TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - August 29, 2025 - Exodus 2:1-10 - The Boat Faith of Jochebed

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

In today’s Faith Friday edition of Morning Manna, we turn to the remarkable story of Jochebed, the mother of Moses. Facing an impossible command from Pharaoh, she chose faith over fear and placed her baby boy in a little ark upon the waters of the Nile. Her quiet trust in God’s providence carried far more weight than the edicts of kings. This episode explores how Jochebed’s “boat faith” models the courage to release what we cannot control into the hands of the Lord. We’ll reflect on how faith is often expressed not in loud declarations, but in simple acts of obedience and surrender—acts that God uses to shape history.  Teachers:  Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart.You can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.comThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!Trunews/faucielf

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to, well, it's Faith Friday. It's Morning Manna, but it's Friday, and that means it's Faith Friday. And every Friday we focus on the topic of faith. Now, really, every lesson is meant to build our faith in God. But on Fridays, you know, we want to, our lessons to be entirely built around the topic of faith. And we're going to do this, God willing, throughout the year. So last week, you know, I didn't have a theme as I was preparing for it last Fridays morning manna. And I prayed and I asked the Lord, what am I supposed to talk about?

What's our next lesson? And I heard, in my spirit, I heard two words, boat faith. I'm like boat faith I have never heard boat faith I've never taught a lesson on boat faith I've never heard anybody speak about boat faith but I know I heard the Holy Spirit so that that was all I needed

that was enough inspiration to get started so you start you know what I did is I started searching for every story in the Bible about boats and there's a lot. And so what I put together was a three-part series called Vote Faith, and Part 1 is Boat Faith before the Storm, Obedient Faith. Part 2 is Boat Faith during the Storm, trusting faith,

and the third part is Boat Faith after the Storm, Enduring Faith. so the holy spirit gave me a plenty of material we're going to be talking about boat faith for them several weeks so last friday we started the first part boat faith before the storm obedient faith and we looked at noah's faith before the flood remember he was moved by fear but by faith built the ark and so we studied what motivated what drove Noah for over 100

years to build the ark today we're going to continue with this theme both faith before the storm obedient faith so today we're going to focus on jocobed's faith so who was jocobed jokobed was the mother of moses

and she had boat faith so doc let's start our reading at we're going to start at the end of exodus one chapter of verse 22 and then we'll move into Exodus 2 versus 1 through 10 so just go ahead and start at at 122 and end up at Exodus 2 verse 10 all right so here we are we are in the book of Exodus, and I'm going to start reading at verse 22 of the first chapter and reading through verse 10 this morning of chapter 2. So if you've got your Bibles, read along with me. I'm reading from the King James this morning. Verse 22, and Pharaoh charged all his people saying every son that is born, you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive. verse one of chapter two and there went a man of the house of levi and took to wife a daughter of levi

and the woman conceived and bare a son when she saw him that he was a godly child she hid him three months and when she could no longer hide him she took for him an arc of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child therein and she laid it in the flags by the river's bank, uh, brink, excuse me. And his sister stood afar off to what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side. And when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, this is one of the Hebrew's children. Then said his sister,

Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away and nurse it for me, and I'll give thee thy wages, and the woman took the child and nursed it. And the child grew and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son and she called his name moses and she said because i drew him out of the water amen so doc our bulrushes so doc what's the context of these verses i mean we didn't read all of chapter one just to set the context what took place in exodus chapter one well Exodus chapter one starts off with the blessing of God on God's people the first seven

verses or so children of Israel had come to Egypt during the days of Joseph and now 430 years later they were still there and they're still growing verse 7 says the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and wax exceedingly mighty and the man land was filled with them so God was blessing his people in the land of Egypt. And so even in a foreign land, his people were flourishing. But then you get into verse 8, and then the tone shifts. There's a new pharaoh that comes along. He doesn't remember Joseph. Either I believe chooses not to remember Joseph or the blessings he had brought to Egypt. Instead of seeing God's people as an ally, he saw him as an enemy.

so fear begins to dictate his decisions as pharaoh so pharaoh enslaved god's people forcing them into harsh labor hoping to weaken them sounds like a familiar story doesn't it but the more he afflicted then the more they multiply so even though pharaoh or cruel that didn't stop god's blessings in fact the persecution and the oppression only fueled their growth but that only deepened pharaoh's resolve and his fear so he came up with a plan and that plan was every newborn Hebrew boy was to be killed but this is where the story takes a little bit of a twist in that the Hebrew midwives they feared God more than they feared Pharaoh and they refused to carry out his order they refused to kill the baby the male babies. So they chose to obey God. And the Bible says that God bless them because of that

and gave them multiplication in their own families. So Exodus chapter one sets up this stage where there's slavery and there's fear going on, but there's also that flicker of hope that remains. And we see that flicker of hope even in Jacob's faith by placing Moses in the arc of bull rushes in the river, trusting that God was able to provide deliverance more than she ever could. And so that's kind of where we're at right now. That's where the story takes us here to Exodus Chapter 2. So I can imagine the Pharaoh, the new Pharaoh and his administration took power and, you know, he's got a national security advisor.

and the national security advisor came to pharaoh and said look i you know my my job is to watch out for this nation and our our security and we have an in an internal problem our our our threat is not from an army coming from the outside we have an army building on the inside you can you can imagine how the conversation you know sounded come to this conclusion we've got to get rid of the hebrews we have to stop them from reproducing children they're they're becoming too um to populated inside our country imagine modern day are here in the u.s we have tens of millions of of Latinos and uh Hispanics who have come illegally into the country and

Imagine somebody saying to a future president of the United States. Look, we got a problem here. We need to wipe out these people before they take over. Now, that's what happened in Egypt. It was a national security threat to Egypt. And the Pharaoh's solution was infanticide. Right. I mean, it was wicked beyond our comprehension that a government leader would issue a decree to kill every male child in the land.

But that's what happened. And so that set the stage for this lesson in boat faith. so i'm going to start the lesson with uh exodus one verse 22 pharaoh commanded all his people notice all all his people it wasn't just government officials or law enforcement or the military every single Egyptian was ordered by Pharaoh to kill Hebrew children.

Yes. The Pharaoh's command to every Egyptian citizen was, you shall cast every son who is born into the river and every daughter you shall save alive. He's escalating

his cruelty. So, you know, Doc read Exodus 1-11, therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them. Well, he didn't read this. We didn't go that far in chapter one.

But in verse 11 of chapter 1, it says, therefore, they did set over them task masters to afflict them with their burdens. That was his first slavery. Yes. We're going to break their backs.

We're going to work them so hard. But the harder they were worked, the more they prospered. And so then in Exodus 1, verse 16, he made secret orders to the midwives. And this order failed. And he said, when you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools if it be a son then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live so none of his decrees were successful so he took matters to the next level and he commanded open infanticide see first it was just to the hebrew midwives but as doc said they refused to carry out his orders

They feared God more than they feared Pharaoh. So Pharaoh then issued another decree. And he said, every single citizen of Egypt, you are commanded to kill the Hebrew boys. It wasn't a suggestion. It was a royal decree. You were obligated to do it. So the river now, which has always been revered by Egypt, Egyptians as the source of life because the water that irrigates their farms, it was turned

into a source of death. Right. That's a good observation there. So, Doc, I think at the heart of it is that Pharaoh feared that there would be a a deliver rise up among the Hebrew boys. You know, I think he feared a military commander, that there would be some Hebrew young man who would grow up into adult,

become an adult man, and be a fearless military leader and deliver, you know, rise up against the Egyptian government. But what you have here is this is a satanic attempt to cut off God's divine plan. Amen. The Hebrews had to survive. They had to prosper. They had to be delivered.

Why? Because God was going to bring the Messiah through them. We see the same thing happening. years later centuries later in bethlehem when herod a twisted jew his mind was warped he he claimed to be jewish and he ordered the death of all infant boys in bethlehem and surrounding bethlehem he has something happening right now in gaza yes you got a deranged madman killing tens of thousands of Palestinian children. The modern day herod. The most dangerous land to live on

on planet Earth for a child is the Middle East. That's right. Children get slaughtered in the Middle East. So now, pharaoh commands that all the people become his executioners he has deputized the entire nation and made everyone an executioner regardless of age if you were old enough to understand a decree you were obligated to kill hebrew boys imagine that imagine you get

word. Hey, the government expects you to kill some babies a day. See, the decree affected all the people. And that shows how sin spreads when leaders legislate evil. Amen. Horrible tragedy in Minneapolis this week. A transvestite went to a Catholic church and shot children who were praying. What does that have to do with this?

Because the government of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota have legislated evil. That's right, Rick. Governor Wall said he bragged just days before the shooting. that Minnesota was a sanctuary state for transvestites. This man who wasn't a woman, it's a man wearing women's clothing. You know, etched on on the ammo, that the bullets were for the children in the church.

Yes. How sick. How twisted and perverted. But what's sicker, Doc, is that the politicians legislated this twisted mentality. Yes. And gave it a covering. And the news media and the political establishment is bending over backwards to gaslight the American people this week in refusing to say that this guy was.

the transvestite who hated Christians. They're almost, not almost, you've got politicians and media people saying, anybody who brings up transgenderism in this tragedy is a bigot. Now the bigot is the transvestite who killed the Christian children. Anyhow, I'm just trying to show you, this spirit is still alive today. This spirit of killing children is still here. here today. Yes.

The world's enmity against God's people. It was the Hebrews. It's now the Christians. The seed of the serpent always seeks to destroy the seed of the woman. Yes. Keep that in mind.

Now, the seed of the woman was Christ himself. But we are his seeds. So what Pharaoh meant for death, God turned it into salvation. What Satan means for death in your life, God will turn for your deliverance, for your salvation.

The same Nile River, where infants were drowned, would carry the ark that saved Moses. Amen. Politicians, government bureaucrats may decree death, but God overrules them with life. I don't understand. There were a lot of Hebrew boys that drowned.

but they were immediately in the presence of the Lord right I had to come to that place with Gaza that I was at the point where I was almost I wasn't almost I was I was distraught

the videos that I was seeing coming out of Gaza before Netanyahu shut down the internet so nothing could get out of about his crimes. I couldn't cope with it. But I had to come

to the place of realizing those children, those Palestinian children who were being slaughtered, were instantly in the presence of the Lord. Right. That their pain and suffering was brief. So Moses's

parents would eventually place him in the very waters meant for his destruction. Think about that. You've got to ponder that one. The river was meant for death. His parents placed him in the same river that was meant for his death. God can take something that Satan means for your death and destruction. and turn it into your deliverance.

Amen, Rick. And he always provides an ark. Always. Moses was in the same river that they were drowning, drowning children. The Nile River was worshipped by the Egyptians as a God. But God showed his sovereignty. His will, his divine plan, used it as an instrument of deliverance.

So the very river of judgment became the river of rescue. And what's, you know, really you have to stop and think about this too, Rick. She obeyed Pharaoh by placing. Moses in the river yes she could say I put him in the river that's right and she wasn't lying

would you do with the baby I put him in the river just like you said just like you said she told the truth makes me think of my makes me think of my But my grandmother, Doc, she told me one of her, I guess, was World War II stories when sugar was rationed. And she'd have to go, I guess, each month, you know, to a rationing officer to get some more sugar.

And she told me that what she would do is she would. put I'll tell you my grandmother like sugar okay that was one of her key ingredients of cooking and she told me she would put all the sugar that she had in her house on her kitchen table then she would go to the government office and they would say madam how much sugar do you have in your house and she would look at the government officer with an innocent look and say, all the sugar I have is on my kitchen table. She told the truth.

He didn't ask how much. She just said, how much sugar do you have? It's all on my table. So, joke at bed, if she was questioned, she could say, I placed the boy in the river. So sometimes the world legislates against God's people. This is a lesson for us as we head towards the second coming of Christ. Governments pass laws and regulations against God's people.

They've been doing it for thousands of years. They're not going to stop. But God's not going to stop delivering his people. when you have boat faith you'll float in the very river meant for your death hallelujah so

so Adam Clark said again born 1762 the river Nile considered the source of life. Pharaoh made the instrument of death. Thus does God show that the idol of the land should become the grave of the innocence. Charles Bridges, when the ungodly exalt their decree against the people of God, it is but folly against omnipotence. The more they strive, the more

they build up the work they would destroy. Now we get to chapter two verse one and there went a man of the house of levi and took a daughter of levi this is the tribe all right so we we find out later in in chapter six that this man's name was amram we're not told at this point and and when i we're not told uh we're not told uh we're not told that the mothers a joke about why is that why weren't their names

given to us in chapter two of Exodus why do we have to wait to chapter six to find out who they were I think because the Lord is telling us they're just everyday people right

they weren't special people they're just everyday people and the Lord is saying watch what I can do through everyday people who are obedient to me ordinary people of faith and remember Moses likely wrote Exodus so he's the one that in this he could have said by the way my mom was named jocobed my dad is named Amram and all this but no he didn't do that he didn't he had every right to he could have right and no one would have said anything about but the fact that Moses himself, the one in the bull rushes,

emphasize the ordinary faith of ordinary people. That's right. So look, Doc, you've got pharaoh's pomp compared to somebody who's described as a man. Right. That's all we're given here. A man. It could be any man.

And a woman. contrast it with pharaoh's pomp and pride and arrogance we know this pharaoh the message is that god's god begins deliverance through ordinary everyday people you go back and read study the histories of revivals and awakenings it started with ordinary people They started praying. They started studying the word. The religious leaders come in later. So God uses faithfulness.

He uses the faithfulness of hidden, obscure families to overthrow mighty empowers. A person described as a man. and his wife, a woman. Together their actions brought down Pharaoh. So God's divine plan operates through covenant homes, covenant-keeping families. Amen. So God's, God's greatest work is not through kings and presidents and prime ministers, it's through faithful men and women who fear him and obey him.

And notice, the emphasis isn't on the faith of Moses, but on his father and mother. Right. Moses was a baby. Yeah, this isn't some superstar faith. This isn't, you know, faith that produces a seminar. This is the faith that, you know, does all these wonderful things. It's faith that puts your baby in a basket in a river. Ordinary thing.

So the second part of this verse says, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. Again, we're not told until Exodus 6 that her name is Jobbed. This is Amran's wife. So we have to wait until we get to Exodus 6 to find out this is Amran and Jacobet. But this husband and wife strengthened the spiritual inheritance they passed on to this baby Moses. Moses inherited faith as an infant.

It came from a family of faith. Again, I think to sum this up, their faith shows that obedience in the everyday daily life affairs is part of God's greater plan. Many times we don't understand the small everyday mundane, boring things that we're doing are actually part of God's divine plan. That's why we're told never to despise

small beginnings because God launches great works from quiet, obedient households, families. He uses ordinary people who are faithful to him to accomplish extraordinary purposes. So discipleship, faith begins in the house. And you're the way you're living today is going to impact your children and grandchildren. Charles Bridges said God often hides the greatest of his works under the cover of ordinary beginnings. Who would have thought that from this despised family would rise the leader of Israel?

Albert Barnes, born 1798, said the names are not given here for the design is to show that Moses' origin was humble. He came not from nobles or princes, but from the common lot of Israel. Verse two, the woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. So the son is Moses. it's later identified in verse 10 so the child is now born during the time of this decree can you imagine you're a pregnant

Hebrew woman when this news comes out that every Hebrew boy is going to be drowned you're two three four months pregnant imagine what that was like you're carrying a child that the government's going to murder yes imagine going through your whole pregnancy

you don't know until the day the baby's born whether it's going to be a boy or girl and this policy was in effect in China up until recent years yeah they had the two child policy and if you were caught with a third child guess what mandatory abortion and what were they doing now in China they were not killing the boys they were killing the girls right why because they wanted the boys to fight that's right and they didn't want any any Chinese girls to reproduce make babies see it's still happening today the birth of moses wasn't an accident it was precise divine timing god raised up a deliver precisely when israel needed one

the timing was perfect so the birth of moses of moses the birth of moses foreshadows the birth of Christ both were born under decrees of death but preserved protected by divine providence and isn't it amazing where did Mary and Joseph go with the Christ child to get away from the

Herod they went to Egypt the place where Pharaoh was killing children thousands of years earlier when she saw that he was a goodly child goodly meaning beautiful fine special quality she could recognize this is an this is an amazing child

this is a goodly child it's a goodly child not an ugly baby this is a goodly child and but it to me duck it hints that the parents recognized that this child had a sense of destiny Hebrews

in Hebrews 11 it says that Moses's parents saw he was a proper child and were not afraid of the king's commandment so their faith discerned God's purpose.

They had hope in the promise and they believed that that hope would outweigh the tyranny of Pharaoh. So their faith was in God. They had more faith in God than fear of the government. Amen. See, this is for all of us today. have faith in God, have greater faith in God than your fear of the government.

She hid in three months. She risked her life. I mean, she and her husband were risking their lives by hiding the baby. They took action to prevent anybody from knowing that they had this child. they had a little boy you know what it means sometimes civil disobedience is the right thing to do this is an incident where disobeying the government is the right thing to do because she and her husband were obeying a higher law amen verse three and when she could no longer hide hide him she took him an arc she took for him

an arc of bulrushes and dobed it with slime and with pitch and put the child there in and she laid it in the flags by the river brink um world english bible says when she could hide no longer when she could no longer hide him she took a paparous basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch she put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the riverbank now that's an easier description to understand today so she could no longer hide him uh her love reached it's human limits she was she no longer had the ability to hide the child her human ability was exhausted now faith had to step in right you see the two working together she did all that she could do humanly she used all of her ability in this human natural

world she did all she could do but when she was exhausted of her own abilities her faith kicked in god expects you me to do the same thing we do all that we can and then when we can do no more we step aside and god says i'll take it from here i'll do what you can't do see he expects us to do all we can but he also knows that we can't do it if we if we could do whatever we're trying to do we wouldn't need him he desires us to come to the place that we're exhausted where we say lord i've done everything i can do this is beyond my ability here it's yours and he says now that's good you because i'm going to answer i'm going to respond and you will know i did it because you came to the place that you were exhausted empty unable to fix your problem

it's part of the process where we we come to the end of ourselves when we come to the end of ourselves we're just at the beginning of beginning of God. Amen. And he doesn't have an end. So there's a transition from the faith that hides to the faith that trust. They couldn't protect him anymore, but they could entrust him to God who would watch over him. So she took of him, made the ark.

Okay. The word that's used here is the same word used in Genesis 6 through 9 about Noah's Ark. It's the same word. She made an ark. It was a little ark that carried this infant Noah. So she carefully prepared. the arc. As a mother, she built a little basket boat with her faith. She was a good baby had to have a goodly arc. That's right. She made something that was going to

float. It wasn't going to leak. You can be sure she made it correctly. Faith does not abandon its responsibility. It does it. part. Again, look at this. We're back to the same thing. She's beyond, she and her husband, they've exhausted. They don't know what to do. She's like, anything I can do is just put the baby in the river and let him float away and hope somebody gets him and hides him. How does she think this was going to work out? Where was little baby Moses going to float to in the river? I mean, why the river, Doc? The river is where, I mean, this is where Fero said put to all the boys.

Well, and I thought about that too, but she hit him in the bull rushes, right? So those are like the stalks that grow up on the banks of the river and everything. Everybody's seen them if you've grown up anywhere in the country and stuff, on ponds and slow moving. river she got the bull rushes so she it says she hit him in the bull rushes and that the reason one of the reasons it's not the only reason is uh she could no longer hide him at home it was three months she can no longer hide but i think at the root of it i mean even though uh she put him in the river i think god told her to do it now i i can't pull that you know thus saith the lord from the scripture her. But the fact that she acted by faith tells me that God was likely the one that instructed

her to put the boy in the river. And she probably questioned God too. So are you kidding me? That's where they're putting all the babies. And but it was an act of faith on her part to be obedient to the Lord. That's my opinion. Yes. And even still, she's doing her human part. She made the ark right she didn't say well by faith i just believe this arc's going to appear no god's going to use you you're going to be humanly involved in this process up until the point there's nothing left for you to do so she she did her part she she constructed the boat the ark and then she trusted god with the outcome amen she put the child in the ark she was she's like there's nothing else left i can do if this child

lives it is by god's sovereign will and so she put the child in the ark she laid him by the reeds by the river bank a bank a brink it's the the riverside okay so this is this is an act of surrender i mean can you imagine putting your child in a in a little boat in the mighty Nile River and walking away but look what was the alternative the alternative was the government was going to find her child and and put him in the river and drown him so she put him by among the reeds she did didn't set him adrift in the current so what do we learn from here her faith acted with wisdom she had courage and wisdom she just didn't shove the little boat out into the river

she's still thinking about hiding him she's hiding him in the reeds so again the same river that pharaoh meant for the child's destruction became the place for the child's deliverance. And this little ark is a little model boat. It's a model of boat faith. Trusting your dearest possession into God's hand when no, human power can protect it anymore. This is both faith. She knew she was at the end.

There was nothing else she could do. She had to give the child to God and say, if he lives, it's by your sovereign will. I can't do anything else. So faith does not guarantee exemption from danger, but it trusts that God overrules the danger, the waters of death. It's very much like Abraham placing Isaac on the altar. He trusted his child.

He trusted God with his child. Even to death. To death. Trusting that God, even if he did kill his son, that God would raise him up. Now that's faith. And this is the faith of Jacob Ed here. Trusting God, God, I'm going to put my baby boy in the very place where they're executing baby boys. Trusting that you will watch over my son.

That's faith. Alexander McLearn Your mind Yes Alexander McLaren said That little basket slim and fail Excuse me That little basket slim and frail

riding safely Among the reeds Was as true an arc Of safety as Noah's For it floated on the ocean Of God's will verses four and five his sister stood afar

off to see what would be done to him Fahor's daughter came down to bathe at the river her maidens walked along by the riverside she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant to get it so the sister is Miriam we don't know this until we get to Exodus 15 but this is Miriam Moses's older sister and she's watching from a distance

kind of like Mary and the women at the crucifixion they were watching the crucifixion from a distance so she's watching from a distance she's why is she there she knows what her mom did she can't get too close she'll give it away so miriam found a place that she could sit or stand and keep her eye on the little baby her little baby brother in the boat

so she's watching from a distance what does it speak about the family has a mixture of hope and anxiety they trust it the baby to God and yet they still had their human I don't want to say worries

they had their human concern for the child like okay i'm just going to stay up here i'm going to watch i want to make sure he's okay so again miriam was there's there's an act of courage here uh she could have been caught and she would have been drowned but her faith waited to see what god would do it's a lesson for all of us once you trust something to the lord then stand back and watch watch with expected faith have the expectancy that god is going to do something it's not oh i'm going to have to watch this little baby drown he's

eventually the little boat's going to spring a leak and he's going to go to the bottom no she was like i'm going to stay here and i'm going to watch and i want to see how god does this so god often will give us he'll he'll call us to to watch to trust to wait obedience first providence second wait wait with expectant hope believing that god is going to do what you need him to do and the daughter of pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river so pharaoh's pharaoh had decreed death through the now but god sovereignly arranges for the daughter of the man who ordered the death of the children to go to the same river yes and the timing was perfect she arrived at the exact spot at the right time the exact time to discover the ark

with moses just think of the timing of how god arranged it god arranged it god arranged it god arranged This was not luck. This wasn't luck. This was God's divine plan. And to me, Dr. The, you know, the timing and the location isn't what blows me away. It's the fact that he used a daughter of the man who tried to kill the child. It's like God gets his last laugh, doesn't he?

Right. Hey, Pharo, you think you're going to kill the deliverer of the Hebrews? Watch this. I'm going to use your very daughter to save the life of the deliver that you fear. So sometimes people close to your enemy are the ones who save you. Think about that. Sometimes the person who rest, accuse you or someone

you care about deeply is in the inner court of the very enemy that you have that's persecuting you. So this irony the king who ordered the murder of the Hebrew boys became

the protector of the future deliver through his own household and again the now the place intended for death became the place god intended for rescue for deliverance again the very thing that the enemy seeks to use to to bring destruction to you god turned around and uses the same thing for your deliverance praise god So she saw the ark among the reeds. God made sure that little boat didn't break through the reeds and get out into the wide, deep Nile River. And so she sent one of her maids to go fetch it, bring it to her.

So we get to, I got to speed up here. verse six she opened it and saw the child and behold the baby cried she had compassion on him and said this is one of the Hebrew children again you can imagine the surprise you'd find a baby in a river when's the last time he found a baby floating in a river it's it's unusual and surprising today, and it was thousands of years ago. It's not a normal thing to see. But, you know, there is a parallel

here with Noah's Ark. The opening of the Ark, you know. Opening, meaning you've been rescued from the flood. You've been spared from the deluge. There's new life. And the baby

wept. The baby did what babies do. The baby cried. But that provoked compassion in Pharaoh's daughter. Her dad may have been

Pharaoh, but she was still a human woman, and she had compassion on her. child and so she took she had compassion on him and she said this is one of the hebrew children she immediately recognized why probably the circumcision but again we're seeing that god can bend the hearts of kings and their families and their households to accomplish his will God used a woman's compassion to defeat her father's tyranny. He'll use whatever he's got to use.

Yes. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you? and who did she get i know she knows a heb she knows a heb woman who is nursing is nursing of course it's her mother that's god i mean that is just god so can you imagine when mary went home i mean when moses sister went home and said mama you're not going to believe this story not only are you going to take care of moses they're going to pay you and you're going to live in the palace you can live in the palace

and you're going to raise moses it is absolutely astounding how god worked us out and verse 8 says and pharaoh's daughter said go and the maid went and called the child's mother a decree of death was overturned by a decree of death was overturned by a decree of life yes

the one who could have condemned the child now commissions the child's protection and care God working in all this here. This is so amazing. He orchestrated every scene in this drama. So this is meant for us that whatever drama you're going through right now, let him orchestrate things.

Let him deliver you through the very people who are seeking to destroy. you that just such an incredible story there i mean it really is i just imagine once again going home and said mom i got good news and bad news the good news is we've got an answer from moses the bad news is it's pharaoh's daughter oh what do you mean oh no no it's good news how's that she wants you to take care of the baby and she'll pay you well that's i know take Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. You can just imagine a joke of bed, privately, secretly going to the Lord in prayer, saying, this is amazing.

You are amazing. Because she was obedient at the beginning. Yes. Glory. I got my child back, and I'm being paid to take care of him. glory it's a double win God will give you double blessings in your persecution he will give you double portion

amen oh glory to God and the child grew and the child grew okay and she called his name Moses and said because I drew him out of the water okay

Moses comes from my to draw out so the princess named him but god ordained him moses's very name proclaimed his destiny he was drawn out of the water to one day draw god's people out of egypt amen all right boat faith praise god what a lesson what a lesson today Glory to God. I hope if that doesn't encourage your faith today, then there's something wrong for your faith. I mean, really, I'm encouraged today. So, well, we want to encourage you to participate in the Lord's supper with us today. And on Fridays, we always celebrate the Lord's table. And we honor the Lord and his death, bear on resurrection through partaking of the bread and the wine. what do you need well you need to have bread and either red wine or grape juice your preference there to participate we also encourage you if you're a confessing

believer in Jesus Christ you've been baptized in water according to scripture if you've been putting into the ark and drawn out of the water yourself that you can enter into the Lord's table with all confidence today and we encourage all believers to do that before we enter into the Lord's table we generally ask the Lord to search our hearts to make sure we're entering with clean minds, clean hearts, clean hands before we partake of these elements of the Lord's table. So Rick, would you pray for us today that the Lord would search our hearts and that there would be peace between us in heaven today as we enter into this celebration of the Lord's table?

Yes. Almighty God, our Father in heaven. Father, we worship you because you are the deliver of your people. and you change not you are the same god today as you were when you delivered moses and we rejoice in this fact and we rejoice that uh apostle peter told us that baptism is the arc of salvation amen that you are still building arcs you are still putting your people in boats of safety to deliver us and we give you glory and honor and praise and thanksgiving father we confess our sins we ask you to forgive us of every wrong every transgression every thing we have done

wrong father we repent we turn from our ways we ask you to forgive us and to wash away these sins and remember them no more we thank you for your son jesus christ who has recognized reconciled us to you and has provided a table for us to sit at and to receive himself his flesh and blood as the meal. We thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. If you have the elements of the Lord's table with you, we're going to pray the Lord's blessing over and partake of the bread and the wine this morning. And we encourage you to participate. We do this on a weekly basis because we feel like it's important to connect with the body of Christ globally. So no matter where you are in the world, we have people that are watching and listening today from Siberia, praise God,

from Africa, from the UK, Malaysia, Japan, the Philippines, and all across the U.S. and Canada today it humbles me to know that we are coming together as a body of believers to commemorate the Lord's table we take it seriously we don't take it in out of habit or out of just let's check this off the religion box but that this is truly a commemoration of our faith faith in Jesus Christ and it's what unites us as a body that and baptism ark. But this is the active component that we regularly engage in in the Lord's meal. And so we encourage you to participate. If you've been hesitant to do it in the past, I encourage you participate. Well, let's pray the Lord's blessing on these elements of the Lord's table,

and let's feast together, shall we? Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. And he offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. And he instituted this remembrance of his passion and death which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. So Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Hallelujah.

On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples saying, take eat, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven.

Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup, and when he'd given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink this all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me. Praise God, hallelujah. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,

will shed for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful behold the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb this sacrament is the gift of god for the people of god feed on him by faith with thanksgiving that christ died for you god bless you all praise god what always you an honor to share the Lord's table with believers from all over the world and it is humbling rick but it's an act of faith it's just a bunch of an act of faith as jocobab putting her baby in the river we do this by faith right this it's on praise god well rick we're ending another week this

is labor day weekend coming that's right hey that's right we won't be here on monday will we So everybody hear that. So those of you outside of America, Monday is a national holiday in the USA. So we will not be here on Monday. And how do we celebrate Labor Day with no labor? It's just the most ironic thing. I marvel at it every year. We have a holiday.

We take off a day to celebrate working. we like it so much we don't want to do it one day it's a reason for a holiday all right so anyhow we we won't be here on Monday but we will be here on Tuesday yes and we'll continue our study in Proverbs chapter 10 so be prepared for that and so we're learning a lot in Proverbs and so we encourage you you know be sure to pick back up with us on Tuesday morning as we continue that study of wisdom in the book of Proverbs. So a lot of things happening as well. Rick's new book Megafire will be coming out soon and we'll have more information.

It's being shipped to us today. That's right. From the printer. It's leaving the printing company today. And we'll have more information in the coming week or two in order for you to know how you can get your copy of his new book. A new book is entitled Megafire. So, and so we're looking forward to that. It's been a long time coming.

But here we are. Very excited. That's the next big thing on the horizon for us. What else do we have to share with folks today, Rick? Just our love and greetings. I just want to encourage people that some of you may be facing some very, what looks like impossible situations, that you've done everything you can do. you're at the place now.

You just have to turn it over to the Lord and say, I've done everything I can do. It's yours. It's your crisis, your problem. And, you know, doctor, there may be one or two people in this class today, and it literally involves children because of a divorce or some family situation.

And you may have to say, I have to let go. I have to let go. I've done everything I've done. can you have to trust god that god will save your child or grandchild and and they will be protected you just have you come to the place where you have to just let go and that's an emotionally gut-wrenching decision but faith will protect them god's god will respond to your faith If you're in that situation, then consider what this lesson meant today. That's it for me.

Other than, hey, you know, we don't say a lot about finances, but without faithful partners sewing their gifts into this ministry, we can't operate. So every once in a while I have to remind you, So we're at the end of August. And for some reason, summer months, people are a bit forgetful at times. And so that, but, you know, but now's the time to kind of catch up. Yeah.

So we could use the end of summer boost. Okay. We could use it. It would come in helpful. Okay. That's it for us. Love you. See you on Tuesday.

God bless you. See you Tuesday. Thank you.