Walking in the Hall of Faith of Fame Series #13

Most of the students in that class voted that the parents should have an abortion. Then, the professor said, “Congratulations. You have just murdered Beethoven because that was the situation and the home of his birth.”

We do not have the right to take a human life whether it is born or unborn. We have no right to be a Pharaoh and say, “The innocence should be slaughtered!” We have no right to be a Herod! We live in a strange day! An abortionist who destroys an eagle’s egg can be fined five hundred dollars. Yet, the same man who destroys an embryo child will be paid that much or perhaps more.

These parents, Amram and Jochebed, set about to see to it that baby Moses had a chance to be a grown Moses, and that he had an opportunity to be God’s man! They had a vision from the Lord, however, they could not have faith until God spoke. If you don’t understand anything else, you need to remember: you cannot have faith until first of all God speaks. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”

Moses’ parents somehow who heard the Word of God, were seemingly hopeless, helpless slaves! But they believed the Word of God! “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”

How can you know where whether what you feel in your heart is the prompting of the Holy Spirit or your mere human desire? How can you tell whether you’re just wishing for something or whether God is wanting you to believe for something?”

That’s a good question, isn’t it, whether it’s really your wants or the Spirit’s desire? I cannot explain it to you for certainty; you have to experience it. Let me tell you something about praying in the Spirit. Praying in the Spirit is not an explanation; it is an experience. It is non-transferable. Yet, you’re going to have to walk so close to God and get into the Word of God, to abide in Christ and let Him abide in you, until the Holy Spirit is saying, “This is the way; walk in it. This is the promise; believe it. Always remember this: there must be the vision of faith! Here was faith’s vision. They saw that “he was a proper child.”

“Faith without works is dead.” When they believed God, they did something about it! They didn’t just practice fatalism. They didn’t say, “What will be, will be.” They didn’t just sit around! That’s fatalism! That’s not faith! They didn’t practice fanaticism! The opposite of fatalism is fanaticism. They didn’t take little Moses and throw him to the crocodiles and say, “Let’s see if he can swim. He’s three months old.”

They didn’t say, “Well, we’ll just trust God to take care of him,” and do something irrational. There are some people today trying to prove their faith by handling snakes. That’s not faith; that’s foolishness! Faith does something! Faith acts! By faith Moses was hid! It was their faith that got them into action!

Some of you want your children to be delivered from the Pharaoh’s of this world. No doubt, you want your children to grow up to be mighty men and women of God! Then you’d better get busy. Does your faith have legs on it? Are you praying? Are you witnessing? Are you working? Are you training? Are you a member of a Bible believing church? Do you have your children under the care and the teaching of a born-again teachers who really cares for their soul?

Bible faith gets busy! It does not just sit around and twiddle its thumbs. The Bible says in Proverbs, Chapter 22 and Verse 6: “Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” So many people are not training their child. So many train them, but they train them the wrong way.

Now, it doesn’t say, “Teach a child the way that he should go.” It says, “Train up a child in the way that he should go.” There’s a difference in teaching a child what is right and training a child. Anything you teach him or her, somebody else can teach him or her something different. He or she may decide to believe what they teach rather than what you teach. What does it mean to “train”? The dictionary gives the meaning of training as this: to prepare for a contest. Have you ever seen people train for a football game, a basketball game, a track meet? To prepare for a contest; to instruct by exercise; to drill; to form to a proper shape; to discipline for use! Train your children! Train them up in the way that they should go!

When they’re old, they’ll not depart from it! You say, “Well, I’m giving him a good education.” Theodore Roosevelt said, “When you educate a man in mind and not in morals, you create a menace to society.” What are you doing? Are you rearing those children to know the Lord? Moses’ parents did all they could! They believed God! After they had faith’s vision, there was faith’s venture! They saw that he was “a proper child.” They had vision. They hid Moses. This is faith’s venture.

Moses’ parents were not successful because they had a lot of finance. They were poor and poverty stricken. They were not successful because they had a lot of friends. There is no indication that anyone was going in their direction of defiance toward the king. They were not filled with fear but with faith. When we get in step with God, He will go before us to make crooked paths straight so we can have victory. Amram and Jochebed did all they could to be in obedience before the Lord when they hid Moses for three months. As the baby became older it became more difficult to hide him.

I would like for you to also learn faith’s victory. God honored the faith of Moses’ parents. In Hebrews 11:24, we read, “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. And by faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”

How did little Moses get all of this faith? Where did it come from? He got it from Amram! He got it from Jochebed! In Exodus 2:1 we read:

“And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took a wife — and took to wife a daughter of Levi. Now the man was Amram; the wife was Jochebed. And the woman conceived and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes [that means a little boat, but it was a battleship. It was about to sink Pharaoh’s kingdom], and took an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags [that is, the bulrushes] by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar off [that was Miriam, Moses’ sister], to wit what should be done to him [to see what was going to be done]. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s 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 compassion on him, and said, ‘This is one of the Hebrews’ children.’ Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?’ And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go.’ And the maid went and called the child’s mother.” Jochebed! [Miriam, said, “Mama, come quick!”] And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her [Jochebed], ‘Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.’ And the woman took the child, and nursed it.”

She found a little ark, and said, “Look what I found.” She fetched it out and just at the right time, little Moses cried. He was pinched by an angel at that right moment! You know how a baby cries, and even Pharaoh’s daughter’s heart melted within her! Who could resist that little bundle of joy! And Miriam steps forth and says, “Say, would you like me to go get one of the Hebrews to nurse it for you?” Can you imagine a royal princess taking a suggestion from a slave girl! She said, “That’s a good idea.” And so, here comes Jochebed.

Our text states: “Would you take this child and raise it for me, and I’ll pay you for it.” Do you think she haggled over wages? She said, “All right. I’ll be happy to do that.” Baby Moses had everything that he needed, he even got a scholarship to the University of Egypt. Pharaoh paid for it. It’s amazing what happened here. His room, his board, his lodging, his education, were all paid by Pharaoh!  This happened by the providence of God!

In Acts 7:22 we read, “Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. And he was mighty in words and deed.” Moses received a Ph.D. from the University of Egypt, but still he came out clinging to faith that would be delivered to all the saints because his mother had trained him up in the way that he should go.

We must raise our children in their formative years. We better pray over our children and love our children and train our children and put something into that child that there is no pagan university can take out of him!

Moses, “when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter”! He forsook Egypt! He cared not for the treasures of Egypt! He said, “I’m going to be a man of God.” Why? A mother and a dad had faith in God! Faith’s vision: they saw the will of God. Faith’s venture: they did the will of God. Faith’s valor: they were not afraid of the king. Faith’s victory: they raised the child that delivered a nation.