MIDWIVES – (LOVED, CARED FOR & PROTECTED HEBREW BOYS)Exodus 1:15–22 - 15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.” 17 The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
MOSES' MOTHER – (LOVED, CARED FOR AND PROTECTED HER SON)Exodus 2:1–3 - 1 Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
APART FROM GOD’S LOVE, NO LOVE IS GREATER THAN A MOTHER’S FOR HER CHILD.
MOSES' SISTER – (LOVED, CARED FOR, AND PROTECTED HER BROTHER)Exodus 2:4, 7–9 - 4 Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him. 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?” 8 So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
MOSES' ADOPTIVE MOTHER & HER SERVANT– (LOVED, CARED FOR, AND PROTECTED SOMEONE ELSE’S CHILD)Exodus 2:5–6, 10 -5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.” 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses.
MOSES' WIFE - (LOVED, CARED FOR & PROTECTED HER HUSBAND)Exodus 4:24–26 -24 On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death. 25 So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, and threw it at Moses’ feet. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So He let him alone.
Genesis 2:18 - It is not good for man to be alone.
ALL OF HUMANITY WOULD BE LOST IF NOT FOR THE LOVE, CARE AND PROTECTION OF WOMEN
THE ROLES OF 7 WOMEN IN JESUS' LIFE:
• Virgin Mary - Carried the Savior
• Elizabeth - Identified the Savior
• Anna – Praised the Savior
• The Samaritan Woman - Shared about the Savior
• Mary (Martha's Sister) - Anointed the Savior
• Mary Magdalene & Mary - Saw the Risen Savior
GOD DOESN'T ONLY INCLUDE WOMEN IN HIS PLAN OF REDEMPTION… THEY ARE CRUCIAL TO IT.
WHAT IS A WOMAN? THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN BRING LIFE INTO THIS WORLD.
WITHOUT THE LOVE, CARE AND PROTECTION OF WOMEN, MEN WOULD PERISH.
THE PROTECTION WOMEN PROVIDE FOR MEN IS PROTECTION FROM THEMSELVES.
Proverbs 31:11 -The heart of her husband trusts in {his wife}, and he will not lack anything good.
Men have been tasked with leading, protecting and providing for the most valuable thing to all humanity– Women. Because women have been tasked with loving, caring for and protecting ALL Life.
