The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-17

2. Moses preserved and trained for his fu-
ture work = Exodus $40:
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 rivers brink.
| And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would
| be done to him.
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to
wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked
| along by the rivers side; and when she saw the
ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child;
| and behold, the babe wept And she had compass
sion him, and said This is one of the Hebrews
children.
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall
go and call to thee nurse of the Hebrew women,
that she may nurse the child for thee?
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her. Co. And
the maid went and called the child's mother.
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this
child away and it for and will give thee
thy wages. And the woman took the child, and
nursed it,
And the child grew, and she brought him unto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And
she called his name Moses; and she said, Because
drew him out of the water.
g. Moses tried to do his work before he was
fully prepared and before Gods time = Acts
:20-29:
In which time Moses born, and was exceed
my fair and nourished up in his fathers house
three months:
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter
took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Egyptians, and mighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full forty years old, it came
into his heart to visit his brethren the children of
Israel.
And seeing of them suffer wrong, he de-
Tended him, and avenged him that oppressed,
and smote the Egyptian:
For he supposed his brethren would have under
stood how that God by his hand would deliver
them: but they understood not.
And the next day he showed himself unto them
they strove, and would have set them at one
again, saying Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye
wrong one to another?
But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him
away, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge
over us?
Wilt thou kill me, as thou oldest the Egyptian
yesterday?
Then fed Moses at this saying, and was stran-
ger in the land of Madam where he begat two sons
H. Moses Called of God
l. God in the Burning Bush Act :30-35:
And when forty years expired there ap-
peared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an
angel of the Lord in flame of fire in bush.
When Moses it, he wondered at the sight:
and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the
Lord came unto him,
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob Then Moses trembled and burst not behold
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from
thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy
ground
have seen, have seen the afliction of My peo-
pie which is in Egypt, and have heard their groan
ing, and am come down to deliver them. And now
come, will send thee into Egypt
This Moses whom they refused, saying Who
made thee a ruler and Judge? the same did God
send to be a ruler and deliverer by the hand of
the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
Compare Exodus 3:1-1O
2. Moses accepts Gods call and makes his
choice = Hebrews II 24-27:
BY faith Moses, when he was come to years, re-
fused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter;
Choosing rather to suffer af1iction with the peo-
pie of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for
season;
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect
unto the recompense of the reward.
BY faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath
of the king: for he endured, as seeing Him Who
is invisible.
8. Yet the choice was not made without
some murmuring and arguing with God. Note
Gods wonderful patience with Moses = Exodus
3 IL, 1915:
And Moses said unto God, Who am I. that
should go unto Pharaoh and that should bring
forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when come
them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto
you; and they shall say to me- What is His name?
what shall say unto them?
r. And nd God ID, said unto Moses, AM THAT AM: and
he SAID, Ihus shalt thou say unto the children of
israel, AM hath sent me unto YOU
AND COD said moreover unto Moses Thus shalt
tnou say unto the children of Israeli The Lord God
OF your fathers the God of Abraham the God of
isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto
you: this is My Name for ever and this is NV
memorial unto all generations.
Exodus 4: Is, 1913: IA
And Moses answered and said, But behold. they
Will not believe me- hearken unto my voice: for