No one said it would be

easyeasy!“A lesson from the midwives”

byBrian Birdow

Sermon text: Exodus 1www.cmcoc.org

BEHOLD! (VS.9,7) Exodus 1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold,

the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

Not everyone will be happy for your success!

Often times your success makes people jealous!

Without knowing you or your labor they will judge you!....

???????Have we ever been guilty of that?????????

The Comparison!Exodus 1:9 And he said unto his people,

Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

Israel is more than WE!

THIS is Jealousy!!!

Egypt forgot that Israel was a blessing (vs.8) !

Burdens

• Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

BURDENSBurdens can give

Birth to

Bountiful

BLESSINGS!

Exodus 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

Burdens give way to blessings!

A look at the MIDWIVES (15-21)

• The Hebrew women have to be strong because of the circumstance. . Note vs.14

• Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.

Exodus 1:19

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and are delivered before the midwives come in unto them.

Egyptian women were not subject to the labor of the Hebrew women!

The MIDWIVES!

• Exodus 1:15-21

• Feared GOD!

• God blessed them as a result!