Moses - Mom

Moses Mama had faith in God saw what God saw in a dark time.

Take away - stay faithful to God’s good plan

Abraham and Moses parallels

Hebrews 11:23 ESV

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

What did Moses parents see?

Exodus Setup

3-4 hundred years

Midwives

Hebrew women had more babies

Exodus 1:22–2:10 ESV

22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” 1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. 4 And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. 5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Mother - already had son & daughter

Dark time - no one wants this baby

Saw that he was fine = good

hid him

built and ark (like Noah)

God’s purposes always overcome evil - This is true today in your life

Sister - (Old enough to be married) girl 2:8

Wanting to help

Miriam the prophetess

Pharaoh’s Daughter

Well off but likely not powerful

Overcome with compassion at the vulnerability

Saw other babies washed up of floating by

Mother got paid to raise Moses until he was around 3.

She still had to give up her son and moses was probably renamed.

Moses

Hebrew - to pull out

Egyptian - so of or born of

There are all kinds of ways to see a situation but faith causes us to see what God sees.

The character of God penetrates hearts - Pharaoh’s daughters compassion

The plans of evil cause heartache but are never matched with God’s good plan

Hold on to God like the women did.

Stay faithful to God’s Good plan