Welcome to the Paul Trip podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

All throughout Scripture, you encounter stories that make you pause and say, only God.

Today, we continue our year-long Bible study

in the book of Exodus,

the gospel one rescue at a time.

In this episode, Paul unpacks the birth and rescue of Moses

and shows how, through ordinary people and circumstances,

God accomplishes extraordinary things for his glory

and the good of his people.

To hear more from this Exodus series,

visit Paultrip.com slash Exodus.

Now, here's Paul,

teaching from Exodus chapter 2.

You see, God works in the ordinary to do what is absolutely extraordinary.

Well, I just adore where this narrative goes now.

I'm going to entitle our next study, Miracle on the Nile.

Let me read from chapter 2, verses 1 through 4.

Now, a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levi woman,

and the woman conceived and bore a son.

And when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.

You remember, she hit him because Pharaoh's command was to murder all of the male newborns.

When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and dobed it with bitumen or tar and pitch.

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