I've been having a lot of internet
issues the last two days and I remembered to record. I hold
it in my hand. You ever hold something and forget
it? Been looking for something that's in your hand? Exodus chapter
9. I want to look at this seventh
plague. Exodus chapter 9. This is a plague of hail and fire. This is a true story. You know
that? There's people in this world
that say, well, this is just an allegory or this is something
that somebody wrote down to teach us. This happened. This happened. And the Lord's reserved 23 verses
here, and it's for something. Do you know what it's for? He
told us what it's for. He said it's for our profit.
It's for doctrine. It's for reproof. It's for correction
and instruction in righteousness. He's going to teach us those
things out of these verses. We'll see here, Exodus 9, we'll
begin in verse 13. We'll see the will of the potentate.
This is God's will in these first few verses. And he's going to
be exalted and his people are going to come out and all of
his enemies are going to be stopped. He's going to say it and then
he's going to do it. Look here in verse 13, Exodus 9, 13. And the Lord said unto Moses,
rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. and
saying to him, thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, let
my people go. Why? When they have freedom,
we want freedom, don't we? Freedom ain't free. We have freedom,
but when we let go out of Egypt, what are we gonna do? That they
may serve me. These are my servants and they're
gonna do what their name says. They're gonna serve me, they're
gonna worship me. Verse 14, For I will at this time send all
my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon
thy people. Why would he do that? That thou
mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. For
now I will stretch out my hand, and I may smite thee and thy
people with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up. This is
the whole reason I raised you up, Pharaoh. For to show in thee
my power, that thou and that my name may be declared throughout
all the earth. Isn't that true for absolutely
every human being that's been born? Believer or unbeliever. Why are we here on this earth?
What's the purpose of life? God's raised us up. He's given
us carnal life, this world that we're in, to show his power. and that His name, His namesake,
that Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, may be declared throughout all
earth, all time, all eternity, the whole universe. Why are we
here? For the glory of Christ. All
people, saved and unsaved, isn't it? It's not Pharaoh. Verse 17, as yet exaltest thou
thyself against my people. Thou will not let them go. We
had six plagues and you're still exalting yourself against my
people. He didn't say against me, but
that's who it was, wasn't it? You've taken it out on my people.
These are my anointed and you're touching them. And that's the
same as taking it out on Christ. He said, when the Lord said,
I'm going to come and give account. And you're going to say, he's
going to say, thank you for feeding me when I was hungry. And you
come visit me in prison and all these things. And they said,
Lord, when do we see you as a stranger and took you in? Or when was
you naked and we clothed you? Or when we saw you sick or in
prison, we haven't done these things. And the king shall answer
and say to them, verily I say in as much as you've done it
to the least one of these, my brethren, you've done it to me.
Lord's declaring he has a people, and he's declaring he's one with
that people in this verse right here. And he said, you went against
them, my people, now you're going against me. That's a serious
thing, isn't it? You better bring two or three
witnesses if you're going to go against one of the preachers
of God, one of the elders of God, go against Moses. And they
got a six plague track record already. That's foolish. Saul
the Tarsus, he wreaked havoc on the church, we just looked
at that. For the Lord's purpose, so that there's some Samaritans
gonna be saved and some Judeans gonna be saved, and we're out
here in the uttermost parts in California, God's gonna save some people,
we did it on purpose. But the first thing the Lord
said to him whenever he was surrounded and blinded by light, he'd never
been in light like that. He blinded him by the light.
And the Lord said to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Well, I thought he was persecuting
the people. He was, and that's persecuting
Christ. They're one and the same. They're unified. That's his fingers,
that's his toes, that's his nose, his tongue. They're one, there's
unity. The head and the body are one.
And here's the warning of judgment. This is so gracious. Like I said,
the third, the sixth, and the ninth plague, there's no warning,
and what a warning that is to us. God doesn't owe us a warning.
People don't like being warned, do they? Don't look over that
edge. I had no interest in looking
over there until you told me not to. Right? I hate heights. I found a picture
this week. I took at Yellowstone. Yosemite. Yosemite. Whichever one's here.
And I stuck my phone out over the edge like that. And I saw
that picture and I took it and I went, ugh. My hands started
sweating. God's warned. We don't like to
be warned. That's carnal. That's natural. Man gets a warning
and don't like it. I'm warning you. Hate it. There's a new creation and it
will. Here's the warning of judgment. Behold, verse 18, tomorrow about
this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail as
such had not been seen in Egypt since the foundation thereof
even until now. A great hail and fire is gonna
come. He's warning them. He didn't
say right now, too late. He said tomorrow. There's time. There's time. And this is foreshadowed.
This carnally, this physically took place on this earth. But
this is foreshadowing a spiritual storm brewing. Okay. All these famines. What is that?
We know that out of Amos. It's a famine of the word of
God. He's going to dry it up. And this judgment, we see these
judgments of the Lord here. Everybody in this room is going
to die. We're all going to meet God one
day. And we're getting more. Isn't that gracious? Isn't that
wonderful? It's what that seventh veil poured
out in Revelation 16. It says, and there fell upon
men a great hail out of heaven. Where did the hail come? Same
place this stuff come, out of heaven. And every stone about
the weight of a talent, and men blasphemed God because of the
plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
They blasphemed God. Why? They said, oh God, oh my
God, OMG. They blasphemed God's name. Cry not to him out of frustration
instead of crying out to him for mercy. And this hail, they
say in Revelation 16, it's a talent. And I've heard it's 60 pounds
and it's 115 pounds. It's big. You've seen like marble-sized
hail could ruin a vehicle, right? Down in Texas or Nebraska, they
had softball-sized hail. It ruined crops and killed some
cows. You better get inside of that. Could you imagine a kettlebell
coming out of the sky? A 60 pound or 100 pound or whatever,
it's big enough to take your head off. That's what's coming. For Egypt, this had lightning
in it. And a lot of it. So much so, that lightning came
down and run across the ground. I've seen lightning hit one place
and it catch on fire somewhere else. At the roots of the trees
or whatever, it'll run across the ground. Physically, this
thunder hail. I don't know if any of y'all
have ever experienced thunder or snow. If you're in a snowstorm, as soon
as it starts snowing, I gotta find some reason to go to the
store. I'm gonna go do doughnuts in the parking lot. There ain't
nobody else supposed to be out there. I love it. That's why I'll push
snow and I go play right before I push the parking lot and clean
it off. I go do some doughnuts. I'm still a kid at art, you know.
But I love playing in snow. And there'd be big thunderstorms,
or big snowstorms, snow would come. And it's frozen water,
right? Little tiny pieces of hail, it's
pretty. But we'd push it out and all those things, make good
money doing it. But there's times it snowed and it started lightening
and thundering, I didn't go out and play. Why? You ain't making
it home. You're gonna get stuck. It'll
snow a foot in an hour, you know. It's exceeding. It's exceeding
great. Exceeding great. Look what a gracious warning
there. Verse 18. Behold, tomorrow, about this time, I will cause
it to rain a very grievous hail, which hath not been seen in Egypt
since the foundation thereof even until now. There's time. Judgment's coming. There's time,
there's breath in the lungs. There's still time. Verse 19,
sin therefore now and gather thy cattle and all that thou
hast in the field. For upon every man and beast
which shall be found in the field and shall not be brought home,
the hell shall come down upon them and they shall die. He's
saying, get home. Come out from him, the child
of God. You and everything you care for, gather up right now
and get in that ark. Go get in the house of God. Go
get in Christ, abide in him and live there. You're gonna die.
Is that message any different than the ark? No, it was ark. Rain's coming. There's judgment
from heaven coming. Get in that ark, you're gonna
die. That may have been 2000 people. So we we we agree that
that's an art. We agree. They know the art with
that art. And that's a that's nice art. And we don't really
know what rain is. But we agree rains coming. And they did not
get in arc only eight people did. It's not just one to admire
the arc. It's one to be in our I will
be in you. I don't be out in the field. Working and playing
and doing whatever you do in a field. I won't be in the house,
his house. God brings his people out and
he gathers them together in little houses all around this world.
He brought you out from outside. You ain't in a field. We're inside
a building. And you're brought in here. That's physically what took place.
Spiritually, the water, that's the word of God. That's the word
of God. You can read that in Deuteronomy
and several other places. He said, I send my word, it's like rain.
And Paul said, I'm watered. But that rain comes. And it'll
either soften the hard ground for planting. That's the best
time to dig up a garden after it rains. It's soft, isn't it?
It'll nourish the crops. It'll satisfy thirsty men and
thirsty beasts. If we're just nothing but a beast
like Nebuchadnezzar, we'll be satisfied with that water that
comes from heaven. Or it's going to be hard words. It's going to be hard water.
It's going to be frozen. It's going to be hail. It's going
to be cold and rigid and unbending, hurtful, angry, exceeding great
hail. Paul said there in 2 Corinthians
2, for we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ in them that
are saved and in them that perish. The one, we are a savor of death
unto death, and to the other, a savor of life unto life. The
exact same thing goes out of Moses' mouth, and there's gonna
be some people there grit their teeth and be so mad they can't
stand it, and there's gonna be some other people say, this is
great. And then Paul says, who's sufficient for these things?
He explained that. The exact same thing went out.
And to some it's going to be a blessing, and some it's going
to make them mad. And they'll say, that's hard, hard. The Lord
preached. And they said, well, he's got
hard sayings, hard sayings. And he turned to them 12 and
said, you going to go too? That ain't hard to us. Grace has come
out of his lips. It's poured out. He's the king,
we're the bride. Where am I going to go? We'll
be with you. To whom shall we go, Peter answered?
To whom? What a thing. This warning of
judgment in Egypt, it's what preachers were doing then and
what they're still doing. Everybody born of Adam come into
this world offending a holy, sovereign, almighty God, and
there's a wage that's been earned, and that wage is death. We got
problems. People's worried about November,
thinking we might have problems. Let me tell you something. Take this
whole world away, we got problems. We're a needy people. This race
of Adam's got a need. One need. One man. And there's two responses to
that gospel going out. That all flesh is grass. No,
you ain't that good. Somebody's got to tell you. We're
at war with God, and he's holy, and he's going to save some people.
He's gracious. He's gonna get all the glory
for it. You didn't accept Jesus as your personal Savior. You
get a little bit of glory out of that. I chose him in time. No, he saves his people. He shall
save his people from their sins. He's gonna get all the glory.
There's two responses. There's belief and there's unbelief.
There's humility and there's anger. That's it. Look at verse 20. This is in Pharaoh's house, just
like in Caesar's house, isn't it? He that feared the word of
the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and
his cows flee into the houses. God said, he's going to send
big old bowling ball size of hail down and kill everything
that's out in the field. And then the people said, oh, hey,
get my servants and get my cattle. We're going inside. Why didn't
it punch through the roof? I don't know, ask God. He said,
get in that house and you'll be fine. There's gonna be some
people safe in another house here soon, isn't it? A couple
more plagues from now, you get underneath that blood. When I
see the blood, I'll pass over you. I ain't bothering that, he's
out in the field. And they feared the word of the
Lord. What's the word of the Lord? Well, we're awful privileged,
aren't we? We have this physical word, this
is what he said, this is what he's given us, and we have Christ.
The word, capital W word. He that feared Christ, the Christ
of the Lord, he that feared the word of the Lord among the servants
of Pharaoh, they did something, they made his servants and his
cattle flee into the houses. And here's the other response.
He that regarded, the Hebrew word is set not his heart unto. My head's, I think it's going
to come down tomorrow, but their heart wouldn't set to it. There's
a head knowledge, not a heart knowledge. I don't worry about
people's heads, I worry about people's hearts. He that regarded not the word
of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Do you see the difference there? The word went out and the word
was feared and the word was not regarded. That's the only two. Only two outcomes. There's no
sitting on the fence. To say, well, that's something
interesting, I'll go home and think about that. You're not regarding the
word of God. It hasn't melted your heart. He said, I'll send
my word, it'll melt them. You talk about, there's gonna be
water from heaven that's gonna give us life, and he's gonna
take the insides of their heart, and it's just gonna be burning.
Oh man, burn inside of them. Like those two that rode with
me, I said, well, he spoke, didn't our hearts just burn inside of
us? Boy, that gets me, this is wonderful. He is on his throne,
and he did tell us, and I'm his child. This is good. Tax man's coming, going to Auditorial
Place tomorrow morning for my IRS. Who cares? It's his tax
man. So what? Take everything I got.
I got him. Give me Christ or else I die.
Is that her attitude? We're going to check a block
on Sundays and Wednesdays. He's lying, isn't he? This ain't
a doctor, it's a person. It's a lie. You know, how do you know who
believed the word and who didn't believe the word? Can you tell
that? Can I tell that? Two simple verses, isn't it?
He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh
made his servants and his cattle all in his charge flee into the
houses and he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his
servants and his cattle in the field. If you told me that there's
a room for tomorrow, I'm gonna be down here for fire, you gotta
come by. If you said tomorrow at 9am,
this room is gonna be completely full of rattlesnakes. If I believed
you, let me tell you something, I ain't coming in this room.
I ain't. Now if you told me if I was starving
today, if I hadn't ate in four days, And you said, tomorrow
morning at 9 a.m., there's gonna be a free buffet of the best
filet mignon you've ever had in your life, and vegetables
and everything you like is gonna be in this room, dessert too. I'm gonna
come in this room at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning, ain't I? Now,
I don't sell metrics, stay with me. If a person says they believe
the gospel, they love the Lord Jesus Christ, they love their
brethren, and they rarely miss a church service where Christ
is honored, would you believe that person what they told you,
that they love Christ? They got their cattle and their servants
in the shed. They did what the Lord said. Would you believe
them? Well, I would. Now, if a person says they believe the
gospel, they love the Lord Jesus Christ, they love the brethren,
and they rarely attend a service where Christ is honored, would
you believe that person when they told you that they love
and trust the Master? Don't match up, does it? Don't match up.
Turn over to James chapter 2. People take James and whip folks
with it, but this is, James had a good handle on it, buddy, I'll
tell you. We'll compare scriptural scripture and you'll see. We got Herod, James, and Peter,
James chapter two. Verse 14, what doth it profit,
my brethren, Talk about compassion, he's calling them brethren. What
does it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith
and hath not works? Can faith save him? If a brother
or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you
shall say to them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled,
notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful
to the body, what of the profit? If somebody's come to me and
said, Kevin, I ain't eating four days, I'm starving to death.
And I say, go away, field, my child. You got a hamburger? I don't
need your words. I need some food. I need rice
put in this belly. We understand this, don't we?
Even so, faith. You get that? Same thing with
faith. If it hath not works, is dead being alone. What we
look at last hour. Faith looks to Christ. It walks
with him, doesn't it? Leans on him. Yea, a man may
say thou hast faith and I have works. Show me thy faith without
thy works and I'll show thee my faith by my works. How do
I know that them servants of Pharaoh believed the word of
God? They heeded it. Lord said, get your cat on and
get out of here. They got their cat on and left. Well, that offended
their neighbor. I don't care. I'm not worried
about offending my natural man. I'm worried about offending God.
I could do things and make people happy. I ain't worried about
making people happy. I'm worried about making God
happy. Now his people's gonna be happy about it. Who's sufficient for
those things? Same thing Paul said. Verse 19, thou believest that
there's one God, thou doest well the devils believe, and they
tremble. They tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man,
that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified
by works when he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest
thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith
made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled,
which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto
him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.
That's what a friend would do, wasn't it? What you said. What
you said. I got a friend, and he made me
the executor of his estate. And he said, whenever I die,
this is what I want done with all my stuff. He didn't have
any children, didn't have a spouse, nothing like that. And he said, when I die,
here's what I'm gonna do. Here's what I want you to do.
Can he trust that I do what he asked? Well, he's my friend.
You know that, when even an enemy died, and they said, well, my
last will and testament is to have, I don't know, be buried with a Cadillac
or something. People will do it. They will. Verse 24, you see then how that
by works a man's justified, not by faith only. Likewise also
was not Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the
messengers and had sent them out the other way? That great
act of faith she lied to the government officials. Said these
are meant God's men, go. For as the body without the spirit
is dead, so faith without works is dead also. What a thought. You can look at things, if things
are probable, if they're possible, probable and who profits, right?
I've heard crazy things. People say that they believe
in if you baptize an infant, they're saved forever. You don't
believe that. You'd get a fire truck and drive up down the road
and spray everybody. If the act of putting water on
somebody would send somebody to heaven, well, I'd be like
that guy with a thing of water, be sprinkling it, but I'd get
my hands on him. Walk around with a squirt gun, doesn't it?
If I thought somebody was staging a conspiracy against mankind
is going to ruin my family by spraying junk in the air. My
kids are going to get sick, get cancer and die by 30. Move to
where they don't fly planes. If I truly believe that, there's
going to be an action. There's going to be a response
to God's ability. That's responsibility, isn't
it? That's so. Remember too, those servants of Pharaoh, they've
already seen six plagues on Egypt. And each time, except for plague
three and six, they've been warned by Moses, the word of the Lord.
And they knew six out of six times what God said came to pass.
They did. You that believe, are you amazed
that there's a time you didn't believe? I do, I do. How did I not believe? You know how many, I sat underneath
a thousand gospel messages and didn't care, slept them. I'd
pinch the inside of my thigh to try to stay awake. And I'd
get my fingers wet with spit and rub it on my eyes, try to
open my eyes up so Henry didn't take me in the back and talk
to me after, for sleeping through his sermons. He was preaching
Christ. What was wrong with me? How did
I not believe? When the Lord was rejected at
Nazareth, it says in Mark 6, 6, he marveled because of their
unbelief. I don't see how anybody could
not be excited and want to hear the word of God and want to be
like Christ and want to understand his statutes and just engulf
our thoughts with him day in and day out. Can you believe when the Lord
is pleased, he can take one who had no life in him, no belief,
no faith, only unbelief, and make that one have great faith?
I know he did it. You know he did it. He done it
in us. He said in Matthew 8, when Jesus
heard him, he marveled and said to them that follow verily I
say unto you, I've not found so great a faith. No, not in
all of Israel. And that centurion said, you just, you just say
it and it's done. You say my servant's healed and he'll be
healed. I said, boy, what amazing faith. What great faith. What
does that make me? And you asked for? Those apostles
said to the Lord, increase our faith. What's the context? Everybody says two or three guys
together. That's context for rebuking somebody. What's the context
of increasing our faith? They said, you forgive your brother
70 times seven. Somebody comes to you and says,
I want to be forgiven. You forgive them. And they didn't say, Lord,
increase our patience. They said, Lord, increase our
faith. We have to believe Christ to do that. God told Moses to get after it.
Look back in our text. He gave the warning. Those that
believed the warning acted accordingly. Those that didn't believe the
warning kept doing what they was doing. Business as usual. And
he said, Moses, do it. And so he did. Verse 24, Exodus
9, 24. So there was hail, and fire mingled
with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it
in all the land of Egypt, except it became a nation. And the hail
smote throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the
field, both man and beast. The hail smote every herb of
the field and break every tree of the field. Only in the land
of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no
hail. What a thought. There's destruction. If I was an Egyptian, and you
believe God, you believe the word of God, what's them Egyptians
wear? I'm gonna dress like them. Or
the Israelites, what do they wear? I'm gonna dress like them.
I'm gonna get down there in Goshen. If I could touch the hem of their
garment, huh? We'd be concerned about these
things. Here's a hellfire confession. This is not a heart work. Well,
that's just, I hate hellfire and brimstone preaching. I think
this time we need it more than we've ever needed in this nation.
The ship's sinking. Somebody needs to tell them,
plainly, as boldly and clearly as possible. But with that, with
those hellfire compressions, some people can just be scared
into saying yes. When somebody goes through a great trial in
their life, then they start going to church, don't they? And then
I don't get too excited about that as I used to. I've seen
it happen too many times, because then when prosperity comes back,
when comfort comes back, when that pain subsides, what do they
do? They go right back out in the field. They go back to doing
what they was doing. Here Pharaoh says in verse 27,
and Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said unto
them, I have sinned, Catch it, this time. I think what I did yesterday
was wrong. I sinned this time. Did he come and say, I ain't
nothing but sin, God help me, don't call me Pharaoh. Call me
Tom or whatever his name was, I don't know. He said, I've sinned
this time. That's just a Scotia living,
isn't it? Can somebody point that out to us? Will God send
somebody to teach us what these scriptures mean? I have sinned
this time, and it goes on, the Lord is righteous, and I and
my people are wicked. We've done wrong. God's righteous. Entreat the Lord. You pray, Moses. Entreat the Lord, for it's enough.
It's enough if you do it. I don't have to do it. Is that
what the French Seasonal Bible says is enough? It's enough if
you do it. I don't have to. I'll hire you
to do it for me. Entreat the Lord that there be no more mighty
thunderings and hail. And I will let you go, and you
shall stay no longer. This wasn't Moses' first rodeo,
was it? He met a couple people in his life. And Moses said unto
him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad
my hands unto the Lord, and the thunder shall cease, neither
shall there be any more hail, that thou mayest know how that
the earth is the Lord's. I'm going to do this not for
you. I'm going to do this so that you know God's on his throne.
He just sent me, I'm just a messenger, I'm an ambassador, I'm an Aaron
boy, but you're gonna know God's on his throne. But as for thee
and thy servants, I know that ye will not fear the Lord God. How did he know that? He just
said it. What's in the heart comes out of the mouth. I'll
send this time, and I don't need to pray to God, you pray. No,
Moses looked at him and said, no, you pray to God. You done
it my side, he's the one you offended, that's the only one
you've sinned against. You can't hire me to do it for
you. You pray to God. And he said, I know that you
will not fear the Lord God, verse 31. And the flax and the barley
was smitten for the barley was in the year and the wax was boiled. It was all ready for harvest.
It was strong. It was great. There's a real two verses here.
We can learn a lot from everything. It was standing strong and it
was tried by the wind and we're tough. And we've been through
a lot of storms before. I had corn lay over, I watered it too
much, and the first little bit of wind come by, it laid clean
over. It didn't drive roots down. It says, we're strong, we're
tribe, we're tough. We've been through it, we've weathered a
lot of storms. God crushed it. What didn't he crush? Verse 32,
but when the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were
grown up, The wheat and the rye, they weren't smitten. They were
little. They were not grown up. Mankind has religious practices
that men will look at that more than they'll look at the one
that saves us from that, but that's all right, I guess. And
they have the age of accountability, right? There's an age of accountability.
There is an age of accountability. I don't know what that is. And
if somebody tells you they know, I wouldn't listen to them. But
it does not affect the word of God going forth. Tell them plainly,
tell them often. Well, they ain't old enough to
hear. Yes, they are, tell them. I don't know when that is. But
these small, weak wheat and the wheat rye, they weren't smitten.
That's a good picture. I'll send it to you, that article
Bruce had this week. It's a comfort knowing. Like
we read of David, he said, my son's gone. He said, he can't
come back to me, but I can go to him. So we have a confidence
that small babies and those things, the unborn, that's the Lord's
children. I don't know, it's his business. John the Baptist
come forth from the womb with the Holy Ghost, didn't he? He
was in there kicking and every time Elizabeth would get close
to Mary, that's so. But even with all the abortions
and the murders and all that stuff going on, it's horrible. I don't support it. It's wrong. And I'll tell people it's wrong.
I got people mad at me because I told them it's wrong, but it is. God
said it's murder. But knowing even in all that, in that righteousness,
the Lord's stocking his house full. That wheat and that rye,
it wasn't staying on its own two feet. It wasn't saying it
was proud and strong. And the Lord said, it ain't grown up.
I ain't gonna spot that. That gives me comfort. We have a child this era, don't
we? It gives me comfort. It don't scare me, it makes me
happy. Verse 33, and Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh
and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord, and the thunders and
the hail ceased. And the rain was not poured upon
the earth. And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and
the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more. He said he'd
only sinned once. He ain't quit, has he? This is
more. He heard that word. This is the
seventh time these plagues have took place. The fifth time Moses
come and talk to him about it. Talk to him after, sure. They
walked hand in hand. Those that supported him did
the same thing. God gave Moses those words to
tell him. He did. We've heard the warning of God's
judgment today. It may come tomorrow. Get in the house of God. Get
in Christ, the ark, and beg God to take you out of Egypt, to
bring you up out of this Moab. and put you in his son and believe
him. Don't be unbelieving, have faith.
Faith's trusting him and saying, he did it. He's gonna do everything
he says and rejoicing in him. What a precious thing it'd be
if the Lord would do it for us. Let's pray. Father, thank you for these warnings.
Lord, make us think on things above. and not be distracted
by what's going on around us in this world and in Providence,
Lord, and make us see that it ain't just our crops and our
animals that's gonna die. Lord, those apart from Christ
will be crushed under him, but break us on that rock. Give us
humble and contrite hearts. that are smitten in love and
taken with Christ, that we must have him and be where he is and
be made like him. And he is our all. Thank you
for this. Thank you for calling out your
people, Lord, and faithful in your son to your word. We have joyful hearts and contentment.
Be with those that you've yet to call out, Lord, and draw them
in. Give them a new creation in them. Make them born again as you said
you would. Let us rejoice with them and honor Christ for doing
so. It's because of Him we ask it.
Amen.