Moses - An Unlikely Choice: Moses - An Unlikely Start (Exodus 2:1-10)

Series: Moses - An Unlikely Choice

Sermon: Moses - An Unlikely Start

Scripture: Exodus 2:1-10

Date: April 28, 2019

And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi.  So the woman conceived and bore a son.  And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.  But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.  And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.  Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river.  And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it.  And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept.   So she had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."  Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."  So the maiden went and called the child's mother.  Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages."  So the woman took the child and nursed him.  And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.  So she called his name Moses, saying, "Because I drew him out of the water."  (Exodus 2:1-10)

Moses was an unlikely influencer.  He was someone that you would not expect God to use.

"Moses spent his first forty years thinking he was somebody.  He spent his second forty years learning he was a nobody.  He spent his third forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody."  -Dwight Moody

1 Corinthians 1:27-29, NLT

God is still looking for people who will simply believe Him enough to obey despite our weaknesses and doubts.

Let's see three reasons why he had an unlikely start and how God used him in spite of (or maybe because of) that start:

1. Powerful adversary
   • Exodus 1:16-22
   • Exodus 2:2
   • Psalm 139:13-14, NIV
2. Perplexing arrangement
   • Exodus 2:5-9, NIV
   • "It doesn't matter how great the pressure is; what really matters is where the pressure lies.  Whether it comes between you and God or presses you nearer His heart."  -Hudson Taylor
3. Providential adequacy
   • "We are going to have to let God move in if we are to move on."  -Christine Caine