THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MOSES – WEEK 5
WHEN NOTHING GOES YOUR WAY
FEBRUARY 16, 2025

When the NT gives us a principle, the OT gives us a story.

Doctrine of Sin = Adam and Eve.
Faith = Abraham.
Salvation = Moses.

ROMANS 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

HEBREWS 11:1 – Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

EPHESIANS 2:8-9 – For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

The NT gives us a principle.
The OT gives us a picture.

EXODUS 2:10 – 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.”
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EXODUS 1:17-20 – But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. 18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” 20 So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.

“If – good luck to you – you have a child, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, expose it.”
– Hilarion (Egyptian businessman)

EXODUS 2:1-10 – Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. 4 And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. 5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 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.”

EXODUS 2:11-15 – One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” 14 He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” 15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

What did we learn?

There is a biblical case for civil disobedience.
Your life is never so messed up that God can’t redeem it.

THERE IS A BIBLICAL CASE FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

YOUR LIFE IS NEVER SO MESSED UP THAT GOD CAN’T REDEEM IT

PSALM 57:2 – I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

ROMANS 8:28 – And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

“Pride is faith in the idea that God had, when he made us.”
Isak Dinesen