If you remember, God had just
sent a thick darkness into the land of Egypt for three days,
equivalent, as we said last time, to six nights. Can you imagine
just six nights of darkness? Just a long time. Scripture said it was a darkness
that could be felt. And verse 23 tells us that they
saw not one another, Neither rose any from his place for three
days, so dark couldn't even move around. But all the children
of Israel had light in their dwellings. This world is in great
darkness. It's a darkness that can be felt.
I can feel it. Can't you? The lost don't see
one another as to who and what they are. They don't see Christ
as the light of the world. And none can move a muscle to
save themselves. As the Lord showed you that,
there's not anything that you can do in and of yourself to
save yourself. Nothing you can do that would
cause God to be merciful to you. Salvation truly is of the Lord
from start to finish. And all the children of God who
have Christ have light in their dwelling. God has graciously
and mercifully shined the light of his gospel into a believer's
heart, and therefore they see. The only reason, no other reason
than that. Verse 24, and Pharaoh called
to Moses and said, go you, serve the Lord, only let your flocks
and your herds be stayed. Let your little ones also go
with you." And Moses said, you must give us also sacrifices
and burn offerings that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. He said, our cattle also shall
go with us and there shall not an hoof be left behind. For therefore
must we take to serve the Lord our God. And we know that with
what we must serve the Lord until we, and we know not with what
we must serve the Lord until we come thither. You know, when
it comes to the things of God, whether it's God's word, God's
gospel, God's son, God's salvation, there can be no compromise, absolutely
no compromise. That's what Moses is saying here,
no. No, there shall not be a hoof
left behind. No compromise. Webster's Dictionary
defines compromise. It basically gives it three meanings. The first is a settlement by
mutual concession. The second definition is to settle
by compromise. And then the third definition
is to expose to risk. In the verses that we just read,
we have actually the last of four compromises that Pharaoh
attempted to make with Moses and his God. But God doesn't
make compromises. As the sovereign one, he doesn't
have to. He doesn't have to. Now you and
I, we cannot live in this world without compromise. We'd have
to live as hermits if we did. To get along with any other human
being, we have to learn to compromise. It takes great grace to do so. Those of you who are married,
know this to be true, there has to be a lot of compromise in
a marriage in order for it to work. That lady sitting right
there knows a lot about compromise. And it's that way in a church.
Even among believers, we all have different personalities.
different thoughts on certain things, maybe some things the
scriptures are not clear on, one may feel this way, one may
feel another way, and we have to compromise. We compromise
with one another for the sake of Christ and his gospel. To
not compromise actually reveals a lack of grace. We must all
learn to compromise to some degree or none of us would have any
friends. And if we do not learn to compromise,
we'll never get along with anyone. There has never been a sinner,
a son, daughter of Adam, that has not found a need to compromise. Compromise can be a good thing.
Compromise can be a loving thing. Compromise can be a gracious
thing. Compromise can be a necessary
thing. But compromise can also be a
great evil. The third definition of compromise
that I read you is to expose yourself to risk. All of us have been faced with
compromising situations. And there are some areas that
if we compromise, we expose ourselves to great risk. Compromise can
be treacherous. It can be dangerous. It can be
evil. and even cowardly. And I heard one of my dear friends,
I don't remember now which one it was, in a message say, it's
in the middle of the road where head-on collisions occur. But there is one, friends, who
has never ever compromised. And God is one who needs not
to make concessions. Satan's always seeking to get
us to compromise. We do ourselves a great favor
to learn that. He knows that if he gets us to
compromise that we're defeated. And scripture is very clear that
a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. We rejoice that salvation
is by grace. A believer who loves Christ loves
the doctrines of grace. And he won't compromise them.
Just won't do it. Now I'm convinced that you can
believe and love the doctrines of grace and not believe and
love Christ. I know a lot of folks that love
the doctrine of election but have no interest at all in Christ.
But I also am convinced that if you love Christ and believe
on him, that you're going to love the doctrines of grace,
and you won't want to compromise them. We talk about the five
points of Calvinism. Total depravity, according to
the scriptures, mankind has fallen into complete corruption. We're corrupt from the top of
our head to the soles of our feet. That's what God says. That's what God says about us.
And yeah, compared to one another, we might say so-and-so's a good
man. What we're doing is we're comparing
them to ourselves. And if we say they're a bad man,
we're comparing them to ourselves. We compare ourselves to one another. But in the eyes of a holy God,
we are corrupt. We're corrupt. Our hearts are desperately wicked. Not just wicked, but desperately
wicked. The scripture says deceitful above all things. There's nothing
more deceitful than a human heart by nature. I'm not talking about
this little organ that pumps. I'm talking about the whole of
a man. The whole of a woman. We're depraved. Without Christ,
we can do nothing. We have no ability to save ourselves. We have no desire to be saved. We just don't. We're dead and
trespassed as a sin. And what desire does a dead man
or woman have? None. But there can't be any compromise
here. We have to see who and what we
are. Then we have unconditional election.
God saved us according to his own purpose of grace. We would
not come that we might have life. We could not come that we might
have life. We don't have the ability. to come, and we would
have never unless God had made us willing and able to come. Maybe we should say able and
willing. because we had to have life before we had any willingness
to come to Christ. And we know that it was by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God who gave his elect to
Christ and he predestinated them before the foundation of the
world to be conformed to his beloved son. That's the only
hope you have, Sonia, of being with Christ. being conformed
to His image, and it's God who does this, not us. Particular redemption, God saved
those whom He purposed to save. He said, I'll have mercy on whom
I'll have mercy. And He said, whom I will, I'll
harden it. And people naturally say, well, that's not fair. And
Paul said, who are thou that replies against God? Huh? Where were we when God made the
heavens and the earth? Who are we to question God? I heard someone once say that
Christ died for Judas the same as he did for Peter. Well, if
that's the case, then his shed blood and his crucifixion on
the cross means nothing. All who Christ shed his blood
for will be saved. You can write it down. And I
still think about someone who asked Brother Mahan one time,
do you believe once saved, always saved? You know, that was always
a big discussion in the Southern Baptist Church that I was raised
in. Do you believe once saved, always saved? Someone asked Brother
Mahan that one time. He said, it all depends on who
saves you. If God saves you, yes, you'll always be saved. Why? Because you're kept by the
power of God. God's the one that does the keeping.
He does the saving, and he does the keeping. God has from the
beginning chosen some to salvation through sanctification of the
spirit and belief of the truth. And if Christ died for everybody,
then everybody's going to be saved. And not everybody is saved. There'd be no need of a hell
if they were. And yet we know that there's
a hell, and we know that it's going to be full. Then irresistible
grace. Our Lord said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. All of them, every single one. They cannot resist God's call. It's effectual. He draws us. And when God draws you, you're
drawn. No dead sinner can resist the
divine call of God. Lazarus was four days dead. His sister said, by now he stinks.
But when Christ called him, When Christ called out Lazarus, the
scripture says he that was dead came forth. He gave him life
and then he came. He didn't give him life when
he came. He was dead. He gave him life and then he
came. If you have an interest in Christ
tonight, God's already done a work of grace in your heart. Be thankful. Then we have the preserving grace
of God, the preservation of the saints. I like it said better,
the preserving grace of God, because the preservation of the
saints sometimes make it sound like we did something to preserve
ourselves. We didn't do anything. We're
so prone to wonder. My, my. If God saves you, you
are forever saved. As I said a moment ago, we're
kept by the power of God through faith to salvation. And salvation
is by grace through faith. Even faith is God's gift to us. But by grace are you saved through
faith? That's not of yourselves. It's the gift of God. Oh, what
a gracious gift grace is. It's the gift of God, not a works
less any man should boast, for we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus. That's where we're created, in
Him. referring to earlier about election. If you love the doctrine of election
but never see that you were elected in Christ, He is the elect and
we're elected in Him. Then you've missed election. Now which of these precious doctrines
that I just gave you can a man or a woman compromise? None. None of them. We can't compromise. Which of those is it okay not
to believe? And I don't like to get caught
up on five-point Calvinist and all that. John Calvin had five
good points, I'll give him that. But I've heard people say, well,
I'm a four-point Calvinist, or I'm a three-point Calvinist.
Well, you're... We can't compromise on these
things. None of them. If God be God,
we're going to have to believe what God says about himself and
his word. Now for a few minutes tonight,
I want us to look at these four compromises that Pharaoh attempted
to make with Moses and his God and consider this subject of
no compromise. This is a very serious matter.
There's a lot of folks that we know and love that have compromised,
just so. Wished it wasn't so, but it is. When God first sent Moses and
Aaron to Pharaoh, the message and the demand from God was plain
and simple. We've talked about that a lot
of times in this study. The gospel message is plain and
simple. It's not a hard message to understand.
The truth of the matter is, by nature, men and women hate it.
And they will not, as we talked about Sunday, have God to rule
over them. But the message was simple, let
me read it to you again, Exodus 5 and 1, you don't have to turn
there. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, let my people go that
they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And this sets
before us the purpose of God and the salvation of his people.
They must be completely delivered from Egypt. which as we know
represents this world. And they have to be separated
under God. God would accept nothing less
than the complete deliverance of his people. And we're told
time and time again, God sent the plagues. He turned the river
into blood. And Pharaoh hardened his heart.
And the scripture says God hardened his heart. Which one was it?
It was both. Oh, this sets before us the purpose
of God. God would accept nothing less
than complete deliverance. God sent another plague. I don't
want to get ahead of myself. And it's the same with the child
of God today. We too must be completely delivered
before we can worship, or serve, or walk with God. We must be
separated from this Egypt of a world by His omnipotent grace. And that's the only way we will
be. This world to us is what Egypt was to Israel. We, too,
must be delivered from Egypt, this world. And this separation,
sanctification, if you want to call it that, may involve some
physical movement. They had to come out of Egypt.
But it's not just a physical separation. It's a spiritual
separation. It's a separation of our hearts.
God says, give me thine heart, Proverbs 23, 26. And I was thinking about that.
What does a husband want most from his wife? He wants her heart. He wants her to love him. And
what does a wife want from her husband? She wants his heart.
And that's what Christ is going to have from his people. their
hearts. But Satan, pictured by Pharaoh,
we've seen that so well, he doesn't give up his captives easily. But God's not going to compromise.
And Satan's going to lose, and Pharaoh's going to lose. And
Pharaoh, like Satan, endeavors to deny God his right to be God,
as you remember, by saying, well, who is the Lord that I should
obey his voice? And Satan looks upon the word
of God as a contemptible and vain thing, and he says, yea,
hath God said? Isn't that what he told Eve? Is that really what God said?
Satan always calls into question the word of God, attempting to
get men and women to compromise. It's still Satan's favorite device
to ruin men and women this way. He still questions, is that what
God really meant? Are you sure that's what God
said? And as Pharaoh required the Jews to make bricks without
straw, Satan ever puts sinners to the impossible task of doing
something to make their deliverance possible, but they can't do anything. And that's what we have in a
lot of churches today. The folks are doing some good
things, and I thank God for it. They're feeding the poor, they're
clothing the poor, they're doing a lot of good works. But that
will not, it will not cause your deliverance. Only God can. We can do nothing to win God's
favor. Deliverance is accomplished only
by the sovereign will, purpose, and work of God. And there can
be no compromise from us. in that truth. Now turn back
with me to Exodus chapter 8. Here's the first instance for Pharaoh's attempt to compromise. The Lord had corrupted the land
of Egypt with flies. That's one of the things that
I don't like about spring and summer, and that's these daggone
flies. Boy, they're already out. But as you know the story, there
were flies everywhere. And Pharaoh would have done almost
anything, and I reiterate, almost anything to get rid of Egypt
or the flies. So Pharaoh attempts here to compromise. I want you to see this. Look
at verse 25. And Pharaoh called for Moses
and for Aaron, and he said, go you and sacrifice to your God,
You see, he's making a concession here. He said, go, you, sacrifice
to your God. And then he says those three
little words, in the land. In the land. In other words,
you can go worship your God, but you have to do it in Egypt. You have to do it in this land.
But Moses could not accept Pharaoh's proposed compromise without disobeying
God's demand. Pharaoh was saying, let's make
a concession here. I'll concede something and you
concede something, and I'll let you worship your God, but you
do it here. Folks today say things like,
you can believe whatever you want to, you can worship however
you want to, but you need not separate them from us. Can't
we just go along and get along? need not separate from the world.
This compromise takes on so many forms today. Have you heard this
one? You can believe everything you want to believe. You can
worship however you desire. Just don't condemn our beliefs
in worship. But God asked this question. He says, can two walk together
except they be agreed? Second Corinthians 614 says,
be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light
with darkness? Just three verses after that,
the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul says, come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord. Touch not the unclean
thing, and I will receive you. What does a sinner have to believe
and bow to in order to be saved? Do you know the answer to that?
Everything God says. Everything God says. And if there's
one thing God commands of a sinner, it is complete separation from
the world and total consecration to Him. We can only have one
master. Man can't serve two masters.
There's no way anybody can serve two masters. You can't do it.
You'll love one, hate the other. You'll cling to one and forsake
the other. You can't have two masters. No compromise. No concessions. Look at verse 26. And Moses said,
it is not meet so to do, for we shall sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. See, shall we sacrifice
the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes? And will they
not stone us? He said, we will go three days
journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God
as he shall command us. God's command was crystal clear. He demanded the complete separation
of his people. He demanded they go three days
journey into the wilderness. You see, I thought about this
and I know I've read it somewhere too, but God's people are a resurrected
people. How long was the Lord in the
grave? Three days. God would have his elect completely
delivered from Egypt, but they must go three days journey. This
speaks of our resurrection in Christ. We cannot worship God
except we worship him as a resurrected people who are new creatures
in Christ. We can only worship on the basis
of the accomplished redemption of our great substitute, the
Lord Jesus Christ. You can't worship God except
through him. It's only by the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling
in us that we're brought to see that we can only approach and
worship God by the sin atoning death and resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Pharaoh said, go ye, sacrifice
to your God in the land. But Egypt represents the world
and God's people have been delivered from this present evil world.
Galatians 1.4. And it's only in the wilderness,
away from the influences of this world and its religion, that
we can truly worship God. That's what this place is to
you on Wednesdays and Sundays. It's a refuge, so to speak, a
wilderness where you can get alone and worship God without
the influences of all that's around us as we live and work
in this world. To worship God in the land, in
Egypt, Moses said would be to sacrifice the abomination of
the Egyptians. I read that several times. Really,
I don't know if I totally understood it, but do you remember our study
in Genesis that when Jacob and his sons joined Joseph in Egypt,
Pharaoh, out of his love for Joseph, and what a picture of
Christ Joseph is, but Pharaoh gave them the land of Goshen
to tend his flocks and theirs. And the Egyptians, according
to Genesis 46, verse 34, believed that every shepherd was an abomination. dirtiest, most abominable job
that anybody could have. The Egyptians thought that to
be so. And I was thinking, if every shepherd was an abomination
to the Egyptians, can you imagine what an abomination it would
have been to them for Israel to offer a lamb and sacrifice
to God? Christ and Him crucified is an
abomination to this world. How do I know? Because the scriptures
say that the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness. The cross of Christ is an offense
and it's a stumbling block to those who do not believe God's
gospel. Christ and Him crucified, that's
our message. Paul said, that's all I want
to know among you. Do you know who Christ is? Do
you see what Christ has done? And Moses added, he said, will
they not stone us? I tell you, when you press upon
men and women, you've experienced this. The necessity of redemption
by Christ alone. Declaring that God will not save
sinners without the shedding of Christ's blood, it erupts
men into rage. But we will not compromise. Without
the shedding of blood, None can be saved, for without the shedding
of blood, there is no remission of sin." Why would anyone consider
compromising the Word of God? It shows us and teaches us the
way of life. Compromise does nothing to honor
God, it dishonors Him. Compromise does nothing for the
good of men's souls, it destroys them. Compromise brings no edification
to the church, it only corrupts the church. We live in a day
of religion where compromise is evident. And men have been urged by hucksters
to make the gospel more acceptable to men and women. Now bear with
me just for a moment. I'm not here tonight to bash
religion, but these things are obvious. And in the context of
this compromise we're talking about, it's important to mention. In order to appeal to the to
the world. Religion has brought the world
into the church. How so? Well, many have instituted
in their services what's called contemporary worship. It's nothing more than an attempt
to attract the world. I have a friend of mine who's
a good musician, has never had an interest in God, never pretended
to. And he was telling me not long
ago that some little Baptist church out in Beals, Kentucky
called him and asked him if he would consider being their drummer.
What? A little church, handful of people. Anyway, I won't get off on that.
But many have instituted these things to appeal to the world. It's compromise. It's compromise. I like what
Don Fortner once said. He said he looked up the word
contemporary in the dictionary and right below it was the word
contemptible. Pretty much the same thing. Preaching
today gives way to testimonies and sharing. Well, tonight we're
not going to preach. Just stand up and share with us. Worship
gives way to raising and clapping of hands. We cannot compromise
or make concessions. God's clear on the matter. And
if a man will alter his message, I'm telling you, you can be sure
that he's going to compromise his message. It's coming, if
he hadn't already. And men, for the most part, are
more concerned with numbers and membership and offerings, money,
than they are with the glory of God. And it's these who will
always compromise to get what they want. That's what Pharaoh
shows us. Now the second compromise Pharaoh
suggests is found in verse 28 here in Exodus 8. And Pharaoh said, I will let
you go that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness. Only you shall not go far away. This second suggestion or suggested
compromise is very much like the first. You see, if Pharaoh
could keep Israel in Egypt, if he could not keep them in Egypt,
he's going to keep them very close. Very close. Pharaoh was
ready to lengthen his chain, but he wasn't willing to let
go of it. And remember, God will have nothing
less than the complete separation of his people out of Egypt. Pharaoh
said, OK, you can go into the wilderness, just don't go far.
And I couldn't help but to think about that. Don't take it too
far. Don't take it too far. I remember my mother telling
me one time, and oh, I have a lot of regrets there. I was so zealous
that I had a zeal, but it wasn't really according to knowledge,
and I just tried ram all the election and all the doctrines
of grace down her throat. But my mother told me one time
that I was taking what the Bible said too far. Don't take it too
far, she said. People say you're taking this
election thing too far. You're taking God's predestinating
grace too far. Man has a will and it must be
exercised. You're taking it too far. You're
taking this particular redemption about God only saves those who
He chose before the fountain. You're taking that too far. Someone
told a believing friend of mine one time that he shouldn't be
so heavenly minded that he would be of no earthly good. We better. We better be heavenly minded.
And yet that seems to be the very thing that keeps many from
even considering what the Bible teaches. They may have to give
up something of this world. That's why a lot of folks don't
want to serve God. Well, what am I going to have
to give up? The Lord says, lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves
break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where
thieves do not break through nor steal. And that doesn't mean
to go sell everything you got. I got religion one time and I
took my television and got rid of it and my VCR and threw all
my albums in a dumpster and three days later I was in the dumpster
trying to find them. That doesn't mean that at all.
But it means to set your affection on things above. Not things on
the earth. That's what Paul told the church
at Colossae. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. That's pretty plain, isn't it?
Did Paul mean what he said? For Paul, there was no compromise.
Did the Lord Jesus mean what he said? Absolutely. Now look
at the third compromise that Pharaoh attempted. And it's found
in Exodus chapter 10. Verse 8, now this was after the
locust had consumed what food was left in Egypt. Egypt's destroyed. I've pictured this in my mind
as a, looks like a war zone. Nothing left. Trees are burnt
and broken. Locusts have eaten all the vegetation. And after the locusts consumed,
what food was left in Egypt? Verse eight says, and Moses and
Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, go, serve
the Lord your God, but who are they that shall go? Who are you
taking with you? And Pharaoh's third compromise
here reveals another one of Satan's cunning devices. He offered to
let the men go and serve the Lord, if you read on, but he
pretended to be concerned for the children and the dangers
that they would be exposed to if they were to go with him. You know, when I pastored in
Texas for a while, I had more than one young couple with children
stop by the church, and they always asked the same question.
What do you have for the children? What do you have for the children?
And my answer was always the same. We have the gospel. We
have the gospel. Religion offers a free daycare
for many, activities for this, programs for that. And you might
ask, what's wrong with that? Well, they teach them error.
That's the main problem with it. They don't tell them the
truth about God. They don't teach them the truth about themselves.
I was raised in such a church. I know a little bit about what
I'm talking about there. And all it did for me was make
me self-righteous. All it did was cause me to cling
to my profession and my act of baptism. I look at verse 9, and
Moses said, we will go with our young, And with our old, with
our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our
herds, we will go for we must hold a feast to the Lord. And he said to them, let the
Lord be so with you as I will let you go and your little ones
look to it for evil is before you. "'Not so, go now, you that
are men, and serve the Lord, "'for that you did desire.' And
they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence." Now, do you see here
how Moses just wouldn't compromise? He's just not gonna compromise.
There can be no compromise on this thing. If Pharaoh could
hold their children in Egypt, he would retain a powerful hold
upon the Hebrews' hearts, and they'd never be able to Truly
worship God. Never be able to render full
devotion to God. Satan is subtle and Satan is
crafty, friends. He knows that if he can hold
that which is dearest to us, that we'll never be able to truly
worship him. You know, there are parents still
in bondage today because they are more interested in the church's
social activities for their children than in them knowing the truth
of the Scriptures. And there can't be any compromise
in this. So Pharaoh first tried to keep
Israel in Egypt. Then he tried to keep them near
Egypt. Then he sought to keep that which
was dearest to them. And then finally, the fourth
thing in our verses tonight, he proposes to send them into
the wilderness without any ability to serve the Lord with a means
of sacrifice. Again verse 24, let's read these
three verses again. This is after the plague of darkness
and Pharaoh called unto Moses and he said, Go ye serve the
Lord only. Let your flocks and your herds
be stayed. Let your little ones also go
with you. I'll concede on that. And Moses
said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings.
What could they sacrifice unto the Lord if they didn't have
the animals to do so? He said, thou must also give
us sacrifices and burn offerings that we may sacrifice unto the
Lord our God, and our cattle also shall go with us, and there
shall not a hoof be left behind, for therefore must we take to
serve the Lord our God, and we know not with what we must serve
the Lord until we come thither. Not a hoof be left behind. Do
you know what that means? No compromise. No compromise. The flocks and the herds of Israel
belong to the Lord. You know, everything we have
does. We figured that out, hadn't we? Everything we have belongs
to the Lord. Whether it's great or small,
it all belongs to Him. All that we have is what God
has trusted into our hands, and all that we have is ours, is
God's gifts to us, and we are to use them at His will for His
glory and interest in the kingdom. Back a couple, three years ago
now, when we stuck the box in the back and quit taking up offering,
I had people tell me, say, you're crazy. God's people are going
to give. You don't have to coerce them.
You don't have to shame them into giving. We haven't missed
anything by putting that box in the back. Why? Because God's
people know it's all His anyway. It's all His. When it comes to
sacrifice, there can be no compromise. None. We sacrifice nothing to
or for God, but He sacrificed all for us. That's the gospel
I see here. The gospel is the sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't it? It's the only hope
any of us have. being reconciled to God, what
Christ did for us. By His death on the cross, Christ
actually accomplished our salvation. He said, it is finished. He did
it all, and we're complete in Him. There's no work for me to
do. Just sit down, be quiet, rest,
and believe God, trust in Him. We cannot and we will not compromise
on this. No compromise. We say it all
the time. Christ did for us what we couldn't
do for ourselves. He fulfilled the law of God.
He satisfied the justice of God. He remained just and justified
His people. And what do we do? We simply
rest in Him. We have no assurance in anything
else. I have no assurance in anything else, not in my preaching,
not in my best prayer, not in my study, none. No assurance
anywhere else, only in Christ. Our assurance is who Christ is
and what He's done for us, and we must not compromise. From
election to glorification, every aspect of salvation is by the
free and sovereign grace of God. Moses' response to Pharaoh gives
us a very clear picture and declaration of particular and effectual redemption. Every soul for whom a lamb was
slain in Egypt came out of Egypt. And they came out with everything
that they had so that not a hoof was left behind. They came out
with more than they had because the people of Egypt just started
walking up to them and handing them stuff. Take this with you.
May God enable us to never compromise the truth of Christ and him crucified. That's the sacrifice that was
made. We don't sacrifice anything. No, sir. But he sacrificed his
only son that we might have life. It's the message of salvation,
the message of how God saved sinners who could not save themselves. To believe this gospel requires
no compromise. May God be pleased to make it
so.