Exodus chapter 15 this morning,
and I'm taking a title from the words found in verse 1. Exodus
15 verse 1, Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song
unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for
he hath triumphed gloriously The horse and the rider hath
he thrown into the sea. He killed all opposition to his
sovereign will. So this is entitled, A Song of
Triumph. I sing to Jehovah, the literal
translation of verse one, I sing to Jehovah for triumphing he
hath triumphed. Triumphing he hath triumphed. That word triumph and gloriously
is the same word in the original. So we can say Jehovah triumphing
for he hath triumphed for us. This is also a vivid description
of the Lord Jesus Christ defeating and conquering all our enemies. We say with the Apostle Paul,
thanks be to God who's given us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Now thanks be to God, which always
causes us to triumph in Christ. He always causes us to be on
the, you know, everybody wants to be on the winning team, don't
they? We're on the winning team in the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen
to this verse, Colossians chapter one, verse 13, having spoiled,
Principalities and powers, he made a show of them, openly triumphing
over them. Our Lord said to those Pharisees,
had you believed Moses, you would have believed me. Moses wrote
about me. What is this song about? Moses
not only wrote about Christ, he sang about the Lord Jesus
Christ. Moses sang about me. The lamb,
the blood of the lamb. when the Lord delivered Israel
from the armies of Pharaoh, and when they knew the Lord did fight
for them, as it says in Exodus 14.14, the Lord shall fight for
you, you shall hold your peace. And again in verse 25, the last
part of Exodus 14.25, the Lord took off the chariot wheels of
those Egyptian chariots, that they drave heavily, so the Egyptians
said, let us flee from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth
for them and against the Egyptians. When they knew they had deliverance,
then they sang this song. Chapter 14 verse 30. Thus the
Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. And Israel
saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians.
And the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord. and his
servant Moses, then they sang this song of deliverance to the
Lord. They sang this song of worship
with great joy in their hearts. We could call this the first
psalm. The first psalm. You know, Moses
wrote some of the psalms. David wrote some. Moses wrote
some of the psalms. But this is the first, this is
the first recorded psalm or psalm in the Word of God, the first
one recorded. I'm sure that others sang songs
unto the Lord, but this is the first one recorded. Part of this
song, Moses' song of redemption, is repeated in Psalm 18, and
part of it is repeated in Isaiah chapter 12, and it's typical
of the gospel song of redemption through the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Revelation, we read several times unto him who loved us and
washed us from our sin in his own blood and made us kings and
priests unto our God and we shall reign on the earth. To him be
glory and honor both now and forever. Worthy is the lamb that
was slain. They sung a new song saying thou
art worthy to take the book and to open the seal for thou has
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, tribe,
nation and tongue under heaven. It's certainly typical of the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. As we read way over in the book
of Revelation, don't turn back, let me just read it to you again.
And I find this quite amazing, don't you? All these thousands
of years later, when John is receiving this revelation of
the Lord Jesus Christ. In Revelation 15 verse 3, And
they sang the song of Moses, a servant of God. Boy, they're
still singing that song today. In the land of glory, Emmanuel's
land, they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, the song
of the Lamb. It's a song about the Lamb. Worthy
is the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty, just and true are thy ways. Thou King of all kings
and Lord of lords, we read in the Revelation. Chapter 19. Exodus 15 verse 1, I will sing
unto the Lord. Our singing and our worship and
our preaching is all about the Lord, isn't it? We sing unto
who? We sing unto the Lord. Our worship
is toward the Lord. Our singing is toward the Lord. Our worship and our preaching
is all about Jehovah, the everlasting eternal God, our Savior who provides
all things for us. He is Jehovah. He is Jehovah
Jireh, the Lord will provide. He is Jehovah Nisa, turn to Exodus
17. Exodus 17 verse 15, they built
an altar Exodus 17, 15, and called the name of it Jehovah-nisa,
that is the Lord our banner. We fight, we fight the fight
of faith under the Lord our banner, Jehovah-nisa. And then in Exodus
15, Exodus 15 verse 26, he said, I am the Lord that brought thee
up. I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Exodus 15, 26. He is the Lord our healer. He's
Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. He's Jehovah Nisa, the
Lord our banner. In Genesis, or Jeremiah 23, it's
called Jehovah Sidcanu, he's the Lord our righteousness. In
Judges chapter 6, he's called Jehovah Shalom, our peace. In Psalm 23, he's called Jehovah
Rapha, our shepherd. In Ezekiel 48, he's called Jehovah
Shammah, the Lord is present. He is the Lord, is he not? He
is Lord of lords and he is King of kings. The Lord our God gloriously
triumphed in all things. For triumphing, he hath triumphed
over all enemies. I repeat what I said earlier.
Colossians 1 verse 13, having spoiled principalities and powers,
he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them himself,
with himself, by himself, purged away our sin and has won the
victory for us. Now, what are some of the words
of this song? Verse two, the Lord is my strength,
the Lord is my song, The Lord has become my Savior. He's God
my Savior. He's Jehovah my Savior. He is
my salvation. He is my God. I'll prepare Him
habitation, my Father's God. I will exalt Him. The Lord reigns forever. I will
exalt Him. The Lord is my strength. You see that? The Lord is my
strength. Now, what does that word strength
mean? I looked it up. And it means
force. It means power. The Lord Jesus
Christ is a force and power of our salvation. If you look at
verse six, in Exodus 15, verse six, the right hand of the Lord
has become glorious in power. How much power does he have?
has power over all flesh. Remember Matthew 28, we closed
our study in the book of Matthew, where our Lord said, all power
is given to me in heaven and earth. He has all power. He's become glorious in power.
In Isaiah 12, where this is quoted, Verse two, behold, God is my
salvation. I will trust and not be afraid,
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. He also has become
my salvation. You see, it's the same song over
and over again, isn't it? Maybe sung by a different prophet,
Isaiah and Moses, but they had the same song, didn't they? Worthy is the Lamb. In Psalm
27, guess what David says in Psalm 27? The Lord is my light
and my salvation. Whom shall I be afraid of? The
Lord is all my salvation. So that's our psalm. That's our
psalm, the Lord is my strength. And then it says, He's my song.
He's not only my strength, He's my joy. He's my song. He's the
joy of our heart, is He not? We rejoice in the Lord Jesus
Christ and we have no confidence in the flesh. We joy in our God
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby we
joy and rejoice in Him. So He's our strength, He's our
song, and guess what? Thirdly, He's my salvation. He's mine. He's all my salvation. He's everything I've got. I've
got nothing else. Nothing else matters. Christ
is all my salvation. Not some of it, not part of it.
He's everything. Christ is all and in all. In
Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and in Christ
we stand complete. The Lord is my salvation. The Lord is my deliverance. Remember in chapter 14, look
back at verse 13. And Moses said to the people,
fear you not, stand still. You remember they were up against
the Red Sea, cliff on that side, cliff on that side, the army
of Egypt behind them, the Red Sea in front of them. They had
no way to get out. Moses said, fear not. Stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show you
today. The Egyptians whom you have seen
today, you shall see them again no more forever, for the Lord
shall fight for you." You just hold your peace. You just stand
still and watch God. Get out of the way. Get out of
the way and watch God. You see, He is my strength. He
is my deliverance. He is my salvation. Peter and
John preached this in Acts chapter four, neither is there salvation
in any other. No other name under heaven, given
among men whereby we must be saved. Call his name Jesus, he
shall save his people from their sin. Is he our savior that saves? Is he our redeemer that redeems?
Sure he is. And then it says, verse two,
the Lord is my strength and my song. He's become my salvation. He is my God. He is God my Savior. I acknowledge Him and bow to
Him and receive Him and worship Him as God my Savior, God my
salvation. And then it says, I will prepare
Him habitation. I will exalt Him. I will prepare Him habitation. What exactly does that mean? Where thy people shall be willing
in the day of God's power, by the power of God the Holy Spirit
making us new creatures in Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ does inhabit
us, Christ in you, the hope of glory. He resides in us. He's a God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. He's a covenant God, the covenant
God of all covenant mercies, ordered in all things and is
sure. He is my God. He is my Savior. Therefore, I
will be made willing in the day of God's power. I will exalt
Him. I will honor Him. I will worship
Him and Him alone. As all the enemies of Israel
were destroyed, Christ has put away all our sin by the sacrifice
of himself. Has he not? He appeared once
in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. As those Egyptian soldiers were
drowned, and they sank as a stone, and they sank as lead, and the
sea covered them up. That's a picture of our sin being
put away. That's what that's a picture
of. We read in Micah chapter 7, He will turn again, He will
have compassion on us, He will subdue our iniquities, that will
cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Now I learned
something the other day. What is the deepest part of the
ocean? How deep is the deepest part
of the ocean? He says our sins are cast into
the depths of the sea. What's the deepest part of the
ocean? Seven miles deep. That's over 35,000 feet. Complete darkness. I heard a story this week. about
an older believer. He was traveling somewhere, sitting
next to someone, and he was reading a magazine that talked about
National Geographic or something. And he was talking about the
different things of the mountains and the seas and different facts
and everything. And he was reading this magazine,
and he broke out laughing. And he went back reading a little
bit more, and he read some more, and he broke out laughing again.
Well, the fellow sitting next to him said, my friend, what
is so funny? He said, I just read here in
this book that the deepest part of the ocean is seven miles deep. And it says in the Word of God,
God has cast all their sin. He put my sin seven miles deep,
so much so that God said their sin and their iniquity will I
remember no more. There was not one of those Egyptians,
look over here at chapter 14 verse 28. And the waters returned
and covered the chariot and the horsemen and all the host of
Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There remained not
so much as one of them. The Lord Jesus Christ has so
put away our sin, not one of them even exists anymore. They're cast into the depths
of the sea, seven miles deep, out of sight, out of His mind
because of the complete redemption we have in our blessed Savior. Now look at verse 3, Exodus 15
verse 3. The Lord, Jehovah, God my Savior,
is a man of war. And the Lord is His name. He
said, I am the Lord, beside me there is no other. I am God,
beside me no other. The Lord is a man of war. What
does that mean? That means He's a mighty warrior.
That means He fights the battle for us. He's a mighty warrior,
a man of war. He's a God of holy justice. He's
a victorious warrior who has defeated all our enemies, all
opposition. He defeated them all. Let's read
about it. Can we find that? Let's see. Revelation, turn back over there.
Let's see if we can see. What does the Word of God say?
about our victorious warrior. Revelation 19 verse 11, Revelation
19 verse 11, I saw heaven open and behold a white horse and
he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness
he doth judge and make war. He makes war against the enemies
of God. against his sin, against him.
His eyes were the flame of fire. On his head were many crowns.
He had a name written that no man knew, but he himself, he
was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called
the Word of God. The armies which were in heaven
followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, clean
and white. We know that's the righteousness
of a saint. Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword. that with
it, like the nation, he shall rule them with a rod of iron.
He shares the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty
God. And he has on his vesture and
on his thigh a name written, King of kings, Lord of lords."
Wouldn't you say he's a mighty warrior? Wouldn't you say he's
a man of war who's won all the victories for us over sin, over
death, over hell and the grave? Now in verses 4 down through
verse 10, We have a description of the victory that Israel had
that day. The depths covered them, they
sank as a stone. Thy right hand of the Lord has
become glorious in power. We see the greatness of His wrath
that consumed them as stubble. Verse 7, the blast of His nostrils
of water covered them. And the depths were congealed
in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, here's what I
want to look at. The enemy said, now here's what
Pharaoh said to all of his captains. The enemy said, I will pursue. You remember they went in after
them? Said, I'll pursue. The enemy
said, I will overtake. The enemy said, I will divide
the spoil. The enemy said, my lust shall
be satisfied upon them. The enemy said, I will draw my
sword and my hand shall destroy them. You notice something there
that's repeated over and over again? I will. I will. I will. And God said, no, you
won't. Turn to Isaiah 14. You know who
else said that? The chief one who is the Antichrist,
Satan himself. What did he say? Look at Isaiah
14. Isaiah 14 verse 12. Turn and read this with me, please.
Isaiah 14 verse 12. How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou cut down to the
ground, which did weaken the nation? For thou hast said in
thy heart, here's that same language, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount
of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High
God." That's rebellion against God. And we know what happened.
Satan was cast out. Yet God said, thou shalt be brought
down to hell to the sides of the pit. Salvation is not, I
will. Salvation is God's will be done. Our Lord prayed that, not my
will, but thy will be done. I will be done. The enemy said,
I will, I will. That's the language of Satan
in his rebellion against God, the voice of the Antichrist.
God's will, God's purpose will be done in heaven and in earth
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Right? God's will is gonna be
done. Mark it down. Now verse 11. Let
me wind this down. Verse 11. Who is like unto thee? Here's verse 2 of that song.
Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods, among the mighty
ones? You see the marginal reference?
Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the mighty ones? Who is
like thee? Glorious in holiness, fearful
in praises, doing wonders. Thou stretched out thy right
hand, and the earth swallowed them. Now notice on verse 11,
you see that little letter next to who, R? Look at the marginal
reference. See this different reference
at 2 Samuel 7, 1 Kings 8, Psalm 71, Psalm 86, Psalm 89, Jeremiah
10 verse 6. Now, we're not going to turn
to all those, but let's turn to Psalm 71 verse 19. Psalm 71 verse 19. There's none like our God. That's
the point here, and it's repeated throughout the Psalms. Psalm
71, 19. Thy righteousness, O God, is
very high. Who hath done great things, O
God? Who is like Thee? Well, there's none like Him.
There's none like Him. Psalm 86, turn there. Psalm 86,
verse 8. Psalm 86, verse 8. Among the
gods there is none like unto Thee, O Lord, neither are there
any works like unto Thy works. All nations whom thou hast made
shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify
thy name. For thou art great and doest
wondrous things. Thou art God alone. God alone. God alone. And we could read others. We
could read others. But who is like unto thee? Well,
there's none like our God. There's none like our God, the
Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only just God and Savior. Beside me there is no other.
He glories in holiness. That's the main character of
our God is holiness unto the Lord. Holy, holy, holy Lord God
Almighty. He took holy to look upon sin
with favor, even when it was found on His beloved Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, was punished for our sin, because God is holy. You remember the angels and the
seraphims around the throne, they cried, Holy, Holy, Holy,
Lord God Almighty. When the angel appeared to Mary
and said, you're going to have a special child, she said, I
don't know a man. And she said, the holy ghost,
the angel said, the holy ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy
thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son
of God. The main character of our God is that He is holiness. He's glorious in holiness. And He's fearful in praises.
We as believers, we reverence and worship His holy person,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Holy and reverent is His name.
And He's doing wonders. He's doing, not done. He's doing
wonders. In His providence, He's doing
wonders, wonderful things. Everything about His love, His
mercy, His grace, and salvation is wonderful. We're wonderfully
complete in Him because Christ is all and in all. Look at verse
13, Thou and Thy mercy, Thou and Thy mercy, He's led us, He's
led us by His mercies. His mercies are new every morning.
Thou and Thy mercy has led forth Thy people, which Thou hast redeemed. He delivered us. He's called
the deliverer. Did He deliver all Israel that
day? They all passed through. They were all delivered. The
enemies were destroyed and they were delivered. He's our deliverer. All that the father giveth to
me, they'll come to me. Those that come to me, I'll never
cast them out. Thou in thy mercy had led forth the people. He
leads us as the good shepherd to himself who provides for us. For thee people, the people of
God, thou hast redeemed them. We are redeemed by His blood.
Thou hast guided them. He's our guide. He's our wisdom,
strength, righteousness. Guided them in thy strength into
thy holy habitation. Thou shalt bring them and plant
them, verse 17, in the mountains of thy inheritance,
O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, O Lord,
in thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established."
Verse 18, the Lord shall reign for how long? How long has He
ever not reigned? Some people, the prophecy people
say, well, He's going to set up a kingdom and He's going to
reign on this earth for a thousand years. My soul, that's nonsense.
That's absolute nonsense. The Word of God doesn't teach
that. When hasn't He reigned? He's the eternal God. From everlasting
to everlasting, Thou art God. He shall reign forever and ever. They watched the end of Pharaoh's
reign, didn't they? His reign ended that day. God
raised him up and put him in that sea and destroyed him. They
watched the end of Pharaoh's reign, but we shall never see
the end of our Lord's reign. His throne is forever. and ever
and ever. Let's read about it again. Turn
to the Revelation one more time. Chapter 4 this time. Revelation
chapter 4. Revelation chapter 4, look at
verse 8. Revelation 4 verse 8, And the
four beasts had each of them six wings about him, and they
were full of eyes within. And they rest not day and night,
saying, Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, which was and is
and is to come. And when those beasts give glory
and honor and thanks to Him that sat upon the throne, who liveth
forever and ever. And the four twenty elders fall
down before Him that sat on the throne and worship Him that liveth
forever and ever. And they cast their crown before
the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory
and honor and power. For Thou hast created all things,
and for Thy pleasure they are and they were created. He reigns
forever as our King, as our God, as our Savior. He ever lived
to intercede for us. Isn't that a great song? That's
a great song. The women also. The women also,
in verse 20, Mariam, all the women, they took trembled timbrels,
and they ran out, and they sang the same song. They were delivered
by the same mighty God, mighty power, singing to the Lord, for
He hath triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider hath
He thrown into the sea. All the men, all the women. We're
talking about millions of people singing praises unto the Lord. One question. Can you sing that
song of deliverance and say, the Lord is my strength, the
Lord is my song, the Lord is my salvation? I hope you can. I hope the Lord gives you grace
in your heart to say with Paul, we're more than conquerors through
him that loved us, washed us from our sin in his own blood.