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Baby from the Nile - The Book of Exodus · Bible in a Year with Jack Graham

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  Speaker 1: And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself
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  Speaker 1: at the river. Then her maidens walked along by the
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  Speaker 1: river's side. And when she came and saw the ark
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  Speaker 1: among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus 2.5 Heavenly Father, when the enemy tries to attack
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  Speaker 1: my life, my family, my business, and my purpose, I
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  Speaker 1: will praise you. Because like the baby Moses in Exodus 1-2.10,
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  Speaker 1: You've prepared me a basket of redemption. You have prepared
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  Speaker 1: a way for me when there seems to be no
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  Speaker 1: way out. I praise you for your divine protection as
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  Speaker 1: I move and float down the Nile River called life.
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  Speaker 1: And as I move, I thank you that the current
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  Speaker 1: of your favor is leading me to a place only
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  Speaker 1: you can grant me access to. Thank you, Jesus, that
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  Speaker 1: When I arrive at the destination of my destiny, you
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  Speaker 1: have already chosen the right people to help guide and
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  Speaker 1: grow me. I declare that, like Moses, living in two worlds,
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  Speaker 1: I too am multifaceted. I declare that I have been
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  Speaker 1: called to break the status quo. I declare I can
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  Speaker 1: walk in any room and know that because your anointing
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  Speaker 1: is on my life, I belong at the table of success.
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  Speaker 1: My steps have been ordered by the Lord, and I
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  Speaker 1: will lift up a shout of praise because with you
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  Speaker 1: in my life, I can't lose. In Jesus' name, amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for praying with us today. Continue your time
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  Speaker 1: with God by listening to today's Bible story, brought to
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  Speaker 2: Baby from the Nile. In our last story, we finished
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  Speaker 2: the stories inspired by the book of Genesis and Joseph's
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  Speaker 2: tragedy that God turned into victory. His brothers had sold
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  Speaker 2: him into slavery to Egypt. However, he became a great
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  Speaker 2: and mighty governor and was able to save his family
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  Speaker 2: from famine. Now we will begin stories inspired by the
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  Speaker 2: book of Exodus. In this story, we will learn how
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  Speaker 2: the Israelites were prospering in Egypt. But a new pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: felt threatened by them, forced them into slavery, and commanded
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  Speaker 2: that their baby boys be killed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you joined us on the Bible in
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  Speaker 3: a Year podcast today. But before we get to today's episode,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to know that I would absolutely love
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  Speaker 3: the pillow, There are thousands of things demanding our attention.
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  Speaker 3: But it's in the midst of all this crush and
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  Speaker 3: hustle and bustle that you and I need peace and
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  Speaker 3: truth in God's Word. That's why I want to help
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  Speaker 3: That's JackGraham.org In our previous episode, we concluded the book
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  Speaker 3: of Genesis. And as we closed out the story of Joseph,
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  Speaker 3: he was revered by both Egyptians and Hebrews as a
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  Speaker 3: great man of God and a deliverer, a rescuer of
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  Speaker 3: the people. Today we begin the book of Exodus and
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  Speaker 3: find a very different reality for the descendants of Jacob.
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  Speaker 3: Years have passed, and the new Pharaoh does not see
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  Speaker 3: the prosperous Hebrew people as a reminder of how God
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  Speaker 3: rescued Egypt, but rather as a threat to his kingdom.
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  Speaker 3: The Hebrew people find themselves now enslaved and forced to
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  Speaker 3: endure hard labor and eventually watch powerlessly as Pharaoh murders
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  Speaker 3: scores and scores of their infant sons. In the midst
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  Speaker 3: of unbelievable wickedness and sorrow, we will still see God's faithfulness,
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  Speaker 3: and that faithfulness will be shown through a baby boy
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  Speaker 3: who is delivered to one day lead the people to freedom.
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  Speaker 3: Let's listen now to today's reading.
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  Speaker 2: The family of Jacob was delivered from the famine and
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  Speaker 2: brought to Egypt. There, under Joseph's guidance and God's provision,
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  Speaker 2: 70 people grew into thousands.
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  Speaker 4: Scattered throughout all Egypt, Hebrews thrived and multiplied. Joseph and
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  Speaker 4: the twelve brothers of Israel had long passed, but their
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  Speaker 4: descendants had grown into a strong, independent, and healthy nation,
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  Speaker 4: just as God promised they would. A new pharaoh had emerged,
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  Speaker 4: and the memory of Joseph's influence had long passed. He
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  Speaker 4: looked down at the Hebrew people, multiplying into a great
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  Speaker 4: nation right under his nose. He feared that if they
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  Speaker 4: continued to multiply, they would leave Egypt and join their enemies.
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  Speaker 4: So the heavy hand of Pharaoh descended upon the Hebrew people.
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  Speaker 4: To squash their.
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  Speaker 2: Hope and fruitlessness, he enslaved them. Under the mighty boot
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  Speaker 2: of Egypt, the sons and daughters of Israel were made
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  Speaker 2: slaves and tortured. Pharaoh oppressed them with hard labor, yet
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  Speaker 2: there was a blessing still upon them. Just as their
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  Speaker 2: ancestor Joseph had thrived under slavery, so did the Hebrew people.
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  Speaker 2: They multiplied even greater under the crucible of Pharaoh's cruelty.
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  Speaker 2: They were forced to build cities, but ended up occupying
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  Speaker 2: them with their numbers. Pharaoh, becoming more calloused and afraid,
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  Speaker 2: took his cruelty to a new level. He gathered the
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew midwives, those responsible for helping the Hebrew women with labor.
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  Speaker 2: While you are aiding them in.
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  Speaker 4: Labor, allow the girls to live, but kill any baby
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  Speaker 4: boy you see, he said. Pharaoh would punish the midwives
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  Speaker 4: if they disobeyed. Luckily, the midwives feared God more than Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 4: They would not do as he commanded.
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  Speaker 2: When Pharaoh saw that the boys were still being born,
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  Speaker 2: he gathered the midwives and asked, Why have you disobeyed me?
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  Speaker 2: The midwives, with a quiet confidence of someone who knows
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  Speaker 2: they did the right thing, simply said, The Hebrew women
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  Speaker 2: are not like the Egyptian women. They are strong and vigorous,
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  Speaker 2: and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get
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  Speaker 2: there in time. They lied. Yet God blessed them. Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: determined to give in to the darkness and pride gripping
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  Speaker 2: his heart, used his power to enact a law God
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  Speaker 2: would never forgive. Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile,
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh decreed. And soldiers scattered throughout the city, pulling screaming
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  Speaker 2: children from their mothers' arms. The Nile had engulfed hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of babies. The screams of children, mothers and fathers echoed
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  Speaker 2: throughout all Egypt. Pharaoh's brutality acted as a dark cloud
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  Speaker 2: shrouding over all the land. Tears and blood filled the streets,
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  Speaker 2: and the heart of Pharaoh grew darker and darker. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: a Hebrew woman was concealing her baby boy for three months.
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  Speaker 2: She nursed him in secret. knowing that eventually he would
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  Speaker 2: be discovered. She wove a basket of papyrus reeds and
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  Speaker 2: waterproofed it with tar and pitch. With the diligence of
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  Speaker 2: Noah and his ark, she crafted a vessel of redemption
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  Speaker 2: for her son and sent him downstream towards the palaces.
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  Speaker 2: The baby boy's sister trailed the basket down the river,
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  Speaker 2: keeping close watch from afar as the basket traveled miles downstream. Soon,
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh's daughter came to the riverbank to bathe She and
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  Speaker 2: her attendants played in the water and relaxed in the sun.
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  Speaker 2: The princess saw a basket floating along and sent her
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  Speaker 2: maid to go fetch it. The princess peered into the
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  Speaker 2: basket to find a baby boy swaddled and crying. Pity
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  Speaker 2: overcame the princess, for she knew that the baby must
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  Speaker 2: have been Hebrew. She fell in love with him and
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  Speaker 2: was determined to care for him, but the baby needed
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  Speaker 2: a nurse. Suddenly, the baby's sister emerged from the reeds
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  Speaker 2: by the river. Excited, yet scared, she suggested that her
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  Speaker 2: mother could take care of the child until he was grown.
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  Speaker 2: The princess agreed.
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  Speaker 4: Thus the baby was raised by both his Hebrew biological
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  Speaker 4: mother and his.
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian adopted mother. He would grow up in two worlds,
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  Speaker 2: never feeling fully part of one or the other. The
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  Speaker 2: princess looked upon her son and gave him the name Moses,
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  Speaker 2: for he was delivered out of the water. Moses, now
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  Speaker 2: a prince of Egypt, would soon realize what it truly
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  Speaker 2: means to be delivered.
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  Speaker 3: As the book of Exodus opens, the Hebrew nation is
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  Speaker 3: grown from Israel's family numbering 70 into a prosperous and
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  Speaker 3: thriving people scattered throughout the land of Egypt. It was
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  Speaker 3: just as God had promised Jacob that his descendants would
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  Speaker 3: grow and be a great and mighty nation. Though living
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  Speaker 3: far from Canaan, Now living in a foreign land, God
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  Speaker 3: did just as he promised. Israel was a mighty nation.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a new Pharaoh on the throne, one who
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  Speaker 3: knows nothing about Joseph or what God did through Joseph.
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  Speaker 3: All he sees are the threats of the Hebrews. foreigners
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  Speaker 3: multiplying his kingdom and growing into very wealthy people. So
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  Speaker 3: fear seizes him and he seizes the Hebrews, enslaving them
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  Speaker 3: and forcing them to work to build cities in his empire.
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  Speaker 3: But God's blessing remains upon his people and their numbers
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  Speaker 3: increase all the more. So the Pharaoh realizes that if
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  Speaker 3: this continues in this way, the Hebrews will outnumber his
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  Speaker 3: people and they could overtake his land by force. A deep, dark, evil,
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  Speaker 3: devilish evil creeps into the heart of this man and
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  Speaker 3: he orders the mass slaughter of male Hebrew babies. He
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  Speaker 3: orders the midwives to perpetrate this heinous act, but they
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  Speaker 3: fear God more than they fear Pharaoh, so they choose
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  Speaker 3: to disobey the Pharaoh. These midwives certainly acted courageously They
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  Speaker 3: feared God more than they feared man. So they did
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  Speaker 3: what they could to protect the lives of innocent babies.
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  Speaker 3: God in turn chose to bless them because they did
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  Speaker 3: the right thing, the godly thing. And the Hebrew population
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  Speaker 3: increased despite Pharaoh's order of infanticide. Now Pharaoh is really mad,
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  Speaker 3: enraged in fact. So he enlists his army to tear
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  Speaker 3: babies from their mother's arms and throw them into the Nile.
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  Speaker 3: As the Egyptian soldiers tear through Hebrew homes, one mother
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  Speaker 3: conceives a plan to hide her boy and to save
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  Speaker 3: his life. She bravely places her baby in a basket
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  Speaker 3: and floats him down the great Nile River to be
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  Speaker 3: discovered by an Egyptian woman. She trusted God to protect
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  Speaker 3: her son and rescue him. And none other than Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 3: daughter discovers the child and has compassion on him. And
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  Speaker 3: God's faithfulness and trustworthiness does not stop there, of course.
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  Speaker 3: He provides for this child's mother to nurse her baby
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  Speaker 3: and to be with him until he's old enough to
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  Speaker 3: go to the palace. His adoptive mother names the boy
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  Speaker 3: Moses because she rescued him from the waters. Moses will
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  Speaker 3: be raised in two worlds, close to his biological family,
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  Speaker 3: a Hebrew and but protected by the Pharaoh's hand because
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  Speaker 3: his adoptive mother was herself an Egyptian princess. But it
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  Speaker 3: seems that he grows up really not fitting into either world.
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  Speaker 3: And yet God will work through Moses and use him,
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  Speaker 3: one of the mightiest men who ever lived, to rescue
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  Speaker 3: the enslaved Hebrews and take them to the land God
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  Speaker 3: had promised. Before he gets there, though, Moses will experience
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  Speaker 3: the sting of rejection in both his worlds. And it
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  Speaker 3: will send him on a journey far from Egypt and
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  Speaker 3: the suffering of his people till God shows up once
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  Speaker 3: again and changes his life forever. We'll learn more about
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  Speaker 3: that the next time. Dear God, we're often stunned by
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  Speaker 3: the evil and the wickedness of humanity. And in today's story,
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  Speaker 3: we have seen the worst kinds of evil that men
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  Speaker 3: are able to commit. And yet through it all, we
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  Speaker 3: see your protection, We see your provision and your promises fulfilled. Lord,
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  Speaker 3: like the midwives, may we fear you more than we
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  Speaker 3: fear men. May we be courageous always in our faith
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  Speaker 3: and act in ways that please you. In Jesus' name, amen.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas. And before we go,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to know that I would love to
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  Speaker 3: send you my daily devotional, to give you fresh encouragement
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  Speaker 3: every single day. So visit JackGraham.org to sign up for
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  Speaker 3: your PowerPoint Today devotional. That's JackGraham.org.