1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: at the river. Then her maidens walked along by the 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: river's side, and when she came and saw the ark 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: Exodus two five, Heavenly Father, when the enemy tries to 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: attack my life, my family, my business, and my purpose, 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: I will praise you because, like the baby Moses and 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: Exodus one to two ten, you've prepared me a basket 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: of redemption. You have prepared a way for me when 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: there seems to be no way out. I praise you 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: for your divine protection as I move and float down 12 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: the nile river called life, And as I move, I 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: thank you that the current of your favor is leading 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: me to a place only you can grant me access to. 15 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus that when I arrive at the death, 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: the nation of my destiny, you have already chosen the 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: right people to help guide and grow me. I declare that, 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: like Moses living in two worlds, I too, am multifaceted. 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: I declare that I have been called to break the 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: status quo. I declare I can walk in any room 21 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: and know that because your anointing is on my life. 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: I belong at the table of success. My steps have 23 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: been ordered by the Lord, and I will lift up 24 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: a shout of praise because with You in my life, 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: I can't lose in Jesus name, Amen, thank you for 26 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: praying with us today. Continue your time with God by 27 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: listening to today's Bible story, brought to you by Bible 28 00:01:52,840 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: in a Year dot com Baby from the Nile. In 29 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: our last story, we finished the stories inspired by the 30 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: Book of Genesis and Joseph's tragedy that God turned into victory. 31 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: His brothers had sold him into slavery to Egypt. However, 32 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: he became a great and mighty governor and was able 33 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: to save his family from famine. Now we will begin 34 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: stories inspired by the Book of Exodus. In this story, 35 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: we will learn how the Israelites were prospering in Egypt, 36 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: but a new pharaoh, felt threatened by them, forced them 37 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: into slavery and commanded that their baby boys be killed. Hello, 38 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: I'm Pastor Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible 39 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: in a Year podcast. In our previous episode, we concluded 40 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: the Book of Genesis, and as we closed out the 41 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: story of Joseph, he was revered by both Egyptians and 42 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: Hebrews as a great man of God and a deliverer, 43 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: a rescuer of the people. To day we began the 44 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: Book of Exodus and find a very different reality for 45 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: the descendants of Jacob. Years have passed, and the new 46 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: Pharaoh does not see the prosperous Hebrew people as a 47 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: reminder of how God rescued Egypt, but rather as a 48 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: threat to his kingdom. The Hebrew people find themselves now 49 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: enslaved and forced to endure hard labor, and eventually watch 50 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: powerlessly as Pharaoh murders scores and scores of their infants sons. 51 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: In the midst of unbelievable wickedness and sorrow, we will 52 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: still see God's faithfulness, and that faithfulness will be shown 53 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: through a baby boy who is delivered to one day 54 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: lead the people to freedom. Less listen now to today's reading. 55 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: The family of Jacob was delivered from the famine and 56 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: brought to Egypt. There, under Joseph's guidance end God's provision, 57 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: seventy people grew into thousands scot had throughout all Egypt, 58 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: Hebrews thrived and multiplied. Joseph and the twelve Brothers of 59 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: Israel had long passed, but their descendants had grown into 60 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: a strong, independent and healthy nation, just as God promised 61 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: they would. A new Pharaoh had emerged and the memory 62 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: of Joseph's influence had long passed. He looked down at 63 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: the Hebrew people multiplying into a great nation right under 64 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: his nose. He feared that if they continued to multiply, 65 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: they would leave Egypt and join their enemies. So the 66 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: heavy hand of Pharaoh descended upon the Hebrew people to 67 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: squash their hope and fruitlessness. He enslaved them under the 68 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: mighty bood of Egypt. The sons and daughters of Israel 69 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: were made slaves and tortured. Pharaoh oppressed them with hard labor. 70 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: Yet there was a blessing still upon them. Just as 71 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: their ancestor Joseph had thrived under slavery, so did the 72 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: Grew people. They multiplied even greater under the crucible of 73 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: Pharaoh's cruelty. They were forced to build cities, but ended 74 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: up occupying them with their numbers. Pharaoh, becoming more calloused 75 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: and afraid, took his cruelty to a new level. He 76 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: gathered the Hebrew midwives, those responsible for helping the Hebrew 77 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: women with labor while you are aiding them in labor. 78 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: Allow the girls to live, but kill any baby boy 79 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: you see. He said. Pharaoh would punish the midwives if 80 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: they disobeyed. Luckily, the midwives feared God more than Pharaoh, 81 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: they would not do as he commanded. When Pharaoh saw 82 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: that the boys were still being born, he gathered the 83 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: midwives and asked, why have you disobeyed me. The midwives, 84 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: with a quiet confidence of someone who knows they did 85 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: the right thing, simply said, the Hebrew women are not 86 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: like the Egyptian women. They are strong and chorus and 87 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there 88 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: in time. They lied, yet God blessed them. Pharaoh, determined 89 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: to give in to the darkness and pride, gripping his heart, 90 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: used his power to enact a law God would never forgive. 91 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile. Pharaoh decreed, 92 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: and soldiers scattered throughout the city, pulling screaming children from 93 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: their mother's arms. The Nile had engulfed hundreds of babies. 94 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: The screams of children, mothers, and fathers echoed throughout all Egypt. 95 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: Pharaoh's brutality acted as a dark cloud shrouding over all 96 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: the land. Tears and blood filled the streets, and the 97 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: heart of Pharaoh grew darker and darker. Meanwhile, a Hebrew 98 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: woman was concealing her baby boy for three months. She 99 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: nursed him in secret, knowing that eventually he would be discovered. 100 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,119 Speaker 1: She wove a back bsket of papyrus reeds and water 101 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: proofed it with tar and pitch. With the diligence of 102 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: Noah and his ark, she crafted a vessel of redemption 103 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: for her son and sent him down stream towards the palaces. 104 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: The baby boy's sister trailed the basket down the river, 105 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: keeping close watch from Afar as the basket traveled miles downstream. 106 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: Soon Pharaoh's daughter came to the river bank to bathe. 107 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: She and her attendants played in the water and relaxed 108 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: in the sun. The princess saw a basket floating along 109 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: and sent her maid to go fetch it. The princess 110 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: peered into the basket to find a baby boy, swabbled 111 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: and crying. Pity overcame the princess, for she knew that 112 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: the baby must have been Hebrew. She fell in love 113 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: with him and was determined to care for him, but 114 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: the baby needed a nurse. Suddenly, the baby's sister emerged 115 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: from the reeds by the river. Excited yet scared, she 116 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: suggested that her mother could take care of the child 117 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: until he was grown. The princess agreed. Thus the baby 118 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: was raised by both his Hebrew biological mother and his 119 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: Egyptian adopted mother. He would grow up in two worlds, 120 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: never feeling fully part of one or the other. The 121 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: princess looked upon her son and gave him the name Moses, 122 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: for he was delivered out of the water. Moses, now 123 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: a prince of Egypt, would soon realize what it truly 124 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: means to be delivered. As the Book of Exodus opens, 125 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: the Hebrew nation has grown from Israel's family numbering seventy 126 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: into a prosperous and thriving people scattered throughout the land 127 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: of Egypt. It was just as God had promised Jacob 128 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: that his descendants would grow and be a great and 129 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: mighty nation. Though living far from Canaan, now living in 130 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: a foreign land, God did just as he promised. Israel 131 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: was a mighty nation. But there's a new pharaoh on 132 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: the throne, one who knows nothing about Joseph or what 133 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: God did through Joseph. All he sees are the threats 134 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: of the Hebrews, foreigners multiplying his kingdom and growing into 135 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: very wealthy people. So fear seizes him, and he seizes 136 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: the Hebrews, enslaving them and forcing them to work to 137 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: build cities in his empire. But God's blessing remains upon 138 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: his people, and their numbers increase all the more so. 139 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: The pharaoh realizes that if this continues in this way, 140 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: the Hebrews will outnumber his people and they could overtake 141 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: his land by force. A deep, dark, evil, devilish evil, 142 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: creeps into the heart of this man, and he orders 143 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: the mass slaughter of male Hebrew babies. He orders the 144 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: midwives to perpetrate this heinous act, but they fear God 145 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: more than they fear Pharaoh, so they choose to disobey 146 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: the Pharaoh. These midwives certainly acted courageously. They feared God 147 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: more than they feared man, so they did what they 148 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: could to protect the lives of innocent babies. God in 149 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: turn chose to bless them because they did the right thing, 150 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: the godly thing, and the Hebrew population increased despite Pharaoh's 151 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: order of infanticide. Now Pharaoh is really mad, enraged in fact, 152 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: so he enlists his army to tear babies from their 153 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: mother's arms and throw them into the Nile. As the 154 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: Egyptian soldiers tear through Hebrew homes, one mother conceives a 155 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: plan to hide her boy and to save his life. 156 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: She bravely places her baby in a basket and floats 157 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: him down the Great Nile River to be discovered by 158 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: and an Egyptian woman. She trusted God to protect her 159 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: son and rescue him, and none other than Pharaoh's daughter 160 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: discovers the child and has compassion on him. And God's faithful, 161 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: instant trustworthiness does not stop there. Of course, He provides 162 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: for this child's mother to nurse her baby and to 163 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: be with him until he's old enough to go to 164 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: the palace. His adoptive mother names the boy Moses because 165 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: she rescued him from the waters. Moses will be raised 166 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: in two worlds, close to his biological family, a Hebrew, 167 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: but protected by the Pharaoh's hand because his adopted mother 168 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: was herself an Egyptian princess. But it seems that he 169 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: grows up really not fitting into either world. And yet 170 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: God will work through Moses and use him one of 171 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: the mightiest men who ever lived, to rescue the enslaved 172 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: Hebrews and take them to the land God had promised. 173 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: Before he gets there, though, Moses will experience the sting 174 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: of rejection in both his worlds, and it will send 175 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: him on a journey far from Egypt and the suffering 176 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: of his people till God shows up once again and 177 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: changes his life forever. We'll learn more about that the 178 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: next time. Dear God, we're often stunned by the evil 179 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: and the wickedness of humanity, and in today's story we 180 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: have seen the worst kinds of evil that men are 181 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: able to commit. And yet through it all we see 182 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: your protection. We see your provision and your promises fulfilled. Lord, 183 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: like the midwives, May we fear you more than we 184 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: fear men. May we be courageous always in our faith 185 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: and act in ways that please You in Jesus name. Amen. 186 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast. 187 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: I am Pastor Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas. 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