By Faith His Parents

Sunday Morning:  March 17, 2002

Text: Hebrews 11:23  "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment."

CLOUD OF WITNESSES

Hebrews 12:1  "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"

TWO WITNESSES

Exodus 1:15-18; 20-21  "And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

KINGS COMMAND

16. And he said, When ye 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.

DISOBEYED THE KINGS COMMAND

17. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.  

GOD BLESSED THEM AND ISRAEL

20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

THEY FEARED GOD AND NOT THE KING

21. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses."

RESPECT

Exodus 2:1-3  "And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

MOSES' PARENTS

Exodus 6:20  "And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses. . ."

THREAT WAS REAL

2. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

IN THE LORD'S HANDS

3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark 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 brink."

FEAR NOT

Matthew 10:28  "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

NOAH, DANIEL, AND JOB

Ezekiel 14:19-20  "Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20. Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness."

PURPOSED IN HIS HEART

Daniel 1:8  "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself."

GOD BLESSED THEM

Daniel 1:17  "As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams."

DANIEL KNEW THE COMMAND

Daniel 6:10  "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime."

DANIEL DELIVERED

Daniel 6:27  "He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."

PREPARED MEN

Daniel 3:15-19  "Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

WE ARE NOT CAREFUL

16. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

OUR GOD IS ABLE

17. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

WE WILL NOT WORSHIP OR SERVE

18. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

DID NOT CHANGE THEIR MINDS

19. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated."

YIELDED THEIR BODIES

Daniel 3:28  "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God."

LIVING SACRIFICES

Romans 12:1  "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

ENDURE CHASTENING

Job 5:17-18  "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole."

PREPARED FOR TROUBLE

Job 5:19-23  "He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21. Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22. At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 23. For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee."

HIS PURPOSE SHALL STAND

Isaiah 14:24  "The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:"

COMPLETE TRUST

Job 23:10-12  "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 12. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food."

YET WILL I TRUST HIM

Job 13:15  "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him."

APPOINTMENTS PERFORMED

Job 23:13-14  "But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 14. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him."

SUBMIT TO HIS WILL

Mark 14:36  "And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt."

HAVE A BETTER IDEA?

Job 40:7-8  "Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand [ask] of thee, and declare [teach] thou unto me. 8. Wilt thou also disannul [annul] my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?"

GOD'S WAYS AND THOUGHTS

Isaiah 55:9  "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

DOES HE KNOW YOU?

Nahum 1:7  "The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him."

WAIT AND HE WILL HEAR

Micah 7:7  "Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me."

BELIEVE IT!

Psalms 145:17-19  "The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them."

NO POWER AGAINST US

John 19:11  "Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above . ."