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The sermon reads Israel’s exodus and the drowning of Pharaoh as typological pictures of Christian redemption and the final triumph of Christ. Those delivered from sin will sing a heavenly song centered entirely on God’s glorious works, justice, and everlasting reign. The defeat of God’s enemies includes the reality of final punishment, presented as a solemn warning. Spurgeon therefore urgently calls hearers to be born again, repent, renounce sin, and trust in Christ before judgment comes.
Theological center: God sovereignly saves His people through Christ and will finally defeat His enemies, vindicating His justice and reign forever.
Applications: Repent and Renounce Sin · Believe in Christ · Take Heed of Judgment · Consider the Red Sea Pattern
Primary texts: Revelation 15:3 · Exodus 15:9-18 · Exodus 15:10
“And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.” Revelation 15:3 AT the outset, let us remark the carefulness of the Holy Spirit in guarding the honor of our blessed Lord. This verse is often quoted as if it run thus—“They sing the song of Moses and the Lamb.” This mistake has led many weak minds to wonder at the expression, for they have imagined that it divided the honor of the song of heaven between Moses and the Redeemer. The clause—“the servant of God”—is doubtless inserted by the Holy Spirit to prevent any error upon this point, and therefore it should be carefully included in the quotation. I take it that the song of Moses is here united with the song of the Lamb, because the one was a type and picture of the other. The glorious overthrow of Pharaoh in the Red Sea shadowed forth the total destruction of Satan and all his host in the day of the great battle of the Lord. And there was in the song of Moses the expression of the same feelings of triumph which will pervade the breasts of the redeemed when they shall triumph with their Captain. May God the Holy Spirit enable me to exhibit the parallel which exists between the condition of Israel when passing through the sea and the position of the church of Christ at the present day. Next, we shall compare the triumph of the Lord at the Red Sea with the victory of the Lamb in the great and terrible day of the Lord. And lastly, I shall point out certain prominent features of the song of Moses, which will doubtless be as prominent in the song of the Lamb. I. First, it is our business to regard THE POSITION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AS EMBLEMATICAL OF OUR OWN. And here we observe, that like the church of God, the vast host of Israel had been delivered from bondage. We, my brethren, who constitute a part of the Israel of God, were once the slaves of sin and Satan. We served with hard bondage and rigor whilst in our natural state. No bondage was ever more terrible than ours. We indeed made bricks without straw and labored in the very fire. But by the strong hand of God we have been delivered. We have come forth from the prison-house. With joy we behold ourselves emancipated—the Lord’s free men. The iron yoke is taken from our necks. We no longer serve our lusts and pay obedience to the tyrant’s sin. With a high hand and an outstretched arm, our God has led us forth from the place of our captivity and joyfully we pursue our way through the wilderness. But with the chi…