Saturday, January 11, 2020

Then we find Moses before Pharaoh.  This was possibly the last place that Moses wanted to be, since the last Pharaoh had declared a death sentence on him, but he went.  We today must be willing to go anywhere that God sends us, even if it places us in a dangerous situation.  Moses really had but one message for Pharaoh, and the was that God said for him to him to let God's people go.  We are to carry the gospel into all the world today, and the message is that the sins of the world are to let a person go through their faith in Christ as their Savior and Lord.  We know that in the New Testament, Christians were often still servants or slaves, but they were spiritually free.  When Moses proclaimed God's message, through Aaron, to Pharaoh. he refused to listen over and over again.  The world today is going to refuse to listen to Gods message of salvation over and over again.  Still, God continued to send Moses to Pharaoh with the same message.  The consequences for not listening got a little more severe each time.  When a person hears the message of salvation over and over again and refuses to listen and accept God's salvation, that person will ultimately suffer the greatest consequence, and that is everlasting separation from God.  I personally believe that even if they are materially rich that they will suffer each day from a lack of real peace in their lives.  God had Moses prepare the people of Israel for deliverance from the ultimate plague, the death of the first born.  They had been spared from the other plaques, but now they ere required to take a particular action in order to be spared, and that was to place the blood over their door.  We today may benefit from being with God's people, but in order to claim salvation, we must take a particular action, and that is to accept the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, so that we might be passed over from everlasting spiritual death by being covered by His blood.  The people of Israel who chose to not put the blood over their door would not be spared, just as people today who refuse to accept Christ as their Savior and Lord will not be saved.  Even someone who is a part of the most devout family of believers in Christ will not be saved until they personally accept Christ as their Savior and Lord.  Even after Pharaoh finally agreed to allow the people of Israel to go, and they were going with great material wealth, he again changed his mind and started after them with an army to bring them back.  Today, when a person is close to salvation, which gives someone the greatest spiritual wealth available, we can be certain that those who do not believe in Christ will do everything possible to keep that person from salvation.  In some parts of the world, this might be an actual physical assault.

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