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January 19, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Welcome to the Book of Exodus! Today we will see how much Jacob's family has grown and how God protected and provided for His people. Specifically we will see God's abundant protection and provision for Moses' family. I would like to encourage you today to look for God's protection and abundant provision for YOU and YOUR family and give thanks to Him for it.
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Introduction & Daily Bible Reading
00:00:03
Speaker
Hi there, today is Sunday, January 19th, 2025, and you are here with me, Robin, with In the Family Way Coaching, and we are here for our daily reading of the Bible. We are going to be reading the entire Bible in one year, and we are going to be using the Day by Day Kids Bible, and it is written by Karen Henley.
00:00:27
Speaker
If you have your calendar out, I have mine. Go ahead and get your sticker ready, because we're about to read the Bible in a few minutes.
Symbolism of the Family Tree Backdrop
00:00:38
Speaker
I wanted to just share a little bit first about my backdrop. You see that I have this tree, and that is my family tree, since I am in the family way coaching. That is my family tree. So I just wanted to share that with you, that that is why I have selected this backdrop, and that is why and It is a tree. It's a representative of the family. And I consider all of you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, so you are my family. And like a family, we look out for one another and we are there for one another. And ah that is why I named my business and my site in the family way coaching. So I just thought I would share that little bit with you today.
00:01:29
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So thank you for being here with me, whether you are watching via YouTube or on my site or listening via Zencaster, or if you have found me on another podcasting site. Thank you so much for being here with me. I really do appreciate you sticking with me this year. And I hope that you are enjoying our Bible reading as much as I am.
Jacob's Blessing: Why Ephraim?
00:01:50
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One thing I did forget that I wanted to mention, I know yesterday at the end of our reading, I said I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to talk about in our discussion, but I did want to point out, and I had remembered after the fact as always, that when ah Jacob was blessing Joseph's sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, he placed his right hand on Ephraim's head and his left hand on Manasseh's head.
00:02:19
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And I don't expect you to remember because we've had so many names, but I wanted to point out that Manaso was born first, and yet Jacob was putting his left hand on his head, and Ephraim was born second, and yet Jacob put his right hand on his head for the for when he blessed them.
00:02:42
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So this is significant because it is symbolic of the right to be considered the dominant side. So for him to place his hand on the ah his right hand on the younger son meant that he was blessing the younger son more so than the older born son.
00:03:05
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And in the ah full version of the Bible, it actually tells us that jake that Joseph was ah bothered by this when he saw that happening because he was concerned. He said, no, Father, Manasseh is the elder one. And he said, I know, but the younger son is the one who will have the greater blessing.
00:03:31
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he is the one who will receive ah that. So I just wanted to point that out that although it's not often ah evident, there are many subtle things in the Bible that we read about.
00:03:47
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And so that's part of the reason why I want to have the little discussion points and our talking points at the end of our daily Bible reading is to point out some of those little details. And I meant to do so, but then I completely forgot. And I got to the end and I was like, oh, what am I talking about? I don't know right now. And so afterwards I go, ah.
00:04:08
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That's what I was going to talk about. So I just wanted to bring that up today.
From Genesis to Exodus: Family Expansion and Challenges
00:04:13
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We are finished with Genesis, and we are going to be ah heading into Exodus today. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and get started.
00:04:23
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um Actually, a little bit of a do. When ah we last saw they were all in Egypt, and Joseph and his family were all there, and Jacob had said that they would go back to Canaan eventually, because that was the land that God promised them.
00:04:44
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And God told them, God told Jacob, don't be afraid to go to Egypt. I will make your families into a great nation. And of course he had promised the land of Canaan to Abraham's family, which would then be Jacob and would now be the 12 tribes of Israel. So we see that Jacob's family and all the 12 sons are now expanding.
00:05:09
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into becoming a great nation in Egypt. So we're going to see in Exodus what happens with this great family now that they have become so great in a foreign land. And that's where we're going to pick up in Exodus. Chapter one today and chapter two, we're going to be reading. And that's it, yeah Exodus one and two today. So the first section is called, A Main King.
Oppression in Egypt: Jewish Nurses' Defiance
00:05:40
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As time went by, all of Joseph's brothers died, but they had children and their children had children. So the sons of Jacob really did become a big nation. Jacob's other name was Israel, so the nation was called Israel. And the people of this nation were called the children of Israel. Sometimes they were called God's people and sometimes they were called Jews.
00:06:06
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Now there is a note in our Bible today that says, the children of Israel were not called Jews until a much later time. But in this Bible, they will be called, they may be called Jews from now on. They will be called Jews from now on. Or they may be called Jewish people or God's people. Then you will always know who these people are. They are the family that started with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
00:06:36
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So for ease of understanding and continuity, from this point in the Bible on, they will be called either Jews, or they will be called Jewish people, or they will be called God's people. And what they're specifically referring to is the family of Abraham and Jacob. And Isaac, of course, Isaac being Jacob's father.
00:07:02
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Now a new king came into power in Egypt and he didn't know about Joseph. Look at all these Jewish people, he said. There are so many of them. They are stronger than we are and we have to do something. If we don't, their group will grow even bigger. And what if we have a war? They will join our enemies and they will fight us and they might leave our land. So the king put masters over God's people.
00:07:31
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and he made them do hard work. He made them build cities to store things in. But the more work they did, the more their families grew. The people of Egypt were afraid of the Jews. They had made them work very, very hard, and they made the Jews' lives very unhappy. The Jews had to build with bricks, they had to work hard in the fields, and the people of Egypt were very mean to them.
00:08:01
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Now two Jewish women were like nurses. They helped other Jewish women when they had their babies. And the king gave them these orders. If the Jews babies are boys, kill them. If the babies are girls, let them live, he said. But these two women believed in God and they knew he did not want them to kill the baby boys.
00:08:27
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So the king called for them and he said, why do you let the boy babies live? The two women said, our Jewish women have their babies fast. The babies are born before we get there to help. And so God was good to these two women and he gave them children too. And that's because they obeyed God. They thought it was more important to obey God than to obey the king.
00:08:55
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There were more and more of God's people. So the king gave to the people another order. Throw the Jewish boys into the Nile River. Exodus two, the princess and the basket.
Moses' Rescue: A Tale of Survival
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One Jewish mother hid her baby boy and she hid him for three months.
00:09:18
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Then he was too big to hide anymore, so she took a basket and she painted tar on it to keep the water out. And then the mother put the baby in the basket, and she put the basket at the edge of the Nile River. She set it among the tall water plants, and the baby's sister stayed a little way off, and she watched to see what would happen.
00:09:44
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The princess went down to the Nile River that day and her servant girls were with her. They walked along the edge of the river. The princess saw the basket among the water plants. She told one of her servant girls to go get it. And when the princess opened the basket, she saw the baby. And he was crying and the princess felt bad for the baby. This is a Jewish baby, she said.
00:10:12
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Then the baby's sister spoke up to the princess. Shall I go find you a Jewish woman? She could take care of the baby for you. Yes, said the princess. So the baby's sister went and got the baby's mother. The princess told her, take care of this baby for me and I'll pay you for it. And so the baby's mother took him home and she took care of him for the princess.
00:10:43
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And he grew from a baby to a young boy. And then one day, his mother took him back to the princess. And the boy became the son of the princess. The princess called him Moses. This means, his name sounds like the Jewish word that means pull out. The princess said, I pulled him out of the water.
00:11:10
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And that is a quick story for today. At least it felt very vast.
00:11:15
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And that is the end of our reading for the day. So we are seeing that God's people are becoming a big nation. And I thought it was a little ah funny that the king was both unhappy about their number being there, but then he was unhappy that they might leave. And that's because although there were many of them, they were doing a lot of the work that the king needed to have done or wanted to have done.
00:11:43
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So he kind of wanted his cake and eat it too. I wanted to point that out. And I wanted to ah point out that God is still providing and taking care of and protecting God's people, Abraham's family, just like he said he would. And he used the women,
00:12:06
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who knew that it was not right to obey the king, even though he was a king, he was giving bad orders. And so they did the right thing. And we may find that that happens in our lives too, where someone in authority, someone above us, wants us to do the wrong thing. And we have to make the decision to do the right thing, even though the person is in charge over us. They could be a boss, they could be anybody,
00:12:35
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And if they are over us, and if they are telling us to do something that is not right according to God, then it is difficult. But I want to encourage us to do the right thing. So I don't know that that situation will happen in the near future for you. Sometimes it works out that God gives us these situations, as we saw in my afterthoughts video, that sometimes these very same things happen right away so that God can give us ah opportunities to practice what we are learning about. So in case somebody, you know, it could even be somebody who's not above you. It could just be a friend or somebody who is trying to get you to do something that is not right.
00:13:21
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And we call that peer pressure, when somebody who is the same age as you or about the same age as you. And but this can happen to us as adults, where and people are doing things, it can happen. You know, coworkers, it can be anybody, really, that if anybody is doing the wrong thing and they want us to go along with it, we are in we are in charge of our own behavior. And we can decide to say, no, that's not right.
00:13:51
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and do it God's way and and not do the thing that is bad and God will honor that and we see in in this particular instance that God blessed the women and gave them their own families and God protected them too because we do not see them receiving any consequence for having disobeyed the king God protected these women and I believe he will protect us too when we do the right thing
00:14:22
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So let's see, we have also something else I want to point out is that God's provision was so wonderful for this baby Moses. And baby
Moral Courage: Protecting Moses and Doing What's Right
00:14:31
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Moses' older sister was ah very good to go and watch and see what happens with the baby. And when the princess came and found the baby, she offered, oh, would you like me to find you a Jewish woman to take care of the baby? And what she was referring to was to nurse the baby.
00:14:50
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because baby Moses, as we see in here, was only three months old. So he was still nursing. And so ah then the princess wasn't currently having the ability to nurse this baby. So it made sense for them to have what is called a wet nurse. And that's another woman who can't nurse the baby. And that's what they're referring to as happening here. So ah Miriam, they don't say her name yet, but Moses's sister is Miriam.
00:15:21
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Miriam went and got their own mother to be able to nurse the baby. And so we see God's amazing provision for Moses that not only did she get to care for her own baby still, but the princess was paying her to do it.
00:15:42
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I just thought this was just just so wonderful. It makes me laugh. I just think that's amazing. God's provision is above and beyond. It isn't just low quality. It isn't just bargain basement bare minimums. In the New Testament or I think or somewhere, I don't remember the exact address. ah God tells us that when he measures out, he measures out with a big scoop and he taps it down so that it it flattens out with whatever is being scooped and it's it's a comparison.
00:16:16
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and And it's not only that, but then it's it's heaping over. It's a big serving of whatever he's doling out, whatever he's serving out. And we see that that is so from the very beginning, as he is taking care of Abraham's family. Now we have Moses, who is part of that family.
00:16:38
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And so I want us to look for these opportunities where we see God providing for us in abundance and so that we can be grateful to Him and give Him the glory and just to thank Him for that. And I think that's about all I have for us on that story today. but Tomorrow we will read more about the baby Moses and how he is growing up.
00:17:03
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And if you enjoyed our story today, then I would encourage you to like the video on YouTube, to subscribe to the channel if you're not already and you're watching this. And also, if you know of anybody who would be interested in following along with our daily Bible readings, please share this with them. And let's help spread the word about reading God's word.
00:17:25
Speaker
I hope you everybody has a great rest of their Sunday, and tomorrow is ah going to be a holiday, but I will still be here because we're doing this every day. I do have um an early work schedule tomorrow, so I will not probably be posting tomorrow's video until much later in the day.
00:17:47
Speaker
because I work from 6.30 in the morning till 3.30 in the afternoon. And it's hard for me to get the videos out that early. So I don't foresee that happening early in the day, but I do want to let you know that I will be posting it and that if it is later than you are expecting it to be, I promise it will be there before the end, before I get to bed tomorrow night, it will be there. So ah please check back and I will get it up as soon as I possibly can.
00:18:15
Speaker
So thank you very much for listening and joining me today. And I hope everybody has a great rest of their Sunday. See you tomorrow.