Monday Bible Study Life in Christ Bible Church LICBC Headquarters, 154 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. Sierra Madre, CA 91024, USA http://www.licbc.org ********************************************************************************************** Systematic expository study of God’s word. Study 3: DELIVERANCE OF THE DELIVERER Exodus 2:1-25 With the deict that every male child be drowned, the enemy thought that extinction of Israel was certain. Since all the people were commissioned to assist in this evil design, and there was no human means of resistance on the part of Israel, how could Israel survive as a nation? Carnal reasoning, unbelief and fear might have led Israel itish families to avoid pregnancy at such a time. Some carnal unscriptural advisers might even have discouraged the Israelites from getting married because of the edict of the new king who knew not Joseph. We must always walk by faith and plan our lives according to God’s word not according to the prevailing condition in the country. 1. BIRTH AND PRESERVATION OF MOSES Exodus 2:1-10; acts 7:18-22; Hebrews 11:23; Isaiah 43:1-3, 46:9-11; 2 Corinthians 5:7; proverbs 19:21; 21:30. Moses was born at such a dangerous, oppressive period fro Israel in Egypt .the cruelty of pharaoh against Israel had risen to the highest point and little did Egypt know that god could raise up a deliverer at such a time. The life of Moses was in danger because of the royal proclamation. God can always raise up a great deliverer from a poor family in an oppressed nation in the most perilous circumstances. “by faith Moses , when he was born was hid three months of his parents… and they were not afraid of the king’s commandments” ( hebrew11: 23).faith always results in action even when the action is risky. Living by faith, the mother also displayed wisdom. Faith can be exercised in our lives not only for healing, salvation and receiving answers to specific prayer requests but living without fear under a perplexing paralysing edict. It was faith that made Moses parents defy the King’s commandments. Faith overcome the fear of the kind and trusted in God’s protection. Though faith vanquished fear, yet the mother hid the child and later kept him in the ark. It is not faith but fanaticism which deliberately exposes oneself to danger. Faith in God acts wisely to avoid danger by legitimate precautions (Luke 4:30; John 8:59). We also learn that civil authorities are to be defiled, disobeyed when their decrees are contrary to the expressed mind, will and word of God. (Daniel 6: 7-11; Acts 5:29). It was neither by chance neither by chance nor by accident did that Pharoah’s daughter go to the river that day. God ordered every detail for His glory. Some of pharaoh’s money was used to pay the Hebrew mother to nurse her own child. Pharaoh proposed to deal wisely with the Israelites planning to weaken, oppress and destroy them, yet in the end God compelled him to give board, lodging and education to the very man who accomplished the very thing that Pharaoh was trying to prevent! Thus was pharaoh’s wisdom turned to foolishness and Satan’s devices defeated. Here then is the beginning of a remarkable life, which deserves our closest study. The life of Moses presents a series of striking antithesis. He was the child of a slave and the son of a queen. He was born in a hut and lived in a palace. He inherited poverty and enjoyed unlimited wealth. He was keeper of flocks and leader of armies. He was the mightiest of warriors and the meekest of men. He was educated in the court and dwelt in the desert. He had the wisdom of Egypt and the faith of Abraham’s seed. He was brought up in the city and he wondered in the wilderness. He was raised in luxury and comfort, and endured hardships willingly. He was backward in speech and talked with God. He had the rod of a shepherd, and the power of the infinite. He was a fugitive from pharaoh, and an ambassador from heaven. He was the giver of the law, and the fore runner of grace. he died alone on mount Moab and appeared with Christ on another mount in Judea. No man assisted at his funeral, yet God buried him. MOSES PREMATURE ACTIONS BEFORE GOD’S APPOINTED TIME. Exodus 2: 11-15; Acts 7:23-30; Hebrews 11:24-26; proverbs 19:2; 20:21Isaiah 28:16; Luke 21: 19. Moses had now passed the 1st forty years of his life in the court of pharaoh and he thought it was time for action. The injustices that were being heaped on the Israelites gave Moses great concern. Human reasoning, unguided zeal and perceived call would all have influenced him to act the way he acted. Yet he had no authority from Egypt to correct these evils and God had not yet commissioned him. He felt the call to deliver Israel; the “supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them but they understood not” (Acts 7: 25). He was impatient and he acted prematurely. Acting on his own, he got into trouble. A self appointed leader who is not willing to wait for god’s time and not patient enough to receive instructions and commission from the higher authority cannot be used of god until he learns to wait. Moses was truly a wonderful character and endowed with great extraordinary gifts and talents but he was in too big a hurry. He was running before the lord. God’s time had not yet reached for Moses to deliver Israel but Moses grew impatient and acted in the energy of the flesh. The act of Moses was not at all in accord with the methods which god planned to employ. Impatience leads to frustration, sin, suffering and great disappointments. The scripture informs us that Moses already possesses some good spiritual qualities: 1. he (refused to be called the son of pharaoh’s daughter”- refused wealth, honour, power and the throne. 2. He (chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season” it was not that suffering was forced on him but he voluntarily chose to suffer for the ministry. He preferred hardship to comfort sham rather than fame, reproach rather than honour, affliction rather than pleasure. 3. He had his eyes on the invisible not the tangible; he was occupied with the future rather than the present. Yet all these good spiritual qualities, impatience led to premature action, shattered hope, isolation and delayed ministry. 2. FORTY YEARS SEPARATION FROM GOD’S PEOPLE. Exodus 2:15-25; Acts 7:29,30; Exodus 4:18-26 ; psalm 81:12-16; lamentations 3:39-41 Moses became a stranger in the land of median » and was separated from his father, mother, Miriam, Aaron and all other Israelites for 40 years. While Moses was in midian, his oppressed people in Egypt continued under the crushing weight of their burdens. God still watched over the covenant with Abraham, the call of Moses and the preservation and protection of Israel but the deliverance of Israel had to wait until Moses was ready. Moses needed the discipline of God and Israel’s desire for freedom needed to grow. While Moses was in midian, he married one of the daughters of Reuel or jethro (exodus 2:18, 3:1). The wife was not a great encouragement to his later ministry. The scars of the wounds caused by impatience often remain with perpetual pain. Though Moses was an Israelite who fled from Egypt, he was taken for an Egyptian (exodus 2: 19) perhaps because of his dressing and appearance. An Israelite indeed, yet mistaken for an Egyptian. After conversion, we must not keep an Egyptian look, appearance, dressing. Moses was ready to help Reuel’s daughter to water their flock .though trained in Egypt where shepherds were despised and hated he had not learnt of the Egyptians to hate and despise shepherds. At last Israel cried unto god for deliverance. God heard their groaning. God remembered his covenant. And god looked upon the children of Israel. God’s time of deliverance was getting near and the confirmation of the call of Moses would soon come. God’s time is the best. “It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait” for God’s time of deliverance and commissioning (Lamentations 3:25, 26). Please don’t let this message die, share it with others.
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