The Making of a Mediator [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright there is hope for the helpless rest for the weary love for the broken heart is grace and forgiveness, mercy and healing to meet you wherever you are crying out since crying to Jesus. That's Pastor Alan Wright to another message of good news will help you see your life in a whole new light excited for you to hear the teaching today. In our series called Moses is presented for an older church in North Carolina you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. Yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright Ministries so as you listen to today's message. We encourage you to go deeper as we send you today special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org that's pastor out in.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860.

More on this later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching is Alan Wright being love and show compassion by Pharaoh's daughter and that is returned back to his own mother where he is. He is fed in these nurse than until he was weaned and we don't know how old he is. Before he gets returned back during these times Moses his family.

So delighted to have them, but they know that is only going to be with them temporarily is got to be turned over. I just want to think with what is this feel like for Moses parents have to surrender their child to the ones that are oppressing their lives. Moses father might've been beaten as a slave to turn their child over to their slave masters two people that are oppressing their lives. This is who we can turn our son over to make a handier child over to your worst enemy is likely what happens and then Moses raised in this Egyptian court with all of the fanfare.

All of the all the royalty all of the wealth as best we can understand from what is later quoted in acts chapter 7 and Stevens famous speech is retelling the whole story.

The people of God's redemptive plan of God becomes the Moses he says simply was educated and and although the wealth of Egypt was his paraphrasing. In other words Moses was highly educated and all the Egyptian ways. He was given all the benefits of of anything that was understood in the known world at that time IEEE was exposed to art to literature to to music. He was, he was given he was in the lap of luxury and get the whole time that he was there really is a Hebrew. This was not this was not his place did he go see his parents ever did he ever see his brother. His sister what was life like for what's it like when you are in a place of such prestige and yet you know that your you don't belong there.

It can't be your ultimate home as it was so odd is that Moses was born under the specter of death, and he didn't deserve that.

But then he was growing up under in the lap of luxury and he didn't deserve that either he just didn't have a place and then after he had. He had defended one of the Hebrews who was being killed by an Egyptian and he stood up for M&A defended this Hebrew. He then has to flee for his life. And the thing is so striking to me is that Pharaoh who had treated Moses like a grandson.

As soon as you learn that Moses had killed an Egyptian Pharaoh wanted to kill Moses how lightly these relationships were held Tuesday and now he flees to Midian and is just in exile is not in Egypt did not amongst the Hebrews is in a whole another place. This is Moses life and you come to this person says and he was content to dwell with the man to be content to dwell with the man in Midian the year everything in your soul want at least be amongst the Hebrews. Please be back amongst the slaves, or at least me back amongst the Egyptians and try to make it right and try to come back into the luxuries that you once had. But, but instead the text said he was content to dwell with the man in Midian. When we to make of all of this except say that Moses had something that was forced in his soul. It made him a man who was acquainted with sorrow and familiar with grief and was able to live as an alien. He was able to live as one who was never inducted into any particular people or any particular system so that he held the things of this world lightly and in a manner that he had it been exposed to and lived with danger.

He knew what that was like this week. People all over the world will be remembering 70 years since the liberation of of those that were in the concentration camp in Auschwitz January 27, 1945. One of the ones it was there is an Associated Press article featured this week name was Marta wise Slovakian Jew, imprisoned at Auschwitz. She was 10 years old in 1945.

The reason that she was still alive was that her sister was there was so sick that she was in the infirmary and so they let Marta stay also normally going to the infirmary was a death sentence because they would do such outrageous and brutal experiments on you, but in this particular case. In this particular moment in time, it saved her life because knowing that the troops were coming. Germans retreated and took most of the prisoners from the concentration camp with them, but left a few of them back.

Those that were infirmed and Marta was left there. She was 10 years old and she would 37 pounds and she said she heard the troops marching and assumed it was a German troops coming to get her but was Russian troops to come to Liberator now just thinking about little Marta I was just think about Moses in his life and when did he learn that there was an edict of death over his life and not only did happen at his birth within a happen later in the reason he had to flee to Midian as it he became familiar with the feeling as if you heard the troops marching. You would assume that they come to kill you.

He lived like this. I can hardly think of anything that was more difficult than to not have a place in which you belong.

It made Moses and who Moses was, it made him someone who is not just able to be comfortable with a variety of contexts in a variety of people, not just a like 1/3 culture kid. It made him have a broader worldview, but it did something within him.

It meant that he never was overly inducted into a religious system of the Hebrews never overly inducted into a political system amongst the Egyptians wasn't ruled by Pharaoh was even ruled by anything in Midian because when the call of God came upon his life, though he was resistant. He went and I think part of this was because relationships were fragile for him and he had no deep loyalty from anyone, is not that there was something in his family could have done about it but I just wonder what was his family thinking about when they surrendered him to Egypt, and what was Moses thinking, knowing that he really wasn't with his true family and as soon as I said earlier, soonest soon as he was guilty of a crime in Egypt, Pharaoh turned against him and even amongst the Hebrews you to see when Moses came in.

He defended one Hebrew who had been assaulted by another Hebrew how quickly the Hebrews himself transit who made you a prince and a judge over us.

The same was it didn't it didn't really have a people and something within living in the context of being so familiar with being alienated and being familiar with danger and having nobody that was particularly your advocate. Maybe this was what it was. The inside of Moses that made him such a huge advocate for the oppressed see it three times in chapter 2, where he just instinctively, intuitively, automatically defends the week when it when he sees the Egyptian that is striking.

The Hebrew word that is used here then is repeated the word that Moses used is that of of what Moses does to the Egyptian and the implication here is that the Egyptian is going be killing the Hebrew and something a Moses couldn't stand it as a party your brain that is rational and says, okay, here are the pros and cons and of what I'm getting ready to do and ought not do this because I have so much luxury here in Egypt and and I'll probably get real trouble if I do this and this is probably not the best way to solve the problem and you can debate whether Moses should have done this should've taken up for the man or not, whether this was just murder what whatnot was Sam.

We don't were not really given that, but here's my sense of it is that there's something inside of Moses his heart that would transcend his rational thought it would just take over doing talking about.

There's a party your brain is a party or so. It is instinctive. It is something that just acts is something that is built on a deeper conviction than any rational thought and was this desire within him when he saw that someone was being oppressed. We saw that someone was being taken advantage of. We saw that someone was being persecuted or mistreated something happen inside of the heart of Moses. I'm just suggesting that maybe was forged because Moses himself had been left out, have been alienated had no one standing up for him that Moses just had a huge compassion for the underdog and so he immediately just stood up for the Hebrews it was being killed and then not long thereafter did immediately after we see a scene in which two Hebrews are now in a fight with one another. One is striking. The other, and when the one strikes the other, it is clear that that this is the offender. Moses rebukes the offender is a huge compassion for the underdog and he has a huge passion for justice and talent right will have more teaching moment from today's important series like something is holding you back as if you lack an important scene that could change everything. Is there someone you seen Stack Harold what's missing blessing.

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Our in.work. Today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan writing and we see a scene where he goes to Midian. It seems like a supple simple little scene was actually taken place a city becomes a place where there's a water trough for you, and you feed you water your animals and the daughters of the priest in Midian have come to water their little flocks and to get water there at that at the well, but some rustic and unruly shepherds that if just you can imagine there there rustic and rough guys that come up and it's a society that mistreats women and always makes women have to go to the back of the line and all, and they come up, and they're basically just being rough and shooing the women away and is a dangerous scene for the women and Moses was a complete stranger is complete stranger to all of them instinctively stands up and defends the women, so much so that they go back and tell their father this Egyptian and though the it was Moses who lately just thought he was Egyptian as it is Egyptian saved us just three scenes in chapter 2 work or something that happened in his soul where he just becomes an advocate for those there are at risk. He becomes, he becomes one who is zealous for righteousness or something else that it creates. I think in Moses soul that is absolutely imperative for us to understand and openly point us to Christ and then as I think what happened in this happens.

Was with some of you experienced this when you experience the sense of not belonging here.

The sense of being and feeling like an alien. Here, that something happens that makes you very hungry for God and this is what Lugosi play out in the life of Moses. Later we come to Exodus chapter 33 you'll hear Moses say therefore if I found favor in your sight. Please show me now your ways that I may know you, in order to find favor in your sight.

Consider too that this nation is your people, and God said to my presence will go with you and I will give you rest.

And Moses said to them if your presence will not go with a do not bring us up from here. And the Lord said to Moses very thing you spoke out there for you found favor my site and I know you by name. Moses said please show me your glory.

And he said I will make all my goodness pass before you will proclaim before you mining the Lord. I'll be gracious to not be gracious now show mercy on whom I'll show mercy as if God were Santa Moses you don't have a home but I would be your home. You've always been restless but now you better rest in me you never had a place in which you really belong. But you're gonna belong to me forever. You may not have ever had a sense that you ultimately and finally and fully accepted by what you know you're accepted by me would essentially say was Moses. Everything is happened in your life is position you for this picture to be so hungry for me and I'm gonna delight in your fellowship. I will talk to your wife in ways I never talk to anybody else really fellowship in ways I never fellowship with any other human being.

In other words, all of this was arranged that most disk Moses would be set up to become a mediator, a person who would not count equality with Pharaoh a thing to be grasped, but would be willing to empty himself, and take on the form would be in a Hebrew slave and defend the Hebrew slaves take on the form such that even when he was in exile he would be content to dwell with the man in Midian because he was a man who is able to interact in many different spheres and God said this very thing that I designed inside of you. Now this is ways going to function.

I'm to meet with you and your gonna meet with the people and you're gonna be the mediator of a covenant that I established with the people because I need someone who is not so inducted in the systems of the people that he cannot come and meet on the mountaintop God. We need someone who is still able, even those with God and close with the glory of God is able to come down still be one amongst the people and content to dwell with the people and so becomes a mediator becomes one who goes in between becomes the mediator between God and man is so when the people of God murmured against Moses, and murmured against God.

Moses had a compassion for them and he blessed them instead of cursing them and he was able to identify with the people because he himself had experience what is like to be alienated. He didn't want the people to experience that. So God ever said I meant to strike these people down Moses would intercede for them and those we meet with God because he wasn't just like the other people. He was so inducted all the little pleasures systems the world had been yet been brought up in the slavery so we didn't think like a slave in any had not been inducted into the Egyptian system so didn't just think like a person of privilege.

Instead, he was different than everyone else hitting me with God. He was hungry for God to be one of the fellowship with God. He was able to be a mediator of a covenant in all of this is the point us to Christ because Christ is the true Moses is if Moses was the one who delivered the people out of their bondage of slavery in Christ was a better Moses didn't just come to deliver people out of physical bonds and physical slavery became instead to deliver us out of cosmic slavery to sin came to deliver people who are oppressed of the devil pressed of the evil of the world. People who are underweight of heavy condemnation became to set them free, became to take them out.

He came to deliver you out of your bondage native Moses was one who was a covenant maker and made a covenant with God where God said, tell the people to obey that I'll bless them that Jesus came as the new covenant maker, the true Moses of a new covenant of of a better covenant of the new covenant was altogether different than the old because a new covenant is not between God and the people but is between the father and the son and Jesus the true covenant maker the true God man was able to mediate perfectly for us.

He was content to make his tabernacle in our midst to be a human being like us but you also God's will in Jesus Christ. The new covenant was made in this covenant was made that the sun would keep all of all of the obedience that was required of humanity on behalf of humanity and the file would be able to pour out all the blessings that have been long spoken to Abraham and Moses in every blessing of God that he always had in his heart to want to just pour out upon his people got long to build a do this.

He just needed a mediator needed someone who can identify with the people in someone who can identify with God. And so it was a Chrysler comp is the true Moses. The truth is you mediator for new covenant. Moses had comp in order work signs and wonders and miracles of people know the reality of God. Jesus came as the true Moses was able to work miracles and raise the dead, and himself his own life be raised up from the grave so that we all know that Jesus is real and that God is alive. He is the one who came as the true Moses and it was all based in mood and that's that Jesus himself was born under the edict of death, and he had to run for his life, his parents had to hide him from Herod and he lived as one who didn't have a real place. Born in Bethlehem raised obscurity in Nazareth wanted to be in Jerusalem never was never was inducted into the religious system of the Pharisees never identified with the political ideologies of the day and what it meant for him was that Jesus was so so able to not be overly loyal to any particular group that he could identify with any one and they called him friend of sinners saying is that he was content to make his dwelling place within what happened was that is Jesus, who was rejected and despised was alienated in every way imaginable, who was hated was wanted dead.

We went to the cross we experience to their 11 is not just the weight of taking the penalty of sin, but the ultimate feeling of being alienated he felt was like to be alienated, there wasn't a friend in the world there for him and then he was sent my God, my God, why view for sake I'm saying is that he was Gershom. He was a sojourner in every place except in God and anyone who believes in Christ anyone who accepts his saving work is given an astounding revelation and an assurance you're reconciled with God. Hold with God to if you ever feel lonely in this world ever rejected in this world there something that trumps all of that, the grace and the riches of fellowship with God that is unimpeded uninterrupted and eternal because of what Christ did for you. He was a perfect mediator of a new covenant when you accept Christ all spiritual riches are yours and him Vanessa gospel Allen right things on the making of a mediator flexing your life. Grace filled vision for signing rights of free grace and encouragement. Allen writes a daily blessing. It's free.

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We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out work. I love the set of circumstances. As we look especially from this hindsight view of Moses like I'm not so sure I'd appreciate where he was in that particular moment, having to live in these alien lifestyles over and over again, but one away. God used him and if you're feeling alone right now. Maybe like you don't fit in Allen is that good news that we can glean what cries really was truly alienated on our behalf. He really experienced what it was like to be forsaken by the people that were closest to him, and even in a sense to experience godforsaken this on the cross to feel all alone and so Jesus has been through everything that you've been through. So when you are tempted when you are suffering when you are in the Valley times of life, you can be assured that Christ is your great high priest, and he understands everything you're going through. It also means because he's been these fully human. He can mediate the covenant on your behalf is extraordinary good news Christ our high priest, the perfect mediator. Thanks for listening today.

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