“Let My Male Children Live”
From Exodus 1
📖 Exodus 1:1-7 (ESV) These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. 7 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
📖 Exodus 1:8 (ESV) Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
📖 Exodus 1:9-10 (ESV) And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
📖 Exodus 1:11-14 (ESV) Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
📖 Exodus 1:12 (ESV) The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad
📖 Exodus 1:15-16 (ESV) Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”
📖 1 Corinthians 16:13 (ESV) Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
📖 1 Corinthians 14:35 (ESV) If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home.
📖 1 Timothy 3:1 (ESV) The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
📖 Exodus 1:8 (ESV) Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
📖 Exodus 1:17-18 (ESV) But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. 18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”
📖 2 Timothy 1:5 (ESV) I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
📖 1 Timothy 2:14-15 (NLT) And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing, assuming they continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty.
📖 Exodus 1:17 (ESV) the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
1. Fear more than .
📖 Daniel 2:21 (ESV) He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
📖 Daniel 4:25 (ESV) the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
📖 Romans 13:1 (ESV) Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
2. Act not .
📖 Exodus 1:18-19 (ESV) So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
📖 Matthew 10:16 (ESV) “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
3. Stand so others will .
📖 Exodus 1:20-21 (ESV) So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
📖 Exodus 1:22-2:2 (ESV) Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” 1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
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