babies. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Well, good thoughts. Let's, um, the the themes is we're gonna this is basically even though Dave kept telling me this isn't an outline isn't I was like, Well, no, I'm just thinking of themes. But this is kind of how we're going to flow through tonight. Looking through this, so if you don't want to look at that, you can kind of see where we're going. But we're gonna jump in with this first. One, that God keeps the Abrahamic covenant. And we talked about this and Hayes and Devall but I want to I pulled this from Dr. EIMs. Y'all know I quote her all the time from Exodus. She's one of my favorite scholars on she she is like one of the leading scholars on the book of Exodus, and she's written some phenomenal books and has some really interesting insights. And she's just really brilliant. And this is she did, what's it called a Bible Bible class. I did, I will. The class that I'm taught for Exodus No, the class with the Bible. What will project Bible project y'all are familiar with Bible project? Yeah. So it's a free class that she does on Exodus. It's like, as long as what I tell you all, it was like 14 hours or something like once you do all the sessions, so I did it over the course of a few months, and it was really it's free. If you want to do it, but if there's anything if you go to Bible project and do Exodus or search for Dr. ions, it's i m e s. She just has some really great material and she's a scholarly but I think you know, if you like the little bit nerdy stuff, you can hang with her but this is from her Bible project class, and I pulled it out because they talked about it, but I just think it's really powerful, you know, right away. And y'all are gonna hear us talk about this a lot throughout the entire from Genesis to Revelation, this idea of creation, like what started everything like this love story that God had with his creation is woven through and so we say things like, Oh, we see the, the, what the author was doing there with the recreations of the uncreation or that and so there's a ton of that and Exodus. You'll hear us say that a lot. But if you look at and I love how she lays it right beside each other Genesis 128, which we've already talked about this Be fruitful and multiply. And, and how we see that same thing. There right on the opening of Exodus, that they're laying out, you know, again, it's important that he said the God of I am the God of Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob. Yeah. Oh, sorry, my brain went blank. And so it's important to keep saying that, because that lineage is significant. It's that family. And it's that blessing, like David mentioned earlier that those that Allah bless those who bless you, and I'll curse those who curse you like, you're in God's family, like you're in this protected. You're not just an image bearer, you're the child like you're in the family of God. And so as you see this blessing laid out it's really cool. That they, the language that they use in Exodus one seven, because it's talking about that they're going to be piled up like that they are going to multiply, and that eventually is what would create spear and Pharaoh because this Pharaoh is possibly we don't know for sure, but possibly because he is, is a different dynasty of Pharaoh, from the one that when Jacob and like like, just like Joseph and all of his brothers were there and he was under Pharaoh. And Pharaoh blessed that family and so Egypt was blessed and there was this symbiotic relationship that's getting along until there wasn't and now you have these foreigners who are multiplying, and they're Hardy. And he's like, What do we do about it? And so again, we see this laid out in the book, that there's the plan A, which is harsh labor, and so he's trying to subdue that and he's like, if I take all of their energy and just beat them down and oppress them, they won't, they won't have babies. They won't get out of line. They won't do all of this. And despite that, they multiply like, just like, we have to remember this, like people are burying children like out in the wilderness. Like there's no hospitals, they had midwives but I mean, it just it was a bloody messy business. And children meant there was the death rate was high. And so if you had just not not just having children, but being able to carry them to term and birth them and the mother not dying, like those were significant things. So that was the blessing of their God, that they were able despite all of this, so then Pharaoh was like, Okay, well, we gotta do something else. Right. So he was like, midwives, I'm commissioning you, you're there at the birth. Let's take care of and as Tara mentioned, did they agree with this? But they were still doing their job and they didn't do this verse. If we're not doing what you safer because they really couldn't do that. Anyway, he would have just murdered them and then they would have gotten new midwives. So the Israelites, the Egyptians called them Hebrews, and that was actually a derogatory term. Like that he Pharaoh and the Egyptians referred to them as dogs and like lowly people, beastly people, like they thought so low of them. And so the midwives are very clever, and they turn his, you know, like Slater's, talk against them back in his face and say, Well, you know, they're such a hearty people like, they just, they pop out these babies before we can even get there. Make a meme with their own plan. And it's really interesting because God didn't call them to do that. They didn't do anything. They were just doing their career, their job, like what they had been, you know, commissioned with for their life, and yet they still use their work to bless God and to bless His people. And I think that's a huge important thing for us that we don't have to have some glamorous job to have like and their names on like Pharaoh, a midwife gets her name in all of Scripture. I mean, how special is that? And their name is remembered and we speak their names. So when we read the Scripture that cool so, so if everyone's like, Oh, what am I going to do? Please like everybody's in charge of killing the babies, throw them in the water drown them. So that's where we enter the story here with the calling of Moses. Things are dark things are ugly, there they are, like, laboring and they're crying out and it's really interesting, because did they cry out to God? They did it. They cried out in agony and pain. woe is us. We're an oppressed people. And again, we see that we're like, you're God's people. Why did you say God help us? They didn't. So it's interesting, but a loving God said and this is important, y'all, because this is going to be something that we like, I grew up Baptist. I love the Baptist tradition. I married a Baptist preacher, y'all like I'm like, Yay, Baptist, but there's a lot of things we get wrong and screw up and we screw each other up in some of our doctrine. And I think one of that is this idea. We put more emphasis than we should on coming to God for the right reasons or getting our life together. We may say something different, but it's not how we live. And it's not how we preach. And we should do a better job of that because it as we'll see this as we go through. All of this happens, we're not going to get to commandments until next week, right? The whole first half of Exodus is God seeing his people in anguish and lovingly reaching out and he saves them and then he gives them instructions, but we'll get to that next week. Right. I won't jump ahead, but I think it's really important. They didn't cry out to God. They cried out and loving God said, You are my people and I'm going to honor this Abrahamic covenant to have a break. I'll say it I can't say it. The covenant of