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Amazing Facts

From Cover to Cover

Doug Batchelor

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 4 – Joseph, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 1 – Abraham

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 2 – Isaac

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 3 – Joseph, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 5 – Joseph, Pt. 3

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 6 – Joseph, Pt. 4

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 7 – Moses, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 12 – The Book of Judges

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 8 – Moses, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 10 – Ruth

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 11 – Joshua

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 13 – Samson

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 14 – David

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 15 – The Prophets

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 16 – Esther, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 16 – Esther, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 9 – Job

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Today in particular we're going to be looking at Moses.

Now I've always, I always had great respect for Moses, even though I was not raised a Christian.

But even beyond that, some of you know my mom was in show business and she was an actress.

And she wasn't a very famous actress, wasn't even a little bit famous, but she was in some big movies.

And she did a movie with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner called the Buccaneer, little part.

You have to watch and we'd tell the kids, there goes Grandma.

She was in there with about 10, 000 other extras.

But I had the greatest respect even growing up as an agnostic from Moses, because I thought, here's this man that talked to God, that receives that law, that had the courage, the audacity to go up against the Pharaoh and just say, let my people go.

And here he came with a shepherd's staff and helped redeem a nation.

I was always sort of inspired by how he walked away from being a potential pharaoh himself.

So I was always intrigued by the story of Moses.

And after becoming a Christian and reading the Bible, I was fascinated with how much the Bible had to say New and Old Testament about this great Bible hero.

Now you know Moses is mentioned 851 times in the Bible, there's only 2 people whose names are mentioned more than the name of Moses, that would be Jesus and then the most is David.

But Moses name is mentioned 80 times in the New Testament.

People think in the New Testament that Moses is now in the past, but Moses is foundational for your understanding the gospel.

Notice right at the beginning, both Moses and Jesus survived genocide as babies.

You could say they survived baby genocide.

Look here in Exodus 1.22, the Pharaoh charged all his people saying, every son that is born you shall cast in the river.

Pardon me, friends, but it always strikes me as ironic, even humorous, that you read in the Bible about the wife of Abraham.

And then his son Isaac gets married to Rebecca, and Rebecca has trouble having a baby.

20 years of marriage go by and there's no baby.

Isaac prays and then through a miracle, the barren gives birth and she has twins.

And then you read that Jacob, he goes back and he gets a wife.

And these wives from Mesopotamia must have had problems.

Finally, after years, and it must have been tough, she actually took her husband by the nap of the neck and said, give me children or I die.

But then you read when they get down to Egypt, it says the children of Israel multiplied and they multiplied greatly And they multiplied exceedingly greatly.

And then the Pharaoh tries to tell the midwives, well, you know, could you do some selective abortions?

And the midwives say, The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, they are lively, they give birth before we get there.

So they go from being barren to being bunnies.

Well, during that time the Pharaoh was threatened and he says, all right, every male child is going to the crocodiles.

There's an effort from the king to kill the baby boys.

Do we see that repeated in the life of Jesus?

He thought it might be the Messiah and he wanted to stop it.

So he made this law, Matthew 2.16, when Herod saw that he was deceived by the wise men, he was exceedingly angry and he sent forth and he put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem from 2 years old and under.

And it's interesting that Moses is retrieved, he's not only threatened in Egypt, Moses is saved in Egypt, an Egyptian princess takes him out of the river And where does Jesus go to be redeemed?

Both saved through Egypt, which is our next section.

Exodus 2 verse 10, it says speaking of Moses, and the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.

So she called the name, his name Moses, because I drew him out of the water.

By the way, there are a number of ancient Hebrew kings and names that use the word Moses.

It means from the river, they worship the river.

So he gets his name drawn from the river.

Water, if you look in Revelation 17, the waters which he saw are multitudes of peoples and nations.

Moses was born from slaves, but you notice he never served as a slave.

Jesus was born of humans, but he was never a slave to the devil, was he?

And so Moses is raised in this human family, as was Jesus, and through Egypt, they're actually protected and prepared for the great work they're going to do of saving others.

Matthew 2, verse 13, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying, arise, take the young child and his mother, flee to Egypt and stay there until I bring you word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." Of course, we mentioned that in the prior verse, but it says here about Jesus the same thing.

And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him." So you can see this parallel and at 1 point when Moses began his ministry, Moses goes to Egypt and they said that he was riding a donkey just like Joseph's brothers, remember we studied Joseph's brothers brought their donkeys to get grain and bring it back.

Then Moses brought, and it mentions 1 of his sons, Gershom I believe, he brought his son and his wife and the Jews say on a donkey to Egypt when he began his ministry, and here you've got Joseph and Mary and at least Jesus, if there were not other siblings, going down to Egypt on a donkey, and so there's some parallels there.

So you see they survived infant genocide and they're saved through Egypt, Egypt's involved in it.

Now you read in Hebrews 11, verse 24 By faith Moses, when he became of age, He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches, how could Moses esteem the reproach of Christ?

In order for that to be true, Moses said, I'd rather suffer for Christ than have all the treasure of Egypt.

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the reward." And Moses turned his back on that to follow the south end of northbound sheep out in the wilderness in a desert.

Because he was more interested in God and his people.

See, Moses, I mean, he knew he was adopted by Pharaoh's daughter, but you realize Moses knew that he was a Hebrew.

Because Moses was 3 months old when she finally put him in the basket, what happens to a Hebrew boy at 8 days old?

And so there was, you know, evidence, he knew he was a Hebrew.

And when he went out to see his people, at 40 years of age, his conscience is just bothering him, He said, these are my people.

And he wanted to be involved in delivering them.

He thought he'd do it his own way, and when he killed the Egyptian, he thought he'd get everyone to rise up and he'd lead them against the Egyptians and who knows what he was thinking, but that backfired and there was a 40-year delay between Moses' plan and God's plan.

But he had made a decision that he was going to cast his lot with a nation of slaves and God's people rather than the popular people of the world.

Every Christian needs to make a decision.

Do you want to be great in the eyes of the world or great in the eyes of the Lord?

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