Moses asked the Lord, he said,
what am I going to tell the children of Israel when I come to them
and tell them the Lord God has sent me to bring you out of Egypt?
And they asked, what is his name? And in verse 14 of Exodus 3,
God said to Moses, I am that I am. And he said, thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto
you. In verse 15 he says, In the last
part of the verse, this is my name forever and my memorial
unto all generations. Look at verse 19. The Lord said
to Moses, I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you
go. No, not by a mighty hand. And
I will stretch out my hand and will smite Egypt with all my
wonders, which I will do in the midst thereof. And after that,
he will let you go. Now, look at chapter 5. At last,
Moses comes to Pharaoh, he and Aaron, and all the elders of
the children of Israel whom he had gathered together. And afterward,
Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Let my people go. that they may hold a feast
unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the
Lord? Who is Jehovah, that I should
obey his voice and let Israel go? I know not Jehovah. I know not the Lord, the covenant,
redeeming, saving, triune God of Israel. I know not Jehovah,
I don't know him whose name is I am. I know not the Lord, neither
will I let Israel go." The Egyptians were a pagan people beyond compare
with any other people. They worshipped over 80 gods
that we know of. They had a god for everything.
If it was raining too much, they would call on the sun god to
dry up the rain. If it was too dry, they'd call
on the rain god to dry up to make the earth wet again. The
children of Israel had a god for everything imaginable, but
the Lord God, who alone is God, was totally unknown to those
people, unknown to them except as he was inescapably known by
revelation in the power demonstrated in creation and in the conscience
he had stamped upon their hearts. So when Moses stood before him
as God's ambassador, and said to Pharaoh, the Lord God of Israel
says, let my people go. Pharaoh defiantly demanded of
Moses. This is not a question of curiosity. This is a defiant demand. It's like Moses going into this
great mighty king. And I dare say he hardly even
looked up as Moses stood before him. And Pharaoh now looks up
at Pharaoh and says, who is Jehovah that I should obey his voice?
You can just kiss that notion goodbye. I'm not about to obey
your little God. We have gods for everything.
I've never heard tell of your God. And so the Lord God answers
Pharaoh's question. But he didn't give Pharaoh a
short answer. Nor did he give him a gracious answer. The answer
that God gave to Pharaoh is not concluded until you get to the
end of chapter 14 with Pharaoh and the Egyptian armies drowned
in the Red Sea and the children of Israel standing on the other
side of the sea delivered by the power of God and singing
God's praise. Now I want us this evening to
look at how God answers Pharaoh's blasphemous question. Who is
the Lord that I should obey his voice? First, I want you to see
that there is a singular message in the scriptures. And I'll repeat
a little bit what I had to say to you Sunday morning. And then
I want you to see God's answer to Pharaoh in four things. First,
let me show you Pharaoh's problem, and then Pharaoh's religion,
and then I'll show you God's purpose and God's reminder of
his purpose. The singular message, the constant
theme of Holy Scripture is that our Lord Jesus Christ is God
our Savior, the God who delivers, the God who redeems his people. He finds his people. in bondage,
in darkness, in captivity, helpless and hopeless, dead in trespasses
and in sins, and he comes to bring them out, to deliver them
by his omnipotent saving grace. And he does so in such a way.
God saves his people in such a way that he makes it manifest
to all his people and to those who oppose him and his people
that he alone truly is God. When God gets done, when God
gets done doing everything he has purposed to do, the whole
world will know that he is God. Every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall confess of things in heaven, of things in the earth, and things
under the earth, that Jesus Christ is Lord, the God of Israel, our
Savior, to the praise of the glory of his everlasting grace. In Exodus 15, 2 and 3, Moses
saying, the Lord is my strength and salt, and He has become my
salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare
Him an habitation, my Father's God, and I will exalt Him. The
Lord is a man of war. The Lord is His name. Moses sang
God's praise, and we have sung His praise. Now, let me tell
you about why we sing His praise. I want you to see this one thing
and see it clearly. He who is God is God our Savior. He who alone is God is God our
Savior. There are no rivals to Him. Now,
what was Pharaoh's problem? What was the difficulty with
Pharaoh? His problem was the problem that all men by nature
are engulfed in. His problem was a problem that
few men would ever really openly avow, but the problem that all
men practice by nature. Pharaoh thought he was God. Pharaoh thought he was God. People treated him as though
he were God. They worshipped him as though
he were God. They bowed and scraped before
him as though he were God. And he pretended to be God. I told you the Egyptians worshipped
over 80 gods. Let me give you just a sample.
They looked upon lions and oxen, rams and wolves, dogs and cats,
swans and vultures, falcons, crocodile, hippopotami, cobras,
dolphins, varieties of fish, trees, frogs, beetles, and locusts,
even lice and flies as being divine creatures. I'm not used to, well that can't
be. I can demonstrate it to you irrefutably. They worshipped these things
as though they were God. Even men were worshipped as gods,
and among the greatest of the men were their pharaohs. The pharaoh in Egypt, each succeeding
pharaoh, was fabled to be, and claimed to be, the son of Ammon-Ra,
the god of the sun, or the sun god. That one who now in human
form dwells condescendingly for a while upon the earth as the
Pharaoh in Egypt. But he's really God the sun. He's really himself a son of
God come down to the earth. The Pharaoh wore on his head
a falcon, the symbol of their solar god, with a snake rising
up out of his forehead, a symbol of wisdom and power, of cunning
and of life. That symbol of the snake indicating
that Pharaoh had tremendous supernatural magical powers. And God, you
remember, told Moses as he went to Pharaoh, He said, now, take
your rod, throw it on the ground. And his rod became a snake. He said, take it by the tail. Telling him, this one who thinks
he is God, you shall take by the tail and destroy by my power. Pharaoh was the chief of all
the Egyptian priests. He was the one who prominently
was at the lead of all their pagan festivals and ceremonies
as they came and worshipped their gods. And we all laugh at such
things. We ought to weep, but we laugh,
and I suppose that's all right too. Elijah mocked the gods of
those pagans, prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. We can hardly
imagine that men really worshipped such things. as the Egyptians
worshipped. After all, the Egyptians were
brilliant. These fellows weren't running around with bones in
their noses. They were brilliant folks. They were well educated.
They were the most brilliant, highly trained, highly developed
society the world had ever known. To this day, we are awed by their
architecture. To this day, awed by the things
they developed and invented. But these Egyptians were worshippers
of lice and flies and men. We have similar absurdities in
our day. Who hasn't seen documentaries
about India and those lands surrounding India overrun with rats and other
pests? subjecting themselves continually
to filth and disease and swallow because they think the rats are
God. How sad, how sad. Yet the most
foolish, most blasphemous form of pagan idolatry is practiced
by almost all refined, well-educated, free-thinking Americans In 2007,
every Sunday, all over this country, right here in Danville, Kentucky,
neighbors and friends, family and others, gather in church
buildings and set themselves up in the house of God, in the
place of God, worshipping themselves as God and demanding that they
be worshipped as God. Now I want you to see this, and
it will bring us to the next thing. I want to show you something
about Pharaoh's religion. in a very practical way. Turn
with me, if you will, to 2 Thessalonians. Pharaoh is held before us throughout
the scriptures as a type of Satan, a type of Antichrist, the man
of sin. And the religion of man is the
religion of Pharaoh. Pharaoh's religion is not dead. It is very much alive. Here in 2 Thessalonians 2, you'll
see how God the Holy Spirit identifies Someone had written to the Thessalonians
and told them that Paul had been teaching that Christ had already
come. And Paul is here correcting that. He says, Now we beseech
you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
by our gathering together unto him, that you be not soon shaken
in your mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by
letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. I never
said that. Father, there is no visible indications
to tell us when Christ is coming again. Paul goes on to tell us
that before Christ comes again, there will be a wholesale, universal
apostasy, a complete departure of the religious world from the
faith of the gospel. Now in this passage, I want you
to see this clearly. Hold your hands in 2 Thessalonians
and turn with me to 1 Timothy. Hold your hands right here in
2 Thessalonians, turn to 1 Timothy. In this passage, Paul is not
talking about religious liberals and infidels and whoremongers
and all that stuff. He's not talking about folks
that you look at and say, well, those folks are reprobate. He
does that in other places, but not in these passages. Here,
the Apostle Paul is talking about men and women in local churches,
just like we're in, who claim to be walking in the faith. who have utterly departed from
the faith. Not a little bit. Utterly departed
from the faith. They have completely embraced
for the gospel that which is no gospel at all. They've completely
embraced for God that which is no God at all. And they've completely
embraced for a Savior that which is no Christ at all. Now I want
you to see it and see it clearly. Paul tells us here by the spirit
of inspiration, verse 3. Second Thessalonians, let no
man deceive you by any means. For that day shall not come,
that is, Christ shall not come again, except there come a falling
away. The word is apostasy first. And that man of sin, not that
the man of sin, but that man of sin be revealed, the son of
perdition. Now here the Holy Spirit tells
us, heresies will surely come. We ought never to be surprised,
nor should we ever be terribly alarmed when heresy comes. Scripture tells us, there must
be heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made
manifest among you. Every little while, heresies
pop up. None of them were ever new. None
of them were ever new. There are heresies that have
been around for a long time, but they quieten down and they
pop up. They quieten down and they pop
up. And some folks are fooled by them. Some folks are fooled
by them. Not God's people. The heresies come specifically
so that those who are approved may be made manifest among you
by their adherence to the gospel. Now look here in 1 Timothy chapter
4. I'm wanting you to see that Paul is talking here specifically
about folks who claim to believe the gospel. Now, the Spirit speaketh
expressly that in the latter times, you don't have to guess
what that's talking about. John tells us, brethren, this
is the last time. In the latter times, some shall
depart from the faith, not depart from faith, People these days,
you know, the politicians, everybody else, oh, he's a great man of
faith. He's a man of faith. Thuy on faith. I mean that. Thuy on faith. Don't you respect
faith? No, I respect the faith. Faith that's false faith is damned. The faith. They shall depart
from the faith. How? Giving heed to seducing
spirits and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy. That is, telling lies and swearing
to it when they know they are. Having their consciences seared
with a hot iron. Well, what's that? Forbidding
to marry? And commanding to abstain from
meats? Telling folks you'd be real good spiritual Christians
if you'd stay single. Not engage in the privileges
of marriage between a man and a woman. Or if you'd learn to
quit eating pork. You'd learn to quit eating red
meat, you'd learn to eat this and don't eat that, touch this
and don't touch that, which God hath created the marriage and
the meats to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe
and know the truth. Are you sure you're not stretching
that, Brother Don? Turn to 2 Timothy. Keep your hand in 2 Thessalonians.
Turn to 2 Timothy, chapter 3. This know also that in the last
days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that
are good, traitors, petty, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God. Oh, we don't have anything to
do with those folks. Watch him now, having a form of godliness, but
denying the gospel. That's exactly what he means.
Denying the power thereof. The gospel is the power of God
to salvation. Read on. For of this sort, verse
6, are they which creep into houses. Do you remember how Jude
described them? They have crept in. They creep
into houses. They slither in like snakes under
the door. They creep in, pretending to
be what they're not. and lead captive silly women,
laden with sins, led away with divers lusts," now watch this,
ever learning, ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth. Studied the Bible Get together
and have Bible study every morning before they open the office.
Get together and have Bible study at the factory. Get together
and have Bible study before they open the school doors. Ever learning. Have Bible study every night.
Ever learning. Asking questions and telling
you what I think the Bible means. And never able to get hold of
anything. Never able to grasp the simplest
ABCs of gospel truth. Well, Brother Don, you're a long
ways away from Moses and Pharaoh. Let's see. Now, as Janes and
Jambres withstood Moses. Do you know who Janes and Jambres
were? They were Pharaoh's magicians
who mocked Moses' power and mocked Moses' word. As they withstood
Moses, so do these. Also, resist truth. Men of corrupt
minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But all they can do is
mock. They shall proceed no further,
for their folly shall be manifest unto all as theirs also was."
Now look at 1 John chapter 4. 1 John chapter 4. To love, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits. Now he's not talking
about ghosts, visions of spirits. When he's talking about trying
the spirit, he's talking about trying the spirit of that man
who preaches to you. The one talking to you right
now. And all others who talk to you in the name of God. Try
the spirits. Put them to the test. Whether
they are of God. Because many false prophets are
going out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of
God, even the Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh, is of God. Oh, now there. Brother Don, all
these folks you've been talking about, they confess that Christ
has come in the flesh. He's not talking about a verbal confession.
That's not what he's talking about at all. Larry, to confess
that Christ has come into flesh, as John uses the term, is talking
about confessing that Christ has come and accomplished everything
God said he would accomplish. Confessing that Jesus Christ
has come into that body which God through the Holy Spirit prepared
for him in the womb of the Virgin to accomplish redemption by the
sacrifice of himself, and he's done it. Those are of God. Every spirit who denies that
Jesus Christ has actually accomplished all that he came to accomplish,
that denieth, confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh, is not of God. And this is the spirit of antichrist. Whereof you have heard that it
should come, and even now already it is in the world. Now, back
in 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse 4, Moses told us, Harris's
must come. Next, we're told that the man
of sin, Antichrist, will be revealed. Revealed. Well, if you watch
the movies, and you watch the documentaries about casting out
demons, exorcism, except when I watched one the other night,
that's impressive. You get you a book in Latin that
some papist has written, and you read that, and you slosh
water on a fellow's face, and he'll scream and holler and hold
crosses and burn the chest. What, stupidity? No, no, no.
Oh, the man of sin, he's going to have 666 written across his
forehead so you can see him. Oh, no. No, no, no. Not manifest
to anybody except God's elect. And he'd manifest to all God's
elect. and is manifest by his message, is manifest by what
he preaches. Verse 4, Who opposeth and exalteth
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so
that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself
that he is God. My name's Pharaoh. I am the Son of the God of the
Son. You worship me as such." That's
exactly what Paul's telling us. The Spirit of God here identifies
Antichrist, the man of sin, not as one man. Now, I have no problem. It doesn't bother me in the least.
to stand here or to stand on the steps of the Vatican and
declare, as our forefathers did, honestly and truthfully, that
His unholiness to Pope is Antichrist. That's absolutely so. I have
no hesitancy, none whatsoever, in declaring that Roman Catholicism
is Antichrist. I am certain that it is. But
that's not all there is to Antichrist. It's a serious mistake to limit
Antichrist to one man, or one religious sect, or even to one
specific period of time. John, we read, declared in his
day many Antichrists are already in the world. We read that, didn't
we? Paul contended with Antichrist at Galatia. At Colossae, at Philippi,
he contended with them in the conference in Jerusalem, the
first one ever held. He contended with Antichrist,
folks trying to mix works and grace. Abel contended with Antichrist
when his brother Cain slew him. And Moses was contending with
Antichrist when he went to Egypt to confront Pharaoh. Notice how
Paul describes this thing called Antichrist, the man of sin, the
son of perdition. He is one, we're told here in
verse four, who opposes God, who exalts himself not equal
to God, but above God, who sets himself up in the temple of God
and is worshipped as God, showing himself that he is God, demanding
that he be worshipped as God. The religion of Pharaoh is the
religion of Antichrist, and the system of Antichrist is any religious
system that puts man at the center. No, let's take that back. Strike
that. At the top. At the top. You see, the religion of our
age doesn't put man equal with God, horrible as that is. It
doesn't put man at the center of things with God, terrible
as that is. The religion of the age, the
religion of Cain, the religion of the Judaizers, the religion
of Pharaoh, the religion of Antichrist, sets man up in the house of God
and shows him to be God and demands that he be served as God. Well,
what on earth are you talking about, Pastor? Those who teach
that God's will can be hindered, altered, or thwarted in any way
by man's will make themselves God and demand that you serve
them as such. That's the religion of Pharaoh.
They set the crown on their heads, the crown of deity, and make
themselves God. those who declare that the merit
and the efficacy of Christ's atonement resides in man's will. I have been rereading some historical
theological controversies the last couple of weeks, and the
controversy is the same in days gone by as it is now. Folks want
to try somehow to compromise and placate rebels who despise
God's sovereign grace, who despise the effectual work of God's grace,
You've got to say there's some sense in which Christ died for
all men, and some sense in which God loves all men, and some sense
in which God wants to save all men, and some sense in which
man's will has something to do with this. To make man's will
the determining factor in salvation is to set man above God. For it sets God's hands tied
behind his back until man gives him permission to do something.
to say that Christ died for you and redeemed you and his blood
was shed for you and he made atonement for your sins, if only
you will accept it, it will be powerful to save you, is to mean
that Christ's sacrifice is meaningless. Your will is what makes the difference.
to suggest that God the Holy Spirit somehow, somehow is striving
to get everybody to let Jesus save them, is to declare that
God the Holy Spirit has no more power than my will or your will. We want things, but can't do
them unless you let me. God wants, won't you let him
have his way. It is taking the crown off the
head of God and setting it on the head of man, just as Pharaoh
did. Now look at verse 7. Chapter
5, 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 5, 6 and 7. Paul says, Remember
ye not when I was yet with you, I told you these things? I have
told you these things now for twenty-seven years. And now you
know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in this time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." This is
what Paul is saying. The word withhold, let, means
the same thing. Paul told these saints and tells
us, the Holy Spirit now restrains, withholds the power and influence
of Antichrist. But there's a time coming when
he's going to let him loose. He's going to let him loose.
If this is not that time, I pray for grace to leave this world
before that time comes. What's it going to be like? Hold
your hands here again and turn to Revelation 20. We're going
to get back to Exodus 5 in just a minute. At the end of the age,
Paul tells us Satan shall be loosed for a little season. Sure
looks to me like we're in that season. Why, Brother Don, we
don't worship frogs and lice and flies and trees and weeds. Don't we? Now, please don't misunderstand
me. I'm not suggesting that everybody
go out and do everything they can to destroy the environment. I'm not too concerned about it,
but I'm not suggesting it. How often in a day's time, if
you left your television on, would you hear somebody refer
to Mother Earth? God Earth? Have frog kisses and
tree huggers? will promote the slaughter of
unborn babies and object to cutting down a tree. Don't tell me folks
don't worship things on this earth as God. A few months ago,
I was in bed one night and I saw something. I wanted to wake Shelby
up. She's already asleep. I want her to see it so bad.
There's a grown man, he's on the Discovery Channel, a grown
man. kneeling down before a withered flower, a wild flower, out in
an open field. And do you know what the man
was doing? He was crying. I mean sobbing
out loud, just as though a baby had been killed. Just as though
he had lost his wife. Sobbing out loud. Oh, such a
beautiful plant. And now it's dead. Don't tell
me we don't live amongst pagans. This is the society in which
Satan has been loosed. Revelation 20, I saw an angel
come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit
and a great chain in his hand. That's Christ our Savior at his
first advent. And he laid hold on the dragon
by his blood, he said in John 12. That old serpent, which is
the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, bound him
quite literally thousands of years, and cast him into the
bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that
he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years
should be fulfilled. He set a seal on him so that
the gospel that had been hidden from the Gentiles would go into
all the nations of the world. But after that, he must be loosed
a little season. Loosed to do what? To again deceive
the nations of the world, just as he had in former days. Back
in 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 8. whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness
of his coming, even him whose coming is after the working of
Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive
not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." Now here
are five things revealed in these verses about the religion of
Pharaoh. the religion of Antichrist. Like
Pharaoh, Antichrist arises, is revealed, does his work, and
shall be destroyed exactly according to the purpose of God Almighty. Is that what we read in Revelation?
Is that what we read back here in 2 Thessalonians? Exactly according
to the purpose of God. As with Pharaoh, signs and wonders
and miracles are certain marks of Antichrist, just as they identified
Pharaoh's magicians, their marks of Antichrist in the last days,
just as certainly as they were marks of the true apostles of
Christ in his day. Oh, Brother Don, how do you account
for men having visions and dreams and signs and wonders, performing
miracles? Touch somebody and just feel
the power of God? How you gonna argue with that?
I don't argue with that. I don't argue with that. You think their
experiences are real? I know they're real. As real
as hell. As real as hell. You believe
folks are demon-possessed? As real as hell. Because God
sends delusion by which men are deluded. Third, the deception
of Antichrist. Like the darkness of Egypt is
tremendous, so tremendous that were it possible, our Savior
said, the very elect of God would be deceived. Were it possible.
Fourth, like the religion of Egypt, the idolatrous religion
of Antichrist, self-righteous, free will, works religion is
unrighteousness. Someone was telling me just recently,
The children, they were fool enough to send them off to some
church, and they got talked into making a profession of faith,
and they baptized them, put them in some water, had to explain
to them what baptism was all about. What fool would send his
child to be slaughtered? What fool? I said to the person,
I would rather expose my grandson and my granddaughter to pimps,
pushers, and prostitutes any day. There's nothing like the
unrighteousness of religion that sets man up in the place of God. It is called unrighteousness.
Well, don't you think these folks promote righteousness? No. No. They promote self-righteousness.
They promote morality, but not righteousness. They promote social
decency, but not righteousness. All they promote is self-righteousness
in opposition to God and his righteousness. And fifth, the
reason for the delusion of men is their own willful rejection
of God's truth set before them. It's not that they don't receive
the truth theoretically, but they receive not the love of
the truth that they might be saved. Pharaoh said to Moses,
Who is the Lord? And do you know what he said
before Moses got done? He said, Now I know that the Lord, the
God of Israel, He alone is God. But he didn't believe it a bit
more than a man and a moon. He still thought he was God. You
see, it is not the bare acquiescence to facts that you can't resist
that's faith. It is not a bare reception of
letter-word truth that's faith. But rather, it is the receiving
of truth in a heart melted in affection to the God of truth,
Christ our Lord, that is saving faith. confessed the truth about Christ
just as surely as the apostles did. Judas confessed the truth
just as surely as Paul did. But the demons of hell and Judas
are in their place. All right, here's the third thing.
God's purpose. What is his purpose? Why did
he send Israel down to Egypt to start with? Why did he do
that? Why did he raise up Pharaoh to be king? This Pharaoh. Why
did he set this little imp on the throne, the mightiest throne
in the universe. Why did God harden his heart? Why did the Lord choose to bring
Israel out of Egypt by hardening Pharaoh's heart? Let me give
you the answers one at a time, and I'll have to give them very
briefly. Read Genesis 15, and you'll find out that God sent
Israel down to Egypt by a covenant on purpose. that he might bring
them out a richer people than they could ever otherwise have
been. So it is with us. You think God
couldn't prevent the fall of Adam? That'd been his purpose.
He has determined to redeem us from iniquity that we might enjoy
riches the angels know nothing about. Second, we're told in
Romans 9 that God raised up Pharaoh to oppose his people, that he
might show in that idolatrous pirate his sovereign power and
goodness, in the exercise of his saving mercy, that his name
might be declared in all the earth as God our Savior." So
that the whole world would know God saves Israel. God saves his
people. Read the Psalms. The constant
theme, salvation is of the Lord. Read Isaiah 49, or 45, rather. The Lord sets Himself before
us as our God, our Savior, and He says, Beside me there is none
else. No God like me. No God like me. Jonah confessed the message of
all the prophets. Salvation is of the Lord. God does all things exactly as
he will, all the time that he might be known as God our Savior. The universal message of the
prophets is salvation by our God. The very first answer, turn
back to Exodus chapter 5, the very first answer God gave to
his sneering blasphemy as Pharaoh said, who is the Lord? is what
I want to convey all the time. God's very first answer. Moses,
Aaron, the elders of Israel, standing before Pharaoh, verse
3, they say, the God of the Hebrews, that's who he is, the God of
the Hebrews have sent, have met with us. Let us go, we pray thee,
three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the
Lord our God. The triune Jehovah, the only
living and true God, is now, always has been, and shall forever
be the God, the only God, and he who is the God, the only God,
is the God of the Hebrews. He is the Lord, and he who is
the Lord is our God. Anyone want to know who is the
Lord? He's the God of Hebrews. The
only God there is. He is our God. He is the Lord. But what's He
doing? Overthrowing Satan and hell and
the powers of hell and bringing His people out. And when He gets
done, Pharaoh's going to know who He is. And all the Egyptians
are going to know who He is. And all His people are going
to say, Bless God. He is who He is. Amen.