Exodus 13. Now I said last week that I was
going to bring a message on being led of God, chosen path, but
that's not going to be today. As I read this chapter, more
and more came out. So what I'm going to attempt
to do is I'm going to attempt to do
an overview of this chapter this morning, LEAVING EGYPT. That's the title of the message. I'm going to do an overview,
an exposition of this chapter, and Lord willing, next week i'm going to bring
a message on a lamb for an ass substitution and then the lord
willing the following week after that i'm going to bring a message
on a chosen path being led of god god leads us in this world
this wilderness this is a wilderness and god leads his children along
but this morning I'm going to start out with leaving Egypt. I may get stuck and we may have
to extend even that, but if I get stuck on a point, we'll just
get stuck on a point. Now we're going to pick up the
story where Israel has just experienced one of the most powerful acts
of God in the Old Testament, the Passover. The killing of
the lamb, the shedding of blood for the firstborn, the death
of the firstborn of Egypt, and now their release from 400 years
of bondage. That's a long time. What have
we been a nation, 250 years? They were in bondage and slavery
for 400 years. and then God did exactly what
He said He would do, what He promised Abraham He is now doing. He s delivering them out of bondage. But before they cross over the
Red Sea in Exodus 14, before they taste the promised land
which will be several years yet and many of them won't taste
it because of unbelief they never believed God and they did not
enter the promised land because the promised land is not inherited
by works it's not inherited by the flesh it's inherited by promise
and by grace but before they do all that God's going to take
them into the wilderness. They are going to go through
the wilderness for 40 years. You know that the promised land
from where they were was only like someone said about three
days journey. But it is going to take 40 years
before Joshua and Caleb enter into it and those under 20 years
old. But God is going to prepare their
hearts AND HE'S GOING TO SHOW THEM IN THIS WILDERNESS WHAT
THEY ARE. THEY'RE GOING TO LEARN SOMETHING
ABOUT FLESH. YOU SEE, IF THEY HAD GONE BY THE WAY OF THE PHILISTINES
AS WE'LL SEE LATER, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN AFRAID BECAUSE OF THE
PHILISTINES AND WAR. THEY WOULD HAVE LEARNED WAR AND
THEY WEREN'T PREPARED FOR THAT. BUT GOD'S GOING TO TAKE THEM
INTO WILDERNESS AND THEY'LL LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THEMSELVES. I've learned more about myself
in the last 46 years in this world and God leading
me and down the path that He's taken me than I could have learned
any other way. I could not have learned what
I've learned any other way than the way God has led me. So He's
going to prepare their hearts, He's going to establish their
direction, and He's going to teach them to follow Him, to
follow me, obey me, trust me. Trust Me. You know true obedience
is really is born of faith. You believe God, you trust God
and because of that, because you do trust Him, you follow
Him. You follow Him. Now this overview deals with
three points. It deals with consecration, it
deals with commemoration, and it deals with direction. That's
basically the overview of this chapter. Now verse one, and I'll
try to move along as much as possible and as quickly as possible. And the Lord spake to Moses,
you see God always uses His man. He speaks to His man and His
man speaks to the people. You know, God does use me to
speak to you. He does. I know I'm not much,
I'm not much God, but you know, God has put this treasure in
earthen vessels. And God gives gifts and talents,
spiritual gifts, not natural, but spiritual gifts. He gives
His man spiritual discernment. He's able to rightly divide the
word of truth. And then He makes him able to
stand before the people, and God speaks to the people, His
people, His church, through His man. and God spake to Moses saying,
and here's consecration, SYNCTIFY UNTO ME ALL THE FIRSTBORN, SET
APART, that's what He's saying, SET APART THE FIRSTBORN FOR ME,
THEY ARE MINE, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. I started, I was so far into
this I didn't want to start all over, but I wanted to do a message
on the firstborn. You know every one of God's children
are firstborns, there's no secondborn, there's no thirdborn, no fourth,
fifth, you know there was seven in my family, I'm the middle
one, I'm the fourthborn, but in God's family everybody's a
firstborn. I think it's Hebrews 12. Look
over in Hebrews 12. I wanted to show this because
this is why it's so important because the firstborn keeps being
mentioned. In Hebrews 12, let's look here. Hebrews 12 and verse... Okay, Hebrews 12, verse 23. TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND THE
CHURCH, THIS IS THE WHOLE CHURCH, this is no particular local church,
this is the whole Church of God. TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH
OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHICH IS CHRIST, AND ALL IN CHRIST ARE FIRSTBORN. AND EVERYONE IN CHRIST FIRSTBORN
HAVE BEEN REDEEMED BY CHRIST, THE LAMB OF GOD. which are written
in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the Spirit of
just men made perfect, but to the general assembly and church
of the firstborn." There's a lot more said throughout the Scripture,
but I'm not going to try to make the message on that this morning.
But God says, "...sanctify," that word means set apart, "...the
firstborn to Me." They're Mine! You're Mine! You're Mine! THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF CONSECRATION.
THE FIRSTBORN ARE MINE. GOD DID NOT JUST DELIVER THEM
FROM EGYPT, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, HERE'S A SPIRITUAL
APPLICATION. GOD DID NOT JUST DELIVER US FROM WRATH, HIS WRATH
TO COME, OR HELL. YOU KNOW GOD DELIVERED US FOR
HIMSELF. WE ARE FOR HIM. HE SAYS YOU'RE MINE. YOU KNOW
WHAT HE SAYS? YOU'RE MINE. THAT FIRSTBORN IS
MINE. You're mine. So Calvary was not
just setting us free from sin and Satan and the law, it's also
God saying and laying claim to, You're mine. And He's saying,
Sanctify the firstborn because I've redeemed them. I've redeemed
them. I bought them. I purchased them.
You're a purchased people, you know that? God purchased you. That's why you believe, because
you're His. Now He says, Whatsoever opens
the womb among the children of Israel, He doesn't say Egypt,
this doesn't belong to everybody, this is given to God's Israel,
both of man and of beast, it's mine, it's ownership, it's ownership. But also here is a reminder that
all things are of God, All belongs to Him. All belong to Him. They're all Mine. As Creator,
He says, All souls are Mine. As Redeemer, He's saying, All
the firstborn are Mine. I've redeemed you. Now here's commemoration in verse
3. And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day. Remember this
day. Now I cannot just point to a
day that God saved me. I can point to a time. 1979 That's
when I I mean I heard the gospel And it changed my life forever.
I heard the gospel. I believe I can say I heard the
gospel in power and I was never the same since I Can't tell you
what day it was what date it was or what even what month it
was But I can tell you in 1979 when I sat down and heard Henry
preaching the gospel on television. I heard the gospel and And our
life, mine and Vicki's life and our boys' when we were growing
up was built around the gospel. We didn't make the gospel try
to fit our life. We never did that. We never tried
to make the gospel fit our life. We fit it. We fit the gospel. I got a job where the gospel
was. I quit a good job and moved to where the gospel was. Now you remember, he said, Moses
said to the people, remember this day in which you came out
from Egypt out of the house of bondage. And here's one of the
reasons he's telling them to remember it. First of all, we
should always value that which God has done for us. If we begin
to forget these things, we will devalue these things. They won't
be valuable to us anymore. The cross won't be that valuable
to us anymore. We get so caught up with all
these things of the world that it becomes less and less. Never,
never let the gospel take second place to anything, anything. And here's another reason, remember
this day there'll be generations that were not there when God
brought you out of Egypt. And I'm giving you, what I'm
giving you are thoughts as I read this. I wrote this down like
a commentary. And I didn't just read a commentary
and write it. I wrote this down as these thoughts
came to me. These are my thoughts as I read
this chapter. And I just felt impressed to
write it like this. But we need to remember this day because
As I said, there'll be generations at that time when it was going
to come along, and they weren't there when that happened. I wasn't
there when Christ died on Calvary's tree, but there were some who
were. There were witnesses to the gospel,
the apostles, and they went out and they preached the gospel.
They preached the gospel to Jews and Gentiles, and God's children
heard the gospel. And then they told the next generation,
and here we are today, here I am standing here telling you the
gospel. I'm telling you what happened at Calvary. I'm telling
you the Lamb of God died on Calvary's tree to save us from our sins
and to deliver us from sin, Satan, and the law. And by God's grace, by God's
grace, another generation will take our place here and tell
the gospel to the next generation. I like the way it's what it says
of David. He served his generation. Let's serve our generation that
we live in by telling the gospel. Telling the old, old story is
what we need to do. And here is what you tell them,
tell them this, For by strength of hand the LORD brought you
out from this place. We need to remember the power
of God in our salvation, and you know what that is? It says in the Scriptures, Christ,
the power of God, and the wisdom of God over in 1 Corinthians
124. The power of God, the strength
of God in bringing us out of this place of sin and corruption
is Christ. It's Christ and He did so at
Calvary. And there's one thing that is
made very clear here. For by strength of hand the Lord
brought you out from this place. You had nothing to do with it.
If there's anything that keeps getting more clearer to me and
more impressed upon me is this. And it's very simple. It's just
very simple. It's elementary. I had nothing
to do with it. The Lord brought me out. The
Lord saved me. The Lord did it. Salvation is,
what Jonah said, salvation is of the Lord. He brought me out. He brought me out, listen, He
brought me out from that place of sin and corruption and selfishness
and self-love. He brought me out of that. The
Lord did that. You know it takes the power of
God to do that? You know, it takes the same power that was
exerted, if I could use that word, in creation. When God said,
Let there be light, God created the heavens and the earth. It
takes the same power for God to create a believer. God exerts
that same power. But you know what the only difference
is? There was no resistance in creation. There's a resistance
in us. There's a resistance. if we could we wouldn't be saved
we wouldn't because it says that man drinks iniquity like water
we drink iniquity we drank iniquity like water okay but it's salvations
of the power of god now he says there shall no leaven be there
shall no leaven bread be eaten this keeps coming up too with
the passover the remembrance of it and the leaven The unleavened
bread and leavened bread and no leavened bread to be eaten.
You know, the worship of God is to be done in sincerity and
truth and kept from error. You know, I was thinking of this
this morning. Of course, I've gone over this many times this
morning. For three hours, I go over the message before I stand
here. And I was thinking this morning,
we should search our hearts WE SHOULD SEARCH OUR HEARTS EVERY
TIME WE ARE GETTING READY TO COME HERE, THAT WE ARE COMING
HERE OUT OF SINCERITY TO TRULY WORSHIP THE LORD. LORD, ENABLE
US TO WORSHIP YOU THIS MORNING IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. IS THAT
NOT OUR PRAYER? ENABLE US TO DO THIS THIS MORNING,
BECAUSE WITHOUT YOUR HELP WE WON'T. But this is to be done
in sincerity, truth kept from error, and no mixture, no mixture,
no pretense, no pretense. And he says here in verse 4,
This day came ye out in the month Abib. This day is a special month,
it is a day of salvation. He said, don't you, this is the
day of salvation. You know, today is a day of salvation. This is a day of salvation. This
is a day of grace. Anytime, right now, right now,
the gospel is being preached. Christ is being preached. I'm
preaching Christ from this portion of scripture. This is a day of
salvation. You know there are people here
this morning, some of you here this morning are being saved.
It's a day of salvation. You're being saved. I have been
saved. Today I'm being saved. And I
shall be saved. I shall be. Because you'll see
here, He tells me, He says, you're going to enter the land of promise.
I swear to your fathers and to you, and you're going to enter
the land of promise. I'm going to take you to it.
But it says here, This day came you out on the month of Abib.
This day I brought you out of slavery to liberty. Don't forget
it because we can get spiritually lazy and forgetful. What did
Paul say to the Hebrews? You've become dull of hearing. What did he say to the church
at Ephesus? You've left your first love.
I don't think there's anything more heartbreaking than for someone
to leave their first love. I don't think there's anything
more heartbreaking than that. And it shall be when the Lord
shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Amorites, Hivites, Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers
to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey. You see,
He says, When the LORD shall bring thee, it's not a probability,
you'll go into the land of promise. That rest on God's shoulders,
not yours. God's salvation is SURE, His
promises in Christ are YAY and AMEN. The reason I believe that
I'm going to be in heaven, that I'm going to be with the Lord,
here's why I believe that. It's not because I accepted Jesus
Christ as my personal Savior at all. At all. It's because I believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ died for my sins and is going to present
me without fault before God. Now why do I believe that? Why
do I believe that? First of all, I can't help it.
I can't help it. But God said, Whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. I have called
on the name of the Lord. And I don't mean just this Jesus
that everybody preaches around here that can't save anybody
unless they let Him. That's not the one I called on. The one
I have called on, I'm a thousand percent confident, is the God
of this Bible. The Christ of this Bible. The
sovereign Christ, the one who died on Calvary's tree and redeemed
a multitude of sinners. That's the one I've called on.
And God promised, God promised, whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. I'm going to take God at His
word. I'm going to take God, it's not that I've preached in
His name, I do it every week, don't I? I preach in Christ's
name every week, but that means nothing when it comes to my salvation.
It means nothing. Christ is my salvation. Christ
is. So God's salvation is sure in
Christ. The promises of God are sure
in Christ. And I shall keep this service
in this month. The worship of God never changes
no matter where we are. He said when you go to the land
of promise, you're going to do this. God's worship never changes. It doesn't matter where we are.
And when we enter heaven, guess what? We're still going to worship
the Lord Jesus Christ, except we're going to do it without
sin. Verse 6 and 7, 7 days thou shalt
eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast
to the Lord. Unleavened bread shall be eaten
seven days, and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee,
neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
They used to take a candle and they'd search the house in every
corner. I tell you what, their children saw that and they'd
tell their children why they're doing that. Because the Lord
said, no leaven, no hypocrisy, no pretense when it comes to
worshiping God. And here's the reason we keep
the feast. Here's one of the reasons. God
told them to keep this feast. And thou shalt show thy son in
that day. Now you'll notice there's a lot
of repeating going on here in this chapter. If it's worth saying,
it's worth repeating. And it's repeated several times.
You know, I heard this, and this is supposed to be scientifically
proven, whatever that means, but they said, we learn either
in sets of three or sets of seven. Humans and dogs. I read this,
humans and dogs learn in sets of three or sets of seven. It's
repeated three times or seven times and we finally get it.
And so this repeated several times throughout here in Exodus. And He says, And thou shalt show
thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of what
the LORD did to me. Now do you notice something here? Now it's a personal testimony,
what the Lord did to me. You tell your son, your son or
your daughter, you know, when they ask you, whenever you do
this, you give your personal testimony of what the Lord has
done for you. You know, witnessing, you don't
have to be a theologian in any way, shape, or form to witness. You just tell what the Lord's
done for you. Isn't that what Samuel said to Israel? He said,
GO HOME AND TELL WHAT GREAT THINGS THE LORD HAS DONE FOR YOU. That's
all you need to do. What the Lord did for you. You
don't have to be a theologian, you don't have to do that. Just tell what the Lord's done
for you. And the Lord will bless you.
That which the Lord did to me. when I came forth out of Egypt.
Today the Lord delivered me out of slavery to sin, Satan in the
world. Tell them about it. Tell your
children about it. Give them your personal testimony.
Tell them the old, old story. And it shall be for a sign unto
thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes,
that the Lord's law, His Word, MAY BE IN THY MOUTH, FOR WITH
A STRONG HAND HATH THE LORD BROUGHT THEE OUT OF EGYPT. See, He keeps
bringing up this strong hand. With a strong hand the Lord brought
you out. He keeps reminding them they had nothing to do with it.
They were slaves. They were broken. They were defeated. They were weak. They couldn't
deliver themselves in any way, shape, or form. But the Lord
did it, and He did it with a strong hand. He did it by His Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ. But here is what He is saying,
and for a sign it shall be a reminder of what the Lord has done, not
only for the Father telling the Son, but for all generations. You know, think about this, and
there is a spiritual application here. Generations, generations were
set free from Egypt by the blood of the Lamb. You know, there
were those who were under 20 years old and younger, they weren't
in Egypt, they were not in Egypt. They were told about it through
these services and their fathers told them about it. But when
they went into the Promised Land, they went into the Promised Land
because of the blood of the lamb that was shed back in Egypt.
Back in Egypt, GENERATIONS were DELIVERED from that EVENT! All of God's children, in every
generation, they were delivered from their sins on the power
of Satan, curse of the law, by what happened at Calvary 2,000
years ago. 2,000 years ago! That just struck me when I was
reading that. I thought there were generations that was not
there, but they were set free from that. Here we are 2,000
years later and you and I who believe the gospel have been
set free by the blood of the Lamb back on Calvary's tree. Oh, He says, Thou shalt therefore
keep this ordinance in his season from year to year, really until
the Messiah comes. And now it's no more, we don't
do that no more. And it shall be when the Lord
shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as He swaren
to thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it to thee. Why does
He keep repeating this? He keeps telling them, He's going
to give you the land of promise. HE SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS AND
TO YOU, HE'S GONNA GIVE YOU THE LAND OF PROMISE. THEY'RE ABOUT TO GO THROUGH 40
YEARS OF TOUGH TIMES. YOU KNOW, WE THINK WHEN GOD FIRST
REALLY, WHEN WE REALLY EXPERIENCE SALVATION, IT'S A TIME OF JOY,
I MEAN IT'S A TIME OF JOY, IT'S A TIME OF I'm trying to put into words
what I experienced. I mean, it was a time of peace
and quietness and joy. But I tell you what, 46, 47 years
later, I've gone through some tough times. We've gone through
some tough times. But I hold on to this promise,
the Lord swear unto thee. You're gonna go through some
tough times. Yeah, you're gonna go through some tough times.
But he swear, God gave his word. I'm bringing you to the land
of promise. It's not gonna be a three-day
journey. It may be a 50-year journey. It may be a 60-year
journey, 70-year journey. It may be a five-year journey.
I don't know when God's gonna take me or you. I don't know.
But they're gonna be some tough times. There can be some tough
times on this journey. Because you'll see here in a
little bit, that's exactly what it is. It's a journey. I've learned
this, everything that I experienced, I have experienced, and shall
experience, is on my journey home. It's just
part of the way home. God has ordained my path, I'm
getting into my message two weeks from now, but God has ordained
my path and everything on that path,
everything on that path. It's like walking down a path,
you're just walking down a path and all of a sudden this thing,
this animal comes out and you deal with it. And then it leaves
and it's over with and you walk on down a path and something
else happens and then you just walk on down. It's ordained of
God. And I've realized this is just
part of the journey home. It's part of it. If we could
realize that, this is part of it. And once I pass it, it'll
be over with. Once I walk through it, it'll
be gone. It'll be over with and I'll deal with something else.
And then I'll finally be home. I'll finally be home. And we
won't deal with that no more. In verse 12, let's see, let me go back to
verse, read 11 with 12. And it shall be when the Lord
shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites as he swear
unto thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee, that thou
shalt set apart, sanctify, he says this again, unto the Lord,
all that opens the matrix, the womb, every firstling that cometh
of the beast which thou hast, the male shall be the Lord, they're
his. He is to sacrifice, that is the clean, the ox and the
sheep and the goats, those were the ones that were given for
sacrificing, and we'll see here in a minute, but they're to be
sacrificed. But now the firstborn of Israel,
they weren't to be sacrificed, there was a sacrifice for them,
a substitute. In verse 13, In every firstling
of an ash thou shalt redeem with the lamb. If thou not redeem
it, then thou shalt break his neck. And all the firstborn of man
among thy children shalt thou redeem. But now, this is the
Lord's willing message for next week, a lamb for an ass, the
clean for the unclean. And He puts man in the same category
as the ass, the unclean. That's next week. And then he
repeats the message from verses 14 to 16. You can read that down
through there and it'll be when thy son asked thee in time to
come. This is a repeat. You know Paul
said this in Philippians 3.1. Finally my brethren rejoice in
the Lord to write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous
but for you it's safe. We preach Christ here every week,
don't we? And for you it's safe. It's safe for you. It's safe
for you FOR ME TO REPEAT THE GOSPEL TO YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN
FROM DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE. BUT WHEN HE SAYS HERE, WHAT IS
THIS? THOU SHALT SAY TO HIM, BY STRENGTH OF HAND, THE LORD
BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT FROM THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, AND IT
WILL COME TO PASS, WHEN PHARAOH WILL HARDLY LET US GO, THAT THE
LORD SLEW ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, BOTH THE FIRSTBORN
OF MAN AND THE FIRSTBORN OF BEASTS. THEREFORE I SACRIFICE TO THE
LORD ALL THAT OPENS THE MATRIX, BEING MALES, THAT IS ANIMALS,
The clean, not the unclean. He didn't sacrifice the unclean
to the Lord. It was the clean being mailed. But all the firstborn
of my children I redeem. And it will be for a token, not
hand, and frontless between thine eyes. For by strength of hand
the Lord brought us out of Egypt. The message of redemption never
changes. You ever get tired of hearing
the gospel? I don't. I don't. I grew up, you listen,
I grew up on fried potatoes. I grew up on fried potatoes and
pinto beans, and you can cook that for me every day. I promise you, every day, and
I can eat it. I love it. I love it. We don't do it no
more because of the poundage. We had to stop doing it. We had
to stop doing it because Vicky doesn't know how to make a small
portion. And when she would fry those potatoes, I don't care
how much she fried, I ate every one of them. I loved it. I loved the gospel. Just feed
me Christ, the bread of heaven every time, and I'm alright.
And then last of all, we have direction. God led them. This is two weeks from now, Lord
Whitley. But it came to pass when Pharaoh,
I put over top of that Satan, had let the people go because
He has to, that God led them NOT through the way of the land
of the Philistines, although that was near. That's right,
well, you know, God leads us the way that's wise. He leads
us the wisest way. For God said, Lest perventured
the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.
They're not going to learn war first, they're going to learn
who and what they are first. God doesn't send hard trials
to babes. HE DOESN'T SEND HARD TRIALS TO
BABES, HE MATURES THEM. I KNOW WE THINK
TRIALS ARE HARD, NOT EVEN IF A BABE THINKS A TRIAL IS HARD, BUT HE'S GOING TO MATURE HIS
PEOPLE. BUT GOD LED THE PEOPLE ABOUT
THROUGH THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS OF THE RED SEA, AND THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WENT UP HARNESSED That's ranked to five. That's what that
is. That's ranks of five out of the land of Egypt. They went
up, listen, and this is so good. They went up orderly, not in
confusion. God's a God of order. God's people
are not a confused people. They are not unguided, undisciplined. God leads his people in order. But here's the thought I had
this, we are harnessed to Christ by grace and we follow Him orderly. We do, we follow Him orderly. And no one left behind and Moses
took the bones of Joseph with him, read straightly sworn the
children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you and you'll
carry up my bones away hence with you. No one left behind.
Christ is not going to lose a one, not a one. And He's going to
come and get us wherever we are and take us home. And they took
their journey. As I said, this life is a journey.
Let's not forget that. It's a journey. And wherever
you're going, God's already there. God's already there. And the
Lord went before them. He's not going to send you where
He's not, not His children. He's not going to send you where
He's not. And He went by day in a pillar of cloud to lead
them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them
light, to go by day and night. God never left them alone in
the wilderness. Now just last of all, turn to
Revelation. I'll show you this is the Lord
Jesus Christ. In Revelation chapter 10, And I saw in verse 1, And I saw
another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud,
and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the
sun, and his feet as pillars of fire. That cloud and that
pillar of fire was the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I am with you
always, even to the end of the world. HE TOOK NOT AWAY THE PILLAR
OF THE CLOUD BY DAY, OR THE PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT, FROM BEFORE
HIS PEOPLE. You know why the Gospel is here?
You know why it's here? Because God has kept it before
His people. He has kept Christ before you.