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“These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
“Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
And he said to his people, 'Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
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.'
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens.
They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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.
So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 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.
“Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, '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.'
But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, 'Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”
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.'
So God dealt well with the midwives.
And the people multiplied and grew very strong.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.”[1]
To an astonishing degree, the Faith of Christ the Lord has been reduced to irrelevance among modern evangelicals.
Participants in the services of the churches are focused to a dismaying extent on fulfilling their own desires.
Seeking to feel fulfilled and satisfied about their own condition, they fail to seek God or to discover what pleases Him.
Without doubt, we have adopted many ideas and concepts which have their roots in the world, bringing them into our efforts to worship God.
Thus, we are confused about how we should live as Christians and incapable of pleasing the Lord our God.
One area that reveals a form of spiritual schizophrenia is the contemporary attitude toward children.
Increasingly, churches reflect the attitude of this dying world, viewing children as a bother and a burden.
Let me explain what I mean.
In a former congregation, I inherited a “children’s church.”
Children’s church can be a blessing to a congregation, but it is a demanding ministry.
Consequently, dedicated servants willing to instruct children, giving up their own time in order to provide the service required, grow weary.
When staffing that “special time” for the children became a problem, I recommended to the leadership of that congregation that we should look at doing away with the programme, introducing children to the services of the congregation.
A prominent leader within the church immediately and vehemently objected, stating that if he were required to bring his eight-year-old son into the worship with him and his wife, his family would immediately begin to attend elsewhere.
He did not wish his “worship” to be disturbed with the presence of his child.
The child was a distraction to what he thought was really important—his personal time of worship.
His attitude was not so very different from the attitude of multiplied numbers of people among the churches of our day.
However, that attitude must be contrasted to the expectations of parents that is presented in the Word of God.
The Lord instructed Moses, “Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so” [*Deuteronomy 4:10*].
This command is iterated when God commands, “You shall teach [the words that I give] to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” [*Deuteronomy 6:7*].
Again, this command anticipates what God would communicate soon after.
“You shall teach [My words] to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” [*Deuteronomy 11:19*].
Parents are responsible to instruct their children.
Though a Sunday School, or a children’s church, or a youth programme can be an adjunct to parental instruction in righteousness, it is the responsibility of parents to teach their children.
The church is not responsible to rescue children when parents fail to fulfil their God-given responsibility.
Assuredly, refusal to accept responsibility for educating our children religiously is a serious blot on the life of modern evangelicals, but our tendency to view children with disdain is more disturbing still.
God rewards those who please Him with children.
Surrendered to contemporary culture, modern Christians reject this divine teaching.
We will do well to consider an incident from the life of Israel in order to understand the magnitude of our sinful attitude.
*A Little History will Assist our Understanding of the Text*.
God had made provision for the sons of Jacob.
During one of the times of famine which frequent the Middle East, He provided a haven for them through unusual means.
Joseph, the favoured son of Jacob, was sold into slavery.
Through a series of strange events, he rose from the position of a slave and a prisoner to become the second most powerful man in Egypt.
Through him, God provided a refuge for all the family of Israel, as Jacob had become known.
For nearly four hundred years, the people lived in the land of Egypt.
Time brought changes in the relationship between the Israelites and the Egyptians, however.
The Egyptians began to fear the growth of the Israelites, because they were obviously blessed [*Exodus 1:6-14*].
Though growing in numbers, the Israelites were nevertheless numerically inferior to the Egyptians at the time of this account.
They were yet vulnerable and thus reduced to servitude.
This was not the sole indignity.
It was but the first of a continuing series of indignities.
The king of Egypt issued secret directives to kill any male child at birth.
When that tactic failed, a general order was given that any male born to a Hebrew was to be thrown into the river, but any female could live.
The impact of this decree could only be that within one generation there would be no Hebrew race.
With no males, there could be no perpetuation of the race since the females would be forced to marry—if they married at all—men who were not Hebrew.
This was genocide with a vengeance.
It was during this time that two women, Shiphrah and Puah, became heroines of the Faith.
Though their names are not readily recognised, their actions are instructive.
Their lives and their actions instruct God’s people in courage and determination, and in basic truths that are important for each believer.
There are at least three great lessons which these two women teach us.
How important are these truths when we have forgotten God’s reward for obedience!
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*Our View of Life Reflects Our View of God**.*
The first lesson that we should learn is that our view of life reflect our view of God; what we believe is demonstrated through how we live.
Two courageous women are identified by names which speak of their character.
The first is named */Shiphrah/*/,/ which means */Brightness/* or */Beauty/*.
The other midwife is named */Puah/*/,/ which we in English would translate as */Splendid/*.
These two women, */Beauty/* and */Splendid/*, teach us to trust God.
The *seventeenth verse* reads, “The midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.”
They were commanded to kill any male child born to a Hebrew woman, but they refused.
The Word of God identifies their motive for refusing the Pharaoh’s order—*They feared God*.
Perhaps the most damning accusation which can be brought against any nation—or which can be said of any individual—is that the people do not fear God.
Paul's summary statement of the race gives precisely such a damning indictment [*Romans** 3:10b-18*].
He concludes with the words of the Psalmist [*Psalm** 36:1b*] to state of those whom God calls “wicked,” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
We are each familiar with those ancient words of the Wise Man;
 
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.”
[*Proverbs 1:7*]
 
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.”
[*Proverbs 9:10*].
Two classes are noted within humanity.
The first class is made up of those who through fear of the LORD have commenced a journey toward wisdom and knowledge.
The second and opposing class is composed of those who are consumed with self and who are characterised as having no fear of God.
For the one, God is central to every consideration and concern.
To the other, God does not fit into their equations since their personal desires take precedence over all else.
The former has a broad world-view, and a reverence for life since God is the author of life.
The latter of necessity has little reverence for life since they do not acknowledge the Author of life.
Those who fear God revere life; those who do not fear God exalt their own being and revere their own self-defined rights.
Though */Beauty/* and */Splendid/* could not know of the commandments which God would give Moses, they practised the truth which would be summarised by those Ten Commandments.
Think of those great truths enshrined in the Ten Commandments in a somewhat different light.
*The first truth is that there is but one God*.
*The second truth teaches that man must not have any idol in his heart—either an idol made with his hands or created in the secrecy of his heart (personal happiness not excluded)*.
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