Hey church family, it is time for our daily divo. If you've got your Bible, we're going to be in the book of Joshua, chapter 1. Joshua's way back towards the beginning of the Bible. And we're just going to pick it up there. Joshua 1-1. After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord.

For five books of the Bible, the first five, the Pentateuch, or the Torah, was written by Moses,

one of the greatest leaders, really in the history of the world.

Moses has this miraculous story of his birth and really his salvation, not at like the soul

level, but at the physical level, because the Pharaoh is killing all the babies

to and under.

And so his mom puts him in a little raft or a little reed basket and sends him down the river.

And he's picked up by the by the servants

or actually by the daughters that are in charge in Egypt and then of all the people in the world

they pick Moses's mom to be his own nanny and he's raised in the palace of pharaoh's place

and then he gets in this fight fight with some Egyptians because of really their

anti-Semitism against some of his brothers. And he kills a guy. And while he's out in the,

like out on the run, on the lamb, then God comes to him in this miraculous way through the voice

of a burning bush and has him go to Pharaoh and say to Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the world,

let my people go.

And through a series of ten plagues, which culminates with the Passover that we just celebrated

last week, he frees the nation of Israel.

They cross over the Red Sea.

Moses goes up on to Mount Sinai and receives the law of God, the Ten Commandments of God.

He is God's man.

And because of the rebellion of the Israelites and because of seemingly one mistake in Moses' life,

he is not able to lead the people into the promised land.

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