The Dominion of God in the Lofty
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Exodus 9:13–17 (NASB95)
13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
14 “For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
15 “For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.
16 “But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth.
17 “Still you exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.
Exodus 9:23–30 (NASB95)
23 Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24 So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 The hail struck all that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.
27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the LORD is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.
28 “Make supplication to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is the LORD’S.
30 “But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.”
Exodus 10:1–13 (NASB95)
1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,
2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”
3 Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
4 ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
5 ‘They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.
6 ‘Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.’ ” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?”
8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God! Who are the ones that are going?”
9 Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
10 Then he said to them, “Thus may the LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind.
11 “Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desire.” So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Exodus 10:21–29 (NASB95)
21 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.”
22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 Then Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be detained. Even your little ones may go with you.”
25 But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our God.
26 “Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we shall take some of them to serve the LORD our God. And until we arrive there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the LORD.”
27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go.
28 Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die!”
29 Moses said, “You are right; I shall never see your face again!”
Introduction
We live in a world full of competition! Some competition is very light-hearted. You turn on the TV on a Saturday or Sunday to watch the game. You have some friends over for dinner and a board game. Competition is entertaining, it’s fun, and it can be really enjoyable when it’s just a game. On the other hand, competition can often be more weighty. You’ve been working for years at your job and now you’re up for promotion. There are a number of your coworkers being considered for the position. Careers can be competitive. When nations go to war, there is often a costly competition for dominance. No matter how great or small the competition, very often that competition boils down to the pursuit of personal glory and dominion. We enjoy places where we can maintain both don’t we? We know there’s only so much to go around. If everyone get’s glory than no one does. If everyone has dominion then no one does. And that’s where competition comes into play, and we begin to ask, "How can I get an edge over everyone else?”
Generally speaking everyone is happy to hear about someone else’s team winning. Generally speaking I’m happy to see the Bengals or the Browns win. I have friends who root for those teams, but when they’re playing the Vikings it’s a different story. Only one team gets the glory at the end of the day and all of a sudden some competition walks in the door. If you hear of a friend whose going up for promotion, generally you’re happy for them! “Good for you! I hope you get the job.” It’s a bit of a different story when your friend is your coworker. There’s only one promotion, and all of a sudden a little competition enters the room.
This competition for glory happens all the time among men on this earth, but it also happens between God and man. Man has always been in pursuit of glory and very often the idea of God is reprehensible to sinful man because God competes for our glory. The prideful man would like to keep God at a distance where He can’t compete for man’s glory. We shouldn’t be surprised so many adhere to atheism, gnosticism, or secular thought, it removes the competition from man’s pursuit of glory.
As we continue in Exodus this morning, Pharaoh is the epitome of prideful man competing for his own glory, and yet God is not far off. God will lay claim to his dominion and glory which is rightfully His through extraordinary and lofty plagues, laying low the people of Egypt. You might say Pharaoh has made himself lofty, and God will put him in his rightful place. God has determined to receive the glory in the end as is his right. The question I’d like to focus on this morning is, “How do we respond to the revelation of God’s glory?” Pharaoh’s response reveals a pride which tries to compete with God for glory. In contrast we’ll see, those who are glad to see God’s glory and dominion being established are the humble. They do not compete with God for His glory. They actually join Him in proclaiming His glory.
The proud and the humble are evident by how they respond to God’s glory, and through both, God will be exalted.
The proud and the humble are evident by how they respond to God’s glory, and through both, God will be exalted.
The proud preserve their honor. (9:13-35)
The proud call what is good evil. (10:1-20)
The proud put down the humble. (10:21-29)
The proud preserve their honor. (9:13-35)
The proud preserve their honor. (9:13-35)
As we’ve walked through the plagues you may have noticed a couple purpose statements God has given for delivering the plagues.
From the very beginning God stated, “The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” (7:5)
Further on, “that you may know that I, the LORD, am in the midst of the land.” (8:22)
God is delivering the plagues with a very clear purpose, to establish His dominion from the lowly to the lofty, but particularly over His people.
This morning we see another purpose statement beginning our text:
The Lord gives Moses that same instruction “to rise in the morning and declare to Pharaoh, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” The LORD delivers a warning of plagues with a clear purpose:
“that you may know that there is no like Me in all the earth.” (vs. 14)
God reminds Pharaoh, I could have wiped you from the face of the earth a long time ago, but “in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth.” (vs. 16) they’ve been allowed to remain.
God hasn’t been concerned about Pharaoh or Egypt at all this entire time. In a moment, he could have moved them out of the way and delivered His people. What He is concerned about is His glory, that His power, His supremacy, and His dominion be recognized in the eyes of Egypt, Israel, and all the earth. It would be natural for us look at the story of the Exodus and think, “Look at the great thing which God did for Israel!” That is absolutely true! God will remind Israel again and again of the deliverance He accomplished for His people, but we need recognize that in all of this that God is seeking His own gain in all of it. He’s seeking His own glory! He’s seeking the worship of His people! Through the justice delivered against Pharaoh and the gracious deliverance extended to Israel God will receive the glory. That idea might make us uncomfortable at first.
If we see someone engaging in community service for the sake of their reputation, that might make us uncomfortable and rightfully so. Jesus Himself rebuked those men who prayed for all to see, and gave in such a way that would ring the bell for all to hear. It isn’t right for the unworthy to pursue the glory they don’t deserve. It’s absolutely right for the worthy to pursue the glory that he’s due, and only God is worthy! He says as much to Pharoah, “There is no one like Me in all the earth”
As we walk through the text we can’t leave this behind. In each of these three following plagues we’ll see different facets of man’s pride and humility, which we’ll highlight, but the primary activity is that of God pursuing His own glory. Everything else is important, but it’s secondary to what God is doing. We can’t really address real pride and real humility until we address the glory of God.
It’s in response to God’s display of His glory that Pharaoh decides he will continue to compete with God for His glory. Pharaoh will exalt himself again and keep Israel from leaving the land of Egypt. God being true to His Word will send the plagues. Extraordinary and lofty plagues to humble the pride and lofty heart of Pharaoh.
The matter we’re addressing in our text is not merely that Pharaoh has exalted himself above the people of Israel. The matter at hand is that Pharaoh has exalted Himself before God, the only one deserving of glory.
In Pharaoh’s self-exaltation and pride, God will send hail that has never been seen in Egypt before. This is cataclysmic level hail to the degree that anything left in the field is going to die: man, beast, and plants will be struck by this plague. God is no longer using little things to humble proud people. (frogs, gnats, flies) He’s using extraordinary measures in broad reaching ways, to address the pride of Pharaoh. When the day finally comes, Moses records hail and fire flashing falling continually. Man and beast are killed. Plants and trees are destroyed.
Yet even in this extraordinary and broad reaching plague of hail it says,
“Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.” (vs. 26)
In the fullness of God’s justice towards Pharaoh, and His grace toward His people Israel God is glorified.
As Jesus stated before the pride of the Pharisees, “Matthew 23:12 (NASB95)
12“Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
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While Pharaoh undergoes utter humiliation at the hand of God’s hail of plagues, God is exalting these humble slaves, preserving them for their coming deliverance. Jesus’ words to the Pharisees on that day shouldn’t have been anything mind shattering.
They knew the story of the Exodus.
Even David remarks in the Psalms,
Psalm 138:6 (NASB95)
6 For though the LORD is exalted, Yet He regards the lowly, But the haughty He knows from afar.
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Yet because of their pride, the Pharisees were unable to see how haughty they really were.
What Christ was addressing in the hearts of the Pharisees was the same heart we see in Pharaoh. The Pharisees sought their own glory by putting on a facade of righteousness. It may have looked like humility as they prayed in the streets, but it was really pride preserving their own standing.
Pharaoh does much the same before Moses, (vs. 27)
“I have sinned this time; the LORD is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. “Make supplication to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
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It sure seems convincing doesn’t it?
Finally, Pharaoh has come to see his own fault and come to repentance! He’s let the people go; He’s acknowledged the righteousness of the LORD. From the outside everything looks praiseworthy, yet what is going on on the inside?
Moses agrees to pray to God that the hail will cease, but says to Pharaoh (vs.30)
“But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.”
Pharaoh and the Pharisees alike would take on whatever external piety was necessary in order to preserve their own honor, to maintain their hold on glory, but at the end of the day they were whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. They had no fear of the Lord! They only feared for their own honor and glory.
We can learn something from Pharaoh’s pride! Pharaoh tried to compete with God, exalting Himself, in order to attain a glory that was never his. The truth is that glory is only found through God’s grace and the grave. What Pharaoh sought to take of His own power can only be given by God, and what Pharaoh sought to earn by exalting himself is only ever given to those willing to die to themselves. We do not preserve our honor before God, we surrender it willingly. We know we are undeserving! We know we are unworthy! We know we are deserving of death! So we look to Christ, that we might be made worthy! We look to the work of Christ for the hope of glory! A glory that we need not fear will be lost. It is secure, but we do wait for it knowing that only the humility of death will bring us true glory.
We might ask ourselves to start, “Where do I believe honor and glory is found?”
There’s a real temptation to put that hope in our position at work.
Maybe our reputation in the eyes of fellow church members.
Perhaps even what family think of us!
No power, position, or perception of men can give us the glory which only God can give.
Our path to glory begins with seeing God clearly with fearful hearts knowing fundamentally we are not glorious, and yet looking to God for the grace which exalts the humble, the lowly, the repentant, those content with death. It’s these who will know true glory! In Christ we will one day know that glory. Might we humble ourselves as he did, until the proper time.
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Pharaoh’s facade doesn’t last long. Again, God provides relief, and Pharaoh sins again and hardened his heart. (vs. 34)
As we come to our second point, God is making clear again his fundamental purpose in all of this.
The proud call what is good evil. (10:1-20)
The proud call what is good evil. (10:1-20)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”
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The lofty signs which God will send against Egypt will not merely extend to the nations, they will extend to generations to come. This is a revelation of glory that is both far reaching and timeless in nature.
God will deliver His people! They will be blessed, but the culmination of this deliverance is generations upon generations of worshippers.
When we look to Revelation we catch a glimpse of the end, the purpose of God’s plan of redemption evident even in Exodus
1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God;
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Nothing can keep God from gathering His own to worship Him. The only one worthy of such glory… yet there are those who will continue to exalt themselves.
Moses will address Pharaoh with the word of the LORD like he has already, “How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me?...” (vs.3)
For those who’ve seen any kind of sporting event you likely know how intense competition can get especially when a lot of glory is on the line. Pre-season games are often pretty boring just because there’s not a lot of competition, there’s not any glory in a win during the preseason. You start getting into the playoffs and things tend to get a little more heated. There’s a trophy or a ring in sight. Glory is just within reach, and the intensity rises some, competition heats up and that’s when teams start pressing the rules a bit. The refs need to step in a bit more often to make sure things stay orderly and don’t get out of hand. The desperation for glory has a way of blinding players to the rules. “I will win by whatever means necessary!”
Pharaoh is in a competition he should have never entered to begin with, but his pride is determined to have glory by whatever means necessary! To the degree that every standard of right and wrong is utterly forsaken, and his pride brings to call what is good evil.
Moses tells Pharaoh of the plague of locusts to come! Everything remaining from the hail will be eaten! Nothing will be left and even the houses of the Egyptians will be filled with locusts.
At this point even Pharaoh’s servants have had enough. (vs.7) They actually encourage Pharaoh, to let the people go! Egypt is destroyed.
No amount of advice or warning will keep Pharaoh from his pursuit of glory, not even the utter destruction of his nation. He will not be outdone! So he contrives this idea that will keep his people happy, maintain some glory there, while not giving God everything He demands, maintain some dominion and glory their too.
He tells Moses and Aaron the men can go, but to leave the little ones behind.
10 Then he said to them, “Thus may the Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind. 11 “Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desire.” So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
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Pharaoh’s pride has utterly blinded him to the point where he thinks he can appease God by freeing a portion of what is His, and openly calling God’s good and perfect plan of redemption evil. “Take heed, for evil is in your mind.” Pharaoh says.
I hope we would see the boldness in this - the degree of pride in his words!
Think of it this way: Let’s say you have two dogs. You’re going on a trip so you drop them at a neighbor’s house to watch them while you’re away. You come back, and you realize they haven’t been taken care of at all. They’ve hardly been fed. You try to walk out the door with your dogs, but your neighbor says, “You know I think I’ll keep this one.” You tell your neighbor, “I’m taking my dogs home now.” and your neighbor proceeds to tell you how you’re a horrible person and how evil you are for wanting your dogs back.
It’s an utterly absurd story. That would never happen, yet that’s exactly what Pharaoh is doing except he’s laid claim to the very children of God, and proceeded to call the goodness of God evil.
Unfortunately, as we follow the story of Scripture, the heart of Pharaoh is not unique to Pharaoh.
Isaiah will come to rebuke Jerusalem for this heart of pride which bears the exact same fruit.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure; And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it. 15 So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased, The eyes of the proud also will be abased. 16 But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness. 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.
Literally at the center of the proud being abased and humble strangers eating like the wealthy is the LORD of hosts being exalted in his judgement. Sounds a bit like our passage. Further down in vs. 20
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!
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Should we turn again to Matthew 23 Jesus is pronouncing the same woes over the pride of Jerusalem which bears this same fruit. Jesus however pronounces 8 woes over Jerusalem whereas Isaiah only pronounces 4.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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For thousands of years, the prideful have been redefining good and evil so that they can decide who stays and who goes, whose in and whose out.
We see it in our own culture today! Proud people who’ve absolutely forsaken the law of God redefining what is good and what is right in order to justify themselves. Meanwhile openly accusing others of guilt. It all boils down to everyone claiming, “I’m right in my own eyes and your guilty because I said so!” And at the root of all of that is pride.
Pharaoh’s pride, the pride of Jerusalem, the pride of the Pharisees, they all serve as a warning to us, but it’s also a reminder of all we’ve been given! We don’t need to redefine the law to be justified! There’s a longing for justification in all of us. We want to be counted righteous when all is said and done. Some feed that longing with their own pride and try to redefine the law to maintain their glory and right standing. The gospel however calls us to find our right standing through humble repentance. We humbly admit: God is good! The law is good! I am a sinner condemned unclean, yet Christ has fulfilled the law for me! ... The humility of repentance and faith grants us our right standing sooner than the prideful who claim themselves righteous by their own arbitrary standard. When the world calls us guilty by there own standard, we point to a greater standard than any man could establish. The law of God. When the world calls us guilty by the law of God, we can say amen, then point to Christ who is our righteousness. The standard of God is good, and Christ has accomplished it for us!
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In spite of Pharaoh’s lofty view of himself, and his twisted view of God, woe will come upon him as Moses warned:
“There had never been so many locusts, nor would there be so many again.” (vs. 14)
15 For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.
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Pharaoh pleads for mercy, God removes the locust. The LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.
As we’ve seen twice before, God will send the third plague of this trio without warning. It will come quickly, and Pharaoh’s pride brings him to openly putting down the humble and threatening their life.
The proud put down the humble. (10:21-29)
The proud put down the humble. (10:21-29)
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.
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Has anyone ever experienced such an absolute darkness that when you put your hand in front of your face, you can’t see anything? Back in middle school my class took a field trip to a mine up in Northern Minnesota. We got on an elevator, and went half a mile underground. It was no longer in use as a mine, but we got the whole tour. We saw the old mining carts and the lamps they used to use, but for most of our time everything was lit with modern lighting. At one point they gathered us all into a large room so that we could get just a taste of how dark it is without the lighting, what it would have been like to have lost your light when you’re so far down underground. For just 10 seconds they turned the lights out. Your eyes are open but for just those few seconds you’re absolutely lost. It was a bit frightening honestly! We’re all really dependent on that tour guide for those 10 seconds. What if they didn’t turn the lights back on? Chaos would have ensued pretty quickly if that tour guide had passed out during those 10 seconds.
Can you imagine an entire city, an entire nation of people subject to utter darkness for 3 days? A darkness you can feel the verse says.
There’s a pretty vivid picture here of the spiritual state of men in this simple plague. How dependent we are on the light in our day to day. How much more for our spiritual lives? What are we without the truth, the light of the world to show us what is good and evil, life and death?
Pharaoh’s spiritual state remains in utter darkness even after those three days are up. He tells Israel to go serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be detained. (vs.24)
Even after 9 plagues, Pharaoh’s pride holds onto anything he can get his hands on, but God has determined to deliver his people with an abundance and all they need to worship Him!
25 But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the Lord our God.
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Moses understands: the purpose of God isn’t just to get the people out of slavery. The purpose of God is to get his people out of bondage so that they might worship Him. Even the sheep will come out with Israel.
Pharaoh’s heart is again hardened, and he gives Moses a parting statement,
28 Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die!” 29 Moses said, “You are right; I shall never see your face again!”
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The blindness of pride is so pervasive that it brings men to put down and threaten the humble, those who are most righteous. Why is that? Very often the humble carry the truth, and the truth can be offensive to the proud.
Isaiah carried the truth of God to Israel and was rejected. It was a simple call to humility, “Repent of your sin and turn to your gracious God.” but they would not listen in their pride.
Christ carried the truth of God to Israel and was utterly rejected. That too was a call to humility, “Repent and believe in the gospel.” but many did not listen in their pride.
When we look out on our own day we shouldn’t be surprised when we’re put down, derided, and rejected by the world. Our lives and our message is one of humility. It’s outright offensive to the pride of the world for us to humbly proclaim the glory of God! I pray we wouldn’t despair in our humble positions, in our humble proclamation of repentance and faith.
It’s a simple statement, but Moses gets the last word in our narrative. It’s one of confidence.
“You are right; I shall never see your face again!”
Moses knew that his deliverance was near, that God would finally deliver Israel. We can’t forget where we started. Amidst all of Pharaoh’s prideful resistance, God is gathering for Himself His people, His worshippers.
All the resistance and pride of Pharaoh is no hindrance to His plan of redemption.
All the resistance and pride of Israel against Christ Himself was no hindrance to His plan of redemption.
and all the resistance and pride of the world against us, His church, is no hindrance to to the redemption He has begun and will accomplish in us.
In conclusion, there’s comfort for us in our humble position! In our humble state of faith and repentance
our honor and glory have been secured! We don’t need to compete for it.
our justification, our right standing before God, has been accomplished in Jesus Christ!
our redemption is sure, and though we die we will be raised with Him in glory!
Let’s rest in the humility of Christ for in that humility we will be exalted.
Let’s Pray.
