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 is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, in Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

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 the Soul with John gift of podcast. And I'm going to talk about something very important I want to share with you guys from Exodus chapter one. Right, we are living in a time and age where we see people who are in a place where there's so much of persecution happening on one side, or there is a moment where we are easily tempted to compromise or to slow down or to downtrack on the convictions. You know that we know this is the principles, the principle by which we need to live our life, or this is the standard based on God's word that we need to make this choice.

1:23 Speaker 2: But sometimes we can be pressured, maybe by ir authorities, or if I don't do this, I might lose my job. If I don't do this, I might get into trouble. If I don't do this, I might not get this opportunity again. So sometimes we tend to get pressured to just keep it going and do the wrong thing, even though we know that's not that I think to do just so that we can save ourselves or protect our peace, or just to make sure that everything is well with our life. But I want to share something very important with you.

1:52 Speaker 2: From Exodus chapter one. There's a moment when the king of Egypt, the Pharaoh, calls the Hebrew midwives, and he tells them that if you see a baby boy being born for the Hebrews, kill the boy, but if it's a girl, let her live. Well. Look at verse seventeen. It says the midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the King of Egypt had told him to do. I understand something here. The King of Egypt was the most powerful man in the world of that time. Egypt was the most proflination in the world of that time, and this was like a very serious offense.

2:27 Speaker 2: Right, And here's the thing. The midwise 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 I do this, what if I get political persecution, what if I'm attacked? What if something happens? So we tend to downtrack or you know, go back, or maybe we just tried to play it safe, just say, oh, you know what, I don't want to get into unnecessary trouble. But here's the thing I wanted to understand. Right, Even there, they didn't openly. When the king summoned the midwives and asked, why have you done this? Why did the boy allow the boys to live? The midwives answered saying, the Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women.

3:05 Speaker 2: They're vigorous and give birth before their midwives arrive. See, yes, the thing I'm an day to descent. I'm not here to tell you God allows us or wants us to lie. But sometimes you know, you have to be shrewd, or you have to be in a place where your wise to use the right opportunity to say things in the way that will not lead to unnecessary drama. Like imagine if they said, no, you know what, we will not do this Pharaoh, this is not the right thing to do. They will be killed, and what would happen.

3:36 Speaker 2: They'll be replaced by other midwives who might end up killing more baby boys. You know what I mean. So there is a place where you know how to stand firm, do what is right. At the same time, you know, put things in the right perspective. You know, put this in the right perspective. And look at verse twenty. The Bible says God was so kind to the mid vice, and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, God gave them families of their own. I want you to understand, God will not withhold any good thing to them that walk up brightly.

4:14 Speaker 2: The midwives honored the fact that, you know what, I need to obey God more than man. We need to have walk in fear of God more than the fear of man. And they did what was right, even in the midst of tremendous pressure, even though their life was at risk, they still chose to do what was right. And what happened God honored them. God showed up in their life today. That's the encouragement I want you to have that God will show up in your life when you stand firm against all odds. You know, Sometimes when I have to minister in certain places, I remember there's always this pressure to do it in this way or what if you you know, what if you get into trouble, people say say play it safe.

4:57 Speaker 2: See I'm not saying go and stir unnecessary, you know what I mean. Like, for instance, if there's a church that believes in a certain way and ministers in a certain way, I'm not going to bypass the order followed in that church and act you know, stupidly, I'm not going to do that. But in that if the Lord is leading me to minister in a certain way, you know, and it's blessing people, I don't care. I don't care if it's going to break some protocols, it's okay, you know. And even if I'm not getting an opportunity to minister again, that's okay, you know why, Because I want to walk 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 don't get a chance to minister again in this place. That's the place I want you to be because God honored the midwives because they stood up for the fear of God over the fear of man. They stood up for what was right even when their life was at risk. Today, I want you to respect some areas in your life where you are standing firm for what is even if it means that you might go through some hurts you might have to you know, like maybe your business might have a detour, maybe you might have to change your job, 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, change a church. But are you willing to do that? Because that's the right thing to do. Because when you put God first place, that's when things will start working out well in your life. And I want to believe the best for you as a child of God. Amen, God bless you.

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