Thursday, October 3, 2019

Exodus 6:1 says, Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.  God sent Moses to Pharaohs again.  God told Moses that he would see what He would do to Pharaoh. There is coming a day when the whole world will see what God will do to those who will not listen to His call to salvation.  Pharaoh was filled with self pride about his own power, but compared to God, it was nothing, and there is no power on earth that can stand when God comes in judgment.  Verse two states, And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:  Just as God declared to Moses, we need to always acknowledge that God is the only God.  The Israelite may have been complaining and Pharaoh may have been making life harder, but that wasn't what was important.  Who God is was what was important.  No matter how bad things may seem in life, as long as we are following God's direction, nothing else matters.  Verse three adds, And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.  God said that He was the same God that appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but that they didn't know Him by the name JEHOVAH.  God would now show Himself to be a God Who did what He promised to those who came before, and One Who completed what He had started.  This is a promise that we can rest assured in.  God was the same God to Moses, but Moses was just going to see a greater revelation of Who God is.  God has never changed, but if we accept Christ as our Savior and Lord, we have a greater understanding of Who He is.  Verse four continues, And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.  God said that He had established a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give them the land of Canaan, where they were strangers.  As followers of Christ today, God has promised us a new home in Heaven, to which we are strangers.  Verse five proclaims, And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.  God heard the suffering of the children of Israel because of the bondage of the Egyptians.  God had not abandoned them, nor has He abandoned us today even if we are suffering under the power of this world.  God's promise is still just as certain as it has always been.  Verse six adds, Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:  God told Moses to remind the children of Israel, His chosen people that He was God, and He would deliver them.  When we have struggles in life today as Christians, we must remember Who God is and that He has already delivered us from the power of sin and death.  Verse seven states, And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.  God said that He would take the Israelites for His people and they would know that He was the LORD because He would deliver them from Egypt.  God would be making Himself known to the whole nation of Israel, and He makes Himself known to everyone in the world today.  By faith in Christ, we become a part of God's kingdom, but He will always be the One Who reveals Himself to us.  Verse eight concludes, And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.  God said He would fulfill His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and that the people of Israel would know that He was God.  We cannot prove the existence of God today except by believing in Christ, and the proof will come with His return.  Verse nine declares, And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.  Moses told the children of Israel what God had said and they did not believe him because of their cruel bondage.  All we can do today is witness to the people of the world about Jesus Christ, but we cannot make them believe.  Some people are always going to see the things of this world, whether good or bad, as more important than God.  Verse ten says, And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Then verse eleven adds, Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.  God once again sent Moses to speak to Pharaoh.  We need to be willing to go to people with the gospel as often as He sends us.  Verse twelve declares, And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?  Moses told God that he couldn't even get the children of Israel to listen, so he wondered how he could get Pharaoh to when Pharaoh wasn't even a part of God's chosen people.  Our responsibility is not to get people to believe, but simply to share the good news.  Then God takes over.  Verse thirteen states, And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.  God gave Moses and Aaron the charge of the children of Israel to bring them out of Egypt.  This would be accomplished by God's power.  God gives us the charge today, by His power, to bring people out of the bondage of sin by sharing the gospel.

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