September 24, 2017 – Moses and Jesus and Us – Children not Welcomed by the World

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Exodus 2:1-7 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, ² and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. ³ But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. ⁴ His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

⁵ Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. ⁶ She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

⁷ Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

⁸ “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. ⁹ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. ¹⁰ When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

Who married the Levite woman (verse 1)?

In your opinion, why did she hide her son for three months (verse 2)?

What did she do when she could not hide him any longer (verse 3)?

Who watched to see what would happen (verse 4)?

Why did the Pharaoh’s daughter go to the Nile (verse 5)?

What did she send her female slave to get (verse 5)?

How did the Pharaoh’s daughter react to the crying baby (verse 6)?

In your opinion, why did she believe the baby was “one of the Hebrew babies” (verse 6)?

What did his sister ask the Pharaoh’s daughter (verse 7)?

Who did his sister get (verse 8)?

When did the baby become the Pharaoh’s daughter’s son (verse 10)?

Why was the baby named Moses (verse 10)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

Luke 2:1-7 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. ² (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) ³ And everyone went to their own town to register.

⁴ So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. ⁵ He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. ⁶ While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, ⁷ and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

Who issued a decree that “a census should be taken of the entire Roman world” (verse 1)?

Which census was this (verse 2)?

Where did everyone go to register (verse 3)?

Why did Joseph go from the town of Nazareth to Bethlehem, the town of David (verse 4)?

In your opinion, why did Mary go with Joseph (verse 5)?

What time occurred “while they were there” (verse 6)?

Why did Mary wrap her firstborn in cloths and place Him in a manger (verse 7)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what are the similarities between the childhood of Moses in Exodus 2:1-7 and the birth of Jesus in Luke 2:1-7?

1 Peter 1:3-9 – New International Version (NIV)

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸ Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹ for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Who does Peter praise (verse 3)?

What have we been given “through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (verse 3)?

Where is the “inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade” kept (verse 4)?

How long are Christians “through faith . . . shielded by God’s power” (verse 5)?

In your opinion, how can Christians “greatly rejoice” even though “for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials” (verse 6)?

What do the trials and the “proven genuineness of your faith” result in “when Jesus Christ is revealed” (verses 6 and 7)?

What fills those who believe in Jesus (verse 8)?

What is the end result of faith (verse 9)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how is the birth of Jesus when He was wrapped in cloths and laid in a manger because “there was no guest room available for him” in Luke 2:1-7 similar to the “new birth into a living hope” that Christians receive that leads them to “suffer grief in all kinds of trials” according to Peter in 1 Peter 1:3-9?

In your opinion, how is the presence of God’s hand in the drawing of Moses from the Nile in Exodus 2:1-7 similar to being shielded by God’s power through faith until “the coming of salvation” as promised by Peter in 1 Peter 1:3-9?

1 John 3:1-3 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

What has the Father “lavished on us” (verse 1)?

Why does the world not know us, the children of God (verse 1)?

Who we be like when Christ appears (verse 2)?

Who purifies themselves (verse 3)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does John, in 1 John 3:1-3, reveal to us about what we are through the “new birth” that Peter, in 1 Peter 1:3-9, says we receive through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead?

In your opinion, what is similar between the child that was wrapped in cloths and laid in a manger in Luke 2:1-7 and those who John says the Father has lavished great love on in 1 John 3:1-3?

In your opinion, how is the birth and nursing of Moses by a Levite woman before he becomes the son of the Pharaoh’s daughter in Exodus 2:1-7 a foreshadowing of we who are called the “children of God” in 1 John 3:1-3 even though God is not our parent?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Exodus, Luke, 1 Peter, and 1 John help us understand about the world’s relationship with a child of God and also the relationship of a child of God with God?

In your opinion, what can you take from these passages to apply in your life today?

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