In the old days it mattered to
my will, To go in any place besides the mountain where you live. For God will give us a next year
of grace and glory, And our good faith will be with hope from
Him that helps me live. Now God is giving us something
else, and He has given me hope. Hope is just a human thing, He's
giving it to me. That is a man of trust and faith. When I go back to Mexico City,
that's how it is. We are actually not going to get through the verses
for ten or fifteen minutes, but we're going to go through the
Exodus later. Now, we've been looking at these
plagues, and I think you have clearly seen with me how what
we have seen is a clear representation of these plagues, a clear representation
of what we have seen. Like last Sunday, I thought it
was pretty clear, the locusts and the darkness and other things
we've looked at, Other things, these things represent other
things that we don't know. We know their part, we appreciate
their part, but I'm thankful for what we have seen. I believe,
and I think it's very clear, I hope you feel the same way. I haven't found anything anywhere
written by anybody on this exodus, even here. And I believe the
Lord has clearly revealed some things to me. Now, these so-called
prophecy experts of that, there's a lot of them around. I think
they are. But they don't say these things,
and they don't tell these things like we've seen, because these
plagues are much like the parables and the Pharisees. Remember,
the Lord spoke to the Pharisees almost always in the parables. And the disciples said, why don't
we just cut it in half? He said, because it's not given
on the day of the baptism. It's hidden from baptism. And
these plagues and so on, the revelation, take the revelation
for it, it's much like a paradise. And so these, you need to disregard
everything you hear from these prophecy people. How do you know
that? Don't listen to them. Don't buy
those books. I remember buying those books
back. Was it my parents? This is the place of my father. But here's the fact. If these
fellows do not understand what happened in the garden, they
don't really understand what happened in the first three chapters
of this book. Just get ready. All right? It all starts there. It's all
true. The Church had said, if you're wrong on the cross, you're
wrong on the cross. If they don't understand, the
man dies, and it's dead, it's dead. So those here who are pretty
close to the Sovereign Elect in God, they need to follow Sovereign
Spirit, the Word of Regeneration all the time. All right, now
this is the thing of hardening Pharaoh's heart. If you notice
how many times I've said that throughout these chapters. I'll
tell you, 19 times. Why does he keep saying that?
The Lord pardoned Pharaoh's heart. Nineteen times? A couple of times
he says, Pharaoh, let's go to Exodus 14, this chapter gives
both. Exodus 14, 4. Nearly every time he says, the
Lord has pardoned Pharaoh's heart, and then a couple of times he
says, Pharaoh has pardoned his own heart. Exodus 14, 4, "...I
will harden Pharaoh's heart, that ye shall follow after me."
That is the spoon the Egyptian is derived from. "...I will be
honored upon Pharaoh, for I will behold that the Egyptians may
know that I am whole." Verse 17, verse 17, "...but I behold,
I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians." So he hardens Pharaoh
and the Egyptians. That would give me honor on the
payroll. And as I said, there's another
place that says the payroll part is on the card. How do you explain that? Go back
to chapter 8. Here's where it says the payroll
part is on the card. Section 832. Or it's very clear that Pharaoh
burned his heart at this time also because he wouldn't let
the people go. Can you explain this? Somebody
asked you about this. Could you explain? Is God harder than man's heart?
Or is a man harder than his own heart? Who do you claim to be? It's that or is it? I'm just
sitting out here telling you how it is. Are you upstanding?
I see some customer looks on your face. You shouldn't be custled
up at thirty-some meters. All right, let me go back to
the elementary of the truth, okay? Fundamentals. What is a
hard heart? A hard heart means an obstinate,
that means a resistant heart, a rebellious, an unbelieving heart, a heart
that will not believe, a heart that will not bend. Turn with
me to Joshua eleven, Joshua chapter eleven. Therefore, the book of Judges,
the book of Joshua chapter 11, whose fault is it when men and
women don't believe? Now, the world rejects God's
poverty and salvation. The world rejects God's covenant
in salvation, meaning that God must be elected, that God elects
the people. And Christ died for a particular
reason. The Holy Spirit moves on a new will and powerfully
must give life. Because the world rejects this
because they don't want God to be in charge of their existence. And since they cannot understand
how God can be societal and yet man be responsible for accounting,
since they cannot understand, then they reject God's sovereignty. Right? My men, they reject God's
signs. Though this book is so clear
to me. There's nothing clearer in this book than that God absolutely
remains over everything, even men's hearts. But since men and
women, number one, don't want that to be. I want God to be
God. And they can't understand how
God can be of absolute control and yet be accountable to them. Therefore they reject God's love.
Look at Joshua later. I'm just reading you some scriptures
that are absolutely irrefutable. You can't... You can't deny it. You won't
hear these records of that, except here. Verse 15, Joshua 11, verse
15, "...and the Lord commanded Moses to discern them, so did
Joshua." Verse 15, command, so did Moses command Joshua, so
did Joshua. He left nothing undone of all
that the Lord commanded Moses. Down in verse 18, Joshua made
war. This is what Moses, God, through
Moses, told Joshua to do, make war. A long time. But all those
kings, it was not a city that made peace for the children of
Israel, say the Hivites, the captains of Gibeon. All of them
took him back. For it was of the Lord, that hardened their
hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that
he might destroy them early, and that they might have no favor,
but that he might destroy them as the Lord commanded them."
It says, it was of the Lord that
hardened their hearts and made them attack Israel as they were destroyed. Go to Isaiah
chapter 6, verse 6. I say six. Let's talk about this
part of the heart. I say six. Six is quoted in the
books of Hebrews and other places. I say six. You get it? In the
end of verse nine. God said, go and tell this people,
in Ephesians 6 and 9, go and tell this people, hear me and
thee, but stand not, see me and thee, but perceive not. Make
the heart of this people fast, make their ears heavy, shut their
eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
understand with their heart, and learn from their ears. Then
said I, O Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the city
be wasted without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and
the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed men
far away, and there be a great forsaken in the midst of the
land. And yet in it shall be a tent, and it shall return,
and it shall be eaten of the teal fruit of the oak, and the
holy seed of the substance thereof. All right, Elder Rawls, this
chapter is good. You know, God said that His pastors
would feed His people with knowledge. This Wednesday night study, to
me, is more worship. Yes. We're going to see, we're
going to worship God with His sovereign blessing and grace
upon us. What we're seeing right now, what this Word says about
this family is absolutely positive, a revelation. So, Romans 1, verse
18, "...the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness. Men, behold the truth in unrighteousness."
Verse 25 and 26. These men changed the truth of
God in their lives, worshipped and served the creature that
is man more than the Creator, who is a blessed craft of God's
creation. And for this cause, for this
cause, God gave them up. That's the five affections that
they made. They began to do all sorts of things. Verse 28, even
as they did not like to retain God, this is what we're saying
all together, they didn't want God to be God. They did not like
to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind. That means a mind void of understanding. And because they had a mind like
that, they could get everything, get anything they wanted, all
matters within. All right, here's an answer to my question. Man is born dead and sick. A
while ago, we said that if they're wrong about what happens in the
garden, they will miss it all. Man is born dead and sick. Our children are born with our
nature. Those of you who know your family, Know what that means. Know that your children are going
to come out speaking lies, instead of my mother and my siblings.
All four of them are going to come out speaking lies. But that's
God's work. Very clear. You don't have to
teach your children to lie, do you? What do you have to teach
them? Try to tell the truth. You don't
have to teach your children to dress up and run along. You don't
have to teach your children to get married and strike out and
all that. Listen, you don't have to teach
your children wrong, why. That's what their tongues say.
That's what their natures are prone to. And it's going to take
years to try to keep that nature in check. Prepare to keep that
nature in check. Man has a corrupt nature. Man
is born with a hard heart. He's born with a hard heart. And the deceitful heart, Jeremiah's
gospel says, the heart is deceitful of all things, and it desperately
wishes to deny it. It's like a natural man's heart. You know this stuff. And man
hears the truth, and they've all heard it. Paul said to Romans,
have they not all heard? Yes, very, very much. And they
were rejected. Hands down. I mean the truth
now. Not just stuff that's being passed
off as the truth. And you can accept that. God
loved us, right? He did. He pretty much loved us all. You know, all in all. But now the truth of who God
is and what man is... God only... Just... Open your eyes and look on sin,
man, that's worthless as a worm. And like that, man doesn't like
it. So he rejects it, told the truth,
and doesn't like it. And they twist it, as we read
today, change the truth into a lie, and worship this very
creature that is man. They who put on the top of their
ghillies free will. That's the most blasphemous thing
that human beings have done. You know, at the end of the day,
that's the most blasphemous thing. To exalt man's will? That's more than doctoring people.
That's utter treason and dishonesty. That's blasphemy. When God says,
I will, I will. And the man said, no. This is what Satan said, isn't
it? This is what Satan said, and God cast him down. Satan
said, I will. God said, no, you won't. He cast him down, and he became
a father. And that's what is reserved for
man. Man's heart is hard. It's born
that way. Born that way. Is it easy for
you to give these lessons to your children? Why do you tell things a hundred
times? I don't think you get it right
away. It's hard, it's hard. It's hard,
hard. Scripture says in 1 Corinthians
2.14, the natural man received as a product the things of God,
that are good and sweet. Neither can he know them. Neither can he know them. They're
spiritually not good. So we want to say we're God,
because God has revealed among us that by His Spirit, God has
chosen us. This is what Paul says in Ephesians
1, God has abounded forever. Grace, wisdom, goodness, and
ability to give it up. Not everybody. Now only if God
chooses somebody, only if God elects to save somebody, Only a God whose Holy Spirit
regenerates sends the word of power. What kind of power? Breakthrough. This is what the
Scripture talks about. A broken and untried heart. Oh Lord, I will not expect. Well,
who breaks that heart? God does. He sends an arrow and
says, that word is like a sword piercing. Breaks this hard heart. He's a hammer. It's not my word
of hammer to break up a hard heart. The only one God sent. And look at Ezekiel. I love this.
Ezekiel 36. Let's go there real quick. We've reached through this chapter
before. Every time God says, I will,
I will, I will, I will, then you shall. Ezekiel 36, and what's
all this got to do with this letter? Let's see. Hang in there. You couldn't answer my question
to begin with, now you need to learn this stuff. All right,
Exodus 36, let's get it. Verse 26 and 27, what could be
clearer? A new heart calls over like a
new youth. Not change your old one, that's
a new heart. Bring on a new spirit that I've
put within you, my spirit. I will take away a stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you a heart of flesh soft, fine, easily movable, easy to
touch. And verse one said, and I would
put my spirit within you, because you need me. I would cause you
to be woken up. What could be clearer? Huh? What
could be clearer? Well, how does God harden a heart,
though? Well, how does man harden his
own heart? What way is it to soften a heart?
What does Solomon see growing up that day when he is hot? Right? This word, which is in
the Hebrew language, is called klingon, water and life. He died when he was 26 years
old. He walked with these characters, water and life. His words soften
his heart. And men and women harden their
own hearts by rejecting the truth and staying out from under the
truth, deep into themselves, turning away their fears from
the truth unto faith, turning from the light into darkness. And our Lord said, well, if that
darkness continues, if the light continues to be darkness, there's
no light. So, well, how does God hurt in
the heart? We read in Romans 1, obviously
in the Bible, in the New Testament. Take any kind of what we call
a domestic family. Any domestic answer, oh, yes,
of course, whatever it may be. Do not train. Do not do it, don't
handle it. What will it become? Why are
I doing it? You've got to domesticate the
mind. It takes a lot of handling, a lot of training, of speaking
to it, and so forth. Same way with marriage. And God
merely has to leave us alone. That's what we read there in
Romans 1. God gave them up. Doesn't mean He gave up on them.
It says He gave them up too. Gave them over too. This is what
they wanted. So He gave them over too. So that's what it means by being
heartless. They're heartless. God is not
responsible for somebody's heart hurting. They are. But the way
in which God says that God's heart is His heart is that He
just leaves it alone. He withholds a rain. The rain over here, leaves
it alone over there. And it just gets harder and that
old gravity gets harder and harder and harder and harder and harder. It becomes nothing. So that's how, that's how God
says that God's heart is His heart. I want to show you a few
more verses along these lines, okay? And I'll try to style this
together. Romans chapter 9, these are verses
that speak of Pharaoh. Well, where do you start? Stop
here. But verse 15, He said to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. Does everyone understand that? If you read it, what's that mean?
Exactly what it said. Barnard used to say, don't stay
with what you think. And then he said what it said. I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy. Read on, I will have compassion
on whom I will. So there's God up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and
there's God up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's
God up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's God up here
that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's
God up here that will us, and there's God up here that will
us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's God up here
that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's
God up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's God
up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's God
up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there's God
up here that will us, and there's God up here that will us, and there Would you turn to one more place
for me? Job chapter one. Job chapter one. We have two
more. Job one. Job chapter one. What about the
devil? Is he sovereign? Because he had a pretty good
day. You know, people attribute more
sovereignty to Satan than to their God, as we say. It's not all about seeking it,
it's more about how you regard it. God can't do a thing unless
you let Him see it and do anything He wants with it. Right? You just give it and try it and
this and that and you have to go. He can't do that. Now, there was a day when the
sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Now, who's that talking about?
I believe, we believe, it's the cherubs and seraphs and so forth
in heaven. Satan came also among them. Why? Because he had to. He had to report. Look at chapter
2, verse 1. It was a day when the sons of
God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came
also among them to present himself before the Lord. I wasn't going to have him turn
to Proverbs 16, but I won't. No more. But Proverbs 16.4 says,
The Lord has made all things for himself, even the weak. The
weak he was. The dead he is. Satan can't do a thing. But
what God Almighty has blessed him that allows him to do that
works is God's plan. Now, that gives belief in peace,
comfort. It means God really is God. And it's turning our own hearts.
Turning our own hearts. God said, I'll give you my new
heart. The heart is there. A new heart. Don't apply that person to Jeremiah
himself. It doesn't apply to the regenerated
person, the heart of a deceitful. No, no. God's people's hearts
are not deceitful. If it is, you've got a bad heart.
That's what Paul said to somebody one time. He said, your heart's
not right. God gives a new heart, a new heart. So, don't apply that to yourself. I may go to the next exhibition
later, but the next exhibition is coming up. So Pharaoh represents,
we've been seeing how Pharaoh represents God's Word, Satan. And all men and women, there's
a scripture that says, the thoughts of the heart, preparation
of the tongue and the thoughts of the heart, the Lord fashioned
their hearts. The Lord, man gets his responsibility
if we don't get it done. Man formed a hard heart and he
likes it that way. and further burdens his own heart,
I suspect, is true. But if God is merciful and gracious, and breaks that old heart and
removes it and gives a new heart, then God is always good. But
if God leaves us alone, we give up his grace. We give up his
love. God is sovereign, yet man is
countenance. God gives all the glory and honor
to anybody who is saved, to anybody who repents, to anybody who sins. Man gets all the blame that he
did sin. Very simple. Very simple. All right? And Satan and forces
of evil came to the face of what God allowed us to do. To show
forth His love. That's what this is all about.
That's why God allowed sin in the world and all this good work. This is going to show us how
to get it right. All right, first one. The Lord said to Moses,
I will bring one more flag and one more pharaoh upon each of
you. Afterwards, he'll let you go again. When he should let
you go, he should surely trust you. He'd be glad you did that. As Satan surely must have been,
or had been, throughout the years, when the prophets, when God removed
the prophets, wasn't glad to get rid of that Elijah. Satan
thought, whoo, he told me that's a problem. How's your dad getting
rid of those apostles? And the martyrs, and so on and
so forth. Oh, one old writer once said, Satan swears at the
past. And with every blow of his hammer,
Satan's face is attacking him. And with every blow of Satan's
hammer, he sweats it to the face, and four million God's people,
they begin to cry. How did he do it? Oh, he knew
that? Oh, that didn't work. And what greater example than
when the Son of God was actually on the throne. After God had
been out there and defeated God. I killed the Son of God. And
it all came crashing down on his head. He ruined his own head. What can I do? This is what I'll
do. I'll put it in the minds of my
ministries. Verse 2. Now it says, speak down in the
ears of the people. Let every man borrow of his neighbor,
every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver and jewels of
gold. Do you remember when we started this whole study back
in chapter 3 where it says, I'll give this people favor beside
the Egyptians, every woman shall borrow? We're called strangers
here. Sojourners. Sojourners mean tracing through. Tracing. Passing through, looking
for your plan. And we really don't own anything
here on this planet. We don't own anything. Really,
nobody owns anything. One old writer says, God laughs
at the, at the, uh, these entitled rights that men hold upon character. The scripture says the earth
is the Lord and the fool is Sarah. The earth and heaven is Sarah.
The fool is Sarah. Belongs to God. I claim this. Galilee. Galilee. What you own is about six feet
under the earth. I've got three more days, once
you end up on me for a long time. We're borrowing. We're borrowing
here. We're simply eating. We haven't
earned the wealth that we're going to. We have. God has prepared
for us a place in heaven. And when this thing's destroyed,
He's going to create a new birth, which to me will inherit. And that will be our permanent
home. And we won't have to put up any
fences. You know, the fences are for
wild animals, but the bees, horse bees, there won't be any such
thing. We'll have to do our, it'll be
our land. Oh yeah. It's joint heirs. It belongs
to the son of God himself, but we're joint heirs to him. Everything
he has is ours. We'll just borrow it here, though,
waiting on the New Earth. Verse 3, the Lord gave the people
favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very
great in the land of Egypt in the sight of Pharaoh's servants
and in the sight of his people. I wish I could tell you some
of the stories of how the Lord has given you. Surely everybody
in here can give a story of how the Lord has given you favor
in the sight of the Egyptians. Now, in some believing worlds,
people have done things for you unexpectedly. I wish I could tell you some
stories. It gave me a taste of stories about God. How He's done
it, what He's done for Him, and I could tell you any story. God's
given providence to us through me, and God uses me. Yes, he
does. He uses men and women. In certain
senses, he does. But it's God. It's God. This is authentic. I've got to tell you a story
about someone I know. I'm talking about God's son,
and Satan, and so forth. There were two young boys who
knew this old widow down the road. She was a very devout believer. And they heard her praying all
the time through her own religion. And these two boys thought, we're
going to teach this woman a lesson. We're going to teach her a lesson.
She thinks her God does all these things for her. We're going to
teach her a lesson. And so one day, they heard the
woman praying, Lord, provide me with my day of grace. And the boy went down and got
a hunk of food. And when I first see them, they
start to get food up on their lips. And the woman, a little while later,
noticed the thing. Oh, she started thanking the
Lord. Thank you, Lord, for sending us food. Thank you all. As you're in my heart, send this
blessing. She said, well, the devil may
have brought it, but God sent it. He's sovereign. He's sovereign. The Lord gives favor to these
people, even in the sight of the Egyptians. Moses was very
great in the land of Egypt. It says in this, we have time,
1 Peter, go over to 1 Peter chapter 3. 1 Peter chapter 3. For 20. For 53, first. He lived a love
life, 1 Peter 3, 10. He lived a love life and has
seen good days. Let him refrain his tongue from
evil and his lips that they speak no foul language. Chew evil,
do good, and receive peace and the eyes of the Lord over the
righteous, to hear it, open unto their prayer, to praise the Lord.
It is against them that do evil. Chapter 2, verse 15. This is
a will of God. This is well doing. He may put
to silence the ignorance of women and men. And then over 2 Peter
3 says that our God is long suffering and provides for his people in
all things. But look at our text back in
Exodus 11, verses 4 through 6. Moses said, thus saith the Lord,
About midnight, I will go out in the midst of Egypt, and all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die. When the firstborn
Pharaoh is seated upon his throne, even under the firstborn of the
lady servant, and behind the meal of all the firstborn beasts,
there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as
never been like it, nor shall it be any more." Now, this is
the last warning for the last leg. God gives us a warning. He doesn't have to do this, does
He? He doesn't have to. After all of these warnings,
after all of these plagues, why is God, why is God still
talking to this obstinate, hard man right there? Why is He talking
to him? Because God is showing us that he should not only be sovereign
and all-powerful, but merciful, and gracious, and long-suffering. Over in, well, I didn't want
to quote you there from 1 Peter, I lost my track, but she says,
in the days of Noah, in the days of Noah, God was long-suffering,
and then he waited. After the ark was built, Do you
remember if God waited seven days? Why somebody he didn't know have
to come in? No. No. Everybody's in there. Everybody he likes is in there.
It's out on the sand. Get in there. The door is wide
open. Come on. Whoever wants to come
in, come in. The door is wide open for seven
days. Come on. Anybody want to come
in? God is showing His willingness,
if you will, His mercy. God is merciful on the sufferer. Let's say it. He's waiting today
for another seven or eight. No lack of it. Don't leave it. Men say, people say,
men deserve a chance, they say. Well, that's not right. There's nothing about that that's
right. Men don't deserve salvation by
mercy. And it's not by chance. Salvation
is not by chance. It's on purpose. But if you want
to use that term, Then give me a chance. Go ahead. Go out there
and say, now this is the truth. This is who God is. Tell Him
who God really is. And tell Him what man really
is. And tell Him what the gospel really is. I say, will you do
that? Will you have that? No, sir. We will not have this
sovereign God reign. You want to use that? You want to use that? It's a chance. It's not a chance. A natural man perceives a problem,
and he can't do it. Yeah, but God is saying, you
know what these things are? So God was giving this warning
to Pharaoh, and he says, the firstborn in Egypt shall die.
The title of this message is the imminent death in Egypt.
Everything is going to die. At some point another man wants
to die. And though everybody sees it
all around, they refuse to believe. They refuse to believe. They
refuse to believe the plain word of God concerning him. They refuse
to believe. Just like Pharaoh, just like
the Egyptians. And so, there's a passage in Proverbs 1, this
is, this is pretty, I don't know, traumatizing. What's the word?
I don't know. God said, because I called, you
refused. I stretched out my hand, no man
regarded. You're setting off all my counsel, but with none
of my proof. I'm going to laugh at your calamity. I'm going to
mock when your fear comes. When your fear comes, it's best
to let it in. Your destruction comes through the whirlwind.
Then you'll call upon me, and I will not let you in. Like the people in the ark, I
guarantee you they were scratching their necks trying to figure
that one out. Some of them were probably hanging on to it. I
call on your people. The only reason, though,
that we believe, because that's the action of God, that He would
not take no for an answer. You know what it says over here?
God is not taking no for an answer. The high people shall be welcomed.
The day is now. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest cause to worship. We'll see you next time on Happy
Day. Fix my choice. Fix my choice. So God can freely,
cannot God freely say, I called all these opportunities, the
world is wide open, the truth is right there, but you haven't
done enough. Rejected it hand in hand. You've rejected it. So I reject
you. Right? Perfect. God is just. God is generous. Now all the
first four of these, you shall die. But I like these first seven. against any of the children.
In that verse 6, God says about the end times when God is going
to destroy this world, that there's going to be a fire to be saved,
there's going to be a greatest, the biggest prayer he's ever
given. And God's not going to answer any of that. When men
call to the rocks, they just fall. It's hiding from them. God's not going to answer any
of that. The verse 7, against any of the children of Israel,
any of them, shall not a dog move his tongue
in his manner of doing. But you may know how the Lord
doth put a difference between Egyptians and Jews. Who made
the difference? The Lord. That was going to be
our test. It will be at some point. Who
made the people from Christ? All of them. That's who made
them. And God says concerning His own, not nobody will touch
Him or harm Him, will lay anything, not even the devil, except what
He allows. No one will lay anything to the
charge of God's leg. Not even the dog will bark at
Him. Not even a dog. He said, not even a dog. When
he barked at it, he didn't even know. When he barked, he didn't
know. All by the hounds. Scripture
talks about the hounds. All right, verse 8. All these
five servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves
unto me. This is still Moses talking to
Pharaoh. Everybody's going to come and bow down to God. Pharaoh
says, I will not. He will every day. Every time. You're going to say, get out,
and people will follow thee, and after that I'll go out. He
went out to Pharaoh with a great anger. Verse 9, the Lord said
unto Pharaoh, Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you. At
my wonder, it may be as thou multiplyest the land of Israel. Psalm 7610 says, A radical man
shall praise thee. And the remainder of Adam, he
was trained. Whatever does not work out of
purpose, he was trained. And even the wrath of man, the
praise God, like the crucifixion of Christ. Moses and Aaron did
all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord pardoned Pharaoh's
heart. Who did? Pharaoh did. Who did? The Lord did. Who's responsible for man's unbelief? Man. Who's responsible for man's
belief? God. He did not have the understanding,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of
here. He was in the God procedure. God's procedure. God ran the play of the society
by God's plan. hearts, minds, wills, all men,
us, and even our ancestors. Thank you. All right, let's stand. Our Father, our God, we thank
You for Your Word, which gives peace, hope, comfort, and a world
full of devils. Amen. God of this world, who
holds men captive at His will, at Thy will, He has led captive,
made us bond slaves, willing captives. Thank You, Lord. Thank You for delivering us,
our great deliverer, paying that ransom price, setting us free,
putting us to die, household and housework. Lord, let no good
man iniquity have dominion over us any more. He doesn't pay the
price, but I know Him so, that it's not long after Egypt, I
look forward and long for that place, that land that's buried
there. May Christ make me a meteor today. Amen.