The title of the lesson tonight is, A Man Made a God to a Man. God told Moses, He said, See,
I have made thee a God to Pharaoh. Now the preaching of the gospel
as the means of saving faith has never been a popular doctrine.
It never has. It wasn't popular in the beginning.
It wasn't popular in the days of the reformers, and it's not
popular today. And it's not popular with men
because it declares the absolute inability of the flesh to do
anything for itself. It shuts us up entirely to the
mercy of God. We're at his disposal. He could
have left Israel in Egypt to the end of time if he so deemed
it necessary. He could have left them there.
But he came down there in sovereign grace and mercy. And his only
obligation was that obligation of which he binded himself. They
were his people. It also declares the absolute
necessity of the sinner to bow to the wills and way of God.
How shall you hear, Paul said, without a preacher? You can't
call on an unrevealed God, and you can't hear without a preacher. In the book of Exodus, God gives
us a beautiful picture here of deliverance. And it begins with
a revelation of bondage and oppression, torment of soul, no joy, no peace,
no rest. Just work without reward. Just
work with no merit. Work with no personal benefit. Just work and work and more work. And the man who's made aware
of his bondage and made aware that he's controlled by another,
held captive under that curse. This is a curse upon men. It's a curse. He sees and knows
that all his works are of no profit to himself. None whatsoever. And when he begins to seek deliverance,
he's made keenly aware of that sin. God makes him aware that
he can't do anything. He can't do anything. There's
nothing in him valuable to God. Nothing. Nothing to recommend
him. No righteousness. No hope. You've
been there. I've been there. Many of you
have been there. What are we going to give to God to gain
His favor? Nothing. We don't have anything
to give. We're beggars. Beggars. God makes us keenly
aware of that. He made them keenly aware down
in Egypt. They couldn't do anything for
themselves. They couldn't lessen the bondage. They couldn't break
free of the bondage. All they could do is hurt and
moan and cry. And I'll tell you this, the sinner's
condition gets worse before it gets better. God shows us that
down in Egypt. Then the second thing revealed
about God's deliverance is the means He's chosen. God chose
to deliver Israel, which is a picture. Now, this is a picture of the
spiritual deliverance that comes to us through the preaching of
the Gospel. And He chose to deliver Israel
out of bondage with a man preaching the will of God, the message
of God. He didn't amass a great army
to conquer Egypt's king. He sent a man. He sent a man. A rejected man. A ridiculed man. A man in whom nobody saw fit. You know, you can read there
in the book of Acts when Stephen begins to recall these events
and he begins to talk about Moses. And it says, and Moses, who supposed
that they knew that God would deliver him by then, but they
didn't. They didn't. And they rejected
Moses and so did the Egyptians. Nobody saw fit. A man who saw
himself unfit. How many times have we been reading
in here since chapter 3 about Moses telling God how unfit he
was to do this work? You reckon God didn't know that
from the start? Sure He did. He's unfit. He's a man not recognized
to be the servant of God by the king of Egypt. The king of Egypt
laughed at him. God let him go down there in
the power of the flesh. on his first confrontation with
Pharaoh. And Pharaoh laughed at him. And
he mocked his God, he mocked his message, and he mocked him.
And he told him to hit the road. Arthur Pinck said as he was the
first, talking about his first, this is the first man really
in Scripture who's set apart with the nation of Israel as
a picture of the church, and this man as a as a public minister
of God, carrying this message to the people. Pink said he was
the first. And as with the first of anything
in the scripture, God lays the fundamentals of this thing that'll
follow it till the end. That's called the law of first
mention. When you find a thing in the scripture, whatever it
is, we got that altar there, Cain and Abel. And from that
day forward, it was the blood. It was the blood. And you just
can't find where God ever varied from that. And so it is with
these first things. And here's this first public
call. I'm not saying by this that God didn't have preachers
in days gone by. He's just simply pointing out
to us that here's Israel as a people separated from the world in bondage. And here's this man called to
a public ministry. And he's going to picture this
thing of deliverance in this man. And so he lays the fundamentals
of this thing down. And they'll follow it throughout
the Word of God. And I believe that Moses, I've
talked to a couple of preachers today, and I believe that Moses
going into Egypt is one of the clearest types of the Gospel
minister that you can find anywhere in the Scriptures. And in Hebrews chapter 3, Paul
refers to the language of scripture calling the preaching of Moses
the voice of God. That's what he said. Talking
about that message that they heard there in the wilderness.
He said, today, if you hear his voice, harden not your heart
as they did in the provocation. Well, they didn't hear God's
voice. The only one to hear God speak was Moses. Whose voice
did they hear? They heard Moses. But in hearing
Moses, the Chosen of God, they heard from God. God spoke through
him. Today, He said, if you hear His
voice, harden not your heart. What did they hear? Hebrews chapter
4 verse 2, For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto
them. But the Word did not profit them,
not being mixed in faith with them that heard it. It is the
example of scripture, the revelation of the Holy Ghost, and the plain
instruction of the Word of God that preaching is the means whereby
captive sinners are led of God into the Canaan of rest. And
everything begins over here in Egypt in the bondage. But they
don't quit when they leave Egypt. It carries right on through the
wilderness, through the sea, all the way into Canaan. led
by this man Moses. And this whole thing begins with
the surrender of the strong man. It begins with the surrender.
He's got to bow down. Now, I don't know. Most men laugh
at me when I tell them this, but it's the truth. And it's
not an easy thing for me to sit down and show you in the Word
of God, but I can in a few hours if you'll listen to me and give
me an ear. I think I can sit down and show
this to you in the Word of God. that when I stand before men
and talk, I'm not just talking to men. But I'm talking to men
in bondage held captive by the God of this world. I don't fear
men. I don't have a doubt in my mind
that man on man, one to another, if you were a believer, that
I can sit down and teach you and show you things in the Word
of God. But I'm speaking to more than that. There's principalities
and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places. Man is controlled
by the God of this world. And you're not going to deal
anything with the deliverance of Israel without going to Pharaoh.
That's what God's telling us here. And that's what He's showing
Moses. And that's why He let Moses go down in the power of
the flesh to start with, to show him he couldn't do it. And I
love what Arthur Pinck said about this thing with Moses. I'd never
noticed that before. But God let him live at both
extremes. He raised him up in Egypt with
all the wisdom, royalty, money, treasures this world had to offer.
And then he took him away from that and he put him over here
in the seclusion of the wilderness and let him lead a peaceful and
quiet life. And he left him here 40 years
and there 40 years. And then he took him down and
he showed him that those 40 years in Egypt and those 40 years in
the desert didn't do one thing. It left him standing before God
in doubt and unbelief. They didn't contribute one thing
to this deliverance. This deliverance is in the power
of God. And that's what he's going to
show us. And that's what he showed Moses. Also, I believe that Moses
and Aaron may have misrepresented God on their first visit with
Pharaoh. God's message to Pharaoh was
an either or. I've been working on a message
like that. And I may bring that one day, by the grace of God.
The preaching of the gospel is either or. It is. Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. But there's an or. He that believeth
not shall be damned. It's an either or. And they didn't
preach that way. They went down to Egypt and they
said, you can just see the edges coming off the gospel when they
stood there. They got over there in that palace and they got before
that royalty and they were looking around there at those guards
and that army and the security and the majesty and power of
that place. And they cut the edge off. And
they said, they asked him. They didn't tell
him anything. They asked him. Can we go out here a couple days?
We're just going a couple days out of town. We're going to go
out here and worship, have a feast to our God, and then we're coming
back." That ain't what God told him to say. God went down there
and said to tell him, these are my people. Turn them loose or
I'll kill your son. One of those. Either or. Well,
they misrepresented God, and that's the thing. I stand up
and preach. It's not because I'm trying to be bold, or I'm
trying to stand up here and threaten folks. I'm just telling you,
I represent God. And I'm more worried about what
He can do to me than I am about what you can. Isn't that what
He told His disciples? Don't fear men who can destroy
the body. You fear God. I can destroy both
soul and body in hell. I fear God. God's message to
Pharaoh wasn't either old I shall say unto Pharaoh, thus saith
the Lord, back in chapter 4, verse 22, Israel is my son, even
my firstborn. I say unto thee, let my son go,
that he might serve me. And if you refuse to let him
go, I'll slay your son, even your firstborn. Now let me tell
you something. God had finished reminding Moses
of His covenant promises and declaring to him the sure success
of it. Here's what He told him. He said,
I am the Lord. I just read it to you a few minutes
ago. I am the Lord. I'm the one sending you. I'm
the one who made this covenant. I'm the one who's going to make
this covenant effectual. I am the Lord. When you go down
there, you represent me. You're not worried about him.
He's just a little old peon lord down here in Egypt. I'm the Lord. I'm the Lord who put him in Egypt. I'm the Lord who raised him up
for no other reason than to dump him in the sea. I'm the Lord. He said, now you know that when
you go out for me. Still Moses, still he's calling out to God. And I can
identify with him. I know exactly where he's coming
from. Chapter 6 ends with Moses saying
to the Lord, I'm of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken
unto me? And the Lord said unto Moses,
see. S-E-E. See. I think we could do a whole message
right there, don't you? See. Paul said, oh God. He said, open their eyes. Open
their eyes. the eyes of their understanding
that they might see something of the majesty of God and the
riches and the glory of God in His inheritance in the saints.
Open their eyes. You remember that servant of
Elijah that came into the tent and he saw that great army surrounding
him down there in the valley and he went in I told the old
prophet, and the prophet just put him off, and he went back
out and peeked, and that man had a mammoth big army up there
getting ready to come down on him. And he come back in worried,
and he told him, he said, there's a great army. The prophet didn't
go out. He just said, Lord, open this
young man's eyes. Let him see. And the boy went
back out and looked, and there was the heavenly host surrounded
in that army, dwarfed that army. That is what he is telling Moses.
See! See! See me on the throne of glory.
See me as the King of glory. See me in my holy integrity and
faithfulness to do all that I promise you. See me in the beginning
of all things, Creator, Sustainer, Ruler of Providence. See that
I have made thee a God. Not I will, I have, he said,
made thee a God before Pharaoh. Now Moses was not made a God
in the sense that he was equal with God as Christ said he was. And Moses was not made God in
the sense that he was omnipotent, ruling over everything as God
does. He was made God of God under
Pharaoh, under Pharaoh. Let me give you several things
here to think about in their relationship to gospel preaching
today. In what sense did Jehovah make
Moses a God unto Pharaoh? First of all, he made him a God
to Pharaoh by divine purpose and decree. I tell you this,
if God says you're a God, I'm going to make you a God before
then. Brother, you can go because that's what you are. God's word
don't return unto him void. It ain't like me telling you
to go do something. This is the God of creation. This is the omnipotent God, William. If he tells you to do something,
you can take it to the bank. It's going to be done. That's
the way it's going to be. If he says, please God, through
the foolishness of preaching, you can write it down. That's
what God's going to do. It's impossible for God to lie. God is all wise. It's impossible
for God to make a mistake. It's impossible for anybody to
thwart his will. He declares the end from the
beginning. God's going to do all his pleasures. heaven and
earth, the sea, and all deep places. He said He does what
He pleases. David said, Our God is in the
heavens. He hath done whatsoever He pleased. Here is the sense. In what sense
did Jehovah make Moses a god to Pharaoh? By divine purpose
and decree. God demonstrated to this preacher
in a very painful and shameful way that you cannot put yourself
into the ministry of God. You can't do it. Just forget
it. If you got aspirations to do
that, you better chunk them out the door. Because everything
required in the office of a preacher has to come from God. I can teach
you how to talk. I can teach you how to sing and
lead the music. I can teach you all these things.
We can go somewhere and hire somebody to come in here and
teach you English. You can go to a seminary down here and they'll
teach you all these different things. They'll teach them to
you. But what's required is what you
can't produce. And that is the ability to convict
and convince and to regenerate and to change men, a new creation. You can't do that. I can't do
that. God calls His preachers into
the ministry. He said, how shall they preach
except they be sent? He tells His disciples, pray
ye therefore the Lord. Pray the Lord that He'll send
forth laborers into His harvest. And God vested in Moses a divine
authority. There'll be no compromise. There's
going to be no meeting in the middle. There's going to be no
working out an agreement. He's not going to shave off the
edges. This proud, wise, high-honored, potentate is going to surrender
to the man of God. Why? Because he's God's voice
to that man. That's what God said. Hebrews
13, verse 17, I'll make the application to the preacher. He said, Obey
them that have the rules, over you. What rule? Ain't that what
they ask Moses? Who made you a ruler? That's
what they ask him when they come down there. God did. God did. And God demonstrated
it to them down there in Egypt. Those who are called of God to
this ministry of Christ are vested with the authority of And men's
souls and men's lives will be saved or lost by their submission
or rebellion toward that man who represents God. Now, you
just write it down. You write it down. In fact, John
went so far as to say they went out from the Lord. Now, that
ain't what he said. He said they went out from us.
Ain't that what he said? Because they were not of us,
for had they been of us, they no doubt would have continued
with us. Listen to this. And there's no
other reason for him to say this. No other reason on earth for
him to say this. He told his disciples, he said,
all power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore
and preach. Preach. God saves sinners through the
preaching of the gospel. And that man in whom God vests
his authority and calls to represent him before men will be heard
and obeyed or you'll suffer the consequences. He said, if they
won't have you, and many won't, shake the dust off your feet.
And it'll be more tolerable, he said, in that day for the
land of Sodom and Gomorrah than it'll be for them. Secondly,
he was made a god to Pharaoh by the presence and power of
God. God went with him. Christ instructed His disciples.
He said, now you go to Jerusalem and tarry there, didn't you?
Why? You wait until you be endued
with power from on high. They were to wait. Upon receiving
His call to go for God into Egypt, Moses said back in chapter 3,
verse 11, he said, who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh and
that I should bring forth the children of Israel Israel out
of Egypt. And the Lord said, certainly,
I go with you. What a comfort! What a comfort! I remember reading this of one
of the old preachers. I can't recall his name now,
but he'd gone to the pulpit so many times and they found him
in his study on his knees and they came back and they said,
Brother, it's time to start the service. And he kept praying.
He said, Brother, it's time to start. He just wouldn't go out. And
so he didn't know what to do. So the old elder just stood there
and listened to him pray. And he prayed to God. And he
said, I've went into that pulpit by myself for the last time. If you're not going with me,
I ain't going. I ain't going. That's what he told me. He said,
certainly I'm going with you. Richard, do you really believe
that God attends your ministry? Huh? Do you really believe that?
Do you expect folks to believe that? That God attends your ministry? Do you really believe that God
called you? You sure this wasn't just a feeling
you had one night, just something you wanted to do, like being
a builder or a painter or playing a guitar or something? Do you
really believe God called you? Do you really believe God attends
your ministry? That God sent you and is with
you even now as you speak? Do you really believe that? If
I didn't, I wouldn't be here. I want to be there. And if that's
not true, I'm a false prophet and all that come here and gather
and hear me are idolaters. There's no gray area here. No
gray area. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself,
the representative man of God, came into this world and read
from Isaiah and called Himself a preacher. And He took to Himself
the name Immanuel. God with us. Ain't that what
he said? Sure it is. Who would dare stand before the
majesty and power of Egypt with nothing but a rod if God wasn't
with him? Huh? I can't even imagine. He
ran at the side of a servant when he left Egypt, didn't he?
And he was raised in the palace. He was the king's adopted son. And he ran for his life just
on the thought that somebody was going to find out that he
killed an Egyptian. He was ready to run. And now
here he is standing before the king of Egypt, right in his palace
with his finger in his face. You ain't going to do that unless
you know God's with you. You're going to have to be convinced
of it. I'll tell you this. The earth will open up its mouth
and swallow up every man who dares not line up behind Moses.
Now, that's right. I'm going to show you that in
the scriptures when we get to it here in Exodus. Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram, they rebelled against him, rejected him, said he didn't
have any right to have this much power. He's taking on himself
too much, and we're going to take it from you. Moses went
over there and stood up, and he said, everybody that's on
God's side, line up right here. A bunch of them come over and
lined up. He said, everybody that's on their side, go over
there and line up. They all went over there and lined up. God
opened up the earth and took them to hell with their shoes
on. The whole outfit. Their families, their wives,
their children, their animals, everything they had. God just
swallowed it up. From chapter 7 throughout the
rest of the book of Exodus and especially his confrontation
with the strong man Moses appears in a whole new light. He stands
unshaken before the God of Egypt and the power of his armies,
and he stands and declares the commandment of God to Pharaoh
without hedging it about. He said, thus saith the Lord.
That day forward. Pharaoh couldn't get shed of
Moses. He couldn't drive him away. He couldn't shut his mouth,
and he couldn't avoid his presence. Why? Of course, God was with
him. God was with him. Paul said, the weapons of our
warfare are mighty through God. Isn't that what he said? Mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds and casting down
of imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself above
the knowledge of God. Moses was made a God unto Pharaoh
by divine purpose and decree, and he stood before him as a
God in the presence and power of God's Spirit. Those who resisted
the prophets and put them to death were said by Stephen to
resist the Holy Ghost. Ain't that what he said? You
stiff-necked and uncircumcised of heart and ears, you do always
resist the Holy Ghost. And he goes on to tell them exactly
what he meant, those prophets who spoke for God. And then thirdly,
the Lord made Moses a god before Pharaoh by a special arrangement
of providence. Pharaoh didn't ask for, seek,
or like this meeting between himself and the prophet of God.
God put it on him, didn't He? Now you remember what I told
you these things represent, both Pharaoh and And the Israelites,
they represent the sinner that God intends to save. But you
can't save Israel until you deal with Him. You're going to have
to deal with Pharaoh. And at his first meeting, he
laughs at God's prophet and tells him to leave. He didn't seek
this meeting. God put it on him. God confronted
him. Most people who come to hear
the gospel, they're not seeking the Lord. They're not seeking
to hear these things. God confronts them by an act
of providence. He brings his preacher and he
brings that sinner together. And he confronts them. And usually at this first thing,
they laugh at the servant of God. It's ridiculous to them,
what he's telling them. But that's not the end of it.
God's not going to let you off that easy. You can't get away
from it. But, and this is another way
God's ambassadors are known, He couldn't escape the messenger
of God. He couldn't get away from it.
Jehovah rules over all things, arranging and ordering His providence
to accomplish His sovereign designs. And you can't get away from it.
Can't get away from it. Those of you who are here Since
the Lord sent me here, you ought to be able to identify with that. But if you can't, look at this.
Look at the Ethiopian eunuch. Riding out there in the middle
of nowhere in a chariot. Huh? God went out and confronted
him with his prophet. He said, you go out there. Philippian
jailer. Was he seeking God? No. No, he
had a charge to keep them people in there, else they were going
to take his life. He wasn't seeking God, but he
found Him, and he was confronted by it, and he couldn't escape
the confrontation. The woman at the well. And then
if you want to go on the other side to those who believe not,
same thing applies. What about Pilate? Pilate would
have paid a handsome price just to get him off his agenda. He didn't want any part of this.
And he got forced into it. Well, what forced him in it?
Why couldn't he just get shed of it? God's providence. God's
providence. You can say the same thing about
Herod, the same thing about King Agrippa. Preachers are gods before
men as their ministry is attended by a divine ordering of providence. It is. God has a man for a people. And He sends them. And they preach. And He calls them out of darkness.
That's how it happens. You go through the scriptures
and you'll see what I'm talking about. Paul and Peter and the
early preachers, they never talked about chance and circumstance.
He said, the Holy Ghost prevented me from going here or opening
the door. Didn't he? Who did? The Holy
Ghost did. And then fourthly, the Lord made
Moses a god to Pharaoh by a supernatural demonstration of power. He made him to experience the
wrath of God, didn't he? Sure he did. He didn't think,
what can that man do to me? He can't do nothing to me. No,
but his God can. His God can. And his God will.
His God will. Satan and all his unbelieving
men and women in this world are under the curse of God. The scripture
said, curse it. is everyone who continues not
in all things written in the book of the law to do. But the
world does not know or feel that curse. They don't know anything
about that. You were talking to me today
about talking to your aunt and her husband. And I've experienced
that, going out and talking to different ones. You talk to them.
They don't know they're under a curse. Most of them think they're
saved. Most of them think they belong
to the Lord. They're looking forward to heaven. Most of them not even aware that
God's angry with them. Moses was made a god to Pharaoh
as the curse of God had brought a light, was brought to light
by the word of that prophet. He came to him and told him. And every man who brought before
God's preacher is made to feel the curse of God. That's why
men get angry. That's why they get defiant and
defensive. And that's why he lashes out
at God's messenger, and that's why he wants him to go away.
Just make him go away. Let's go somewhere else, honey,
and go to church. Let's don't go over there. I'll go anywhere. I'll go to Pentecostal church
if that's where he wants. Let's just don't go over there. Huh? Why? Why is that? Because God
makes him feel that wrath. That's why. Satan rules over men by deceit. Chains of men are chains of darkness. And their enemies, spiritual
enemies, they can't see them with the natural eyes. They hold
God's people in bondage to make monuments to the God of this
world. God sends His preachers to demand the release of all
those for whom Christ died. All those given to Him in eternal
election. all those joined to him by covenant
union, all those set apart in sovereign grace before the world
began. Israel, he said, is my son. Turn
him loose or I'll kill your son. The sinner whose house the strong
man rules must be brought by the strong hand of God to surrender
to the Lord. But the Lord's not visible, so
he's going to surrender to his ambassador. And his message,
he's going to surrender. This he does as the gospel he
hears comes not in word only, but in power and in the Holy
Ghost. He's forced by an inward work of sovereign grace to surrender. I wouldn't give you two cents
for any man who professes faith who never surrendered. Bow down
before the Lord. Give up. Put his guns, stack
your guns in the corner. The war is over. Surrender. What's
the term? There is no term. Absolute surrender. He didn't give no terms to Pharaoh.
Bow down. That's what he told him. Bow
down. And I believe the first place
that surrender is seen is to God's ambassador of peace. My
friend, all who resisted God's messenger and his message died
under the wrath of God. He took Pharaoh and all his army
and dunked them in the sea, swallowed them up, and the rest of them
entered Israel who wouldn't bow to Him. Their carcasses fell
in the hot sand of the desert, lay out there in unmarked graves.
Only those who surrendered and believed entered into God's rest. God demonstrates that every time
the Gospels pray. That's right, he does. Every
time the gospel is preached. But the man who knows nothing
about that curse, he's not even aware he's lost until he hears
from God's servant. When he hears it, it makes him
mad, don't it? I tell you, you can go on and talk about glory
land and streets of gold and choose you this day whom you'll
serve and all this kind of, you can preach on that from now on.
They'll sit right there and listen to you. You stand up and tell
them they're dead, and watch what happens. They won't come
back. Especially if you spell it to
them. And then fifthly, the Lord made
Moses a god under Pharaoh by a sovereign act of judgment.
God killed his firstborn son. In John chapter 8, our Lord said
to the Pharisees, and I want you to listen to me, Ye are of
your father, the devil. Isn't that who Pharaoh represents?
He represents Satan. He told those Pharisees, he said,
Ye are of your father, the devil. You're his sons, and the lust
of your father you will do. The glory of Satan's house is
his son. It's his son. And I say son in
the singular, representing all worldly religion. To effect the
release of God's children, his firstborn must slay the firstborn. That's what he's going to do.
The firstborn of Pharaoh. There cannot be an effectual
deliverance from sin until God Himself brings upon the sinner
a darkness that can even be felt and slays that Satan's son. He's going to slay him. That
religious man, that godly man, that self-righteous man, that
man who has built his hopes on the glory of his father's fallen
name, that man who believes he's heir to the kingdom, not realizing
whose kingdom it is. He's going to die. God's going
to kill him. God's going to kill him. But it's not so much your
sins that must be brought to bear on you as it is this false
notion of you having a righteousness. He's got to show you that here's
your sin. Here's your sin. The sins of
your righteousness. The sins. All our righteousnesses,
Isaiah said, are filthy rags. You ain't going to find anybody
arguing with you if you tell them they're a sinner until you
tell them what a sinner is. And then they're going to spit
on their hands and say, come on out here in the parking lot,
I'll show you what a sinner is. Huh? That's right. Paul said, I was alive once under
the law. He said, without the law, I was
alive. That is, without an understanding of it, without a spiritual revelation
of it. But when the commandment came,
sin revived and I died. Who killed him? God did. God did. Nothing official will
ever take place until at the voice of God through His messenger,
the sinner is slain. He has to be slain. God's not
going to let him live. He's going to kill him. You go
back and read this carefully. I challenge you. You go back
and read this carefully. God hardened his heart over and
over. Yeah, it talks about him hardening
his own heart. But I'm telling you, these ain't
the same thing now. They're not the same thing. God
hardened his heart. He told Moses, you're going to
do it before you ever send him down there. And he told him why. Because I'm going to stretch
out my hand, and I'm going to kill his firstborn son. There's two I's in Romans chapter
7. I the flesh and I the new man. The good that I would, I do not. I would do good, he said. The
evil which I would not, that I do. And the law of this thing,
or the reality of this thing, the principle of this thing,
is that when I would do good, evil is present with me. There
are two I's. One of them got to die. One of
them got to die. And as there were two representatives
in Egypt, even so, there is in all those called of God. And
to effect the deliverance, that old man must be judged of God
and slain. He's slain. God will kill him.
When he kills him, Satan will turn you loose. He'll turn you
loose. He got no other hold on you.
He got no future apart from that. That's his future. That's his
glory. That's his hope. All that sons of religion, God
kills them. He kills them in the believer.
He kills them. And that's what sets the believer free.