Alright brethren, back to Exodus
chapter 10. There's two things I want to
show us from this text. Total redemption and total consecration. Total redemption and total consecration. All God's elect have been totally
redeemed by Christ. Every single one of us. once
for all time, and all shall be brought to be totally consecrated
to Him. All have been totally redeemed
that God chose, and all whom He chose and redeemed shall be
totally brought to be consecrated to Him. Now first of all, Christ
has redeemed the total number of all God's elect. Christ has
redeemed the total number of all God's elect. It's what we
see represented here by the fact that no one and no thing in Israel
would be left behind. No one and no thing, no cattle,
nothing would be left behind in Israel. And that's a type
of the redemption being complete and full and total of all Christ's
people. Moses said in verse 9, we will
go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go. And
down in verse 26 he said, there shall not a hoof be left behind. Brethren, the children of Israel
here are a picture of God's elect, the Israel of God. And just as
the children of Israel were in bondage, all God's elect come
into this world in bondage. We come into this world in bondage
because Adam willingly sinned against God in the garden. We
come into this world in bondage to the law. We cannot give the
law what we owe. We're in bondage to the law.
We come to this world in bondage to our fallen sin nature. You
and I, we just read in Romans 6, we're servants of sin by nature
and we can't free ourselves from that slavery. Number three, we
come into this world in bondage to the devil. Ephesians 2 says
we all are under the power of the devil by nature. And number
four, we're in bondage to this sin-cursed world. And one day,
Christ will even redeem our bodies and our whole selves from this
world, out of this world. Moses here is a picture of Christ
our Redeemer. Israel is a picture of His elect.
Moses is a picture of our Redeemer here. In Acts 7.35 it says, This
Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge?
The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer. by the hand
of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. That angel was
Christ that appeared to him in the bush and He sent Him to be
a deliverer. That's what a Redeemer is. And
so just as Moses was sent by Christ, Christ was sent by God
the Father to be a deliverer, to be our Redeemer. And just
as Moses was only sent to deliver the children of Israel, There
was a lot more people in the world and a lot more nations
around. But He was not sent to do anything for those other people.
He was sent only to the children of Israel. And so Christ was
sent into this world only to redeem His elect. Only for those
God chose before the world was made. Now, God has many elect. The Scripture says it's a multitude
no man can number. He promised Abraham they would
be more than the stars of the sky and the sand of the sea.
That's a lot of elect. That's a lot of elect. But make
no mistake, brethren, Christ did not come to lay down His
life for everybody. He did not. He did not. Just as Moses declared that he
would redeem all that God sent him to redeem, Christ redeemed
all those the Father gave Him in divine election. Christ said, I lay down My life
for the sheep. I lay down My life for the sheep.
And to show us that not everybody is His sheep, He said to some
standing there, you are not of My sheep. Nothing could be more
clear. You are not of My sheep. I lay
down My life for the sheep. You are not of My sheep. Again,
He said, makes it clear that not everybody is His sheep. He
said, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. It's important
to declare, brethren, that Christ only died for the elect. It's
very important for this reason, so that we give Christ all the
glory that's due unto Him for accomplishing their redemption. I would never make the statement
to people, God loves you. I don't know. I don't know. God
loves His elect in Christ. I know that. But I don't know
who they are. So I can't just make this blanket
statement, God loves you. I don't know. I don't know. But everybody He loves in Christ,
everybody He chose in Christ, He saves them. Christ redeemed
them. Let's say I was willing to pay
off somebody's mortgage debt in here. We're really pretending. How could I do that unless I
first chose for whom I will do it? See what I'm saying? You
just can't pay a debt by just paying. You have to choose somebody
to do it for. There has to be a price that's
owed for you to accomplish redemption. It's impossible to pay a price
owed and redeemed from bondage without doing it for a particular
person. And the very meaning of the word
redeemed declares that. You know what redemption means?
Redemption means buying again. Redemption means purchasing something
by paying the price demanded. Purchasing something, a specific
thing, by paying the specific price that's demanded for that
thing. That's redemption. Scripture
calls Christ's people His purchased possession. He purchased us. The Scripture says to his believing
people, you're not your own. You're bought with a price. See, redemption is purchasing
his particular people by paying the particular price that was
owed for that people. And that makes us His. That makes
us His purchased possession. On the cross, Christ was redeeming
a particular people, paying their particular debt, the debt that
each of His people owed. That's what Christ was doing
on the cross. Well, what was that price? What was the price
we owed? Well, we broke God's law. We
sinned against God. We broke God's law and we owed
the law of God justice. Well, what is justice? If you've
broken God's law, what is justice? What is it we owe the law? Death. Death. That's what we owe the
law. The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. Now, the price that God's justice
demanded, the price that God's justice demanded in order for
Christ to pay the debt His people owe, The price that God's justice
demanded was Christ's own life. It was His blood. Go with me to Leviticus 17. Leviticus
17 and look at verse 11. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. You know what's amazing? God
declared this in His Word. Moses recorded it all thousands
of years ago. Did you know that it was over
3,000 years later in 1628 that an English physician named Dr.
William Harvey discovered scientifically that life is in the blood. God declared it right here. Life's
in the blood. Read on, "...life of the flesh
is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh
an atonement for the soul." Now listen carefully to what God's
saying there. God says it's blood that maketh atonement for the
soul. Redemption. It's what he's talking
about. It's blood that accomplishes redemption for the soul. By Christ
shedding His blood for the life of another, He made atonement,
He accomplished redemption for the soul of those for whom His
blood was shed. Now that, this verse right here,
totally annihilates universal redemption, that lie of universal
redemption. It destroys the lie that says
the sinner makes Christ's blood to make atonement by personally
believing on Him. That's what universal redemption
says. Christ died for everybody. If that's so, then the blood
made atonement for the soul of everybody. If that's so, He redeemed everybody. And then they say, but you make
it effectual. You make the blood of Christ effectual by you believing
on Christ personally as your Lord and Savior. That's not what
that verse says. It says, it's Christ's blood
that maketh atonement for the soul of those he lays down his
life for. There's a lot in a little phrase.
That phrase just hit me yesterday when I was looking at that. The
life is in the blood. And it's Christ's blood that
made atonement for the soul of everybody He laid down His life
for. That's why it behooved Christ in all points to be made like
unto His brethren. He was made flesh like His brethren. Why? so that He would have blood
in which is life, so that He would be able to pour out His
life by pouring out His blood and make atonement for His brethren.
So it behooved Him to be made flesh that He might have blood
and be able to pour out His life. He was made under the law like
His brethren. Why? So that He could be made
a debtor to fulfill the whole law for us. That was necessary
so that by shedding His blood, He could make atonement for the
souls of His people and bring us out. Christ, our sinless substitute,
was made sin for His brethren. Why? To manifest God's strict
righteousness in that He would not spare His own Son, but delivered
Him up for all His elect. Why would He not spare him? Why did He deliver him up for
all His elect? Because His blood, by shedding
His blood, He would make atonement for the soul of all those for
whom He died. He would redeem us. And then
after he was made sin, Scripture says he was made a curse. Adam
sinned in the garden and then God came to him and God made
him a curse because of his sin. Christ was made sin for His people,
then God made Him a curse. Why? So that He might redeem
us from the curse of the law by shedding His blood and make
an atonement for the soul of those for whom He died. So when
He said it's finished brethren, when our Lord said it's finished,
when He hung there in agony, And He was coming to the close
of those hours of darkness and our Lord cried out and said,
It is finished. He was declaring His blood had
accomplished eternal redemption for the souls of every single
elect child for whom He died. He accomplished redemption. He
made atonement. He made redemption. We don't
make it effectual. We don't make His blood to have
accomplished something. He made redemption. He accomplished it. Neither by
the blood of bulls and of goats and calves, but by His own blood
He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. 1 Thessalonians 1.10 says, He
delivered us from the wrath to come. He delivered us from it. Look at Romans 6. This for now
is one of my favorite, if not my favorite text. Romans 6. 6. Knowing this, brethren, that
our old man is crucified with Him. that the body of sin might
be destroyed. That henceforth we should not
serve sin. Henceforth we should not be the
slaves of sin. Why? Because he that is dead
is freed or justified from sin. He's been redeemed from under
that curse. He's been brought out from under
it. The man that's dead. And it wasn't just any kind of
death. It wasn't just that first death. It wasn't just physical
death. It was more than that, brethren. It was that second
death. It was that worm that never dies.
It was God forsaking His own Son. It was everything that I
would have suffered if God had thrown me into hell. That's the
death He suffered. It was a living death that He
suffered on the cross. If the Lord sends a man to hell,
when He sends a man to hell, it's not he dies and he's annihilated
and that's it. It's a living death that goes
on forever and ever and ever. Christ on the cross was suffering
a living death when God separated Himself from Him in justice. That's the death He died for
His people. And since God's just, brethren, His justice demands
that all who Christ redeemed just must do what He said there
in verse 9, Exodus 10, 9. At the end there, Moses said,
We must hold a feast unto the Lord. We must do it. And I'm
telling you, brethren, everybody Christ redeemed, they must be
given life and faith in Christ because we must be brought to
celebrate this gospel feast right here. We must be brought to praise
our God and praise our Redeemer and give Him all the glory due
unto His name. We must be brought to feast upon
the Lord because God's justice demanded. He satisfied justice
for His people and now His justice demands we be brought to the
feast. And so, the mediator of the New
Testament, a mediator is one that He works for God, represents
God to His people, and He represents His people to God. And He brings
them both together. And that's what He was doing
on the cross. What Ephesians 2 says, and then He came and
preached peace to us. That's part of His mediatorial
work too. Both to accomplish redemption by His blood, and
then to come and through the Spirit, sprinkle His blood and
purge our conscience. For this cause, He's the mediator
of the New Testament. Number one, that by means of
the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament,
secondly, they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance. He redeemed us on the cross and
He gets the glory. The glory is His for being the
mediator who sends the gospel to us from God Almighty and makes
it effectual in our hearts and brings us to this gospel feast.
He is the mediator. The glory is His. Just like He
sent Moses into Egypt to declare His Word, Christ sends His preacher
into this world to declare His Word. And just like Moses was
used to bring those people out, He uses His preacher and Christ
brings His people out by making the blood effectual and purging
their conscience and bringing them to believe on Christ. You
remember when Christ took the wine And he held up that wine
and he said, this wine is a picture of the New Testament in my blood,
the new covenant in my blood. Well, you know back there when
that first covenant, that old covenant, when he sent Moses
to establish that old covenant, the law came by Moses. And he
sent Moses to establish that old covenant. And scripture says
Moses spoke every precept according to the law. He came to the people. This is how he made that covenant. He established that covenant
and made that covenant with the children of Israel. He came and
he spoke everything, every precept that was in the law. That's what
he did. And then he took the blood of
bulls and of goats and he sprinkled the blood on everything. Everything that God had sanctified
and set apart for His use, He sprinkled the blood on it all.
The tabernacle, the people, the priests, the book, everything.
He sprinkled blood everywhere on everything. And when He did it, He was saying,
this is the blood of the Testament which God hath enjoined to you. This is the blood of the Testament
which God hath enjoined to you. Scripture says the law came by
Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. When our Lord
Jesus Christ sends His gospel to each of His children, our
Lord Jesus Christ is the one who establishes the everlasting
covenant in our heart, just like Moses established the covenant
of works for the children of Israel. Christ is the one who
establishes this covenant in our heart through the preaching
of the gospel. He preaches into our hearts every precept of the
gospel of His grace. And He writes on our heart the
law of righteousness, teaching us He's our righteousness. The
law of faith, teaching us that it's through faith that we fulfill
the whole law. The law of love, teaching us
how Christ bore our burden in love and He teaches us to bear
one another's burden in love. the law of mercy, all these different
laws of the new covenant, He writes on our heart as He preaches
all the doctrine of the gospel of Christ, just like Moses rehearsed
all the precepts that were in the law, He preaches to us all
the good news of the gospel and He makes it known in our heart,
Christ does. And as He does that, He gives
us this wine and He says, this is a picture to remind you, a
picture of my blood, which fully established this new covenant
for you. This is the blood of the new
covenant which is established for you. And He makes that known
in the heart and so His child for the first time realizes everything
is finished. Everything is done. And he comes
and he bows to Christ. He's not bowing to some man that
talked him into believing a certain doctrine. He's not bowing into
men who preach a little bit of truth but the rest is lies. He
brings us to Christ Himself to bow to Christ Himself and our
hearts are overflowing with the fact that Christ is our salvation. And this he does through the
gospel. This is his glory, brethren, to do it. And the Scripture says,
ìAnd how much more shall the blood of Christ purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?î When heís done this,
youíre done with those dead works by which you think that this
is going to earn Godís favor. Thatís what makes it a dead work,
the motive of the heart. The motive of our heart in everything
we did before Christ called us was trying to please God, trying
to put on a show for my brethren, trying to get God to save me.
Those are all dead works because the motive is wrong. But when
He gives you a new heart, now the motive is the love of Christ
because of what He has done for us. And that is the motive He
will accept. He brings you to faith, gives
you faith and He brings you to rest in Him and He brings all
His brethren to sing the song that we just sang. Free from
the law, oh happy condition. Jesus has bled and there is remission. Cursed by the law and bruised
by the fall, Christ is redeemed us once for all time. Now we're
free, there's no condemnation because Jesus our Lord provides
a perfect salvation. This is why Moses said, all shall
go out. We'll go out with our old and
our young, our sons and our daughters, and all our cattle, and we won't
leave a hoof behind, because we must hold a feast unto the
Lord. We must do it. Christ said it
this way, All the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down
from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that
sent me. And this is the will of him that sent me, that of
all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but raise it up
again at the last day. This is the Father's will. All
that believes on me, I'll raise him up. Oh, sinner, believe on
Christ. Trust Christ. Cast your care
on Christ now. He's the only salvation of His
people. He said, My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and
I give them eternal life, and no man shall pluck them out of
My hand. We're all going out, He said. Not a hoof's going to be left
behind. They shall, not a one of them perish. Now, secondly,
I want you to see this. We see in Moses' refusal to compromise
with Pharaoh that Christ brings His people to be totally consecrated
to Him. When He gives you this good news
and He works this work in our heart and shows us our redemptions
accomplished, He makes us totally consecrated to the Lord. Four
times Pharaoh offered a compromise. Four times. The first time he
told Moses, go ye sacrifice to your God in the land. Don't leave
here, just do it right here. Moses said, we're going to offer
the abomination of the Egyptians and they're going to kill us
if we do that. Christ will not allow His people
to compromise His doctrine with this world. He won't allow it. That's what's pictured there.
He won't allow us to compromise our doctrine with this world,
nor our worship with this world. This world hates the true God
of the Bible. This world hates His Christ.
And this world would crucify us if they could crucify us,
just like they did our Redeemer. And so our Lord says, Come out
from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord. Touch not the
unclean and I'll receive you. Then Pharaoh compromised, saying,
I'll let you go into the wilderness, only don't go very far away.
Christ won't permit His child to compromise by being the friend
of God and the friend of the world. He won't let you just
come a little ways out so that you can be back in the world
in a heartbeat. He says, come out completely. And He brings
His people out of this world. This world must be as dead to
us as we are to this world. Paul said, God forbid that I
should glory, saving the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ by whom
the world is crucified to me and I to the world. The third time Pharaoh compromised
is our text. He said, leave your little ones
behind and you that are men go. Moses said, no, we are going
to all go. Satan got Adam to turn his back on God. How? Using Adam's wife. Pharaoh said, leave your children
here. That will make you come back. How did sin enter in the
beginning? The devil used Eve, Adam's wife,
to get Adam to turn his back on God. Our dearest loved ones
are very often used by the devil to tempt us to depart from Christ
and His gospel and His people, our loved ones. In fact, I don't
know hardly any believer who hasn't been faced with this trial. of a dear loved one who hated
the gospel they preached. I don't know, I can't think offhand
of a believer that hadn't suffered it. But Christ keeps His people
faithful to Him. He makes His people stand with
Him. I knew a man one time, and the man professed to believe
the doctrine of particular redemption. He professed to believe Christ
died only for His elect. But he would compromise with
people who preached universal redemption. And he did it for
one reason. His daddy and his mother believed
it. What did Christ say? He said,
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me. And he that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. It's painful. It's so painful
when a loved one when a loved one rejects you because of the
gospel. That's one of the most painful things that you can ever
suffer. But you know brethren, a cross
is meant to be painful. And our Lord said, right after
He said, He that loves mother and father more than Me, or son
and daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. Then He said,
and he that taketh not his cross, and follow after me is not worthy
of me. Stand with Christ. Stand with
Christ. Even when your dearest loved
one opposes you, stand with Christ. Christ will bless it. He will
honor it. Honor Him and He will honor it. I guarantee you. I
have seen it and all those brethren I said to you that has faced
this trial, I have seen Christ honor them honoring Him. by keeping them and providing
for them in better ways than they ever could imagine. And
be kind to your loved one that opposes you because it just might
be that the Lord uses you to bring them to Christ. But stand
with Christ. You know, a lot of times we think,
well, I can bear witness to them if I kind of compromise with
them and I go where they want to go and I hear what they want
me to hear and all that, and then I can bear witness to them
of Christ. By compromising with them, you're
saying, it's alright to compromise. The Lord doesn't ever tell us
to do that. He says, stand with Christ. Stand
with Christ. You want to bear witness to Him?
Stand with Christ. Pharaoh's last compromise is
now in verse 24. Pharaoh called unto Moses and
he said, Go ye serve the Lord, only let your flocks and your
herds be stayed behind. You can let your little ones
go also with you, but let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Those flocks and those herds,
first of all, are a picture of Christ. And in everything our
Lord is doing here, He is showing us we can never part with Christ.
You can't approach God any other way than with Christ. They could
not approach God and have this feast any other way than to have
that blood shed by those substitute lambs and goats. They had to
have that. And the only way God will receive
us, brethren, is through the shed blood of Christ. We have
to have Christ to approach Him. And another thing that these
flocks and these herds represent, these flocks and these herds
were their possessions. This is what they owned. And
when our Lord calls us, brethren, Christ is going to require His
child to sacrificially devote all our possessions to His service. Not just a little, not just something
that... You know the reason that this place exists right here?
I looked at all the information on this place when we bought
it. You know why this place is here? Somebody gave this land
to the church. You know why? It's in a flood
zone, right by the creek. It's not where the hill of Bing
is. That's why. Now they've come in and fixed
it. The city's fixed it so it doesn't flood. But back when
they did it, it was a place that flooded. So that person that
gave this to the church didn't do a thing. He didn't sacrifice
anything. It was something he couldn't
use. He gave it to God. That's why we don't have Rummage
sales to raise money for the church and garage sales to raise
money for the church. God's not going to have you giving
Him just what you can't use and what's your money you made off
of stuff that you've done wore out and tired of using. God requires us to give the first
fruits. The first fruits. The first of
everything. Listen to Moses. Verse 25, Thou
must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may
sacrifice unto the Lord our God. Our cattle also shall go with
us, there shall not a hoof be left behind, for thereof must
we take to serve the Lord our God. And we know not with what
we must serve the Lord until we come thither. This is not
law, brethren, for Moses. This is grace. The law hadn't
even been given yet. The law hadn't been given yet.
That's why I said we don't know what we're going to have to sacrifice
yet. We don't know. The law hadn't been given. But
already in Moses' heart, he was made willing to sacrifice whatever
God told him to sacrifice because he was motivated by the constraining
love of Christ in his heart. He was a regenerated child of
God saved through faith in Christ just like every other child of
God is. This is grace. It's not law.
And so people today, brethren, we need to remember this. Since
Christ accomplished the redemption of each and every one of God's
elect, remember this, not a single one of His elect shall be left
behind. Sometimes we get down and, you know, you see your loved
one that you love, your son, your daughter, your mother, your
father, and they hate the gospel, they won't hear the gospel. I had to wait 40 years, 40 years,
with my dad hating the gospel. 40 years. And God not only gave
him faith, He gave me the privilege to baptize him. That ranked right
up there with baptizing my daughter. But this is our assurance, brethren,
if they're God's elect, Christ has redeemed them. and they shall
be brought to the feast. They shall be brought to the
feast. Just keep declaring the truth to them. Keep standing
with Christ and keep declaring the truth to them. If He saves
them, that's how He's going to do it. That's how He's going
to do it. Every one of those that were
in Israel came out. He didn't leave anybody behind.
They all came out and all His people are coming out. If you
haven't believed on Christ, Do so now without delay. Cast all your care on Christ.
I'm telling you, brethren, you that don't believe on Him, Jonathan Edwards described it
as like a spider hanging by a thread over the flames of hell. All
God has to do is just cut the little web and you're gone. The only way we can be saved,
the only way we can be brought to not only just not want to
suffer hell, but to delight in God, is for God to form Christ
in our hearts. And if He's done that for you,
confess Him. Confess Him publicly. He said,
every man that confesses Me, I'll confess him to my Father.
The man that won't confess Me, I won't confess him to my Father
either. Man, it's a shame to me. We confess Him. And brethren, as we pass through
this life, remember, we can't compromise, cannot compromise,
not in doctrine, not with this world, not with our dearest loved
ones, and not with our possessions. Cannot compromise. Everything
we possess is given to us by God. Our doctrine is, this world, our dearest loved ones, and all
our possessions. It's all given to us of God.
And whatever God says we're to use it, that's how we're to use
it. We're just stewards. That's all. A steward takes the
goods of his master and he uses those goods just like his master
tells him to use them. So all these things, brethren,
are to be used like God tells us to use them. No compromise
with any of them. No compromise. So therefore,
constrained by Christ's love, let us stand with Christ without
wavering, and let us use our money and our possessions to
promote this gospel. You do such a good job of this.
I love to look to see where everybody is listening, you know, sermon
audio. I like to see that in all the
different countries. I can't believe that some of
those countries, I don't even know where they are. I have to look
them up. And there's somebody there listening to this old country
bumpkin preach Christ. I bet they're listening thinking,
I wonder where that dialect is from. It's from South Arkansas,
baby. But I'm thankful that you do
that, to send this gospel out. That's our charge, that's what
we're here for. to use everything. There's so much that we could
do. I got so many things I'd like
to do. And I need help with it. And if you want to help with
something, let me know. I got plenty you can help with.
This is what we're here for, brethren. And I pray God to bless
it and now let's come and let's honor Him. This is what He tells
us. Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all
thine increase and so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and
thy presses shall burst out with new wine. That's the Word of
the Lord. Alright. Let's see here. Brother Rob.