God's judgment on Egypt, specifically the plague of gnats, demonstrates His power over the Egyptian gods and the natural elements they worshipped. The sermon highlights how God brought life from dust, a miracle that baffled the Egyptian magicians and revealed the limitations of their power compared to the "finger of God." This event serves as a reminder that while humanity originates from dust and will return to dust, God is the God of resurrection, capable of bringing life from the grave. The sermon concludes by emphasizing that death is not the end, but a prelude to judgment, urging listeners to consider their eternal destiny and the resurrection glory offered through Christ.
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Beloved radio friends, once again we greet you in the worthy and the precious name of our beloved and blessed saint of the Lord Jesus Christ. We greatly feel honored that he permits us to represent him and to come to you again with the word of God before us. We have no apology to make for preaching the truth of the living God. We thank God for the word. The Bible. We continue our study in the book of Exodus, whereby God's grace and the help of the Holy Spirit, we are seeking to learn lessons regarding the character of this world, which will soon be visited by divine judgments very similarly, but even greater, than took place centuries ago in the land of Egypt.
As we read in the early account of the book, the second book in the Bible, the book of Exodus. We once again turn to the third plague, reading of the plague of life or the plague of Nats, as indicated in chapter eight and recorded in verses sixteen through nineteen. Here are the words, and the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land. that it may become life throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth.
And it became life in man as well as in beast. All the dust of the land became life throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth life. But they could not. So there were life upon man. and also upon beast. Then the magician said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them as the Lord had said. May God once again bless and reveal to us through this precious portion of his word the truth he would have us to know.
May we repeat what we have stated in the preceding message in the great system of Egyptian pantheism, the worship of all nature. They did not worship the Creator, rather they worshipped the creation which the Creator himself had made. And in their pantheism of that day, they even worshipped the black fertile soil of the Nile basin and particularly held it as being sacred. They believed as not from the dusty soil of that delta and life sprang. They believed that it was a life-giving power, and they worshipped it as a creator bringing forth life.
They made an image of a man whom they called Seb, with the emblem of life-giving power upon him, represented by a bird upon his head. Now we have stated and we repeat it, God's judgments was against not only the Egyptians, but the gods whom they worship. We have noted from the context of this plague, the failure of the Egyptian scientists, the magicians, and all the mighty men of science in Egypt, the wise men of that great empire, they were baffled when they sought to repeat and imitate this miracle. We noted that the satanic power of the devil and all of his hosts is certainly limited.
He is powerful, but he is not all powerful. And the finger of God, which the wise men attributed this miracle to, the finger of God is greater. And thus they confessed they could not produce light out of dust. Now what is the lesson that we can learn? And there is a deep lesson for us to learn. As God brought forth life from dust. And in a prolific manner, all the dust of the land of Egypt became life. Covering man and beast. I'm glad I wasn't living in that day and in that place.
Now may we be reminded, if you know your Bible, dust is the very beginning of man's existence. We read in Genesis two and verse seven that God saw man out of the dust of the ground. We read in Genesis eighteen and verse twenty seven, when Abraham spoke in intercession before the living God, he remarked that he was the dust, and thus we may realize, where did man come from materially? His body came from dust. And may you remember, and may I remember also, then in Genesis chapter three and verse nineteen, when sin entered into the garden of Eden and God pronounced judgment upon Adam and Eve, God declared, dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return.
My beloved, may I point out to you, your material body and mind sprang from dust. May I also emphasize your material body and mind will return to dust. All you have to do is go to the cemetery. And were you and I able to excavate the graves, we would see the evidence that that body of corruption is returned to dust. But then on the other hand, though dust was the beginning of man's body, Though dust is also the return of man's body to the earth, that is not the end of man.
The Word of God teaches the doctrine of the resurrection, and man will return again from the dust, to which he may have gone, or to which he may yet go. God is the God of resurrection power who declares he will bring men out of the dust. The Lord Jesus in John chapter five and verse twenty-eight, he said, chapter five, verse twenty-eight, declared these words, That all the dead shall hear his voice, marvel not at this, that all that are in the grave shall come forth, some to the resurrection and life, and the others, to the resurrection of damnation.
And beloved, may I point out to you that this miracle in the land of Egypt, when God visited in judgment the land of Egypt for the worship of this God, reminds us that God is the God of not only creation, He is the God of resurrection. May I emphasize, my beloved radio friend, your history is not going to end with your earthly bodily death. When they put you in that casket, when I am placed in the grave, when anyone is placed in the realm of the dust of the earth and buried, may we repeat, that is not the end of any man's existence.
No, is it the last time the body of that person will be seen? Ah, let me remind you that when God in resurrection power brings out the body from the grave, it is going to be a body, human body, by his resurrection power created in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye. May I point out these words of Hebrews chapter nine and verse twenty-seven. It is appointed unto men once to die, but that's not the end. That is one divine appointment, but then there's another that follows.
And after death, the judgment. For every one of us will stand before God. My beloved, may I remind you, May I remind you of the tremendous miracle that all the graves of the earth and the dust of all who have been buried, or if their bodies have been cast, their ashes have been thrown to the winds. May I remind you that the God of resurrection has power and will manifest that power to bring all the dead standing before him.
in resurrected bodies. Let me point out to you in Revelation chapter twenty in verse six that John by the Holy Spirit mentions that even at the end of what is called the Great Tribulation the dead saints who have never been raised before will be brought out of the grave. May I remind you in first Thessalonians chapter four verses fifteen through eighteen The beloved apostle Paul declares that the saints who have died at the coming of the Lord will be raised from their graves. And both saints that belong to the church and saints that have died before the church and even after the church is taken to heaven.
During the great tribulation period they may have died. God says, I'm going to bring them out of the graves. Then may I go even further. I would commend to you the reading of a solemn scripture, Revelation chapter twenty, verses eleven through fifteen, which begins by declaring, I saw a great white throne, and one sat upon it, and before him were brought all the dead, both small and great. Beloved, I want to remind you, When you think of this miracle in the land of Egypt, will you please remember that the God of resurrection power who made man from at the beginning out of dust is going to bring man out of dust again, though his body has died and been in the grave, whether centuries or whether but a few moments.
Such is God's condemnation of this poor world in which we live in. Man is but dust. The day of judgment will bring out all the dust. And may I remind you that those who are unsaved, in bodies with spirit and soul, reunited, will be cast into the lake of fire. If one is not saved, that will be the inevitable and the eternal judgment of God upon them. Now let's go back to the premise that we have taken at the beginning of our studies and mentioned again and again. From Galatians chapter one, verse three and four, our Lord Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us out of this present evil world according to the will of God, even our Father.
My beloved radio friend, I want to ask you a question. Are you confident that if you die and your body is buried, you'll come out in resurrection glory to be with Christ? Or will you be brought out in resurrection power to stand before the great white throne? And from thence judged and cast into the lake of fire. Father, we pray, solemnize thy truth to every heart and conscience, to thy glory in Jesus' name amen.