1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: at the river. Then her maidens walked along by the 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,719 Speaker 1: river side, and when she came and saw the ark 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: Exodus two five. Heavenly Father, when the enemy tries to 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: attack my life, my family, my business, and my purpose, 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: I will praise you, because, like the baby Moses in 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: Exodus one to two ten, you've prepared me a basket 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: of redemption. You have prepared away for me when there 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: seems to be no way out. I praise you for 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: your divine protection as I move and float down the 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: nile river called life. And as I move, I thank 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: you that the current of your favor is leading me 14 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: to a place only you can grant me access to. 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus that when I arrive at the desk 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: the nation of my destiny, you have already chosen the 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: right people to help guide and grow me. I declare that, 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,199 Speaker 1: like Moses living in two worlds, I too, am multifaceted. 19 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: I declare that I have been called to break the 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: status quo. I declare I can walk in any room 21 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: and know that because your anointing is on my life 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: I belong at the table of success. My steps have 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: been ordered by the Lord, and I will lift up 24 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 1: a shout of praise because with you in my life, 25 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: I can't lose. In Jesus' name, Amen, thank you for 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: praying with us today. Continue your time with God by 27 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: listening to today's Bible story, brought to you by Bible 28 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: in a Year dot. 29 00:01:53,680 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 2: Com Baby from the Nile. In our last story, we 30 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 2: finished the stories inspired by the Book of Genesis and 31 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 2: Joseph's tragedy that God turned into victory. His brothers had 32 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: sold him into slavery to Egypt. However, he became a 33 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: great and mighty governor and was able to save his 34 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: family from famine. Now we will begin stories inspired by 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 2: the Book of Exodus. In this story, we will learn 36 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: how the Israelites were prospering in Egypt, but a new pharaoh, 37 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 2: felt threatened by them, forced them into slavery and commanded 38 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 2: that their baby boys be killed. 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 3: I'm so glad you've joined us on the Bible in 40 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 3: a Year podcast today, But before we get to today's episode, 41 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 3: I want you to know that I would absolutely love 42 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: to send you my daily devotional that will give you 43 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: fresh encouragement every single morning and day, from the moment 44 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 3: we wake up to the moment our head fo hits 45 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 3: the pillow. 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In our previous episode, we concluded 54 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: the Book of Genesis, and as we closed out the 55 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 3: story of Joseph, he was revered by both Egyptians and 56 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 3: Hebrews as a great man of God and a deliverer, 57 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 3: a rescuer of the people. Today, we begin the Book 58 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: of Exodus and find a very different reality for the 59 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 3: descendants of Jacob. Years have passed and the new Pharaoh 60 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 3: does not see the prosperous Hebrew people as a reminder 61 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 3: of how God rescued Egypt, but rather as a threat 62 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,279 Speaker 3: to his kingdom. The Hebrew people find themselves now enslaved 63 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 3: and forced to endure hard labor, and eventually watch powerlessly 64 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 3: as Pharaoh murders scores and scores of their infant sons. 65 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: In the midst of unbelievable wickedness and sorrow, we will 66 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 3: still see God's faithfulness, and that faithfulness will be shown 67 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 3: through a baby boy who is delivered to one day 68 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 3: lead the people to freedom. Let's listen now to today's reading. 69 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: The family of Jacob was delivered from the famine and 70 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: brought to Egypt. There, under Joseph's guidance and God's provision, 71 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: seventy people grew into thousands, scattered throughout all Egypt. Hebrews 72 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 2: thrived and multiplied. Joseph and the Twelve Brothers of Israel 73 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 2: had long passed, but their descendants had grown into a strong, 74 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: independent and healthy nation, just as God promised they would. 75 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: A new Pharaoh had emerged, and the memory of Joseph's 76 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: influence had long passed. He looked down at the Hebrew 77 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 2: people multiplying into a great nation right under his nose. 78 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 2: He feared that if they continued to multiply, they would 79 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 2: leave Egypt and join their enemies. So the heavy hand 80 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 2: of Pharaoh descended upon the Hebrew people to squash their 81 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:35,119 Speaker 2: hope and fruitlessness. He enslaved them under the mighty boot 82 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 2: of Egypt. The sons and daughters of Israel were made 83 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: slaves and tortured. Pharaoh oppressed them with hard labor. Yet 84 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 2: there was a blessing still upon them. Just as their 85 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 2: ancestor Joseph had thrived under slavery, so did the Hebrew people. 86 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: They multiplied even greater under the crucible of Pharaoh's cruelty. 87 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: They were forced to build cities, but ended up occupying 88 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 2: them with their numbers. Pharaoh, becoming more calloused and afraid, 89 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 2: took his cruelty to a new level. He gathered the 90 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 2: Hebrew midwives, those responsible for helping the Hebrew women with labor. 91 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 2: While you are aiding them in labor. Allow the girls 92 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 2: to live, but kill any baby boy you see, he said. 93 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 2: Pharaoh would punish the midwives if they disobeyed. Luckily, the 94 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: midwives feared God more than Pharaoh, they would not do 95 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 2: as he commanded. When Pharaoh saw that the boys were 96 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 2: still being born, he gathered the midwives and asked, why 97 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 2: have you disobeyed me? The midwives, with a quiet confidence 98 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 2: of someone who knows they did the right thing, simply said, 99 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They 100 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 2: are strong and vigorous and have their babies so quickly 101 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 2: that we cannot get there in time. They lied, yet 102 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 2: God blessed them. Pharaoh determined and to give in to 103 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 2: the darkness and pride, gripping his heart, used his power 104 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 2: to enact a law God would never forgive. Throw every 105 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 2: new born Hebrew boy into the Nile. Pharaoh decreed, and 106 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: soldiers scattered throughout the city, pulling screaming children from their 107 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 2: mother's arms. The Nile had engulfed hundreds of babies. The 108 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: screams of children, mothers, and fathers echoed throughout all Egypt. 109 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 2: Pharaoh's brutality acted as a dark cloud shrouding over all 110 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 2: the land. Tears and blood filled the streets, and the 111 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 2: heart of Pharaoh grew darker and darker. Meanwhile, a Hebrew 112 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 2: woman was concealing her baby boy for three months. She 113 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 2: nursed him in secret, knowing that eventually he would be discovered. 114 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 2: She wove a basket of papyrus reeds and water proofed 115 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: it with tar and pitch. With the diligence of Noah 116 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 2: and his ark. She crafted a vessel of redemption for 117 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: her son and sent him down stream towards the palaces. 118 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 2: The baby boy's sister trailed the basket down the river, 119 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 2: keeping close watch from Afar as the basket traveled miles downstream. 120 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 2: Soon Pharaoh's daughter came to the river bank to bathe. 121 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 2: She and her attendants played in the water and relaxed 122 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: in the sun. The princess saw a basket floating along 123 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 2: and sent her maid to go fetch it. The princess 124 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: peered into the basket to find a baby boy, swabbled 125 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: and crying. Pity overcame the princess, for she knew that 126 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 2: the baby must have been Hebrew. She fell in love 127 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: with him and was determined to care for him, but 128 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 2: the baby needed a nurse. Suddenly, the baby's sister emerged 129 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: from the reeds. 130 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: By the river. 131 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 2: Excited yet scared, She suggested that her mother could take 132 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: care of the child until he was grown. The princess agreed. 133 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 2: Thus the baby was raised by both his Hebrew biological 134 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: mother and his Egyptian adopted mother. He would grow up 135 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 2: in two worlds, never feeling fully part of one or 136 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 2: the other. The princess looked upon her son and gave 137 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: him the name Moses, for he was delivered out of 138 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: the water. Moses, now a prince of Egypt, would soon 139 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 2: realize what it truly means to be delivered. 140 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 3: As the Book of Exodus opens, the Hebrew nation has 141 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 3: grown from Israel's family numbering seventy into a prosperous and 142 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 3: thriving people scattered throughout the land of Egypt. It was 143 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 3: just as God had promised Jacob that his descendants would 144 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: grow and be a great and mighty nation, though living 145 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: far from Canaan, now living in a foreign land, God 146 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 3: did just as he promised. Israel was a mighty nation. 147 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 3: But there's a new pharaoh on the throne, one who 148 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 3: knows nothing about Joseph or what God did through Joseph. 149 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 3: All he sees are the threats of the Hebrews partners 150 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 3: multiplying his kingdom and growing into very wealthy people. So 151 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: fear seizes him, and he seizes the Hebrews enslaving them 152 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 3: and forcing them to work to build cities in his empire. 153 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 3: But God's blessing remains upon his people, and their numbers 154 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 3: increase all the more so. The pharaoh realizes that if 155 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 3: this continues in this way, the Hebrews will outnumber his 156 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 3: people and they could overtake his land by force. A deep, dark, evil, 157 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 3: devilish evil, creeps into the heart of this man, and 158 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 3: he orders the mass slaughter of male Hebrew babies. He 159 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 3: orders the midwives to perpetrate this heinous act, but they 160 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 3: fear God more than they fear Pharaoh, so they choose 161 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 3: to disobey the Pharaoh. These midwives certainly acted courageously. They 162 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 3: feared God more than they feared man, so they did 163 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 3: what they could to protect the lives of innocent babies. 164 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 3: God in turn chose to bless them because they did 165 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 3: the right thing, godly thing, and the Hebrew population increased 166 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 3: despite Pharaoh's order of infanticide. Now Pharaoh is really mad, enraged, 167 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 3: in fact, so he enlists his army to tear babies 168 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 3: from their mother's arms and throw them into the Nile. 169 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 3: As the Egyptian soldiers tear through Hebrew homes, one mother 170 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 3: conceives a plan to hide her boy and to save 171 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 3: his life. She bravely places her baby in a basket 172 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 3: and floats him down the Great Nile River to be 173 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 3: discovered by an Egyptian woman. She trusted God to protect 174 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: her son and rescue him, and none other than Pharaoh's 175 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 3: daughter discovers the child and has compassion on him, and 176 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 3: God's faithfulnesstant trustworthiness does not stop there. Of course, He 177 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 3: provides for this child's mother to nurse her baby and 178 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 3: to be with him until he's old enough to go 179 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 3: to the palace. His adoptive mother names the boy Moses 180 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 3: because she rescued him from the waters. Moses will be 181 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 3: raised in two worlds, close to his biological family a Hebrew, 182 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 3: but protected by the Pharaoh's hand because his adopted mother 183 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 3: was herself an Egyptian princess. But it seems that he 184 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 3: grows up really not fitting into either world. And yet 185 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 3: God will work through Moses and use him one of 186 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 3: the mightiest men who ever lived, to rescue the enslaved 187 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: Hebrews and take them to the land God had promised. 188 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 3: Before he gets there, though, Moses will experience the sting 189 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 3: of rejection in both his worlds, and it will send 190 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 3: him on a journey far from Egypt and the suffering 191 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 3: of his people till God shows up once again and 192 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 3: changes his life forever. We'll learn more about that the 193 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 3: next time. Dear God, we're often stunned by the evil 194 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 3: and the wickedness of humanity, and in today's story we 195 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 3: have seen the worst kinds of evil that men are 196 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 3: able to commit. And yet through it all we see 197 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 3: your protection. We see your provision and your promises fulfilled. Lord, 198 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 3: like the midwives, May we fear you more than we 199 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 3: fear men. May we be courageous always in our faith 200 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 3: and act in ways that please you in Jesus' name. Amen. 201 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast. 202 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 3: I'm Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas, and before we go, 203 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 3: I want you to know that I would love to 204 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 3: send you my daily devotional to give you fresh encouragement 205 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 3: every single day. So visit Jackgraham dot org to sign 206 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 3: up for your PowerPoint Today devotional. That's Jack Graham dot org.