Sunday Sermon

Three Women & A Baby Dave Shaner November 9, 2003

Introduction: Moses has shaped history like no other man.

This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.  - Deuteronomy 33:1

You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other.  - Deuteronomy 4:35

The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.  - Exodus 33:11

It's a story that would not have lasted past one chapter if it had not been for three women. God used these women to deliver the deliverer.

Text: Exodus 2:1-10

Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. 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. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. 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. 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."

I. RAISE MOSES:

A. Hebrews 11:23

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.

B. Proverbs 16:7

When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies live at peace with him.

C. Hebrews 11:24

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

II. PRAISE GOD!

A. ... for always having a ______________.

B. ... for not always doing what seems ___________ to us.

C. ... for making ___________ the ____________ of men.

1. God uses the weak to bring down the mighty.

2. I Corinthians 1:25-29

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.

3. Hebrews 11:23

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.

III. APPRAISE FAITH...

A. Evaluate faith by its ____________ to stand __________.

B. Appraise faith by its ____________ to __________.

1. Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

2. James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

C. You can appraise faith by its __________ to let __________.

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