The Departure: Protective Custody

Exodus 1:22 – Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people:

“Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, 

but let every girl live.”

Exodus 2:1-10 – Now a man of the tribe of Levi  married a Levite woman, 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.”

If your back’s against a wall, consider…

#1 – Taking a sacrificial .

Matthew 5:23-24 – 23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

Luke 15:17 –  “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 

Luke 15:20 – So he got up and went to his father.

• Possible calculations:

• Thinking the box.

• Perhapsthe

 choice.