The Truth About Oppression
What to know about oppression:
Oppression yields multiplication (Exodus 1:12)
Internal spiritual expansion
Unshakable faith
Resilience
Ability to endure
Full reliability on the Lord
Your ability to grow during oppression scares the enemy (Exodus 1:8-10)
The will of God for your life outweighs the oppression (The salvation of Moses, resulted in the salvation of God’s people (Exodus 2:1-3))
Scripture to reflect on:
Exodus 1:8-10
8) Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9) “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10) Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
Exodus 1:12
12) “But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites”
Exodus 2:1-3
1) Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2) and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3) But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
