6 verses, and hopefully by God's
grace bring a message from them. In the third month when the children
of Israel were going forth out of the land of Egypt, the same
day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed
from Rephidim and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had
pitched in the wilderness. And there Israel camped before
the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and
the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus
shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children
of Israel, Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and
how I bear you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. For all the earth is mine, and
you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
These are the words which thou shall speak unto the children
of Israel. Now they left Rephidim. Rephidim
means a place of rest. There's where the water was,
rock was smitten and the water came out of it. And they've been
in the wilderness three months and they come to Mount Sinai,
the bottom of the mountain. And God had told Moses that that's
where they would worship him. He told Moses when he met Moses
in the burning bush, they was there and he said, you, we shall
bring Israel out of Egypt and on this mountain shall they worship
me. On this mountain shall they worship
me. Now, the law is going to be given. God's glory, God's
majesty, God's honor, God's righteousness is going to be seen. Going to
be seen. and he's gonna show us that he's
unapproachable without a mediator without Moses between God and
Israel there'd be no hope and without God having us a mediator
giving us a mediator one between us and God the Lord Jesus Christ
we couldn't approach God and God couldn't approach us He put
somebody between us Somebody that we can go to. Somebody that
we can speak to. And somebody that can speak to
God for us and us can speak to God to him. And thank God we
have a mediator between us and God. God is one. He don't need
a mediator. We're the ones in need of a mediator.
We need someone to mediate for us. And when Moses is on that
mountain with God, he was told to tell Israel some things. He is going to tell Israel some
things. Look what he says in verse 3.
And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out
of the mountain, saying, This is what I want you to say. You
shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel.
Now he reminded them. He said, I've got something I
want you to tell them. When you get back down off this
mountain, I've got something that you need to tell these people.
And here's the first thing that they need to tell them. He said,
now you tell Israel. You tell Jacob and Israel. You
tell them this, and the children of Israel. Look what he says
in verse 4. Tell them what you've seen. And
here's what he says. You go back down there and say,
you have seen what I did unto the Egyptians. You've seen what
I did. And that's what this message
is about tonight. The work of God. The work that
God does. You see what I did. Not what
you did. Not what anybody else did. But what I did. And he said how
that I did unto the Egyptians. He says what did I do to them?
I destroyed them. I broke their power. I made Pharaoh
to know who the Lord was. And he said, that power of the
enemy is broken. And they were overthrown in the
Red Sea. And God said this, He said, and
you shall see them no more. And you know that's what our
Lord Jesus Christ did for us. The power of the enemy. We sing
that song, Victory in Jesus. I'm telling you something, beloved.
Everything that was against us. Sin was against us. Flesh is
against us. The world's against us. We're
against ourselves. The devil's against us. Our self-righteousness
was against us. Our rituals, our ceremonies.
And I tell you, I, Lord Jesus Christ, met our enemies head
on. And He took everything that was
against us. And you know what He did with
it? He took it to His cross and He nailed them there. And you
know what He did? When He come from the grave,
He said, I'll make a show of them openly. And He spoiled them
all. They had no power, no strength. And what did He say? You see
what I did. If you see what he did, he did
it all. We was talking this morning,
Dirk and I was talking back there and said, you know Jonah learned
this. Salvation's of the Lord. And if salvation's of the Lord,
that means nobody else has got any part in it. That just makes common sense,
don't it? If salvation's of the Lord, who else has anything to
do with it? And then he shows them not only
that he broke the power of the enemy and destroyed the power
of the enemy, but look how he said it again in verse 4. Now
listen to this, the way of salvation, the way of deliverance. He said,
how I bear you on eagles wings. Oh my. He describes himself as
a great big eagle. Glorious eagle. And he put all
his children, all of his people, on them wings and bore them on
eagles wings and when you talk about an eagle and him bearing
you up he is way up yonder way up yonder The way of an eagle
is beyond the reach of man. You just see it up there. And you see that big eagle flying
through the air. And I tell you, it's beyond the
reach of man. God, when He saves us, He gets
us beyond everything about our salvation. Beyond the reach of
man. Way beyond the reach of man.
You keep this and look in Isaiah 55. Isaiah 55, look at verse, I think
it's verse 8 I want us to look at. Oh listen, this is a highway,
it's a way that goes way up high. And He bears us on the eagle's
wings. He said, I bear you. I did this. You see what I did? I destroyed
you and I bear you up above. Look what he says in verse 8.
Show you how high God's ways are past ours. My thoughts are
not your thoughts. Neither are your ways my ways,
saith the Lord. Now he goes to show us the difference
in our thoughts and his thoughts and our ways and his ways. For
as the heavens are higher than the earth, My ways are higher than your
ways. And the heaven, look up at heaven. You can see as far
as you can see. He said, that's how far my thoughts,
my ways are about you. And listen to this. And my thoughts
than your thoughts. So whatever thought we've ever
thought, it just goes to about right here. And God's thoughts is higher
than the heavens itself. Huh? And let's go back over here
again. Oh, he said, and I bear you on
eagles' wings. And the eagle, that's a quick
way. It's a quick way. The eagle is swift. The legal
is fast. Oh, he's swift and he's fast.
And when our Lord works, when our Savior works, you look throughout
the Scriptures. And whatever He did, the results
were immediate and they were straightway. It's like that woman
with the issue of blood. She said, if I can but touch
the hem of his garment, I'll be made whole. And she touched
the hem of his garment, and immediately, it said, immediately. Those three lepers come down.
Our Lord was coming down off the mountain. Three lepers met
Him. Said, oh Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make us clean. He looked at them few seconds
said, I will be that I cleaned. And immediately they were cleansed. It don't take God a long time
to do things. Sittin' by the wayside, beggin',
beggin', beggin', beggin', beggin' Somebody give me a dollar, somebody
give me a penny Oh help me, I ain't got nothin' more sorry clothes
on, no beggars clothes on He heard a big crowd comin' through
They said, it's Jesus of Nazareth He said, Oh Jesus, that Son of
David, have mercy on me And when he said that, Christ stopped
Just stopped When he heard that word, have mercy on me He stopped He said, go get him, bring him
over here. And our Lord asked old Barnabas, what will thou
that I do unto thee? He said, that I might receive
my sight. And the Lord said, okay. And immediately he received his
sight. This way of salvation, when God
saves you, it does not take Him all day. It does not take Him
all week. What God does, He does quickly. He does quickly. When He called
His disciples, do you remember when Paul was here and he preached
on the call of Matthew? When our Lord Jesus called His
disciples unto the shelf, they was all fishing. And they was
in their boats and they was working on their nets and getting ready
to go fishing, go to work and all that. Our Lord Jesus walked
by and said, follow me. And the scripture says they immediately
left their nets and their boats and their mother and their father
and followed Him. They didn't say, well, wait a
minute, I got some business I need to take care of. No, no, no.
When the Lord calls you, you're coming. Oh, oh, bless his name. And that's when our Lord works.
There's lots of immediate and straight ways. Oh, my. And then
there's another way about this eagle. He said, I'll bear you
on eagle's wings. It's an easy way. It's an easy
way. He said, I'll bear you. I'll
bear you. I'll bury you. Oh my. Our Lord
Jesus, when he sought those lost sheep, when he went into the
wilderness and found the lost sheep, you know what he did?
He said he found it. And he put it on his shoulder. You know our Lord Jesus Christ,
he said on one shoulder he has the government of the world on
it. And on the other he's got his sheep. That's how glorious
our Lord is. I want to show you something
in Isaiah 46. Talking about the Lord in an
easy way. I bear you. I bear you. It would be awful
to have to bear this thing, this Isaiah 46. It would be awful
to have to bear our old self before the Lord, wouldn't
it? It would be absolutely awful. Look what God said here in Isaiah
46, 3 and 4. I bear you, I bear you. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are born by
me from the belly. See that? Which are born by me
from the belly. Which are carried from the womb. I carried you out of your womb.
You were mine from your womb. Before I formed you in the belly,
Jeremiah, you was mine. Paul said, wouldn't it please
God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by
your grace? And that's what he said here.
And I carried you from your mother's womb. And how long did he carry
you? Even to your old age. I mean, Even to your poor hairs, that
means your gray hairs. I'll carry it. I made you and
I'll bury you. Even I will carry and will deliver
you. I'll carry you. And I'm getting old. And I've
got them old gray hairs. And the Lord got me from my mother's
womb. And he got you from his mother's
womb. You see, it's from your mother's womb. And he carried
you from the day you was born from your mother's womb. And
he gonna take you all the way to glory. I don't care what age
you are. I tell you, it's an easy way. He bears. And then
it's God's way. He said, I bear you. It was by
the power of God. It was by the purchase of blood
that they were born up out of Egypt, by the shedding of blood.
And I tell you what, God's power. He said, I'll bear you up. You
didn't cooperate with me. You didn't even climb on my wings.
I just picked you up on my wings. You had to climb up on them.
Salvation to the Lord. I'll pick you up. Put you on
my wings. And I'll bury you out of there.
You're talking about power. The power of God that really
swoops down, picks up his people and carries them. Oh my. And oh, look at the end of this
way. Look what he says in the last part. I'll bury you on eagle
wings and listen to this. I've done this to bring and brought
you unto myself. I did this to bring you to me. I done this to bring you to myself. If God don't bring us, we ain't
gonna be brought. Peter said it like this, he said
the just for Christ bore our sins, the just for the unjust,
and the reason being that He might bring us to God. We have
to be brought. And He brings us. How many times
you find in the scriptures where somebody brought somebody that
they loved to Christ. Brought a son, brought a daughter.
You know, And our Lord Jesus Christ has
brought us nigh to God. And you know what salvation is?
It's to know God. Not know some things about God.
Not know that there is a God. But we know God. Salvation is
to know God. To know Him. To converse with
Him. To worship Him. To call on Him. To look to Him. And understand
that everything we have, He gave us. Everything we know, He taught
us. And oh my! And He brings us. He did this to bring us. I brought you unto myself. Oh
my! What a blessed thing to be brought
to God. To be brought to Christ. And I tell you what, and you
know what else he's gonna do? He said in, I think it's Hebrews 6, I don't
know for sure, but he said that he will bring many sons unto
glory. He brought us to himself to bring,
you know, if we get to glory, we got to be brought there. He
got to take us all the way, take us all the way. Now let me show
you something and I got to be very careful here because I don't
want to say the wrong thing and give anybody the wrong impression.
But now look at here. I'm going to talk about some
conditions. But I'm going to qualify. Look
there in verse 5. Now therefore if you will obey
my voice and keep my covenant Then you shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people, for all the earth is mine. Two
things here that he says we have to do. First of all, we've got
to obey his voice. There's a song. What's that song
we sing? Trust and Obey? Well, I think it ought to just
be trust. But, you know, when we talk about
obeying the voice of God and obeying His voice, the only way,
and we want to, but this is the word that we're to obey. We're
not saved on the condition whether we obey God or not. Whether we
obey His voice or not. I mean, it's in our hearts to
listen to what He has to say. Our Lord Jesus says, My word,
My word is life. My word sanctified them through
thy word. Thy word is true. They received
your word. And whatever we read in God's
book or hear preached in his book, we say, Lord, that's what
I want to do. We pray, Lord, teach us. Lord, give us more
faith. Lord, give us more grace. And
oh, we want to obey. We want to. Our Lord Jesus Christ
said, He that doeth my will is my disciple indeed. So listen, it's not a condition, I'm telling
you it's not. But we obey His voice through
His word. A living personal voice. And
God makes His voice alive through the Holy Ghost and by the Holy
Ghost. And here's the thing about it, if you I read something, an article
by a preacher that I've got all the confidence in the world in.
I don't know why he said this, but he said, are you willing
to pay the price to be a Christian? Well, Christ paid the price for
us to become believers. And we want, you know, the will
is present with us, but how to perform, we know not how. But
it's in our hearts, it's in our desires, it's in our various
heart and soul. Lord, you speak and we'll do.
We're like Samuel said, Lord, thy servant heareth. Thy servant
heareth. And we want to obey his voice
as much as we can by his blessed grace. Is that not right? You know, here's some of the
things that I think that we ought to, you know, when we talk about
hearing the voice of Christ, you know, we hear the voice of
Christ in graciousness, kindness, tenderness, and compassion, and
power, and love. And so if we hear His voice like
that, that's the way He's telling us to be the same way ourselves. To be kind and tender and compassion
and understanding and loving and gentle and forgiving. And
I think that if we want to manifest the grace of Christ, that's what
we're looking at in the Scriptures. I hope that's right. Then here's
the next thing. Look what he says. And if you
will keep my covenant, keep my covenant. Well, how in the world
are we going to do this? How are we going to keep his
covenant? Look over here in Exodus 24. How are we going to do this? How are we going to keep, you
know, obedience and faithfulness? Obey my voice and keep my covenant. Hear what I got to say? But how
do we do this? Well, not perfectly, not in part. But look what he said here. Look at verse 6. Now this is
how we keep the covenant. And Moses took half of the blood
and put it in basins. And half of the blood he sprinkled
on the altar. You know how we approach the
altar? to the blood and he took the book the book and read that book in the hearts
of the people and the people said Lord we'll
do what you tell us and Moses took the blood and listen to
this now and he sprinkled it on the people we've come unto
the obedience of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ
On the book, on the people, on everything that everything had
to do with, blood was sprinkled on it. And behold, the blood
of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning
all these words. You know how we keep the covenant?
Sprinkled blood. Only by blood. I'm telling you,
that's it. You know what? His covenant assures
us, assures us the cause of his obedience and faithfulness that
God will help us to be obedient and be faithful and assurance
of the fullness of his blessings and then look at God's purpose
of great salvation look what he says now says you obey my
voice keep my covenant sprinkle with blood then you shall be
a peculiar treasure unto me a peculiar treasure Oh my! A peculiar treasure unto him.
He said you'll be my peculiar treasure. Oh boy! The Lord tells us we're his peculiar
treasure. Now this word peculiar means
the same thing as precious. same thing is bought and you
know the Apostle says you know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
how that though he was rich that we through his poverty might
be made rich Titus says you know that that he gave himself to
redeem us from all iniquity and to purify unto himself a peculiar
people Peculiar treasure. That's what Peter told us that
over in first Peter. He said we're his peculiar treasure
And then look what he said here about only that you'll be able
to chew your treasure unto me now Listen to this unto me above
all people This world full of people this
earth is mine, but of all the people of my He said, you're
a peculiar treasure to me above everybody else. This earth is
mine, but you're my people and you're the peculiar treasure
above all people on the face of this earth. Above all people. There's a lot of people on this
world. There's a lot of people. You go to China and they got
billions upon billions upon billions of people. And how do you know
300 something million people in America? It got out of all that 330 million
people He got a people out of all them
and he looks at all them and he says you're my pure your treasure
above all these people and he holds us up there If you look what he says now
it goes on down there say in verse 6 And oh my and you shall be unto
me a kingdom of priests Peter says this over in 2 Peter
talks about us being a kingdom of priests we're not only precious
to the Lord Jesus Christ not only precious to God but we're
useful and you know the scriptures tells us in I think it's Revelation
he says that God said he made us kingdoms and priests unto
his A kingdom. We are a kingdom of people. And
we are priests. We have the power and the ability
to come unto God. Kings and priests. All of them
are. You will be a kingdom. A kingdom. Not just a few. A kingdom. And
then look what he says. A holy nation. A kingdom of priests and a holy
nation. you can read all this in 2nd
Peter that a holy nation and you know what this holy nation
in this kingdom is going to inherit a new heaven and a new earth
I want you to see this over in 2nd Peter all the way over to
2nd Peter or 1st Peter it might be 1st Peter let me see no it's
2nd Peter 2nd Peter I'm pretty sure it is let's see if I can
find it here yeah 2nd Peter 3 Oh, listen, a holy nation, a peculiar
people, kingdom of priests. You know, they only had priests,
certain priests then, and all of us now are priests. You know
what we offer? Spiritual sacrifices made acceptable
unto God through Jesus Christ. Only sacrifices we give are thanksgiving
and the sacrifice of our lips. But look what he said here in
verse 5. 2nd Peter 3.5. There is going to be an end to this nation. We are going to inherit this
holy nation. We are going to inherit a new heaven and a new
earth. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that the word
of God, by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth
standing out of the water and in the water. And so God held this world up
and everything is in it whereby the world that then was was being
overflowed with water perished. And by the heavens and earth
which are now the same word that destroyed that world by his word
are kept in store, this one is, reserved under fire against the
day of judgment and perdition. And beloved be not ignorant of
this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years
and a thousand years as a day But now look down here in verse
verse 10 but the day of the Lord Will come as a thief in the night.
I don't mean go sneak in here. That means it's gonna come up
on you Just that quick just that quick unexpected in the which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works
therein shall be burned. And oh my, seeing then that all
these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought
you to be, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of
God? the day of coming of the day of God wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with
the fervent heat now listen to this nevertheless we according
to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness Who gonna get in that place? That nation. That
nation that God made a nation. That place that God's made a
nation. Now I got one little thing to
say and you turn back over and I'll say it and then I'll be
done. Oh, we're gonna be peculiar treasure, kingdom of priest,
precious to God, precious to Christ. A holy nation, made holy
by Christ, made holy by His blessed blood. And then look at their
response. in verse 8 and all the people answered together
said all that the Lord has spoken we will do and Moses returned
the words of the people unto the Lord see God would not speak
to them except through Moses and Moses had to go back and
speak to them a mediator but I tell you what the Lord has
spoken we will do And let me say this, in the day of His power,
His people are made willing. Made willing. It's in our hearts. Believe me, I know I'm speaking
for you too. It's in our hearts to do what
we do for His glory. It's in our hearts to honor the
Lord Jesus Christ. It's in our hearts to glorify
the Lord Jesus Christ. And we say, Lord, You speak. you direct us you help us and
by your grace and that's why we pray father thy will be done
on earth even as it is in heaven and bring your thy kingdom come
set up your kingdom in us for Christ's sake Our Father, in the precious name,
blessed name, glorious name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ,
thank you for your precious word. Thank you for the truth as it
is in our Lord Jesus Christ. Bless this to our hearts, bless
it to our understanding. Lord, we have no one to look
to but you. And Lord, we delight looking
to you. We enjoy in looking to you. We enjoy and rejoice in
looking to you. We find our peace and our rest
and our comfort and our assurance only in you. And thank you for
giving us this day. Thank you for giving us your
word. Thank you for the saints of God. Thank you for this congregation. Thank you for what you've done
for us and are doing for us. Save you people in this place
for Christ's sake. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, there's
just something about that name that will save your Jesus. Let the fragrance after the rain
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Let all heaven and earth proclaim Sweet, sweet, sweet. Well, no wasting
our service. I hope we meet in there next
Sunday morning. Good night and God bless you.