Address—C. Hendricks
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Turn tonight to Romans chapter 5 for a verse.
Romans chapter 5 and verse 12.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world.
And death by sin. And so death passed upon all men.
For that, all have sinned. Here we see the consequences of sin coming into the world.
Resulted in death, death passing upon all men.
That was one of the consequences, but there are others.
And.
One of the others is that when man sinned, he listened to the voice of the tempter.
The enemy, the deceiver, the liar, Satan himself.
And he fell under his power.
And I'd like to look at the theme of redemption tonight. Man is a slave to sin. He's a slave to Satan.
And the strange thing about this is that.
We're living in the enlightened 20th century where man denies even that Satan exists.
He was a figment of the Dark Ages, man's imagination and superstitious mind.
Inventing this fictitious figure, so they think the devil, well, he is no fictitious figure. He is a very real power, and he's the one that was the instrument that led the human race into a state of sin. And the consequences of that sin is death. And so we know that man is a Sinner because everyone dies. The wages of sin is death, and it is appointed unto man once to die and after this.
The judgment.
The awful judgment. That's why man doesn't want to think about death. He puts it off. And Satan wields the power of death over man to keep him in ******* and in slavery to himself. We see that in Hebrews 2. Let's turn to Hebrews chapter 2.
Hebrews chapter 2, verse.
14.
For as much, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood.
He also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death where all their lifetime subject to *******. Man is a slave to Satan. He's afraid of death. He doesn't want to talk about it, he doesn't want to think about it.
And Satan wields this power of death over man to keep him.
In slavery to himself.
Man is in a terrible slavery, he doesn't realize it, especially people in this land, the land of freedom and liberty it is, it is boasted, and yet man is a slave to sin. The Lord said he that committeth sin is the servant of sin, and the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth ever, if the Son shall make you free.
Ye shall be free indeed.
Let's look at a number of scriptures which speak of Satan in the position that he has acquired through Man's Fall. John's Gospel, chapter 12.
John's Gospel, chapter 12.
And verse 31.
Now is the judgment of this world.
Now shall the Prince of this world be cast out, and I if I be lifted up from the earth, pointing forward to the cross, of course we'll draw all men unto me, not just Jews, but Gentiles as well.
This, he said, signifying what death he should die.
Now is the Prince.
Of this world cast out.
Well, there he's called the Prince of this world again in chapter 14.
He's named that the ruler of this world. That's what the word means, the Prince or ruler of this world.
Chapter 14, verse 30 The Lord Jesus again speaking hereafter. I will not talk much with you.
For the Prince, the ruler of this world, cometh, and hath nothing.
In me.
There was nothing in the Lord Jesus that could afford a handle for the.
Enemy the Satan to grab onto and find a way of entrance into him, into his heart.
He was the holy One of God. He was the one that had a nature that abhorred evil.
And it was holy.
Holy altogether, he had nothing in him that he could find a point of attack.
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To Causeway the Lord to fall because he was the Holy one of God.
The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me. With you and me it's different. We have an evil nature, a sinful nature.
And that's how Satan attacks us. He attacks us through the flesh, through the world. He uses the world, and then he attacks us through the flesh. If we didn't have that evil principle of sin within, he wouldn't have a way to attack now in the 16th chapter of John's Gospel.
He's talking here about the coming of the Holy Spirit.
And he says in verse 7, nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away.
For if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto you, But if I depart.
I will send him unto you.
And when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Of sin because they believe not on me. Of righteousness because I go to my Father.
And ye see me no more.
Now here it is of judgment, because the Prince of this world is judged. We saw in chapter 12. Now is the judgment of this world. Here we read of the judgment of its Prince.
The Prince of this world is judged. Satan knows that his time is short. He is increasing his activities of evil against the people of God as never before. We're at the end of the day of grace. This dispensation is about to close and Satan is very active in these days, seems as though he has the upper hand, but he is defeated. We're going to see that as we trace out this beautiful subject of Christ.
Our Redeemer. We have to know what we're redeemed from. We're redeemed from Satan's power. We're redeemed from the power of sin and from this world system that Satan is the Prince of. Now let's turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4.
Where he's given another title.
In Two Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3, the apostle writes if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.
In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
Should shine unto them now. This is Satan's title in connection with the world's religions.
He's the God of this world. He is the author of every false religion that is down here.
He is the God of this world, and he uses false religion to blind the minds of those that hear the gospel so that they.
They will try another way, another religion, another way of approach. Basically, there's there's only two basic principles that characterize every religion that's ever been here. The principle of.
Man has to do something in order to gain God's favor or grace. Grace brings. Man is in as altogether lost.
And unable to do anything. There is nothing so humbling as grace, because it makes nothing of us.
And it makes everything of God.
I love the distinction that I learned from Mr. Darby in reading his writings. Mercy is great in the greatness of the need.
Grace is great in the greatness of the giver.
Mercy addresses our need and meets it.
Grace brings out the heart of God.
The blessing that He brings us into altogether apart from ourselves, it's all.
That which flows from his heart of love.
Well, we have a formidable enemy.
The God and Prince of this world. The Prince or ruler of this world, man.
Is under Satan's power, whether he realizes it or not, whether he denies that Satan even exists. He's a slave to the enemy, to Satan. Now turn to Luke chapter 22. Luke chapter 22.
Verse 50 They're in the garden here, I believe.
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest.
And cut off his right ear.
And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far, And he touched his ear and healed him.
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Here was the energy of nature in Peter.
Defending his Master, defending his Lord.
And the Lord tells him.
Suffer ye thus far another gospel, put up the sword into the sheath.
Later take the sword will perish with the sword. These are not the weapons of his warfare.
And so he touches the ear of the one whose ear had been cut off. Malchus, servant.
And heals him.
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests and captains of the temple, and the elders which were come to him.
Be ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves.
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me.
But this is your hour and the power.
Of darkness.
Man thought he was free.
Here we see that the restraint which had been placed upon man's wrath, the limits which had been assigned to his evil nature, he had sought to kill the Lord several times. 4th chapter of this Gospel of Luke tells us that after he had spoken of the grace that was shown to Naaman the Syrian. There were many lepers in Israel, but only Naaman was healed. There were many widows, but only the widow of Sarepta was.
Blast.
Grace to Gentiles. They were filled with rage and fury and wrath, and they took him out of the synagogue and led him to the top of the hill.
To dash him off and kill him. Of course, had they done that, he would have walked away at the bottom unharmed, because until his time had come.
He was.
Unassailable.
I love the account Mr. Bellitz, the son of God. I was reading it again recently, haven't read it since a young man and I read it again recently and he talked about the time when the ark was taken captive by the Philistines.
The Jews had brought the Ark, The Israelites had brought the Ark into their camp to think that it would have some magical power to give them the victory over the Philistines. But it didn't.
God didn't allow that to happen.
But he did allow the Philistines to capture the Ark, and wherever it went in whatever city it was, there was judgment upon those cities, and the Philistines were being plagued by the fact that they had the Ark.
Why didn't he raises this question? Why didn't they just smash it? It was just a box, something like we've got up here. Why didn't they just smash it? It was made out of wood overlaid with gold. And his answer was they couldn't.
It was unassailable. It spoke of Christ. Why didn't they just get rid of the Lord Jesus? They hated Him. So they tried over and over again, but it says there in Luke 4, He passing through the midst of them, went His way.
Again, in John 8, when he told them who he was before Abraham was I am, he said.
Claiming to be the Jehovah God of the Old Testament, who he indeed was, become a man now.
And they took up stones to cast at him because he was guilty. They fought of blasphemy, and he again went through the midst of them untouched. But now he says, this is your hour.
And the power of darkness, the divine restraint, is now removed. And now man is free. Free. Free to do what he wanted to do. Free. Did I say free? He was never more the slave and tool of Satan than when he obtained his freedom from the divine restraint.
Let man do what he wants to do, and he's the greatest slave of the devil that you could ever think of. And this is what it was here. This is your and the power of darkness.
We're under a power which is much stronger and mightier than we. Turn to Acts chapter 26.
Acts Chapter 26.
Here, Paul is presenting his defense before Agrippa.
And telling of his conversion.
We'll start the account at verse 12. I believe you all know it.
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and Commission from the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven above, the brightness of the sun shining round about me in them which journeyed with me.
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, I persecutest thou me?
It is hard.
For thee to kick against the ******.
And I said, Who art thou, Lord?
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And he said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.
But rise and stand upon thy feet.
For I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make the a minister and a witness, both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.
Delivering thee from the people and the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee. Now notice what his Commission was for.
To open their eyes, he needed his eyes opened. He was blinded by his religious prejudice as a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
He verily thought with himself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. He thought he was a false Messiah, He thought he was an impostor, and he did everything to persecute those who followed him.
Now he's saved, he's converted, he's come to know the one Who art thou, Lord? And the answer comes back, I am Jesus.
Who now persecutest?
Think of the impact those words had upon the man's soul, Saul, as he wrestles with the the awful fact that all his religious energies had been spent in opposition to to God's truth. He had been a tool of Satan.
Slave of the devil in his opposition to the Christians in John 16, the Lord said that time will come when those who persecute you.
Will think that they do God's service.
And so Saul of Tarsus thought so. But he was.
Blinded.
Blinded by Satan, the God of this world had blinded his mind. He was there consenting to the death of the first Christian martyr, Stephen.
Now he's converted.
And he's to be the minister of the truth, to open their eyes, verse 18, and to turn them from darkness to light.
As he had been, and from the power of Satan unto God as he had been.
That they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them, which are sanctified.
By faith that is in me. Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.
But showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, throughout all the coasts of Judea.
And then to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God and do works meet.
For repentance.
To turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. Everyone of us in this room.
Had to have this happen to them. If they're saved, if you're saved, if you know the Lord.
You had to be turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Let's look at one more verse in Colossians chapter 1.
Colossians, chapter 1.
Verse 12.
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness?
And hath translated us into the Kingdom.
Of his dear son.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
What has he done? He's delivered us from the power of darkness.
And translated us into the Kingdom of the Sun of his love.
Before we turn to the Old Testament type that beautifully brings out the truth of redemption.
I'd like to read to you two more verses, one in one Timothy 2.
Three more verses, one Timothy 2, two from the New Testament and one from the Old. What was the price?
That had to be paid in order to effect our redemption.
Well, in One Timothy 2.
Verse 3 it says this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved.
And to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men.
The Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.
To be testified in due time, he had to give himself.
As a ransom for all.
Now turn to Matthew.
20 I believe it is.
Matthew 20.
Verse.
25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the Princess of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them.
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And they that are?
Great exercise authority upon them.
But it shall not be so among you. But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant, even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.
And to give his life.
A ransom for many.
Says in Timothy he gave himself a ransom for all. The ransom Price was himself here he gave his life a ransom for many, his precious life. Now turn back to Leviticus 17.
2 will connect.
This truth of his giving is life, giving himself and His life a ransom for all and for many.
With this verse in Leviticus 17.
Verse 11 for the life.
Of the flesh.
Is in the blood.
And I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for.
The soul, we're redeemed, we're ransomed by the precious blood of Christ.
When he gave his life, he shed his precious blood. The evidence, the proof that his life was given up.
To pay for our redemption. Now let's turn back to Exodus chapter 12.
Exodus chapter 12 and we know the story. It's the account of the Passover. So I won't read all the verses but just a few.
Starting at verse 21 of Exodus chapter 12.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb, according to your families, and kill the Passover.
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop. Hyssop here in the type speaks of faith.
That which appropriates the value of the blood to ourselves, faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him. We must believe, we must have faith. So without the hyssop, without the application of the blood to the doorposts and the lentil of the houses, there was no safety for them. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood. The fact that the blood was shed and collected into basin didn't save them. They had to apply it to the doorposts and lentil.
Dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the lentil in the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin.
And none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
So the application of the blood to the houses, what answers to that today is the application?
Of the death of Christ, the blood of Christ to ourselves, to our souls, to save us.
Verse 23 Now For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when he seeth the blood upon the lentil, and on the two side posts, the Lord will Passover the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee, and to thy sons forever. And it shall come to pass, when you become to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
That ye shall say, it is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smoked the Egyptians and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
And it came to pass, verse 29, that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born.
In the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh that sat on the throne, there was none that escaped this judgment.
Unto the first born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first born of cattle. Why the cattle? Well, that's the God that the Egyptians worshipped. And it says in the 12TH verse, and I'll read it the 12TH verse. I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.
All the false religions.
Were brought under the judgment of God. In this event, the first born those that were.
The first fruit of their strength and.
They're the ones that came under the judgment of God. The first born of Israel were preserved. They were safe. They were kept from that judgment. There are many Christians that never get beyond this. They don't get beyond the Passover in their apprehension of the gospel. There's far more than the Passover, as we'll see in a moment. But what we have here is the destroyer coming through the land, God coming through the land as a judge.
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Coming through to judge the first born and the blood screening them, sheltering them from that destroying Angel.
That's as far as many get. They see the blood of Christ sheltering them from a God in judgment coming through.
They're still in Egypt. They're still bondsmen. They don't still, they still don't have a song. It says they worship there.
But they don't have a song, they're not redeemed, they're not a saved people yet they're still.
In ******* the blood didn't keep the Egyptians out. An Egyptian could have come into an Israelites house and.
Slain them.
The blood kept God out, God as a judge passing through the land. But the gospel brings us into far more than that. What answers to that would be Romans chapter 3, where you have the blood of Christ setting us in safety before God.
Let's turn over now to the 14th chapter where you have the Red Sea. What answers to the Red Sea is the end of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.
Chapter 4 said he was delivered for our offenses and he was raised again for our justification.
It wasn't until they crossed the sea that they got out of Egypt, out of the House of ******* out from under the power of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. It wasn't till then that they could say they were a redeemed people. We have in chapter 12 redemption by blood and in chapter 14 redemption by power, the power of the resurrection bringing us into an altogether new position before God.
It's not now God against our sins and being screened from his judgment by the blood.
It's now God acting for us, God being for us, as you have in Romans 8, if God be for us.
Who can be against us he that?
Spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Well, in chapter 14, let's read some verses.
Verse 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes.
Israel had left Egypt now, and now the Egyptians decide to pursue after them. There's a mountain on either side. There's the Red Sea in front, the armies of the Egyptians pursuing from behind. They're wedged in. They have no place to flee. That's their predicament.
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them, and they were sore afraid, and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, thou hast taken us.
To die in the wilderness. Wherefore hast thou dealt us with us, to carry us forth?
Out of Egypt, Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?
For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. Moses said unto the people.
Fear not.
Stand still.
And see the salvation of the Lord.
Which he will show to you today.
For the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
Ye shall see them again no more.
Forever.
The Lord shall fight for you. Oh, this is an entirely different thing than God coming through as a judge in the land and being stayed from his judgment by the blood and the doorposts and the lentils. This is now God fighting for them against their enemies, against Satan.
There are many in the experience of their souls. They're still under Satan's power. They think they are. They don't see that Satan has been totally vanquished. His power has been destroyed.
How many Christians fear Satan?
We're never told to fear Satan. We're told to fear God.
I will tell you whom ye shall fear. Fear him who, after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yeah, I say unto you.
Fear him, and that's not Satan.
Satan's going to be cast into hell by God himself. That's God we're told to fear. We have nothing to fear of Satan. All we have to do as Christians is to walk in obedience to the Word of God, and Satan cannot touch us.
As long as we deny the flesh, keep it in the place of death, and walk in subjection.
To the Lord, we have No Fear of Satan, no need to fear him. He's a defeated foe. We'll see that beautifully brought out here.
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The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore Christ, thou unto me, speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And I behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. And I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his Chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten the honor upon Pharaoh, and upon his Chariots, and upon his horsemen.
And the Angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them.
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and it was a cloud in darkness to them, to the Egyptians.
And it gave light by night to these the Israelites, so that the one came not near the other all the night.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong E wind all that night.
And made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided, and the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground.
When the Lord went through, it wasn't dry.
The waves and billows of divine wrath against sin rolled over him. But now we can go through. The Israelites could go through on dry ground.
The Judgment had been born, the Wrath had been exhausted, and now they can go through.
Those waters of death.
The hymn writer writes you can just picture the Israelites having crossed the Red Sea and looking back and saying death and judgment are behind us, grace and glory are before beautiful picture that we have here at the Red Sea.
It says in verse 23 the Egyptians pursued.
And went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his Chariots, and his horsemen.
And it came to pass that in the morning watch the Lord looked under the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire.
And of the cloud and trouble, the host of the Egyptians.
And took off their chariot wheels that they drive them heavily, so that the Egyptians said, let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. This is quite an advance over what we have at the Passover where God passes through the land as a destroying Angel and the blood screens the Israelites from the judgment of God. Here we have God on the basis of that shed blood, now undertaking the cause of the Israelites.
Those that were sheltered by that precious blood now become the objects of His preserving power.
Through the Red Sea and the judgment falls upon the enemy, Those waters of death that they pass through a wall of water on either side, and they went through the sea was salvation to the Israelites. It was judgment, death and judgment to the Egyptians. Notice what happens.
Verse 26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their Chariots, and upon their horses.
Horsemen and Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength.
When the morning appeared and the Egyptians fled against it.
And the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, and the waters returned and covered the Chariots and the horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There remained not so much as one of them. There remained not so much as one of them. That's important. The enemy has been totally vanquished, totally destroyed. There's no more power left in the enemy. He cannot touch any of us if we walk in obedience.
The only way he attacks us is through the flesh and the world.
And if we keep the flesh in the place of death and the power of the Spirit of God.
He has no way of getting at us, none whatsoever.
This idea that the Satan made me do it for a Christian.
Is untrue. I allowed him.
To do it.
It's not necessary for the Christian ever to yield to Satan's temptations. We have a power now that is beyond his, and he has been totally destroyed again. Hebrews 2. I'll quote it again. Since the children partake of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same. That through death. Here they are going through the waters of death. Picture of the Red Sea. That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death. That is the devil.
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Pharaoh enters in with his hosts behind to recapture Israel. He was destroyed by those very waters of death and judgment.
Pharaoh was destroyed and all his hosts there remained not so much as one of them.
Through death he destroyed him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and delivered them.
Who, through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to ******* were no longer in *******. We're redeemed now.
We're no longer under Satan's power. He's been vanquished. We're no longer under the Egyptians.
The Israelites were no longer under the power of the Egyptians, nor the power of Pharaoh, nor any longer in Egypt.
They're redeemed.
Thus.
Verse 29.
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea.
And the waters were a wall unto them, on their right hand and on their left.
Those waters of death, the death of Christ, spell salvation for us.
And judgment for the world.
Thus the Lord saved Israel the first time the word saved is used. It's never used when they were still in Egypt. They weren't a saved people in Egypt.
They were safe under the shelter of the blood, but they weren't saved because they were still subject to Pharaoh's power and to the Egyptians power. They were still in the world, Egypt. Now they're out of that, they're saved.
You talk to a Christian, you say, are you saved? Yes. What are you saved from?
Generally they'll say I'm safe from hell. Well, what else are you saved from?
Saved from all the evils of this world and all the attractions of this world. Really. Are you really practically? Is it so with me and with you that we're really saved from all these things? Yes. Have we made it good in our lives? That's a question we have to answer before the Lord.
A saved people, thus the Lord saved.
It's a very it's a word that's quite often used by fundamental Bible believing Christians. They use it.
And it doesn't seem to really mean that much to them. What are we really saved from? We're saved from the old lifestyle of sin and of pleasing self, and of all the evils that appeal to the natural man were saved from all that.
To be altogether for him. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
The enemy has been vanquished, destroyed.
And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord in His servant Moses.
Now I want you to notice carefully the song of Moses, which.
Was sung here in Exodus 15. It is celebrating the mightiness of God. It is celebrating the power of God. It is celebrating the work of God. It is celebrating his salvation, his deliverance for the people. Very little said about Israel.
It's God all the way through. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare him in habitation my Father's God, and I will exalt him.
The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name.
Pharaoh's Chariots and his hosts hath he cast into the sea. His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them. They sank into the bottom as a stone.
Thy right hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power. Thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
And in the greatness of thine Excellency, thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee.
Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble, and with a blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the flood stood upright as in heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, I will overtake, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Thou didst blow with thy wind. The sea covered them. They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Who is like unto thee, O Lord among the gods? Who is like the glorious in holiness, fearful in praise, is doing wonders.
Thou stretchest for out thy right hand. The earth swallowed them.
Thou in thy mercy has LED forth the people which thou hast redeemed. Now they can be spoken of as a redeemed people.
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They're coming out of Egypt clean out of Satan's power, clean out from under the.
Dominion of the Egyptians. They are redeemed now.
Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. The people shall hear and be afraid. Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. Then the Dukes of Edom shall be amazed. The mighty men of Moab, trembling, shall take hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm. They shall be as still as a stone. Till thy people Passover, O Lord, till the people Passover which thou hast purchased.
Not only are redeemed people set free from all the power of Satan, the power of darkness.
The attractions of this world. But we are purchased. We're his now.
He has bought us. He created us. He has a double title upon us. We're his by creation and we're his by purchase. We belong to Him. We're not our own. We're bought with a price.
Thou shalt bring them in now. They look on to the end of the wilderness. They have been brought out of Egypt now. Now they look on to the accomplishment of God's purposes. Thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy hands have established. Heaven is assured to us as that we're saved today.
He has brought us out, He's going to bring us in.
It's just a matter of a few more moments down here. The Lord shall reign forever and ever.
For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his Chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them, but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Someone asked me just recently, did Pharaoh die in this in the sea? Of course he did.
Type would be totally marred if he didn't.
He's a type of Satan.
Was Satan destroyed at the cross through the death and resurrection of Christ? Absolutely. His power was broken.
And here it says, the horse of Pharaoh went in with his Chariots and with his horsemen into the sea. He perished with the rest of the Egyptians, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them, But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. That's repeated over and over again.
No judgment for us. We go through on dry land.
Dry land, All the wrath of God fell upon Christ. He bore the judgment for us.
Now we go through.
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand.
And all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, singing to the Lord. For he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider hath he thrown.
Into the sea.
What a beautiful type.
What a wonderful thing redemption is. Redemption by blood at the Passover, sheltering us from the judgment of a holy God that passed through the land to destroy all the first born that weren't under the shelter of the blood.
But that's only the first part of the Gospel. Then we have redemption by power, setting us free from Egypt, from Pharaoh, from the Egyptians, from Satan, from the flesh, and from this world.
Bringing us to God, and He's going to bring us in shortly. Now let's turn to a passage in the New Testament that sets this before us. Titus chapter 3.
I could go to Romans, but there's not enough time. That would take too long. So we'll just look at the Titus chapter 3 chapter.
Verse 3 of Titus 3 For we ourselves also were.
Sometimes foolish.
Disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. That's you might say, that's a picture of Israel in Egypt, in the House of *******. We were once in that state of things that's described in that verse.
Now verse 4. But after that, after that, the kindness.
And love of God, our Savior toward man, appeared.
Not by works of righteousness, which we have done.
But according to his mercy, he saved us.
Brought us out of Egypt, brought us out of the House of ******* by the washing of regeneration. That's the Red Sea. The washing of regeneration is a change of position. There's only one other passage in the New Testament where regeneration is used. It's in Matthew.
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Matthew's Gospel, chapter 20, I believe.
Matthew 20.
Verse 28 And Jesus said unto them.
Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me.
In the regeneration.
When the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon 12 Thrones judging.
The 12 tribes of Israel. There the millennial state of things is referred to.
As the regeneration.
This world will be regenerated. It will be a new heavens and a new earth in a sense, as Isaiah speaks of it.
Not the eternal state, but the millennial state.
Everything's going to be changed here.
A man shall die an infant of days at 100.
Man's life shall be as the life of a tree.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.
The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
The desert will blossom as the Rose.
There will be handfuls of corn on the top of the mountains. The ploughman will overtake the Reaper.
What a day of productivity it will be. The Earth will be regenerated. It will be like a new birth for this Earth.
The Earth will have changed. It will be the regeneration.
Now a man has to labor hard, hard, hard in order to get the earth to produce in that day. It will bring forth in abundance. Just think of it, handfuls of corn on the top of the mountains, the desert blossoming, blossoming as the Rose. That's what's going to happen, and it's called the regeneration. Now, Paul uses that very same word to describe our salvation. He has saved us. By the washing of regeneration. We've been brought out of the old into a new.
Position before God. We're no longer in Adam, we are in Christ.
We're no longer in the flesh, we're in the spirit. There's been a complete change of position.
We've been brought to God. We are not the same as we once were. We were once sinners, now we are Saints. We were once slaves, now we are redeemed. We were once dead in trespasses and sins, now we have his life.
We once had not the Spirit of God, only our spirit. Now we are indwelt of His Spirit, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
We have a new power, the Spirit of God.
We are now justified. We were guilty. We were sinners. We've been brought to God. We're reconciled. The enmity has been removed.
All these wonderful truths were now in Christ in the Spirit.
We're different.
Now the greatest challenge that you're going to be faced with young people who are in this room tonight.
Today, in this day, is peer pressure.
Remember, if you belong to Christ, you are different. He's made you different.
You've passed through those waters of death and resurrection.
And now you're on the resurrection side. You belong to Him. He has bought you. You are His, doubly His.
You owe everything to him.
You no longer can live as you once lived. You are different. He has made you different. And you have to say no now to the things the world wants you to to do. You have to say I belong to Christ. He has bought me. He's my Lord, He's my master. I serve him not pleasures any longer, not sin any longer, not Satan any longer. I'm redeemed from that. Satan's power has been vanquished. I now belong to Christ. I'm a redeemed soul.
How did he save us?
Not by works of righteousness, which we have done.
We can't get there by our own works.
But according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration, bringing us clean out of the old and bringing us into the new. If any man be in Christ, there's a new creation. He's a new creature. All things are passed away. All things are become new. You're not what you were.
You're different. You should be different because you are different if you're a Christian.
The washing of regeneration.
And renewing of the Holy Ghost. Not only do we have a new position before God, but we have a new life.
We're born of the Spirit of God, born again, born by the Spirit. He has renewed us.
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A new life, a life that is suitable to that new position that He has brought us into in Christ.
More than that, More than that.
Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Spirit of God now indwells us. Not only has he renewed us, given us a new nature.
We're born of water and of the Spirit. Not only so, but we're sealed by the Spirit.
He has been shed upon us abundantly. He'll never be taken from us.
We may grieve him, we may quench him, but we'll never send him away. He has taken up his permanent abode in your body. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which he have of God which is in you. And you're not your own. You're bought with a price.
And then he says that being justified by his grace.
We should be made heirs.
According to the Hope.
Of eternal life.
Justified by his grace, made righteous altogether by grace, not by works of righteousness, which we have done.
But by His grace, He has given us a standing of perfect righteousness before Himself.
Christ is our righteousness.
And we have the hope of eternal life. Why is it presented here as a hope?
Other scriptures speak of it as a present possession. We have eternal life now.
That's mostly John's ministry.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
We have life in the sun.
But here it's presented as a future thing. I like to give the illustration of a diver. He's down at the bottom of the ocean. He's being pumped this precious life, giving air from above. He's breathing the air from above. But he's down in a hostile environment. Should that supply of air cease, he would.
He's in an enemy's territory. Then he pulls the cord and they bring him up to the top, takes the helmet off, takes the diving suit off. He breathes up there, the very same air that he breathed at the bottom of the ocean. Same air, same life, but altogether different circumstances. When he's up in the ship, it's the air that's he's in the scene where it's proper to it now. And that's what heaven's going to be like when we get home to glory. We have eternal life now, but it's held out here as a future hope.
Hope of eternal life, because we don't have it in the scene which is proper to it now. We have it in an enemy's land, but we're going to be there where eternal life that we have now will be in all its blessed fullness. Every object that we feast our eyes upon will be suitable to that life and that nature that has been given to us by the mighty grace of God.
That's salvation.
Aren't you glad you're saved? Aren't you glad you're redeemed tonight to know that you're clean, brought out of Egypt, the world, the flesh and the devil, that the death and resurrection of Christ has destroyed the enemy totally. There wasn't so much as one that was left. They all perished in the sea. We don't have to fear Satan round the side of the victor. And soon he's going to take us out of this scene. And then redemption will reach to our bodies, the redemption of our body. Let's just read that in in.
And then we'll close redemption of our bodies. We don't have that yet. We have the redemption of our souls, but the redemption of our bodies we're still waiting for.
Verse 22 Romans 8 For we know that the whole creation.
Groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit.
Even we ourselves groan within ourselves. Not only is the creation around us groaning, we're groaning too.
Waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
For we are saved. It should read in hope, in the condition of hope.
We're not saved by hope, but we're saved in the condition of hope.
But hope that his scene is not hope.
For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Hope for the Christian is an absolute certainty, but it's not seen yet. We haven't seen him.
They haven't seen the glory, but we are sure of it. We're saved in hope. In that condition. We know we're going to be there just as sure as it says in Exodus 15. Thou shall bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance.
Soon that's going to take place. Maybe tonight, maybe tonight it will take place and we'll be home.
Let's close by singing #52.
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#52.
Lord, we are thine bought by Thy blood, once the poor guilty slaves of sin, but Thou redeemest us to God, and makes Thy Spirit dwell within. Thou hast our sinful wanderings, born with love and patience, all divine as brands. Then from the burning torn we own that we are holy Vine 52.