FBT Daily Devotional: Exodus 1

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So we are going over Exodus chapter one. And I guess, like I tend to do, I just want to go back and just kind of like the other soap operas do and take a look at where we have been and to that help us further display where we currently are. So as the Bible turns, we're going to go back to Genesis 15, starting out. I just want to kind of hash out some things there before we go to Exodus. So I will start us off from chapter 15, verse 13. The Lord, then the Lord said to Abram, You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them. And in the end they will come away with great wealth. As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. After four generations, your descendants will return here for this to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction. So that's one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, maybe my favorite chapter in the Bible. But as I mentioned to the guys last week, I we were reading through like the end of Genesis, and I know we were all feeling so well about the restoration and you know, um, just you know, Joseph's family, you know, this everything coming full circle. And I'm not gonna lie, I had a bit of an attitude reading through it because I was like, this is all so well and nice, and they're just being welcomed by Pharaoh and being given being given all these cherries and all of this nice stuff to move their family into a place of slavery. So I had a little bit of a problem with that. So I had to pray because I know one, I needed to fix that within myself, and then also for us just to continue to um kind of move this along, and I had to gain some perspective um about something that I've had a general understanding about in my life and the life of others, but I had to understand for the greater good, for the macro of this whole thing. So that's why I wanted to start off in um Genesis 15, because God kind of lays this thing all the way out. He says that hey, like, you know, and this is just a similar theme. He says that, hey, like, you know, yep, this land that's your, you know, you're gonna get is it is gonna be yours, it's gonna be uh go to your descendants, but they're gonna have a rough time in it. And so I just wanted to kind of start off with that because, like I said, I just on a personal level, and I don't know if anybody else had been feeling that, but just on a personal level, I was like, man, like this is yeah, this is nice and all, but they're being led into slavery. Um, but there are a lot of different um themes that kind of go along with this um, you know, this process. So I did I if I lose the camera, sorry, but I just want to go over a couple of things that I noticed throughout this. Bear with me one quick second here. So they were sent to Egypt in preparation um for the famine. Um God sent Abraham's descendants to Egypt to protect them during the famine and allow them to grow into a single fam from a single family into a large nation and prepare them for the promised land. That aligns with God's promise. He told Abram that. He fulfilled his prophecy, he held, he held his word. Um, so we do generally understand and accept that God's word is God's word, regardless of how it looks during the time, regardless of how it looks during the process. We generally understand that we are going to go through some struggle, we're going to go through some pain, but eventually God's word will be God's word. So as we're going through this, I just want to kind of jump now into Exodus one, and we'll kind of just kind of hang out there for the rest of this time. But what thing that I saw that was similar, and I'll go ahead and just read, read from the actual scripture, is that when we were dealing with Joseph and his brothers, they were very paranoid about what Joseph would do to them. Because why? Who knows? And then, similar to uh Jacob, he was very similar, he was very paranoid about what Esau would do to him. So it's like a consistent, um consistent spirit of worrying about things that have not happened yet. I think Pastor Reggie mentioned that um a few weeks back, like we can spend so much time focusing on what could happen or what we deserve that we miss what's going on. Now, um, you know, we talk about this often in uh, you know, church with Pastor Kerrick too. Uh when people without a covenant, we're people with the covenant, and if we do that, you already know how the other side is going to go about it. So I'll just skip down to um chapter, I'm sorry, verse eight in um Exodus one. Eventually, a new king, a king came into power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. So that's one thing that kind of kicked me in the chest when I was looking through it. I was like, dang, Joseph did all of this for his people, but also for Egypt. But as time progressed and went along, it was all forgot. So, you know, the world may forget. I know Solomon talks about this, and you know, Clay States, sorry if I mispronounced that, but the same things happen over and over and over and over and over again. And we can't trust the world's memory. Um, you know, we can only trust the memory of God, and we only get revelation of that through his word and also, you know, you know, the spirit that he shares with us. But so eventually this new king came into power. He said to his people, look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and we and are stronger than we are. We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don't, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us, then they will escape from the country. So the interesting part of this is one, this course of thinking actually ends up being the cause of what leads them to escaping. But none of that is written in stone. None of that was a thing that was necessarily, at least probably not shared with that pharaoh, but that feeling of insecurity, that feeling of kind of knowing that you like your intentions, and because we have to deal with that a lot of times, is people will project their insecurities, their intentions, and you know how they would handle a certain situation on us. So, in those circumstances, obviously, we're not supposed to lash out, we're not supposed to be try to beat them at their gang. Well, we have to do is stay rooted in the word of God. But um, my general purpose of this is that um these things are going to happen. We see the proof of it in God's word. But when we're walking in where we're supposed to be, when because you know you have to be in a position to be blessed. And despite how much of a problem myself had with it, which does not matter. And despite unfortunately the pain that um the children of Israel went through, they were in the right place at the right time, ready to be blessed. So I just want to close with um just kind of discussing just sometimes the beauty of belonging to the Lord and the beauty of how much provision and preservation can be when you're in the right place. So uh that Pharaoh, he had he made the decision that there would be no more boy children allowed to be lit, allowed to survive. So I just want to go ahead and read chapter one, verse 15, and then we'll be able to head to the breakout rooms. Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives of Shipra and Phuah. When you help the Hebrew woman as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him. If it is a girl, let her live. But because the midwives feared God, not Pharaoh, but because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king's orders. They allowed the boys to live too. So the king of Egypt called for the midwives, why have you done this? He demanded. Why have you allowed the boys to live? The Hebrew, the Hebrew women are not like us, not like the Egyptian women, the midwives replied. They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get out of there, we cannot get there in time. So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continue to multiply, growing more and more powerful. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. So, just in closing, we know who we should fear. We know that we don't need to worry about people that can be damage to this body. We need to fear the one that can do damage to the body and the spirit and the soul, um, who is our Lord who created us. And with that, we are ready for breakout works.