Moses
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Acts 3:19-26 Peter’s sermon …
For Moses truly said unto the fathers,
(Deut. 18:15 ) v.22,23 “A prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me; him shall ye hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall
come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the
people.”
Moses
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Heb.11:23-28
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.
Moses in the Hall of Faith List
Heb. 11:23-28
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24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had
respect unto the recompence of the reward.
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27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing
the wrath of the king: for he endured, as
seeing him who is invisible.
28 Through faith he kept the passover, and
the sprinkling of blood, lest he that
destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Many Scriptures about Moses
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Exodus
Numbers
Acts 7:17-43
Heb. 11:23-29
Matt. 17:1-5
We have so many blessings
Count your Blessings
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Count your blessings instead of your crosses;
Count your gains instead of your losses.
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Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
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Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.
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Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
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Count your health instead of your wealth;
Count on God instead of yourself.
This sermon about Moses:
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Hopefully will help us to
Appreciate the great work he did,
And consider it a blessing for us
To be used in the kingdom of God
For His work.
By faith
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What is faith? Heb. 11:1
Now faith is
 the substance of things
hoped for,
 the evidence of things not
seen.
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Now Faith is:
 Substance - Confidence in what we
hope for
 Evidence
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, assurance about what we
do not see (cf. NIV
Names of Old Testament saints
mentioned in this chapter (4-32)
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Abel,
Enoch,
Noah,
Abraham,
Sarah,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Israel,
Rahab - Gideon, Barak, Samson,
Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets
What did these "heroes of faith"
look forward to receiving? (13-16)  The
promises, especially
regarding the heavenly
country and city prepared by
God
Amazing things done by faith
(33-35)
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- Subdued kingdoms,
worked righteousness,
obtained promises –
Stopped the mouths of lions,
quenched the violence of fire –
Escaped the edge of the sword,
became valiant in battle,
turned armies to flight –
Women received their dead raised to life again
Amazing things these people
endured (v.35-38)
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Torture,
mocking,
scourging,
chains of imprisonment –
Stoned,
sawn in two,
wandering destitute in mountains and caves,
afflicted,
tormented
What did these ‘heroes of faith” obtain?
why?(39-40)
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A good testimony –
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The promise (i.e., the Messianic promise)
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That they might be made perfect together
with us . They will enjoy the Heavenly City
With us.
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•Unique O.T. Character
• He did so much in
• 120 years!
•.A man of Great Faith!
Moses Life
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Could be divided into 3 periods
(40 years each)
1. His growing up in Egypt
Acts 7:20-28
2. His being in Midian
Acts 7:29-30
3. His being the Leader of God’s People
Acts 7:30-44
Note some things about Moses:
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The man Moses
The decisions he made
The prophet
The Great Leader that he was
The Lawgiver
Such a great man, yet he disobeyed God.
The Man Moses
His Family – of the tribe of Levi
1. Father: Amram (Exo. 6:20)
2. Mother: Jochedbed (Exo. 6:20)
3. Brother: Aaron (Exo. 4:14)
4. Sister: Miriam (Exo. 15:20)
5. Wife: Zipporah (Exo. 2:21)
6. Two Sons: (Acts 7:29)
- Gershom (Exo. 2:22)
- Eliezer (Exo. 18:2-3)
7. Father-in-law: Jethro (Exo. 18:2)
The Man Moses
. Taken From Family As A Babe
1. Hid as baby for 3 months (Exo. 2:2; Acts 7:20)
2. Put in ark of bulrushes (Exo. 2:3-ff)
3. Pharoah’s daughter took him (Exo. 2:5-10)
The Man Moses
Name – Moses (Exo. 2:10) Pharaoh’s daughter:..She called
His name Moses ,and she said, Because I drew him out the
Water.
Education (Acts 7:21-22)..And Moses was learned in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians ,and was mighty in
words and in deeds.
Flight to Midian (Exo. 2:11-25)
1. When about 40
2. Saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew – Killed Egyptian
3. When Pharoah heard sought to kill Moses
4. Where he met Zipporah
Moses Making Decisions
The Decision
(Heb. 11:24-26) By faith---Moses
moved to do God’s will.
What Moses Gave Up
1. Pleasures of sin
2. Treasures of Egypt
3. He was probably in line for the THRONE!
4. Power, prestige, --he was recognized as important
5. Wealth…gold, silver, and what that could buy
for him.
The Decision Maker
What He Chose
1. Suffer affliction with the people of
God.
2. He stood with slaves in Egypt.
3. Moses learned quickly: These
people murmured, and complained a lot..
Let us learn:
1. Love not the world I John 2:15-17
2. Where are our treasures? Mtt. 6:19-21
3. Stand with the Lord. .
Moses..A Great Prophet of God
The Call
(Exo. 3:1-10) God called unto him
Out of the midst of the bush,and said: Moses,
Moses. And he said “Here am I”
Excuses
1. “Who am I?” (Exo. 3:11)
2. “Say, What is his name?” (Exo. 3:13)
3. “What if they do not believe ?”
(Exo. 4:1)
4. “Slow of speech & tongue” (Exo. 4:10)
The Prophet
The Signs: God gave Moses 3
What were the 3 signs?
1. Rod became a serpent Ex. 4:3
2. Hand became Leporous. Ex. 4:6
3.Water poured out of river becomes
blood. Ex. 4:9
E. He is willing to go…. (Exo. 4:18-ff; 5:1)
It took a lot of persuasion, but he is now
ready to embark on God’s mission!
Moses : A Great Leader of
God’s People
Courage (Exo. 5:1-ff) But He
Is promised that God would be with
Him.
He couldn’t do it all…he had to
Delegate to others part of the work.
In Ex. 18, Jethro suggest to Moses
How he should handle the judgments
The people. Moses accepted the
Advice of Jethro.
Moses: The Lawgiver
A. Went Into the Mount to Receive the Law
1. Exo. 19:20
2. The Law was written on
on two tables of stone (Exo. 31:18)
B. Wrote the First Five Books of Bible
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
C. Why Called the Law of Moses / Moses
1. Luke 16:29 .they have Moses and the prophets
, let them hear them
2. 1 Kings 2:3 .as it is written in the law of Moses.
Moses’ disobedience!!
Moses: Disobeyed God!
Given Specific Instructions (Num. 20:8)
“Speak ye unto the rock before their eyes”
He Disobeyed (Num. 20:10-11) Got the
Children of Israel together..”hear now, ye
we
Rebels,must
fetch you water out of the rock
v.11 And Moses lifted up his hand,and with his
Rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came
Out abundantly,and the congregation drank,and
Their beasts also.
God’s Rebuke (Num. 20:12)
Numbers 20:12
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And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron,
Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me
in the eyes of the children of Israel ,
therefore ye shall not bring this
congregation into the land which I have
given them
Although He was such a great man,
he disobeyed God.
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Great men do great things.
Great men also make grave mistakes.
Moses sin would not allow him to
enter the physical promised land…
Caanan.
• Allowed to see promised land
(Deut. 34:1-4)
• Died in land of Moab (Deut.
34:5ff
• Age: 120
• Where buried – Don’t know.
Moses lived l20 years..
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He did so much in that length of time..
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It is not so much the time that you have on
earth, it is what you do with it.
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What are you doing with the time that
God has given you?
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We are so blessed to have had a man
Like Moses live on this earth.
He , like all men, met the appointment of
death.
Some things about his death…
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Didn’t have anyone around him….
Didn’t have people to say good things, or
bad about him
Didn’t have a funeral with his body in a
casket
Didn’t have a big Marker for his grave
Didn’t have a lot of flowers, signs, etc.
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After seeing the promised land, Caanan from a
distance, where he was with
God alone…he died.
God and Moses together.
No one knows where his burial place is
Located…
He had walked with God, and died with
God….