1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: Let us pray, And the daughter of Pharaoh came down 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: to wash herself at the river. Then her maidens walked 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: along by the river side, and when she came and 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: to fetch it. Exodus two five. Heavenly Father, when the 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: enemy tries to attack my life, my family, my business, 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: and my purpose, I will praise you because, like the 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 1: baby Moses in Exodus one to two ten, you've prepared 9 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: me a basket of redemption. You have prepared away from 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: me when there seems to be no way out. I 11 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: praise you for your divine protection as I move and 12 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: float down the nile river called life. And as I move, 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: I thank you that the current of your favor is 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: leading me to a place only you can grant me 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: access to. Thank you, Jesus, that when I arrive at 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: the destination of my destiny, you have already chosen the 17 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: right people to help guide and grow me. I declare that, 18 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: like Moses living in two worlds, I too, am multifaceted. 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: I declare that I have been called to break the 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: status quo. I declare I can walk in any room 21 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: and know that because your anointing is on my life. 22 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: I belong at the table of success. My steps have 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: been ordered by the Lord, and I will lift up 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: a shout of praise because with you in my life, 25 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: I can't lose. In Jesus name, Amen, thank you for 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: praying with us today. Continue your time with God by 27 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: listening to today's Bible story, brought to you by Bible 28 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: in a Year dot. 29 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: Com Baby from the Nile. In our last story, we 30 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: finished the stories inspired by the Book of Genesis and 31 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 2: Joseph's tragedy that God turned into victory. His brothers had 32 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: sold him into slavery to Egypt. However, he became a 33 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 2: great and mighty governor and was able to save his 34 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 2: family from famine. Now we will begin stories inspired by 35 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 2: the Book of Exodus. In this story, we will learn 36 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 2: how the Israelites were prospering in Egypt, but a new pharaoh, 37 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: felt threatened by them, forced them into slavery and commanded 38 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: that their baby boys be killed. 39 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 3: Hello, I'm Pastor Jack Graham with today's episode of the 40 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 3: Bible in a Year podcast. In our previous episode, we 41 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 3: concluded the Book of Genesis, and as we closed out 42 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 3: the story of Joseph, he was revered by both Egyptians 43 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 3: and Hebrews as a great man of God and a 44 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 3: deliverer rescuer of the people. Today we begin the Book 45 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 3: of Exodus and find a very different reality for the 46 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: descendants of Jacob. Years have passed, and the new Pharaoh 47 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 3: does not see the prosperous Hebrew people as a reminder 48 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 3: of how God rescued Egypt, but rather as a threat 49 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 3: to his kingdom. The Hebrew people find themselves now enslaved 50 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 3: and forced to endure hard labor, and eventually watch powerlessly 51 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 3: as Pharaoh murders scores and scores of their infant sons. 52 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 3: In the midst of unbelievable wickedness and sorrow, we will 53 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 3: still see God's faithfulness, and that faithfulness will be shown 54 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: through a baby boy who is delivered to one day 55 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: lead the people to freedom. Let's listen now to today's reading. 56 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: The family of Jacob was delivered from the famine and 57 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: brought to Egypt. There, under Joseph's guidance and God's provision, 58 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 2: seventy people grew into thousands scattered throughout all Egypt. Hebrews 59 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 2: thrived and multiplied. Joseph and the Twelve Brothers of Israel 60 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: had long passed, but their descendants had grown into a strong, 61 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 2: independent and healthy nation, just as God promised they would. 62 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 2: A new Pharaoh had emerged and the memory of Joseph's 63 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 2: influence had long passed. He looked down at the Hebrew 64 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: people multiplying into a great nation right under his nose. 65 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: He feared that if they continued to multiply, they would 66 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 2: leave Egypt and join their enemies. So the heavy hand 67 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: of Pharaoh descended upon the Hebrew people to squash their 68 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: hope and fruitlessness. He enslaved them under the mighty boot 69 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: of Egypt. The sons and daughters of Israel were made 70 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 2: slaves and tortured. Pharaoh oppressed them with hard labor, Yet 71 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 2: there was a blessing still upon them. Just as their 72 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 2: ancestor Joseph had thrown arrived under slavery, so did the 73 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: Hebrew people. They multiplied even greater under the crucible of 74 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: Pharaoh's cruelty. They were forced to build cities, but ended 75 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 2: up occupying them with their numbers. Pharaoh, becoming more calloused 76 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 2: and afraid, took his cruelty to a new level. He 77 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 2: gathered the Hebrew midwives, those responsible for helping the Hebrew 78 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: women with labor while you are aiding them in labor. 79 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: Allow the girls to live, but kill any baby boy 80 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: you see. 81 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: He said. 82 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: Pharaoh would punish the midwives if they disobeyed. Luckily, the 83 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 2: midwives feared God more than Pharaoh, they would not do 84 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 2: as he commanded. When Pharaoh saw that the boys were 85 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 2: still being born, he gathered the midwives and asked, why 86 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: have you disobeyed me. The midwives, with a quiet confidence 87 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 2: of someone who knows they did the right thing, simply said, 88 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They 89 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 2: are strong and vigorous and have their babies so quickly 90 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 2: that we cannot get there in time. They lied, yet 91 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: God blessed them. Pharaoh, determined to give in to the 92 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: darkness and pride, gripping his heart, used his power to 93 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 2: enact a law God would never forgive. Throw every new 94 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: born Hebrew boy into the Nile. Pharaoh decreed, and soldiers 95 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 2: scattered throughout the city, pulling screaming children from their mother's arms. 96 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:35,799 Speaker 2: The Nile had engulfed hundreds of babies. The screams of children, mothers, 97 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 2: and fathers echoed throughout all Egypt. Pharaoh's brutality acted as 98 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 2: a dark cloud shrouding over all the land. Tears and 99 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: blood filled the streets, and the heart of Pharaoh grew 100 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 2: darker and darker. Meanwhile, a Hebrew woman was concealing her 101 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: baby boy for three months. She nursed him in secret, 102 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: knowing that eventually he would discovered. She wove a basket 103 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 2: of papyrus reeds and water proofed it with tar and pitch. 104 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 2: With the diligence of Noah and his ark, she crafted 105 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 2: a vessel of redemption for her son and sent him 106 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 2: down stream towards the palaces. The baby boy's sister trailed 107 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 2: the basket down the river, keeping close watch from Afar 108 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 2: as the basket traveled miles downstream. Soon Pharaoh's daughter came 109 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 2: to the river bank to bathe. She and her attendants 110 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 2: played in the water and relaxed in the sun. The 111 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 2: princess saw a basket floating along and sent her maid 112 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 2: to go fetch it. The princess peered into the basket 113 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 2: to find a baby boy, swabbled and crying. Pity overcame 114 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: the princess, for she knew that the baby must have 115 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 2: been Hebrew. She fell in love with him and was 116 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: determined to care for him. But the baby needed a nurse. Suddenly, 117 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 2: the baby's sister emerged from the reeds by the river. 118 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 2: Excited yet scared, she suggested that her mother could take 119 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: care of the child until he was grown. The princess agreed. 120 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 2: Thus the baby was raised by both his Hebrew biological 121 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 2: mother and his Egyptian adopted mother. He would grow up 122 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 2: in two worlds, never feeling fully part of one or 123 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 2: the other. The princess looked upon her son and gave 124 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: him the name Moses, for he was delivered out of 125 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: the water. Moses, now a prince of Egypt, would soon 126 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 2: realize what it truly means to be delivered. 127 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 3: As the Book of Exodus opens, the Hebrew nation has 128 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 3: grown from Israel's family numbering seventy into a prosperous and 129 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 3: thriving people scattered throughout the land of Egypt. It was 130 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 3: just as God had promised Jacob that his descendants would 131 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 3: grow and be a great and mighty nation. Though living 132 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 3: far from Canaan, now living in a foreign land, God 133 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 3: did just as he promised. Israel was a mighty nation. 134 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 3: But there's a new pharaoh on the throne, one who 135 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 3: knows nothing about Joseph or what God did through Joseph. 136 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 3: All he sees are the threats of the Hebrews, foreigners 137 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 3: multiplying his kingdom and growing into very wealthy people. So 138 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 3: fear seizes him, and he seizes the Hebrews, enslaving them 139 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 3: and forcing them to work to build cities in his empire. 140 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 3: But God's blessing remains upon his people, and their numbers 141 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 3: increase all the more so. The pharaoh realizes that if 142 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 3: this continues in this way, the Hebrews will outnumber his 143 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 3: people and they could overtake his land by force. A deep, dark, evil, 144 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 3: devilish evil, creeps into the heart of this man, and 145 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 3: he orders the mass slaughter of male Hebrew babies. He 146 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 3: orders the midwives to perpetrate this heinous act, but they 147 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 3: fear God more than they fear Pharaoh, so they choose 148 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 3: to disobey the Pharaoh. These midwives certainly acted courageously. They 149 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 3: feared God more than they feared man, so they did 150 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 3: what they could to protect the lives of innocent babies. 151 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 3: God in turn chose to bless them because they did 152 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 3: the right thing, the godly thing, and the Hebrew population 153 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 3: increased despite Pharaoh's order of infanticide. Now Pharaoh is really mad, 154 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 3: enraged in fact, so he enlists his army to tear 155 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 3: babies from their mother's arms and throw them into the Nile. 156 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 3: As the Egyptian soldiers tear through Hebrew homes, one mother 157 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 3: conceives a plan to hide her boy and to save 158 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 3: his life. She bravely places her baby in a basket 159 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: and floats him down the Great Nile River to be 160 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 3: discovered by an Egyptian woman. She trusted God to protect 161 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 3: her son and rescue him, and none other than Pharaoh's 162 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 3: daughter discovers the child and has compassion on him. And 163 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 3: God's faithfulnesstant trustworthiness does not stop there, of course, yes 164 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: for this child's mother to nurse her baby and to 165 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 3: be with him until he's old enough to go to 166 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 3: the palace. His adoptive mother names the boy Moses because 167 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 3: she rescued him from the waters. Moses will be raised 168 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 3: in two worlds, close to his biological family a Hebrew, 169 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 3: but protected by the Pharaoh's hand because his adopted mother 170 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 3: was herself an Egyptian princess. But it seems that he 171 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 3: grows up really not fitting into either world. And yet 172 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 3: God will work through Moses and use him One of 173 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 3: the mightiest men who ever lived, to rescue the enslaved 174 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: Hebrews and take them to the land God had promised. 175 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 3: Before he gets there, though, Moses will experience the sting 176 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 3: of rejection in both his worlds, and it will send 177 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 3: him on a journey far from Egypt and the suffering 178 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 3: of his people till God shows up once again and 179 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 3: changes his life forever. We'll learn more about that the 180 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: next time. Dear God, we're often stunned by the evil 181 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 3: and the wickedness of humanity, and in today's story, we 182 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 3: have seen the worst kinds of evil that men are 183 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 3: able to commit. And yet through it all we see 184 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 3: your protection. We see your provision and your promises fulfilled. Lord, 185 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 3: like the midwives, May we fear you more than we 186 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 3: fear men. May we be courageous always in our faith 187 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 3: and act in ways that please you in Jesus' name. Amen. 188 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast. 189 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 3: I'm Pastor Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas. 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