Message Notes

October 25th, 2026
Littles: Shiphrah and Puah

(Slide 3) Why should we do the right thing, when it seems like it won’t make a difference?

(Slide 5) Why should we do the “right” thing, when it seems like it won’t make a difference?
(Slide 7) Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

(Slide 8) And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.

(Slide 9) 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 1:8-10)

(Slide 11) Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. (Exodus 1:11)

(Slide 13) 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. (Exodus 1:12)

(Slide 15) So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

(Slide 16) 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 1:13-14)

(Slide 18) Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah.

(Slide 19) “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.” (Exodus 1:15-16)

(Slide 21) But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. (Exodus 1:17)

(Slide 23) 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.” (Exodus 1:22)

(Slide 25) Why should we do the “right” thing, when it seems like it won’t make a difference?

(Slide 27) Why should we do the right thing, when it seems like it won’t make a difference?

(Slide 29) because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.(Exodus 1:21)

(Slide 31) God rewarded their choice.

(Slide 33) because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.(Exodus 1:21)

(Slide 35) God rewarded their choice.

(Slide 37) The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. (Exodus 2:2)

(Slide 39) Sometimes our choices have impacts that we can’t foresee.

(Slide 41) Sometimes our choices have impacts that we can’t foresee.

(Slide 43) Do what’s right, even when you can’t see the impact.

(Slide 45) Where do you need to act and trust God for the impact?

(Slide 47) Where do you need to act and trust God for the impact?