Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Ex



Ex 1:7
a population explosion in their own right — and the land was filled with them.

Ex 1:12-14
 the harder the Egyptians worked them the more children the Israelites had — children everywhere! The Egyptians got so they couldn't stand the Israelites 13 and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor. 14 They made them miserable with hard labor — making bricks and mortar and back-breaking work in the fields. They piled on the work, crushing them under the cruel workload 

God was behind this!

Ex 1:17
the midwives had far too much respect for God and didn't do what the king of Egypt ordered  

following God sometimes means disobeying man 


Ex 1:17-20
17 But the midwives had far too much respect for God and didn't do what the king of Egypt ordered; they let the boy babies live. 18 The king of Egypt called in the midwives. "Why didn't you obey my orders? You've let those babies live!"
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; they're vigorous. Before the midwife can get there, they've already had the baby."
20 God was pleased with the midwives  

And pleasing God is more important than pleasing men!

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