At the end of Exodus chapter
3, the Lord God gives a word of promise to Moses to convey
to the children of Israel. In the very last statement in
verse 21, he says, It shall come to pass that when you go out,
you shall not go out empty. And then the last statement in
verse 22, And ye shall spoil the Egyptians." In
this passage of scripture, the latter part of Exodus 3, beginning
at verse 16, the Lord gives us a detailed history, very brief
and yet very detailed history, of all that would transpire in
his controversy with Pharaoh and the Egyptians over the children
of Israel, and his deliverance of God's children by their final
redemption from Egyptian bondage. The Lord is about to visit Israel
in grace, but he tells Moses to declare that he had already
visited them in grace. We read in verse 16, The Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you." That's
strange. No, not really. But he was about
to visit them. He tells them, because I have
visited you in my purpose, I will surely visit you in the experience
of my grace. And then the Lord speaks to Moses,
telling them, as he would tell us, as I have visited you, I
will visit you. He was sent to tell Israel, commanded
by God to announce to his people that their deliverance was already
accomplished, that their redemption was already done. That redemption
accomplished is redemption sure. That's exactly what God commands
his servants to preach everywhere. Declare unto my people, to Jerusalem,
that her warfare is accomplished. We preach redemption finished
by Jesus Christ. Finished even before the world
began. finished at Calvary as that which
assures men and women of redemption finished in the experience of
grace. That which has been done by God
is sure to be done by God. Salvation finished is salvation
that's sure to be finished. And then in verse 18, the Lord
assures His servant that His people will hear and believe
His message. What a word. He says, and they
shall hearken to thy voice. I fully expect God's people to
hear and obey the gospel as it's preached to them. God never sends
his servants on meaningless missions. He never sends his servants to
beat the air in vanity. As we preach the gospel of God's
grace and send out the word of the gospel around the world,
God's people will hear and God's people will obey. Paul said we
are a sweet saver unto God in them that perish and in them
that are saved. But God's word will not return
to him void. It shall accomplish that which
he pleased, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto he has sent
it." Next, the Lord told Moses again in verse 18, to go with
the elders of Israel and ask Pharaoh to give them permission. Now, that does seem strange to
me. God tells Moses to take with him the elders of Israel and
go to Pharaoh and beg of Pharaoh permission to go three days journey
into the wilderness that they might worship God according to
his word. He says in verse 18, Thou shalt
come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt,
and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath
met with us, and now let us go, we beseech thee, we beg of you,
three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice
to the Lord our God." And in verse 19, he plainly told Moses,
Pharaoh's not going to hear you. My people are going to hear,
and my people are going to obey. Pharaoh is not going to hear,
but he is dead sure going to obey. He will not believe, but
he will obey. He tells Moses that I will perform
my wonders in the land of Egypt, and when I'm done with him, Pharaoh
will let you go. Now, all these things are written
for us. They're written specifically
for you and me today. Don't ever, ever, ever make the
mistake of reading anything in this book and presume it was
written for someone else. It was written for you and written
for me. These things are written in the
book of God to instruct us in the things of God. And these
things here written are written to assure us that all things
move according to the eternal purpose of our God. He who declares
the end from the beginning performs all his pleasure all the time
with all people and in all things. What a sweet, blessed source
of consolation this is for my fearful, trembling heart. We
shall never meet a difficulty or an enemy. neither in the world
nor in our hearts that was not purposed by our God. Never. We shall never face a foe he
will not conquer, and we will never endure a trial from which
he does not deliver us. The Lord God knew beforehand
what Pharaoh would do. In this day, because people are
so ignorant of the teaching of scripture, when people say God
knows something, they don't have any understanding of what God's
foreknowledge is. God's foreknowledge is God's
foreordination. God knows all things by his omniscience,
but he knows all things because he has purposed all things. You cannot know that which is
not determined. You cannot know that which might
or might not happen, not even God. He can't know that which
is not. He can't know that which will
not come to pass. He knows all things because he's
purposed all things. He knew that Pharaoh would reject
the counsel of Moses. He knew that Pharaoh would harden
his heart and that he would harden Pharaoh's heart. He knew it because
he had predestined it. He predestined it for the specific
purpose of showing in Pharaoh his mighty power and his great
glory as he tells us in Romans chapter 9. And so it is with
every trial, every foe, and every hardship in the path that he
has marked out for us to go through this wilderness. And be assured,
my brother, my sister, the path you walk is the path he has marked
out. The steps you take, no matter
what trap they seem to take you to, no matter what pain they
may cause you, are steps ordered of the Lord. The steps of a good
man, a good man. And if you're in Christ, you're
a good man, a good woman. The only ones there are are those
made good by His grace. The steps of a good man are ordered
of the Lord. Everything has been prearranged
in view of our final triumph and our victorious exit from
this scene of woe through the final accomplishment of redemption
by Christ Jesus. Therefore it is written, faithful
is he that calleth you who also will do it. I'm confident of
this one thing Paul wrote to the Philippians. He which hath
begun his good work in you will perform it unto the day of Jesus
Christ. Now, I want us to look at our
text, verses 21 and 22, and I want you to follow me closely. The
Lord says, I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
and it shall come to pass. not it might come to pass, it
shall come to pass, that when ye go, ye shall not go empty,
but every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment, or clothing, and you shall put them upon your
sons, and upon your daughters, and ye shall spoil the Egyptians."
That was God's promise to Moses and Israel. And Rex Bartlett,
that's God's promise to you and to me. That's God's promise to
all his elect in this world. When you go, you shall not go
out empty, and you shall spoil the Egyptians. We must not forget
everything we read in the book of Exodus about Israel's bondage
and their deliverance from Egyptian bondage was a typical picture,
and it was intended by God and brought to pass by God to be
a typical picture of our natural spiritual bondage and of our
redemption from bondage by the Lord Jesus Christ. God Almighty
ordained Israel's bondage. as well as their deliverance.
Now let that sink in. There's no such thing as an accident
in God's universe. There's no such thing as something
that just comes to pass because God sort of permitted it to come
to pass. No such thing as something that
comes to pass because God couldn't prevent it from coming to pass.
No such thing as something coming to pass because God just let
it happen. God ordained Israel's bondage. Read the 15th chapter of Genesis. He purposed it, declared that
it would be so that he might deliver them out of bondage and
show forth his glory in delivering them. So too, the Lord God Almighty
ordained our bondage as well as our deliverance. that he might
display and make known to us in all the greatness of his grace,
the glory of that grace in delivering us. Turn to Ephesians chapter
2. Let me show you. Hold your hands here in Exodus.
We're coming right back. Ephesians 2. Blessed is that bondage, whatever
it is. Blessed is that foe, whoever
it is. Blessed is that trial, whatever
it is by which our Savior gets glory to himself and does good
to our souls. Wouldn't to God I believe that
half as well as I know it. Bless you. Ephesians 2 verse
4. God who is rich in mercy. For his great love wherewith
he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ. By grace ye are saved, and hath
raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. But all of this began by him
saying, You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and
in sins. And now he's told us how it is
that he quickened us together with Christ. Why? What was his
purpose? Why the death? Why the quickening? Why the bondage? Why the deliverance? That. For this purpose, that
in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of
his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. I'm
not about to try to explain the unexplainable. I'm not about
to try to present things that men can't just Thoreau said,
oh, they want to. I want to tell you, though, what
I know to be so. Had there never been a fall,
there would never have been redemption from the fall. Had we never been
in captivity, we could never have been set free. If the first
Adam had not sinned and brought us to ruin, the last Adam would
never have been revealed and brought us to redemption and
resurrection glory. The Lord Jesus Christ came to
seek and to save that which was lost. And had we never been lost,
he would never have come to seek us and to save us. The whole
need not a physician, but they that are sick. The Lord God Almighty
has chosen an infinite wisdom, goodness, and grace. to show
us the marvelous glory of His grace through ruin and redemption. The same thing is true with regard
to our present trials and even our present faults. I can't tell
you how I've struggled with what I see in the Shulamite. You remember
the question, what do you see in the Shulamite in the sixth
chapter of the Song of Solomon? Two armies warring. Two armies
warring. That's what I see in me. And
I'm dead sure that's what you see in you. Why? Why are we thus? I don't excuse Adam in his sin. Let no one mistake my meaning.
And I don't excuse myself in my sin. And I don't excuse you
in your sin. I am responsible for the evil
that's in me. That is to say, it is my fault
and my doing. and I am responsible for the
evil performed by me. It is my fault and my doing,
and I acknowledge it before God with my mouth in the dust, make
no excuse. Yet I do assert and I assert
with delight that our God has ordained the falls of his people,
that he might the more show in us the glory of his grace, and
the more enrich our lives in the experience of his grace."
C. H. Spurgeon made this statement,
and I fully agree with it, which has thus made manifest
the abounding mercy of God. Looked at in one aspect, all
sin is an unutterable calamity, but as it has had the effect
of displaying still more of the matchless mercy of God in the
person of Jesus Christ, we see how God brings forth good out
of evil. was made better. He was a better
man. A better man than he could possibly
have been made any other way by the Lord Jesus sifting him
in Satan's sieve. And we are made better when our
blessed Savior wisely sifts us even if he uses Satan's sieve. It is especially when we have
been sifted when we are being sifted, that he says, let not
your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. It is not faith to look at myself
in what people call evidences. Well, I've been good today. I've thought good thoughts. I
haven't had any real bad things run through my mind. I've lost
my temper. I've read my Bible. I've prayed.
I've been good today. I believe maybe God's accepted
me. But here I stand in the teeth
of all my corruption. all the blackness and filth that
doesn't just cover me, but that oozes from inside me out every
pore of my being. And the Master says, you believe
God, now believe me. Believe also in me. The whole
of our acceptance with God is Jesus Christ our Redeemer. The whole of our acceptance with
God Is Jesus Christ our Redeemer? Our Savior, the Lord Jesus, is
the Almighty I Am, speaking to Moses here. He is the same yesterday,
and today, and forever. Oh, may He give us grace by His
Spirit to trust Him even in the midst of adversity. How blessed
it is When our souls are bowed down and brought low by bondage
and oppression of sin, when we're able to cry to him, my strength
and my hope is perished from the Lord, yet he enables us to
remember even in our lowest conditions, his mercy endureth forever. Turn to Lamentations chapter
3. I want you to read this now in the context of what I've just
told you. Lead it in the context of what I just told you. This
is exactly what Jeremiah tells us his experience was. Lamentations
3 verse 18. Have trouble finding it? Right
in the middle between Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Lamentations 3,
verse 18. I said, my strength and my hope
is perished from the Lord. Remembering my affliction and
my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Read the first 18 verses
and you'll see just what he's talking about. He said, you turned
my teeth into gravel stones. He said, you bound me with a
heavy chain. He said, you've oppressed me
and afflicted me. You've beat me down. He said,
My soul hath been still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. Now, this
I recall to my mind. Therefore have I hope. It is
of the Lord's mercies we are not concerned, because His compassions
fail not. There new every morning great
is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul. Therefore will I hope in Him.
The Lord is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him." Now watch how he explains that. It is good that
a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
Lord. Both hope and quietly wait for
God's deliverance. Both hope and quietly wait in
the midst of oppression and sorrow and bondage for God's salvation. Read on. It is good for a man
that he bear the yoke of his youth. I'm looking at some gray-haired
old men and some ladies who would be if you didn't have nothing
to buy at the drugstore. But you're in your youth, and while
we're in this state of youth, until we are brought to the maturity
and perfection of grace in heavenly glory. We act like fools. No exceptions. No exceptions.
And it's good for you to bear it. When you're made to bear
your folly, he sitteth alone and keepeth silence. Nothing
will shut a man's mouth but the consciousness of his own corruption
before God Almighty. because he hath borne it upon
him. He putteth his mouth in the dust,
if so be there may be hope. And he says, Lord, go ahead and
strike me. He giveth his cheek to him that
smiteth him. He is filled full with reproach. That man says, This I recall
to my mind, therefore have I hope. All right, now let's go back
to Exodus 3. I want you to see three things in this text. First,
an unexpected favor, and then a borrowed wealth, and finally,
spoiled Egyptians. First, let me show you how these
things are taught and illustrated here. In verse 21, the Lord Jesus
told Moses that he would cause the Egyptians to show an unexpected
favor toward his people. Look at this. I will give this
people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Is that a misprint? These Egyptians who had hated
and persecuted and enslaved and beat and slaughtered the Israelites? Did God say I will give you favor
before the Egyptians? That's what he said. That's what
he promised, and what he promised he performed. Turn to Exodus
chapter 11. I want to turn to just a couple of passages. Don't
you see, God said this is what I'm going to do, and that's exactly
what God did. How was it that the Israelites
went out of Egypt? How was it that they finally
came out of that land? Look at verse 3 of chapter 11.
And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Look at chapter 12, verse 36.
And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Looks to me like he wants us
to learn he gave them favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Turn
over to Psalm 105. You turn to Psalm 106. Psalm
106, verse 42. In Psalm 105 we read, Egypt was
glad when they departed. These Egyptians who had held
them in bondage for 400 years and who had made them slaves
for a good many of those years, who had abused and persecuted
them, who feared them and sought to slaughter them, were glad
when they departed. Look at Psalm 106 verse 42. Their
enemies also, the enemies of Israel, oppressed them, and they
were brought into subjection under their hand. Many times
did he deliver them, but they provoked him, provoked the Lord
with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Oh, thank God for this next word, nevertheless. Nevertheless. The foundation of God stands
sure. He regarded their affliction when He heard their cry, and
He remembered for them His covenant, and repented according to the
multitude of His mercies. He made them also to be pitied
of all those that carried them captives. And that is exactly
what the Lord God has done and still does for His people. The
world that and deposes, and persecutes, and would destroy us if it could,
God causes to favor and help us. You didn't hear that, did
you? Everything that would destroy,
God causes to do us good. Everything. Let's see if I can
show you that in Scriptures. Turn to Proverbs chapter 6. And
this passage is particularly talking about the salvation of
God's elect. It's particularly talking about that. King's heart's
in the hands of the Lord like rivers of water, he turns it
with us wherever he will. The thoughts of a man are ordered
by the Lord. In verse 6 he tells us, by mercy
and truth, iniquity is purged. Talk about the redeeming work
of our Savior. Look at verse 7. When a man's ways please the
Lord, Who is that man? That man whose iniquity has been
purged by mercy and truth through the blood of Christ. When a man's
ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him. Does that mean that he's going
to make his enemies look at him and love him? No. Does that mean
he's going to make his enemies want to do him good? No. Does
that mean he's going to cause his enemies to cease to be his
enemies? No. That means that he will cause
his enemies to be at peace with him. That means they can do him
no harm, but only good. In Revelation chapter 12, you
don't need to turn there, we have a picture of the church,
the woman who brought forth the man-child persecuted by Satan,
and to the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that
she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is
nourished. And the serpent cast out of his
mouth water as a flood, after the woman, that he might cause
her to be carried away in the flood. Roaring lions seeking
whom he may devour. What happened? And the earth
helped the woman. And the earth opened her mouth
and swallowed up the flood. So it has been, and so it shall
forever be. Alright, now look at the next
thing. The Lord promised, when you go, you shall not go empty. But how? How were these Israelites
from whom the Egyptians had now taken everything. How were they
to obtain everything they needed to live in the wilderness? How
could they ever get everything they needed to worship and serve
God in the wilderness? Where could they find the sacrifices
required? Where could they find that wealth
with which to offer the costly sacrifices God would demand of
them? And later on, how could they
possibly do what God would require them to do? To build a tabernacle
that looks so homely, so crude, so common, so poor on the outside,
covered with badger skin, but furnished like you never saw
a king's palace furnished. furnished with furnishings of
brass and silver and pure gold. Where are they going to get that?
Look at verse 22. Every woman shall borrow of her
neighbor and of her that sojourneth in her house of silver and jewels
of gold and raiment, and you shall put them upon your sons
and upon your daughters, and you shall spoil the Egyptians."
For months now, I've been reading over and studying this, and I
keep running across things where people, religious fools, want
to point out contradictions in the Bible. They said God in Exodus
20 said, thou shalt not steal. But here in Exodus chapter 3,
he commanded the children of Israel to steal from the Egyptians.
Oh no. Oh no. No, no. This word borrow,
the word that's translated borrow, is very, very poorly translated.
I have no idea why the translators used it. It's not used very often
in the scriptures. But it is used in a very, very
familiar passage of scripture. It is the very same word that's
used over in 1 Samuel chapter 2. where Hannah brings her son
Samuel to Eli and gives him to the Lord, lends him to the Lord.
And she says, I'm bringing him because I call his name Samuel,
because I have asked him of the Lord. That's the word. Very same
word. It means to beg, to crave, or
to desire a favor. The Lord said, now, you tell
the women in Israel, to go to all the Egyptian ladies, all
those rich Egyptians with all their rich jewels, and desire
a favor of them. Would you give us your gold,
Jo-Ann? Would you mind letting us have
the silver that's hanging around your neck, and the diamonds and
rubies hanging on it as well? If you'll just get out of here,
you can take it." And that's exactly what they did. That's
exactly what happened. If we look down in 1 Samuel chapter
2 again, verses 27 and 28, Hannah said, For this child I prayed,
and the Lord hath given me my petition which I have asked of
him. Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord, as long as he
liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord
there. Back in Exodus chapter 12. We're
told the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
and they lent unto them such things as they required. And
we tend to look at that word and say, well, they made a loan
of these things to them, but they expected the Jews to return
them. Do you really think they expected the Jews to come back?
Oh, no. What it says, they lent them
to them. They gave them to them unconditionally forever. Just as Hannah lent Samuel to
the Lord, she gave him to the Lord unconditionally forever. That one whom she had begged
of the Lord, now she devotes to the Lord. In exactly the same
manner, when the children of Israel went out of Egypt, God
gave them favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they pulled
off their earrings, and their necklaces, and their rings, and
their bracelets, and their jewels, and they gave them and said,
I say no longer here. And Egypt was glad when they
departed. And I've said all that to say
this. If the Lord God made the Egyptians happy to give his people
Israel everything they required. Do you reckon he's going to let
you go naked or homeless or hungry? Do you reckon he's going to leave
you unprotected? Do you suspect that he might
not provide for you everything you require in all the days of
your wilderness here? He that spared not his Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Now, I've been getting to this. Verses 21 and 22 again. Here's
the third thing. This is what God promised to
Moses and to Israel. It shall come to pass that when
ye go, ye shall not go empty. Ye shall spoil the Egyptians. And again, what he promised he
performed. Now this would all be meaningless
or meaningful, no more and no less than any other event in
history, except for one thing. This is God's promise to you.
This is God's performance for us. It shall come to pass that
when you go, you shall not go empty. You shall spoil the Egyptians. Don't turn there now and read
it, but jot down Exodus chapter 35, and please do read it later. All the riches, all the riches,
I kept reading folks commenting on this and they said, well,
these things became a snare to the Jews and they used them to
make that golden calf. They did, but not all of them.
Not all of them. Not all of them. All the riches
that God gave to Israel as they left Egypt were taken by them
and given to God willingly, willingly for the making of the ark. and
the altar and the mercy seat and all the furnishings of the
tabernacle. Read the 35th chapter of Exodus. God made this covenant
promise. You shall spoil the Egyptians.
And it was a covenant promise made with Abraham 400 years before
most of these folks were ever born. You can read it back in
Genesis 15, 14. He said, afterwards shall they
come out with great substance. They're going down there of poor,
needy people, and they're going to be stripped of what they take
with them into there. They're going to be in bondage
for 400 years. But when they come out, they're
going to come out wealthier than any people in the world. With
regard to God's true Israel, the promise is a promise of universal
application. Let me show you. Turn, if you
will, to Revelation chapter 21. I'll get there in a minute. This is what we read in the book
of Job. This is the portion of a wicked man with God. The portion
of a wicked man. That's everybody outside Christ.
This is his portion. Though he heap up silver as the
dust, and prepare raiment as clay, man piles up piles and
piles and piles of silver, and he gathers up clothes, buys the
latest fashion, latest style, has everything a man could want.
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on. You mean everything that any
unbelieving man has in this world, the just shall put it on? That's
what I mean. This is what the wise man said, the wealth of
the sinner is laid up for the just. I don't remember where
I read it some years ago, back during the days of, just after
slavery, just black fellows working hard, Somebody came along and
said something to one of the rich landowners and asked him
how he could be so happy while he's working so hard, don't own
anything. White folks have everything.
And that black fellow looked at him and he said, y'all don't
owns it. Y'all having the car that owns
it, y'all just paying taxes on it. We get to enjoy it. That's
the way it is. This world belongs to our father. That means it belongs to us.
He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. All the gold in the deep
mines are his. And if my father's rich, David,
I'm rich. That's just all there is to it. The righteous shall
put it on. Now look here in Revelation chapter
21. Paul said, all things are yours, and it's going to be shown
in the last day. John said in verse 1, I saw a
new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. Verse 22, and
I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are the temple of it, and no need of the sun, need of the
moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb is the light thereof. Now look at verse 24, and the
nations of them which are saved, that's not talking about saved
nations, there's no such thing as that. That's talking about
the people out of every nation that are saved. "...shall walk
in the light of it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory
and honor into it." Into the kingdom of God? That's what he's
saying. But what does that mean? Verse
26. "...and they shall bring the glory and honor of nations
into it." Everything in all creation. Everything. of any significance,
of any use, of any benefit, shall be brought to our God. Everything. How is it that God's elect spoil
the Egyptians? How are we made rich by that
which was once our ruin? First, when Israel went out of
Egypt, there were numerous Egyptians who were delivered with them.
A mixed multitude. We read in Exodus 12.38. If you
turn to Isaiah chapter 19, You'll discover the prophet giving the
burden of Egypt, and after describing God's judgments on Egypt, describing
the terrible woe and calamity that came upon Egypt, he says
in verse 18, in that day, five cities in the land of Egypt shall
speak the language of Canaan. They shall speak the language
of God's people, the language of those who've inherited God's
grace. There shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the
land of Egypt, a pillar at the border for a witness to the Lord
of hosts in the land of Egypt. They shall cry to the Lord. Now
listen to this, verse 20. He shall send them a Savior,
a great one, and he shall deliver them. That mixed multitude. I
have no idea how many. great multitudes of the Egyptians
went with Israel out of Egypt, across the Red Sea, believing
God as it were the first fruits of God gathering His elect out
of all the nations of the earth, even of Egypt. Second, when our
Lord Jesus redeemed us by his blood. He spoiled the Prince
of Darkness and all evil represented by Pharaoh in Egypt, blooding
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross, having spoiled principalities and powers, and made a show of
them openly, triumphing over them in his cross. He restored
that which he took not away. gives us God's word and says
he shall divide the spoil with the strong. That is to say he
shall divide the spoil among the strong. Or divide the strong
as a spoil. He takes possession of all flesh. Sits down on the throne of sovereign
majesty. holding in His right hand dominion
and authority absolutely over all flesh to give eternal life
to as many as the Father has given Him. And then when the
Lord God comes in the power of His saving grace to set the captives
free, He causes His ransomed ones to spoil the Egyptians. Listen to this. of a great spoil divided, the
lame take the prey. The people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquities. Therefore, all they that devour
these shall be devoured." And then at last, in the last day,
God's going to fulfill that which he required back in Leviticus
chapters 5 and 6. He gave a law called the law
of restitution. And he required that any man
who suffered any injury by the hand of another not only have
that which he had lost restored to him, but that he be benefited
by the loss of it. He said, you took that man's
cow? You took five of them? I require
you give him six back. You took 80? I require you give
100 back. You give back all that was taken and one-fifth part
more. And so it shall be with God's
elect she hath received the Lord's hand double for all her sins,
forgiveness and grace and glory forever. And everything shall
be brought by the Lord Jesus to bow at his feet. And he will
present the kingdom to the Father that God may be all in all forever. You shall not go out empty, but
to you shall be ministered an abundant entrance into the kingdom
of heaven by our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.