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Show JOCHEBED, THE MOTHER OF MOSES Exodus 2: 1-10 Hebrews 11: 23 Isaac, Samuel, John the Baptist all stand out as great men in the Bible. Joseph is perhaps the most memorable and most like Jesus. Moses is the most mentioned in The Bible. Moses is mentioned 784 times, 705 in the Old Testament and 79 times in the New Egyptian emancipator, the lawgiver or legislator, one of the two men transfigured, wrote Testament. He was the great the first song in Exodus 15: 1-19, and stand tall among Biblical leaders. Yet, much of whatever Moses was and became, he became because of his 1 mother, Jochebed. Jochebed What a remarkable who gave so "Glory to Jehovah." means name much to one for the of God's greatest servants, Moses. She daughter of the married a son They had two woman was a house of Levi who of the same house, Amram. older children--- the poetess and musician Miriam about ten years older and Aaron about three years old who would become the first high priest. Jochebed's baby boy was born during trying times. The Hebrew people were multiplying in numbers that would soon outnumber the Egyptians and the powerful Pharaoh had issued an edict that all newly born Hebrew boys be thrown into the Nile. 2 This is Mother's some things we can Day and here are learn about Jochebed the mother of Moses. Those of you who would be mothers might consider as these ways. The first J ochebed as thing to know about the mother of Moses is that she had him. In spite of the cruel edict Pharaoh, she wold risk having another child not having an ultrasound to tell her whether the child would be a girl or a boy. What do you suppose went through her mind when the child was born and the midwife reported, "It's a boy"? She could have aborted him or let the midwife dispose of him but when she saw him, The Bible says three times in Exodus 2: 2, Acts 7: 20, and Hebrews 11: of the 3 something special in the was "a goodly child." He 23 that she saw baby boy. He "fair to God." No doubt, Jochebed understood and believed that this third was child conceived in the midst of crises special purpose. Too days do not trust God to doing. We have looked sent from God for many of us these know what He is at our own was a circumstances and decided not to have any more Jochebed knew that God on our children. was greater than Pharaoh, that "greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." Thank (I John 4: God, she had the child, Moses. The second Jochebed as 4) thing to know about the mother of Moses is that she hid him. The book of H brews puts it in no uncertain terms, "By faith Moses, 4 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 king's commandment." (11: 23) How she hid a crying baby for three months the while Pharaoh had his orders executed, nobody knows. She must have had some secret place. She kept the baby hid for three months and when she could him no sealed keep longer, Jochebed made an ark and it with pitch and placed it on the crocodile-infested Nile river. Remember it was his the ark that Noah built that saved family There are ark of the from the wrath to three arks in The Bible-the Covenant, Noah's Ark, and the Ark that saved Moses. to god come. and His They . saving power. 5 point us She plaited are placed it among the rushes of the river bank with Miriam reeds into standing a cradle and in the distance watching. She hid him in the house, hid him in the ark, and hid him in her heart. The third J ochebed as thing to know about the mother of Moses is that she held him. When Pharaoh's daughter down to wash herself, she saw the cradle and had her maid to bring it to her. came When the baby was royal lady crying a Hebrew baby at saw beautiful and that the that, she decided to claim him for herself. Young Miriam asked Pharaoh's "Shall I go and call to thee a of the Hebrew women that may daughter, nurse (Exodus 2: 7) child went and brought the mother of nurse The the child for thee?" 6 Moses and Pharaoh's daughter said, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee they wages." My how the of God works, child to nurse and providence J ochebed got her own was paid for doing it. She took the child forgot where he came from. She taught him to always remember his roots. She taught his about and reared so that he never creation and the Garden of Eden, about Abel, about Enoch and Noah, about Abraham and Isaac, about Jacob and Joseph, about how the Hebrew people became slaves, and how they Cain and would be delivered in 400 years. Mothers must learn how to train them children when will hold on they are to it when 7 young and they get they older. children govern lives. So she held on to Moses until F or those who train our he was weaned and imagine what I taught you." loose I can our as she turned him she said, "Remember Jochebed reared Moses in the fear and admonition of God and you can be sure that the God of J ochebed lives eternally. 8 |
