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father had been told in a dream that
Moses would be the deliverer of his peo
ple. In Exodus 15:13-16, a deliverer had
been promised.
I think there was something very un
usual in this baby's face, something
which told his mother that he would be
come a great man. At any rate their
faith in God was so great that they con
cealed their child in their home for three
months.
Juniors can you imagine how hard it
would be for Moses' older brother and
sister to keep
such a secret Don't you
think they were very obedient Why
(Memory Verse).
No mother can shelter her child in her
home for ever; she can only build an ark
for him, and ask God to take care of
him. God doesn't do things for us that
we can do for ourselves, but when we
can do no more we can ask God and He
will help us. So Moses' mother took
great care in making a little basket of
reeds or stiff grass for her baby. Then
she plastered it with mud from the Nile
and with pitch to keep
out the water.
With many tears, kisses, and prayers
she put the three months old baby
Moses in the basket, and carried it out
to the river's edge and placed it among
the tall grass.
In those days it was a common thing
for people to wash their clothes and
bathe themselves in the river. As sister
Miriam watches the precious basket, and
the mother is at home praying, down
from the palace comes the princess. It
wasn't an accident that Pharaoh's
daughter came down to the river at that
time; she didn't know it but she was
on an errand for God. She didn't know
God, but God wanted the princess to find
the baby Moses and save his life.
Each day we go about our work and
play without thinking about helping
anyone, but if we will let Him, God will
use our feet to run errands for Him.
There is a story of a little lame girl,
who after hearing a missionary tell of
the mountain people who so needed the
gospel of Jesus, wanted to help them.
She had nothing to give but her crutch
es, but she gave them to the usher tak
ing the scanty offering. Others seeing
what the little lame girl had done, gave
more than they had intended to give.
We are not told how long Miriam
kept watch over the basket, but the im
portant thing is that she did not wander
off to play. When she saw that the prin
cess had compassion on the beautiful
baby, when he cried, how swiftly Mir
iam sped on the errand that would bring
the baby's own mother to the princess!
How happy Moses' mother must have
been now that she had her baby back!
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Now she would not have to hide him
now he was protected by the king who
was the cause of all the persecution.
How wisely God had planned it ! Moses
was given back to his mother for the
years when he would most need the
training of a Godly mother. Later in the
palace he received more education to fit
him to free his people from the bondage
of Egypt; however, in all those years in
the palace he didn't forget that he was a
Hebrew.
I hope the Juniors will never forget
that Jesus is the one who frees each one
from bondage, the bondage of sin, and
that they will always remember to
thank Him.
References :
Exodus 1:22
Acts 7:20
Hebrews 11:23
1 Peter 5:7
Psalm 46:1, 2
Psalm 27:1-3
Questions :
1. Why was the baby Moses hid in a
basket near the river Give three rea
sons.
2. Would it be easy to hide a baby for
three months
3. Do you think Miriam was a good
sister Why
4. Why
not afraid
were the parents of Moses
5. Name some things you should be
afraid of and some you should not be
afraid of.
6. List some errands you could run for
God
For your notebook :
Write the answers to the questions or
list some things you have learned about
Moses.
SABBATH
SCHOOL LESSON
AprU 3, 1955
Rev. W. J. McBurney
(Lessons based on International Sunday School
Lessons ; the International Bible Lessons for
Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the Interna
tional Council of Religious Education.)
THE CROSS AND CHRISTIAN
DISCDPLESHD
Matt. 21:1-11; Luke 9:23, 24; John 12:
30-36; 3 Cor. 5:14-19; Gal. 2:20, 21;
6:14-17.
PRINTED. Matt. 21:1-11; John 12:20-22,
24-26; 2 Cor. 5:14-19.
MEMORY: Gal. 6:14; "But God forbid
that I should glory,
our Lord Jesus Christ, by
save in the cross of
whom the
world is crucified unto me, and I unto
the
Zechariah described Christ's Triumph
al Entry (9:9) in detail 500 years before
it occured. Matt. 21 :4, "Now this is come
to pass, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through the
Christ
carried out the program that had been
ordained for our salvation, as it had
been related in prophecy. Not because of
the prophecy, but because of the pro
gram that had been ordained for our
salvation and spoken through prophecy.
How tender the message! "Tell the
Daughter of Zion, Behold thy King com
eth unto thee." And the multitude
sang,
"Hosana to the Son of David. Blessed is
he that cometh in the name of the
Lord."
In His Triumphal Entry, they
chanted from the Prophets and the
Psalms, mostly from the 118th Psalm,
proclaiming Christ as their promised
Messiah But they had pictured Him ac
cording to their own desires, and that
was a false picture. The Jews are still
looking for their Messiah, the one they
have pictured. They are content to abide
by the present division of the Land in
Palestine, until He shall come. Then
they expect Him to give them all the
land. The Jews as a blood race, are 2,000
years too late.
Those we know today as Jews are the
descendants of those who, by their own
hands, brought about the destruction of
Jerusalem in A.D. 72. Titus beseiged the
city to put down rebellion. It was not Ti
tus or his soldiers that destroyed the city
and slaughtered the people. It was the
Jews themselves within the walls. It is
the descendants of those Jews that are
called Jews today, and that claim the
promise. Is it the rebellious Jews that
are heirs to the promise What about
the descendants of the Christian Jews
that for His sake were scattered abroad
Those who obeyed Christ's command
and fled from Jerusalem before its de
struction There were six million Chris
tians buried in the catacombs in the
first three centuries. Many of them were
Jew's. What of their descendants The
Jews who cried "Crucify Him" lost every
claim they ever had to any special prom
ise to them as Jews. They have now the
same promises that are to those of other
races, and no more.
There are those who would find in the
securing of the ass for the Triumphal
Entry, a miracle of Christ's knowledge
and power. The story as told seems to
imply
a previous arrangement with the
owner of the ass. Of this we are sure;
Christ would not take a
property
without his permission. The disciples
did not really lead the ass away, until
the owner allowed it. But it was at
Christ's command that they were in the
act of so doing when the owner spoke to
them. In the case of an auto, modem
"delinquents"
would call it an attempt to
"borrow."
Christ could not borrow in
that way. His power is unlimited except
in one thing; He cannot sin. God cannot
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