No Risk With God

Introduction: If there is one thing I have learned through my years of living and especially in 2020, it is the fact that God is the only consistent part of my life! Everything from gas prices, grocery prices, war, health, government legislation and even the outcome of an election is never a sure guaranty.

When things change around you, depending what it is, the pressure always follows. That pressure will always bring you to a perpetual crossroads; God first or me first?

We see that very cross road played out in the remaining verses of chapter one.

1) Rigorous Opposition

A. The overwhelming impacts of ignorance

Pharaoh knew not Joseph.

To not remember Joseph is equal to not remembering God

Question: Where were those who did remember the God of Joseph?

Let us take note of the consistent danger of forgetting God (then and now)

Our nation is not called a Christian nation because our forefathers had all their theology right. It is because they all agreed to never forget God and His law.

There is someone to blame for not informing the king of God’s rightful place in the kingdom.

Christians today myst never let the people of tomorrow forget about God’s sovereign providential and in making this country!

B. The Preeminent Sovereign

The sovereign of Egypt devised a plan and flexed his power.

The Sovereign of Heaven and earth and everything in them meets him head on.

God is the God who always breaks through!

Notice the population of the Hebrew people:

They continued to grow in number in spite of the clever subduing, bitter, hard labor the king had placed on them.

You see, there was a Savior to be born one day to save His people from their depravity.

2) Responding To Oppression

A. Rooted in belief

“Hebrew” midwives.

They accentually aided women when they were birthing children.

Take notice to the atmosphere around them and the pressure from the highest power of the land. (v16)

You might ask, “Why couldn’t have God given then a better life circumstance to serve Him?”

Let us not forget, God has always been the one to sacrifice the most!

Listen, the time and place God has sovereignly allowed your existence, is the very best for your life to glorify Him!

Never stoop to think that the only one who suffers is you. Yes, pain and suffering hurts us all!

DON’T MISS THIS — They lived in light of their identity!

These were “Hebrew” midwives.

They feared God more than Pharaoh.

Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

3) Resting In Gods Provision

A. Faith over fear

Let’s be honest, you know good and well that the most horrible outcomes pasted through their mind (power of man).

Sinful fear is conceived when man greatness becomes greater than God’s.

The flesh is always step forward and present evidence of why you “should not” live dependently on God when the outside is pressing down on you.

B. Provision over poverty

You might think in your mind, “Well, their life is over!”

Take notice how God steps in and provides for His serving children (God alone gets the credit).

Not sure of the channel God used, but God worked out what they needed.

Even if they did die that day, they would have still been heading to a home that God alone provided.

Conclusion: Pharaoh charged “his people.” You see, no matter what trickles down to you from the top political power, it should never impact the position from which you see the world, your purpose and you God. That is exactly the example we will see in Moses parents.