Turn with me to Exodus chapter
4. We'll begin Exodus chapter 3,
the end of it. That hymn we just sang is attributed
to Dorothy Thrupp, but it was found in hymns for the youth. I thought, well, I'd like to
be in that children's class one year. Faithful pastor one time
had a whole series. He said, I just want to spend
15 minutes every Sunday morning talking to the young people.
And I said, can I sit in? I want to sit there and hear
what you have for the little people. I like that. It's simple
and plain. I want it simple and plain. It's
a good thing. Exodus three, we'll look at verse
17. I have a title. This message
is a three-point message. I have three points for you.
Three-point message. If you'd like to read along,
Exodus 3, verse 17. The Lord speaking to Moses and said,
I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt
unto the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites
and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites unto a land
flowing with milk and honey. and they shall hearken to thy
voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto
the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, the Lord God of
the Hebrews hath met with us, and now let us go. We beseech
thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice
to the Lord our God. And I am sure that the king of
Egypt will not let you go. No. not by a mighty hand. And I will
stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which
I will do in the midst thereof. And after that, he will let you
go." This is who's speaking to Moses. This is the God that is
God. the Lord of hosts, and everybody
wants to stretch out their hand and do something for him and
obligate the Lord. He says, I'm gonna stretch out my hand. I'm
gonna do it. This ain't in man's hands. Favorite
ain't gonna listen to you, ain't gonna listen to nobody. I'm gonna
do this. I'm gonna do this. This is Exodus.
Remember, this is drawing out. This is bringing out from that
prison, from that bondage that we are. And the Lord said, I'm
gonna do it. I will stretch forth my hand, verse 21, and I will
give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it
shall come to pass that when ye go, ye shall not go empty. You ain't gonna go out here empty-handed.
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor And I've heard
that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of
gold and raiment, and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon
your daughters, and ye shall spool the Egyptians. The Lord
said, I'm gonna do all this. He said, you've been in bondage
for 430 years, and I'm gonna give you my word, you're gonna
go to Pharaoh, and he ain't gonna listen. And so I'm gonna make
it apparent to the world from here on, I stretch forth my hand
that I did this, and I brought you out, and when you go out,
You're not gonna tuck, tail, and run in the middle of the
night. You're gonna turn to the Egyptians and say, give me your earrings.
We're gonna go worship God. I'm gonna use that to make sockets,
put this tabernacle in, and they're gonna give it to you. Every time
I read that, I was in history class in college, and I thought,
April 9th, 1865 in America, Civil War ended. And you think all
those that took a couple months to travel west, people didn't
know it is. So we have Juneteenth. But if that news passed, you
think all those freed slaves, if they turn to their masters,
been in bondage or family, been for a couple hundred years, say,
hey, give me your wife's wedding man. I need to make that so I
can go melt it down and we'll use that to worship God. Sure.
Yeah, well, here, take it. Here's my watch. You can melt
that down. Hey, I'm gonna make you a sandwich on the way so
you don't get hungry while you're going. You'd say, that's ludicrous.
That ain't gonna happen. Lord said, hide and watch it.
That's what the Egyptians are gonna do for you. When I'm gonna
bless it, it can't be unblessed. And it's gonna be amazing. And
they ain't gonna have stingy hearts, and they ain't gonna
have selfishness in them. I'm not gonna use them for eternity,
but for this moment, I'm gonna open their purse strings up,
and everything you need is gonna be provided for you without you
even having to lift a finger. Just have them borrow that, there
you go. Why was it borrowed? Said they shall borrow. Well,
this whole world's gonna burn, isn't it? You know that house
we've worked so hard for and those cars we've worked so hard
for? That ain't mine, that's the Lord's. That ground I own,
that ain't my ground. I happen to have a piece of paper
that could burn like that. That's his ground. Let's go a
little deeper. You know them precious children
or grandchildren or whatever we have? That's his. That ain't
ours. It's his. We're just borrowing
it. We're just here for a moment,
aren't we? What an amazing promise of the Lord. And he said, you're
going to do everything I tell you to do. It ain't going to
work out the way you think it's going to work out. I'm going
to prove to you that I'm sovereign and I do what I will. And it's
going to be bountiful. The end is going to be better
than the beginning. And you can just scratch your head and say,
wow, how's that going to happen? Sit back and watch him work.
Wait on the Lord and watch it come to pass. Watch it come to
pass. It says in Exodus 4, verse 1. The Lord told Moses all these
things. And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not
believe me, nor hearken unto my voice. For they will say,
The Lord hath not appeared to thee. Oh boy, that just hit me. The God of heaven and earth spoke
to Moses out of a burning bush on holy ground. And he said,
Now go tell them this. What am I gonna say sent me? I am. We looked at that last
week. Everything that means. Go tell him, Moses, and here's
what's gonna happen. Shall come to pass. And here's
Moses. And he says, that ain't gonna
work. They ain't gonna believe me.
What a rebellious and unbelieving saved sinner that is. God just
revealed himself to him, just saved him. And he said, I don't
think that's going to work. No one run that by me. I don't
think it's good. I think we all trapped my way. They ain't going
to believe me. They ain't going to believe that
I talked to you. And I thought nothing's changed.
We'll see this as the message, as the points unfold in this
message God gives Moses. But that's who's used to preach
the gospel. Just frail, weak vessels of clay
that's prone to wonder and worry and get distracted and everything
else like anybody else. Just like the ones they're preaching
to. I ain't no different. Somebody reaches out to me often
and says, I want you to pray for me. Well, I will, but I don't
have... Tell them other preachers to
pray for them. We ain't got no 800 number that's going to be
any different than what you... There's no man between God and
men but the mediator, but Christ. Go to him. Go to his feet. My
job is to say go to his feet. Don't talk to me, talk to him.
I'll pray for you anyway, but... Brother Mayhem was preaching
one time, Paul, and he said, a fella come up to him after,
and he goes, you know, it's so refreshing to hear a preacher
say he's a sinner. You don't hear that. It ain't
just so rare to hear a preacher say that he's a sinner. It's
a rare thing to find sinners. Well, they might've done something
bad. I stole a pack of Rolos when I was five from a grocery
store. Sin, sin, that's all I am. I told you, if you got inside
of my head, you quit eating lunch with me. I think some of y'all
got inside me. It's a shameful thing, isn't
it? That's Moses. Verse one says, And Moses' answer
said, But behold, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my
voice, for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
He's saying, Your word's gonna return void, Lord. Ain't gonna
do no good. Verse two, And the Lord said
unto him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. Do
you see what just took place? This comforted me. I hope it
comforts you. The Lord was not fazed by Moses' inability. The Lord wasn't fazed by his
reluctance or his laziness of his chosen servant. He didn't even say, I don't care,
Moses. He just kept saying what he was going to say. It wasn't a hiccup in his plan
at all. What the Lord was going to will
to do was going to come to pass. You can kick and scream if you
want, Moses. That's the two fellows who retired from a CSX railroad
there in Kentucky one time. Both of them did 30 years. Both
of them worked in the same rail yard their whole life, and one
of them was happy every day. He went to work and said, Lord
gave me this job. He was thankful and blessed and smiled, and the
other one was grumpy and his wrinkles showed. He'd frown all
the time, gritted his teeth. And he'd come out of there, and
both of them had the same pension, both of them had the same experience.
One was happy, one was sad. What a thought. Here's the first
point of this three-point message God gave Moses to preach. It's
the rod. He said, what's that in your
hand? He said, a rod, verse three. And he said, cast it on the ground.
And he cast it on the ground, it became a serpent. And Moses
fled from before it. Why did Moses run? It was a snake. There's enmity between me and
the serpent. That's why it's good snakes.
Go play with them if you want. I ain't messing with them. I
don't like them. They bit me before and I don't
want nothing to do with them. But this was a poisonous snake,
wasn't it? It was a dangerous snake. It was deadly. Moses was
no match for the snake and he ran from it. Verse four, and
the Lord said unto Moses, put forth thy hand and take it by
the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became
a rod in his hand. Why'd he grab the tail? The Lord
told him to. Don't you mess with that head.
You just touched the tail. If we could just get a hold of
this a little bit, and we'll see this serpent's been made
a rod, God may give us life, wake us up. It'd be precious. What's with this rod? What's
happening with this rod? We just read it in Isaiah 11,
didn't we? Who's this rod? What's this rod? Who is this
rod? There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, a branch
shall grow out of his roots, and the Spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him. That's what that began with,
was a rod, wasn't it? Spirit of wisdom and understanding.
Christ is that rod. He descended, a body was prepared
for him, and he was sent to this cursed earth. He was cast on
this ground, wasn't he? For his elect's sake. And he
was made under the law, born of a woman just like us, wasn't
he? And he was made sin. He was made
that very thing that we are, that was killing us. And he gave
up the ghost and he was received as that victorious rod of Jesse,
according to the scriptures, to his rightful throne. He was
that brazen serpent lifted up, drawing all his church, all his
body to himself. That's what happened. Our instinct,
our nature is to run away from that. I'm gonna read you something,
see if you draw back just a little bit. Like if there was a poisonous
snake sitting there and you kind of, you take a little caution.
You breathe a little easier, don't you? Let me tell you what
the Lord's Word says. We're the ambassadors of Christ, preaching
to you, as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you and Christ
that be ye reconciled to God. I want every man, woman, and
child that can hear me to be reconciled to God. I want you
to be reconciled to God. For, because he hath made him sin
for us, who knew no sin, that rod wasn't a serpent, that rod
was made a serpent, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. We'll be made just like him. Didn't that make you
draw back a little bit? You wanna take your shoes off
for that one? Is that holy ground? Substitution's what that is.
What's that rod? Christ came down, he was cast
onto this earth and made us, and God slew him. He was received
in the glory just as he was, but the victim. Right back to
that rod. Substitution's marvelous. It's
a precious thing and it's a terrible thing. It's a frightening thing,
isn't it? Kimberly's got a class of young
people, and it's just as this word says, they don't respect
their parents. They ain't raised right, and they're disrespectful,
and they'll cut your throat if you'd let them. And she had somebody
as a substitute for her. And he come out of that class,
and he said, you going in there again? He said, I wouldn't go
back in there. I quit. He said, I'm not a substitute
for you no more. And that's just little tiny children,
isn't it? What about dealing with a holy God? We cursed and
we spit in his face. We didn't want nothing to do
with him. And while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He crushed that serpent's head by being made that brazen serpent. And we looked to him and we said,
where is he? Is he still there? No! He's the
rod. He's back where he belongs, right
on his throne. Isn't that majestic to us? He
said, go preach that, Moses. My people believe that. They
ain't gonna believe me. Oh, yes, they will. Yes, they
will. What's in your hand, Moses? Verse
four, the Lord said unto Moses, put forth thy hand and take it
by the tail. And he put forth his hand and
caught it, and it became a rod in his hand. The Lord said, now
you do this. And we'll show you how to do
this, and you do this. That's what you tell them, show them.
Verse five, that they may believe that the Lord, God of their fathers,
and the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee. What's the first point, Moses?
Go preach to them, tell them about substitution. Christ our
head taking our place, and he's victorious, and behold your God.
Behold him. How could they understand such
a thing with me throwing a rod down, becoming a snake, me picking
it back up, and it's a rod again? The Lord does the teaching. He
does make people understand. You just tell them. Just tell
them. That's the Lord's first point.
What's the Lord's second point in this message he's giving Moses
to preach? Three-point message from God, isn't it? Why did all
this have to happen? First one, substitute, behold
your God. The second one, all flesh is grass. Look here in
verse six. And the Lord said furthermore
unto him, put thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand
into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was
leprous as snow. He stuck his hand inside of his
shirt, and he pulled his hand out, and his hand was white as
snow, nothing but leprosy. Verse seven. And he said, put
thy hand in thy bosom again. And he put his hand in his bosom
again, and he plucked it out of his bosom. Behold, it was
turned again as his other flesh. And it shall come to pass, if
they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first
sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
It says there in verse six, put your hand into thy bosom. And
he put his hand into his bosom, and it was his hand, wasn't it? What we read in verse one? Moses
answered and said, behold, they'll not believe me in a heart of
my voice. He's the center, isn't he? He's got to get that first
before he can do anything else. Moses, you touch your bosom.
That's where the problem is. And don't shy away from it. You
tell the people. I've heard, I've heard horrible remarks about
sermons to faithful men of old and of this generation. They
say, y'all not tell people what a sinner you are. God says, go
tell them. Should I listen to man or should
I listen to God? I'm gonna do what he says. I'm
a sinner like anybody else. Ain't no different. I'm born
of Adam. Did the Lord give me this job? He sure did. And as
he's with me, I'll fulfill the duties of this job, execute them
the best I can. As he sees fit, but I'm no different
than anybody else. I'm no different. And Lord said,
he reminded Moses of that. And he said, if they won't hear
about Christ and him crucified, and they won't hear about him
being made sin, you can tell them, you might want to pay attention
to this and wake up because you're seeing, and I'm seeing, I know
you are. Cause I am, I ain't no different
than you. Same blood goes through your veins, goes through mine.
We're all born Adam. He said, now you go show them
that. Tell them that. That's where the problem is,
did you know that? In the heart. It's not in the outward, it's
not in the books you read, it's not in the tobacco that you chew, it's
not in the beer that you drink, or what company it comes from.
We've saw sinners drink that kind of beer. Oh, you drink the
good kind of beer? Nonsense. The problems are the heart. The
Lord said that in Matthew 15. He said, are you without understanding?
You know this, do you understand it? And he said, do you not understand
that whatever entered the mouth go into the bellies, cast out,
and dropped? It just goes through you. But those things which proceed
out of the mouth come from the heart. That's what defiles a
man. That's what the problem is. Out of the heart proceeds
evil thoughts, and murders, and adulteries, and fornications, and thefts,
and false witness, and blasphemies. These are the things which defile
a man. But to eat with unwashing hands, that don't defile nobody.
Wash hands if you want to. The heart's the problem. Turn
over Luke 18. This'll be a real short look,
but we'll look at it. Look here in verse nine. Let's
read this like we ain't never read it before. Lord be with
us as we do. Luke 18, verse nine. And he spake
a parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they
were righteous and despised others. They're fine and everybody else
is wrong. Two men went up to the temple
to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a publican. The Pharisee
stood and prayed thus with himself. God, I thank thee that I'm not
as other men are Extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as
this publican, I fast twice in a week, not once. I fast twice
in a week and I give tithes of all that I possess. I give a
tenth of everything that comes across my table and I let God
have it. Ain't he so good? Now remember the Lord said that
that unjust and the adulterers and all those things and the
thieves, that come from the heart. You didn't steal something that
made you a thief. You was a thief in the heart and that's why you
stole something. You didn't cheat on your taxes and not tell the
government what you made last year, because now you're a tax
cheat. You're a tax cheat because you're
a sinner, and that's why you cheated on your taxes. This publican
says, I'm not unjust, and I'm not a dog. He said, I ain't got
a heart problem. I ain't got it. I wish the Lord would give
us a physical heart problem. Maybe we'd pay attention about
these spiritual heart problems. You know what I mean? He may
do that in Providence. Our physical heart problem would be our taskmaster
to make us pay attention to these spiritual problems we got. That
publicans or Pharisee said, I'm fine. Thank you. Well, I have
such a blessed life. Do you hear that come across
people's mouths? Everybody and their brother. We're so blessed.
Oh, it's such a blessing. We're blessed. They put it on
the last plate. Blessed. Don't even say that God blessed
us because he chose to. They shorten it down to one word.
Blessed. What about that publican? Remember
Moses? The Lord said, stick your hand
on your heart, not anybody else's heart. Don't worry about the
Pharisee. Don't worry about nobody else. You put it on your heart.
I'm going to put it on my heart and pull it back to see what's
there. Verse 13, the publican standing afar off, would not
so much lift his eyes on the heaven, didn't even go in there,
but smote upon his breast. Why did he hit his breast? That's
where the problem was. He put his hand there saying,
God be merciful to me, a sinner. You stick it in, I'm leprosy.
Ain't nobody can touch me. I can't be in the presence of
nobody. I have to yell unclean, unclean. Well, what about so-and-so? I'm too busy yelling unclean
to work their clean. I got a problem. And he said, God be merciful
to me, a sinner. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified rather than the other. He didn't say
he went down there doing cartwheels and he felt warm and fuzzy and
he went and opened a soup kitchen for everybody. It's because the
people know he's a good Christian. He went down justified by the
blood of Christ. Do you need a warm fuzzy or do
you need his blood? There's people that's mad at their preacher
and run him off because they said he wasn't nice. Like you
just ain't sweet enough and you ain't kind enough. Neither was
Jonah. They didn't need Jonah to be nice. They had multiple
millions of people. They needed Christ and him crucified
to be preached to. Your grass ain't nothing. You're going to
burn up. You need him. One that was made a serpent because that's
what we are and he's risen and we're in him. That's the need. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified rather than the other, for everyone
that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself
shall be exalted. Moses, you tell them what you
are, and you tell them what the Lord did for you. You thought
you were fine, but you had a heart problem, and because of that
rod being made sin and is risen, you're made whole. Put it there,
I ain't nothing but sin. Now I'm made just like him. How'd
that happen? Isn't that the history of mankind
in a hand breath? We was whole when Adam, morally
innocent, we wouldn't cast out yet. We ain't nothing but sin,
he's made us whole again. First point, that's the message
of substitution. Second point, salvation's of
the Lord and we need it. We need it. That's why he told
that man, he healed him. He said, go home to thy friends.
Go in people you know, go in people you live next door with,
go in people you have dealings with in your daily life, and
tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and
how he had compassion on you. He didn't, I didn't deserve this.
I didn't earn it. That's called grace. He did it
because he wanted to. Go tell him. Go tell him. So he's telling Moses, isn't
he? Third point, how can that be? How can it be right? Is this legitimate? Somebody
came and said, You've won Publishers Clearinghouse and you got a Ferrari
and are you sure? Do I have to pay taxes on it?
What's the catch? That's our thought, isn't it?
What's the catch? Is this legitimate? This is more
important than cars and Publishers Clearinghouse than winning the
lottery, isn't it? It's eternal life and death. My soul on the line is how it
concerns me, but way more important to me having eternal life than
you having eternal life. God's glory is on the line. How
do we treat such things? Is this legitimate? Job asked,
how can a man be just with God? Even old Bildad didn't know. He was looking for facts, wasn't
he? Job needed to know. Verse nine, back in our text,
Exodus 4. The Lord gave a first point, substitution. Gave a second
point, all flesh is grass, we have a need. Exodus 4 verse 9,
and it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these
two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take
the water of the river, and shall pour it upon the dry, and the
water which thou hast taken out of the river shall become blood
on the dry land. If they won't hear you about
the substitution of Christ, about Him being made sin, if they won't
hear you and you say, we're all sin, we need Him. If they still
won't hear you, go take that water, put it on the ground,
on this earth, and it's gonna turn to blood. What's that? Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission for sins. This is necessary. Show them
the blood. Talk about the blood. Tell them about the blood. Look
to the blood! Faithful man of old told me this.
If you're preaching and you just lost everybody, just start screaming
out, look to the blood! Be a good message. Be faithful. It says in Exodus 12, the blood
shall be for you a token on the houses. Doesn't that pass over?
And the Lord said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you.
Put the blood on the ground. That was water and that was blood,
wasn't it? That's what John said in 1 John
5. This is he that came by water
and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and
blood. And this is the spirit that beareth
witness because the Spirit's true. Remember us looking at
that. His side was pierced. What came out? Water and blood
from thy wounded side, which flowed. Be of sin the double
cure. They shall receive Machpelah.
They shall receive the Lord's hand double. We have to be washed
in that blood and we have to be made holy. God does that. He said, if they won't hear you
about Christ being made sin, if they won't hear that they're
sinners and they need him, he has to be made us, go tell them
about the blood. Tell them how this took place.
He laid down his life for the sheep. Willingly, he laid down
his, poured out his blood and gave up the ghost. What if they
don't hear you on all three? But the catchphrase we have,
you snooze, you lose, isn't fitting. Turn over to 1 Corinthians 11.
I'll read this to you when we have the Lord's Supper. Let's
read this together. 1 Corinthians 11. Got three points for you, Moses.
Tell him about Christ, what took place on Calvary. Go tell him
what's always been inside of your heart and the Lord dealt
with and took care of that. You had a need for him and go
tell him about the blood of Christ. That's how this took place. That's
how this is legitimate. What if I don't hear all three?
First Corinthians 11 verse 25. I'll begin in verse 23. Here's
what we normally read in the Lord's Supper. For I have received
of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus,
the same night in which he was betrayed, he took bread. And
when he had given thanks, he'd break. And he said, take, eat. This is my body, which is broken
for you. This do in remembrance of me.
And after the same manner, he also took the cup, and when he
had sup, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood,
this do ye, as oft as you drink in remembrance of me. For as
often as you eat this bread and drink of this cup, you do show
the Lord's death till he come. Moses, go tell him about his
work. Go tell him why. And go show
his death till he come. Tell him who he is. Show him
his blood. Verse 27, wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread
and drink of this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty
of the body and the blood of the Lord. That's how serious that is. Peter
preached that to the very ones that put cross on a cross. And
he had the spine that God put in him to point his finger right
in their face. And he said, you slew him and God set him on his
throne. You're not just the reason you
don't just need his blood. You're the one that stuck it
in him. When you talk about preaching for a verdict. How's that set
with you? Well, that was nice. Three points,
Lord. See you. See you next week. That's
us. First one don't get him. The
second don't get him. Moses, go do this. Show him that water
turned into wine. Show him that blood of Christ
that he did it. His blood was shed. If we do this somewhere,
though, we said, well, we had a part of it. That's on your
hands. The Lord told them folks, he
said, you killed him. That blood's on your hands. And
they said, what are we going to do to be saved? Repent. Turn
to Christ. Believe on him. Begging for mercy. He does show
mercy. And just because he shed his blood for it. It's fair. It's right. That's for those
that don't. Those that don't care about that
first one. Don't care about that second
point. Don't care about that third point. Or they're affable or
they give mental assent. Well, that is accurate according
to this word that I've dissected because I'm a lawyer. That's for those that, there's
not a heart work done. God don't melt them because of
that. That changes you, buddy. You think having kids change
you? Have Christ in you. Turn your world upside down.
And he said that his blood's on your hands. If you don't care
for him, the father loved the son, and those that don't love
the son's gonna burn. He said, kiss the son, lest he
be angry. Well, what about those that do?
I hope that shakes up a whole world, buddy. If it go viral
or whatever. Everybody hear that. We don't need to get people saved.
We didn't get people lost. They'd have a need. They need
to see that hand. Tell them about the blood. Tell them why. But
then there's those that do. Well, I've heard that before.
I'll just stay at the house today. It's an evangelical message.
I don't need to hear it. Yes, we do. God's people will
rejoice. They'll say, amen, that's good.
Tell it to me one more time. We sang that. Tell me the old,
old story. Do we believe it? Or is it just
words that come out because it's a nice tune? What about us that
believe? What about us that says, I have
to have that rod? He has to do it. I'll just be
broken. He's the green branch. I'm the
dry one that's only fit for burning. What about that hand that touched
your chest? Is it leprous? Do you have a need? What about
that blood? Is that the only thing that makes us cry out? For those of us that do, what
about that? Back in our text, Exodus 4. Look at verse 31. We'll probably look at this next
week, but Moses went and told Aaron, there's a picture of Christ,
and Aaron went and told the people. Aaron spake the words which the
Lord spoke unto Moses. He just said, verse 30, he just
said what the Lord said. And he did the signs and saw
the people, did what the Lord taught him to do. Verse 31, Exodus
4, 31. And the people believed. And
when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel
and that he looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their
heads and they worshiped. They worshiped. I pray the Lord's
people see that and hear it. Hear it by the ear and see it
with eye. And they'll bow their heads and they'll worship and
they'll thank him. And I said, boy, that's right. It has to be this way.
And that's miraculous. You think that word's miraculous?
I hope we never read that again. It's like, oh yeah, he threw
it down and that's what's in the ark. And then he took the water out
and it was blood. And his hand, something about
his hand, didn't it turn white or something? I hope he shows
us those things. All right. Brother Mike.