{"id":33590,"date":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/god-and-hebrew-midwives\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"god-and-hebrew-midwives","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/god-and-hebrew-midwives\/","title":{"rendered":"God and the Hebrew Midwives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2005\/08\/18892.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n<p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Many of you\nperhaps were shaped the way I was in terms of where I really learned my first\nBible pictures of the Exodus story. I didn&#8217;t get mine in Sunday school, because\nI didn&#8217;t go to Sunday school growing up. I got my total mental furniture from\nCecil B. DeMille movies. It&#8217;s impossible that Moses looks like anything except\nCharlton Heston. Once I saw Charlton Heston in a grocery store and thought, <em>What&#8217;s\nMoses doing in this grocery store?<\/em><\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">When you\nthink popularly about where the Exodus experience begins, most of us tend to\nbelieve it begins with the story of Moses. I want to suggest this morning that\nit didn&#8217;t begin with the story of Moses; it began in a different place, in a\nsurprising place, in a place, I think, that has lessons for all of us. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Pharaoh instructs the Hebrew midwives to kill\nall the male Hebrew babies.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Look at\nExodus 1, beginning with verse 11: The Egyptians &#8220;put slave masters over\nthem [the Israelites] to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom\nand Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the\nmore they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites\nand worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with hard labor in\nbrick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard\nlabor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Why are we\nsurprised when people use other people? It&#8217;s right there at the beginning of\nthe biblical account. &#8220;The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives,\nwhose names were Shiphrah and Puah, &#8216;When you help the Hebrew women in\nchildbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him;\nbut if it is a girl, let her live.&#8217; The midwives, however, feared God and did\nnot do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then\nthe king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, &#8216;Why have you done\nthis? Why have you let the boys live?&#8217; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;The\nmidwives answered Pharaoh, &#8216;Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are\nvigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.&#8217; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;So God was kind to the midwives, and the people increased\nand became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave\nthem families of their own. Then\nPharaoh gave this order to all his people: &#8216;Every boy that is born you must\nthrow into the Nile, but let every girl live.&#8217; &#8221; (NIV)<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The reality\nof cruel oppression is heightened as the oppressor fears the very one who is\nbeing oppressed. This is a pattern built into the human experience. You could\ngo all around the world today, and I could exegete this passagethe story of\noppression. In South Africa or Sudan or any place that you want to name, the\noppressor comes to fear the one who is being oppressed. Then the screws are\ntightened and the stakes are raised, and the oppressor moves from ruthless\ninjusticehard laborto attempted genocide. And, as is common with patterns of\noppression, the genocide then is to be carried out by persons from within the\noppressed community. In this case the genocide is to be carried out by two\nordinary women. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Scholars\ntell us that midwives in Israel were barren women. In a culture within which\nhaving children and a family was the ordinary way to build a life, to obtain\nrespect, to know the blessing of God, these barren, somewhat marginal women\nfound their place as those who helped other women bring forth that new life.\nPart of their daily work, their daily routine, what they got up in the morning\nto do, was to helpto bring forth life.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">And then\ncame the order. Notice that it came from one who had the official authority to\ngive it. He was the legal power in that place, and these midwives were slaves,\nfully under the authority of this king.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Recently I\nwas in Egypt and I saw again the impressive trappings of that culture and that\nsocietythe statuary and temples, all meant to say something about the divine\nkingship of the Pharaoh and to point to the overwhelming power and might.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The armies of\nEgypt were powerful at this period in history. The culture of Egypt was the dominant culture in this period, and the\norder comes down: Kill the boys. The girls could be kept as house servants,\nslaves, but: Kill the boys, and do it in such a way that it doesn&#8217;t look like\nwe did it. Then two ordinary women, who probably were illiterate, said no. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">That took\ncourage. Where did it come from? It says, &#8220;Because they feared God.&#8221;\nThey had a fundamental conviction that while there was a Pharaoh, there was a\nGod over Pharaoh, and while they must give account to the human authorities and\npowers, they must give account to one over all human authorities and powers.\nThey feared God and they said no.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Then Pharaoh\nsummoned them. Can you feel what it must have been like to have the soldiers\nmarch to your little hovel in the slave quarters and push their way into the\nplace, and say, &#8220;You! Come!&#8221; And then to stand before the Pharaoh and\nhave him say, &#8220;Why did you do that?&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">It&#8217;s\ninteresting: the scholars through the centuries, from the early church fathers\ndown through the Reformers to contemporary days, have spent most of their\ncommentary space wrestling over the issue of whether or not the midwives lied,\nmissing the whole point of the narrative, which is that the midwives\ndisobeyed. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I was in\nSomalia with refugees when I heard something very much like something these\nmidwives could have said. There is no question but what they have carefully\nframed their answer, and I think the writer intends for us to enjoy a joke at\nPharaoh&#8217;s expense. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">But there is\na truth here: The Egyptian women, because of the slave culture, were pampered\ncity women. The Hebrew women were hardworking slaves, strong and vigorous, and\nprobably didn&#8217;t have as much trouble. But if they always had their babies\nbefore the midwives arrived, why were there midwives? What was God&#8217;s response? &#8220;So God was kind to the midwives\nand the people increased&#8230; . And because the midwives feared God, he gave them\nfamilies of their own.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">We need to\ntake the fear of God seriously.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I want to\nsay just a small thing, but I think it&#8217;s very deep. In our increasingly secular\nculture and in our increasingly secular selvesbecause we are part of this\nculture, it is in us even as we seek to be open to the transforming power of\nGodwe are tempted to believe or act as if there were no God to be feared. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">And here, I\nwant to say something about the common statement in sermons that talk about the\nfear of God, which is, &#8220;Friends, you really don&#8217;t have to be afraid of\nGod. God is our friend. He&#8217;s loving. He&#8217;s nice.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Friends, we\ndo have to be afraid of God. God is the Holy One. God is the Just One. God is\nthe Judge. We also know him as our lover, but he is no less judge for being\nlover. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Notice that\nthese midwives were not the spiritual professionals. They did not engage in\nfull-time Christian service. They had jobs right in the middle of the society,\nand in their job they were governed by the fear of God. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">What happens\nif there is no fear of God? If there is no fear of God, our horizon shrinks and\nour measurement of right and wrong becomes utilitarian: What&#8217;s in it for me?\nWhat will I gain? Can I get ahead? Will this make a difference? We may even\nask: &#8220;What can I get away with?&#8221; or, &#8220;Who will know?&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">More and\nmore I find those kinds of equations shaping our behavior as a society and even\nas a church. We become vulnerable and susceptible to pressures to conform to\nthe wrong values, to give in to power even when that power is used for\ndestructive or evil purposes, to live a lie, and to deny our calling. When\nwe&#8217;re called to be helpers, we turn into hurters because power told us to. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I thought of\nthe managers at Morton Thiokol, the construction worker who cuts a comer in\nbuilding a building because &#8220;Who will know?&#8221; the boss of the\nconstruction worker who arranged to water the cement so that the profit margin\non the contract would be larger, the pastor watching the pornographic movie in\nthe hotel a long way from home because &#8220;Who will know?&#8221; the skipper\nof the Exxon Valdez. But not just the skipper of the Valdez. What I thought\nabout was, <em>How many people on the Valdez knew that the man had a drinking\nproblem and said nothing? <\/em>When the\nfear of God is gone, the decisions of daily life are threatened. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The courage\nof the midwives came from two sources.<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">What did\nthese women have? They had courage. Where did that courage come from? It came\nfrom a conviction that there was a God to whom we give an account, a God that\nhonors us when we obey him, a God who means good for people and will have his\nway in the world. And so they acted rightly. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I have one\nother suspicion. It&#8217;s not in the text. There were two midwives, and I think\nit&#8217;s possible that part of their courage came from the fact that when they\nsought to do their daily work, there was another one who stood alongside.\nShiphrah had Puah. Puah had Shiphrah. And when they were threatened, they could\nsay, &#8220;Well, at least when we go before Pharaoh, we&#8217;ll go\ntogether.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The church\nthat has long thought of itself as gathered and scattered needs to understand\nthat in the scatteredness of our daily work, we\nneed companionscompanions of conviction and faith and courage, who can help us\ndo what God calls us to do. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">God honored\nthem. In fact the names of these two ordinary women, Shiphrah and Puah, have\nbeen preserved for over 3,000 years. 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