Sermon Notes AM C. ONE

APRIL 11, 2021

Amram, Jochebed, , and ’s princess acted according to the will LOVE STILL TAKES THE RISK OF BIRTH of God.

This is no time for a child to be born, They all, independent of each other, acted in line with God’s will not know- With the earth betrayed by war & hate ing what the future might bring. And a comet slashing the sky to warn That time runs out & the sun burns late.

That was no time for a child to be born, God did not sit on pins and needles. In a land in the crushing grip of Rome; Honor & truth were trampled to scorn— Yet here did the Savior make His home. Is there a good and perfect time for a child to be born? When is the time for love to be born? Was God taking a bigger risk with introducing his own Son to this world? The inn is full on the planet earth, And by a comet the sky is torn— Yet Love still takes the risk of birth. But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his A. TWO PARENTS children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father” (Galatians 4:4-6). The challenges of going through a pregnancy and raising a child.

When is the time for love to be born? The inn is full on the planet earth; And by a comet the sky is torn—Yet Love still takes the risk of birth. and Jochebed

Now a man from the house of went and took as his wife a Levite wom- an. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. Now the daughter of came down to bathe at the river, while her young B. THREE WOMEN women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of Why did God allow the Egyptians to decimate the Jewish people? the Hebrews’ children.” Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s Amram and Jochebed were not prepared to follow the Egyptian’s inhumane mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse rules. him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daugh- ter, and he became her son. She named him , “Because,” she said, Genesis 6 – the Hebrew word for a basket is related to the word ark. “I drew him out of the water” (Exodus 2:1-10).

JOCHEBED Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, who bore him and Moses. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know . And he said Amram lived 137 years (Exodus 6:20). to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us” (Exodus 1:8-9). There was once a woman in Egypt who gave birth to 600,000 children at once; on being asked who that woman was, he said she was Jochebed, whose son Moses was worth 600,000 . A life-or-death decision

MIRIAM 62 million babies

Miriam is the first women in scripture to receive he title prophetess. “Today, many evangelicals identify as pro-life, yet abortion appears to be less salient than many claim … White evangelicals rank abortion surprisingly low on their list of priorities, behind such concerns as jobs, national security and taxes. (Abortion ranked ninth among younger evangelicals and 11th among PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER older age groups.) She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water” (Exodus 2:10).