They Hearkened Not

Q: What does the Bible say about waiting on God's promises?

The Bible emphasizes that waiting on God's promises demonstrates our faith in His faithfulness and goodness. Scripture teaches that waiting on God's promises is an integral aspect of faith. In Exodus, we see the Israelites struggling to believe God's assurance of deliverance in the face of intensified persecution. Our inability to wait often reveals the weaknesses of our flesh, showcasing our need for divine grace. God is faithful to fulfill His promises in His perfect timing, as seen throughout the Bible. This period of waiting serves to test and prove our faith, strengthening us as we come to rely wholly on God's mercy and love.

Q: How do we know God's promises are true?

God's promises are true because He is faithful, immutable, and always fulfills His word. The truth of God's promises rests on His unchanging character. Scripture reveals that God is faithful to His covenant people, consistently honoring the promises He makes. In Exodus 6, God's repeated affirmations of 'I will' serve as a reminder that He never forgets His covenant. Throughout biblical history, we see countless examples of God's faithfulness despite human unbelief. His promises are fulfilled, not because of our abilities or faithfulness, but because of His sovereign grace and mercy towards us. Therefore, believers find assurance in God's unshakeable word.

Q: Why is understanding our flesh important for Christians?

Recognizing the weakness of our flesh highlights our need for God's grace and encourages reliance on His strength. Understanding the weakness of our flesh plays a vital role in the believer's life. The Apostle Paul describes the struggles between our sinful nature and the new nature imparted by the Holy Spirit. This awareness helps Christians remain humble and depend on God's grace rather than their own efforts. In Exodus, the Israelites faced oppression and revealed their inability to trust God's promises due to their sinful flesh. By acknowledging our inherent weaknesses, we learn to lean wholly on Christ, who enables us to live righteously by His Spirit, fostering growth in faith and sanctification.

Let's be turning to Exodus chapter 6. Exodus 6. Now, one of the greatest difficulties that we as believers face is waiting, waiting upon the promises of God, waiting upon our Lord to fulfill his word unto us, even though When we read scripture, there's not a single example where our Lord is not able and doesn't fulfill his word of promise to his people.

And yet this is right where we see our infirmity of the flesh. This is where it's made evident to us is in our unbelief and inability to believe and trust the Lord fully to fulfill his word of promise to us. As an example, our Lord spoke to the disciples who were on the road to Emmaus and he said, our risen Lord said, oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have written. It's a testimony to the weakness and the corruption of this flesh And the scriptures give us the honest assessment of our infirmity, of our sin, saying that the scripture hath concluded, it's come to this conclusion, that all are under sin. Every one of us is a sinner.

Every one of us comes short of the glory of God. And so this flesh of ours, what we're seeing is that this flesh will not believe God. This flesh will not produce a good work. This flesh will do nothing good and nothing profitable, and it's evidenced by our unbelief, and we see it spoken of in this chapter concerning Israel.

The people of Israel who are in Typere, they are the people of God. That's whom the Lord was revealing himself to. The Lord had commissioned Moses giving him the gospel, sending him down to Egypt to go preach the gospel to this people of Israel as well as to Pharaoh. And so he comes there with the gospel, both in the words that he preached to them and in the signs which God gave him to perform to let them know that yes, God indeed had sent him with this word. And when he began to speak to the people, the signs preached and declared the gospel and then his words testified that God was the God of the covenant and he remembered his covenant with his people. And he told them that God had looked upon their affliction and seen their sorrow and seen their bondage and that God had promised to deliver them out of their bondage, to set them free, because he had heard their sighing and their tears.

And when the people of Israel first heard this, we see in Exodus 4, verse 31, that the people believed. They believed the word, and they bowed their heads and worshiped. because the words themselves, they were easy to hear. They were comforting words. They spoke of peace. They spoke of God's attention and care for them, and it assured their hearts. It gave them comfort and peace and rest for their souls. But now, that word spoken will be proved by God. God's going to prove that word in them that heard it. So that when Pharaoh heard the same words, he despised those words. He rejected those words and as a result he persecuted the people.

He decided that for that word, which they rejoiced in, he's going to make their burden harder, heavier. He's going to persecute them. And he persecuted them by withholding the straw from them, which they needed to make bricks. They weren't responsible for growing the hay and the straw, and then making it. His own people would grow it, and they'd bring it to them, and then they'd make the bricks. And so by holding that back, he was withdrawing his peace with them, and his support in their works and their labors. And they didn't have that. Now, they had no peace with the world, and here they are. They at one time rejoiced in the word, but now they're being persecuted for that word. In the New Testament, the Apostle Peter calls this the trial of our faith. This is the trial of our faith being tried with fire, and it's for this glorious purpose. The reason why we suffer the trial of our faith is that our faith might be found.

God's going to prove it. He's going to harden it in a good way. He's going to make it more strong, more real, more present in His people that our faith might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Faith is not seen in all its brilliance and glory except it be proved by God. It's for a purpose. And His people We're not going to remain little infants, tender and weak and unable to hold their head up. We're not going to remain as infants and children. He's going to grow us up in the faith. He's going to strengthen us and use us for his glorious purpose in the body.

And to do that, he's going to prove the faith which he gives to us. Because faith is only recognized as faith when it's defying what the body sees. and what the body can make sense of. Faith overcomes that. Faith receives and believes that which the eye cannot see. It's not seen. It's believed. We trust the word of God. We're believing our God. We're trusting him.

But this people, Israel here, they were not yet proven. They were untested. They had never been proved yet. And as soon as the persecution of Pharaoh rose up against them, their flesh's infirmity came out. It was seen. There's a sickness there. Their flesh is sinful. It's corrupt. It's weak. It's defiled. It doesn't have the strength to do it.

We're not going to do it. And that all happened under this persecution. And so they got to the point where they could not hear the word in faith. They wouldn't receive the word. Now they rejected it. Now they didn't believe everything that God had said. What they once rejoiced in, now they don't want to hear it. It can't be. I've seen enough. I've seen what my eyes have shown me, and I don't believe it.

And Moses, it says in verse nine, and this is the beginning of our text here, Moses spake unto the children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses. They wouldn't hear it. They couldn't hear it for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. And so all the confident assurances that God had given to Moses, all the promises that we saw last week in the first eight verses, especially in verses six through eight, when the Lord promised seven times, he repeated, I will, I will, I will, I will, over and over. God said, I will do this. I will do these things. Yet they would not hearken to it. for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.

Now, before we cut them off in our hearts and point out what horrible, shameful people, how terrible they are, they're not unique. They're not alone. We're just like them. We suffer the same infirmity. We have the same sinful flesh that under heavy persecution When the Lord is proving His word, this flesh will buck and fight and resist and cast off and won't want to hear it, won't believe it, because it's showing us the infirmity of our flesh. It makes us to see. And when we're honest with ourselves and we're honest before God, we'll admit it.

We'll confess, yes, Lord, I am weak. Yes, Lord, I don't believe. Yes, Lord, I have forgotten. Yes, Lord, I'm being ignorant and foolish in my heart and my ways." And so, we are made to see this unbelief in ourselves, and the need, the purpose is to show us our need of God's grace. Don't lay on me the law, Lord, because you already know I can't do it because of the weakness and infirmity of this flesh.

Lord, please be gracious. Please be patient with me. Please be merciful, Lord. Help me. Help me. That's where he's driving us. He's humbling us so that we're not a bunch of hypocrites and liars and fools going around thinking that we're something when we're absolutely nothing. That's what he's showing us. Seeing what wretched sinners we are, it is good for us. It's good for you, child of God. It is good. The scripture hath concluded all under sin.

And he adds to this that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given, given, given, given to you. You're not going to work it up. You're not going to stir it up. You're not going to produce it. Faith is going to be given to you by the grace of God.

He's going to humble us. He's going to bring us low in ourselves so that, as Paul said, we have no confidence in the flesh that we might find our all of God. given to you in spite of you and in spite of me and in spite of our infirmity and weaknesses and failures over and over again, God gives grace to whom he will be gracious and compassionate and merciful because he will be gracious, compassionate, and merciful to his people in Christ because he loves you in Christ. Before the foundation of the world, he chose you. and put you in Christ, and is now fulfilling his word of promise unto you, because he delights to do it, and he delights in his son. And so be encouraged in that, not encouraged in yourselves, but encouraged in him, and thank him for his grace.

All right, if we could do it, then it wouldn't be given, but it's given. We're sinners and we cannot earn it and merit it by our works, but we're all sinners and so it's given because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. If some could do it, well, then it would be laid on us to all do it, but none can do it. None can do it. And so our God is wisely and graciously and patiently making this known to us. And He's making known to us something of the infirmity of our flesh. And He does it in measure. And He does it patiently. He doesn't show us everything at once.

If you see what the blackness of your heart and my heart is all at once, you'll break apart and die. Who could stand? in that day. But he just shows us what we need to know in order to keep us humble and looking to our Lord for all things. Our Lord said to the father of the boy who had a dumb spear, that the father would see the spear take hold of him and cast him down into the fire and throw him into the waters. And he never knew, is my son going to die today? And he's worried. He's afraid for his son's well-being. And he's got a dumb spirit, and he's crying out to the Lord to help him.

And our Lord said, if thou canst believest, all things are possible to him that believes. And that man right then and there knew, oh, Lord, I believe, but help thou mine unbelief. I need your grace, Lord. He made him know the infirmity of his flesh, and he brought out of him the confession of a heaven-born soul.

Help thou mine unbelief. Lord, have mercy on my son, because I'm powerless to save him. I can't do it. I took him to doctor, to doctor, to doctor, and this guy, and this fellow, and this one over here, and nothing helps him. Lord, please save him. Please save him.

And the Lord showed him that if you could do it, you do it, but you can't. If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes. And he brought out that beautiful heaven-born confession, Lord, I do believe, help thou mine unbelief, because you know how far short of your glory I come. And so we see here, the Lord stirs up his people to discover this truth, that the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. The flesh isn't going to cooperate. The flesh is not going to do it. The flesh is going to have nothing to glory in. It's going to be all of the Lord.

And so that's why when it's given, he makes you to know it's given, and you rejoice and worship your God in spirit and in truth. And so it is in the trial of our faith from God where we are made to see the failures of this flesh, the failures of ourselves, and we see then the great grace of God for sinners, when he's compassionate and gracious toward us. And so we have example after example after example in scripture.

Just a few is that when Joseph's brethren hated him and sold him into slavery, Did God forget His covenant of promise to His people? Did He forget to be gracious to His people? No, He didn't. He was being gracious. He was preparing, laying up for their deliverance and their provision of what they needed. What about David?

When David's sin was exposed, when he fell into sin and his sin was exposed by Nathan and he was chastened sorely by the Lord, did God forget His covenant of mercy and grace to David? Not at all, because the Lord got truth in the inward parts in his servant. He brought about a blessed thing for David in preserving David, in preserving his children, in putting his son Solomon on the throne, a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was a forerunner of the son of David, who would come, the promised seed. When all the disciples fled from our Lord on the night in which he was betrayed, Did God forget his covenant of mercy and grace to his people?

Not at all. His son had to do the work, and he had to do it alone for his people. He had to do it. And when Paul then was stopped on the road to Damascus when he was going to persecute, The people of God, and the Lord knocked him off his high horse and put his face in the dust and shut his eyes so that he couldn't see and had to be led around because he was made blind. Did God forget his covenant of mercy to his children?

Not at all. He helped that man. He blessed that man and used that man mightily in the church so that we have a great portion of the scriptures of the New Testament revealing to us the grace of God, making it plain and simple for us to see. so that we don't turn to the law, don't turn to the flesh, don't turn to dead letter form religion, but understand by God's grace and power, and are comforted and encouraged by this gospel, that it's by grace you're saved, through faith. That not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, given, given freely. And so the scriptures teach us that believers walk by faith in the spirit.

We're not walking by the flesh. The flesh is ineffectual. The flesh doesn't help. It is the spirit that quickeneth, Christ said, the flesh profiteth a little. No, it doesn't say that. It says the flesh profiteth nothing, nothing. It's the Spirit. It's all the Spirit. It's all of His grace. Every bit, 100%. We don't go 1% and He does the 99%. We don't go at all, any portion. This flesh is worthless. It's corrupt. It's dead in trespasses and sins. We are saved entirely by the grace of God. And this faith is given. It's a fruit of the Spirit. It's of His hand whereby we believe. And it's all in grace, it's all of faith.

Paul wrote, for we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. So you're not gonna see in this flesh what you think you should see for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

The Lord is training us up, the Lord is preparing us, the Lord is teaching us and is using us in the body as he will use us. And so he brings us through these proving ways to make us useful in the body. And to make us members of the body as he makes us members in the body. To be the part that we are made to be and put in the body to be. And so we need patience. We need patience because the body, this flesh, comes short of God's glory every, every time. And the Lord makes it known in measure. He makes it known. He lets us see it so that we see that this flesh, that we have no confidence in the flesh. That we're trusting in him, relying on him.

In addition, we're born again. We are made alive spiritually. Where there was no spiritual life, we are given the Holy Spirit who regenerates us in the new man, quickening in the new man, that which is spiritual, that which is born of the seed of Christ. Not of this flesh, but of the seed of Christ.

And so that this old nature, this flesh, you understand, isn't changed. It's not transformed yet. We're not in our heavenly bodies yet. This is still the old flesh, this old corrupt bag of flesh that is not profitable, that isn't cooperating, that isn't adding anything to the salvation. If he could, he would just destroy the whole thing.

But God, by his grace and power, keeps us and teaches us so that the flesh is kept under in a sense, but not as we would see it, not at all as we would see it. Paul said this way in Romans 7, 18 through 21, he said, I know that in me, that is in my flesh, this old man of flesh dwelleth, no good thing, nothing good. For to will is present with me. That would be from the new man. That would be of the spirit in you. To will is present with me.

But how to perform that which is good, how to get this flesh to cooperate, I find not. When I think I got it, it just wiggles out and it's out again. I can't keep it in. I just see it again and again. For the good that I would, I do not. But the evil which I would not, that I do. Corrupt thoughts come into my mind. There's still lusts of the flesh just rising up and things trying to poke out and do whatever it wants to do against God just to satisfy itself. It's still present there in me.

Now, if I do that, I would not. It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. The child of God is grieved. not because we're out there doing it, but just even being reminded of this weak flesh, just seeing it, the thoughts that enter into the head and things we do and think, it just troubles us, it grieves us, because we know our Savior, our Lord, died to put away those sins. He bore that for his people, to put it away. I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

It's right there. always lurking, always ready to pounce and come out. And so what Paul is doing is describing two natures. He's describing two natures. There's the old nature, which is this flesh. And then there is the new nature, which is the spirit. Those two natures. And we see a type of this. We see many types of it.

But one type in particular would be Rebecca, who conceived in her womb two children. Esau and Jacob. And we read of this in Genesis 25, verse 21 through 22. And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife because she was barren, and the Lord was entreated of him. And Rebekah his wife conceived. And so what that's saying is by nature you and I were barren. This flesh is barren. It's not fruitful. It's not producing all these good things. It's producing earthly things, fleshly things. We're barren and fruitless by nature.

And then what happened? Her husband, Isaac, entreated the Lord. He interceded for her, and she conceived. It's a picture of our heavenly husband interceding for his people, by which life is born in us. And we become fruitful by his grace and power, not in the flesh, but in the spirit, in the new man born of his seed. And the children struggled together within her, and she said, if it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord. There's life there now. She has a struggle in her, and she's going to the Lord, inquiring of the Lord. She's seeking the face of her God. And so this is a picture of two different natures striving within her.

You have Esau, the firstborn. What is the firstborn? This flesh comes forth first. dead in trespasses and sins, born of Adam's seed, lifeless. That first man, that old man of flesh, and then there's Jacob, who's the second born. And we see God's grace in that. A day came in which he heard the voice of God. He saw God reveal himself to him in Jacob's ladder, as we call it, and there in the wilderness. And he saw a picture of Christ ascending and descending, or the angels ascending and descending upon because of Christ. because of his atonement, because of what he did, God ministers and blesses us and provides everything we need. So when the Lord brings the light and life of salvation to bear in a believer's heart, a warfare, a struggle follows.

And human reason will never understand it, will not understand what you're saying, but our Lord gives us a nice simple verse to explain it. He says in John 3, 6, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

This flesh is not going to improve. And you may get your outward sins to be subdued and contain them as best you can because you don't want to do those things anymore, and you don't want to shame your brethren and the gospel, and you don't want to bring any shame upon the God that you profess to believe. But we know in the heart, in the mind, there's still sinful thoughts, there's lusts. Otherwise, Peter wouldn't have said, Dearly Beloved abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul." Because they're there in the flesh. They're there, they're present, so that's why he says it. But, we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. We're believing the Lord.

And John said it this way, the Apostle John in 1 John 3, 2, Beloved, now are we the sons of God. Right now we are the sons of God. And it doth not yet appear what we shall be. We don't see it yet what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is.

We will lay aside this garment of flesh and we shall be clothed upon with that heavenly body and we shall forever be with the Lord in perfect righteousness delivered once and for all from the infirmity and the deadness of this flesh. And so now we abide in Him, walking in the Spirit, seeking to serve Him in the Spirit, knowing the infirmity of this flesh, but we love Him, we're thankful, it's given to us, we believe Him.

We believe Him and we are made to trust Him because He grows us in grace. He grows us in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. He strengthens us in the new man. He's the one keeping us, and He's doing it in such a measure, in such a way, so that we know it's of His grace, and we look to Him to keep giving it to us, rather than becoming proud and arrogant and condemning our brethren who don't see what we see. We grow in mercy and in grace toward our brethren.

So, now the gospel of our Lord, He gave it to Moses to preach to the people, and it's going to have a blessed effect upon his people chosen in Christ. And we're going to see and learn the blessed things that God teaches us, that he taught his apostles.

And we're going to see that God's strength is made perfect in our weakness. We're going to come to see how he's providing, that he's doing the whole thing. He's going to do it in such a manner that we see these things, and we'll see our weaknesses, we'll see our insufficiency, that we may see more brightly against the backdrop of what we know ourselves to be by nature. We'll see more gloriously the grace and mercy of God. And so by that, We'll be made to think less of ourselves and more of Him. We'll boast less of ourselves and what we've done, and we'll boast more of Him and what He's done for us. We'll testify to the truth of these things with understanding. Not in a textbook, but we know what we are, we know what we need, we know what he's done. Because he's done it in just such a manner as we see laid out for us in the scriptures.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 4, 7, who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? He teaches that to us. He has to teach that to us. Otherwise, we wouldn't get it. We wouldn't understand. But more and more, we understand what I am.

It's by the grace of God. This flesh didn't pick up and add nothing to it. He did the whole thing. In fact, he did it in spite of me. He makes us to know that of God are ye in Christ Jesus, who has made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, that according as it's written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." And he gives that to us. He trains us up in that.

Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5, 4 and 5, he said, for we that are in this tabernacle, in this flesh, do groan being burdened. You wouldn't groan and be burdened if you didn't see and feel the infirmity of the flesh, the weakness of it. Just like when your knee's hurting and you make that grimacing face, it's because you feel the infirmity of it. Well, in the Spirit, we are made to feel the infirmity and the weakness of this flesh, this sinful, uncooperative, tricky, deceitful, corrupt flesh.

We're made to see it. Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. That mortality might be swallowed up of life, Now he that hath, now he that hath wrought us for the self same thing as God, who also hath given, right, there's that word given, given unto us the earnest of the spirit, or the down payment is what that means.

The earnest is just a down, here's a down payment to testify to you that you are the sons of God. that I have purchased you with the blood of my Son, that you are mine, and I've promised to you an eternal inheritance forever and ever. I've put away your sins. I've provided everything for you. You're accepted of me in Christ."

He gives that to us, that testimony, that earnest, that down payment of the Spirit so that by grace we understand who we are, what he saved us from, and what's to come in glory. And we're moved by his grace and power as he brings it to groan, right? In this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.

And so that's 2 Corinthians 5.2.

Now for a short while, Israel rejoiced in God's good news. But once the persecution came, they wilted. They just collapsed right under it, which is why it says in verse 9 that when Moses spake unto them those words of God's promised deliverance, I will, I will, I will do this for you, it says that they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. This is the gospel of God's peace and rest, but they could not, would not hear it. Isaiah wrote of this too. It even happened later on. Isaiah said in Isaiah 28, 12, this is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest.

And this is the refreshing, yet they would not hear. They wouldn't hear it. And so we've all been there before. You may be there right now, right? Struggling to believe. Struggling to understand why you struggle to hear and believe all that the Lord has promised.

You may struggle to believe it, but understand this flesh is never going to cooperate. It's never going to say, I agree, except to try and trick you. It's never going to give in or agree in any way. You're not going to see what you think you should see.

You're not going to be as perfect as you think that a believer should be. You're going to see your infirmity, that you will see that God is perfect, that God is good, that he always comes through, that he yet gives graciously, because we don't earn it.

He yet comforts his people, he gathers you in, he feeds you with the gospel, he blesses your heart, he makes you to groan, all of his grace. All of his grace, in spite of what we should receive, and in spite of what we should hear, and in spite of the hope that he gives us.

Yet he gives it, he gives it, and we see it's all of grace. because God is all your salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ is all your salvation. And the Lord is pressing that home, that it's for Christ's sake, for Christ's sake, for Christ's sake, you're his child. And he's provided everything, and he's making you and I to know it, that he is the Lamb of God, sent of the Father. He came for this purpose, to shed his blood as the substitute of his people, putting away perfectly to full satisfaction all our sins.

God is well pleased, well pleased with his children who come to him in Christ, confess in Christ, believe in Christ, having no hope or confidence in themselves but in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, I mean, you think of it this way. Israel found no relief from their bondage and their sin until the blood of the lamb was shed. And that's when they went out after the blood of the lamb was shed.

And so it is when the Lord applies that precious blood to your conscience and applies it to you, that's when you are set free and delivered. And every time in the preaching of the gospel and every remembrance of your Lord, he's reminding you, he's bringing you into that fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ of what he's done, what he's provided. Later, when we take of the bread and the wine, it's not because we've earned it, not because we deserve it to partake of these things, but it's given in grace to remember and to be reminded of the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did to save us, what He did to provide for us everything that we need. And so we're going to believe Him in faith. Now in closing, let me just point out that Their unbelief didn't stop God from giving his grace. Let's start in verse nine and we'll just read down to verse 13.

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. Now watch this. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, go in, speak unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of the land.

God didn't even address their unbelief at this time. They're just infants. They're just babes. They don't understand what they're doing. It didn't even move him or stop him. He simply continued to remember his covenant of grace and mercy toward his people in Christ.

And that's the blessing that he does for us. And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me. How then, this is Moses now, how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron.

Because why? They're still learning. They're still growing. They're still learning of the power and grace of God to provide. They're seeing the infirmity of their flesh, their insufficiency to lead the people. They're still growing too. And the Lord gave them a charge unto the children of Israel and unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. God remembered his covenant, and he just kept on reaffirming their commission.

Just go and do it. And that's what he does for us. The reason why you keep coming and are made to keep hearing it is because the Lord just keeps giving you what you need to come Rather than falling away and drifting away with the world the way the world does, nope, you need it. You're hungering and thirsting for his righteousness, and he gives it to you, and he brings you here to hear it, to bless your souls, because he's the God of the covenant. And he remembers his covenant in Christ, for Christ's sake. So brethren.

That's why we're not consumed for our sins. That's why we are kept. That's why we are subdued and helped by his grace and power. And when we have need, we see our weakness and are reminded again of his grace and power, all of his provision for us. So rejoice and give thanks to him. And you that are sinners and confess your sin, take of the bread and the wine. Remember the Lord Jesus Christ. and what He's done for us in grace and mercy. Amen.

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