Moses- A Man of Many Failures (Part A)

Moses, a man of many failures that portion of Scripture begins to announce the first failure that he was experiencing all of this under the watchful eye of the Lord and so God allows his servants to fail.

Suppose that they are failed, so that he can bring about a mightier work.

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Please stay with us after today's message more information about cross reference radio, specifically how you can get a free copy of this teaching, and now here's Pastor Rick with a brand-new message called Moses, a man of many failures in Exodus chapter 2 series is entitled God's successful failures. And of course with God. There are only apparent failures and that's what we want to turn our attention to because that's what we go through as as individuals, as servants of the Lord. I want to just read a brief verse from Zephaniah the prophet Zephaniah chapter 3 verse five just a portion of the verse he says he will do no unrighteousness. Speaking of God, he will do no unrighteousness. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He never fail. He never fails. Critical feature of the Christian faith. Now man has false successes.

I think that the Bible makes it very clear. They are a parent there on the surface, but they're not successes to God. If God is not the cause of man's victories and so in contrast to the victories of the Lord. Now this is just the introduction be brief with this because I don't need up my time on the introduction, the quintessential failure. False success, the quintessential false success of Scripture, and there are a few of them but this one is right in the top the top three course juice six scary comes to mind right away, but this is the certain rich fool that Jesus spoke about in his parable in the Gospel of Luke in chapter 12 and there in verse 16 Jesus. It says he spoke a parable to them, saying, the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully in this verse 16. But then in verse 20 continues. But God said to him fool, this night, your soul will be part of you then whose will those things be, which you have provided a lot.

In other words, you can hitch a a U-Haul to a hearse and expect to benefit from what you've got in the U-Haul death is the end and that that moment. We did find out whether the soul is been successful or not faith time and eternity straightens all these things out now by faith, we know that this is something we are not concerned with because again of our faith.

And so hopefully will appreciate these character studies, Moses will be the first one we will consider and there will be others Peter David and just quite a few others as we consider again, God's successful failures and hopefully the lessons will also glare off the pages at us and will contribute to our being stronger servants of the Lord. And so our verse is Exodus are lead versus the text that kinda sets the mood for everything else was going to be discussing tonight is Exodus chapter 2 verse 15 and they are only going to take a portion of the verse with the understanding that you know the story and you don't know the story from Scripture. You've probably watch the movie the 10 Commandments and so you get idea of Charlton Heston fighting off the shepherds at the well is something but this. And that's where we were starting his justice.

Part of the verse where it says and he sat down by the well. In fact, only back it up a little further.

It says, but Moses fled from the face of farrow, and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by the well that's the mood that begins the story of this man.

Moses, a man of many failures that portion of Scripture begins to announce the first failure that he was experiencing all of this under the watchful eye of the Lord and so God allows his servants to fail.

Suppose that they are failed, so that he can bring about a mightier work. Moses is the second most mentioned man. Aside from Jesus Christ and all Scripture. That alone says something. The first before after the Lord. But before Moses, the first man most mentioned man in all of Scripture's King David. I don't know why the Jewish people do not hold King David in higher esteem why I do know why they don't follow the Scriptures, but we Christians, we understand that this is a great man of God's King David, but so are many others will get to David is than those weeks come by, but but Moses is right up there and if I had to list the three most important men of the Old Testament.

It would be Abraham, Moses, and David, not necessarily in that order to close up photo finish about but consider this in the New Testament. Paul talks to us. He says have these faith, hope and love the greatest of these is love.

Will Abraham is the man. It speaks to us of faith.

Go to the the headwaters of faith in the Old Testament you go to Abraham and then if you want to go to the headwaters of hope in the Old Testament you go to Moses you were slave in Egypt you would be hoping for delivery God that I've heard my people, and he began to deliver them through Moses, but if you want to go to love in the Old Testament. It is King David. The sweet psalmist of Israel, and these things are here for us to turn to, to learn from. We draw from character studies, because in them we see ourselves. But I love character studies because I had to see who I want to be who I should have been quiet don't want to be I learn.

I always learn from the people of Scripture, man, woman and children alike. I learned from when Jesus said 12 says it.

Did you not know.

I'd be at my father's house. How could you miss that mom, dad, come on, you know me, but 100 kids in a group and let them all cry.

These mom can pick out her child. You know me should know, I'd be right here and so this man Moses. The name means drawn out remember with pitch and prayer.

His mom put him in that little basket set them on the Nile River. Hoping that God would work it out and he floated on water to old Pharaoh's daughter and she fished them out of the Nile and she named him Moses brought out pulled out and speaks about his life that indeed was his life.

The convention condensed version of his life is found in in Hebrews 11 verses 23 to 29 also in acts chapter 7 Stephen gives a magnificent sermon using Moses as a character study for the Jews to ultimately say you don't get it. He belongs to a people who were chased into Egypt by the hounds of hunger, famine, famine chased them into Egypt and is a story go in the passage of time has new farrow's new Kings came to the throne they forgot kindness to the Jew and Satan began to use them and they began to persecute the Jew until finally this man Moses was born into a deadly environment.

He failed to be born no fault of his own. He failed to be born in a safe environment like our children are today born into a relatively safe environment.

God chose this man highly honored him even in spite of his many failures that were going to cover in a minute. Moses became, in many ways the greatest of them all can track his life through Exodus from Exodus through Deuteronomy and as a pastor, I want you know looking at how he handled the people how God handled him as profound lessons that lessons are greater than that I can can live up to, but but without those lessons I would accomplish even less so contrary to his rough start. We learn at the end of the story that he is anything but a failure in spite of the setbacks the many setbacks throughout his life. Now of course he failed to die at farrow's command. We look at verse 122 of chapter 1 Exodus chapter 1 verse 22 will fill in some of the story as we move forward and then we read so farrow commanded all his people saying he every son who is born you shall cast into the river and every daughter you shall save alive a genocide what it was they wanted to destroy the Hebrew race by getting rid of all the male children and have the women just sort of absorbed into the Egyptian culture they had good reason to do this according to the reason of godless men. The Jews, a growing number they lived in Goshen. That was the route from which the armies of the North would come Egypt was a world power.

She wanted to maintain her. Her power and one day she lost her slaves. Her army and her status as a world power in one day. Because of the hand of God, but a T-shirt in Israel. It says all the nations who came against Israel and our kingdoms. No more enemy is like 14 of them is so true of the hands that strikes the Jews.

The hand that will pay in the end of farrow the kingdom of the farrow is the first one is is the kingdom of the farrow gone checkbox next to that and is the subject of the affect is good to have friends in high places. But back to our story and understand this if Israel is the line in the sand between Satan and God. People hate the Jew, who are completely ignorant of the Jew is why you hate them. They can never come up with a good reason.

And when they come up with a reason it's built on lies well of Palestinian bill on the Palestinian people is no such thing the Arabs are not Palestinians, the Roman Caesars gave the Jews.

Hadrian gave them that name to spite them as philistines. The Latin eyes version of the word, and if so, Israel and many of the masses call Palestine's never been Palestine and there. So these Palestinians they are Arabs. They have a land Jordan is there land but the Jordanians don't want them to so much trouble as well. McGinnis destroyed the people that region of the world. So when you have someone attacking the Jew they never have a good reason, but if they say they are a Christian, they side against the Jew understand they are siding against God's word and therefore God's will, and therefore God himself and so you want to mess around with the Jewish people, not assistant means that they are all individuals as individuals. They better than anyone else at the going to heaven there be many a Jew in hell but as a people.

You have to understand God has singled them out and that is the battlefield. And so when you have somebody say their Christian. They side against the Jew uses status a you are a full to mess with God is that to your message and so a he failed to die at farrow's command.

The child was saved by womanly sentiment. Imagine moms without that womanly sentiment be awful women have so much to offer is equal with men is just different but it is equal is profound and no less than four groups and individuals are instrumental in the saving of the life of Moses.

We start with the two midwives so far and poor by name, verse 17, with the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but save the male children prior to that, farrow has said kill all the male children that are born of the Jews because these midwives were the leading midwives of the Jewish people. They refused to do it because they feared God. Verse 21. And so it was because the midwives feared God, that he provided households for them. God bless those women he protected them. They trusted Alyssa farrow hey look, the Jewish women are like the Egyptian women they have bigger born when you want us to do about and so because of that farrow says been that the moms kill the boys and that brought about Jaco bad mother of Moses. That's where she enters in to the story. So first we have the fear of God in the midwives and then we have the love of the mother there in Exodus chapter 2 verses will take verses one through three and a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife, a daughter of Levi, so the woman conceived and bore a son and when she saw that he was a beautiful child. She hit him there three months notice doesn't mean that if the child was ugly that that would be the end of it for Moses.

But it means a course itself is his ass in her heart she saw this child no way am going to do this, verse three, but when she could no longer hide him. She took an arc of bulrushes for him. Dab them with asphalt and pitch its waterproofing them and put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the rivers bank pitch and a prayer, protect this child was what she was saying she could no longer hide him. Have you ever tried to hide a baby swimming allow me to St. George in service to guests and establish don't speak English yet in Accra allow her and so love them as we do, you can hide them. She found that she found that out and and so the love of a mother was one of those one of the next steps in the preservation of the life of this man Moses and then there was his older sister Miriam, her watchful careful life. She followed that little lark as it floated on the Nile. She's had to know she too was endeared to the child. You don't have to be very old to have a child come to the home and everybody just loves that little baby verse four and his sister stood afar off to know what would be done to him, sister you don't know the half of what will be done to this baby. This is a big story because of the top the baby Jesus.

What would considering the man Moses so that we can be influenced by the Holy Spirit to serve the Lord Jesus. That's what it's all about.

It's never about an interesting historical statement again. If you are in college are going to the college or university's.

If you can avoid ever taking a course on Scripture from them do it. They have no right to teach Scripture any more than I have right to teach physics from the pulpit house at work the second or the fourth person involved in the saving of this baby's life is in verses five and six and this is the pagan princess herself and there we read in the daughter of farrow came down to bathe at the river and her maidens walked along the Riverside probably checking for crocs, crocodiles, not little shoes and when she saw the ark among the reeds. She sent her maid to get it and when she opened it she saw the child and behold the baby Web servers. She had compassion on him, and said this is one of the Hebrew children. Now the mom is going to be brought back to the picture and she's going to be paid wages to nurse her own child in the midst of a flaming act of genocide by the ferrules so the pagan princess also to sentiment all four of the midwives.

The mom older sister. The pagan princess all of their hearts went out for this child. These contributed to his survival and his ministry and did not even know what kind of ministry he would have question that you and I have to ask ourselves what I read the stories is where where my what is God have for me cold.

If you are prosperity, teacher, but etched into the hearts of the servants. Are these words etched into the hearts of all of God's servants in circumstances like this are these words from Isaiah 55 verses eight and nine.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says Yahweh. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Don't know what God is doing. Don't know why he allows this so that we don't have to know sometimes we find out. Sometimes we don't. We have to do is obey that which is too hard to cure. We must endure.

We do it righteously.

The unbeliever the same thing person does caring about God.

They endure hardship, but it is meaningless is purposeless we are to do it because we are children of eternity. We know what's going on was supposed to live as though we do and when the church lives beneath her calling. She is always an embarrassment to the kingdom. So let's review some of his failures.

This man Moses he failed to deliver his people because when he got it when he was old enough at age 40. Stephen tells us in the book of acts. It took it upon himself to go visit his enslaved brothers he being raised and reared and educated in a palace and he went with the intent of delivering them failed.

Verse 11 of chapter 2 in Exodus is not came to pass in those days when Moses was grown that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens and saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren to pause there for a moment to see again the understatement their burdens the paperwork they were under slave drivers.

This man was probably being beaten with a whip Moses this is premeditated what is going to do takes time to look this way and that way verse 12 so he looked this way and that way as he told you. And when he saw no one.

He killed the Egyptian and hid them in the sand and nothing funny about that except you know this. Looking this way and that way it was all the flesh is good intention without God and that's what a good intention without God leads to murder in a botched job, a botched cover-up. At that and Moses had had it settled in his heart that the treatment of his own people was was not to be settled, for he had a heart for the weakling that comes out in several's parts of his life as we move through. Here's the first one. It shows that he had a heart for his own people will see it again when he gets to Midian, which is in modern-day Saudi Arabia as opposed to the Sinai Peninsula as it is called, but which is right across the sea of Arkansas or Aqaba. Sorry Moses will get to a well there and he'll fight off the shepherd man on behalf of the shepherdess's who are bullying the women and then when it's time for him to circumcise his son. He just could not do it. I think that these things are late related I think he just had a heart for the weakling and the thought of putting the knife to a child is was was unacceptable in Israel.

There are eucalyptus trees everywhere.

These are been brought in by the British and in a Jewish cemetery where the Moyle is the one that commits the act of certain outcome conducts the act of circumcision where we were.

I think indeed Moses just didn't have a heart to do this and II think that that was a soft spot in shows up in his character, Moses had a heart which made him great. In other words that's the point.

It's not trivial. It's not okay you know you had a heart for his brother as he had a heart enough of the women were being bullied at a heart for this little child that he was supposed to inflict pain upon for this very critical right with God because God took it very seriously. Nonetheless, it is not trivial is not you know a side dish to the story.

It is the story is why the man was so great because of his heart had a great heart and great souls a burden for other souls. That's what makes them heroes of the faith description all Ezekiel chapter 9 verse four the Lord said to them go through the midst of the city. The midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it. You see, these were men were sensitive to the evil of the land, their side and their cry was an emotional expression was an outburst was not rehearsed spontaneous. I pray to God that I could have a greater heart for his people and less for myself. See shows up for yourself when you begin to defend yourself as a Pastor of course being the victim of much I admire Yvonne telling the story falsity and hearsay things that is wrong and him from people who are often guilty. You know you the tendency is to defend yourself by maybe attacking them or pointing out things or just not having a burdened heart and is been my prayer that God would give me a shepherd's heart and that I would keep a shepherd's heart and not have such a response was stories like this will we get the in the notice to to be this way in identifying that Islam have one of them said I need to have a heart for those who attack me. My enemies gonna find it anywhere else properly balanced than inscription or other attempts at.

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