Moses' Faith Rescues Others

Hebrews
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Hebrews 11:28-29
November 12, 2023

Hebrews 11:28-29: By faith [Moses] kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.

Sermon Outline

1. The Israelites believed the warning that judgement was coming

  • Punishing plagues

2. The Israelites believed Moses' directions to escape the tenth plague

  • Only one method of salvation was given

  • The people obeyed

  • That dreadful night

3. Crossing the Red Sea

  • 600,000 freed men and their families march out of Egypt

  • God leads them south

  • Pharaoh goes after them

  • The miraculous parting of the Red Sea

4. Lessons

  • True faith benefits not just yourself, but others

  • True faith believes not just the Bible's good news, but also the bad news

  • True faith always focuses on God as Savior, not on imitating the actions of true believers

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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