and David wrote a lot of psalms
and a lot of hymns and there are certain churches that all
they use is what they call them a Psalter and here's the first
song ever recorded and the first song that you find in the Bible
comes from the heart of God's redeemed people and the only
one that's got a song to sing about redemption and there's
two parts to redemption two parts to it first of all you got to
be paid for the shedding of blood without the shedding of blood
there's no remission of sins but if the blood's been shed
and God said when I see the blood I'll pass over you that won't
do any good unless that redemption is applied that purchase price
is applied Like Christ purchased us with his own precious blood
as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Now how's that
redemption, that purchase that he bought us with, how's it going
to be applied? How we know that we've been redeemed? Well God comes in power and he
brings them out. And that's what he done here.
He purchased them with that lamb that was slain. And here he brings
them out by power, takes them through the Red Sea. and in revelations
chapter 5 you don't have to look there but there's there's a twofold
nature of our Lord Jesus Christ right there in his nature of
redemption you remember there in revelations 5 it says there
was a book sealed within and on the back side with seven seals
perfectly sealed and John said there's no man found that could
take this book and loose the seals thereof but then he saw
one saw one the line of the tribe of Judah went unto him that sat
upon the throne and took the book out of his hand. There was
only one person worthy to take that book out of God's hand.
Only one person can loose those seals. But there was the line
of the tribe of Judah. That's his power. That's his
authority. That's his might. But you go
down a couple of other verses and say they sang a new song
singing unto the Lamb thou art worthy which has purchased us
and bought us with thy blood out of every kindred nation tongue
and people so there's the blood that was shed for us and up here
he's the lion of the tribe of Judah he's got the power to apply
that precious blood that he shed and I tell you that's why we
know that when God Christ redeemed a person, redeemed a soul, and
there's lots of people yet that ain't never heard the gospel
that our Lord redeemed, that our Lord died for, shed his blood
for. And just as sure as he shed his blood for them, he's going
to cross their path in power and bring them to himself. You
can believe that. But then here in verse 1, Then
sang Moses. When did Moses begin to sing?
well back up in verse 30 look what it says in chapter 14 thus
the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptian
in Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea now I tell you what
when they got across there got all the way across and God destroyed
all them Egyptians Pharaoh and all of his people they saw him
dead upon the seashore And I tell you what, when God redeemed us
and brought us and brought us out with power, we see all of
our sin, everything that was against us and contrary to us,
is left dead. What's your sin going to do to
you? Nothing. It's dead. Who slew
it? Christ did. Who put it away? The Lord Jesus Christ did. So
the Lord saved Israel. Then St. Moses, And the children
of Israel, this song, this song, you know, while in Egypt's bondage,
when they were down in Egypt, down there in bondage, when they
were slaves in Egypt, they had no song to sing. They didn't
have a song to sing. You know what they did? God told
Moses, their cry has come up before me. All they had there
down was sighed by reason of their bondage. They cried unto
the Lord. And Moses, God told Moses, I've
heard their groaning, I've heard their crying. And now their sighing
has turned into singing. Their groans have turned into
praises. And they aren't occupied with
themselves, but with the Lord Himself. And that's why they
sang this song unto the Lord. Did you notice that? And spake
unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord. And what caused this radical
change? They all occupied with themselves.
Well, the blood of the Lamb and the power of the Lord. You know,
you never hear of angels and never have seen an angel in the
Scripture singing. They don't sing. Angels never
sing. They shout. They praise. They say holy, holy, holy. They
say worthy is the Lamb. But there's only one people that
can sing. And that's the redeemed. People
been purchased by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this
song as they sang unto the Lord, this song was entirely about
Jehovah. Entirely about the Lord Himself.
They not only sang unto the Lord, they sang about Him. Let me give
you a few things about this. You can go through and count
them yourselves. The word Lord in this song, this first song,
occurs 12 times in 18 verses. He, him, thy, thou, and thee
are found 33 times. Because you don't find nothing
about themselves. It's all about He, Him, They,
Thy, Thou and Thee and the Word of the Lord 12 times in 18 verses
and all nothing about themselves. Today's hymns they tell more
of human attainment instead of our Lord's atonement. I remember
the first time Brother Henry come down here somebody's going
to start singing the old rugged cross. Henry said, no, no, no,
no, we don't sing that. Why would you all sing that?
He said, they say in that old song at the old rugged cross,
I'll lay my trophies down. He says, now tell me what trophies
we have to lay down. He said he's got all the trophies.
He's the one who did all the work. What are we going to lay
down? The only thing we're going to do is take off the crowns
and cast them at his feet. And that's why these old songs
that we sang so many times, if we don't change the words in
them, they're not fit to sing. And I'll tell you what, they
said there in verse 2, I will exalt Him! Exalt Him! And that's what they want to
do. And I'll tell you what, there was a group years ago, so famous,
and they sang a song, you know, build my mansion next door to
Jesus. I'll just be thankful to be there.
I'll just be, build me a corner, a cabin in the corner of glory
land. I hope my Lord will be satisfied
with me. And life's like a mountain railway, with an engineer that's true,
all those songs, Bring no glory to Christ. Bring no honor to
our Lord. Bring no truth to our blessed
master. It does not help anybody. And
they sing songs to work on people's emotions. And near like the girl
saying tonight, oh how merciful, how merciful. And in that day
eternal blood, eternal blood shall speak for me. And eternal
blood speaks for us now. But you know why? Because God
accepted the blood of Christ and that blood was put on God's
altar and God come in power and in the gospel and saved us by
that blood. oh my and I said and also he
said he said here and then again in verse 1 he said then sang
Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord and spake
saying I will sing unto the Lord that's who I'm going to sing
to I'm going to sing to the Lord why Moses because he has triumphed
gloriously he triumphed God won this victory. God fought this battle. Ain't
that what he said over there in verse 14 of chapter 14? The
Lord shall fight for you and you'll hold your peace. Huh? And oh, he said the theme of
this song is not anything that they done, but the great things
that he had done. And look what he says. He had
delivered his people, destroyed their enemies, and they magnified
the Lord because of that. And oh my! He said in verse 2,
the Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. He is my God. And I'll prepare
Him a habitation. My Father is God and I will exalt
Him. Oh my! They magnified the Lord
and glorified Himself even when He destroyed the Egyptians. God's
strength and spiritual songs are inseparable. If we're going
to sing songs about God and if we're going to pray to Him, we've
got to sing about Him and His power and His strength. You know
why we sing about His power and His strength? Because we don't
have any. We don't have any. Brad said
he read something somewhere and he's telling us today. He said,
when I look at myself, I wonder how in the world I could ever
be saved. But when I look to the Lord Jesus Christ, I wonder
why in the world I can't be saved. Look at us, we can't. But look
at Him. Why should we? And that's what
He's talking about here. He's become my salvation. He
couldn't, Israel couldn't say this until they'd been delivered,
brought out of the enemy's hand. And He's become my salvation.
He just didn't save me. He is my salvation is what they're
saying. And I'll tell you something,
beloved, no one, not no person in all of Genesis could say this. It's not said, and God becoming
salvation, though we know that He's the Savior and He saved
everyone in Genesis. But that was His leg. But no
one in Genesis said that. It's not said until they go through
the Red Sea. And I tell you what, they got
to be delivered, and they got to be delivered by power and
blood, and they couldn't sing this song until they went through
that Red Sea. Look what it said over here in
verse 13, chapter 14. Moses said unto the people, Fear
not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which
he'll show you today. Now they said, we've seen it. Over there they said, you're
going to see the salvation. They got over here, they looked
back and said, He's my salvation. He brought me from there to here.
He brought me out of the hand of my enemy and brought me over
here. He saved me out of bondage and brought me over here to freedom.
Oh my! Oh then he said, show him my
salvation. Now he become their salvation. And oh look what he
goes on to say. He is my God and I'll prepare
him a habitation. Do you know where God lives?
Where God habitates at? The scriptures tells us in Ephesians
2 that we are a habitation of God through the Spirit. God dwells
in His people. And when they say this and sing
this song, I will prepare Him a habitation. What devotion?
A habitation, a dwelling place. What they're saying, Lord, that
we want Your presence. We want You to be with us. This
is our heart's desire. We want You to dwell among us
and we want You to live among us and we want to know You. They
want His presence. This was their heart's desire.
Somebody said that this morning. And whom have I on earth beside
thee? And whom have I in heaven but
thee? And oh my, what devotion, what commitment. Oh, I want a
place for God to dwell. And oh, that's what we pray.
How many of y'all pray? And I know you do this. When
we come, say, Lord, please meet among us. Come and dwell among
us. Come and live among us. Come
down and let us know that you're here. Oh, if we've got you, if
you're present, then everybody will get something. And you know,
it don't take a great big lot. He said, wherever two or three. And how many times have just
two or three of us been together and worshiped the Lord? I used
to talk to your mom on the phone. And every time we'd talk on the
phone, we both would get shot and happy. You couldn't talk to her and
not get happy. You just couldn't do it. And that's the way the
Lord's people are. Oh my. And what a blessed, blessed
future. We're going to have God's eternal
purpose. I want you to look with me in Revelations 21. What a
blessed future we have. We're going to have... He's going
to dwell with us. He dwells with us now in the
person of His blessed Son. In the person of His blessed
Spirit. God's fitly joined us together
of a habitation of God through the Spirit. But oh my! That's why Paul said, I'm in
a straight betwixt two. Having a desire to depart and
be with Christ. But look what he said here. In
verse 3 and 4, Revelations 21. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, Behold! the tabernacle of God is with
men oh my God is with men and listen to this and he will dwell
with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall
be with them and be their God then what happens when he dwells
with us And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. He'll
take away all the reasons for crying. There'll be no reason
to cry anymore. And watch this. And there shall
be no more death. Oh, never go to another death.
Never go to another funeral. Never stand over another casket. Neither, nor sorrow. Oh, no more
crying. And there ain't going to be any
more pain. No more pain. For the former things have passed
away. And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
things new. Boy, that will be new, won't
it? What a blessed future we have
they said God we want a habitation and then God said listen You
want a place to dwell said I tell you I'm gonna come and dwell
with you And when I come to do that, I'm gonna take away everything
that ever bothered you And then look what he said back over here
in verse Verse 3 about the Lord this song is song of this first
song Look what he says the Lord is a man of war and The Lord
is His name. What in the world does it mean
the Lord is a man of war? You know what it means? The battle
is the Lord and not yours. That's what it means. The battle
is yours. Oh, I remember we used to preach
all the time, boy, you know, you got to quit your sin, you
got to live a holy life, you got to do this, that, and the
other. But there's not one thing, not one thing, not one sin we
can put away. There has to be somebody that
declares war and God declared war. He's a man of war and he
went to war against all of our enemies. He went to war and defeated
Pharaoh and his army. He went to war and defeated everything
that was against us. He took everything that was against
us and on his cross, he nailed in every one of them there and
said, there's nothing ever I'm gonna be against him again. Nothing
and I tell you they didn't they didn't just praise God for his
Salvation but they also praised him for his judgments upon each
of them. Can you praise God for his judgments
upon men? And I tell you what we do praise
God for his judgments upon men. They not only just praised him
for salvation but for also his judgments. Is God unjust? Does He do something wrong when
He takes one of our loved ones that don't know Christ, don't
know God? Will He be wrong when He judges America? Will He be
wrong when He judges men and women on this earth? Is God wrong
to judge people? No, they praised Him as a man
of war. The Lord is a host. The Lord
is His name. And Pharaoh and his hearse were
God's enemies. and oh my the greatness of this
thine excellency that's what he said in verse 4 Pharaoh's
chariots and his host look what he did he cast them into the
sea and his chosen captives also are drowned in the sea that's
God's judgment Oh, the depths covered them!
And listen to this, they sank to the bottom just like a stone.
Dropped a stone in the water. He said, that's what I've done
with that bunch. That's what I've done with that
bunch. Oh my! And this is the way it's going
to be in glory. I heard a message by Barnard
one time. When the saints shout hallelujah,
when God sends men to hell. Revelation 19, that's what it
says. That's what it says. It says
there that when God, that salvation belongs unto God, all glory and
honor belongs unto Him, and when He has judged that great horror,
and He has destroyed all things, then shall the same self, hallelujah,
the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! And oh my, look what He said
down there in verse, what's it, let me see, verse 4, No, no,
no. He has triumphed gloriously. He has triumphed gloriously.
I don't see where it's at. But anyway, we know He did. I
can't find it, but we know He did. And Exodus 15 shows us the
perfect ease and all listened for His overthrowing His enemies.
You know what? I'll tell you something, beloved.
These saints here, they said He had triumphed gloriously.
He hath triumphed gloriously. Back up in verse 1. He triumphed
gloriously. They didn't apologize for God's
judgment. They didn't apologize for God's
hatred for sin. This generation wants to apologize
for God's hatred of sin. And I tell you what, He does. He hates it. But here, I tell
you what, look down at verse 9 and 10. It shows the perfect
deed of God oversawing His enemies. Look down at verse 9 and 10. The enemy said, I will pursue.
I will overtake. When I get them, I'm going to
take all the spoil from them. My lust shall be satisfied upon
them. I will draw my sword and my hand
shall destroy them. That's what the enemy said. That's
what Pharaoh said. That's what Pharaoh said. He
said, listen, I've got them. Oh my. And look what God did.
You just blowed the wind. That's all you did. That's all he did. He said, oh,
listen, I'm going to, we're going to overtake them and we're going
to take everything they got and we're going to divide them among
ourselves. And I'm going to be satisfied when I kill them with
a sword. Then Moses said, all you did
was blow. and destroyed them. That's all
God had to do. Just blow. Man thinks he's going
to stand up against God. God just, like that. That's all he amounts to. You
know, blow up the winds, goes on the grass. Oh my. Oh my, Job had promised to bring
his redeemed into Canaan. These haughty Egyptians thought
they could resist the purpose of the Most High God, but he
came to it. No wonder, they said here in
verse 11, no wonder they said, who is like unto thee, Lord,
among, notice how it's in little letters, among the gods. All
these gods that were in Egypt, all them gods around, said, Who
is like unto thee, Lord, among the gods? Huh? Oh my! Who is like unto thee? Glorious
in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders, just stretch out
your hand! And the earth swallowed him.
Blows to stretch out his hand, that's all he has to do. Huh? And I tell you, these Egyptians
thought, oh, listen, we ain't, we messed up letting these people
go. And then when he blowed, he said, they sucked like lead
to the bottom. Oh my. And then in verse 13,
look what he says. Thou in thy mercy, thou in thy mercy, led forth
a people which thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them in thy
strength unto thy holy habitation. Do you see what he said? He said
he guided them. Over there they said we'll give
him a habitation. Here he said he guided them into
his holy habitation. God led forth his people in mercy. guided him into his holy habitation. This is a new standing. They've
never been like this before. They brought nigh to God into
his very presence. And this is the effect of redemption.
When God redeems us, he brings us and guides us unto himself.
David said, Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes
to approach unto thee. And he guided them to where he
lived. Guided them to where he was.
And he did it in his strength, by his strength. And oh, what
a blessed standing to be in the very presence of God Almighty. And I'll tell you something,
when we get to glory, we'll not be nearer to God than we are
right now in Christ. Our position in Christ right
now will not change when we get to heaven. We'll be no more near
to God in Christ than we are right now as far as our position
stands. We'll change places and change
from one place to another, but our position and our standing
before God will never change. And thank God for that. Thank
God for that. And look what else they said
down here in verse 14 through 17. Listen to what he said. The people
shall hear and be afraid. Sorrow shall take hold on the
inhabitants of the Philistines, Philistia, Palestinia. Then the dukes of Eden shall
be amazed. The mighty men of Moab trembling
shall take hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan
shall melt away. What? When they hear about you. When they hear about what you've
done. Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of
thine arm. They shall be as still as a stone.
They'll just be still. Till thy people pass over. Till
thy people pass over which you've purchased. And I'll tell you
what confidence these words give. And what God did in the Red Sea
was the guarantee to Israel that He would begin a work in them,
that He would finish them. That's what He said in verse
17. Thou shalt bring them in. You brought them out, now you're
going to bring them in. And not only are you going to
bring them in, but you're going to plant them. In the mountain of, listen
to this, of your inheritance. It belongs to you. It's yours.
in the place, O LORD, which you has made for thee to dwell in,
in the sanctuary of the Lord, which thy hands have established."
Oh, he brought a great work at the Red Sea, and he guarantees
them that he who began that work, he's going to finish it. I brought
you out, and I'm going to bring you in. And I'm not only going
to bring you in, but I'm going to plant you. And they weren't counting
on their strength. Oh, no. No, no. By thy greatness, by thy arm
are thy enemies shall be still as a stone. Thou shalt bring
them in. And there's going to be enemies. They're going to
go through the wilderness and when they get in Canaan there's
going to be lots and lots of enemies. And I tell you we've
encountered a lot of enemies in our lives. A lot of enemies
in our lives. And you know they always talked
about, you know, said try to slip a traitor in these castles
and they still try to slip traitors and stuff like that, you know,
into all these organizations and stuff to spy. Well listen,
I've got an enemy and you know where he dwells? Greatest enemy I have is me.
It's me. But you know what God said? They're
not going to be defeated, they're not going to be forsaken. The
Philistines, the Moabites, the Edomites, none of them is going
to bother you. And I tell you, we'll not be defeated nor forsaken. God said it like this, the Apostle
Paul said, Who shall separate us from the love of God which
is in Christ? Will tribulation do it? Will peril do it? Will a fellow
draw a sword on you, want to whip you, want to cuss you out,
want to mistreat you? Will that do it? Will hunger, thirst, nakedness? Nah. He said in all these things
we're more than conquerors through Him that loved us. And we're
persuaded that nothing, nothing, nothing shall be able to separate
us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. And I take that what he says
there thou shall bring them in verse 17 you're gonna bring them
in plan on Ever plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted
shall not be rooted But if he hadn't planted you said you'd
be rooted up and all mine And the Lord shall reign forever
and ever and I tell you, you know when he talked about all
these people the fear and dread coming upon them and Do you remember
when they heard about what God had done? You go, you know, you
look over at Exodus and you look in Joshua. Rahab said, Oh Lord,
we've heard about what your great God did over there to the Egyptians
and what He did, the great wonders that He did in bringing you out
of Egypt. She said, Oh Lord, I want to be saved by that God.
Rahab said. And that's what she said we heard
about Him. We heard about his power. We heard about how he
saved you. And I don't want to face him. I'll tell you what,
would you please tell him that when you go back over there,
please save me and my house. You know what they told her?
They said, hang a scarlet thread out your window. How do you know
it's her? There's scarlet thread hanging
out of the window. What does that scarlet thread
represent? The blood. They were going to destroy everybody
in that place, but there's one window And there's a long scarlet
thread hanging out of it And they said we're gonna save we're
going everybody's gonna go down, but just get that woman and get
her family Take them with us Verse 18 says the Lord shall
reign How long is he going to reign? Forever and ever. Forever and ever. Oh, and you
know, that's how, that's how the, that's how the song began
with the Lord. He said, we will sing unto the
Lord The Lord, and that's how this
song ends, the Lord shall reign forever and ever. For the horse
of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the
sea. and the Lord brought again the
waters of the children of Israel and they went through on dry
land in the midst of the sea. But it started out that we are
going to sing unto the Lord and it ends. Well how long is the
Lord going to reign? We are singing a song unto Him.
Who is He? He is the Lord and He reigns
forever and ever. And what He did at the beginning?
He said I guarantee you, you are going to get to the end.
I'm going to bring you in. I'm going to plant you. I'm going
to establish you. And it's going to be on the mountain
of my inheritance. My inheritance. The song ends
and begins with the Lord. And that's the way our singing
ought to be. That's the way our thinking ought to be. Start with
Him and end with Him. Wouldn't you love to just do
that all the time? But now look what it says here
in verse 20 and 21. And Miriam That's Aaron's and Moses' sister.
Mariam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand, and all the women went out with her with timbrels and
with dances. And Mariam answered them and
sang you to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The
horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. Now I want you
to notice something here. Mariam wasn't singing this song
with them people. Mariam She led the women. She wasn't
among the men. She took the women and them and
the women went off dancing. Them and the women went off singing.
She did not try to usurp authority in that song there. God's a God of decency and order.
She led the women in song, not in the presence of the men. And
all the women went after her. All the women went after her.
So this is the first song. First song sung in the scriptures. Starts out with the Lord and
it ends with the Lord. The Bible starts with God in
the beginning. It was God. And the last verse
of Revelation 22 says, Behold, I come quickly. And John said,
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Starts out with God. creating,
starting, and it ends with the Lord Jesus Christ coming to get
us. Had a lot of space between there. But He's going to get
us. He's going to get us. He's going
to come get us one of these days, ain't He? Our Father, O our Father, the
precious, glorious, blessed Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, How
wonderfully gracious you are. How wonderfully merciful you
are. How wondrously kind and long-suffering you are. How wondrously
loving you are. Oh Lord, we just get overwhelmed.
Overwhelmed with your love and your grace. Oh Lord, indeed you're
merciful to us. Oh, you're so merciful. And we
thank you for it. Oh, we thank you and bless you.
Let our songs be about you. Let our praise be to you. You're
the one that triumphed gloriously. You're the one that saved us.
You're the one that brought us out. You're the one that'll take
us in. And we praise you for it. We
have this confidence that you which begun the good work, that
you'll finish it in the day of Christ. We look to you, Lord. Look to you and look for you. and we praise you in Christ's
name. Amen.