Sunday morning, I preached from the parable in
Matthew chapter 25 of the ten virgins, the five foolish and
the five wise. And the five wise virgins had
oil in their lamps, and all of the oil they had was expended
to one end. It was to lead them to the bridegroom. Every bit of oil they had, it
took it all. The foolish virgin said, give
us and sell us of your oil. And they said, not so, lest we
not have enough. It takes all the oil of the Spirit
of God in you to lead you to Christ. And that oil in the parable
represents the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. And his work
is to glorify Christ and to take of his person and work and show
it to us. That's what it's all about. It's
to lead us to the bridegroom. All men are born in darkness
and ignorance. David said we go astray as soon
as we be born, speaking lies. We don't reach an age of accountability. We don't get up to 15 or 16 years
old or 12 years old or whenever it is. Men say that young people
are accountable. I personally can't recall an
intelligent decision until I was about 30 years old. And I see
full well why the Jews didn't consider you to be an adult until
you're 32 years old. But as we go through the Old
Testament scriptures, my desire and prayer to God for all of
us is for Him to reveal to us that glorious work of salvation
in His elect because that's what He's talking about. You won't
make any sense out of the Old Testament if you try to read
it naturally or if you try to read it prophetically looking
for dates and times and seasons and all that type of stuff. And
tonight I want us to look at these first 15 verses of Exodus
chapter 8 on this subject Sleeping and eating with frogs. Sleeping and eating with frogs. What's going on down here in
Egypt is God coming down to this place of darkness, ignorance,
and idolatry. This place of superstition and
false worship and false prophets. And he comes down there in the
person of a man and by his testimony, And the power of God's Spirit
overthrows that whole kingdom and delivers His elect out of
that darkness. There are three things as I study
and look at Israel over the years that I'm absolutely convinced
of. I'm not going to change my position
on these things. I believe these things are so.
I know them to be so in my own heart. And the first thing is
that salvation is 100% Did you hear me? Not 99.9. 100% of the grace of God. All of it. There's not a piece of it anywhere,
any part, any portion that's not 100% owing to the free grace
of God. You can't read this about this
deliverance of Israel and see God's hand in it and not give
Him all the glory. Israel was always whining and
crying and going against God. He had every reason in the world
to destroy them. And yet he saved them for his
own namesake. And secondly, I know this 100%
for sure, that the deliverance God gave to Israel was a merciful
work. They were all sinners. There
was no difference in them and anybody else in Egypt. except
the purpose, the sovereign purpose of God. No difference. And then thirdly, that this deliverance
God gave to Israel did not leave them where He found them. I know
that so. I know that in my own experience
of grace, He did not leave me where He found me. And I don't
want to go back, do you? No, I don't want to go back. When God begins this work of
deliverance in spiritual Egypt, He begins with the revelation
of sin. You're not going to have a revelation
of grace until you have a revelation of sin. God's going to show you
what you are, where you are. And He's going to cause that
stink to fill your nose. It begins with a revelation of
sin. The nature of man is the wellspring. Just try to follow me now in
my introduction here. The nature of man is the wellspring
of all of his sins. Our Lord said, out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, all these things. Comes out of the heart of man.
And what comes out of the heart controls the mind. It controls
how he thinks. It controls how he reasons. His
wicked heart, those evil imaginations that's conjured in his mind,
come forth out of the heart, proceed. What was the first thing
he said? Evil thoughts. Huh? Evil thoughts. It controls the mind. In Proverbs
chapter 23, verse 7, he said, for as he thinketh in his heart,
so is as a man thinks, reasons in his
heart of God and those things. That's what he is. That's what
he is. And that's why his gods are the
way they are and do the things that they do. The great Nile
River as it was worshipped as the source of all their gods
represents to me the imagination of man's wicked heart. It flows
and flows and flows and there's no end to what it produces. And
those Egyptians watched that water go by and they worshipped
it as a god. They contributed to it all the
attributes of deity and then all the lesser gods, they began
to worship everything that come out of the river. They worshipped
the flowers and the frogs and all of these things were worshipped
in Egypt. And all of them were born right there along the banks
of the Nile. So to me, that Nile River represents
the imagination of man. It's the source of all man's
twisted theology and understanding of right and wrong. And this is where the revelation
of sin begins. In Paul's letter to the church
at Rome, he declared that ungodly men do what they do as the result
of resisting the light of God. They begin to reason out of their
own wicked heart. They have a conscience, but they
resist that and suppress it. They've got creation. My soul,
how could you explain the order and the source of creation and
the preservation of creation and all the things that we see
apart from God? Only a twisted heart would come
up and start talking about Paramecium crawling up on the bank, little
one-celled animals, evolving into a man. The light of creation and conscience
being suppressed, they refused to glorify God by that light,
and they become vain in their imaginations. And Paul said their
foolish heart was darkened. And professing themselves to
be wise, they become fools and change the glory of the uncorruptible
God into an image made like unto corruptible man, birds, four-footed
beasts and frogs, creeping things. They changed the truth of God
into a lie, he said, and worshiped and served the creature more
than the creator. And as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do everything their wicked heart desired to do. He first reveals to us the wickedness
of our own hearts and minds. And this was the reason for the
turning of the Nile into blood. He began to show us the foolishness
of our wisdom and the ungodly evil in it. And tonight I want
us to look at this second plague that Moses brought upon Egypt
and see this revelation of sin just a little bit deeper. Now
if you can see by the revelation of God's Spirit all Israel and
all Egypt and even Pharaoh himself represented in the center, in
the center, then you've got the true picture of the Exodus revelation. That's what you've got. You're
looking at the center. You're looking at God's deliverance
of the center. He's going to have to deal with
Pharaoh because Pharaoh ruled. He's going to have to deal with
the Egyptians because they file a favor. But he loved and he
chose this elect people and to deliver them. And so you see,
in all of these things, you see the center. You see the center. That's the true Exodus revelation. Egypt is Egypt. I don't care
what name you take. Egypt is Egypt. Everybody in
the land was under the authority of their god and king. They were
all born in his kingdom, lived in his kingdom, served in his
kingdom, and died in his kingdom. They were down there 400 years.
They were all subject to his rules, filled with his superstitions,
and forced to live under his ungodly influence. That's where
they were at. They was as much Egyptian as
the Egyptians. What we're studying is deliverance,
and deliverance begins with the revelation of bondage. Sinners
are bound in a nature of sin. That's a hard revelation. You know that? You are bound. We're quick to own up to sins,
ain't we? Yeah, I just, you know, I did
that. I did that. Brother Glenn asked
me, he said, do you always drive the speed limit? I said, mostly. I have to own up. I don't. I
don't always. Do you? Do you always think the
right thought? Do you always say the right thing?
No. And we're quick to own up to
that, ain't we? But brother, to own up to being sin, eat up
with it, everything. I mean, the best thought you
ever had is sin. That's another story, ain't it?
We're just like that old fellow that I talked to down in Louisiana.
He said, well, he said, I ain't always done the right thing.
But he said, I'll tell you this, alcohol never touched these lips. Oh, my. Sinners are bound in
a nature of sin and ruled over by the God of this world. And
there's no one in his kingdom who's not infected with his evil
influence. Nobody. Everybody there is. Everybody. The revelation of sin does not
begin with the gross immorality of Egypt. Did you notice that
when we've studied this? Man, I'm telling you, you talk
about gross immorality. You go home and just get your
encyclopedia down off the wall, look up Egypt, and read something
about their culture. They were worse than the Romans.
I mean, they were, adultery was just commonplace. And all these
other sins that we look down on in our generation, they were
commonplace. It's common everyday, ordinary
life. I mean, it's just commonly accepted throughout the life.
But God never mentioned that. He didn't mention anything about
those things. That ain't where the revelation starts. That's
where we think. That's what I said a while ago.
We're quick to say, well, yeah, I ain't lived up to snuff and
all that, but I'm better than some. That's what we want to
say. No, you're the worst of the bunch.
That's right. Eat up with it. Eat up with it. What he's showing us down here
in this Exodus revelation is that man at his best state, that's
where God starts, man at his best state, he takes the religious
men of Egypt, he takes the rulers of Egypt, he takes the religion
of Egypt, and he shows us the total depravity of men. Man at
his best state is altogether vanished. And it's ever the way
of natural man under the influence of the God of this world to harden
their hearts to the Word of God, the Gospel of Christ, the providence
of God's purpose, and the revelation of grace. He hardens his heart
over and over and over again. He hardens his heart. And all
who ignore these things and harden their hearts court the judgment
of God. Now you take it to the bank.
If this story reveals anything, it reveals that. God says to Pharaoh through his
servant Moses, Exodus chapter 8 verse 2, he said, if you refuse
to let them go, if you refuse to take heed to my word, he said,
I'll smite all thy borders with frogs. Now, the second plague brought
to bear on Egypt is given for the same reason as the first.
It's given to expose and make contemptible the filthy and vain
idolatry of Egypt. Now, the first thing I want you
to see tonight in this study is the significance of the plague. Turn with me to Revelation chapter
16. Frogs were worshipped down in Egypt. And they were worshipped
as gods of fertility, these frogs. They were celebrated and their
images found everywhere among the Egyptians and in their home
as the symbol of life and prosperity and all the posterity of Egypt
attributed to these frogs. But what's the spiritual significance
of the frogs? Well, look here in Revelation
16, 13. John said he saw in his vision,
he said, three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of
the mouth of the false prophet. For they, talking about these
frogs, are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth
unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather
them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Frogs represent
the ministry and ungodly influence of false religion in the world.
But why in the world would the Holy Spirit of God use frogs
to describe the work and influence of worldly religion? Why frogs?
Why not alligators or lions? Why frogs? Well, I'm going to
give you some reasons. because frogs are creatures of
the night. That's the first thing. They come out and they fellowship
with and they move around with and they live in the darkness
and they live there with all the other creatures of the night.
They dwell out there. They go out at night. You seldom
hear a frog in the daytime. I have heard them, but you seldom
hear them in the daytime. It's mostly at night. But boy,
you go out at night, and their song permeates the whole night
air. That's all you can hear is frogs. Why frogs? Because they appear as harmless,
beneficial creatures. That old frog. Ain't nobody scared
of frogs. See a frog, you don't think anything
of it. If I saw a rattlesnake, I might run and get the hoe and
cut its head off, but I'm not going to panic over a frog. Huh? That's these false prophets.
Men look at them and they appear harmless, don't they? Boy, it'd
be okay. I'd just go on over there for
the day. There'd be no harm. Huh? They're harmless. Well,
they might even be beneficial. I know they give money to the
poor and they help folks. There's a fellow who lost his
house in a fire in that church went out and had a rummy sale,
gathered up some money and gave it to them. I know they're beneficial.
Frogs are beneficial. They keep them menacing check.
They eat them flies and biting insects. They appear to be beneficial,
and they appear to be harmless. False prophets have a form of
godliness. They seem to be beneficial. Why
frogs? Because frogs are camouflaged
in their appearance. You can't hardly see a frog.
You better have a flashlight. I've been frogging. You better
have a flashlight. You've got to have something
reflect off of them eyes or you're not going to see it. Man, he
blends right in with his surroundings. And those false prophets, Paul
said, transformed themselves into the apostles of Christ and
into ministers of righteousness. Isn't that what he said? They
blend in with their surroundings. You can't find them. You can't
spot them. You can't see them. They're wolves in sheep's clothing.
Why frogs? because they're slippery to handle.
You can't hardly grab one. You think you got him, and boop,
up out of your hand he goes. And he lands over here, and he
lands over there. They're hard to catch. It takes
experience to catch a frog. And by the time you think you
got him, he leaps out of your hands and escapes into the surrounding. Why frogs? Because they're fascinating
to watch. They entertain you, don't they?
We used to have a little ornamental pond out back. I had a couple
of them. And for a while, we had some goldfish and things
in there. And all of a sudden, there appeared
frogs. I don't know where they come from, but they, you know,
here they are. One day, we got frogs. And I'm
telling you, they're a lot more entertaining to watch than the
goldfish. We got rid of the goldfish and kept the frogs. They're entertaining. Well, they're fascinating to
watch. They're intelligent. They get up. They know where
their prey is going to be. And we had some landscape lights.
No frogs would get up there right beside that landscape light,
knowing them bugs were going to come to that light. And they
sit there and they catch them. They sit still for a while, and
when the prey approaches with lightning speed, them tongues,
that sticky tongue, shoots out and devour their prey. They're
entertaining to watch, hopping around and singing and disappearing
and reappearing. Why frogs? Because they're all
mouth. That's right. They're all mouth.
You ever look at a frog? A third of its body is mouth.
That thing, they can swallow a fish that big, little old frog.
He's all mouth. And pound for pound, a frog is
the loudest creature there is known to man. It was a frog.
We kept hearing, one night at the house, we kept hearing this
noise, I swear it sounded like a bullfrog that big around, croaking
and croaking and croaking and croaking and finally we went
out and I looked and it was a little old tiny tree frog. It wasn't
big as a 50 cent piece and he was hanging up there on the side
of that side. He'd blow that neck way out and make that great
big, it's hard to believe that much noise come out of that little
tiny frog. Our Lord said, out of the heart,
the mouth speaketh. They're all mouth. Come out,
listen to what He says here in Revelations. Let me remind you
what I just read to you. They come out of the mouth of
the dragon, and the mouth of the beast, and the mouth of the
false prophet. It's all mouth. Frogs make a lot of racket, but
they don't say anything. I've never learned anything listening
to a frog. Have you? Huh? Only another frog benefits
from it. That's right. That's right. I've never heard
these frogs of religion say anything made any sense to me. They're
right. Takes another frog to benefit. They make a lot of racket, but
they don't say anything. Nothing edifying comes from their
evil croaking. And frogs represent the spirits
of devils working miracles that bring men to set themselves in
array against God. And these frogs were multiplied
in Egypt to expose their false religion for what it really was.
Spirits of devils drawing unsuspecting men into battle against God Almighty. What God does in the revelation
of sin is to cause us to see these cursed demons for what
they really are. And then to multiply them to
reveal to us their influence and power in every part, every
area, every nook and cranny of our society are these croaking
frogs, creeping, crawling, and they're in everything. They're
in everything. That's what God begins to reveal
down in Egypt. God multiplied these slippery,
slimy, croaking little creatures until their presence become absolutely
obnoxious to everybody that's seen them. And these frogs invaded
their houses and entered into their bedrooms and crawled into
their ovens and piled up in their needing troughs. There was no
aspect of their lives that was not violated by these slimy little
devils. in Psalm chapter 78 and verse
45. Talking about these frogs in
Egypt now. Talking about these frogs over
in Psalm 78 verse 45. These seemingly harmless little
creatures are described as frogs which destroyed them. Huh? A frog? Yeah, a frog. Drove them mad. They didn't bite
them. Invite them. They drove them
mad. Madness. I can't recall the proverb,
but he said madness is in the heart of man. Isn't that what
he said? What Egypt believed to be gods
in the river become devils in the bedroom. They crawled right
up into the bedroom. Sure they did. They become corruption where
the bread was prepared. That's what a kneading crop is,
is where they took the bread and kneaded the bread. Anybody
here want any bread kneaded in frog juice? I don't. I don't. I want mine kneaded
in a clean tray, don't you? I don't want nothing in the frog
juice. These frogs represented fertility,
all right. The river of man's imagination
spawned frogs at an alarming rate under the curse of God.
Frogs in the house, and in the kitchen, and in the bedroom,
and on their children, on the people, and even into the private
chambers of the king. I closed my eyes in my study
this afternoon, and to me there appeared to be a literal flood
of frogs in Egypt. crawling, just frog on top of
frog, crawling and they were on the people and croaking and
yelling and driving people insane. Insane. Their weapons were their mouths,
waiting on their unsuspecting victims and then shooting out
their tongues and swallowing them up whole. before they even
realized they were had. You watch a frog catchin' these
flies and these biting insects at night, it's like a lightning,
got it, gone. Disappear. Spirits of devils
working miracles. There's nothing more obnoxious,
more loathsome, and more frightening to awaken sinners than these
demon-possessed frogs of religion. I tell you, you better fear them.
You better fear them. Let me show you something else
about these cursed frogs. Exodus 8 verse 7. It says, and
the magicians did so with their enchantments and brought frogs
upon the land of Egypt. It was the will of God to expose
these magicians for what they were and these cursed frogs in
their true light. He does both at the same time.
The curse of God. Turn with me over to 2 Timothy
chapter 3. The curse of God was not only
to cause these frogs to multiply, but to expose the means of their
coming. Look here in 2 Timothy chapter
3 verse 5. Now this whole chapter, if you
want to go back and read it, is about these false prophets.
And it tells you all about them. It tells you what's in their
heart and what's in their mind and what's in their message.
It tells you all about them. I'll pick it up here in verse
5, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
From such, he said, turn away. Don't go fellowship with them. Don't go over there and sneak
in quiet on the back road to hear what you got to say. Stay
away from them. Stay away from them. Turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses. Does that
sound like what's going on down in Egypt? and lead captive silly
women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning,
never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and
Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith, but they
shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest
unto all men. as theirs also was." Talking
about Janney's and Jambree. Now Janney's and Jambree's were
the chief magicians of Pharaoh. That's who that was. This is
the men who come up and by their enchantments brought up the frogs.
Called up the frogs on the land and got exposed. Now that ain't
what they said they were doing. That ain't why they did it. Huh? They were deceived is why they
did it. They thought they were doing something beneficial to
Pharaoh. And all they did was expose themselves for what they
are. Same as ever other frogs in Egypt. Janneys and jambrees. Before any man will ever pray
for God to take away the plague, he must first be made to experience
the curse where he lives. Where he lives. Where you live.
Right up here. Right here. God's going to make
you feel the curse. He's going to let you see what
this thing is. He's going to make it absolutely
obnoxious to you. I can't listen to them. Can you?
Brother Mahan used to listen to them so he'd know how to preach. I can't listen to them. It makes
me sick. My stomach listens to them. I get mad and fine. The frogs in Egypt portray the
evil influence of false religion. and the total reprobation of
all who lived in that land. What brought these frogs up out
of the river to start with? Why didn't they stay in the river?
Why don't these frogs stay in the river of man's imagination?
What brought them up out of there? What brought them up on the land?
God did. God did. It was the judgment
of God. And that way said, you let my
people go. or I'll smite your borders with frogs. What do you
say? What is the work of the ministry?
It's the reconciliation. He has committed unto us the
ministry of reconciliation. Now what do you say? Deliverance
of God's people. That's what we're doing in here.
And I tell you, where a land tries to prohibit that, God smites
their borders with frogs. He infests them with false religion. Judgment of God. Egypt was helpless
to do anything to get rid of the frog. Sheer numbers alone
prevented it. Can you imagine the millions
of frogs it took to cover that entire land? Huh? Sheer numbers
prevented it. Their prolific reproduction made
it absolutely impossible. Huh? We go sometimes for years
and never see anybody converted. Man, those things reproduced
by the thousands. Oh, we got a new preacher right
down the road here. He hasn't been there a week.
There's a sign up there. What does it say? Seven or nine
or ten or something. Convert it. I'm telling you. They're prolific
reproducers. And then their sudden migration
was irresistible. All of a sudden, they're everywhere.
You can't stop them. You can't stop them. One goes down, two more goes
up. This church over here moves and splits. What do they do when
they split? They make two more. Make two
more. What we're seeing on every street
corner and every area of our society is not the product of
a few bad decisions or a lack of law and order. It's the curse
of God against sin and the rebellion of man against Him. And then
thirdly, How we gonna get rid of the frogs? We seen them. We couldn't stop them. This is
God's judgment. How we gonna get rid of the frogs?
You ain't. You ain't. Read Exodus chapter
8. Pharaoh couldn't get rid of them.
The Egyptians couldn't get rid of them. And I tell you this,
Moses couldn't get rid of them either. He had to cry to God. God's only one can get rid of
the frogs. He's the only one. Only God who
sent the curse can lift it. It says in Exodus 8 verse 12,
Moses cried unto the Lord because of the frogs which he brought
against Pharaoh. And the Lord did according to
the word of Moses. And the frogs died out of the
houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. There's
only one hope for fallen man, and that is for God to withdraw
his curse of the frogs and make us hearken to the voice of his
servant. He had one servant in Egypt. That's right. And those who listened
to him, they got the frogs. They got the frogs. As long as
they disobeyed him, rebelled against him, frogs was everywhere. Huh? And here's another thing. When God gets rid of the frogs,
there's always a stink. That's right, there's always
a stink. God comes into a place where His elect are held in bondage
and He kills the frogs. There's a smell that fills the
air in that place and it takes a long time for it to go away.
You take a church and in that church is these false prophets
and they rise up and take control of the people and then in God's
providence He sends them a faithful man down and he preaches and
he exposes them men for what they are. There's a stink about
that place and nobody will come to it. They'll walk around it.
Isn't that amazing how they do that? I preached a funeral down
here one day. I think it was for Amos when
I preached. And they came up to shake hands and they come
up there by the casket and I was over here and this other pastor
was over here and they'd come up and they'd pass that casket
pay homage to old Amos, and then they walk way out about ten feet,
go way out around, and they come right back over here three feet
away from me and shake hands with that preacher and go outside. Why? Because I killed a lot of
frogs that day. That's why. And there's a stink
when you kill frogs. There's a stink. And then in closing, let me show
you this over here in Exodus chapter 8, verse 15. When Pharaoh
saw that there was respite, anybody here know what that word means?
It means a break in the judgment. It means a calm, a temporary
calm, a temporary ceasing from judgment. It said he hardened
his heart and hearken not unto them as the Lord had said. Judgment
alone will never produce repentance. Never produce. God uses judgments
to arouse and impress and subdue His elect, but not apart from
the revelation of grace. What caused these Egyptians over
here to react differently than the Israelites over here is the
revelation of grace. That was the only difference. Egypt was left in a temporary
calm while Israel was left to ponder the revelation of God's
grace. I'll give you a good example
of this. The prodigal was moved by judgment, by the judgment
of God. He was down in that hog pen wallowing
with the hogs. And he realized that. He realized
that was the judgment of God. And he's down in that hog pen.
But that ain't what turned him to go home. What turned him to
go home was His thoughts of the Father, wasn't it? Thinking about
His Father's house and the goodness of His Father. And it's the goodness
of God that leadeth thee to repentance. And so while God uses these judgments
to arouse and impress us, He never does it apart from a revelation
of grace. Until God the Holy Spirit comes
into the heart with all the saving operations of grace, No affliction,
no judgment, no amount of terror is sufficient to reach and move
his heart to God. Even the torments of hell, eternal
punishment, will not cause a man to repent. That's amazing, isn't
it? Not even the fires of hell. And
over and over, God pulls back his hand of judgment. What was
true about the judgment is true also about favor. It's true about
favor. Over and over, God pulls back
His hand of judgment, and over and over, Pharaoh hardens his
heart. I thought this was a verse here I've never considered before,
over in Isaiah 26, verse 10. He said, Let favor be showed
to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness. Not going
to teach him anything. Show him favor. Not going to
teach him anything. In the land of uprightness will
he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. God sends his preacher into this
world of fallen, depraved, and hostile men, men steeped in generational
idolatry, established by their fathers and passed down through
the ages. He must not only confront the
world, but also the God of this world. And this God, he's blinded
to men. Paul said, if our gospel be hid,
it's hid to the lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded
the minds of them that believe not. And this he does not in
the power of the flesh, but in the power of God's Spirit, and
by the simple declaration of truth. All Moses ever did, the
whole time he was there, he never brought one of these perplexing,
mind-boggling sermons. He just had few simple words
to say and God turned that whole kingdom upside down. What did
he say? I'll tell you what his message
was. He preached it over and over. Let my people go. That
was it. Let my people go. And it's by these means that
God exposes this world and their ungodly idolatry and calls their
religion to be a stink in the nose. And it's by and through
these means that He shuts us up to His mercy and grace. Israel
sat back in Goshen and watched plague after plague after plague
coming up before their eyes. God separated Israel from Egypt,
and He also separated the way the cursed were seen and understood.
What wrought hardness to the one worked repentance in the
other. What caused resistance in the one wrought willingness
in the other. And to the one it appeared as judgment, but
to the other the means of deliverance." They saw their God, and they
worshiped their God, and they waited on their God, and they
experienced the deliverance of God. May God give that revelation
to us. Our Father, we thank You for
Your Word. And for these precious things
that you've written and pictured and ways that we can understand
and identify with and remember. Oh, how our hearts need to be
moved. Moved from there's so much that
we don't even know is affected by those things which we've heard
and seen. Be pleased to meet with us and
teach us and move us and turn us for Christ's sake. Amen.