I'm back to Exodus chapter 10. I titled this message, and after
reading this chapter, this is what jumped out at me after I
read through the chapter. Full redemption with no compromises. No compromises, but full redemption. Not a hoof. He said, not a hoof. This ain't not a man, not a child,
but not even an animal that belongs to the Israelite will be left
in Egypt. That is full redemption. Oh, if we could just get a hold
of how fully we are redeemed. It would enrich these services.
I'm not saying they're not rich. They are. But it would really
enrich these services if we could just lay a hold of it more and
more and more. Now, the children of Israel went
down into Egypt when they were but a few, just a few of them. You know, this nation started
out with one man, Abraham. Abraham. Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and twelve patriarchs, and then it grew into this mighty
nation. The church has its beginnings in one man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And out of Him, we are going
to see a throng The Scripture says that no man can number.
The true Israel of God started with this one man, the Son of
God. Jesus Christ the man, and yet
he's the Son of God. But they went down to Egypt when
they were but a few. And Joseph, as you know and remember
as we've gone through this, Joseph was already there. God had already
prepared Joseph And Joseph had prepared a place for his family. And they went to Egypt because
Joseph had found favor with Pharaoh at that time. Whatever happened
in Egypt at the time Joseph was there, Joseph did it. Joseph did it. They didn't move. They didn't do a thing without
Joseph. made sure that his family was
taken care of. But Joseph, as all do, died. He died. You go through Genesis,
and one of the things that just stands out is he begot, begot,
begot, and he died. He begot, begot, he died, and
he died, and he died. And we still die. I like what Henry said to me
one time walking away from the funeral service. He said, I'll
be glad when we quit dying. I'll be glad when we quit dying.
But Joseph died and another pharaoh arose that knew not Joseph. And
he became afraid of Israel because they were becoming too great.
So he thought he would enslave them. And he made them serve
with rigor, bondage, And the more he oppressed them, the more
they grew. That's the way it is with the
church. The more she's oppressed, the
more she multiplies. You remember over in the book
of Acts, when we went through that, they persecuted the church and
they were scattered abroad. And as they went, they went what?
Preaching the gospel. Preaching the gospel. And churches
were being established all over the place at that time. And then
God raised up a deliverer, Moses. He sent him first to the back
side of the desert to teach him that he's nothing. You know,
first he's raised up in Egypt for 40 years and he thinks he's
something. God sends him to the desert and teaches him he's nothing.
And then God calls him to deliver his people Israel. Moses said,
don't send me. Forty years earlier, he was flexing
his muscles and said, I'm it. I'm the man. Forty years later,
he said, don't send me. Don't send me. That's when a
man is ready to preach. That's when a man or a person
is ready to be used of God. When they truly believe, I'm
not capable of this. I am not capable of this. And
that's when God used Moses. Now, what we have been looking
at for the past few weeks is God's power over all things and
God's faithfulness to His people. He visited His people. He's not
going to leave them in Egypt. God is not going to leave us
in this world. He's faithful to His word. He'll
deliver us out of this world, out of this body of sin and death. This world of sin and death,
we'll be delivered out of it. God is faithful and he'll deliver
us. And we've seen this here in Exodus of God's power and
God's faithfulness. And we see the human heart, how
it defies God in Pharaoh, defying God. Can you imagine? Well, we
did it one time. But here is Pharaoh blatantly. Who is the Lord that I should
obey him? Who in the world is he? He's
the God of these Israelites that I have enslaved. Is this the
one I'm supposed to be afraid of? This the one I'm supposed
to obey? This one whose people have served
me and they're poor? Yeah, it's his people, all right.
But they're not nearly as poor as you think they are. We have
seen the mightiest king on earth at this time defying God to his
face and losing every time. Losing. He has no more of a chance
of standing up against God as a snowball in a blast furnace
would last. He has no more of a chance at
all. Pharaoh had not been able to stop or remove one plague. Science, doctors do a lot of
things to try and remove illnesses, diseases. You know, we've made
some headway because of the mercy of God. But they can't remove
sin, which is the root of all of it. Can't do it. Only Christ
can put that away. Only the Lord Jesus Christ. He's
the only one who can put it away. But God raised Pharaoh up. so
that he might show forth his power in him. And that's spoken
of to this day in Israel. That's spoken of to this day,
of him delivering them out of Egypt. God took the greatest
man, the most powerful man at that time, and proved to the
world, the known world at that time, that this man is nothing
more than a worm. God said, and I bring down. I
kill and I make alive. I, the Lord, do all these things. I do all these things. And then
Pharaoh wanted to compromise. He wanted
to make concessions with Moses. He tried to compromise three
or four different times. You know, that's the way religion,
false religion, and this world would compromise with God's church. They'd love for us to compromise.
They'd love for us not to be so dogmatic on the gospel, on
how God saves sinners. You can get along if you compromise. In this life, in this life, we
have to compromise. You'd never get labor disputes
settled if you never compromised. You couldn't get along with people
if they didn't compromise if we didn't compromise. The divorce
rate in this country is 50%. It'd be 100% if we didn't compromise.
We had to compromise to get along. But we do not compromise the
gospel. We do not compromise the gospel
of God's glory. We do not compromise how God
saves sinners. Because once you start to compromise,
make concessions, truth is gone. How can you compromise the truth
and it still be the truth? That's not possible. When you
compromise the truth, it automatically becomes a lie. And it's not of
God. It's not of Him. We have no warrant to change
any part or to compromise any part of the gospel. Pharaoh tried
it. Look over in chapter 8. Look in verse 25. Pharaoh called for Moses and
for Aaron, and he said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the
land." What he's saying is, all right, let's call a truce here.
Go ahead and sacrifice to your God in the land of Egypt. Go
ahead and do your sacrifices, and that will be all right with
me. That will be all right with us. And Moses there in the next
verse said, no, that's not going to happen. Moses said, it's not
me to do so. We shall sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. Lo, shall we sacrifice
the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and they will
not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our
God as he shall command us. Can't do it there. We've got
to go where God says, where God appointed, into the wilderness.
And then look here in verse 28, and Pharaoh said, I will let
you go. that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness,
okay? Since you won't do it here, he
thinks he's sitting at a bargaining table. It still hasn't dawned
on this man, because of the hardness of his heart, he's dealing with
a sovereign. And this sovereign is the sovereign of all sovereigns.
You see, Pharaoh, being a king and arrogant as he was, And believing
he's a sovereign, that he's going to deal with God as an equal
sovereign. That's not going to happen. God
is the sovereign of the universe. He is the sovereign over all.
He asked none. He said he gives no account of
any of his matters. He's not going to tell me. I
mean, even now, he doesn't give me an account of why my troubles
are as they are. He could be merciful and do it,
but he doesn't owe it to me. He gives no account of any of
His matters. The Lord, He does as He will in the armies of heaven
among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay His
hand or say unto Him, What are you doing? You can say it all you want,
you're not going to get an answer. He's the Sovereign. And you notice
here, He said, all right, Pharaoh says in verse 28, I'll let you
go that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness
only He shall not go very far away. Now, go talk to him about
that. Don't take this thing too far. Don't take your religion too
far. Don't take your gospel too far. Don't be so dogmatic. You can
go into the wilderness, but don't go too far now. You can go too
far with this thing. That was said about me a few
years ago. You're taking this thing a little
too far. We're taking it as far as God
takes. He says you're taking it too
far. Pharaoh wanted to compromise, but God never compromises His
Word, His way, His truth, His glory. He's not going to do it.
He's not going to do it. Pharaoh is like the false religion
of the world. He wants to compromise to get
along. We all can just get along. No, you can't. Christ said two
cannot walk together except they agree. Light and darkness cannot. They cannot walk together now.
You've got to be equally yoked. That's what the Scripture teaches.
Got to be equally yoked. Look over in chapter 10. Over
here in chapter 10. In verse 8, here's some more compromising
that Pharaoh wants to do. And Moses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharaoh. And he said to them, Go serve
the Lord your God, but who are they that shall go? Moses said,
We'll go with our young, with our old, with our sons, our daughters.
That's how we're going to serve the Lord, with our families.
Our whole family's going to go. Everything we own is going to
go. We can't serve the Lord with just part of it. I'll tell you
what, God owns us, lobstock and bear. We're going to do it with our
flocks, our sons, our daughters, and young and old, our flocks,
our herds, where we go. For we must hold a feast, a worship
service unto the Lord. And he said unto them, Let the
Lord be so with you as I'll let you go, and your little ones
look to it, for evil is before you. Not so. Go now, ye that
are men. I'm going to leave your children
here. This man, he just won't let go, will he? I mean, he has
been decimated. And he's still. This is the hardness
of the human heart. This is depravity here. Defying
God. And he said, you leave your little
ones here. Now, no parents are going to
leave their little ones behind in a place like Egypt. and go
off three days away from it, that's not going to happen. But he's trying to compromise.
Moses never compromises. And then look in verse 24. And Pharaoh called unto Moses
and said, Go ye, serve the Lord, only now let your flocks and
your herds stay. Let them stay. Let your little
ones also. Now let your little ones go, your men go, but now
you leave all your stuff here. Moses said, no, it's not going
to happen. No. It's all got to go. It all belongs to him. It all
belongs to him. Moses said, thou must give us
also sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice unto the
Lord our God. Our cattle also shall go with
us. There shall not a hoof be left behind. For therefore must
we take to serve the Lord our God. He owns it all. He owns
it all. On what points can we compromise? Can we compromise on total depravity? Can we compromise there? Can
we say that man is not completely dead spiritually? Can we say,
all right, we agree that he sinned, he fell, but he has a free will
and he can... No, we can't do that. I heard someone say once before,
wrong on the fall, wrong on it all. If you miss it there, if
you don't understand who and what you are, you don't understand
your need of Christ. There's no way you can understand
your need of Christ. If you miss it there, total depravity. What
about election? Can we compromise there? Can
we compromise? As one man said to me, God looked
down through time and saw who would believe. And then he chose
them. We said, okay, we'll just go with that. Can't compromise
there. A.D. and you said that would
be God taking credit for something he didn't do. Looking down through
time and choosing those who he knew would accept him. We can't
compromise. Election is unconditional. God
chose us. Because it seemed good in his
sight. That's what our Lord said. Even so, Father, it seemed good
in thy sight. I can't explain God. I cannot
explain divine sovereignty, God hardening his heart, and then
you have human responsibility. And you haven't. Pharaoh was
responsible for his actions. And yet it says God hardened
his heart. I believe both. God is sovereign
and man is responsible. I'm not called to harmonize.
I'm called to preach the gospel, the truth, the doctrines as they're
set forth in the scripture. You know, when we try to make
everything harmonize, that's when we totally just mess it
up. That's when you have to compromise.
When you're trying to make everything harmonized, because we don't
have that kind of mind. We don't have that kind of mentality
to grasp such things as this. God chose a people. And the only
answer the Lord gave was even so, Father, it seemed good in
thy sight. And we'll just leave it there.
What about particular redemption? We can't compromise there. We
can't say that there are men who go, as a man said to me years
ago, that Christ died for Judas as well as he did Peter. Now
what does that say about the work and the blood and the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ? We can't compromise there. The
Lord redeemed a multitude of sinners given to Him by the Father.
And that's the way it is. What about irresistible grace? Can we compromise there? Is it a joint effort? Are we
saved by grace and by what we do? Are we saved by grace and
by accepting? No, we're saved by grace and
grace alone, apart from anything we do. What about the perseverance of
the saints? Are they going to make it or
not? You know what the security of
the believer is? Christ. It's not that sometime back in
my life or some period of my life, I accepted Christ as my
personal Savior and since that time, you know, I'm saved and
I can never be lost. My security is in Christ in whom
I was chosen before the foundation of the world. That's my security. It's not that I accepted him.
It's that he made me accepted as a beloved. That's my security. We never compromise. Look over
in Revelation chapter 2. It's amazing how subtle this
is. I think, you know, I think that
I'd never do that. I pray God I wouldn't do that.
But listen, this is a church he's writing to here. In Revelations
2, look in verse 12. And to the angel of the church
in Pergamos write, These things saith he which hath the sharp
sword with two edges. I know thy works and where thou
dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. and thou holdest fast
my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days
when Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you
where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against
thee, because thou hast there then that hold the doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the
children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to
commit fornication." You've compromised here. There's a point of compromise. He said, I have a few things
against you because you have there with you, them that hold
the doctrine of Malaam. You're compromising. You can't do it. You can't do
it. You can't do it. Does God compromise? Does God
compromise? Here's the question. Will he
compromise? You can find no place in the
scripture where the God of heaven and earth compromised. Every
time Moses went to Pharaoh, Pharaoh said, let's do this. I'll let
you do that. Just don't go too far with this
now. That sounds just like the days when you're going too far
with this. And every time Moses went back,
he said, the Lord said, let my people go that they may serve
me. No arguing, none. He said, let them go that they
may serve me. God would not be God if he compromised. He wouldn't be God. And I'm glad
he does not compromise, for if he did, salvation would not be
sure to all the elect. I don't know that it would be
sure to anyone. We cannot compromise. But now listen, the last part
of this message. There is full redemption. We have full redemption in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now redemption not only involves
the legal part of it, being redeemed from the curse of the law. Redemption
also involves the experimental part of it, the experience of
it. He not only redeemed my soul, he redeemed my body also. Here's
what I'm saying. He redeemed the whole man. The
whole man has been redeemed. is what He has done. Not only
our souls, but our bodies are His. The Scripture says that
our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. It says you've
been bought with a price, therefore you're not your own. He owns
me lock, stock, and barrel. He owns me and everything I have.
It belongs to Him. He's redeemed me. Our Lord said,
not a hair of your head shall perish. I believe he means that. I believe
he literally means that. Not a hair of your head shall
perish. Not a hoof, not a hoof shall stay in Egypt. He's redeemed
the whole me, the whole you, the whole man, body, soul, spirit. This is full redemption. Bone
shall come to its bone. Remember there in Ezekiel? Now
if you and I tried to put those bones to the right place and
the right person, it would look like a mess, wouldn't it? It
would look like a puzzle. But bone just came to its bone. All these bodies that have people
that have died over the years, their bodies have been burned
and some at sea and buried and they'll all come back together.
It'll be a new body. for the believer, it'll be a
new body. It'll be this body, but it'll be a glorified body. And then the whole church shall
be redeemed. Not one limb, you know, the body's
a church of Christ, not one member, not one member of the body of
Christ shall perish. He will have the whole church
from beginning to end. Not one will be missing. Not
one. Not one of His sheep shall perish.
Every Israelite shall leave Egypt. Not a hoof. Not a hoof will be
left behind. Now that's full redemption, isn't
it? That's full redemption. Because
we will see when we get to chapter 12, the Passover lamb. We see the blood of redemption.
And after that, they went out of Egypt. And I mean they went
out with everything. They didn't leave anything behind. And notice where they went to
worship. Two or three times we read here, they went to worship
in the wilderness. Not with the Egyptians. Not where
Pharaoh said they could go. but in the wilderness. When Jerusalem
went to hear John the Baptist preach, John the Baptist didn't
go through town. It says they went out into the
wilderness and hurt him. And here's the thought, here's
the message of that. Our Lord, when He saves His people,
He calls them apart. He calls them out of religion.
He calls them out of sin. He calls them out of where they
are. puts them in his body, and we worship the Lord, not
mixed in with all the compromising places in the wilderness. We have, we have full redemption
with no compromises. No compromises whatsoever. And we have been fully, 1,000%
redeemed. Body, soul, spirit. He's going
to have the whole man. He's going to have him lock,
stock, and barrel. And we can't compromise. We can't
compromise to get along. Now, we can compromise to get
along on dress If you want to grow something like this or not,
we can compromise on something like that. But not on the gospel. Not on the gospel. Men have been
burned at the stake for not compromising. John Bunyan could have been let
out of prison a long time before he was let out if he had just
compromised. But he didn't. And Moses didn't. And we're not.