Alright, Exodus 14. Verse 1 says, Then sang Moses
and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord. And they spake, saying, I will
sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed triumphed gloriously,
the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." Now
this text is a song of praise to our God and Savior. A song of praise to God our Savior. Those God saved that day, in
this song right here, they mention the Lord's name 24 times in this
song. And each time they give God all
the glory for their salvation. It's amazing that I was reading
something a fellow wrote about this chapter. This guy was a
false preacher, it turned out. He made this statement and said,
you see what mighty things God will do for us if we just let
Him exercise His power. And I thought, you got that out
of Exodus 14 and 15? Last time we saw Israel, they
were standing on the banks of the Red Sea crying and weeping. Lord, you just brought us out
here to kill us. God did everything. And they sang praises to God
and gave Him all the glory for what He did. And those God has
saved sing songs which give all praise to our God because the
work of salvation is entirely His. You wonder sometimes why
there are certain songs that we never sing that are in our
hymnal. That's why. Because we want to
sing songs that give Him all the praise and all the glory
for the salvation He's accomplished. There are certain songs that
sometimes we may change a word here and there. And that's why. Because we want Him to have all
the praise and all the honor. We only sing songs that give
God all the glory and all the praise. Now, the best songs that
are written come from the heart. when somebody has experienced
something that really and truly moves them. Those are the best
songs. Now you imagine how the heart
of Moses and the children of Israel must have been moved at
what they had witnessed that day. Can you just imagine that? I mean, think about this. They
had been slaves for 430 years. And now they behold Pharaoh and
his entire army cast into the sea by the Lord. The horse and
his rider destroyed by the Lord. Can you just imagine with what
strength and just how loud this congregation must have been singing
this song? You're talking about 600,000
men And then if they all had wives,
you're talking at least 1.2 million plus children singing these praises
to God. And I guarantee you there was
not a one in the bunch that was singing low. He was singing to
the top of his lung because of what God had done for him. Brethren,
that's how we ought to sing because God's done something far, far
greater for us. He did for us what He only pictured
right here in them crossing the Red Sea. He's delivered us from
our enemies. The horse and the rider has He
thrown into the sea. He's triumphed gloriously. Gloriously. The horse and the rider hath
He thrown into the sea. Now the horse and His rider represent
the enemies of God's elect. They're being thrown into the
sea, pictures Christ conquering all our enemies. You remember
Colossians 2.15 says this, Having spoiled principalities and powers,
Christ made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it, in
his work on the cross. And that's what we have pictured
here at the Red Sea. Christ spoiling all principalities
and powers and triumphing over them in His work of satisfying
divine justice. So I want to look this morning
at three enemies that Christ has destroyed for His people. Three enemies Christ has destroyed
for His people. First of all, is sin. First of
all is sin. Christ has destroyed our body
of sin. The horse and the rider hath
he thrown into the sea. Go with me to Romans 6. Romans
chapter 6. Just hold your place right here.
Romans 6. And look here with me at verse
6. Romans 6, 6. Knowing this, That our old man,
that's what we're born with, got from Adam, is an old man
of sin. All it is is sin, all it can
do is sin. An old man of sin. Knowing this,
our old man is crucified with Him. That the body of sin might
be destroyed. that henceforth we should not
serve sin. For he that is dead is freed,
the word there is justified, from sin. Believer, before the
law of God, now understand what this is saying. Before the law
of God, that's where it matters. Before God's holy law, before
the eyes of God, before the judgment seat of God himself, According
to God's holy justice, our old man is crucified with Christ. I love that word, is, right there.
That's a sure certain statement. Our old man, right now, is crucified
with Christ. That means we've already been
judged. I'm talking to believers here
this morning. That means we've already been judged. Our judgment
day has come and gone. We've been judged in Christ and
justice has already been executed upon us by God. It's done. Our old man is crucified with
Christ. When he was crucified, we were
in him and we were crucified. Just as real as Christ was crucified,
all his people in Christ were crucified. And so, our body of
sin is destroyed. There's that word is again. Our
body of sin is destroyed. Before God, before His law, before
His judgment seat, our body of sin is destroyed. That means
it's been executed in justice already. Justice has been poured
out in full upon our body of sin. It's been carried to the
grave and buried. So it has no more power to cause
us to be condemned before God and His holy law ever again. And here's why. For he that is dead is freed
from sin. He that is dead is justified
from sin. Law cannot say another word to
him. When a man has gone and now they're
injecting him and he's gone and they've injected him and he's
died the death penalty, the law can say nothing else to that
man. He's paid the wages of sin, which
is death. It's over. The law won't say
another word to him. And he's telling us right here,
brethren, you and I, who believe the Lord, died. We were crucified
when Christ was crucified. Our body of sin is destroyed,
has been executed, so it can never condemn us again, because
once you're dead, and we are dead, you are justified. And we've been justified from
all sin in Christ. The Lord said through Moses,
way back there, He said, the Egyptians whom you've seen today,
you shall see them again no more forever. That's what He told
them. And when the Lord finished, Exodus
14 said, there remained not so much as one of them. And so it
is for the believer concerning our sins. there remains not so
much as one of them. You say, well preacher, that's
all I see in myself is sin. That's good, I'm glad you do.
But before God, in the eye of God, there remains no more sin
in Christ for His people. No more. Micah 7.19 says this,
Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. And that's what was pictured.
I will sing unto the Lord, for the Lord hath triumphed gloriously,
the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. God will not remember our sins
anymore. is destroyed. Isn't that good
news? Now secondly, Christ has not only destroyed our sins,
Christ has abolished death for his people. Look there at Romans
6 and verse 8. Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dieth no more. Death hath no more dominion
over him. For in that he died, he died
unto sin once. But in that he liveth, he liveth
unto God. Likewise, because we were in
Christ, all God's elect were in Christ, likewise reckon ye
also yourselves to be dead. Indeed, unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ abolished death by dying
unto sin once. He abolished death. Sin is the
only reason men die. Sin is the only reason men die. Before sin entered, there was
no death, period. Animals, men, nothing died before
that. I don't know how old the world
is, but I know that these fossils they find didn't happen before
Adam sinned in the garden, because before sin in the garden, there
was no death. Death is the result of sin. And
the only reason Christ died is because He was bearing the sin
of His people. He gave up the ghost voluntarily
Himself because He bore the sin of His people. That's the only
reason He suffered what He suffered on Calvary's cross. He died and
He paid the wages of sin for us which is death. That's what
He was doing. But sin can only cause a man
to die once. There's only one judgment. And
sin can only cause a man to die once. That's why Hebrews 9.27
says, As it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this
the judgment. And it's talking about Christ.
It's appointed unto men once to die, but after this to judgment.
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto
them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without
sin unto salvation. He died unto sin once. He faced
judgment once. and He paid all the wages that
could be paid. So get this now, God says, since
you were in Christ, believer, He says, He is saying to you
that to impute to yourself what God imputes to you. He is saying,
impute fact, impute the fact of what is the reality. And here
it is, Romans 6,11. Likewise reckon you also yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin. You can't die again. Men only die to sin once. You
can't die again. Therefore, death has no more
dominion over you. It has no more power. Just like
it has no more power over Christ, it has no more power over you
and I who believe. And then Christ arose. and he
now liveth unto God. And since you who believe were
in Christ in His loins, God says, impute... What's fact? Impute
that you have truly already arisen in Christ. Verse 11, He's saying,
Impute you yourself also to be alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Go to Ephesians chapter 2, just
a moment. Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians 2.5, Even when we were dead in sins,
hath God quickened us together with Christ, by grace you are
saved, and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. that in the ages to come
He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus. That is the reality. That is
the reality. Go to Colossians 2. The reality,
God says, this is what He's saying to us. The reality is, brethren,
before God and before His holy law, we are risen with Christ. Now that's why Paul said this
in Colossians 2.20. Wherefore, if ye be dead with
Christ from the rudiments of the world, why as though living
in the world, why as though your life is in this world, Are you
subject or subjecting yourselves to ordinances such as touch not,
taste not and handle not, which all are to perish with the using
after the commandments and doctrines of men? You see what he said there? This is the as though, this is
the as if. It's just as though you're living
in this world. It's just as though your life
is in this world. The believer sees the reality.
We see the reality. Our life is not in this world. Our life is with Christ. Look
back at Colossians 3.1. If ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above. Don't be subjecting yourself
to to carnal earthly elements. Seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection
on things above, not on things of the earth. For ye are dead. There's another one of those
words I love. You are dead. And your life is hid with Christ
in God. You see, he doesn't say as though
there. He says it's fact. You are dead
and your life is hid with Christ in God. And when Christ who is
our life shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory. Mortify therefore your members
which are upon the earth. Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate
affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
And he's talking about the sins that accompany subjecting yourselves
to earthly ordinances under the law or to the commandments of
men. That's all it produces. That's
exactly the context that he's talking about. Because it's just
as though you're in this world, it's just as though your life
is in this world, so do not be subjecting yourselves to touch
not, taste not, handle not, thinking that that somehow is going to
make you holy or righteous. Instead, live unto God. Live unto God. Christ liveth
unto God now. Live unto God. Seek out those
things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand,
and don't set your affection on things on this earth. Live
unto the Lord Jesus Christ, following the Lord Jesus Christ, doing
as the Lord Jesus Christ commands. That's what he's talking about.
And that's why, brethren, lawmongers in Paul's day called Paul a antinomian. They did. Read in Acts. They
said he's against the law. That's what they said. And that's
why they said it. Because everywhere you read Paul's
writings, and as we go through Romans, you're going to see the
main sin Paul is talking about is going back to the law of Sinai
and trying to either make yourself better in holiness or righteousness. That's what he's talking about.
There's the main sin all through Romans. Just like he was talking
about right here in Colossians. Just like he was talking about
in Galatians. And for that, they called him an antinomian. And
that's why they call me an antinomian. Can you believe somebody would
say you're against the law when you say that the law is so holy,
just, and good, only the Son of God could fulfill it. And
because he has established it in every jot and tittle, dotting
every I and crossing every T, the law is fully honored, it's
fully vindicated, And through faith I have established the
entire law of God. And now I'm living unto Christ,
my God and my Savior, following Him, obeying Him by His power
and His grace, looking only unto Him. And can you believe somebody
would call that being against the law? I'll tell you what's
against the law. It's telling men they can fulfill
it and they can keep it and turning them to it before, during or
after salvation, after conversion. It's turning men back to the
law and making them think that their life really is in this
world by what they do. That is being against the law. Alright, let's look now at the
next. Remember now, We're still talking about Christ abolishing
death. Christ came to fulfill the law
and the prophets. And through the prophet Hosea,
here's what Christ promised to do. In Hosea 13, 14, he said,
I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them
from death. O death, I will be thy plagues. O grave, I will be thy destruction. Repentance shall be hid from
mine eyes. Now we just saw Christ paid the
ransom price. A few weeks ago we looked at
redemption. A price had to be paid. A ransom price had to be
paid. And Christ came and He paid the
ransom price for His people to ransom His people from the power
of the grave. Now it is made manifest by the
appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ who hath abolished death
and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Now be sure to get this. Be sure
to get this. I just sat and thought about
this for a long time. All who believe on Christ, Christ
has abolished death for us. And right now, you have eternal
life and you are immortal. Now you just think on that for
a little while. You have eternal life and you are immortal. That means whenever we take our
last breath and we put off this body of death right here. See,
everything God's telling us here, He's telling us that He's not
even regarding this body of death. It's already been crucified and
judged. And the reason He chastens us
when we do follow after the body of our flesh and our sin is because
He says that you might be partakers of Christ's holiness. And so
He's keeping you looking only to Christ by chastening you.
But He's not even regarding these sins so as to look at us in a
negative way. Not at all. And when we take
our last breath and we cut off this body just like you take
off your clothes this afternoon. When we do that, we will not have died. We will
still be alive. We will not have died. Oh, our
friends will look at us and they'll see that shell laying there and
they'll mourn and they'll weep and they'll cry and they'll say,
oh, don't he look natural when you don't. But the truth is,
you won't be dead. You will be with the Lord immortal. Listen, Jesus said to Martha,
I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live. He that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life. 2 Corinthians 5.8, we're confident,
I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to
be present with the Lord. For the believer, absence from
this body is immediate presence with the Lord. And it means when
Christ returns, He's going to quicken our mortal bodies that
have already been in the grave and already disappeared into
dust. and form a glorious body that
will also be incorruptible and immortal. Look at Romans 8, look
at verse 10. If Christ be in you, the body
is dead because of sin. That means two things. That means,
number one, your body of sins is dead before the law, just
like we saw in Romans 6. But it also means that your fleshly
body that you got from Adam is just dead. It hadn't been quickened
or anything. It's just dead, going back to
the dust. But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. There is no other kind of life
but righteous life. Righteousness is life. If you're
righteous, you have no sin. And if you have no sin, you have
life. The Spirit is life because of
righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised
up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies
by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. When He returns, that's
what He's going to do. He's going to quicken our mortal
body. and our bodies are going to be
raised. You remember Christ came to fulfill the prophets? The
prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 25, verse 8, he said, He will
swallow up death in victory. Go to 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians
15. And look at verse 54. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, talking about our bodies, then shall be brought
to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. That's what Isaiah said he would
do. Look, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law. Think about that. The strength
of sin is the law. Christ fulfilled the law and
He put away our sin. And in Him, sin has no strength. It has no power against us. And so the sting of death, because
the sting of death is sin, and since we have no sin, death has
no sting. Death cannot do anything to us. Cannot do anything to us. The
sting of death is sin. We don't have any. Verse 57. Thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. And that's why
we sing. I will sing unto the Lord, for
he hath triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea. Now here's the last thing. Christ
has not only delivered us from sin, He's not only destroyed
death, Christ has destroyed the power of the devil and delivered
us from him. Look at Hebrews 2.14 again. We
read this earlier in the first hour. Hebrews 2.14. It says, For as much then as
the children are partakers of flesh and blood, Christ also
likewise took part of the same, that through death, He might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil,
and deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage. We came into this world, sinners,
under the devil's power. Did you know that if you're sitting
here today and you do not believe on Christ, you are under the
devil's power? Listen to this, Ephesians 2.2
says, speaking of believers, it said, In time past you walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience. We all were under his power. When I travel, Whenever folks
find out that I'm a pastor, they always want to tell me what they
know about religion. And I meant to say it that way. They'll never ask anything. They
always tell you what they know. And I've realized this, that religious
folks who are in will-worship religion are fearful. They are terrified. They've never
done Enough. You know why? Their conscience
is not purged. Their conscience is not purged.
Christ has destroyed the power of the devil for his people. The devil is called the accuser
of the brethren. And he uses the law. The law
of Mount Sinai. The Ten Commandments. And he
uses man's sin to accuse man in his conscience. and before
God. But by purging the sin of His
people, by robing us in His righteousness, and by Christ ever living to
make intercession for us, brethren, He represents us to the Father
so that the devil cannot accuse His people to the Father anymore.
Go with me to Zechariah chapter 3. You see this, Zechariah 3. And look at verse 1. Zechariah was shown this. He
showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of
the Lord. That is, Joshua here was standing
before Christ Jesus, the angel of the Lord. And Satan was standing
at his right hand to resist him. There's Joshua standing there
before the Lord Jesus, and there's the devil standing there at his
right hand to resist him. And the Lord, Christ the archangel,
the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even
the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Now listen to what
he says of Joshua. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? You ever seen a bran plucked
out of the fire? It's black and sooty and it just
came out of the coals. And he's saying, what do you
expect Joshua to look like? He's a sinner that's just been
pulled out of the fire. Now, Satan was attempting to
use the law to accuse Joshua of breaking the law, and he was
doing this before God. That's what he was doing. We
know that because over in Jude 1.9, it says, Michael the archangel,
that's Christ. Michael the archangel, when contending
with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses. He wasn't
talking about Moses' physical body. They were disputing about
He was using the Ten Commandments to try to accuse Joshua of sin
before the Father. That's what he was doing. He's
the accuser of the brethren. And the Lord didn't bring against
him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. He's saying, God, this is Joshua,
the one I've redeemed. This is one I've made righteous.
This is one who's robed in my righteousness. And so God's going to rebuke
you because no sin can be laid to His charge. No sin can be
laid to His charge. He's able to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by Him seeing He ever liveth
to make intercession for us. That's Christ making intercession
for His people. The devil can't accuse us. But
that's not all He does. There's another work Satan does
besides accusing us to the Father, and it's accusing us in the court
of our conscience. Making you feel guilty about
your sin. He's trying to turn you back
to the law to make you do something to compensate for your sin. So
he uses sin to accuse you. But see, here's what happens.
Look here, after turning away the devil, Zechariah 3.3, Joshua
was clothed with filthy garments. He's a believer, but he sinned
and he's gotten himself filthy. Now watch this. And he stood
before the angel, before Christ, and Christ answered and spake
unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy
garments from him. And unto him He said, He said
this to Joshua, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass
from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. That's Christ's own righteousness.
And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head, a crown. Christ has made us kings and
priests unto God. So they set a fair mitre upon
his head, and clothed him with garments, and the angel of the
Lord stood by. Just in case Satan comes around
again and won't do cues. Now see, this is how Christ keeps
us sanctified unto Him, rather than allowing us to turn back
to the law. When the devil comes around and he's trying to accuse
you in your court of your conscience, and make you, convince you that
you're a sinner, and yet you're guilty, and that you're not a
child of God, so he can turn you from Christ back to you and
your doing, you come here the gospel priest, and the Lord Jesus
Christ speaks into your heart, and the blood of Christ purges
your conscience, so that there is no more conscience of sin. That's what you remember in Hebrews,
that's what He said the blood of lambs, bulls and goats could
never do that. It couldn't ever purge their
conscience. When they came to offer those,
there was a remembrance that they were guilty every time they
did it. But He said the blood of Christ purges our conscience
from dead works, from those law works, from those religious works. He purges your conscience from
Him by making you know just what He made Joshua know. I've made
all your iniquity pass from you. I've robed you in my righteousness. You're mine. You're a king under
God now. And so He keeps you turned to
Him and trusting Him only. That's what it meant over in
1 John 3.8 when He said, He that commit a sin is of the devil,
for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the
Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of
the devil. He destroyed them before the
Father so that the devil can't accuse us because we got no more
sin to accuse us. God justified us. And He destroys
the devil's works within us because He purges our conscience and
keeps us knowing. You're justified. You're justified. Christ has delivered us from
the fear of death this way. So we don't fear death anymore.
That's what the devil is doing with religious folks is convincing
them of their sin and their guilt and they go back to the works
of the law and they start working and it's because they fear death. They fear dying. They fear standing
before God in judgment. Why don't you fear that? Why
don't you and I as believers fear that anymore? Because He's
purged our conscience and made us know we're sons of God. When we die, we're going to be
like Him because we're going to see Him as He is. And that's
what's pictured in Exodus 15, verse 4. Pharaoh's chariots and
his host hath he cast into the sea. His chosen captains also
are drowned in the Red Sea. The devil had his choice temptations
that he would use against us. And Christ has destroyed the
devil and his choice captains. So he can't do that anymore to
his people. So brethren, here's how he did it. Our body of sin
is destroyed before God's holy law. There's nothing to accuse
us of. The death is destroyed. Life
and immortality belong to every believer so that we have no reason
to fear death anymore. And the devil and his power over
us because of these things is totally destroyed. He's on a
short leash and Christ has got the leash in His hands. And the
Scripture says, the God of peace shall brew Satan under your feet
shortly. So brethren, when we sing, sing
loud and sing unto the Lord. For he hath triumphed gloriously,
the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. Amen.