They're going to be put into slavery and servitude in the nation of Egypt, and the command is going to go forth to kill every male child that is born, and well, it says, the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom one was Shipprah, and the name of the other, Puah, and he said, when you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, then she shall live, all right, so here's that order, and the Hebrew midwives reject this order, all right, and verse 20, it says, therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty, and so it was, because the midwives feared God, that he provided households for them, so that the idea here is, first of all, just because someone in authority over you commands you to do something wrong that does not obligate you to do the wrong thing, they did the right thing, okay, now it says here, because the Hebrew women, or because the midwives obeyed God, that God honored that, that we have to be careful taking this one example, and we tend to say, well, if I do the right thing, God's gonna take care of me, and not let any harm come to me, well, in one sense, that's true, in one sense, that's not true, okay, this is one example, all right, where God did honor how they behaved, and blessed them, but God is free to bring glory to himself, in whatever means is necessary, what do I mean by that, well, we are obligated to do what is right, and to bring God glory through doing the right thing, making the right choices, but let me bring you to Hebrews chapter 11, and as we know, Hebrews chapter 11 is the great faith chapter, all right, and let me start in verse 32, it says, and what more shall I say, and this is after talking about all sorts of heroes of the faith, Abraham, and Moses, and so on, and so forth, it says, and what more shall I say, for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, also of David, and Samuel, and the prophets, who through faith, subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of aliens, women received their dead raised to life again, it seems like we have so many examples of God preserving, and protecting, and honoring in this life many people who were faithful to him, and all of a sudden, the script flips, as they say, others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection, still others had trial of mockings, and scourgings, yes, and of chains, and imprisonments, they were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy, so know this, it's always the right time to do the right thing in obeying what God has commanded us to do, the results from that we cannot extrapolate and say God protected this person at this time, therefore he's going to protect me in the same fashion, right, we are at his mercy, we live our lives for his glory, and it is because of this that we are able to accept that God is sovereign in all that he does, so that the evil that is done to us, whether we are deserving of that evil or not, is irrelevant, but that God means it for a greater good, that is the promise we can lay hold of today, let's pray.