Craig Smith • Moses Part 1 • July 17, 2022

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. (Heb. 11:23)

A desperate context for a providential birth…

“Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. ‘Look,’ he said to his people, ‘the Israelites have become much too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country’…Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: ‘Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.’” (Exod. 1:8-10, 22)

Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. (Exod. 2:1-2)

• Jochebed: a mother who chose

over

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– “When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.” (Exod. 2:2b-4)

• Pharaoh’s daughter: the

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of God in the details of

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– “Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe…She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. ‘This is one of the Hebrew babies,’ she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?’ ‘Yes, go,’ she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.’ So the woman took the baby and nursed him.” (Exod. 2:5-9)

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”…For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen. (Rom. 11:34, 36)

• Moses: a

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that became his

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– “When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, ‘I drew him out of the water.’” (Exod. 2:10)

“And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hitites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exod. 3:17)

Jesus: the better

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No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven – the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. (John 3:13-15)