Faith for the Next Generation: The Parents of Moses

Hebrews
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Hebrews 11:23
October 29, 2023

Hebrews 11:23: By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

Sermon Outline

1. Background: Israel's history in Egypt

  • Israel (aka Jacob) moves to Egypt with his family

  • The Hyksos take over Egypt and enslave the Israelites

  • The Egyptians regain control

2. The family of Moses

  • Parents, brother, and sister

  • "...they saw he was no ordinary child"

  • His parents' life-saving plan

  • This is what the readers of Hebrews needed to read

3. How God spared Moses

4. Lessons

  • It's absolutely necessary for believing parents to trust the Sovereignty of God

  • It's the absolute responsibility of parents to raise their children from their earliest days to know the one true God

Steve Estes

Steve Estes has been senior pastor at Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for over thirty-five years. 

Steve’s books and other writings began with his longtime friendship with Joni Eareckson Tada. As teenagers, they grappled with why God allowed Joni’s paralysis in a swimming accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Steve left for college . . . they kept in touch . . . she liked the style of his letters. When her 1976 autobiography Joni spawned thousands of reader responses, she asked Steve to join her in crafting a follow-up. The result was A Step Further in 1978.

Later, Wycliffe Bible Translators commissioned Steve to write the biography of former college friend Chet Bitterman, a Wycliffe linguist who was kidnapped and murdered by political terrorists in Colombia in 1981. Other books and articles followed, including When God Weeps (with Joni) and A Better December (a giveaway book for non-Christian friends at Christmas.)

Steve was educated at Westminster Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has taught homiletics at Westminster and is a board member of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

But Steve would say his most significant life achievement was persuading college classmate Verna Stoltzfus to marry him in 1974.  They now have eight children and more grandchildren than can fit in a van.

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