Bible tale: Moses role-play - part 2 of 15

 Moses part 2 of 15

Exodus 2 & Acts 7

re-told by Debbie Dunn

Story Highlights:

• * Pharaoh’s daughter hired Moses’ bio-mom to nurse baby


• * Moses spent 1st 40 yrs of life as pampered Egyptian prince


• * Moses ran for his life after killing Egyptian overseer for beating  Hebrew slave

Narrator #1: Last week, we heard the story of a baby boy named Moses, born a Hebrew slave.

 

Narrator #2: His mother felt forced to keep his birth secret as the Egyptian Pharaoh was determined to murder all the boy babies.

 

Narrator #1: When he was 3 months old, this clever Hebrew mother made a sturdy basket and floated him down the Nile River.

 

Narrator #2: Why? She was hoping, somehow, her son would be found and rescued.

 

Narrator #1: Sure enough, God made certain the daughter of the Pharaoh found the crying baby inside that floating basket.

 

Narrator #2: Due to her soft heart, the Egyptian princess decided to adopt him. She named him Moses.

Narrator #1: God also inspired her to hire a Hebrew woman to nurse Moses until he was probably about 3 years old.

 

Narrator #2: It turns out that the woman the princess hired was the actual Hebrew slave who had given birth to this baby.

Narrator #1: From that time forward, that princess raised Moses as a pampered Egyptian prince.

 

Narrator #2: The Bible doesn't tell us when Moses realized he was Hebrew rather than Egyptian.

Narrator #1: Could his Hebrew-speaking mother have whispered this to him as a secret during their time together?

 

Narrator #2: Or did Moses somehow discover this secret when he was in his teens, twenties, or thirties?

Narrator #1: Acts 7:22, states that "Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action."

 

Narrator #2: Something horrible happened when Moses was 40 years old. It was so bad that he had to run for his very life.

Narrator #1: We learn about this in both Exodus 2 and Acts 7. Exodus 2:11 states, "One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor."

 

Narrator #2: Moses "saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people."

Narrator #1: "After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand."

Narrator #2: Acts 7:25 states, "Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not."

 

Narrator #1: Did the Hebrews know, at that time, that Moses was actually one of them? Or did they think he was nothing but a spoiled Egyptian prince?

Narrator #2: The next day, when Moses went out to revisit his people, he saw two Hebrew men fighting.

Narrator #1: "Why are you beating up your friend?" Moses said to the one who had started the fight. [Exodus 2:13]

 

Narrator #2: As Acts 7:26 states, Moses tried to reconcile them by saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?'

Narrator #1: Did they appreciate what Moses was trying to do? Absolutely not! Just listen to what it says in Acts 7:27.

 

Narrator #2: "But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?"

Narrator #1: Then he asked Moses a terrifying question. He asked, "Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"

 

Narrator #2: Uh-oh! Moses was scared. He realized, "Oh, no! Everyone knows what I did."

Narrator #1: And sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses.

 

Narrator #2: But Moses fled from Pharaoh for more than 200 miles and settled in the land of Midian.

Narrator #1: And that completes the story of the first 40 years of Moses' life.

 

Narrator #2: END OF SKIT. Let's give our volunteers a great big hand!

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