1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,600 We're going to be in Exodus, Exodus chapter 2. 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,960 I don't have my mic on again because you guys don't want to 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,520 hear me clear my throat. So pray that that goes away soon 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,240 because standing still is not my my strong point. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,600 So trying to stay where the mic picks me up is important. 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,600 So we're going to start in chapter 2, verse one. 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,040 And a man of the House of Levi went and took as a wife a 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,120 daughter of Levi. So the woman conceived and bore 9 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,880 a son. And when she saw that he was a 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,440 beautiful child, she hid him three months. 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,560 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an arc of 12 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,960 bulrushes for him, Dab dubbed them with asphalt and pitch, put 13 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:58,840 the child in in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river bank. 14 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,080 And his sister stood far off to know what would have what would 15 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,319 be done to him. Then the daughter of Pharaoh 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,880 came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked along the 17 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,080 Riverside. And when she saw the ark among 18 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,560 the reeds, she sent her maiden to get it. 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,560 And when she opened it, she saw the child. 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,720 And behold, the baby was the baby wept. 21 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,760 So she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the 22 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,520 Hebrew children. Then his sister said to 23 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,920 Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse for you from 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,280 the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,920 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. 26 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,000 So the maiden went and called the child's mother. 27 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,720 And then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and 28 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,280 nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. 29 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:57,120 So the woman took the child and nursed him and the child grew 30 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,880 and she brought him up, brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and 31 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,360 he became her son. So she called his name Moses, 32 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,960 saying, because I drew him out of the water. 33 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,640 So Lord, I just lived up today, Lord, that he'd just be here, 34 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:14,920 Lord, that you'd be speaking through me, Lord, that you'd be 35 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:18,400 speaking to me. But Lord, that you'd truly just 36 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:23,680 give his eyes to see what what you're saying here, Lord, and or 37 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,960 that you would just give me the ability to share what you want 38 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,880 shared Lord, and that you would just guide and direct us Lord, 39 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,840 that you'd be with us as we're just here together as a body 40 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,040 spending time and I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. 41 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:45,320 So Exodus 2 is I guess I got to start with last week. 42 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:50,800 I picked on Israel pretty much the whole time about being a, a 43 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,600 people that, you know, the brothers were not they didn't 44 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,960 understand who God was. And I would say as a, as a, a 45 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,960 conglomerate, as a, as a people, that is true. 46 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,000 But in all, in all of those moments in the Bible, there are 47 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,160 always faithful people. You know, if you look at Elijah 48 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,880 when he was frustrated and saying nobody, I'm the only one 49 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,400 God and God said I got 7000 that haven't vowed the need to bail. 50 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,960 You know, there is always a remnant and Moses's parents 51 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:33,600 would be of that, of that kind. X The verse one says a man of 52 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,800 the House of Levi and his name is Amaram. 53 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,920 That's Moses's dad and a daughter of Levi, which is 54 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,160 Jochebed. And that's it, that's his mom. 55 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:48,480 And Amaram's name means exalted people and Jochebed means Yahweh 56 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,680 is glory. So you could say the glory of 57 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,720 Yahweh meets the exalted people, right? 58 00:03:53,800 --> 00:04:00,200 And Exodus, you get the names in Exodus 20 or 620. 59 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,600 And it's Amram took for himself Jochebed, his father's sister as 60 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,600 a wife and she bore him Aaron and Moses. 61 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,320 And I always, I love that God doesn't as as you're, as he's 62 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,440 recording the history that he never like. 63 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,880 Well, that's going to be hard to talk about. 64 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,000 So we're not going to say that, you know, so Amram married his 65 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,720 father's sister. So in our world, Amram married 66 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,840 his aunt, but in their world, there are multiple wives and 67 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:33,320 there are. So that doesn't mean that they 68 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:38,720 were that close or that she was any older than because in Uganda 69 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,840 you have that where there are kids the same age that are, you 70 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:50,120 know, my, I think there is in IMP Julie, JB has an uncle that 71 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,240 is five or six years younger than him, right, Because that's 72 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,120 just how, how that goes when you have multiple wives and and that 73 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,160 stuff. And that isn't that isn't God 74 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,800 condoning that, right? That is just that's what was 75 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,840 going on, right. And also to remember that this 76 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:16,920 is in in six. It says she bore Aaron and 77 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,280 Moses. Well, we know from the rest of 78 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:21,960 Exodus. She also bore a daughter. 79 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,960 And it's just to point out that when the Bible anywhere you read 80 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,760 about the children of so and so that doesn't mean that that's 81 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:37,360 all the children they had right? It's the Bible is gives you 82 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,240 gives you everything it gives you is true, but it doesn't mean 83 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,040 it gives us all the information of a family tree in this case, 84 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,160 right. So according to Jewish history, 85 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,880 Moses's parents were leaders and well respected in their 86 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,560 community. There's you know that there's 87 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,800 old and old books and antiquities or old scrolls that 88 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:06,280 that record who they were and what what is said about them. 89 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:12,320 But if you look at the impact they had on Israel, I would say 90 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,920 the fruit of their lives back up that they are, that they were a 91 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,600 couple to be respected in the community, right? 92 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,760 When you think about what their what their legacy was, what 93 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,920 their children did, and that's Moses was a prophet and a 94 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,520 lawgiver. He delivered, he was the 95 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,680 deliverer of Israel, but Aaron was the high priest and Miriam 96 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,800 was the prophetess in the and worship leader, right. 97 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,160 So their faithfulness shaped leaders God would use to rescue 98 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:47,840 his people. And then it says in in verse 2, 99 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:51,400 it says so the woman conceived and bore a son and when she saw 100 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,560 saw he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. 101 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,920 So I imagine there are moms here. 102 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,600 Every mother, I believe, who has ever had a child believes that 103 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,720 theirs is beautiful no matter the condition. 104 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,280 I mean, my mom thought I was beautiful. 105 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,800 And it's funny as that may sound. 106 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,320 I was born missing a chunk of my face and my nose was deformed. 107 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,680 I had a cleft palate. So I was, I did. 108 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:27,360 I did not look well put together when I was born my my mom's 109 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,520 youngest brother, Uncle Bill, He said I looked like he was 17 at 110 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,120 the time. And I imagine the 20 year old my 111 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,440 mom and the 17 year old little brother. 112 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,560 And I just imagined this moment in the hospital room when he 113 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,680 says, well, he looks like he was in the losing end of the New 114 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,320 York gang fight. She probably wasn't as impressed 115 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,600 by that statement as I chuckle about it, right? 116 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,720 She was. But my mom still claims she 117 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:58,400 thought it was beautiful, right? So so with that, did every mom 118 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:03,600 make an ark for their beautiful baby and put them in the river 119 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:15,200 or was there more to this story? And I would say that the word 120 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,960 beautiful here in the King James, just as we're as I'm as 121 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,640 I'm studying it out. Is there something about that 122 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,320 word And it is in the King James. 123 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:28,080 It's goodly and it's, it's the same word God uses in creation 124 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,680 when he says it was, it was good or it was very good. 125 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:39,919 But that being said, the word is used just as many, I mean 126 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,400 hundreds of places in the Old Testament to just mean good, 127 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,840 right? So there's, there's nothing 128 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,160 overly exciting about the word in the Old Testament. 129 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,840 It, it does mean beautiful. It could mean, I mean, it's used 130 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,000 to say excellent, special, favored or fit for purpose. 131 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,040 And now in Jewish history, back to those old scrolls, it says 132 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:11,040 that Amaran had a dream, right? But if you if you look in the 133 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,480 New Testament, there's there's some more light on it In Hebrews 134 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,680 11/23, it says by faith when he was born. 135 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,400 What are sorry? So by faith, Moses when he was 136 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,080 born was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw 137 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,560 he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the 138 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,560 King's commands. And there are two places in the 139 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:38,520 old in the new tenant in the New Testament that that word is used 140 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:44,160 and it's it's a stasos. And that word is used twice in 141 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,920 all of the New Testament. And the first time is in 142 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,200 Hebrews. And the second time is in Acts 143 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,560 720. At this time Moses was born and 144 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:58,560 was well pleasing to God, and he brought brought up in his 145 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:01,200 father's house, for he was brought up in his father's house 146 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,920 for three months. So that word means well bred, 147 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,560 polite, polished, elegant, fair or beautiful. 148 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:13,160 So it, it could mean good, it could just mean beautiful. 149 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:20,400 But I would say by faith that his parents did this thing 150 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,640 right, He was well pleasing to God. 151 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,360 What we can tell, what I can tell you is from the from 152 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,760 reading it, there was something about Moses's birth that his 153 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,880 parents knew he was special somehow. 154 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,640 Maybe it was a dream, maybe, maybe Amram had a dream, or 155 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,640 maybe it was just conviction, right? 156 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,880 Moses's parents by faith hid him. 157 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,920 We know God had spent and, and last week I talked about Rebecca 158 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,040 and Jacob. Or maybe it was a week before. 159 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,760 We know that before Esau and Jacob were born that God talked 160 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,960 to Rebecca. There's there's many places in 161 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,680 the Old and New Testament that talk about God talking to 162 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,840 parents, right? There's Abraham is talked to 163 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,640 about Isaac. Rebecca is talked to about Jacob 164 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,960 and Esau Samson's parents are talked to before he's born. 165 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,960 John the Baptist parents are talked to, right? 166 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,280 Mary and Joseph are both talked to about Jesus and all that to 167 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:32,000 be said that kind of like with kids being mentioned in the 168 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,440 Bible. Just because it doesn't say God 169 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,800 talked to him doesn't mean God didn't talk to him, right? 170 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:45,040 And just like today, God speaks to us right there. 171 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,600 There is no, there is no difference in this time of God's 172 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,120 ability to speak to those that are serving him. 173 00:11:54,760 --> 00:12:00,080 Now if you look at Rebecca, she heard the Lord and she went to 174 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,160 work and and last week and the week before I talked about that 175 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:09,000 is just manipulating and lying and and pushing God's agenda 176 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,960 forward to make it happen. And Jochabed Jochabed went a 177 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,200 different way. She hid him until she could not 178 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,280 and then by faith put him in God's hands, right? 179 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,480 Verse 3 says. But when she could no longer 180 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,720 hide him, she took an ark bull rushes for him, dabbed them with 181 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,680 asphalt pitch and put the child in it and laid it in the reeds 182 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,720 by the riverbank. And his sister stood afar off to 183 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,000 know what would be done with him. 184 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,400 So his mother made an ark to put him in the river. 185 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,480 And I can I can only think that that ark was really well made. 186 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,080 Right. Can you imagine putting your 187 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:57,760 three month old baby in an ark or in a in a box sealed up and 188 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:58,880 then going to put it by the river? 189 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,000 And not only not only her three month old baby, but her third 190 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,080 born. And I don't know if you've been 191 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,200 around a lot of families with third borns, but they're an 192 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,760 interesting bunch, right? The parents, the parents have a 193 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:18,240 different way of raising their their third child, right? 194 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,520 That the baby of the group and there's just something different 195 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,280 about the parents. And it's, it's not a it's not a 196 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,240 rudeness thing. I think parents just they, they 197 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:32,440 wear down right. We, we, we get, we get beat up, 198 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:38,480 but they, it's kind of fun when you look at, when you look at 199 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,760 Miriam and Abraham and Moses, they, if you guys ever watch 200 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,880 YouTube or Facebook and you see the, the first, second and third 201 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,080 born or the first born in the middle child and the baby and 202 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,800 you watch those little, they fit that stereotype really well. 203 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,960 And when you watch Miriam and just her interactions and, and 204 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:08,080 Aaron's as the second born. Now Moses, Moses has a time of 205 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:13,560 training and after that he comes back to Egypt and he's, he's a 206 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:18,880 little more stabilized than than a standard first born or third 207 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,600 born. But Miriam and Aaron, they, they 208 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,280 really fit the first and second born. 209 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,800 But we meet Miriam in verse 4 for the first time and she she 210 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,400 is at least four years old here because she is older than Aaron, 211 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,040 who is 3. And it tells us that in Exodus 212 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,280 7/7 that when Moses and Aaron met the Pharaoh for the first 213 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,960 time, they were Moses was 80 and Aaron was 83. 214 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,760 Well, we know Miriam wasn't 2 because she has a conversation. 215 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,040 So she has to be older, which puts her to at least 4. 216 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,120 But then when you when you actually, when we get to the 217 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,640 conversation, it's probably not a four year old. 218 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,160 She had to have intelligence to have the conversation. 219 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,920 I had to have a thought process. So I'd put her between 6:00 and 220 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,640 8:00. Now it doesn't give us that. 221 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,760 That is me kind of trying to put that into where I think she's 222 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,560 at. But I would say between 6:00 and 223 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:22,640 eight years old, which does fit if, if she's 6 and Aaron's three 224 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,240 and Moses is first born, that's it. 225 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,200 That's, that's a fair spread. But she could be 8. 226 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,320 Some, some commentaries think that she might be 12 years old, 227 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:34,440 but Miriam stays to see what would happen. 228 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,880 And, and if you think about this as, as the first born, and we do 229 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:44,440 this as I've done it with my children over the years, is you 230 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,280 forget they're there, right? You're just having a 231 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,720 conversation between you and your wife or between you and 232 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,760 your friends or whatever. And your, your child's there. 233 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,520 Well, they're hearing everything you're talking about. 234 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,800 They're just, they're just there. 235 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,200 They're listening. And Can you imagine the 236 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,120 discussions that Miriam had heard? 237 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,960 You know, how to hide him, how to build an ark, where to place 238 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,920 the ark. Miriam would have been very 239 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,400 interested in what would happen to her, to her baby brother. 240 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:17,120 Because this is weird, right? How would God work? 241 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,360 Because you, you know that, that his parents speculated because 242 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:25,080 we speculate, right? We, I, I talk about my plan. 243 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,520 I have all kinds of plans, but then there's what God's plan is. 244 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,560 And I will tell you, when I look back at my plans, they look 245 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:37,120 nothing like God's plans, right? I mean, I, I make them and they 246 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:43,080 prepare me for God's plans, but God has much different plan than 247 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,480 me. I mean, my plan is to be in 248 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,640 Uganda, you know, last year and I told you and it was lined up. 249 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,920 We were doing it. I'm going to be in Uganda 3 to 6 250 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,480 months a year. I'm going to work nuclear power 251 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,040 plants or I'm going to pastor a church in Sandpoint. 252 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,800 This was not on any list of things I was going to do, but I 253 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:07,119 just did the next thing, right? I trusted when we, when, when I 254 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,680 got to this point, it was trust the plan, right? 255 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,800 I don't have to understand the plan, but I do have to trust it. 256 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,319 And Miriam is that and I, and I would tell you that Jochebed, 257 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:24,240 she's not there and there's some trust in that, right? 258 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,560 It isn't, it isn't the mom stayed to see what would happen. 259 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,680 It is the the daughter stayed to see what would happen. 260 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:39,240 And there is a great contrast up between Rebecca and Jochebed. 261 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,920 This is still active faith, right? 262 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:51,720 This is not this is this is not Jochebed, Moses's mom just lying 263 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,920 down and doing nothing. She's she's following, you know, 264 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,240 she has been led to save this child, which I mean, different, 265 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,400 different times different, you know, it seemed like, well, 266 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,880 obviously she wants to save her child, but this is more serious 267 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:15,120 than you know, you think about China in the up until 2015, you 268 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:21,320 were allowed to have one child. And so if you had a girl child, 269 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,840 they they would abort it. But if you if, if you didn't 270 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,360 have an abortion, there were story, you know, they'd go out 271 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:29,360 and kill the child, right? I mean it. 272 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,520 And because it wasn't a boy and a boy is what they wanted. 273 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:38,360 So this isn't something that is unheard of as far as human 274 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:41,880 nature and protecting their their own. 275 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,720 I mean, we have the level of abortion that we have in 276 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,000 America, right? But this is a conviction in her 277 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,280 heart. But she is doing what she needs 278 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:54,880 to do, right? She hit him until she couldn't 279 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,400 hide him. And I always, I always think 280 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,760 about that. Think of COVID, right? 281 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,520 You have busy bodies. I don't know how bad it was in 282 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,280 Idaho, but around the country there were, there were 283 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,760 definitely busy bodies that if, if you were breaking the, 284 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:16,000 whatever the, the standard was, somebody was going to turn you 285 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,080 in, right? Well, and because maybe they 286 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,240 would look good or whatever that thing is. 287 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,640 Well, you had, I'm sure in, in Goshen, I'm sure you had those 288 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,520 people reporting back to Pharaoh, right? 289 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,800 So when you when he got to the point where he was crying, I 290 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,720 would say about 3 months old, or he's crying loud enough that she 291 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,400 couldn't hide him anymore. That's that's the next plan. 292 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:46,520 But this is not her lying. This is not her manipulating, 293 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,600 right? This is, this is her. 294 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,680 All Hebrew said is is by faith, right? 295 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,560 They didn't fear Pharaoh's command, but they hid. 296 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:04,760 Hiding isn't fear. Or even dishonest sometimes it's 297 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,280 the smart thing, right? I mean, if you look at if you 298 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,480 look at Acts and you think of, of Saul, right after he gave his 299 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,480 life to, to Jesus, the scales fell off his eyes and he went 300 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,960 and contended, you know, he went and shared Jesus and then 301 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,840 contended, contended with the Jews. 302 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:25,720 And I would imagine whenever Saul, the Pharisee that had been 303 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:30,000 saved contended with the Jews, he was officially the smartest 304 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,800 man in the room, right? I mean, he, he knew his Bible 305 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,560 backwards and forwards or his his Torah and he knew all the 306 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,880 places Jesus was. That's what that with Paul, I 307 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,400 always loved the, the picture of him. 308 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:48,720 He got the key to the whole Old Testament in one download, right 309 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,600 when the scales fell off his eyes, suddenly, suddenly the 310 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,000 whole Old Testament came alive because Jesus is all over it, 311 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,560 right? And so he's going in and 312 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,400 contending with the Jews. Well then he finds out the the 313 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,720 Jews are seeking to take his life, and so undercover of night 314 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,720 he was lowered over the wall, right? 315 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,640 Acts 923 says now after me. After many days were passed, the 316 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,040 Jews plotted to kill him. But their plot became known to 317 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,040 Saul and they watched the gates day and night to kill him. 318 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,240 Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through 319 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,440 the wall in a large basket. Now if we look at the rest of 320 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,560 Paul, of Saul, who becomes Paul, if we look at the rest of his 321 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,320 life, he was not fearful. He was not, he was not in fear 322 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,520 of his life. But the smart thing he had, he 323 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,240 had had the conversations, he had said the things he needed to 324 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,320 say. Everyone that could be reached 325 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,040 had been reached. So he moved on. 326 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:53,320 No reason to stay. So Moses, his parents just 327 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,520 obeyed, right? They they obeyed in faith and 328 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:02,360 they did the next thing. If you look at Abraham, he's a 329 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:06,520 great picture of trusting the plan, which is all Moses's 330 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,800 family does is just trust the plan. 331 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:15,520 They trust the planner, right? And Abraham in Genesis 2 or 332 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,680 sorry 22 verse one says Now it came to pass after these things 333 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,280 that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham. 334 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,360 And he said, here I am. Then he said, take now your son, 335 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:31,600 your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of 336 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:40,360 Merori sorry, and offer him. There is a burnt offering on one 337 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:42,440 of the mountains of which I shall tell you. 338 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,840 So Abraham arose early in the morning, saddled his donkey and 339 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,920 took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son, and he 340 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,040 split the wood for the burnt offering in a rose and went to 341 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,360 the place of which God had told him. 342 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:03,040 Abraham obeyed. His obedience wasn't in 343 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,040 understanding, right? If you look at, if you look 344 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:12,280 back, back to Hebrews again, he had faith in he, he 345 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,640 contemplated, right? He contemplated how God would 346 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,520 work this out. Hebrews 11 says 1117 says by 347 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:28,200 faith when Abraham or when he was tested offered up Isaac and 348 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,720 he who had received the promise promises offered up his only 349 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:37,160 begotten Son, of whom it was said in Isaac your seed shall be 350 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,680 called. Concluding that God was able to 351 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:46,040 raise him up even from the dead from which he also received him 352 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,840 in the figurative sense. And that figurative sense just 353 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,560 means when God told him to go sacrifice his son, he, he saw 354 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,920 his son is already dead right? And I mean he knew what he was 355 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,360 taking him up to the mountain to do. 356 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:05,800 And as believers, we don't have to know how or what the whole 357 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:10,000 plan is. Ours is to rely on and trust in 358 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,960 the one our faith is in, not in our ability to understand his 359 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,600 plan. God will give us the information 360 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,920 we need for the moment and Isaiah 50. 361 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,800 This is this is a verse that I think that we should all 362 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:32,920 memorize in and and just implant in our in our like, I don't have 363 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,760 to know. I don't know. 364 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,800 I don't have to know the latest conspiracy. 365 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,800 I don't have to be on YouTube. I don't have to, I have to 366 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,520 figure out all the things I need to listen to him. 367 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,360 I need to follow him. And Isaiah 50, verse 10, it 368 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:50,360 says, who among you fears the Lord who obeys the voice of his 369 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:54,880 servant and that, that who obeys the voice of his servant? 370 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,520 And that's Jesus, right? That's a, that's a reference to 371 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,440 him who walks in darkness and has no light. 372 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,400 Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon his God, 373 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,320 right? So you don't have to know what's 374 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,880 happening. You have to know what the next 375 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,600 thing what he wants, what he wants you to do right. 376 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,480 We need to be obedient to his calling in our life. 377 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,320 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own 378 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:29,080 understanding is Proverbs 35 and sometimes he will give us the 379 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,400 big picture. You know he did that for Joseph 380 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,480 the great. It's it's Genesis 37. 381 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:41,600 This is Joseph and it's then he dreamed still another dream and 382 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,200 told it to his brothers and said, look, I have dreamed 383 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,000 another dream and this time the sun, the moon and the 11 stars 384 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,160 bow down to me. And that is my mom, my dad and 385 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,480 my and my 11 brothers are going to bow down to me. 386 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,760 Mom, dad and the eleven brothers were not impressed by his dream, 387 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:07,760 but it absolutely came true. 100% that's exactly what happens 388 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:14,840 decades later now had any of them known what it was going to 389 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:23,000 take to get there. They messed it up right and if 390 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,160 you and I guess just so we I tie up all the loose ends. 391 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,680 If you don't know the end of Abraham's long like hike up the 392 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:36,800 mountain in the verse 12 of Genesis 22 and it says and he 393 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:41,800 and the Angel of the Lord said, do not lay your hands on the lad 394 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:46,280 or do anything to him for now. I know that you fear God since 395 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,600 you have not withheld your son, your only son from me. 396 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,880 And just know in that story, at no point was Isaac's life in 397 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,680 danger. God, God knew exactly what the 398 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,360 plan was. He was showing, he was showing 399 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:08,480 Abraham his heart right? He was showing him that do you 400 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,040 rely on me and my plan and Abraham at the end of it? 401 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,320 That is what Abraham did, right? He, he contemplated, but he, he 402 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,680 was obedient. He was doing the next thing. 403 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,440 So this is like that. You guys get a funny 404 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,640 illustration. It's one that I I look back on 405 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:36,080 and I think it helped me so much understand God's this do the 406 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:41,520 next thing. So I was at a youth camp in 407 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,320 Oregon. It was called wild horse back 408 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,600 then I think it's Washington family ranch now, but it's got 409 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:53,600 it is a impressive piece of property young life got it It 410 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,840 used to be a commune. It has an acre building that is 411 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,720 enclosed. It's, it's got basketball courts 412 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,400 and rock climbing walls and all the things you could possibly 413 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,120 have to have fun at a youth camp. 414 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,840 But they have rock climbing walls and they're, they're 2-3 415 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,680 stories tall and have all they have hard ones and easy ones. 416 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,520 And I at one time thought I could climb rocks and I, I 417 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:25,600 wasn't, I wasn't bad at it. And I was with a bunch of high 418 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,760 schoolers. I was in my 30s and we're we're 419 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,200 on a break from I think we were doing, I think we were serving. 420 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,520 So we were in the kitchen most of the time. 421 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:36,960 So this was a break with just us. 422 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,440 And we were going to have a competition who could climb 423 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,080 this, this one, one technical section, who could climb it the 424 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,240 fastest. And we've been we've been 425 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,720 messing around all day doing things. 426 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,840 And at the very top of this wall, there is a really 427 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,040 technical spot that you have to do a particular way. 428 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,680 And I was, I was helping as much as I was going to race them, I 429 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,320 was also helping them. So I was explaining when they 430 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,560 got up there what they wanted, you know, how the best way to 431 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:12,720 maneuver that. And, and so I am concentrated up 432 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:18,000 there and the I jump on the wall like I'm the last guy to go. 433 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,440 Everybody else has made it to the top. 434 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,800 I have like 4 or 5 high schoolers that have made it to 435 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,840 the top. I get on the wall, I can't get 5 436 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,680 feet off the wall up the wall. I literally I have, I'm on the 437 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,000 wall and I cannot get myself to the next rock. 438 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,280 Like held in play. Like frustrated. 439 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,760 Like I got on the wall like 3 times and got off the wall and 440 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,880 then we went and washed dishes and I'm, I'm frustrated because 441 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,120 I'm the youth leader that now looks like a complete idiot. 442 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,360 And so there was some humbling that needed to be done. 443 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,880 And then I go back after on our next break, and I'm still 444 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,880 literally my pride's hurt and all that stuff. 445 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,200 And I put the gear on and I climbed up and hit the bell and 446 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,680 it was done. And so what's the point of that 447 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,680 God? God in no uncertain terms said 448 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,840 that I needed. My problem was I was 449 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,640 concentrated on where I was going, not where I was at. 450 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:25,640 And doesn't mean God won't give you where you're going, but he 451 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,680 doesn't have to. He doesn't have to give you the 452 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,200 intermediate stuff, right? He gives you the next step. 453 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,880 He gives you what is required of you. 454 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:40,480 Now, Elizabeth Elliott, which you guys get to hear a lot of 455 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:45,240 quotes from her, but when her husband Jim Elliott died, she 456 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,560 was a missionary in a foreign country with a toddler. 457 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,400 And what do you do and her quote that you guys, if you read 458 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,840 Elizabeth Elliott, I'm sure you've heard it when you don't 459 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,400 know what to do when life is too heavy, when the path ahead is 460 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,360 unclear, simply do the next thing God has put in front of 461 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:13,680 you and in her list of next things are wash the dishes, rock 462 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,920 the baby, translate the next verse, cook the next meal, pray 463 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,160 the next prayer, take the next step of obedience. 464 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,920 And that's that's what God promises us right And that is 465 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,560 that understand that we serve a living God that wants to speak 466 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,360 to us right. But it isn't about telling us 467 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,840 telling us the end of the story. We know the very end of the 468 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,480 story. How we get there is by doing the 469 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,520 next thing that he puts in front of us. 470 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,720 My job is always to just do the next thing going to Uganda over 471 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:57,480 the, over the last 15 years, when I first started going 2010, 472 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,080 I knew we were supposed to go to Africa. 473 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,200 So we went when I came back and then God told me that's where 474 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,680 I'm supposed I'm supposed to go to Uganda. 475 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,720 And, and so then I, I started going to Uganda and he called me 476 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,560 to the Ucholi people in Uganda, which is in northern Uganda. 477 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,200 And then, you know, about every six months we had a, we had a 478 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,280 mission trip planned when we first started going, It wasn't 479 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,320 us planning it. It was another, another group. 480 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,320 And every time it was this, this heart, heart wrenching struggle 481 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,280 because it's money, right? Heart wrenching struggle. 482 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:32,880 Am I supposed to go? Lord, am I supposed to go? 483 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:40,040 Lord, am I supposed to go? And 2012 I was at a retreat and 484 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:47,040 I wish I could find the verse in Joe that that he used to, to 485 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,440 speak to me. And this was a a conviction and 486 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:55,720 it wasn't an audible voice. But what he told me is, Nick, I 487 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,400 told you where I wanted you to go. 488 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,440 Nick, I told you who I wanted you to minister to. 489 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:08,920 And you keep asking me when. So the answer was really simple. 490 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:14,640 Whenever you can, and that is whenever the opportunity arises. 491 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:19,480 And so from that moment forward, my trips to Uganda were really 492 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,560 easy. The answer was yes. 493 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,560 And I put deposits down and we did the things. 494 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,920 And there were times that the answer was yes, because the 495 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:32,200 opportunity was there, but then an outage was scheduled during 496 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,800 that time. So I, the, the deposit was gone 497 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,800 and I didn't go right. It was, it's the same way that, 498 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,000 that for years I, I taught, I taught Bible studies. 499 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,080 And if I go to Uganda, it's going to be the same, same 500 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,960 thing. They all know my answer. 501 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:54,840 If you come up and ask me to teach, my answer is yes, unless 502 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,240 I've got something somewhere else that that means it has to 503 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,400 be a no. But my, my initial response is 504 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,200 going to be yes. That means if you knock at the 505 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,240 door, and this has happened, if you knock at the door at 9:30 at 506 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,239 night on a Saturday night and say, can you teach in the 507 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:16,840 morning, my answer is yes. Now, that isn't kind of like 508 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,960 studying for an exam. If that's going to be your 509 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,840 attitude, you had better have it. 510 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,960 That isn't something you just get a coast through, right? 511 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,960 I'm at that point I'm when my answer is yes all the time. 512 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,719 I got studies ready all the time. 513 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,760 Now that one particular study that was comical because I had 514 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,320 like 5 studies, four or five studies that I'm like, he asked, 515 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,400 I'm like, yeah, I can do that. Four or five studies almost 516 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:42,840 done. I can just go back through and, 517 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,800 and went through all four or five studies and God said, Nope, 518 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,280 Nope, Nope, Nope. And I'm like, OK, Lord, let's go 519 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,000 back through those because these are your choices. 520 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:54,400 These, these are the ones, right? 521 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,520 This is what we're doing. And, and so if you guys can 522 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,440 imagine, I lost that conversation. 523 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:07,080 And, and so I was up till like 2/30, 3:00 in the morning. 524 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:12,400 And that particular place is a, is I have to teach 2 studies. 525 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,400 So I had limited sleep. I I believe the studies were 526 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,880 good, but yeah, I barely remember them. 527 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,600 And but it was, it's, it's that willingness to do the next thing 528 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,560 right. Do you trust that he is able to 529 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,920 speak to you? Do you, do you trust that you 530 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,920 trust that, that he is speaking? Because I mean, when you think 531 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:42,000 about this, a baby in a box in the river and the Nile River is 532 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,240 not somewhere because in Uganda, they have the Nile River. 533 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,200 It's not somewhere I'm putting a baby in the reeds, right? 534 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,760 This is this is not a safe location. 535 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,360 So there is, there is, there's faith in that. 536 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:05,920 But back to Miriam, give her some credit because she just 537 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,560 this young girl waited to see. She didn't interfere right until 538 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,320 the perfect moment. She didn't panic. 539 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,360 She she had timing and wisdom that that that would be beyond 540 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,480 her years. I'm sure it says starting in 541 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,400 verse 5. Then the daughter of Pharaoh 542 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,760 came down to to bathe at the river and her maidens walked 543 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,160 along the Riverside. And when she saw the ark among 544 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,640 the reeds, she sent her maiden to get it maids to get it. 545 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,440 And when she opened it, she saw the child and behold, the baby 546 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,720 wept. So she had compassion on him and 547 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:42,560 said, this is one of the Hebrew children. 548 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:49,320 So the Hebrews or the the Princess knew the score right. 549 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,320 Hebrew children will be were to be thrown in the river by decree 550 00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:00,480 of her father. And so this leads us to a whole 551 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,920 thing with who she was and how did how did she have the ability 552 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,840 to to even have the rest of this conversation. 553 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:17,480 Carl, do you have that slide? So my best guess, and this is 554 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,360 there's lots of commentaries on who Pharaoh was at that time. 555 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:27,280 And then this fits the this fits the rest of the whole story of 556 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,160 what goes on, right? Who, who who Pharaoh was when 557 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:37,640 Moses grows up and everything is she was hath you chef the the 558 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:42,520 the only daughter of Fathmos the first he did have other 559 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,720 children. He had two sons by the the royal 560 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:49,600 queen, which would have been the first queen, but they they died. 561 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,160 So this daughter was in a weird spot. 562 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,880 So she is the only one of the royal line because she is of the 563 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,240 she is of her her mom who is the first queen of the royal queen 564 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,640 and her dad who is the sitting Pharaoh. 565 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:10,640 So in in Egyptian, in the Egyptian court and all that, she 566 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,720 would have been almost untouchable or she just might 567 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:19,760 have been her dad's favorite. But for whatever reason, she had 568 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,080 the ability to do what God needed her to do, whether she 569 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,920 knew it or not. She is the perfect person to 570 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:35,040 find and protect his future. Next week I'll spend more time 571 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,320 unpacking that whole slide, but just understand that there is a 572 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:46,640 there's a moment in time that is is God has people in place to do 573 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:51,160 what needs to be done. Verse 7 says his sister Miriam 574 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,040 said to the Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and and call a nurse 575 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,720 for you from the Hebrew women and she may nurse the child for 576 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:00,160 you. And the Pharaoh daughter said to 577 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,320 her go. So the maiden went and called 578 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,400 the child's mother. Now Miriam was in the perfect 579 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,720 place. We talked about that and This is 580 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,360 why I say she was between 6:00 and eight years old because 581 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,600 there were a lot of ways to approach the Princess. 582 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,720 Hey, that's my brother. Or do you want me to get my mom, 583 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:25,160 but without lying? And she just asked, do you want 584 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,680 me to get someone to nurse this baby? 585 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,520 And what I, what I kind of laugh about is that all the Princess 586 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,360 says to her is go, which crying babies will do that, right? 587 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,040 That's a crying baby. You can get somebody to hush him 588 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:39,920 up. That's how I like that. 589 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:46,080 And and then Jocko Bud came to nurse to be the nursemaid and 590 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,480 the and Pharaoh's daughter said to her, take this child away and 591 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,280 nurse him for me and I will give you your wages. 592 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,600 So the woman took the child and nursed him. 593 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,400 So the Princess sent sent her away, sent her home with her own 594 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:04,920 baby that just that morning, right? 595 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,200 We don't know this noon, this could be 9:00 in the morning. 596 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:09,680 He might have been out there an hour. 597 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,440 He might have been out there most of the day, but just that 598 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:18,080 morning, Can you imagine the burden and the pain that was 599 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:22,360 that was in her life and the choices she was making and now? 600 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,040 God had brought a miracle and she would call it nothing less 601 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:32,520 because not only was her baby safe, but he was back at home 602 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:39,200 and she was being paid to nurse him and he was to be with her 603 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,720 for for many years. It was until, until he was 604 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,560 weaned. And in the Egyptian culture of 605 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,160 that time, that was between three and four years and could 606 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:55,240 last up to five. And if I am his mother, or if, 607 00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:00,040 if any of us I believe would be his parents, I'm sure five years 608 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,120 old would be the thing, right? As long as we can possibly keep 609 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:07,160 this up, we're not trying to wean him anytime soon. 610 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:13,080 And the cool thing about 5 years old, or between three and five 611 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,240 years old, the core of emotions, emotional, relational and 612 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,360 cultural foundations is laid in the first three to five years. 613 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,920 Now, how does God say that? Train up a child in the way you 614 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,120 should go, and when he is old, He will not depart from it. 615 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:35,800 So God's foundation was set with Moses's biological parents, 616 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,480 right? And think of sending your 617 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:44,280 children to public school and the conversations you have with 618 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,320 them before they go. Or think of it like this. 619 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,400 Think of sending your your children to a boarding school 620 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,680 and the only influence you have is what you have taught them 621 00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,520 before they go. I would bet you would be 622 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:06,160 diligent to teach them as much as you could teach them. 623 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,720 Show them as much as you could show them. 624 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,280 Give them as much information about who they are and where 625 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,720 they come from as you can give them. 626 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:23,640 Teach them about the one true God, about their culture and and 627 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,320 just in. I do think there was still 628 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:30,520 contact with his family after because Aaron and Moses seem to 629 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,000 have a relationship deeper than A5 and an 8 year old when they 630 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,000 meet up in their 80s. But that is a that is a 631 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,920 speculative thing. It doesn't say anything about 632 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,640 that. And then verse 10 it says and 633 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,280 the child grew and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he 634 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,440 became her son. So she called his name. 635 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:57,920 Moses saying because I drew him out of the water says so The 636 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:03,040 funny, funny thing is Pharaoh wanted all boys killed last 637 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,240 week. It was the Black Hat. 638 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:09,840 He wanted all the boys killed so Israel would be weak and shrink 639 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:15,680 right Enter the white hat. God's plan and God uses the 640 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:19,400 Pharaoh's decree. Had Pharaoh not had this decree, 641 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,040 then Moses wouldn't have lived in the palace, wouldn't have 642 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:32,200 been trained in in all writing, and in Acts 2 or 721, it says. 643 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,320 But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daughter took him away 644 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:41,160 and brought him up as her own. And Moses learned in all the 645 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,080 wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and deeds. 646 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:50,840 So he was trained by the Black Hat to be Israel's champion. 647 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,640 Like I said, God's, God's ways are not our ways. 648 00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:00,280 God's plans are not my plan. My job is to do the next thing. 649 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,760 Now Moses was trained in all the good and the bad of the the 650 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:12,200 Egyptians had to offer. If we go through this section, 651 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,440 this is all about God being bigger than us. 652 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:21,960 Do you believe that his, his story is from the author's point 653 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,760 of view, not the character's point of view? 654 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,760 And I, I, I've said that many times in my, in my teaching of 655 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,920 that we're in God's story. He's not in my story, right? 656 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,920 I don't write the book. He writes the book. 657 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:44,760 It's the the illustration of that is, is me telling 658 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,200 everybody, Hey, come see my movie and I take you to the 659 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,480 movie theater. I pay out, buy out a whole movie 660 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,560 theater and I invite all my friends and I'm serving popcorn 661 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,880 and everybody's coming and, and the movie starts and the, the 662 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,840 credits roll and movies going and it's going and it's going. 663 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,440 And then there's this scene and it's an overview of Central 664 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,960 Park. And I stand up there I am and 665 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:14,440 I'm in the park that you can't really see me because I'm in the 666 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,400 park. That's us guys. 667 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:22,560 That's that's my importance in in God's Kingdom to him, I am 668 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:29,600 the star, you are the star. But in the big history of the 669 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,560 world, he's the star. He wrote the book. 670 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:43,440 We're just characters in his plan and our job is just to 671 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:49,400 trust and obey, right? When you, when you look at just 672 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:54,360 the funny of his name, I guess I'm the one last exclamation 673 00:45:54,360 --> 00:46:00,240 point of God being God in this story is even Moses his name, He 674 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:05,800 was named by the Egyptians. The one who was drawn out was 675 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,400 also the one who draws out God's people from slavery, right? 676 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:14,360 God has a story to tell. Will we trust him to tell it 677 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,320 right? Will we trust that when it's 678 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,600 dark? And I don't know, do we trust 679 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:29,880 that he does know guys as a as a non believer growing up with my 680 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,640 my friends, I had friends that trusted me like this, that I 681 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,360 trusted like this. I had friends because I spent 682 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,080 time with them that I would trust them. 683 00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:46,280 They would trust me to run into the dark and jump off a Cliff 684 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:47,720 because there was water at the bottom. 685 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:57,560 And those kind of friends and stupid for sure, but that was 686 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,720 because we had relationship. We knew each other wasn't wasn't 687 00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:04,320 because we read books about each other. 688 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,040 It was because we knew each other, right. 689 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:11,120 I didn't have, I didn't have friends of friends that would 690 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,440 follow me off that Cliff. They would be the ones called 691 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,720 no, what are you talking about not doing that. 692 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:26,800 Our job is to have that, have that, that relationship with 693 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,920 God, right? Abraham Lincoln, I'm reading a 694 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:34,240 book right now and he this morning specifically, he had, he 695 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:39,080 had a quote in a speech and it was as he was leaving for the 696 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:44,080 capital. And it says I now leave not 697 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:51,200 knowing when or whether I ever return with with a task before 698 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,120 me greater than that which rested upon Washington. 699 00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,240 Without the assistance of the divine being who whoever 700 00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:04,800 attended him, I cannot succeed without that assistant and with 701 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:09,400 that assistance I cannot fail. Abraham Lincoln is also very 702 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:15,760 famous for saying that his job, he got asked about how do you 703 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:19,440 know God's on your side? And he said, Madam, I'm not 704 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,720 concerned whether or not I am on God's side. 705 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,760 I'm concerned or whether or not God is on my side. 706 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:33,040 I am concerned. I stay awake every night with 707 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,480 the burden of whether or not I am on God's side. 708 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,000 And that's our job. Our job is to be on his side, 709 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,960 following him. So we're going to do a 710 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,040 communion. Brand's going to come up. 711 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:56,200 And they had a good song before. Imagine There's a great song 712 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,800 now, but it is well with my soul. 713 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,880 Do you know the story that goes with that is a man who just lost 714 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:12,640 his entire business and then he lost his children months later 715 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,880 on a in a boating on a ship that sank. 716 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,840 And he is he is on another ship going across and the captain 717 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:25,120 says, Hey, we're passing the place where the ship went down 718 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:30,720 and your children died. And he wrote that song there 719 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:37,640 because he do the God he served. Do you know the God you serve? 720 00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:46,480 Spend some time as as the guys pass out the elements, spend 721 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:50,760 some time just hanging out with your Lord. 722 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:57,880 Sing the song. You can take the take the bread 723 00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:05,080 and the the cup When when you feel LED Brandon's going to 724 00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,840 sing. I'm going to step down, but 725 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,200 spent some time with Jesus and and just thank him for what he 726 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,320 does in your life and that he has a plan. 727 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:17,600 Yeah.