Free Just Because: The Story of Salvation for Children by Steve Copland

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    boy to her house and cared for him, and she was paid
    money by the princess to look after her very own
    baby. Cool plan, huh? When he was older she took
    him to the princess, and the princess took him to be
    her own son. The princess called him Moses, a name
    that means to come from the water, and little Moses
    grew up to be a prince of Egypt. Satan was angry
    because he had been so busy trying to make sure all
    the baby boys were killed, and now one of them was
    going to be a prince in Egypt.
    So Moses grew up living in the palace. He knew
    he was a Hebrew because he often visited his mother
    and she told him all about the Lord and His promise
    to Israel. Moses had the very best teachers in all of
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    Egypt so he learned to read and write. He didn’t
    know he was being prepared by the Lord, and Satan
    didn’t know either. Meanwhile the Jewish people
    were forced to keep making large cities and build-
    ings for Pharaoh. All day long they were forced to
    make bricks. It was very hot in Egypt, and they had
    to sweat in the sun and were never given any money
    for their work. They had to keep hiding their baby
    boys, and they prayed to God to help them. Some
    of them had almost given up praying because they
    thought the Lord didn’t care anymore. Some of them
    wondered why the Lord had allowed such evil things
    to happen to them, but the Lord had promised when
    He made people that He would never force anyone
    to follow Him.
    So the first part of the Lord’s plan was started,
    and it was a great plan. Lit le Moses was brought
    up by his own mother and also as a prince of Egypt.
    His mother was very happy because instead of her
    son being drowned he was alive and was a prince.
    She trusted the Lord. Satan thought he was winning
    the bat le with God, but he was wrong. Out of the
    same river that had swal owed the lit le boys came
    a lit le boy who was a prince of Egypt, a lit le
    boy who would become a powerful servant of the
    Lord. He didn’t know it yet, but the Lord often has
    a wonderful plan for people if only they wil trust
    Him, Just Because He has a special plan for every
    person’s life, not only princes.
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    One day when Moses was about forty years
    old he was riding around in his chariot where
    the slaves were working. He saw an Egyptian slave
    master take a Hebrew slave where he thought no one
    could see him, and he was beating him up and hit ing
    him with his whip. Moses was very angry because
    he knew he was a Hebrew himself and he couldn’t
    stand to see this man being hurt like that. Moses
    looked around to see if anyone could see him, and
    then he ran over and grabbed the slave master. There
    was a fight, and Moses ended up kil ing the slave
    master. Moses had been trained to fight as wel as to
    read and write.
    The next day Moses was driving around, and he
    saw two Hebrew men having a fight. He rushed over
    and stopped them and demanded to know why these
    two guys were fighting each other. The men stopped
    fighting, but they were still angry.
    One of them yelled at Moses, “Who made you
    our king? Are you going to kill us as you killed the
    Egyptian yesterday?”
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    Moses was worried Pharaoh would find out he
    had killed an Egyptian. Pharaoh didn’t like Moses
    because he hated all Hebrews, and guess what? He
    did find out. Moses decided the best thing to do
    would be to get out of Egypt as fast as he could so he
    grabbed a few things and left. He ran into the desert
    where Pharaoh’s soldiers wouldn’t be able to find
    him, and he went on a search for water. Moses had
    taken some water with him, but there wasn’t much
    left; he was also feeling alone. He wasn’t really alone
    because the Lord was with him, and the Lord had
    some big plans for this guy.
    Finally he found a well, a hole similar to the one
    Joseph’s brothers had thrown him into four hundred
    years before, but this one had lots of nice cold water.
    Moses had a long cool drink and sat