How was Moses’ parents’ faith demonstrated? How has God confronted you recently with a demand for courageous faith? Discuss dangers facing our children and grandchildren today? What can and should we do in order to protect them from these dangers? What did Moses’ survival cost his mother Jochebed? Why do you think Pharaoh’s daughter defied her father’s order? What has been the most costly thing you have had to do for God?

1. “The Courage to Conquer Fear"
Hebrews 11:23
Exodus 2

2. Hebrews 11:23
• Jochebed (Yohéved) = “Glory of God”
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden
three months by his parents (Amram & Jochebed),
because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they
were not afraid of the king’s command.
• Lived: 1620 BC–1487 BC
• Daughter of Levi
• Wife of Amram = “Friend of the Most High”
• Mother of Miriam, Levi & Moses (Num. 26:59)

3. Four Reasons to Trust God in the
Midst of Problems:
1. God is love: He always gives what is best for me.
2. God is all-knowing: His word for my life is
always right.
3. God is all-powerful: He will always meet my
need.
4. God never changes: I can trust Him in every
circumstance.
Henry & Richard Blackaby, God's Invitation (1996)

4. I. PERCEIVED DANGER
A. POLITICALLY
Acts 7:19-20 This man dealt treacherously
with our people, and oppressed our fore-
fathers, making them expose their babies, so
that they might not live. 20 At this time
Moses was born, and was well pleasing to
God; and he was brought up in his father’s
house for three months.

5. Exodus 2:1-10

6. Ex. 1:8 "Now there arose a new king over Egypt
(Hyksos invasion), who knew not Joseph."

7. I. PERCEIVED DANGER
B. SPIRITUALLY
• Gen. 15:13 Then He said to Abram: “Know
certainly that your descendants will be
strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will
serve them, and they will afflict them four
hundred years.”

8. I. PERCEIVED DANGER
B. SPIRITUALLY
• Gen. 46:3,4 "...Fear not to go down into
Egypt; for I will there make of thee a
great nation. I will go down into Egypt;
and I will also surely bring thee up it
again ...

9. I. PERCEIVED DANGER
B. SPIRITUALLY
• Gen. 50:24 And Joseph said to his
brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely
visit you, and bring you out of this land to
the land of which He swore to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

10. • What are common fears mothers have?
1)Physical Safety of Children
2)Moral impurity of children
3)Spiritual Condition
4)Rejection by her children
• What are dangers your children face?
• How can you become more aware of
danger?

11. II. PROTECTED MOSES (Ex. 2:1-6)
A. WHY? She knew her child had a Divine
purpose
B. HOW? She prepared an ark
(salvation) and placed him in
the Nile (trusted God)
1. “Hid” (3 months)
2. “Prepared an ark”
3. “Placed Him in Bulrushes”

12. III. PREPARED MOSES (Ex. 2:7-10)
A. FOR WHAT? To fulfill God's purposes through
his life.
B. HOW? "weans" (releases) him physically and
trains him spiritually

13. Exodus 2:7–10
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall
I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for you?” 8
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the
maiden went and called the child’s mother. 9 Then
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child
away and nurse him for me, and I will give you
your wages.” So the woman took the child and
nursed him.

14. Exodus 2:7–10
10 And the child grew, and she brought him to
Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So
she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I
drew him out of the water.”

15. IV. PICTURED GOD'S GRACE & SALVATION

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