In Exodus 1:15-21, we read how used two midwives to deliver the people of Israel from being wipe out in Egypt as directed by the wicked Pharaoh.
"If this plan had succeeded, Pharaoh would have wiped out the Hebrew people. The future generation of men would be dead and the girls would eventually be married to Egyptian slaves and absorbed into the Egyptian race. But Gen 3:15 and 12:1-3 said that God would not permit such a thing to happen, and He used two Jewish midwives to outwit Pharaoh.
This is the first instance in Scripture of what today we call "civil disobedience," refusing to obey an evil law because of a higher good. Scriptures like Matt 20:21-25; Rom 13:1; and 1 Peter 2:11 admonish Christians to obey human authorities; but Rom 13:5 reminds us that our obedience must not violate our conscience. When the laws of God are contrary to the laws of man, then "[w]e ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). You see this exemplified not only in the midwives but also in Daniel and his friends (Dan 1; 3; 6) and the apostles (Acts 4-5)".
(from The Bible Exposition Commentary: Old Testament © 2001-2004 by Warren W. Wiersbe.).
The Church must not allowed the ungodly to silence her with satanic laws. Whatever law that it is ungodly, unjust and wicked must not be obeyed.
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