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If you open your Bible, please, as we turn to the Word of God and to a most interesting

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portion of Scripture in the book of Exodus.

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Most people find the Word of God occasionally difficult to understand.

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How much more so do we find the silence of God difficult to understand?

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If you have ever struggled with the apparent lack of God's response to your trouble and

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to your prayers, perhaps you can sympathize with the Israelites in their time of bondage

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in Egypt.

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They cried unto God, and for long years God seemed to do nothing at all.

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Even an announcement from Moses and Aaron regarding their eminent deliverance from the

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hand of Pharaoh in the end seemed empty to them.

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After delivering God's ultimatum to Pharaoh, the bondage of the Israelites under the Egyptians

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became even more severe.

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They felt that they would have been better off if Moses had said nothing.

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Even Moses wondered what God was doing in the fifth chapter in the twenty-second verse

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as we read last week.

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He went before the Lord and he said, Why?

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Why hast thou brought harm to this people?

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And why didst thou ever send me?

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The Israelites would not listen to Moses even when Moses brought them a fresh word from

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God.

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Their response was one of turning him off, not listening to him.

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Moses then in verse twelve of chapter six spoke to the Lord again and he said, Behold,

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the sons of Israel have not listened to me.

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And now his concern is further spoken as he says, How then will Pharaoh listen to me?

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For I am unskilled in speech.

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Already once he has gone before Pharaoh and Pharaoh said, Forget it.

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Now we know that this is a major concern on his heart because again he repeats this in

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verse thirty.

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Behold I am unskillful in speech.

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How then will Pharaoh listen to me?

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Moses has a deep concern.

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What is going to get the attention of Pharaoh?

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Beginning in chapter seven God responds to that.

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That question opens the door for God to bring forth upon Egypt the plagues as we call them.

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You and I must be careful never to misinterpret the silence of God as the disinterest of God.

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You and I must be careful not to think that the patience of God is in action on his part

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because that is not the case.

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When God seems to be silent it is because he has nothing more to say and it is time

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for his people then to trust.

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Israelites were not doing a very good job of that at this point.

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Moses and Aaron again are dispatched by the Lord to confront Pharaoh which they do.

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Begin in verse eight of chapter seven.

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The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying when Pharaoh speaks to you saying, Work a miracle.

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Then you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh that it may

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become a serpent.

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So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded.

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And Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a serpent.

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Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers.

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They also, the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts.

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For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents.

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How did they do that?

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A lot of suggestions have been given.

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I think the best one is simply that they were empowered by the devil to do this.

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But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs showing the superiority of God.

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Yet Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them as the Lord had said.

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That set the stage my friend for God to send his plagues upon Egypt.

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Observe with me the plagues.

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We will look at nine of them today and reserve the tenth for next week.

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The first plague was water changed to blood.

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Begins in verse fourteen on through the end of chapter seven.

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Look at verse nineteen.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand

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over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, their pools, their reservoirs

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of water, that they may become blood.

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There shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels

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of stone.

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And so Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord had commanded.

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And he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile in the sight of

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Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants.

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And all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

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And the fish that were in the Nile died.

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And the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile.

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And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

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The Nile was sacred to the Egyptians.

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They considered it to be the bloodstream of Osiris, their god of crops and fertility.

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Isn't it interesting that God chose to change the bloodstream as they looked at it into

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blood?

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The judgment of God upon the Nile was a judgment upon the deity, actually several deities associated

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with the Nile, in the false theology of the Egyptians.

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Its annual flooding provided abundant crops for them.

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And of course they looked upon this as the blessing of their gods.

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It was customary that each summer Pharaoh would lead ceremonies in honor of the river

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and the river's deities.

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It is thought that perhaps it was at one of these very ceremonies that Moses and Aaron

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appeared.

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And thus in the sight of everyone gathered for the ceremony in honor of the river, the

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god of the Hebrews smote the river so that in their sight it became blood.

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Whatever the chemical change that occurred in the river, it caused the death of all the

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fish.

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You can only imagine the stench that was involved in that.

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And it says in verse 22 that the magicians duplicated this very miracle.

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The magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts and Pharaoh's heart was hardened

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and he did not listen to them as the Lord had said.

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It is wondered where they got their fresh water.

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It appears that they may have gotten it from natural springs of water which perhaps were

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not affected by this miracle.

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The reservoirs where the large or even pots and pans certainly were affected.

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The Nile was affected.

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But perhaps natural springs were not.

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Or perhaps they gathered the water in the way that is suggested in verse 24.

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The water may have been filtered through the sand so that as they dug down they were able

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to dig into pits where water eventually then drained purely and without the blood.

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But the magicians were able to come up with some water and they changed that water into

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blood by their secret arts.

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It did not change Pharaoh.

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He only hardened his heart further.

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This plague lasted seven days.

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And then another plague was brought upon the Egyptians.

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This one was a plague of frogs, chapter 8, verses 1 through 15.

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There was always an abundance of frogs when the river receded in the fall from its flood

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stage.

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But not at this time of the year.

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For this was summertime.

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This was July and August, the very time of the year in which we are right now.

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At this time of year frogs were not normally in abundance.

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But here God causes the frogs to be in such abundance that they were in their beds, they

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were in their ovens, they were in the food, in their kitchen pots and pans, everywhere

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there were frogs.

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Frogs even crawled on their persons.

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Now this was especially problematic to the Egyptians because the frogs were not to be

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killed.

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They were objects of worship.

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I think God is rather humorous here.

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The very gods that they worshiped became a plague to them.

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One of their goddesses, whose name was Hecate, was a goddess of birth.

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She supposedly gave help to women in childbirth.

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It was she who was depicted with a woman's body and with the head of a frog.

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Now their god, Hecate, became a curse.

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Now the magicians got involved in the act once more.

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But they could not deliver them from the frogs.

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They could only add frogs to the problem already.

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They were really of no help.

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The death of the frogs eventually then polluted the land.

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After an initial effect on Pharaoh, in the end his heart was only hardened more by this

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plague.

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And so God brought another plague, this one unannounced.

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It was a plague of some kind of insect, of lice perhaps, or of gnats.

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It seems to have been a stinging insect that was a great bother to them.

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Some people have suggested that these may have been mosquitoes.

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Being from Minnesota, I rather think that's probably what they were.

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These biting, flying insects infected the whole land.

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And here the magicians were unable to duplicate the plague.

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And they acknowledged that this was the finger of God.

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They said that this is from God.

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And yet even that acknowledgement on the part of the magicians did not change the heart

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of Pharaoh.

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It only hardened more.

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And so then God sent flies.

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Chapter 8, verses 20 through 32, swarms of flies with what was apparently a very painful

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bite.

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It may be that these flies were especially attracted by the decaying fish and frogs that

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had polluted the whole land.

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The flies were bothersome and tormenting, both to man and to beast.

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It's very interesting to notice though in verse 23 of chapter 8 that God did something here.

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He said, I will put a division between my people and your people.

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In other words, God made a difference with this plague and the succeeding ones between

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the Egyptians and His people, the Israelites.

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This point on the plagues did not affect the Israelites at all in their part of Egypt,

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that area called Goshen.

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This plague was so severe that Pharaoh offered a compromise, an initial one, but then again

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in the end his heart was only hardened further.

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God then brought disease upon the cattle, the livestock of Egypt, beginning in chapter

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9, verse 1 through verse 7.

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Some of thought perhaps this was the very infectious and deadly disease that we call

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anthrax.

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It affected all of the animals in the field according to verse 3, which suggests to us

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that those animals that were in sheds may not have been affected.

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There were various gods of the Egyptians associated with livestock.

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Apus, for example, was their god of fertility and was represented by a bull.

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Bather was their goddess of love and beauty and was represented by a woman with a cow's

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head.

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Again this plague did not affect Goshen as Pharaoh discovered and the result of it again

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was hardness of heart in this man.

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God is pouring upon the Egyptians supernatural acts of fury, indicating He was serious that

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He wanted His people released.

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But all the plagues only caused Pharaoh's heart to be more calloused.

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God then struck with boils, chapter 9, verses 8 through 12.

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These boils were on people and animals.

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They were putrefying sores.

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They were festering and painful.

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If you've ever had a boil, you know what one boil feels like.

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Can you imagine many of them on your body?

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The Egyptians' gods of disease and of healing were here proved impotent.

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The gods which they called upon in cases like this could do nothing about it.

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Their gods were proved false and yet Pharaoh only hardened his heart further against the

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god of the Jews.

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From that then God brought upon them a plague of hail, a truly historic storm revealing

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the destructive capability of God in His wrath.

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It apparently occurred in the early part of the year.

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Now several months have gone by.

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We're probably looking at something like the month of January.

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The cattle were outdoors, those cattle still living.

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There were a number of crops that were due to be harvested at this season of the year.

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This hail which was so severe destroyed the animals and the crops everywhere in the land

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of Egypt except in Goshen.

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Severe economic hardship, even disaster came upon the Egyptians through the hail.

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It was so severe that Pharaoh seemed to relent and he offered another one of his compromises

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to the people.

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And yet in the end when it came right down to it he would not yield and his heart was

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further hardened.

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God then brought upon the land a plague of locusts.

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In chapter 10 we read about that beginning in verse 3, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh

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and said to him, Thus says the Lord the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to

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humble yourself before me?

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Let my people go that they may serve me.

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For if you refuse to let my people go, behold tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory,

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and they shall cover the surface of the land so that no one shall be able to see the land.

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They shall also eat the rest of what is escaped, what is left to you from the hail.

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And they shall eat every tree which sprouts for you in the field.

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Then your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants and the houses

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of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen

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from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.

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Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

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What was Pharaoh's response?

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It was only a hardness of heart.

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Verse 12, the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the

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locusts that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the field,

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even all that the hail has left.

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And so Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt.

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And the Lord directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night.

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And when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

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And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory

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of Egypt, and they were very numerous.

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There had never been so many locusts, nor would there be so many again.

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They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was darkened.

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And they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left.

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Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field, even worse than Minnesota this

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year of drought.

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Nothing green was left through all the land of Egypt.

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And Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, I have sinned against

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the Lord your God and against you.

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Ah!

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Finally!

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Now, after this plague, we see Pharaoh's heart softened, right?

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He says, now therefore please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the

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Lord your God that he would only remove this death from me.

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And he went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the Lord.

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So the Lord shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove

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them into the Red Sea.

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The fish had a very good meal.

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Not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh's

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heart and he did not let the sons of Israel go.

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Does this seem unjust of God?

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Not at all.

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It only exposes the temporary and superficial nature of Pharaoh's confession of sin.

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He did not mean that.

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He is only doing again what he has done before, trying to get relief from these plagues.

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But he did not want to repent, to have a change of mind and heart to allow the people of Israel

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to go and God to cease the plagues.

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Therefore God brought upon him a ninth plague, one of darkness.

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Beginning in verse 21 we read about that.

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The Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness

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over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.

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Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky and there was thick darkness in all the land

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of Egypt for three days.

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They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days.

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But all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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I would take that to be even a supernatural light that God provided.

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Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, Go and serve the Lord.

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And again his heart seems to be softened only to be proved in the end to be hardened.

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This particular plague struck at the chief, or at least one of the chief deities of the

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Egyptians, the sun god, Re, whom they worshiped.

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There God was unable to deliver them from the plague of darkness for three days that

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God brought upon the land.

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Now what caused this darkness?

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Well, God is certainly capable of pulling the shade over any part of the earth he wants

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to whenever he wants to.

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The way that it's written, it can be understood that there may have been a tremendous sand

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storm that God caused to come upon the land.

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A sand storm that was so severe that it was just pitch black out except in the land of

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Goshen where God did not cause the sand storm.

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We'll reserve the last and most severe of the plagues to study in one session together.

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But I think it's important for us as we look at these plagues upon Egypt to see them

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not only as historical events, which they were, but to see them also as object lessons

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for us.

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God has recorded this for us that we might have an example, that we might be instructed

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in the way that he dealt with the Egyptians as well as with his people.

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What lessons can we learn from the plagues upon Egypt?

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Let me suggest several of them.

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Number one, God is able to intervene in human events and history as he purposes to do so.

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God is able to intervene today in human history as it pleases him to do so.

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That is the exception.

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God does not normally intervene in supernatural ways like this.

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Why is that?

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I believe that in part it's because God wishes the human heart to be exposed.

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The only way for the wickedness of the human heart, the unregenerate heart, to be exposed

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is to allow man to live out his life and for history to go on for several generations.

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You see around the world that when there is not judgment brought upon a nation, that degeneration

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occurs.

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That has occurred in the last 200 plus years of this nation.

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This nation is not the great moral leader of the earth that it used to be.

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That is the natural tendency of the human heart.

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God allows the wickedness of the human heart to be expressed.

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He does not normally intervene, but God does intervene and sometimes does so with amazing

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results as here in the case of the plagues.

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When he does intervene it is always with a purpose.

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When he intervenes it is according to his divine plan.

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God is not capricious.

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God is not arbitrary.

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He has a plan that is on a grand scale that you and I cannot appreciate.

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When it's time for him to intervene he will.

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You say, will God ever do things like this again?

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The answer to that is absolutely yes.

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Just as these plagues were predicted and then came to pass, so God has predicted a similar

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time not just upon Egypt but upon the whole earth.

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And it will too come to pass.

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I speak of that time in the tribulation period that God describes to us, especially in chapters

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8, 9, and 16 of the book of the Revelation.

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In the opening of the seals, in the blowing of the trumpets, in the pouring out of the

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vials of His wrath upon the earth, at that time water will be changed to blood.

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Not just in the Nile River but in a third of the seas in chapter 8 and even more than

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that in chapter 16.

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The stench, the devastation, the foulness, the pollution that was in Egypt for that period

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of time will be the experience of the whole earth in the days of the tribulation as God

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causes the seas and the rivers and the springs of the earth to be turned to blood.

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It also predicts a time when there will be frog-like demonic creatures released upon

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the earth.

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It predicts a time when there will be physical disease and boils, perhaps very similar to

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what happened to the Egyptians, upon humankind.

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It predicts a tremendous hail storm in the eighth chapter of the book of the Revelation.

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God tells us that He will send upon the earth a plague of locust-like creatures.

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Some understand those creatures to be demonic and I think that that is the only proper understanding

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of them myself as you read about them in Revelation chapter 9.

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And then there will be a supernatural darkness upon the earth that God will cause.

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In fact, there are many parallels to the plagues upon Egypt.

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At that time again in the future, the focus of the hatred of that day's Pharaoh, whom

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we call Antichrist, will be upon the Jewish people and in a broader sense all of those

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who worship the true and living God.

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And He will seek to destroy them.

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And yet God at that time again will intervene in human history with supernatural judgments

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upon a God-rejecting, Christ-rejecting, hardened world of citizens.

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And so God is able to intervene in human events and history as He purposes.

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And it's not always with judgment.

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There are times when God intervenes to deliver.

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God intervenes to save.

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A second lesson that I see as we look at the plagues is that God is merciful and long-suffering,

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but there is an end to His patience.

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To those that fear Him, His mercy is higher than the heavens.

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As far as the east is from the west, so great does He have compassion and kindness upon

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those who fear Him, says the psalmist.

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But to those who reject Him, there is an end to His mercy and long-suffering.

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I've had people ask me, well, why are people like Madeline Murray O'Hare allowed to live

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when they get on television and they blaspheme God?

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And why does God allow a movie company to produce a blasphemous, filthy film about the

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life of Jesus Christ?

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Why doesn't He just zap them and be done with them?

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Because God is merciful.

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God is long-suffering with sinners.

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And why?

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For the sake of salvation.

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Give them time to repent.

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But there is an end.

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There is an end to the patience of God.

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The hardening of the heart is a dangerous and deadly act.

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It is foolish to attempt to negotiate with God, as Sparrow attempted to do with his compromises

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four times.

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He said, yes, but.

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That doesn't make it with God.

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There are no buts with God.

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It's all or nothing.

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Human-made gods today are as powerless as they were in the day of Pharaoh to deliver

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the unregenerate from God's justice.

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Today, as then, to reject the Word of God is to make oneself an object of God's judgment

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and His wrath.

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As the writer of Romans says in the first chapter, the wrath of God is revealed from

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heaven against all those who suppress the truth.

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Now the fact that that wrath has not yet reached them does not mean that it's not on the way.

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God is patient.

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God is long-suffering.

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God is merciful, but there's an end to that, and there is a day of judgment.

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I may be speaking with someone here today who's attempted to compromise with God.

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You said yes to God, but.

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Or you have actually hardened your heart, perhaps, toward the Word of God in your life.

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That is very dangerous.

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Do not allow your heart to become callous toward God.

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Do not believe that His delay in judgment means that He does not notice.

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God is just and righteous, as well as merciful and patient.

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Then I see a third very wonderful lesson for those of us who are God's children.

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It is this, that God puts a division, as we read in chapter 8 verse 23, God puts a division

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between His people and the citizens of the world in general.

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God dealt with Israel in that day by grace, as He deals with us today.

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There was nothing in the Jewish people that called upon Him, because of their inherent

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goodness, to be kind.

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God dealt with them by grace, based upon the covenant that He had made with their forefathers.

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Therefore God put a division, an invisible partition, a wall between the whole land of

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Egypt and that northern prosperous area called Goshen, where His people lived.

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Today God still deals with humankind in the same way.

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If He deals with you and with me as His children, in kindness and patience and mercy, it is

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not because there is something inherent in us that makes us better than anyone else in

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the world.

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God deals with us in grace, simply because we have been related to Him now on the basis

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of the new covenant, established in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But because of that covenant, because of His grace toward us and saving us and making us

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His own, God does put a difference between us and the world at large.

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That is not to say that we shall never experience suffering or tribulation, of course.

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Indeed, those things are promised to us for the very fact that we do belong to Christ.

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The fact is that when God begins to pour out His judgments upon the world, He puts a difference

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between His people and the people at large.

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It is interesting to note that that word division in chapter 8 verse 23 in the Hebrew is also

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translated redemption.

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God has put a redemption between His people and the people of the world, and so it is

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today.

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God deals with us in grace because of redemption through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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That is the only reason.

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May I say furthermore that I believe this is part of the basis for arguing that the

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Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be raptured out of the world before the tribulation

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period.

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For that time to come upon the earth is the official designated time when His wrath and

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fury will be poured upon a Christ-rejecting world.

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You and I who are saved by God's grace are not appointed to wrath, He says, but to obtain

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salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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I understand that salvation to include not only our present salvation from our guilt

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of sin, but that day our salvation in the sense of the rapture.

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We may well go through a time of suffering before our Lord takes us out, but you mark

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it down, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, indeed none of those who belong to Him can

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experience His wrath and judgment because that wrath, my friend, has already been poured

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out for our sake upon the person of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And He having absorbed the fullness of God's wrath, which we deserve because of our sin,

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has delivered us from any future experience of the wrath of God.

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God makes a difference, a redemption, between His people and the citizens of the world in

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general.

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Then the fourth lesson that I want to point out is this, that God is worthy of our total

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worship.

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We who are redeemed are objects of His mercy.

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And dearly beloved, we should live that way.

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We should live as grateful recipients of the mercy of God.

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We should seek to live lives of holiness, lives of obedience, for the very fact that

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God has been so good to us.

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God has not given us what we deserve and has given us what we do not deserve.

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Therefore, let us make Him alone the object of our worship.

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Let's not get involved in gods that we make with our own hands or our own heads.

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Let's put away those deities, those false deities, which absorb our time, our energy,

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our resources in place of the one true God of heaven.

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And let's give to Him the priority and the preeminence that He alone deserves, because

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He alone is the true God.

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And He has acted toward us with such favor and such grace.

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And then finally, God may seem to be silent to you, my friend, but I want you to know

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that if you belong to Him through faith in His Son, that He is ever working on your behalf.

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This message today may catch you in the slew of despond.

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You're in a real pit in your life because of circumstances that have come upon you.

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And you feel oppressed and afflicted or in bondage.

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Will you understand that God has heard your prayers?

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Will you truly believe that God knows your affliction?

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He does.

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And if indeed He seems to be silent, it is not because He is not interested in you, because

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He loves you.

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Indeed, He says that you are engraved upon the palms of His hands.

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You are ever before Him.

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If God seems to be inactive on your behalf, it is not that He is inactive.

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It's just that His time has not come.

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His purpose has not been realized.

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What do you do when God seems to be silent and when God doesn't seem to come through?

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Those are the very times that God has ordained that you and I should trust Him.

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Trust Him.

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And that's what I want to call upon you to do.

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If you have been unbelieving and complaining, as were the Israelites in Egypt, I want to

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ask you today to repent of that.

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And like the prodigal came home, so you come home.

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And know afresh today the embrace of your Heavenly Father, and how the angels of heaven

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rejoice to see you come, and how the heart of God will be delighted and thrilled that

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instead of turning from Him, you come to Him and you trust Him.

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And you say, Father, I may not see your hand, but I trust your heart.

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And I believe that you are for me and not against me.

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Let's bow together in prayer.

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We have looked upon the actions of God in centuries long ago.

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But though that is ancient history, my friend, it's relevant for us today that God has

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not changed.

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I wonder if you need to come to the Lord afresh.

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You need to acknowledge Him anew in your life.

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Will you do that?

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Has there been some God that has usurped His place?

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Have you worshipped yourself, your desires?

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What of Him making Jesus Christ preeminent?

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Has God seemed silent and you've been angry at God because of that?

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Will you repent and trust Him today?

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Speak to the Lord about it right now in the quietness of these closing moments.

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Let's sing together that song the choir sang earlier.

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Just quietly sing with me.

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Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me.

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See on the portals He's waiting and watching, watching for you and for me.

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Come home, come home, ye who are weary, come home.

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Firmly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home.

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With our heads bowed, may I say to you that I and others of our staff and elders will

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be available after the service.

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And if you have a spiritual need that lingers, you have questions you need to ask and you

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want someone to pray with you, would you seek out one of our leaders in the church?

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We'll be glad to find a spot somewhere to spend some time with you.

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Let's stand together now as we close.

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Great God and Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our

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Lord Jesus Christ, the God and Father of each one who believes in the Son, we stand before

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you in awesome worship.

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There is none like you.

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You alone are the true God.

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I pray that you will work in our lives, that we might walk with you this week in faith

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and not by sight.

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May we represent you well in the Egypt where we live.

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Make us men and women of God who will stand courageously and fearlessly for you in this

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generation.

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Father, thank you for making a difference, a redemption, through the blood of your Son,

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and for making us whole and complete in Him.

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And we pray in His name as we are dismissed for this blessing.

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Amen.