When Doing Right Could Cost You Everything | Courage Under Pressure | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And I'm going

0:51 Speaker 2: to talk about something very important I want to share

0:53 Speaker 2: with you guys from Exodus chapter one. Right, we are

0:56 Speaker 2: living in a time and age where we see people

0:59 Speaker 2: who are in a place where there's so much of

1:01 Speaker 2: persecution happening on one side, or there is a moment

1:04 Speaker 2: where we are easily tempted to compromise or to slow

1:10 Speaker 2: down or to downtrack on the convictions. You know that

1:14 Speaker 2: we know this is the principles, the principle by which

1:17 Speaker 2: we need to live our life, or this is the

1:19 Speaker 2: standard based on God's word that we need to make

1:22 Speaker 2: this choice. But sometimes we can be pressured, maybe by

1:26 Speaker 2: ir authorities, or if I don't do this, I might

1:29 Speaker 2: lose my job. If I don't do this, I might

1:31 Speaker 2: get into trouble. If I don't do this, I might

1:33 Speaker 2: not get this opportunity again. So sometimes we tend to

1:36 Speaker 2: get pressured to just keep it going and do the

1:40 Speaker 2: wrong thing, even though we know that's not that I

1:43 Speaker 2: think to do just so that we can save ourselves

1:46 Speaker 2: or protect our peace, or just to make sure that

1:48 Speaker 2: everything is well with our life. But I want to

1:50 Speaker 2: share something very important with you. From Exodus chapter one.

1:53 Speaker 2: There's a moment when the king of Egypt, the Pharaoh,

1:57 Speaker 2: calls the Hebrew midwives, and he tells them that if

2:01 Speaker 2: you see a baby boy being born for the Hebrews,

2:04 Speaker 2: kill the boy, but if it's a girl, let her live. Well.

2:08 Speaker 2: Look at verse seventeen. It says the midwives, however, feared

2:12 Speaker 2: God and did not do what the King of Egypt

2:14 Speaker 2: had told him to do. I understand something here. The

2:17 Speaker 2: King of Egypt was the most powerful man in the

2:20 Speaker 2: world of that time. Egypt was the most proflination in

2:22 Speaker 2: the world of that time, and this was like a

2:26 Speaker 2: very serious offense. Right, And here's the thing. The midwise

2:30 Speaker 2: feared God more than the fear of this man.

2:34 Speaker 1: Today.

2:34 Speaker 2: My question is, so many times we say, oh, if

2:37 Speaker 2: I do this, what if I get political persecution, what

2:39 Speaker 2: if I'm attacked? What if something happens? So we tend

2:42 Speaker 2: to downtrack or you know, go back, or maybe we

2:46 Speaker 2: just tried to play it safe, just say, oh, you

2:49 Speaker 2: know what, I don't want to get into unnecessary trouble.

2:52 Speaker 2: But here's the thing I wanted to understand. Right, Even there,

2:55 Speaker 2: they didn't openly. When the king summoned the midwives and asked,

2:59 Speaker 2: why have you done this? Why did the boy allow

3:01 Speaker 2: the boys to live? The midwives answered saying, the Hebrew

3:04 Speaker 2: women are not like Egyptian women. They're vigorous and give

3:07 Speaker 2: birth before their midwives arrive. See, yes, the thing I'm

3:09 Speaker 2: an day to descent. I'm not here to tell you

3:12 Speaker 2: God allows us or wants us to lie. But sometimes

3:16 Speaker 2: you know, you have to be shrewd, or you have

3:19 Speaker 2: to be in a place where your wise to use

3:22 Speaker 2: the right opportunity to say things in the way that

3:26 Speaker 2: will not lead to unnecessary drama. Like imagine if they said, no,

3:30 Speaker 2: you know what, we will not do this Pharaoh, this

3:33 Speaker 2: is not the right thing to do. They will be killed,

3:35 Speaker 2: and what would happen. They'll be replaced by other midwives

3:38 Speaker 2: who might end up killing more baby boys. You know

3:42 Speaker 2: what I mean. So there is a place where you

3:44 Speaker 2: know how to stand firm, do what is right. At

3:47 Speaker 2: the same time, you know, put things in the right perspective.

3:51 Speaker 2: You know, put this in the right perspective. And look

3:55 Speaker 2: at verse twenty. The Bible says God was so kind

3:58 Speaker 2: to the mid vice, and the people increased and became

4:01 Speaker 2: even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, God

4:07 Speaker 2: gave them families of their own. I want you to understand,

4:10 Speaker 2: God will not withhold any good thing to them that

4:13 Speaker 2: walk up brightly. The midwives honored the fact that, you

4:17 Speaker 2: know what, I need to obey God more than man.

4:19 Speaker 2: We need to have walk in fear of God more

4:21 Speaker 2: than the fear of man. And they did what was right,

4:24 Speaker 2: even in the midst of tremendous pressure, even though their

4:27 Speaker 2: life was at risk, they still chose to do what

4:30 Speaker 2: was right. And what happened God honored them. God showed

4:35 Speaker 2: up in their life today. That's the encouragement I want

4:38 Speaker 2: you to have that God will show up in your

4:41 Speaker 2: life when you stand firm against all odds. You know,

4:46 Speaker 2: Sometimes when I have to minister in certain places, I

4:48 Speaker 2: remember there's always this pressure to do it in this

4:51 Speaker 2: way or what if you you know, what if you

4:54 Speaker 2: get into trouble, people say say play it safe. See

4:57 Speaker 2: I'm not saying go and stir unnecessary, you know what

5:00 Speaker 2: I mean. Like, for instance, if there's a church that

5:03 Speaker 2: believes in a certain way and ministers in a certain way,

5:06 Speaker 2: I'm not going to bypass the order followed in that

5:08 Speaker 2: church and act you know, stupidly, I'm not going to

5:11 Speaker 2: do that. But in that if the Lord is leading

5:15 Speaker 2: me to minister in a certain way, you know, and

5:19 Speaker 2: it's blessing people, I don't care. I don't care if

5:23 Speaker 2: it's going to break some protocols, it's okay, you know.

5:27 Speaker 2: And even if I'm not getting an opportunity to minister again,

5:29 Speaker 2: that's okay, you know why, Because I want to walk

5:32 Speaker 2: in the fear of God than in the fear of man.

5:35 Speaker 2: What if they don't like it, or what if I

5:38 Speaker 2: don't get a chance to minister again in this place.

5:41 Speaker 2: That's the place I want you to be because God

5:44 Speaker 2: honored the midwives because they stood up for the fear

5:49 Speaker 2: of God over the fear of man. They stood up

5:52 Speaker 2: for what was right even when their life was at risk. Today,

5:55 Speaker 2: I want you to respect some areas in your life

5:57 Speaker 2: where you are standing firm for what is even if

6:01 Speaker 2: it means that you might go through some hurts you

6:04 Speaker 2: might have to you know, like maybe your business might

6:08 Speaker 2: have a detour, maybe you might have to change your job,

6:12 Speaker 2: Maybe you might have to make amends in your relationship.

6:15 Speaker 2: Maybe you might have to do something even change a house,

6:18 Speaker 2: change a church. But are you willing to do that?

6:21 Speaker 2: Because that's the right thing to do. Because when you

6:25 Speaker 2: put God first place, that's when things will start working

6:28 Speaker 2: out well in your life. And I want to believe

6:30 Speaker 2: the best for you as a child of God. Amen,

6:33 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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