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The sermon teaches a strongly particular and effectual view of redemption: Christ will certainly save all whom the Father gave Him and will lose none of His purchased people. Union with Christ means that believers belong wholly to Him and will ultimately be perfectly sanctified, resurrected, and conformed to the heavenly image. Christ also restores what humanity lost in Adam, including divine likeness, favor, inheritance, and the created world’s purpose. The hearer is pressed to abandon divided allegiance, examine whether he belongs to Christ, and trust Him for salvation.
Theological center: Christ’s atoning death effectively accomplishes God’s sovereign saving purpose, securing the complete redemption and final glorification of His people and the restoration of creation.
Applications: Surrender wholly to Christ · Examine whose side you are on · Trust Christ for salvation · Christ’s redemption cannot fail
Primary texts: Exodus 10:26 · 1 Corinthians 15:49
“There shall not an hoof be left behind.” Exodus 10:26 THE controversy between JEHOVAH, the God of the whole earth, and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was intended to be remembered and spoken of throughout all generations. On that occasion God permitted human nature to arrive at its highest degree of stubbornness and obstinacy, but He, nevertheless, cowed it and overcame it. He did indeed raise up Pharaoh for this purpose, that He might show forth His power in him. Pharaoh, as an absolute monarch, is permitted to go to the utmost degree of hardness of heart, and yet the Lord would show to all coming generations that His decrees shall stand, and He will do all His pleasure. You will remember that the quarrel was on this wise—God had sent His people into Egypt in the olden times, there to dwell in the land of Goshen. They had multiplied exceedingly, they had been favorably treated by succeeding kings, till at length a new king arose who knew not Joseph. He began to oppress the people, but the more he oppressed them, the more they increased. He made their lives bitter with hard bondage. In mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service of the field, he made them to serve with rigor. Probably they were employed in building many of those mighty piles, the pyramids, which now stand upon the plains of Egypt. He subjected them to the most rigorous tasks, they worked under the whip continually, and had to make bricks without straw, the hardest possible exaction that even a tyrant could have imagined. At last the cry of the people went up to their God in heaven. He saw their affliction, He heard their cry, He knew their sorrows, and He determined, with His own bare arm, to be avenged on Pharaoh and to bring out all His people, the seed of Jacob, from their house of bondage. He raised up Moses, and He sent him in with this message to Pharaoh, “Thus saith the LORD, let my people go, that they may serve me.” Pharaoh laughs at it, “Ye are idle,” saith he, “ye are idle, ye shall not go.” A plague at once is God’s answer to Pharaoh’s laughter, He turns their water into blood and the fish that were in the river died. Pharaoh gives way a little, for if he must yield, it must be by degrees. “You shall have,” says he, “two or three days of rest, to serve your God, but it must be in this land.” “Nay,” says Moses, “We cannot serve our God in this land, we must go forth into the wilderness.” Pharaoh bids them be gone. Another plague, and yet another. And now Pharaoh yields thus far. “They may go into the wilderness, but they must not go very far.” “Nay, but,” says Moses, “we will…