By Faith Moses
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Hebrews 11:23-29
Hebrews 11:23-29
The Faith of Moses’ Parents
Back story that led to Moses
Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died. But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them. A new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. Come, let’s deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.
The place that was a blessing to Jacob & Joseph became a curse to future generations
The Pharaoh told the Hebrew midwives to kill the boys when they were born. But the Bible says in Exodus 1:17 “The midwives however Feared God”
I don’t have time to stay here, but let me just say these women had courage to stand against the Pharaoh. They feared God more than the King.
In the day in which we live in, we need more people to stand against sin, and stand for the things of God. God is not so weak that He needs our help, but at some point we have to decide who we are going to serve and stand on it.
The bible says God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous. Since the midwives feared God, he gave them families. The Lord blessed them because of their faithfulness to the Lord.
Then Pharaoh commanded his people to throw all the sons into the Nile river.
Exodus 2 starts with Moses being born and in verse 2 when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home for three months.
He wasn’t just beautiful to his mother but also in God’s sight. It’s one thing if your mother calls you beautiful, its another one for you to be Beautiful in God’s sight.
One commentary said that his beauty was probably “the sign” appointed by God to assure their faith.
You know the story after that. His parents couldn’t hide him anymore and his mother put him in a basket that was covered with pitch and put him in the nile river.
Pharaohs daughter ends up finding him. Just my opinion, but I believe all of this was orchestrated by the Lord.
Moses’ sister gets her mother for Pharaohs daughter to nurse Moses and Pharaohs daughter paid her to do it.
Again, just my opinion, but this looks like a blessing from God to Moses’ mother for her faith in Christ and her own fear of the Lord.
Moses was then raised in Pharaohs house and Acts 7:22
So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.
“When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin. For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.
Moses was 40 years old when this happened
This was the first time he decided that he didn’t want to be in Pharaohs house.
Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people. Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?”
“Who made you a commander and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Then Moses became afraid and thought, “What I did is certainly known.”
A Couple of things about Moses during this time.
1. You sin will surely find you out. If you are a child of God, He will not let you get away with sin.
My dad tells the story quite often of when he would get in trouble
Let me just remind you that no one is perfect. The miracle of Moses life is that God uses imperfect people to accomplish His perfect will.
2. Moses had to make a choice. Just like the midwives did, and just like his parents did
Moses had to make a choice between God or Egypt. Between the suffering of his people or the riches of Egypt.
he chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin.
We all have to make that choice.
We all have to make the choir between the fleeting pleasure of sin or the everlasting life of Christ.
There will always be times through out our life that we have to stand for God or give in to sin.
I love what verse 26 says
For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.
Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it. For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life? What can anyone give in exchange for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Moses fled and became a shepherd.
Then the burning bush happens.
He keeps giving God excuses why he can’t do what God is telling him to do.
He says he can’t speak even though Acts 7:22 that we looked at earlier said he was powerful in speech. He had a lot of excuses.
Moses life was up and down just like most if not all of ours are. Moses had his faults and God was still able to use him despite those.
Moses eventually asked the best question he ever could in Exodus 3:13-4
Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”
God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.”
The Tony Evans Bible Commentary I. Preparing Israel’s Deliverer (1:1–4:31)
“I AM” is the English translation of the first-person singular Hebrew verb meaning “to be.” It could also be rendered, “I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE” or “I CAUSE TO BE WHAT I CAUSE TO BE.” By describing himself this way, God was affirming his self-existence and self-sufficiency. He depends on nothing and no one. He is the Creator and Sustainer of all.
Moses’ brother Aaron was sent to go along with him.
There is another sermon in here that we don’t have time for, but because of Moses’ resistance that led to Aaron being a leader with Moses.
That did 2 things. Aaron got part of the blessing that was meant for Moses
2. Aaron was not the leader that God wanted in the first place. When Moses was on the mountain getting the 10 commandments Aaron was on the ground building the golden caf.
By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.
The passover is the picture in the old testament of what Jesus would do in the New Testament.
To this day Jews celebrate passover.
Exodus 11 and 12 Tenth Plague and Passover
Exodus 14 - Red Sea
There are people today who will try to say the bible is not real because of this story.
there are chariots and wheels at the bottom of the red sea
Stone columns on either side of the red sea
