Drawn Out

Moses and the Meaning of his Name

This is the next story that we’ll talk about in our Life Before the Savior series. Chris reminded us this morning the reason we are doing this series. The Old testament points to Jesus and the New testament affirms the Old Testaments Prophecies. So as we continue this series of Life before the savior I’ll just remind y’all to try to see How this Old testament Scripture points us to our need for Jesus and or Prophecies about him.

So This week we’re going to talk about Three key events in Moses life and the plan that God have for Moses even as a Baby.

The first thing that we’re going to discuss is How God provided for Moses and his Mother when Moses was just a baby.

Turn to Exodus 2:1-10

While you're turning let me give y’all some context to what was going on in ancient Egypt during this time. So after Joseph, the guy we talked about two weeks ago with the dreams, was dead and gone a new king came to power in Egypt. He was a terrible king unlike the one before him. He started relizing that the Israelites outnumbered the Egyptians and he got nervous that he could lose power. So he told the midwives, the women helping with the mothers having birth, that if the Child was a girl, let it live. But if the child was a boy to kill it. And this was the order given to all of Egypt. that is Where are story begins is the birth of Moses.

So starting in Verse 1...

Exodus 2:1–10 “Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him. Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it, opened it, and saw him, the child—and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.” Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?” “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 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.””

So our first point is...

When Moses mother couldn’t hide or provide for him, God made a way!

If moses would have been found, he would have been killed. No if’s ands or buts about it. But guess what? God had a plan for Moses and a plan for his mother. Not only did he keep moses safe when he was floating down the river. And not only did he let moses be found by one of the most powerful Women in the whole country. God went above and Beyond. God Saved Moses and made a way for his mother to be the women chosen to take care of him. God showed up and showed out. He went above and beyond so that all things would fall into place and everything would work out in the way he planned it.

How have you seen God Show up and show out in your own life? How has he made a way, when you couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel?

(Tell story about your struggles in school, in college with tuition, and wedding and house struggles.)

Our second point is...

2) Pharoah’s daughter named him moses for a reason.

In verse 10 it says she named him moses. The meaning of the word Moses is “Drawn from water.” What is Moses most known for?..… Parting the Red Sea and leading the Israelites through that Sea, to rescue them from slavery in Egypt. So in these next Verses, we will see the reason for his name.

Turn to Exodus 14:21-22

Exodus 14:21–22 “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.”

So what do we see here? God used the man that was named Moses to bring people through the water to rescue them. Moses was “drawn from water” as a baby and Look at what God had planned for him.

3) Moses was used bring people out of what he had already been through. He “came” out of water so God used him to bring others out of that Same water.

So how does this apply to us? What does this have to do with Us, and How can we find Jesus in this story?

God is calling you to do the same thing he called Moses to do, help draw people out of what you’ve been through. At one point in time I wasn’t a follower of Christ, but now that I am, I am called to bring others out of the sin, anger, and foolishness that I once lived in. We are called to come along side one another and lift each other up. Pour into each other and help them go through things that we have also dealt with. My grandad passed away in 2017, he was my hero and my best friend. So when someone else losses a loved one, a best friend or grand parent, am i supposed to just sit here and do nothing? No! Help them, encourage them, go with them. What did Chris say this morning?

2 Corinthians 1:4 “He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

God comforts you, so go pay in forward and comfort others. God had a plan for Moses when he was born. God has had a plan since you were born too.

How can we make sure to follow that plan?

Y’all remember the lesson I gave to y’all at camp last year, “What are your pigs?” I’m asking you, What are the things that you are struggling to give up in order to follow that plan and follow his way? Don’t be scared like they were, take that leap of faith.

Who is someone that you can encourage this week with the comfort of knowing that God has a plan for them?

Is there something that you have been through and experienced, that you can help somone else go through as well? Who is that person?

Has God used someone in your life to help you through something? Thank them and Let the know what that meant to you.

Acts 4:20 “for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.””

I challenge y’all to go and tell people what you have seen and what you have heard. Just like Moses lead those Israelites through the Sea, go lead someone to Christ. Tell them what you’ve experienced. Tell them what you know. Just like I told y’all a few weeks ago, You are the 5th Gospel. God has a plan and a purpose for you. Trust that plan, and Go shine the light of Jesus wherever you are this week.

Let us pray...