Chapter 14, as noted, the title of this message
comes from verse 13, The Salvation of the Lord, which he will show you today.
I hope he will. The word itself, saved, that means to be rescued. It means for someone else to
come where you're lost and save you, find you and rescue you,
take you home. That's what salvation means. Salvation is of the Lord from
start to finish. Lost sinners, God comes where
they are, lost, ruined, dead, and finds them and rescues them
and takes them home. Salvation is of the Lord from
start to finish. completely, one hundred percent,
from start to everything in between, to the finish. It's a reward. God's word clearly shows us that. Everyone in the scriptures that
he has shown us, that he has saved, we've seen he's revealed
his hand in it We've clearly seen that God did all the saving,
He did the seeking, He did the calling, He did the working and
the wooing on them, He did the keeping, the providing, the leading,
the guiding, and in the end, He did the saving. Salvation is of the Lord, from
start to finish. The story of these children of
Israel is a clear picture of this salvation. If God enabled you, you probably
got a great blessing just from reading that portion, didn't
you? It doesn't need much comment, does it? It's a clear picture
of how God purposed their salvation. God brought them to a certain
point, and then God instructed their deliverer what to do to
save them, and how God did it all. This is such a beautiful
picture. I hope the Lord will make it
clear to us. Exodus 14, verse 1, and the Lord
spake unto Moses. The Lord spake unto Moses. Moses here represents the Deliverer,
doesn't he? He is the Deliverer. He's the
one chosen by God to deliver the people into the promised
land. Now, who is Moses? Who does he represent here? Much
greater than Moses. That's what Hebrew says, doesn't
it? All the way through Hebrew, greater
than he. Christ, the Deliverer, whom God
spoke to in the beginning. in a covenant, in an agreement
concerning his people, their salvation. God the Father and
God the Son and the Holy Spirit was in on it. God spoke to his Son concerning
the salvation of his people. Where to bring them, what to
do to save them. That's what this is a picture
of. In the beginning was the Word. was the chosen deliverer,
is the chosen deliverer, given to the people, given a people. These people were given to Moses
to say, to bring a cross, to lead, direct, and rule. Verse
2, God said to Moses, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they turn and encamp before Pihirah, between Migdal and the over against
Baal-zipon, before it ye shall encamp by the sea." Now, this
is God's Word, and it's inspired, and every word, every place,
every name is significant. Every name. God did not just
choose a place and say, well, this looks like a good place,
or seems like a nice place. On the contrary, where he brought
them to at this point was not a nice place. It was not a nice
plague. Pi-hi-hi-ro. That name means
a pit, a gorge, a deep pit. God brought them to the edge
of a pit. Are you with me? Stay with me.
God brought them to the edge of a pit, which if they fell
into, it would be certain death and destruction. So there's this
pit on one side. He brought them to this place,
like the Grand Canyon of sorts. And then over on the other side
was this migdol. See that? Migdol. That means
a sheer rock cliff or mountain. So God brought them to this place
where there was a pit on one side, and on the other side of
them was a sheer, unscalable cliff or mountain. There's no
way they could get up that mountain. And if they went any further,
they'd fall into a pit. And then before them was this
vast ocean sea, fixed, a great gulf was fixed between them and
the promised land. They couldn't swim it. If they
had gone in, they'd have been over their head and drowned to
their destruction. Then behind them, it says this
place, the whole area, the whole land in which they were found,
was called Baal Zephan. That means land of the destroyer. A cruel and barren place. of the destroyer. So that's the
name of the whole place wherein they were, and God brought them
to this place where on one side was a pit and certain death,
on the other side the mountain they could not scale and get
over for their salvation. And then this vast gulf. Do you
see that picture? This is where God Almighty brings
every single child of his. Every single person God saves,
has purpose to save, he brings them to Pyre, Hyruth, and Migdor,
in the land of Baal, Zephor, with this vast gulf fixed that
they cannot pass over. In other words, when God intends
to save a man, a woman, or a young person, he brings them to the
point of utter despair, where they see that they There's a
way that seems right that the end is destruction. They're going
to die. They're going to fall into the pit, like David said
in one of his psalms. Deliver me from going down into
the pit. And then on the other side, there's
this unscalable mountain, Mount Sinai, the Lost. They cannot
get over it. Try to save themselves. They
can't get up that mountain. It just won't work. It's too
high. It's too big. in a hard place. And all of God's people, every
one of them whom God saves, He brings them to the point, He
brings them to see that what is ever before them, that if they're in the midst
of it, they'll be drowned over their heads. Does that ring a
bell? sin. God said, your sins have
separated you, which me and you, separated you. This vast gulf
fixed between me and you called sin, and it is over your head,
and you'll be destroyed by it, unless I make a way for you. And then there's this pursuer,
the enemy, hot on the heels of God's people. Read that on down
here. He says, God brings them to this
point, doesn't He? God instructed Moses to bring
these people to this point of utter despair. You see that? That's the point which every
sinner has got to reach. Everyone. God brings them to
that point where they see I'm undone. I'm lost. I'm helpless. I'm doomed. I cannot save myself. The way
that seems right, I've come this far. If I go any further, I'll
be destroyed. And the accuser, the destroyer,
seeks to devour me. I'm gone. What am I going to
do? All right, that's what God brings
everyone to, everyone he saves, that is. And I see in religion
today, don't you? I see these people getting saved,
so to speak, without going through this, any mourning over sin. Godly sorrow. They work with
repentance. I don't see men do that. I see preachers promising people
just a smooth road on out, just accept Jesus. And people never
reach a point where men telling people that they
can get up that mountain if they try hard enough. You can get
yourself out. You can. Well, all right, and God says,
verse 3, Pharaoh will save the children of Israel. Now, this
is what Pharaoh is going to do. God is going to direct this evil
fellow to do all that he does. God is going to direct Pharaoh. Who do you think Pharaoh represents
here? Well, if you've been paying attention, he represents Satan, and God directs him. Yes, he does. The world would
say that's, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard. Strange
doctrine. That's because my life is on
my devil's. The devil is God's devil. He
can't do anything unless God purposes it. That's right. Read
on, Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They're caught, they're
entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in, they're mine,
I have them now. I've got them now, these children
of God, if they be the sons and daughters of God. That's what
he thought about these sons of God, that I've got them now. I've done it now. I've defeated
it. He's mine. He's in my hands now. Oh, no, he's not. Goodness gracious. What you did, God determined
for you to do, and it's going to be the same. That's our God. The world may
speak of a God who wants to and can't, and of a devil who wants
to and does. That's not the God of the Bible. God does what he will, with whom
he will, when he will, and that means Satan too. Now that just
gives me peace, doesn't it? There's no peace otherwise. Verse
3, Pharaoh will say, they're caught, I've got them now, they're
in my snare, I've got them now. And you know it is true, most
people, most people don't know it, but they are willing subjects
Second Timothy talks about them being captives, taken captive
of him in the snare of the devil. Paul talks about that. Most people
don't know that they are willing subjects of his, and they do
his bidding, willingly. But some, God mercifully causes
them to see their helpless condition, and sends them a deliverer with
a high hand. Do you note that over there?
It says that they came out with a high hand. A high hand. I remember one time I was out
in the yard and a couple of my cats had cornered a little baby
bunny rabbit. And they had that thing cornered.
You know if you have cats, you know how they like to toy with
their prey until finally they just devoured it. But they just
play around with it. We've got him, he can't go anywhere.
You know, he'll run this way and they'll bat him. He'll run
that way and they'll bat him. They were playing ping pong with
this rabbit. Hey, we've got him, and he can't
go anywhere now. But our high hand breaks down. Yes, he can do it. And y'all
cut it out. I delivered that little boy with
a high hand." Well, Satan thought he had him, didn't he? Look at
verse 4. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after
them. I will be honored upon Pharaoh.
And upon all his hosts, all his servants, all those who work
for him, I'm going to be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
hosts, upon all of them. And this is God Almighty speaking,
and it pertains to all that he does, even in and through the
devil. God is going to be honored somehow,
some way, glorified in the end, in all that the devil did, and
his pigments. As mysterious as that sounds,
and as unrational as that may sound, or however we may not
be able to reason that, that's our God. That's how powerful
He is. That's what makes Him God, and of the God's idols,
pigments of men's imagination. Since men can't figure out God,
therefore they say, well, the devil must be just as powerful.
For man just can't conceive of a God being that powerful, even
over the wills of men and devils. And how that God being that can
work even through evil and bring about good. Well, that's not
all right. If you could conceive of him,
he wouldn't be God. Spurgeon used to say, he said,
I don't want a God I can't figure out. He said, if I could figure him
out, I'd be as wise as him, wouldn't I? I'd be equal to him. I want
a God I can't figure out. I want a God whose, the Scripture
said, whose thoughts are as high above me as the heavens above
the earth. Whose ways, a God who does things the way I would
do them. whose ways are as high and as
mysterious to me, I can't figure him out. And God does this also,
that we might trust him. Because we live by, the just
shall live by faith. That honors God. It's not faith
to be able to, well, A plus B is C, okay, that sounds reasonable,
and I'll do it that way. It's faith to say, well, A equals
Z, well, wait a minute, I know that. God says, do it. OK, but
you're going to have to . . . I don't write. Now watch. Watch, known unto
God are all his works from the beginning. Watch. You can't figure out God, Scripture
says. Can't do it. God's unfigureoutable. Is that a term? Yes, he is. Listen to Romans 9, which quotes
this passage. Romans 9 says, "...it is not
of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth." These children
of Israel had come to this point where, well, what if all of them
had collectively said, well, let's just, let's will our way
out of this thing. You've got power, we've got power,
Stan. That's what they're saying in
religion today. You've got the power Walk across that ocean. Or row, row, row your boat or
something, you know. You got the power. You're not
stuck. God doesn't want you to be helpless. Do something. What if they said that? Let's
just wheel our way out of this one. And none of him that runneth
will run, run hard. Tell you what, face Pharaoh.
Turn and face Pharaoh and just run along into him. He'll just
back off, he's nothing. He'll cut your throat. Why, do nothing? Yes, it's not
of him that willeth, or of him that runneth. It's of God that
showeth mercy. Let me read the rest of that.
For he said to Moses, well, the scriptures say it of Pharaoh,
for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my
power in thee, that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth. This is why God saves men by grace and by sovereign
mercy. He's going to show his name.
He's going to show himself to be God. If God doesn't save you
in the way that he has shown you, God, you haven't been saved
yet. Read that article in the Bulletin
this morning and examine your salvation. If you can look back
on it, and find anything that you can boast in, that you had
done, whether it be accept Jesus, walk down the aisle, be baptized,
rededicate, consecrate, join up, this and that and the other,
win souls, if any of that comes into your mind, God didn't save
you. He's not going to share His glory
with us. He's none of these... Help us! Every one of them that went across
stood there and lost. Can't go this way, can't go that
way. I'm going to kill me. I can't
swim it. What am I going to do? Every one of them said that. Every one of them. God said, now, when you're saved,
who's going to get the glory? If you be saved, who are men,
even the pagans, going to say, who did that? They're going to
have to see. The Lord saved that old boy. Read on. Verse 5. Verse 4 said,
And they did so. They did whatever God determined
before to be done. Verse 5, And it was told the
king of Egypt that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh
and his servants were turned against the people. And they
said, Why have we let them go? Let's get them! Get them! Pharaoh and all his people were
against the children of Israel, all of them. The book of Acts, that psalm,
says, Against thy holy child, for of a truth, against thy holy
child, Pharaoh, and all, and Herod, and Pontius Pilate, and
all the people were gathered together to do whatsoever thy
hand had determined before to be done. Everybody and everything
against God's people, the world, Christ said, Marvel not, brethren,
if the world hate you, they're against you. Satan and all those
are against the people of God. But you know, there stood one
in the midst of these people, a fellow named Moses, whom God
had chosen and called and equipped and sent, one chosen from among
the people, and sent him to be a deliverer. Now who's that? Christ, the Deliverer. And greater
is he that is Among you, in you, and he that
is in the world. It doesn't matter. Open their
eyes, Lord, to see that they that be for us are more than
they that be against us. The deliverers in our midst.
God hath promised, God hath purposed. Read on, verses 6 through 8.
And so Pharaoh made ready his chariot, and took his people
with him. and took 600 chosen chariots,
all of his devices, all that he could muster up, all the chariots
of Egypt, captains, all his strength, all his power, all of his devices,
captains, all his servants, every one of them. And the Lord heard in the heart
of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children
of Israel. children. It keeps calling them
children. Get the picture, people. Here's
these children. They're farmers. They're bricklayers. They're laborers. If they went
out of the land with any tools, it was plowshares. It was trowels. Right? They didn't have any swords,
they didn't have any guns, they didn't have any sand. Children,
helpless, common laborers, and here comes this professional,
bloodthirsty, highly trained horde. The Roman army just went
through, throughout the known world at that time, just marauding
and raping and ripping and touching anything and everything in their
power. Here are these little children walking with sandals
on through the desert, and all these chariots. What are they going to do? Huh? That's the reason I said, are
they supposed to turn and fight? Huh? What are they going to do? Nothing. But God. Right there is salvation. But God. But God. Scripture says, we wrestle not
against flesh and blood. Satan is, we're no match for
him. Adam wasn't, was he? These preachers,
these penhead prophets, they don't know it. Titus says, June
says, they speak evil of dignities and don't know what they're talking
about. Now, he says that even Michael,
the archangel, one angel can destroy this earth. One of God's
angels. He said even Michael, the archangel,
would not contend with the devil over Moses' body. He wouldn't
do it. He's no match for the devil himself. He penned a prophecy. Just step
on his head. Turn around. They misconstrued
James when he says resist the devil. Paul says, be strong in
the Lord, and the power of whose might? His might. That's what Michael said the
Lord would be pleasing. I can't. Now, these people, principalities
and powers, spiritual wickedness in high places, the Scripture
says. That's our enemy. Whether men believe that or not,
I don't care if men think that's a fairy tale or Just a myth? Demons and devils? It's so! Christ
said it, and I believe it. He wrestled with him, didn't
he? Huh? The very ones that say that are
pawns by his name. The very ones that deny his presence
are doing his work. Yes, it's so. Christ said to
Peter, listen to this, Christ said to Peter, Satan hath desired
thee Christ was there. In Isaiah 14,
Christ said, I was there. I beheld Satan fall like lightning
to the earth. I was there. But you're no match
for him. And he said, Satan hath desired
thee, Peter, to sift thee like wheat. You'll be like wheat in
a sieve. No match for him. Satan wants
you. The devourer walketh through
the land, seeking whom he may devour. Peter, he wants you! What's Peter going to do? He
wants you, Peter! But, ah! Here are these children. They can't fight favor, they
can't go anywhere. But I, Peter, greater than he,
have prayed for you." He can't touch you unless I say so. I'll resist him for you. Read on. Let's read on. Verses 10 through 12. I've got
to hurry. Verse 9 says the Egyptians pursued
after all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and
his army, all of his people and things and so forth, and overtook
them, and camping by the sea, between a rock and a hard place.
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes, and beheld the Egyptians marched after them. They were
sore afraid. And the children of Israel cried
unto the Lord, and they murmured against the Lord." Really, the
word is they cried against the Lord. And they said unto Moses,
see, they're complaining to Moses. If they hear you, they'll hear
me, God said. They said to Moses, have you
brought us out here to die? We told you from the beginning
we don't want to leave. We'd rather stay in Egypt. Even
bondage was better than the wilderness. We loathe this like bread. These
people, now listen. This is such a picture. Isn't
this a picture? These people didn't want to die
in the wilderness with Moses. They didn't want to leave Egypt.
They longed for the leeks and the onions and the garlic and
all that, the treasures of Egypt. And they despised Moses from
the beginning. They didn't listen to him, did
they, Sheriff? They despised him from the beginning. But they
heard, well, you'll get a utopia. You know, there'll be a promised
land, milk flowing with milk and honey. That's what they were
after. They weren't repenting of their sins. They weren't following
Moses because God sent him and was leading him. They wanted
utopia. That's so like people today,
isn't it? And the people, well, they liked
the bondage they were in. Well, read on. Look at verse
13. Fear ye not. Moses said unto the people, The
people heard God's deliverer speak. If they're going to be delivered,
they're going to have to hear the Deliverer speak, aren't they? And they
heard him say, read on, Moses said, Fear ye not. Do you remember me telling you
what Brother Nyberg told me? The command that Christ, the
Deliverer, gave to his people more than any other. Do anybody
recall that what Christ preceded his messages to his people with
more than anything else? Fear not. That's the same language. I hear
somebody else speaking here, don't you? Fear ye not. Read on. Fear not. If we're going
to be saved, we're going to have to hear the deliverer speak.
He said, My sheep will hear my voice, and they're going to see
God's salvation. Read it. Fear ye not, stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show you
today. Today is the day of salvation. And he will show you, if you're
going to see it, he's going to make you see it. You're not going
to see it otherwise, right, Joe? If you're going to hear his voice,
he's going to have to speak to you. And what he's going to have
to do is speak peace to you. And do you know how he's going
to speak peace to you? Through your troubled heart,
through your lost, sin-sick soul? Do you know what he's going to
tell you? Do you know what the word of salvation with every
single lost sinner is going to say? He's going to hear, he's
going to say, Be still and know that I'm God
and that he's salvation. This is the reason I don't put
any stock in all this modern religion that's going on today.
I know I speak a lot about it, but this is so much like it,
isn't it, huh? The people, I'm sure they were,
when they got, they were jumping, they may have been jumping and
shouting and going, what are we going to do? Moses said, shut
up! Everybody, shut up! They did. Be still! Someone once said that the mouth,
the ear is directly connected to the mouth. As long as your
mouth is open, you can't hear, your ear is not. Right? I tell you, modern religion
will not shut up long enough to see or hear the salvation
of the Lord. You don't want to hear truth
preaching. If you want some time to look at something for yourself,
look over at Isaiah 30. Not now. Don't have time. I'm
out of time. But just write that down and get over there and where
it says, "...their strength is to be still." Their salvation
is, "...in returning and rest ye shall find peace." Be still. Modern religion reminds me of
that demon. Do you know that demon-possessed
fellow that Christ healed? Do you remember the story when
Christ found that fellow in the Gadarene? Do you remember that
story when he found that fellow? Do you remember what he was doing
when Christ found him? Do you remember? He was running among
the tombs, running among the tombs, jumping, shouting, cutting
himself, wandering on the ground. Doesn't that sound like a Holy
Ghost meeting today? Sounds just like it. Wallering
and jumping and shouting and running among the tombs. Oh,
there was a lot of commotion going on, wasn't there? If the
average Pentecostal person today would see that fellow and say,
he got the Spirit, he had the Spirit all right. It wasn't a
holy one. A lot of commotion, but he was
dead. A lot of commotion, and they
come in here, a place like this, or wherever a man's just standing,
and declaring the salvation of the Lord, where everybody's still
and knowing Christ, being grounded and settled in knowledge. Growing
in grace and the knowledge of Christ, by birth, by birth, by
birth, line upon line, line upon line, precept upon precept, precept,
and everybody just being still, sitting at his feet like Mary.
They say, this place is dead. No, it's not. No, it's not. Dead among the tomb, that running
and carrying on. A lot of commotion, but dead. When Christ saved that fellow,
what did he do to him? He took out that unclean, irreverent,
flippant, familiar spirit. Where were you, Jesus? He took that unfamiliar spirit,
or that familiar, unclean spirit out of him. What was the man
doing when he found it? When Christ saved that man, what
was he doing? What did the scripture say? What's the right line? Sitting
there listening to Christ preach. Religion's out of its mind! And Moses says to everyone that's
gonna be saying, Sit down! Be still! Shut up! God's got
something to say! When God said, I am in the heavens,
you look on the earth, therefore let your words be few." And men and women show me that
they have not heard him speak by all their commotion. But those
who have, be still. And they hear him speak, and
they see the salvation of the Lord. What folks need to do now is
sit down, shut up, and hear God's Word declared, verse by verse.
Hear a man proclaim the gospel, and that's what Moses did. Look
at verse 13. He will show you today the Egyptians whom you've seen today, you'll
see them no more forever. Now, if they wanted to shout,
it was after they heard this. that they wouldn't have heard
it if they had been in the midst of all the shouting. The Egyptians,
the destroyer, the pursuer, the devourer, you'll not have any
problem with them. Watch. Stand still. Stand still. The Lord, verse 14, here's the
message of the gospel. The Lord shall fight for you. The battle is not ours, but the
Lord's. The Lord shall fight for you.
Stand still. Don't we have to help him out?
Don't we have to cooperate with Jesus? Jesus, maybe, but not
the Lord. With a blast of his nostrils,
he can wipe them out. Yeah, you've got to cooperate
with this Jesus they're talking about, because he's just as helpless
as you are! But not the Lord. Stand still! Shut up! Sit down! Be quiet! Listen! Christ is on the throne! Want fame? He'll save you. Want heaven? He's not going to
do anything to you. Salvation's up to the Lord. He
shall fight for you. And you, I love this, verse 14,
you shall hold your peace. Not only will they, Scripture
says, I think it means they'll shut up. They'll just, remember
when Job said, once have I spoken, yea, twice? I will, remember
what Job said, I will put my hand over my mouth. I said to
look. And that's exactly what God does
to these religious people. God saves religious people. The
first thing you do is shut their big mouth. Or they say, I don't
know anything. I've spoken as a fool. I need to talk. Teach me. And you'll hold your peace. When
you see salvation, you quit arguing. Didn't Paul quit arguing? Oh,
he had it all figured out. He was a Pharisee, Hebrew, Hebrews,
and all that. When God brought him down in
the dust, he quit arguing. And I like this, too, Sherry.
I like this. You shall hold your peace. God's going to give you
peace that you can hold on to and never lose it. I don't see why, people are just
ignorant, I don't see why anybody would believe and worship and
carry on with this God they're talking about today, this Jesus.
They can't do anything, really. The blood of Christ doesn't save,
according to them. He pays the price. I mean, it
pays them down payment. You gotta do the rest. What peace
is there in that? To a bankrupt center, that's
no good. What if I owe a million dollars? And somebody says, I'll
pay a thousand of it. You pay the rest. Isn't that good news? I paid
a thousand dollars down on your million dollar debt. Isn't that
good news? Well, no! I don't have a dime. In my hand's no price. But here
comes one who says, I've paid it all. How's that? Is that good
news? Yeah. Oh, that's good news. You're my Savior. You're my bestower. You're my Redeemer. He'd not
redeem or if he didn't redeem, did he? Jesus paid it all. All of that out. Scripture says
that my high priest went into the... What about yours? Did
he go in and just make you savable? Then he's not the Savior. But Scripture says, in Hebrews,
it says, He entered in once into the holiest place, holy of holies,
with his own precious blood, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. He paid the price. God gives
him what is his, rightfully. Here's the people you paid for.
They're all yours. There's the Redeemer. Call him Redeemer, because he
redeemed. That's peace. Isn't that peace,
Joe? Now, you don't worry about anything. Do you? You don't worry about,
have I believed enough? Have I repented enough? Have
I worked hard enough? Am I straight enough? Am I moral
enough? Have I done this enough? Have
I lived up to heaven enough? No, no, no to all of the above. Has He done enough? enough. I'm satisfied. He's done
it all. You're complete in Him. If I was, I'm about to get Pentecostal.
If I was, I'd say, somebody say amen. I sure would. Somebody say amen. He shall fight,
him, him alone, and you shall hold your peace. Christ said,
I'll be their peace, and no man will take it from me. When, are you saved? A fellow
asked a fellow that one time, a believer, he said, are you
saved? And the believer said, well, is there a man? Yea, a
man approved of God, yea, much more than that, the God-man is
there the mediator, the redeemer, the intercessor, the advocate,
the great high priest, the sacrifice, the substitute, the surety, of
the Lamb of God, sitting at the right hand of God, who God accepts
on the behalf of all those people in the gate. Is there such a
one right now, seated, accepted on the right hand of God? Is
there?" The fellow said, well, yeah. He said, I'm saved now. That's peace. Because He is my
peace. I don't find any peace in me. I seek for when I look within
all is vain and hopeless and wild, and I ask myself, am I
truly his child? Is Christ? Yes. Then I'm in him. And as he is, so are we. It doesn't have anything to do
with faith. Salvation is concerning his son." Now, there's people
who say, you're giving people a license to sin. No, I'm giving
people a license to praise. It doesn't make anybody want to
sin. It doesn't make only a lost person want to sin. Well, verse
15, let's read it. The Lord said unto Moses, Speak
unto them, wherefore cryeth thou unto me? And did not Christ?
Christ did. He hung on that cross, and he
cried unto God, saying, My God, my God. He said, Speak unto the
children, and go forth. Don't look to the right hand
and say it, or to the left hand. Go right on. It's over our head. Watch. Watch. Come on. Where? Verse 16. How
are we going to get through this vast gulf. Moses lifts up by rod and stretches
out by hand. A rod is just a piece of
wood from a tree, and then a limb off a tree, a rod, The same way Moses lifted up
a tree, the same way Moses lifted up his rod, Christ crucified,
lifted up his hand over the sea, the Lord over our sins. Yeah,
he was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him, that Christ might remove the
gulf, fix the clean up, set the sin which separated us from our
God, remove it as far as from the east is from the west. It
will not come now, you read on, and the children of Israel shall
go on driving. I like that word. He said it
three times. Rick, he said that three times throughout this. Dry ground. And don't forget,
they went through on dry ground. What does that mean? It means,
what does it say? If you'd have checked their shoes,
it doesn't matter if they had big cleats on their boots. Dry
them out. Not a speck of mud found on him.
Oh, no. God said, now I know your sins
are ever before you and they're over your head, but Christ will
get you through. He's the way unto me. You come unto me by him and there'll
not be one sin found on you. No condemnation. What about what? There's sins and iniquities,
I remember. No more. Where is that passage, John?
It says that the iniquity shall be sought of Israel. Do you remember that? Over in
Ezekiel it says, and they shall seek, or the iniquity of Israel
shall be sought. No condemnation. Oh, my. I've got to quit, all
right? Now, let's just read on down. There's so much here, I
can't... I wanted to show you, if you didn't already see it,
I wanted to show you how that cloudy pillar was a light to
them and a darkness to the enemy. Do you see what that means? Well,
let's go on down. Verse 30 and 31. We have verse
20, "...the children of Israel walked upon dry land, and in
the midst of the sea the waters were walled unto them on the
right hand, and on their left." Thus, thus, thus, the Lord saved Israel that day. out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And Israel saw Egyptians dead on the seashore." Read on, verse
31 says, "...Israel saw," they saw, "...that great work which the
Lord did upon the Egyptians. And after the Did they believe before the Lord
saved them? They were full of unbelief, weren't
they? But after the fact, after they saw, what does it say? And the people feared the Lord. That's the first thing. They
feared the Lord and they believed the Lord and his servant, Moses,
revealed. That's, people, that's the way
God saves everybody. Everybody. And listen to this
as I quote Titus chapter 3 to you. Listen to this in closing.
It goes along so well. All right, listen to it. Titus
chapter 3. But after that the kindness and
love of God our Savior appeared, not by works of righteousness
which we have done, But according to his mercy, he saved us. The salvation of the Lord, start
to finish. People, if your Deliverer is
Christ, you're going to go through on dry land. Dry land, that's
his promise. you