BACK TO EXODUS CHAPTER 6, EXODUS 6, TITLE OF THE MESSAGE, I WILL, I WILL. WE WILL LOOK AT SEVEN I WILLS
THAT GOD SAID HE WILL DO. The SUBJECT of it is what God
has done and what God will do. God has made a covenant, and
God will fulfill that covenant. Now, the Lord lets Moses know
in that first verse that he's about to SEE the POWER of God
demonstrated on Pharaoh. THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,
NOW SHALT THOU SEE WHAT I WILL DO TO PHARAOH. It's like, now
it's my turn. When I read that, that's the
first thing I thought of. Now it's my turn. And Moses, you're
going to see what I'm going to do to Pharaoh. And you're going
to see my power demonstrated in delivering Israel out of Egypt. They are going to be delivered
with a stretched-out arm, a strong arm. We are not barely delivered
from sin. We are not barely delivered from
the law or barely delivered from Satan. We have a great salvation
as I preached here not too long ago, so great salvation. We are not barely delivered,
we are GREATLY delivered. WE HAVE BEEN GREATLY SAVED! OUR
SALVATION IS A GREAT SALVATION. OUR DELIVERANCE IS A GREAT DELIVERANCE. Can you imagine when our bodies
come out of the grave and are new? Can you imagine to see that? That takes great power. It takes
a stretched-out arm of God to do that. Now Pharaoh, and it
dawned on me when I was reading this, Pharaoh was given the opportunity
to obey the Lord. It's like the Lord said to Cain,
if you do well, shall you not be accepted? But Cain wouldn't
do well. Cain was mad. Left to ourselves, we won't do
well. Left to ourselves, we will not
come to Christ. Pharaoh, and this just really
dawned on me, the Lord gave him an opportunity to obey, but he
REFUSED to do so. Now, the Lord said, I ll harden
his heart, and then He said, Pharaoh will harden his heart.
God gave him an opportunity and he refused. What happened? His
heart was hardened every time. His heart was hardened. And this
is every human being left to themselves. You know, Arminianism
believes that every person has the POWER within them to come
to the Lord, to accept Him as their personal Savior. Christ
said, You WILL NOT come to Me that you might have life. You
WILL NOT come. You have a WILL PROBLEM. You
got a WILL PROBLEM, you got a SIN PROBLEM. That's why you have
a WILL PROBLEM. Our WILL PROBLEM, the ROOT of it is our SIN PROBLEM.
And so left to ourselves, no one will come to the Lord. And
all the Lord needs to do to harden anybody's heart is to leave them
alone. And He doesn't owe anyone anything,
does He? Except this, the wages of sin
is death and He'll pay up. I assure you, people are going
to die because God's going to pay up. He said that's the wages
of sin. Now we see in this chapter that God is good for His Word.
God is a covenant God. What did He say to Abraham? He
said, You're a seed, they're going to go into the land of Egypt and they're going to
be under bondage and in 400 years I'm going to bring them out.
Well, here it is, time has gone by, now it's time to bring them
out. God's a God of His Word. That's what me and the pastor
I was telling you about, we were talking about yesterday, we were talking
about God's Word. I said when I was younger I gave too much
attention to my feelings, TO MY FEELINGS! NOW IT'S GOD'S WORD! I was speaking to a young lady
that I've known for years, she grew up with our boys and she's
gone through a really, really difficult, I mean REALLY DIFFICULT
time. And she was telling me at Jeremy's wedding, she sat
down beside of me and she was telling me about it and she was
telling me how her heart was crushed and how bad she felt
and just, and I said, REMEMBER THIS! I said, REMEMBER THIS! FEELING REAL ARE NOT THE SAME!
I said, FEEL IS MOSTLY FLESH, REAL IS GOD'S WORD. I said, YOU STAND ON GOD'S WORD
NO MATTER WHAT. And I can say that with so much
confidence now. YOU STAND ON GOD'S WORD. When
your feelings come and your feelings go, and NONE OF THEM ARE WORTH
BELIEVING. If the sun, if it's 95 degrees
out there, you'll feel different than you'd feel if it was 70
degrees, right? you'll say it's too hot. If it's
70 degrees, you'll say it's just right, it's just like that one
with the three bears. I'm not going to quote that, but
it's the three bears, they just slept in each bed. Feeling real are two different
things. Stand on God's Word, that's what's real. God's a God of His Word, He's
a Covenant God, as He said, and shall He not do it? He'll do it in His time when
it's for His glory and our good, spiritual good. And then God spoke to Moses here
in verse 2, And God spake unto Moses, and said to him, I am
the LORD, and of course that means Jehovah, I am the LORD. One of the reasons Well, there's
some reason here why he said this. I think number one, he
said this to calm his fears down. Moses, God knew Moses heart. He knew he went into Pharaoh
and Pharaoh said, I'm not going to let them go. And he made it
even worse on them. He made their bondage even worse.
Then he turns around and goes to the children of Israel and
they turned on him. God knows his heart. And Moses said, Lord,
what's going on here? That's why he says to close that
chapter. Since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he's done
evil to his people, neither hast thou delivered thy people at
all. What's going on? I thought you were going to deliver
your people. He IS! He is. And when he does, they're
going to know that I'm the Lord. God's going to save you. If God
saves you, you're going to KNOW He's the Lord. You're going to
KNOW that, there's not going to be any doubt about it. You're
going to know He's the Lord. And this ought to calm our fears
to know that the Lord is on our side, that the Lord God our Savior
is for us. We have a Savior, we have the
Eternal One. But this also displays God's
grace and patience with Moses. He remembers our frame that is
dust. You know He didn't chide Moses right here. He had every
right to chide him, but He didn't. He remembers our frame that is
dust. How many times could He have chided His disciples? How many times? Oh, you little
faith! Why are you so fearful? Why are
you so doubtful? But what our Lord does here He
reveals to Moses and he tells Moses to reveal this to the people,
to tell the people this in verse 3, And I appeared unto Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by the name
of Jehovah was I not known to them. But this is how I'm going
to be known from here on. This is how I'm going to be known
by my people. THE SELF-EXISTING ONE, THE ETERNAL
ONE, IS OUR LORD AND OUR SAVIOR. He s the one who came into this
world and walked in the flesh. Jehovah did, our God, our Savior. No other nation could claim that
their God was the Eternal One. Egypt had 80 of They had over
80, they had over 80 gods that they worshipped. Was it at Ephesus
that they had an altar made to the unknown god just in case
they missed one? Are you not glad God saved you
from that? I'M GLAD GOD SAVED ME FROM WORSHIPPING A FALSE GOD,
HAVING A FALSE HOPE, A FALSE REFUGE, A FALSE FAITH, A FALSE
REPENTANCE, because if you've got a false God, everything else
about you is false. It's all false. But no other nation could claim
that their God is the eternal, self-existing One. And this is
the name which He reveals as the Deliverer of His people on
the grounds of His covenant of grace. No other nation could say that
their God made a covenant with them. They never spoke of a covenant.
You know, until I heard Henry preaching the gospel, I never
one time that I can remember heard of the covenant of grace.
Never heard I never heard of my need of the righteousness
of Christ and Christ producing that righteousness. You know
what I heard? Except Jesus has your personal
Savior, He wants to save you. That's what I heard and that's
all that's being said today. Evangelism today has mostly to
do with just this life being healthy and wealthy and happy
and not the world to come. But this is the name He reveals
as the Deliverer of His people and as the Covenant God. The
Lord is the great self-existing source of redeeming love. He's
the self-existing source of redeeming love, and all that He promises
is because of all that He is, and all that He is, is found
in that one name, Jehovah. You can name some of the names
of God, but there's a whole list of them. Jehovah-Jireh, the LORD
WILL PROVIDE. Jehovah-Sidkenu, the LORD IS
RIGHTEOUS. Jehovah-Neeson, you can go on
and on and on, but everything we NEED is found in His NAME! Look up those names and see if
your need is not found in it. It is. It is. That's why it says, When a child
of God is sitting in the darkness, let him trust in the NAME of
the LORD. Because you'll find your need,
whatever darkness you're in, you'll find your need in His
Name and who He is. That's who He is. Now connected
with His Name, Jehovah, He makes three statements as to what He
has done. What He has done. we're going to apply all this
in a spiritual sense to us. Israel is a type of the church and he says here verse 4 here's
what he's done the first thing he says I have us I have also
established now you'll notice he says I have I have I have
now none of this we when we go through the as we go through
this None of this is, I will if you will. I will if you will. I told somebody the other day,
we were talking about court and somehow somehow the subject come
up swearing on the bible i said i wouldn't really want to swear
on the bible because i want to say when they say uh you swear
to tell truth hold truth nothing but truth so help you god i said
i will if you will i said that's how i want to answer it but this is not i will if you
will god doesn't say i will if you will god says i have i have
i have i will i will i will this is what's going to happen and
we're going to look at this. I have also established my covenant
with them Abraham Isaac and Jacob that's what he's saying to give
them the land of Canaan you know they sojourned Abraham Isaac
and Jacob sojourned in the land of Canaan but they didn't own
a square foot of it at that time but God said to him I'm going
to give this to you I'm going to give this to you I'm going
to give it to your posterity THE LAND OF THEIR PILGRIMAGE, WHEREIN
THEY WERE STRANGERS, THEY?RE GOING TO END UP OWNING IT, IT?S
GOING TO BE THEIRS, BECAUSE ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD. And you know
Scripture says, All things are yours in Christ. All things are
yours in Christ. Now, whose covenant and with
whom was it established? It was God?s covenant. It?s God?s
and God's the one who made the covenant and He made it with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and now He's going to give them that
land He promised to them. He's going to establish His covenant.
He said, I've established My covenant. But in a higher, greater
sense, in a real true sense, God has made a covenant with
His Son and us in His Son. and He's promised His Son and
us any son, I'm going to give you the land of promise. I'm
going to give you heaven. I'm going to give you that new
kingdom. I'm going to give it to you. It's yours. And then
He says, I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel.
Here we have God's awareness of His children. Sometimes it
does feel like He's not aware of my trouble, but He's always
aware. GOD IS NOT ONLY THE ETERNAL COVENANT
KEEPING GOD, BUT GOD IS ALSO MERCIFUL AND COMPASSIONATE. He said, I have also heard the
groaning. You know, groaning is something
you can t put words to. Have you ever been in such a
way, in such trouble, such heartache, that all you could do honestly
was groan, that there were just no words for it? GOD SAID I HEAR
THEIR GROANING, I'VE HEARD THEIR GROANING. GOD IS MERCIFUL, GOD IS GRACIOUS,
GOD IS COMPASSIONATE AND HEARS OUR GROANINGS AND HE'LL DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT. YOU CAN MARK IT DOWN. GOD WILL
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. AND THEN HE SAYS I HAVE REMEMBERED
MY COVENANT. IT'S NOT AS THOUGH HE FORGOT
IT. IT'S THAT HE'S GOING TO ACT ON
IT NOW. He's going to act on them. He
remembered His covenant with Abraham and that He said He'd
bring them out after 400 years. Now it's time to do it. This
is so encouraging to us right now because God's going to bring
us out. God's going to bring us out.
He's going to remember that covenant that He made with the Lord Jesus
Christ concerning us. And God is not a covenant breaker.
God never breaks His covenant. It'd have to cease to be God.
you'd have to cease to be God to do that. I've remembered my
covenant there, he says in verse 3 and 4, or 3 through 5. And then after saying this, listen,
after saying this, he follows it up with seven I WILLS. In verse 6, WHEREFORE SAYING
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, I AM THE LORD, I AM JEHOVAH, I WILL
BRING YOU OUT, I WILL BRING YOU, I WILL BRING YOU OUT FROM UNDER
THE BURDENS OF THE EGYPTIANS, I'M GOING TO BRING YOU OUT FROM
YOUR BURDENS. WE SING A SONG, TAKE YOUR BURDEN
TO THE LORD, TAKE YOUR BURDENS TO THE LORD AND LEAVE IT THERE.
WE HAVE A PROMISE THAT HE'S GOING TO BRING US OUT OF OUR BURDENS. OUT OF THE BURDEN OF BEING SLAVES
TO SIN, OUT OF THE BURDEN OF BEING SLAVES TO SATAN, SLAVES
TO THE LAW, HE'S GOING TO BRING US OUT OF BEING BURDENED WITH
THAT. YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE TRYING TO KEEP THE
LAW LIKE THE JEWS, STILL TRYING TO KEEP THE LAW, YOU KNOW WHAT
A BURDEN THAT Aren't you glad we're not doing any of that?
Are you not glad we don't have all these ceremonies going on
and you're not allowed to even pick up sticks today on the Sabbath,
which was on a Saturday, but you wouldn't even be allowed
to pick up sticks. So when I throw a beer can in your yard, you
gotta leave it there. You couldn't pick it up, not on the Sabbath. You couldn't do anything. That's a burden. That's a burden. I said that because we get so
many of them thrown out here on ours. We're picking them up
every day almost. I'll bring you out of your burdens. Bring you out as I promised.
Bring you out. Listen, I'll bring you out of
the grave. I'm going to bring you out of
this world. Isn't this world a burden? Is this world a burden to you? I find it to be a burden. This
world is so evil. It's so wicked. It's such a burden. He said, I'm going to bring you
out of the burdens that you're under in Egypt. And then he said, I will rid
you in verse six, I'll rid you out of bondage. I'll rid you
out of their bondage. You know, that word rid has the
meaning of snatch. I will snatch you out of bondage. I just like the sound of that. I will reach down and snatch
you out of bondage. You know, when I thought of this,
when the Lord rescued me, when He SNATCHED me out of bondage,
I was not in any physical danger. I was not in jail. I was not
in trouble. Things couldn't have been going
any better for me when I heard the gospel. I mean, things were
going great. So what did He snatch me out
of? The POWER OF ANOTHER. The POWER OF ANOTHER. He snatched
me out of my DELUSION. He snatched me out of my IGNORANCE. He said, I will, I will snatch
you out of bondage, out of the bondage of Egypt. And then he
says, verse six, I will redeem you with a stretched out arm,
an arm of power. God's no weak God. Our salvation,
as I said, is not barely, we're not barely saved. But who is that stretched out
arm? The Lord Jesus Christ. TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD
REVEALED? The arm of the Lord is the Lord
Jesus Christ, and He said, I'll redeem you with My arm, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Who was stretched out on that
cross? The Lord was stretched out on that cross, wasn't He?
I mean, He was stretched out. I'll redeem you. with a stretched-out
arm, and with great judgments." We know the plagues that He put
on Egypt. There were great judgments brought on Egypt. But in a spiritual
sense, in a TRUE spiritual sense, with great judgments on Christ,
the Lamb of God, that's how I'm going to redeem you. I'm going
to redeem you with a stretched out arm and great judgments,
and those judgments are going to fall on the Lord Jesus Christ,
my stretched out arm, the Lamb of God. If you'll remember,
and we'll see this by the time we get to chapter 12, the firstborn had to die before
they could be delivered BEFORE THEY COULD BE DELIVERED OUT OF
EGYPT. THE FIRSTBORN HAD TO DIE, BLOOD
HAD TO BE SHED. AND ISRAEL WAS GIVEN A SUBSTITUTE
IN PLACE OF THE FIRSTBORN. AND HERE'S SOMETHING THAT STRUCK
ME AS I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS. IF ANY FIRSTBORN OF ISRAEL had
not been in the house where the blood was, if it had been outside,
they would have died. You know why? You go to the book
of Romans, there is no difference between a Jew and a Gentile.
All have come short of the glory of God. The fact that there is
blood on the door of that house, it says that a substitute has
taken the place of that sinful firstborn. The Egyptians didn't
have one, they didn't have one. But outside of the house, being
outside away from that blood, there's no difference between
Jew and Gentile. A Jew is going to be saved just like us Gentiles
by the blood and righteousness of Christ, we're not going to
be saved at all. at all with great judgments.
Great judgment fell on Jesus Christ. We looked at that in
Psalm 22 this morning. And then after this, he said,
I'll take you to me for a people. There in verse 7, I'll take you
to me for a people. You are the people of God, you
who believe. They're scattered all over this
world, but you really are the people of God. You really are. God said, he said, I'm going
to take you. You're going to be mine. I'm going to redeem
you. I created you is what he said
to Israel. I've created you. You're mine. I've redeemed you.
You're mine. You're mine by purchase. You're
mine by creation. You're mine by new birth. You're
mine. You're mine by choice. I've chosen
you. You're my people. I mean, look at Israel. They
were mad. They were angry. They were so angry at Moses and
at God. If you're angry at God's servant,
you're angry at God. They were angry at Him. But God
said, You're going to be my people. I said to someone the other day,
I said, I did everything I could not to be saved. I did everything
I could. God said, You're mine. I'm going
to have you. I'm going to have you. And I will be to you, He says
here, I will be to you a God. I'll be your God and Father.
I'll be your God and Father. I'll be your God to rule over
you in love and mercy. He's not a tyrant. God's not
a tyrant. You know, the Jews, because of
the law and what they were given in that covenant of works, they
had hard feelings toward God. I mean, they had harsh ideas
of God. Remember that one, sir? I'm trying
to remember scripture and talk at the same time. But you remember
that one that he gave a talent and he did nothing with it, and
he said, I know you're an austere, austere, strict master is that
the way you see god is that the way you see god i don't i see
god as god is love and mercy and grace and he's holy and he's
just but he's not mean he's not mean he chases us but he doesn't
kill us he's not going to destroy us But as a good parent, a good
parent would CHASING THEIR CHILDREN. That word just means DISCIPLINE,
you'll discipline your children. That's just about all forgotten
in our day. But a good parent disciplines their children. And
I'll be your God to keep and defend you. Just come in here this morning,
we have no idea how much God defended us and took care of
us and watched over us, just to get here this morning. And I'll be your God to teach
you, because He says here, And you shall know that I am the
LORD your God. You're going to know this by
all that I do for you, which bringeth you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians. You're going to know who brought
you out. you're going to know it's me and you had nothing to
do with it. But hitting this in verse 8,
and I'm going to bring you out. He says, I'm going to take you
to be my people and bring you out from those burdens. I'm going
to be your God. You're going to be my people
and I'll bring you in. I'm going to bring you out from
your burdens. I'm going to bring you out from Egypt, but I'm going
to bring you also in to the land of promise. That's what he's
talking about. I'm gonna bring you to the promised
land. I'm gonna bring you out that I might bring you in. Listen,
I'm gonna bring you out that I might bring you into myself.
Christ said I in them, thou in me. I'm gonna bring you into the Holy
of Holies. I'm gonna bring you out of this
pit of corruption to the Holy of Holies. That's why I'm gonna
bring you. I'm gonna bring you to a new heaven and a new earth.
That's why I'm gonna bring you. New heaven and new earth. and
I'm going to give the land to you, I'm going to give heaven
to you. You know that. I want you to listen to these
two verses. Matthew 25, 34 Then shall the
king say unto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. Luke 12, 32 Fear not, little
flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom. It's yours. It s yours. And then He concludes, He concludes
the same way He began, I am the LORD, I am the LORD. Let me read something here to
you, Deuteronomy 7, 7 and 8, I ve got it written here. The
LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because
ye were more in number than any people. God didn t choose you
because you impressed Him. But because the Lord LOVED you,
that's why He chose you. It wasn't like when I was a kid,
you know, you'd take a daisy, He loves me, He loves me not,
He loves me, He loves me not. He didn't choose us like that. He said,
I chose you because I LOVED you. because he said but because the
lord loved you and because he would keep the oath the covenant
which he had sworn unto your fathers that the lord brought
you out with a mighty hand because the lord has sworn by an oath
to his son in that covenant of grace that he's going to have
a people that he's going to live and die for and he's going to
give that people to him and that in his kingdom and you're the
people good night He brought you out with a mighty
hand, that s what I said, He didn t barely save you, you re
coming out of this world and out of that grave with a mighty
hand. And redeemed you out of the house
of bondmen from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Now, did you notice
that all this, the whole of salvation is of
the Lord. It had nothing to do with that. Brethren, every one of us is
going to stand there amazed, and we're going to be amazed
because one of the reasons I didn't do anything to be there, NOTHING! I did NOTHING to be there! I'm there on the RIGHTS of another! That's salvation, that's grace.