little of it. We see just scratching the tip of the iceberg of how bad sin really is and how bad we really are. But we cry nonetheless. When we see Christ, we see something of what we are, our need of Him. And that cry comes out. Listen to this. This is Isaiah 65, 24. It says, And it shall come to pass that before they call, before they say anything, I shall answer. And while they are yet speaking, I'll hear. Why is it a man cries out for mercy? Why does he beat on his breast? God be merciful to me, the sinner. Is it because he's come to some logical conclusion that he needs a Savior? No, it's because the Savior has already saved him. All salvation begins, continues on, and ends with Jesus Christ. That's the truth. Finally this. Look at how it ends in verse nine. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it, 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. Things end so much better than when they began, didn't they? He is the son of slaves, he is born into bondage, and now, in a blink of an eye, because he's been fetched just like that, because the ark has brought him safely to the other side, he is literally a son of the king. That's what we have in Christ, sons and daughters of the king. The full inheritance of Jesus Christ, it comes to us, these are things we don't understand, we just talk about them because they're in the word, before he couldn't stand in the light of day. He couldn't walk out. He's gotta go through the river. Now he can stand out in the light of day. We can stand in the light of God's holiness, the light of the Father's all-seeing eye, and him look us over, and he says he's perfect, because he sees nothing but Jesus Christ. We've already been through the river. That was the fear before. As soon as you're exposed, you gotta go through the river in Christ. Look me over. I've already been through the river. I already died in him. I was already punished in him. It's over. And she's going to receive wages. She's going to get paid for doing what she would have done before for nothing. It was her child. So much better. What did we do to deserve this? What did we do to deserve such a great salvation? truly sons and daughters of the King, full inheritance of acceptance with God. Kings and priests, what did we do to deserve this? Nothing. And yet we receive wages. We get everything. We get glory. We get righteousness. Everything Jesus Christ has, we have. We are co-inheritors with Christ and we didn't do a thing. It's the best news I've ever heard. Now, I'll leave you with this. Turn over to Hebrews chapter 11. You're all familiar with Hebrews 11. This is commonly referred to as the whole of faith. Moses' parents are actually listed here. Hebrews 11, look at verse 23. Verse 23, it says, by faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents. This is talking about his parents, the faith they had. Because they saw that he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. Now it's referencing this story we just talked about in Exodus chapter two. It said what Jochebed did, so that's a type, that's a picture of true saving faith. What did she do? One more time. She took that which was precious to her. She entrusted it to the ark. She put it in the river. She let go. And she turned around and walked away and trusted the ark. For the witch cause, I also do suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed. and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day." Folks, that's faith. We entrust the entirety of our salvation, whatever it may be, whatever aspect you want to talk about, everything. Trust Christ for everything, committed unto him, and we do this, we let go. Are you comfortable there? To take your hand off. and simply trust Him to lead you to the other side, unto compassion. By His grace, I'm comfortable there. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I'll leave you there. It's been a good night.