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Video: The Potter’s Hand
Prayer
Opening hymn
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3 songs
Stephen’s account of Moses’ birth as he stood before the Sanhedrin pointing to God’s providence for their nation.
Prayer chorus
Prayer
The Exodus Decoded Video clip (5 min)
Sermon Intro:
The Birth of a Deliverer
Late to Choir Practice
Believers in Christ have God as a shield between them and the world’s threatening dangers.
No harm can come to them unless the Lord permits it for their own good or the good of others.
Many Christians testify that they have been providentially protected in unusual ways.
Paul Tan, in his Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations, says that on the evening of March 1, 1950, choir practice was scheduled in a local church in Beatrice, Nebraska.
When the pastor and his wife and daughter were ready to leave for the 7:30 meeting, they discovered that the little girl had soiled her dress and needed to be changed.
So they had to come late.
A high school sophomore named Ladona had trouble with her geometry problems and stayed to finish her work, even though she usually got there early.
Two sisters were delayed because their car wouldn’t start.
Mrs. Schuster normally arrived at 7:20, but that night her mother needed her, so she had to stop there first.
One man took a nap and overslept.
And so, one after another, the members were detained for various reasons.
At 7:25, due to leaking gas, the church blew up!
When everyone arrived a short time later, they were amazed to see how their lives had been spared.
The fact that all of them failed to come on time—something that had never happened before—had to be more than coincidence.
As far as they were concerned, the Lord had been their shield and protector.
Admittedly, this was an unusual occurrence.
But it does comfort us to know that whatever happens, we are secure in the protective arms of God’s providence.
-H.G.B.
Our Daily Bread, Sunday, February 3.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives this definition of providence.
Providence:
• 1aoften capitalized : divine guidance or care
bcapitalized : God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny
The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary gives a more thorough definition stating that “God’s action in providence is the continuation of his role as creator.
He maintains and preserves the order that is fundamental to the heavens and earth as he created them, and he is bringing to completion his purposes for mankind and the rest of creation.
There are, therefore, two aspects of providence, one oriented toward the continuation of life and order in the present and the other oriented toward the eschaton, the completion of what God intended when he created.”
We see God’s providential action in Beatrice, Nebraska but it is also very evident throughout the account of Moses and the Exodus of God’s people from Egypt.
Today we will see this act of God’s providence very clearly in the lives of Moses and his family.
Please stand for the reading of our text today.
Exodus 2:1–10NIV
1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
3 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. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank.
She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.
6 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.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” 8 “Yes, go,” she answered.
So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
9 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.
10When 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.”
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The Birth of a Deliverer Exodus 2:1-10
As we look at the details of the birth of Moses.
We see more than the birth of a baby, for Moses was, “the birth of a deliverer.”
What makes his life especially unique are the details that set a pattern we see later with Jesus.
At the end of last week’s sermon, I gave a list of prejudicial escalation.
I want us to look at that list once again.
Prejudicial Escalation
1. Public denunciation
2. Denial of privileges
3. Wanton destruction of shops and property
4. Marked publicly as enemies
Last week, we saw that the Hebrews experienced all these first four.
The Pharaoh and others began to publicly complain about the Hebrews.
They then began to take their privileges away and began to press them into slavery.
We are told they were treated ruthlessly which indicates they were probably abused physically, and their belongings treated with disrespect.
Then Pharaoh suggests they would join Egyptian enemies and fight against them marking the Hebrews as enemies as well even though they have not done anything to warrant the accusation.
However, today we find them facing the last step of prejudicial escalation.
5. Attempts to annihilate
Annihilation plays right into Satan’s desire to destroy all God’s people.
It is a desperate act when all else fails.
So, look with me at...
A. Satan’s Act of Desperation; Annihilation
Last week I stated that this often begins discreetly but then moves to public methods.
We see this in Moses’ case, but not Moses alone as we will soon see.
To begin, let us look at...
1. Infant Moses Threatened Exodus 1:15-22
The first thing we see is that Pharaoh starts with...
a. Discreet infanticide Exodus 1:16
Pharaoh calls in two midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, who were the overseers of the midwives for the Hebrews.
Pharaoh then gives them this instruction.
Exodus 1:16NIV
16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
Most commentators believe that what Pharaoh is suggesting is that these deaths look accidental.
They are to make it appear that the child was stillborn or died during delivery.
To Shiphrah and Puah’s credit, they fear God more than Pharaoh.
So, they do not follow Pharaoh’s instructions.
Before long, Pharaoh realizes that the number of Hebrews is continuing to grow, and he makes inquiry of these ladies why they have not fulfilled his wish.
These ladies were in great jeopardy in this moment.
They have not obeyed Pharaoh and can be accused of treason.
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