John read Exodus 13 for the very
reason that he bought out. And I'm very thankful he bought
that out. That they were delivered by the strong hand of the Lord.
The strong hand of the Lord. Turn if you would to Deuteronomy
chapter 6. The name of the message is brought in, or brought out,
brought in. Brought out, brought in. Now we know that Israel in the
Old Testament is a picture of the church. and how God preserves
us and keeps us, how He protects His people against our enemies
and from His, which are His enemies. So with that in our minds, let's
open the Scriptures here to Deuteronomy chapter 6. We'll read the whole
chapter to see the context of the verses that we'll be studying
this morning. Now these are the commandments,
the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God commanded
to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go
to possess it. That thou mayest fear the Lord
thy God to keep all his statutes in his commandments which I commanded
thee, thou and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy
life, and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O
Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee
and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers
hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I commanded
thee this day shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt
bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon
the post of thy house, and on thy gates. And it shall be when
the Lord thy God shall have bought thee into the land which he sware
by thy fathers, through Abraham and Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, and
houses full of all goods, which thou fillest not, and wells digged,
which thou diggest not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantest
not, when thou shalt have eaten and be full. So it was all provided
for them. Beloved, all provided for them.
Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee forth
out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. Thou shalt
fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name,
ye shall not go after other gods. of the gods of the people which
are around about you. For the Lord thy God is a jealous
God among you, lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled
against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God as ye tempted him in Massa. Ye shall diligently keep the
commandments of the Lord your God in his testimonies and his
statutes which he hath commanded thee. And thou shalt do that
which is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may
be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the
good land which the Lord swear unto thy fathers, to cast out
all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. And when thy son asketh thee
in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies and the
statutes and the judgments which the Lord our God hath commanded
you? Then thou shalt say unto thy
son, we were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought
us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs
and wonders great and sore upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his household before our eyes. He brought us out from
tents that he might bring us in, to give us the land which
is swear unto our fathers. And the Lord commanded us to
do all these statutes to fear the Lord, our God, and for our
good, always that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness
if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord,
our God, as he has commanded us. My. Let's read verses 22 and
23 together here. And the Lord showed signs and
wonders great and sore upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his
household before our eyes. And he bought us out from thence. He bought them out of Egypt.
That he might bring us in. He might bring them into the
land of Canaan. To give us the land which he swear unto our
fathers. Now note, very plainly here,
it is the Lord who took them out of Egypt. It's brought forth
very clearly, beloved. Very clearly and very plainly
in these verses. And think of this, left to themselves,
the Israelites would have remained in that state of bondage. They'd
have remained in that state of bondage. They would have remained
where they were if the Lord hadn't taken them out. And it's all
by God's almighty power that they were taken out from bondage.
All by God's almighty power that they're brought forth out of
Egypt. All by an execution of his almighty power. It's manifested,
isn't it? We even saw that in the scriptures,
Brother John read. And he was with them the whole
time. The whole time. All by his almighty hand, beloved. all by his almighty hand, by
God's power and God's power alone. And you know what? The Egyptians
and their Pharaoh were absolutely powerless against the mighty
hand of God. They were. The very ones that
were holding the Israelites captive were absolutely powerless before
the power of God. Powerless. And there is not one mention
in these verses of anything that they did to free themselves from
bondage. They have no power to free themselves
from bondage that they were in. Verse 23, He brought us out from
tents that He might bring us in. There's no mention of them
doing anything, is there? He's doing all the work. Oh,
it's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. He
brought us out from tents, that He might bring us in, to give
us the land which He sware unto our fathers." So the freeing
of Israel from the bondage of Egypt is from beginning to end
all by the power of God. All by the power of God. Even
as they're going through the wilderness, all by the power
of God. They're kept by the power of
God, beloved. And why did God do this? That
he might bring us in. That he might take them to the
land of Canaan. That he might take them to the
land that he swore unto their fathers. As I said, Israel in
the Old Testament is a picture of the church, beloved. Picture
of the church. Oh, we see clearly here a picture
of our salvation. The picture of our salvation.
We're redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb. We who are
born again of the Holy Spirit of God. We're redeemed by the
precious blood of the Lamb. And that's pictured, we know,
in the Passover Lamb. And the blood that was put on
the doorpost. That's all pictured. It all pictures Christ's blood. And what does God say? He says,
when I see that blood, I'll pass over you. I don't remember. In the New Testament it says,
and He remembers our sins and iniquities no more. Oh, it's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. The Israelites were brought out
of Egypt by the power of God Almighty. By the power of God. They had no way to free themselves. They were in bondage. They were
slaves to the Egyptians. But they were freed by the divine
power of God. And how this ties into what we've
been looking at in Sunday School. Turn, if you would, to 2 Peter.
And let's keep this in mind. We're saved, we're delivered,
we're redeemed from the bondage of our sins. From the bondage
of this world, and Egypt is a picture of the world. all in and through the Lord Jesus
Christ, and all by the divine power of God, beloved. Look here
in 2 Peter 1, verses 1-4. Simon Peter, a servant and apostle
of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained, like precious
faith, it's a gift, it's given to them, They didn't work for
it, they didn't earn it, they didn't even deserve it. Right?
But they've obtained like precious faith and it's like precious
faith because you know the faith that you have and I have who
believe is the same faith that Peter had and Paul had and John
had. It's the same faith. One faith,
beloved. And that faith has one object
and that object is the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. My! Like precious faith, with us,
how? Through the righteousness of
God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Now remember, the texts we're
looking at in Deuteronomy, they were delivered by the divine
power of God, weren't they? According as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness.
We're born again by the divine power of God. by the divine power
of God, the Holy Spirit, through the knowledge of Him that hath
called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given to us exceeding
great and precious promises, exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
heaven escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust. These great and precious promises are all the promises
of God. And who are they, yea, and amen in? Christ, in Christ
alone. All the promises of God are yea
and amen in Christ. And the believer is in Christ. Oh, it's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. But
we see here in 2 Peter that it's all according to the divine power
of God. We're born again by the Holy Spirit of God according
to the divine power of God. Let's go back to our text in
Deuteronomy chapter 6. Deuteronomy chapter 6. And we see here that no mention
is made of any other power that delivers Israel. In verse 23,
it is God and God alone who is responsible for the deliverance
of Israel. And He brought us out from tents
that He might bring us in. He. He did it all. God did it
all. To give the land which He sware
unto our fathers. I'm going to read Exodus 13 again,
the little portion there that John read, verses 3 to 5. If you want to turn to your Kind,
I'm going to read it. And Moses said unto the people, Remember
this day in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house
of bondage? For by the strength, I love this,
for by the strength of the hand of the Lord brought you out from
this place. It's not your doing. It's nothing
you did. It's all by the strength of the
power of the Lord. It's wonderful. There shall no
leavened bread be eaten. This day came ye out in the month
of Ahab, and it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into
the land of Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and
the Hivites, with the Jezebites, which he swore unto thy fathers,
to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey. that thou shalt
keep this service in this month." The Lord bought him out to bring
him in. To bring him in. Bought him out
of Egypt and the bondage of Egypt to bring him into the land that
came. My, in Exodus 13.3, Moses said
unto the people, Remember this day in which ye came out from
Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by the strength of For by
a strength of the hand, the Lord brought you out from this place. My, not by their hand, not by
their might. They were redeemed from their
state of bondage, beloved, by the power of God Almighty. And him alone, for by the strength
of hand the Lord bought you out from this place. There is no
mention of them doing anything. And again, think we who have
attained like precious faith. It's a gift from God. We don't deserve it. We can't
earn it. It's a gift. It's a gift. And it is He who brought signs
and wonders before Pharaoh and his servants and inflicted the
plagues upon them. All this was done by the sovereign
hand of God. Remember that. All those plagues
that hit Egypt were all by God's sovereign hand, beloved. All
by His sovereign hand, all by His almighty hand. And this is
why we need to have the gospel preached to us continuously.
This is why we who are born-again blood-washed saints need a fellowship
around the Lord's table together, to remember, to remember that
it is by the strength of the hand of the Lord that we've been
taken from the bondage that we were in, the prison house of
sin that we were in. Egypt's a picture of the world,
beloved, and God's people have been delivered from the bondage
of sin. We were in the world. We were
loving the things of the world. We were loving our sin. And now
that we're born again by the Holy Spirit of God, we're strangers
and pilgrims in this world now. We have new desires. We look
to our Lord for everything. When we used to look to ourselves,
everything's changed. And we know We've been taught
that we've been delivered from our sins by the power of God
and God alone. And let we who are the redeemed
of the Lord then remember that the redemption of our eternal
souls is by Christ, the mighty Redeemer. And it's by His arm
that salvation was wrought out for us. He left heaven to come
to this earth. to live the perfect life which
you and I could never live. He left heaven to die on the
cross for the sins of his people, to be the perfect spotless sacrifice,
to give his own life for all his left of all the angels. And it's all by his power that
we've been delivered out of the hands of all our spiritual enemies
And our sins are our enemies, aren't they? Our sins are one
of our enemies. The law of God had a claim on
us. The law of God was our enemy in our natural state. The justice
of God was our enemy in our natural state. Our sins were our enemy in our
natural state. But the believer's sins are all
forgiven. The law of God is satisfied by Christ in our place. The justice
of God is appeased by Christ in our place, and we are accepted
by God in Christ. Delivered from the bondage of
our sins. Redeemed by the precious blood
of Christ. So let this truth just sink into
your souls, you who are redeemed of the Lord. It's Christ who's
delivered you from the bondage of sin, and he's done it all
by his almighty hand. Because it pleased him to do
so. Isn't that wonderful? Oh my! God's work of redemption
of His people from the initial stage until its glorious consumption
is all of God's planning and it's carried out by God's divine
power. Conceived in His loving heart
in eternity and wrought out by His almighty hand in time. That which he has purposed and
planned is wrought out by his almighty power in time. In time. It's not the result of some casual
thought. God didn't go to plan B when
Adam fell. I've heard that before. I've
heard people make that claim. It's awful. It's absolutely awful. God didn't go to plan B when
Adam fell. No, no, that could never be. The salvation of God's
people The salvation of God's people is all according to God's
unalterable, eternal purpose. Bring it home. If you're redeemed
by the Lord, it's all according to God's unalterable, eternal
purpose. And you're saved because the
power of God has been exercised in your life. It's incredible. We're undeserving, and yet he
has mercy upon us. He brought us out. He brought
us out of the pit we were in. He brought us out from the prison
house of sin. Why? That He might bring us in.
That one day we might be with Him in glory. And He's with us all through
the desert too. Which is this world. Which is our life as we
walk through this world. until we go to be with our Lord.
And we who are the redeemed of the Lord know that our deliverance
from the bonds of our sins was all by the power of God. God
incarnate in the flesh is the one who has saved us. Who has
redeemed us. It's all because of what he did
for us. That we're bought out to be bought in. Bought out of
Egypt, bought out of the world. to be bought into glory, to be
with Him forever. Think, beloved of God, you who
are born again by the Holy Spirit of God. Think about when you were given
ears to hear the voice of the shepherd. Through the preaching of the
gospel. It was all by the power of God. It was all by the power
of God. Think when you had revealed to
you that you were a sinner before the holy God of the universe. For the first time. Think of when you, the first
time you saw yourself guilty before our great God. Guilty before his law, guilty
before his justice. And think about when you saw
your desperate need for him. The only reason you saw that
is all by the power of God. All by the power of God. Think of when you were given
eyes just to look to Christ. Scripture says look and live.
It doesn't say do this and live. It says look to live, look to
Christ. Look then. Think of when you were given
spiritual eyes to look to Christ, the only Savior of sinners. when
you were granted faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, when
you were made willing in the day of His power to flee to Christ,
beloved, it was all by the power of God, all by His almighty hand,
all by His almighty hand. Salvation is of the Lord, just
as Jonah said. Salvation is of the Lord, all
according to the grace and mercy of God. It was His plan and purpose to
save you. Isn't that incredible when you
stop and think of that? We know who we were. We know
how we still struggle with sin. But it was God's purpose to save
his people. To save his elect. And that salvation
is all wrought out by the almighty hand of God. You're born again
by the Holy Spirit of God, all by the almighty power of God. Philippians 1.6 says this, being
confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good
work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Salvations
of the Lord, beginning to end, and everything in between. It's
all the Lord. It's all His work. It's all His
work. Verse 21, in Deuteronomy 6, the
scriptures declare, we were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt. They were Pharaoh's bondmen.
They were enslaved to Pharaoh. They were his bondmen. In the
Hebrew, that means servant or slave. Now think, before we were saved,
we were servants to sin, servants to Satan. Sin was our taskmaster,
beloved. It was our taskmaster. And we
had absolutely no way to free ourselves. We were in bondage
with no ability to free ourselves. Again, what do you think would
have happened if the Lord left the Israelites where they were? Well, they'd have tarried and
still Among the brick kilns, if the Lord did not interpose
on their behalf, they would have perished in their bondage. That's
exactly what would have happened. Where would you or I who are
redeemed, who are born again by the Holy Spirit of God, where
would we be if the Lord did not save us? Well, we'd still be slaves to
our sins. because we have no power of our
own to change the situation we were in. We were born dead in
trespasses and sins, just like our father and our moms. When
Adam fell, we all fell in him, beloved. I keep in contact with some of
the people I knew in high school through Facebook, and I see them
still doing the same things that I did when I was with them. And I often think, Lord, if you
didn't save me, I'd still be doing that, too. I know I would
be, I know I would be. I'd still be dead in my trespasses
and sins. And I'd be loving the things
I was doing. But oh my, what a mighty deliverance
blood. Marvel at the free and sovereign
grace and mercy of our great God in and through the Lord Jesus
Christ towards you. Remember the bondage of sin that
you've been bought out of. Be thankful God didn't leave
you there. The scriptures proclaim this.
And what freedom, what freedom we have in Christ, we who are...
And think of that, when you're enslaved, what happens when you're
released? You're free! You're free, aren't you? And
we were born slaves to sin before the Lord saved us. Listen to
what the Scriptures proclaim here. And if the Son therefore
shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. And then in Galatians
5.1 the scriptures say this, stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage. Beloved, we don't realize how
free we are in Christ. My, and we still have the presence
of sin while we're in this world, but rejoice, one day we'll be
free from that. Then we'll be in the presence
of the King, because He bought us out, that He might bring us
in. My. It'll be glorious, beloved. It'll
be glorious. Turn to Exodus chapter 3, if
you would. Exodus chapter 3. Moses is at
the burning bush where the Lord speaks to him and sends him to
the children of Israel. And we see here that the Lord
interposed on their behalf. He heard their cry, beloved.
He heard their cry. Exodus 3, verses 6-15. Moreover, he said, I am the God
of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he
was afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know
their sorrows. The Lord knows everything we
go through. He knows all our heartaches. He knows everything
we go through. And I am come down to deliver
them out of the hands of the Egyptians, praise be to God,
and to bring them up out of the land unto a good land and a large
land. and enlarge unto a land flowing with milk and honey into
the place of the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Amorites, the
Perzites, the Hivites, and the Jezebites. Now therefore behold,
the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me. He heard their
cry, beloved. And I have also seen the oppression wherewith
the Egyptians oppressed them. Come now, therefore, and I will
send thee unto Pharaoh, and thou mayest bring forth my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God,
who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring
forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, certainly
I will be with thee. God told him, I'll be with you.
God never leaves his people. He never leaves his people. And
this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee, for thou
hast brought forth the people out of Egypt. Ye shall serve
God upon this mountain. And Moses said unto God, Behold,
when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto
them, The God of your fathers has sent me unto you. And they
shall say, What is his name? What shall I say unto them? And
God said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, I am has sent me unto
you. And God said moreover unto Moses,
thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
the God of Jacob has sent me unto you. This is my name forever. And this is my memorial unto
all generations. My. So the Lord bought them out
of Egypt. with a mighty hand, beloved,
with a mighty hand. And again, the deliverance of
Israel and the bondage that they were in with the Egyptians is
a picture of the salvation of God's people. Again, it's the Lord who's taken
us out of Egypt, out of this world. Now we're strangers and
pilgrims in this world. This world's not our home. It's
lost its appeal to us. We long to be in glory. We long
to see the Lord Jesus Christ. And we tarry here until He calls
us home. But notice, He heard their cry,
beloved. He heard their cry. And His almighty
hand of power was exercised in Him delivering them from Egypt.
God's mighty The hand of power is exercised in delivering us,
beloved, from our sins. Do you ever think of that? Bring
it right home. God's almighty power and His mighty hand was
exercised when He delivered us from our sins. And His divine power is at work
as we're born again in the Holy Spirit of God and given faith
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Again, all this done
because it pleased God to do so. Because it pleased God to
do so, we were chosen in Christ. By God, the father. Because it
pleased him to do so. Glorious, it's glorious, it's
wondrous. It's wondrous moment. And the Israelites, think of
this too, the Israelites were a chosen nation above all others
to receive the law of God, to be God's chosen people and to
receive the blessings of God. And God's born-again, blood-bought
saints are chosen by God to receive salvation through Christ and
Christ alone. To receive all spiritual blessings.
And how do we receive all spiritual blessings? Through Christ. No
other way. Through Christ. And did he hear
our cry, O God, be merciful to me a sinner. My, it's absolutely wonderful,
beloved. Oh, he's had mercy on us. He's
delivered us. And always remember this. Always
remember this through the life that we go through. Every day,
the Lord's mercies are new every morning to us. Never forget that. Every day. We got air to breathe. Oh my. It's wonderful. His mercies are new every morning.
Look at verses 21 to 23 again in our text here. Then thou shalt
say unto thy son, we were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt. That was the
state. And the Lord bought us out of
Egypt with a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs and
wonders great and sore upon Pharaoh and upon all his household before
our eyes. And he bought us out from tents
that he might bring us in to give us the land which he sware
unto our fathers. Now we've seen the picture of
how he delivers us from our sin pictured right here in the deliverance
again of Israel from Egypt. Now let us consider the fact
that he takes us in. He takes us into the promised
land. Canaan pictures glory, beloved. Canaan pictures glory. Canaan was a long way from Egypt.
The way they went, it was a long way from Egypt. When you're walking,
it's a long way. When you're walking, it's a long
way. But the Lord had determined to deliver them thoroughly. It was not enough to cross the
Red Sea. nor enough to pass the desert. The chosen people of
God must cross the Jordan River, must cross the Jordan River and
enter the promised land. And they did this all by the
almighty power of God. And He was ever with them. He
bought them out of Egypt so He could take them into the promised
land, beloved. And we're made fit for glory,
aren't we? by being clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Oh my. He brought us out of the
prison house of sin. And he might take us to the glory,
beloved. Clothed in the perfect, spotless
righteousness of Christ. The only way we can be accepted
by God or even be in the presence of God is through Christ and
Christ alone. My, what a picture we have. And He gives us His Holy Spirit. And we believably look to Christ
while we're journeying in the desert of this world, beloved.
While we're strangers and pilgrims on our way to glory. It's the
Holy Spirit of God who produces joy and peace and hope and love.
It's all centered around Christ and Christ alone. Again, Deuteronomy
6.23, And he brought us out from thence that he might bring us
in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. Now again, let us never forget
this wonderful deliverance from our sins, this wonderful salvation
we have in Christ as a result of God's planning, and His purpose,
and always remember that His purpose and His power always
go together. His purpose and His power always
go together. This deliverance of Israel from
Egypt did not come by chance, and our deliverance from our
sins did not come by chance. No. It wasn't because we made
a decision for Christ. Although we're made willing to
flee to Christ, that's all by the power of God, though. No, our salvation, our deliverance
from the prison house of sin, from the bondage of sin that
we were in, was planned and purposed just like Israel's deliverance
from Egypt was planned and purposed by God, and executed by the power
of God. What a picture of our salvation,
beloved. Everything that God plans will
always come to pass. It will never fail. It will never
fail. Because again, His power and
His purpose go hand in hand. Hand in hand. So again, bring
this truth home to our salvation. Think upon this, beloved God. Even in our natural state, God
loved us. I was talking to Brother Zane this week on the phone,
and we were talking about how in our natural state, him and
I, You know, we just, we had no idea who God was. And I was
telling him, I used the Lord's name to my shame as a byword. And I would swear the Lord's
name all the time and the Father's name. But I said, I said, Zane,
it's incredible. I said, what would you and I
do if someone was deframing our name? What would we think? We'd
be pretty upset, wouldn't we? And yet the Lord's love was set
upon me. And same for you. Isn't that amazing? That's mercy,
beloved. That's grace. That's a love that's
greater than any love in this world. Oh my. This salvation we have. And knowing
that even in our natural state, God loved His people. He's loved
us for eternity. His love was set upon us. And
then He delivered us by His almighty power. He revealed Christ to
us. It's incredible. What mercy. What mercy. And you know what this deliverance This deliverance of Israel from
Egypt pictures, beloved, it pictures a complete deliverance. A complete
deliverance. And the believer in Christ is
a complete deliverance from all their sins. Although we still
live in this world, and we still struggle with sin, but as far
as God's justice is concerned, it's satisfied. As far as God's
law, it's fulfilled in Christ. He did all that was required
for the believer in Christ to be accepted by God. It's absolutely
amazing. This grace is amazing. It's wondrous. So this salvation is a complete
deliverance, beloved. And the complete deliverance
for us will occur when we're finally in glory and we're delivered
from all our sin. We won't sin anymore. Can you
imagine that? Not even having a thought sin
or a spoken sin. To be in the presence of the
Lord and to be rejoicing with the saints of God. Forever. No wonder the saints of God say,
worthy is the Lamb. Worthy, He's worthy, He's worthy
for all the praise and glory and honor, beloved. Oh my. And when He delivered Israel,
think of this too. When He delivered Israel from
Egypt, thus began the ceaseless care of Jehovah towards His people. Well, we know that he ever watches
over us even when we're dead in trespasses. But how much more
does it come home to us after we're born again, after we're
saved and the Holy Ghost reveals Christ to us? How much more is
revealed to us? His ceaseless care for us. Oh
my. And it's glorious, beloved. He didn't lead them over the
Red Sea that He might forsake them in the desert. He didn't
take them out of the bondage of sin that He might forsake
them in the desert. No. He didn't bring them across the
desert that He might see them drowned in the Jordan. No, no. He led them all the way, beloved.
He led them all the way. And nothing interfered with His
purpose. You ever think of that? Nothing
interfered with his purpose. There were obstacles, yes, but
he overcame them all. He's God. We have obstacles in
our life, but God overcomes them for us, doesn't he? My, it's
incredible. He delivers it. He just keeps
watching and caring over us our whole lives, beloved. He led them all the way, and
He leads us all the way. He led them all the way to Canaan.
Beloved, He'll lead us all the way home. All the way home. And He didn't bring them out
of Egypt merely as a demonstration of His power, no. No, He led
them! He delivered them, He led them,
and beloved, He kept them all by His almighty power. And that's
what God does for every one of His people. For every one of
us. Taking them out of Egypt was
the first step in the stage and the glorious process of complete
deliverance. Think of that. Think of that. What a picture. We're born again
by the Holy Spirit of God. We're led by the power of God.
We're kept by the power of God through this desert and this
wilderness and this world. And then we're taken home to
be with the Lord. Complete deliverance. It's glorious. It's absolutely
glorious. Look at verse 23 again. And he
bought us out from thence that he might bring us in. Oh my. To give us the land which
he sware unto our fathers. And note the words, bought, bring,
and give. I was talking with Brother Matt
this week in our study and Matt pulled that out, man. Look at
that. Bought, bring, and give. It's all God. It's all God. It's all his work. He's the one
who's brought us out from Egypt. He's the one who brings them
into the promised land, and he's the one who's fulfilled his promise
to the fathers. He's the one who brings us out
of Egypt, out of the bondage of our sin. He's the one who
keeps us, and he's the one who takes us into the promised land. What a picture we have here before
us of a believer who's being saved, delivered, and is being
kept, and one day will be in glory, all according to the promise,
purpose, and power of God, to one day be presented faultless
before the throne of God. Turn, if you would, to Jude.
Jude. We'll look at verses 24 and 25. 24 and 25. And remember, we're delivered
from the bondage of our sin by the power of God. We are kept
by the power of God. And we will one day be in the
presence of the Lord by the power of God. Look at verses 24 and
25. Now unto him that is able. He's
the only one who's able, beloved. He's the only one who's able
to deliver us from our sins. He's the only one who's able
to satisfy the law and justice of God in our place. He's the
only one who's able. He's able to save to the uttermost
those who come to him. Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling and to present you faultless, faultless,
that's a wonderful word, faultless, without blame, faultless, before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. He does this joyfully
because these people that he's presenting is his spotless bride
who he's loved from eternity, who he gave his life for, beloved.
Oh, before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to
the only wise God our Savior, be glory, majesty, dominion,
and power both now and forever. Amen. Amen. And He's able, beloved. He's able. He's able because
it's all according to His purpose, all according to His plan, and
all by His almighty power, beloved. That's marvelous. One day, by
the power of God, the believer will be presented by Christ,
before God, spotless, faultless, glory to his name. And it's all
by his almighty power. Wondrous. What wondrous love
is this? Oh, my soul. Oh, my soul. It's
matchless, beloved. It's matchless. Heavenly Father,
we thank you for allowing us to gather together. We thank
you for thy word and oh, how comforting it is. Oh Lord, we
see in the text we look at just how it's pictured, that our salvation
is all by thy almighty power, oh Lord, all by thy power wrought
out. You were the one who delivered
us from the bondage of our sins. And sin was our taskmaster, Lord. It had us captive and we had
no way to free ourselves, but oh Lord, by thy almighty power
and all according to thy purpose and plan. You delivered us from
the bondage of our sin. We pray, Lord, that you'd use
this message for your glory and for your honor and for your praise.
And Lord, if there's anyone who does not know thee, O Lord, For
one of your lost sheep hears this message, may you give them
ears to hear and eyes to see all by thy almighty hand. May
you deliver them from the prison house of sin that they're in,
just like you've done for every one of us. Oh, Lord, we love
you and praise you. We pray you be glorified and
magnified in Jesus name. Amen.