_Let My people go._ THE DELIVERANCE OF GOD’S PEOPLE The history of the deliverance of God’s people from the bondage of Egypt, their pilgrimage through the wilderness, and their ultimate settlement in the Land of Promise, bears striking analogy to the history of the human soul. I. The words “Let M... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice?_ PHARAOH’S QUESTION ANSWERED If we would know God as He is, we should neither take our own idea nor adopt the world’s estimates, but see Him as He has revealed Himself in His Word, especially in the Gospel which began to be spoken by His Son, the only... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let us go, we pray thee, three days’ Journey._ LESSONS 1. God’s ambassadors must not forsake His message, upon man’s denial. 2. Further arguments must press God’s message, when the proposal is not enough. 3. The God of the Hebrews must be owned by them, though despised by Pharaoh. 4. Relation... [ Continue Reading ]
_Get you unto your burdens._ WRONG JUDGMENT Good men are often wrongly judged:-- 1. In respect to their motives. 2. Actions. 3. Writings. (_J. S. Exell, M. A._) THE CLAIMS OF RELIGION You will observe that God gave a command, and Pharaoh refused either to obey the command, or to pay anything... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall no more give the people straw._ REQUIRING THE IMPOSSIBLE I. That there are some people in society who strive to make those under them do the impossible. Pharaoh tried to make the Israelites do the impossible, when he commanded them to make bricks without providing them with straw. This d... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wherefore dealest thou thus._ LESSONS 1. Oppressed souls cannot but complain of cruel and unjust smitings; blows make cries. 2. Addresses for relief are fittest from the afflicted to the highest power oppressing. 3. Access and cries and sad speeches are forced from oppressed to oppressors. 4.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye have made our savour to be abhorred._ LESSONS 1. Sense of evil from tyrants may make the oppressed fall foul with their best friends. 2. Providence orders His servants sometimes to meet with friends after sad usage by oppressors. 3. Ministers of salvation wait to meet God’s afflicted, when t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Why is it that Thou hast sent me?_ THE SORROWS OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE There is a tone of unspeakable sadness in this complaint of Moses. He had been crossed in his aims, his Divinely-inspired hopes had received an unexpected reverse, and all his plans for liberating Israel lay in ruins. It was a bi... [ Continue Reading ]