Exodus chapter 2, this chapter
is all about the Deliverer. In fact, the whole Bible is about
the Deliverer. Do you need delivering? You know,
everybody all over the world needs delivering, but most don't
know it. Most don't want it. They don't want out. They like it just fine. This world, sin. Paul said this
in Romans 7, and all of God's people can enter into that. He
said, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me? Deliver. Oh, you needn't deliver. I was thinking this morning before
I came over here how that we're in a time of prosperity. We need
deliverance from prosperity. This world and prosperity makes
us lose our first love. Rich and increased with goods
makes us need of nothing. Makes us at ease in Zion. The
gospel's not that needful. It's just so. You find it so
with you when things are, everything's just fine, just money and prosperity
will make you lethargic and not hungry and thirsty. So we need
deliverance. Chapter 3, verse 10, our Lord
said this. He said, I'm sorry, verse 8, it said,
I am come down to deliver them. God was manifest in the flesh
and came down to this earth to deliver these people. Like Moses,
the Lord sent Moses to deliver the children of Israel out of
Egypt, and our Lord God came. to deliver his people came into
this world. And his own received him not.
We want to see that. Look at verse 11. This is where
we pick up. It came to pass in those days
when Moses was grown. He was 40 years old. And he went
out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens. He looked on their burdens. What
a blessing. Now, you remember the story of
David, how his father Jesse sent him to see about his brethren,
to look on his brethren who were down there facing Goliath. And
he came down in mercy and grace and love to his brethren. He
came to them to see how they were, and he brought them things
to sustain them, to be provided for them. What did they do? They despised him. What mercy,
what grace it is that our Lord would come to this earth, touched
with the feet of our enemies, to come to see about his brethren,
to save his brethren. Who did the Lord send Moses to? The sons of Jacob. Now, read
the story about all those families. They didn't love Joseph. They
hated Joseph. They hated their brother. And that was us. Well, it still is some of us. Verse 12, now it says in verse
11, he spied an Egyptian, spied a Hebrew, one of his brethren. The Lord Jesus Christ came into
this world that is an enemy of God's people. The God of this
world is the enemy, the adversary of God's people. People and things
of this world, though, you know, it's like Egypt was, or Israel
was in the land of Goshen for the longest time. They had it
just fine. They had become just like the Egyptians. They didn't
have any trouble with the world. They liked Egypt just fine. The
Lord had to make them miserable. The Lord had to make them Send
hard taskmasters to make them miserable. The Lord has to make
us see the bondage we're in and the corruption that's within.
The hard taskmaster called self and sin and the things of this
world that have us in its grip. The Lord has to make us see that
if I don't deliver you, you're going to perish with Egypt. And so the world smites the enemy
of God's people. And look at verse 12. He looked
this way and that way, and he saw there was no man. You know how many times it says
that? I want you to see a couple. Isaiah. Three times in Isaiah. Moses
saw an Egyptian. Isaiah 50. Isaiah 50, Moses saw
an Egyptian smiting his brother, a son of Jacob, an Israelite. And he looked around, he saw
there was no man to help him. So Moses did. And look at Isaiah
50, verse 2, verse 1. He says, you've sold yourself. I didn't sell you, but you sold
yourself. Your iniquities, you've sold yourself. Your transgressions
your mother put away. Verse 2, Wherefore, when I came,
was there no man? When I called, was there none
to answer? Is my hand shortened at all that I cannot redeem?
Have I no power to deliver? Isaiah 59. I love this. Isaiah 59. Moses saw no one to help the
people. Isaiah 59 is how that none calleth
for truth. I wasn't calling for truth, were
you? I wasn't calling. I wasn't calling on the Lord,
were you? He said, I came, nobody was calling, nobody
was pleading for truth, groping for the wall like the blind,
roaring like bears, our transgressions multiplied against us. Departing
away from God, verse 13. Verse 14, judgment, our understanding
completely gone, but God. And in verse 16 he said, he saw
there was no man. There's no man. So he came. And his arm brought salvation,
his righteousness it sustained. He put on righteousness like
a breastplate, a helmet of salvation, garment of vengeance for clothing.
That's our Lord Jesus Christ. He saw there was no man, so he
came. Is there no man that seeketh
that of the Lord? No, none. Is there no man good? Is there
no righteous? No, none by nature but God. It's to make His people
need a Deliverer, He said. Now look back at our text again. So we saw an Egyptian smiting
his brother in verse 13. She smote him and hit him in
the sand. What a picture that is of our
Lord putting away our sins out of sight. But verse 13, He went
out the second day, behold, two of the Hebrews were striving
together, fighting strife between brethren. Now they're both in bondage.
They're both under, have enemies. They're both in misery. They're
both in trouble. They're both just like each other.
rebelled against God, that's why they're in the state they're
in. And here the deliverers come,
and they're fighting each other. How can that be? How can two
believers have strife? How? How can a husband and wife,
both who claim to believe Christ, have strife? I was thinking about the strife
in the church this morning. I was just grieving. We need deliverance from strife.
We need the Lord to deliver us. Paul wrote, let nothing be done
through strife. Where there's envy and strife,
there's confusion. And every evil work, everything
will follow. Confusion in our children, confusion
among ourselves. How can this be? Sad to say it
is, isn't it? Titus 3, these fellows were fighting. Titus 3 said, don't be brawlers,
don't be fighters. You know the only thing that
will keep us from strife for one another? You know the only
thing that will make us love one another, forgive one another,
no matter what? You know the only thing? Christ
crucified. Why would he come down here to
deliver such strivers, brawlers, and fighters. These two men,
Moses was reconciling them to one another, and they didn't
want him. Get out of here. Who do you think
you are? Verse 14, the deliverer was rejected. They said, who made thee a prince
and a judge over us? I'll tell you who made him. God
did it. Thank God. Later on, they're
going to thank God for a while. For a while they're going to
thank the Lord, and then they're going to turn on Moses again. He brought
them out, and he's going to turn on them again. How relevant is
this? How current is this? How this
applies to us? Who made you a judge? Who made
this? When Peter preached at Pentecost,
here's what he... Here was his last word, you made
a mystery. He said, God hath made this same
Jesus whom you have crucified, both the Lord and Christ. And
that was the end of his message. And he sat down. So they rejected. He's despised
and rejected a man. I did. For years I didn't care
if Jesus Christ lived or died. I didn't care. And there are
times I act like it right now, and that grieves me, don't you?
There are times when you're so full of yourself, and pride,
and angry at your brother, and angry at whatever and whoever,
and you forget that God, what God should have done to us, or
left us alone. He left us, or get mad at people
when we were just like them, just like them. Verse 14, they
said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? That's what
Peter preached. You've killed the prince of life,
the judge of the universe. Moses feared and said, Surely
this thing is known. And he went into exile. Verse 15, when Pharaoh heard
this thing, he sought to slay Moses. Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. He fled from the face
of Pharaoh. Now, how does this relate to Hebrews 11, where it
says, He feared not the wrath of the king? Have you read that?
He feared not. Well, you know, there's a time
to stand your ground and there's a time to run. Right? Time to run. There's two scriptures. One says,
He that believeth shall not make haste. You've got to wait, rest,
trust the Lord. And another one says, He that
believeth shall make haste. You need to run. From this world,
Joseph fled, didn't he? Paul, who said, Be grounded and
settled in the truth, told young Timothy, flee. John said, flee
from the wrath to come. Flee from this world. Flee! So, and now later, Moses came up to Pharaoh's face. He feared not the wrath of the
king, right? That's when this took place.
When Moses came up into the face of Pharaoh and said, let my people
go. He did that several times. That's
when he feared not the wrath of the King. Our Lord Jesus Christ. Here's a poem. Our Lord Jesus
Christ, a mob grabbed him to kill him, right? And what does
it say? He passed through the midst of
it. There's another time where they sought to kill him and it
says he walked no more in Judea. He walked no more. It wasn't
his time, so he went into exile. Did he fear it? No, hardly, hardly. But it wasn't his time. There
was a time, you know, mob rule. Paul, one time, tried to talk
to that mob at Antioch that took him and beat him to a pulp. They
would have killed him. And the centurion had to drag
Paul out of there. And that's when he said, can
I say something? And he did, standing on a step.
But they weren't listening. Mob rule. You can't say anything
to a mob. Forget it. Leave. After a while, Paul said, The
Lord isn't Gentile. So, just wisdom. You know, Moses being a man,
he didn't know the Lord at this point. He didn't know the Lord. After he knew the Lord, no more
running. No more fear of man. You see, when you fear God, you
won't fear man. So, Moses as a man, he didn't
know the Lord yet. He's going to know Him, where?
At the burning bush. Alright, so he fled from the
face of Pharaoh and he came down in the land of Midian. He dwelt
in the land of Midian. I love this. Midian means contention,
strife. He grew up in a land where there's
contention and strife. Midian is the land of the heathen
and idolaters, the people that don't know God. So, our Lord Jesus Christ came
into this world full of strife and division and contention and
full of idolaters. And Moses dwelt there and our
Lord was pleased to dwell here for 33 years. He sat down by
a well. He came into this land of strife
and contention and sat on a well. What's he doing? Waiting on a woman. The Lord
had him wait there at that well. He's going to rescue a woman.
One of seven. One of seven that came there.
Verse 15, he sat down by the well. Now, verse 16, the priest
of Midian, the ruler, prince of Midian, had seven daughters.
They came and drew water, filled the troughs to water their father's
flock. Seven daughters. seven daughters. Isaiah 12, let me just read this
to you real quickly, Isaiah 12 surely speaks of our, oh, that's not the one,
Psalm 12 says this, Isaiah 12 also, but Psalm 12 says that That's not it. I didn't write
it down. There's a scripture that says, seven women shall
take hold of one man and say, let us be your wife. Isaiah 4. Isaiah 4. Seven women shall take hold of
one man. Any ladies in here that need
a husband, need a delivery, lay hold of Christ. Lay hold of Christ. But, so this is our Lord who
came with His bride and He sat on a whale. And here's what I
wanted to show you in Isaiah 12, verse 3 says, With joy shall
you draw water out of the wells of salvation. What does this
whale represent? What did the whale represent
that our Lord Jesus Christ sat on that day? Samaria of all places. It represents His church. That's
where his bride's going to meet Christ. That's where he's going
to speak, and his bride is going to find out who he is, be convicted
of her sin through the preaching of the gospel. And that's where
they're going to know Christ, the whale. With joy you shall
draw water out of the whales, plural, not one. Plural, wells. The Lord has many wells that
He digged. Many churches that He digged. Lest the Lord build a house that
labor and banger in. So, it was your hap to come to this
well. How grateful you should be. How
grateful. And the Lord came through the
preaching of the Gospel like He said on that well that day
and that woman. Five husbands. She came to that well day in
and day out. She went home trying to find happiness there, trying
to find water here in this world. You're not going to find anything
here, at home or wherever. Finally, when Christ found her,
she found peace. She found Him. He found her. So Moses came to this well. He came to this well in Midian. And this ruler of this heathen
country, this was one of his daughters. Who's that? God of this world. God of this world has our daughters
captive. Those daughters of yours that
don't know the Lord, He has them captive. You know that? They
don't know it. They like it. Let's pray, shall we? Our Lord
said, weep for yourselves and your children. Old Daughters
of Jerusalem said, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves,
weep for your children. And we, I feel captive a great
deal of the time, don't you? Lord, deliver me from this world. Deliver me from myself. Deliver
me from riches that drown so many. Deliver me from Egypt,
would you please? Lord, I need a deliverer. Till
the day I die. You know when the Lord delivered
David from his enemies? The year he died. He was 70 years old. The Lord said
he was an old man. And it says that the Lord delivered
David from all his enemies. Finally. And he died. And that's
when we're going to finally be done with all our enemies. So
we need to call on this Deliverer day in and day out, day in and
day out, every hour of every day. I need Thee. I need Thee
every hour. The Deliverer. So the shepherds,
now some shepherds came. And Moses drove them away. They were contrary to the daughters
of this priest, and they were enemies. And Ezekiel 34, as I
have returned there, these shepherds scattered the flock and were
drinking out of the well, keeping them from the well. And our Lord
said in Ezekiel 34, He said, I'm going to gather My people
that have been scattered, I'm going to gather them. And I'm going
to feed them, and I'm going to water them. I'm going to take
care of them." And he does, and he did. Now, when they came,
he came to this well, and there were seven women, and one of
them, though, was Moses' wife. One of them, Zipporah, was Moses'
wife. And they came to rule their father,
verse 18, they said unto him, their father, he said unto them,
how is it you've come so soon today? In other words, they had
this strife before. And they had these constant enemies
before. And this day, They got water
and came straight home and there was no strife, no trouble at
all. They came home with buckets full
of water and before they probably just got a little bit of water.
They came home with buckets full of water. This reminded me of
a woman named Ruth that she went out to glean. It was her hap.
Her hap was to meet a man named Boaz that day. And she went home
and Naomi, her mother-in-law, said, How is it that you, where
did you gather? Look at all this corn that you
gathered. What happened? Where were you?
She said, I met a man. Ruth said, I met a man, his name
was Moaz. Oh, honey, that's our Redeemer. That's your deliverer. So these
women came home and the father said, what happened? They said,
a man named Moses watered us and took care of our
enemies. One in particular, Zipporah,
she followed this man. She followed him. Oh, may you
fall in love with the Lord Jesus Christ. This is Moses' wife, verse 20. He said under his daughters,
the father said under the daughters, where is it? Where is it? I thought about this. Where is
the Lord Jesus Christ? Where is it? Ladies, where is
he? Somebody tell him where he is.
Come on. At the right hand of God. He
had by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of
God. They said to David, where is your God? To this world, where
is your Jesus? Is he outside my heart's door?
I might let him in, I might not. He's always hanging around, hoping,
wishing, praying that I'll do something for him. That's not
my God. Ladies, where is your Jesus Christ?
Where is it? Sitting at the right hand of
the Majesty on high. Sitting on the circle of the
earth. Reigning and ruling. Your enemies are in His hands.
Isn't that good news? That's good news. Where is it?
Why is it you've left Him? Do you need that, daughter? Why'd
you leave him? I ask that all the time. Why
would someone leave the gospel? Why would somebody do that? Get
mad at me, get mad at us. I understand that, but you take
it out on God? It boggles my mind. Get mad at
yourself. You don't want to get mad at
somebody. Get mad at yourself. Why would you leave him? So he said,
go call him. Go call him. Don't let this man
go. Call on him. You need him. Whosoever
shall call. How much do you call on him?
Do you call on him every day? If you don't, you're going to
leave him. You know that? This world has such a grip. This
world is so powerful. The God of this world knows you
better than you know yourself. He's subtle. You have no match
for Him. He knows exactly what you like,
what you want. Here it is. Here's the world.
Here's your family. Here's your job. Here's your
career. Here's this and here's that. And you'll go after it.
If you don't call on your deliverer, you'll go after it and you'll
leave Him. Yes, you will. Call him. Right now. Call him that he may eat bread.
No, call him that you may eat bread. That you might eat him. So, it says Moses was content,
verse 21. I'll take a few more minutes. Moses was content to dwell with
this man. And the man, the father, gave
his daughter to this man. Father gave his daughter to this
deliverer. What a picture that is. Where
did Christ get his bride? God gave her to him. God betrothed
her to him. And he was content to dwell with
her. Who will the Lord dwell with?
Sinners. This man receiveth sinners and
dwelleth with them, eateth with them. He dwells with those who,
as our Lord said, The Father will love you, and my Father
and I will come in and make thy abode with you, if you love me.
She bare him a son, verse 22. So she had a child. She bore
fruit unto him. Moses, the deliverer. This is
the deliverer's son. What's his name? Gershon. What's
that name? Stranger. All of God's people
and all the sons of God are strangers and pilgrims. Here's what I'm
saying. Moses named him stranger and
that's what he was. He's not going to stay here.
He's in Egypt but he's not going to stay there. Moses is going
to take his son and all his people out of that place. Right? He's
taking us out of here. That's us. Is that you? You stranger? I pray that you are, if not. So verse 23, I love this. Came
to pass in the process of time. The king of this Egypt died.
The children of Israel sighed by reason of the bond. Do you
ever sigh? There's a song, a scripture that
says, for the sighing of the prisoner now will I rise. It
was sigh. The more wretched man that I am. How long, oh Lord, how long? How long, how long will I keep
doing that? How long will I keep thinking
that? How long will I keep going after this? Help me. Anybody? Sigh. They cried. The children
cried. They were crying. Who did they
cry to? God. Cried unto the Lord. Their cry
came up unto God. You know, if you sigh by reason
of this bondage, if you sigh because of the sin that's within
you, if you sigh, you think, how long? Psalm 13, how long?
How long? How long? You're going to call
on the Lord. Lord, help me. Please, please. Do you ever do that? Just, Lord,
please. Would you please help me? I'm
so tired of this. He heard them. He heard them. Heard their what?
Groaning. Did anybody groan in here? Do you? All the time, don't you? That's Romans 8, isn't it? Groaning. Groaning. Our Lord came as a
man that says He groaned. At Lazarus' tomb, looking all
around Him at what sin had wrought and unbelief of His people and
the sadness and the sorrow. He groaned. May our laughter be turned to
groaning, mourning. Do you groan? That's what he
came for. They groaned. God heard. In verse 24, God remembered. God remembered his covenant. Do you reckon that thief on the
cross was groaning and sighing and crying? Yes, he was. Lord,
remember me. Please, remember me before it's
too late. I'm dying. Do you remember me? He remembered. He remembered
his covenant. Our God is a covenant God. He made a covenant long before
the world began, a covenant in blood, in blood, with His own
precious blood. God said, with His Son, He said,
you go down to earth and you rescue, you deliver those sorry,
no good people that don't want you. You go down there. I love
them. And you go down there and you
redeem them. And you buy them, you purchase
them with your own precious blood. You purchase their redemption.
You pay for their sins that they love so much. You hate it and
you pay for it. And I'm going to have to put
you through hell for them. Will you do it?" He said, I do.
like a faithful husband, a braggart. Will you? I will. I'll love them
freely. I will pay for their sin. I will
take their place. And God said, if you do, I will
receive them to myself. If you do, I'll bring them all
home to me. If you lay down your life, if
you shed your precious blood, I'll forgive them all their iniquities. Every single sin shall be blotted
out if you do this. He said, I will. I do. God said,
I do too. I will. God forgives us for one
reason. The covenant He made with Christ. Oh, I'll do better, Lord. Okay.
Go ahead. How long does that last? How
long does His covenant last? Forever. And it says in Psalm 106, we
love this, he remembered for them. They forget God. What did God do? Remembered for
them. Children of Israel and Egypt,
they forgot all about God. Became just like the Egyptians.
God didn't forget them. Did He? These are my sons. Those? Yep. Those are my boys. I'm going to have to redeem them.
So he did, and he sent the Holy Spirit, showing their bondage. God heard their groaning, and
God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now
these three are one in Christ. And God looked, I love this,
I close, He looked upon the children of Israel. Some of you, many
of you had children, and you'd go to a school function, Let's
say your child was in some kind of sports, and you go to a school
function, there they are out there on the field playing football
or whatever, basketball or soccer or whatever. Who are you looking
at? You may have compassion and pity
on all those children, and you do. But who are you looking at
with love and favor? Who are you looking at? Now,
they're a sinner just like you. You know them better than they
know themselves. But you're looking on them with love. You're looking
on them with favor. You're looking on them with nothing.
Does anything run through your mind other than mercy and grace
and love and kindness? Anything? Anything? That rotten boy, I'm going to
judge. One of these days, I'll be done with him. No. You're
praying for him. Oh, Lord. The Lord looked upon the children
of Israel, not Egypt, the children of Israel. And God had respect. Respect. There's nothing respectable
about them. And the word in the margin, did
you look at it? What does it say, the word respect?
Knew them. Did you read that? Well, read
it. God knew then, for whom He did foreknow, means He knew all
about them. He knew what they were. They
don't even know. He knew. Lord, thou knowest me. As David said in Psalm 139, I
down-sit him, I up-right him, I up-right him. Not a word in
my tongue you don't know. You know every curse and you
know every prayer. You know me, you know me better
than I know myself. He knew them. He knows our frame. What a blessing that is. But
knew means enter in to become one with. It means to love. For
whom he did for love. He did predestinate. If he hadn't
predestinated us, we're goners. Whom He did predestinate, He
called. Whom He called, He... Who did
all this? What did they do? Nothing but
rebel. Whom He called, He justified.
Completely justified. Isn't our God good? Whom He justified,
He what? Glorified. The word respect means
honor, esteem highly. God had respect. He wasn't ashamed. Our Lord Jesus
Christ was not ashamed to call us brethren. Like that story
of Joseph. Don't you love it? Don't you
love, love, love it? The only story better is Christ. That's
who it represents. What Joseph said to Pharaoh and
all of Egypt and his sorry brethren that wanted to kill him and sold
him. He said, my brethren are here.
Let's have a celebration. Who? These sons of Jacob? Yes. I know. They're here. He's my brother.
He had respect. He honored and elevated them.
You see, their brother's on the throne. Joseph's on the throne.
So they had the best land. Right here, you're sitting in
the land of Goshen. Don't take it for granted. Don't
take it for granted.