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10 and we might read again from
verse 27. Exodus chapter 10 and verse 27,
Moses was entreated by Pharaoh and at last Moses said, you can
go but you can't take your cattle. And we read in verse 27, but
the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart that he would not let them go.
And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself,
see my face no more, for in that day thou seest my face, thou
shalt die. Moses said, Thou hast spoken
well, I will see thy face no more. Verse 28. Pharaoh said
unto him, get thee from me, take heed to thyself, that thou seest
my face no more, for in that day thou seest my face, thou
shalt die. Pharaoh said, take heed to yourself. If we were summing up this verse
and trying to sum up what Pharaoh actually said, we might say what
he's saying is, I've had enough. I've had enough. Pharaoh had
had enough of Moses and Moses' God, especially Moses' God, Jehovah,
God over all, the one and only true God. Moses' God is a God
of holiness, truth, and he demands honesty and upright lives from
all men. Jehovah challenged the gods of
Pharaoh and Pharaoh's people. These Egyptians worshipped many
strange gods and God challenged each and every one of these gods
in turn as to their intelligence and as to their strength. They
had a river god. Jehovah turned the river into
blood and their god could do nothing. They had a frog god,
and God sent a plague of frogs that the frog god could not control. They had a god of insects, and
Moses sent, or rather God sent, a plague of locusts. And the
insect god had the intelligence or the wherewithal to keep the
locusts in control. And so it went on. They had a
God of flies and so on and so forth. Jehovah, the God of the
whole earth, showed Pharaoh and his people that they were powerless
before him, that their gods were absolutely hopeless. Jehovah,
the God of the whole earth, showed that they had no intelligence,
They had no power before the true God. And God challenged
Pharaoh's hard heart and made it even harder. Pharaoh said
that one time, okay, if that's the case, you can go, but you're
not taking your cattle. He wanted it, he wanted them
to go on his terms, and God said no. Pharaoh had no pity. Pharaoh had no compassion on
this people who would be going out into the desert place. God
challenged Pharaoh's seared conscience, but Pharaoh had no thought of
the evil that he lived and the evil way in which he treated
God's people. He had no tenderness for the
children and for the mothers with child who would be sent
out not knowing where they would go. Jehovah had said, let my
people go or else I will destroy your firstborn. Jehovah is the
one and only God who challenges all men everywhere. to reveal
to them what is right, what is decent, what is good. And when
nations and governments and powers will not take this challenge
to heart, then He will turn them over more and more to their evil
ways. Pharaoh said, I've had enough. And that's the cry of the world
today. I've had enough of you Christians. I've had enough of
your God. I've had enough of your Bible.
I've had enough of your rules and regulations. I want to be
free of all these rules and regulations. The world of unbelief, however,
is still a very religious world. And it has even more than ten
gods that the gods of the people of Egypt, Pharaoh and his people
had. Gods of their own making. Money is one. I'm amazed that it costs so much
to get into a football match. For a father, perhaps, to take
his two sons to one of the really big matches. I'm amazed how much
it costs. and men and women are willing
to pay. And these football players, some
of them, are earning millions and millions for playing a sport. Money of itself is good to buy
and sell. One grows the grain and he sells
it to the baker to make bread. There had been an in-between
who made the flour. The baker makes the bread and
he sells it and so on. But the world is making a God
of money. The money God gets people to
want more and more and more and more and they never have enough
and they forget the poor. Our government Our members of
Parliament in London and in Edinburgh and Wales and Ireland, they've
never lacked a penny. But how many have been unemployed
in this pandemic? Did they say, OK, we'll cut our
salary in half? Not one of them. Not one. The God of the Bible challenges
all gods. He challenges the God of science,
who some, most in science, want to tell us that the earth began
46 million years ago with a great big bang and evolution has followed
on. God of the Bible challenges all
of this. But the world is saying more
and more to us, I've had enough of you. I've had enough of your
God. I've had enough of how and how
you want me to live, and what laws and way of living you want
me to follow. I've had enough of your God."
And Pharaoh turned to Moses and said, take heed to yourself. Go. And the day I see your face,
I will kill you. I will utterly destroy you. and
your God will be utterly destroyed. I've had enough of the lies you
tell you Christians. You tell me you believe the Bible's
creation account that God made all things very good in six days
and he rested the seven and that's how he wants us to live now.
You know the communist world for a while went to a ten day
week, nine days working and one off. They were in total confusion. It just did not work and they
had to go back to the seven day week. You tell me the Bible stories
from Adam and Eve are true and I'm telling you they are myths.
You tell me that God says one man and one woman is a marriage,
a true marriage. I don't believe that. I have
other ways of thinking. I have other ways of acting.
and I've had enough of your preaching not just your God and not just
what you're trying to how you're trying to guide this world but
I've had enough of your preaching give me moral teaching and I'll
take it good and wrong and we'll debate what's wrong and we'll
debate what's good and we'll come to no conclusion so everybody
can do what they please And especially when you preach Christ as the
Son of the Eternal God, that really makes me sure that I've
had enough of you. And when you preach this Christ
as the only Savior from sin, and the only one who can guide
us in our living, I've had enough of you. And when you preach Christ
and Him crucified as a blood atonement for our wrongdoing,
Who do you think we are? Fools? I know whom I have believed.
What a wonder to be able to say that. I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that what I have committed to Him, He will keep
until He comes again. I've had enough of you Christians. take heed to yourself. And now
I want us to skip over to Exodus 34. Exodus chapter 34 and verse
12. Exodus 34, verse 12. We might read from verse 11.
God had said in verse 10, I will make a covenant before all the
people, I will do marvels. Verse 11. Observe thou that which
I command thee this day. Behold, I drive out before thee
the Amorite, Canaanite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite. And then verse 12, Take heed
to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
whither thou goest, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee.
Now God is taking up the same language to speak to his people. And God is saying to his people,
not Pharaoh, not the gods of this world. God is saying to
his people, take heed to thyself. I've made a covenant with thee,
my people. Take heed to thyself. God has
his take heeds. The first is that you do not
join the world out of fear, out of thinking that if we join with
the world then we can live in peace with the world. Take heed
to thyself. The world cannot live in peace
with the Christian unless through the power of the
gospel. Gospel revival has swept through
a land And then we discover that the gospel has such an effect,
even on those that don't believe. And in the old days, you wouldn't
find them washing their cars on the Lord's day. You wouldn't
find them digging their gardens on the Lord's day. They may not
have all been converted, but they were all so impressed with
the gospel and the gospel living of God's people. Take heed. if you think of joining with
the world. And take heed when the world appears to be speaking
a bit of truth, or, as we might have said years ago, common sense. But today, there is not a sense
that is common to all men. There are common senses, because
different people have different sense about what is right, about
what is wrong, about how we should live, Take heed if the world
appears to speak a bit of truth. You see take heed to your eyes
because we see some of the things that the world would bring before
us and we think that would be worth following. Take heed with
your ears what you hear because we can get used to things on
our radio and television screens and think Well, yeah, I can suffer
this bit of this film because of how it ends. No, you can't. God wouldn't have it in his eyes.
God wouldn't have it in his ears. Take heed what you touch. Yes,
because our fingers and our tongue would taste many good things
that the world has to offer. And God says you watch it. Take
care. Don't be fooled. And take heed
when the world is very persuasive, a little can't hurt you. I remember
a Christian girl telling me that when she was in university in
Aberdeen, there were four or five girls in the flat, two of
them professing faith, and the other three girls were going
out for a night on the town. And the Christian girl out and
out said, I'll come with you. And one of these unconverted
girls turned to her and said, you will not. You are not coming with us. You
are a Christian. And we can see that. And where
we are going is no place for Christians. Never mind her. I'm talking to you. The world can be persuasive.
They can touch and twist and make things so attractive. Take
heed, stay out of ungodly unions. I don't need to say any more
about that. And now let's turn to another scripture, Deuteronomy
chapter 4 and first of all in verse 9. Chapter 4 and verse
9. And look at verse 7, For what
nation is there so great, Who hath a God so nigh unto them? God is near to his people, as
the Lord our God in all these things that we call upon him
for. And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law which I have set before
you this day? Only take heed to thyself. and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest
they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but teach
them thy sons, and thy sons' sons, and so on. Take heed to
thyself. Is there a God so near to his
people as Jehovah? Is there a God so near to His
people as the Lord Jesus Christ, God and man? Is there a God so
near to His people, indwelling even their hearts, as God the
Holy Spirit? Take heed to thyself and don't
forget what your eyes have seen of God's things. of God's ways
and learned of God's blessings in days gone by. You have seen
God's people weep and heard their groans. And what a blessing that
can be when they are weeping to God, weeping for their sins,
weeping for their poverty, weeping that there's nothing in the house
to put on the table. Can you imagine sitting for a
meal and all that is there on your plate are lettuce leaves?
There's not even a pepper pot or a salt shaker. Absolutely
nothing else. And mum and dad and the three
children are standing there pleased as punch because they've got
something to give you. And you're eating their meal
all to yourself. They didn't know that we had
food in the car, but they gave out of their poverty. And I know
that the mother weeps, was weeping at times because she had nothing
for her little ones. Not a thing. And what she did
have, the lettuce, she was giving to us. And you have seen God's
people weep for sin, their own sin and the sin of the nation.
You have seen God's people weep for their sins when they have
believed and have gone back into sin and have turned away from
God, have turned away from the church. And yet God has spoken
to them and taught them how to take heed to themselves and they
have turned to Him. And you have seen God's people
in prayer And you have seen them grow in grace and understanding
of the Word. You have seen them grow in their
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and how it has softened them
and how it has rounded off the rough edges. And you have been
so glad to see God's people taking heed of themselves. And you have
seen them grow in love. and in tenderness, and in patience,
love towards God and Christ and the Spirit, and love towards
each other. And when they meet with genuine
Christians from other denominations, other groups, you have seen Christ
in them. And yes, as the Indians in our
mission, that was part of our mission in India, when they were
singing the Psalms, they couldn't help but sway. They couldn't
help but move their bodies. They couldn't help but shuffle
where they stood singing the Psalms of David. Were they wrong? Oh, we see God's people grow
in grace and we see them teach their families, their children
and their children's children. Thou wilt guide me by thine eye,
said the psalmist. We cannot see God. What does it mean when God says,
I will guide you with my eye? Well, the little fellow, I'm
excusing the ladies tonight, but the little fellow is doing
something that he shouldn't be doing. And dad comes quietly
and sees him doing it, and the little fellow looks up to dad,
and dad doesn't say a word. But the little fellow can see
in his dad's eyes that what he's doing, he shouldn't be doing. or perhaps we will bring in the
ladies and there's a little girl and she's trying to make something
perhaps for a baby brother and she's striving and she's having
to start from the beginning again and again and mum comes in and
she looks at mum and her eyes are smiling and the little one
thinks I'm on the right way at last You have seen God's people teach
their children in so many different ways. Because when the child
was asleep, the parent was weeping before God, give me my children. Give me my children for Christ.
Well, there's a few others we might not get to all of them,
but we'll have a go. And we'll turn to Deuteronomy
chapter 12. and verse 13. Deuteronomy chapter
12 and verse 13. Now this is concerning the worship
of God and the offering of sacrifices. And in verse 13 God
says to his people, take heed to thyself that thou offer not
thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest. And every place that seems good
to you is not good to me, because God says, I have set a place
where you are to worship. This is congregational worship.
This is a drawing together, as God has commanded, of God's people
to worship together in the place that God has set, and to offer
the sacrifice that God has said. not a sacrifice that we may want
to give or imagine we should give, but the one that God has
set before us. Take heed to thyself. Wherever
you go, I have set up a place for my worship. That's where
I want you to be. That's where I want you to come
together in the public worship. Our eyes, minds, hearts, and
bodies We'll have no difficulty in finding places that suit us.
Oh, it'd be nice if just round the corner from Pinewood Place
there was a church. Then we wouldn't need to get
into the car and drive about 30 miles. It would be nice. Oh, there is a church there.
Maybe I could go. No, they're offering strange sacrifices in
that place. Jehovah, the true God, He has
set places for his people to gather. Take heed, and in verse
19, take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as
long as thou livest upon the earth. The Levite didn't have
a piece of ground to cultivate for him and his family. He was
dependent upon the gifts of God's people. as our own pastors, as
our own ministers, as our missionaries. It is our duty to provide for
them as long as we live. And take heed to do that gladly,
laying aside as the Lord enables you. And look at the same chapter
in verse 30, Or verse 29, When the Lord thy
God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whether thou
goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
in their land, take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
them. After that they be destroyed
from before thee, and that thou inquire not after their gods,
saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will
I do likewise. Surely I can learn something
from them." And God says, no way. No way. Take heed. Take heed as you are
maturing, as you are growing in grace, coming to the river
that we all must cross. Take heed in youth, middle age,
old age. Take heed. Don't follow them. Don't follow their ways. Don't
get trapped up into how they do things. Many, many are the things that other churches,
other places would give us. That seems so enticing. take
heed to thyself. And finally, over in 1 Samuel
chapter 19, 1 Samuel chapter 19, and we'll
read verse 1 and 2. And Saul speak to Jonathan his
son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. And Jonathan told
David, saying, Saul, my father seeketh to kill thee now. Now
therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning,
and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself. Take heed to
thyself, I pray thee, until the morning, and abide in a secret
place and hide thyself. Take heed to thyself, dearly
beloved." Jonathan and David had a wonderful love for each
other. It was a heart love. It was a heart that they would
do anything at all for each other's safety and each other's well-being. Jonathan who might have been
king, the world would say, Jonathan, you're the next king. You're
in line. And Jonathan said, no. God has
chosen another to replace my father. And I love him. And I'm happy that he will serve. Take heed to thyself, for the
world is seeking to destroy in so many subtle ways And I love
what Jonathan said, take heed until the morning, until the
shadows flee away, until heaven in all its glory beams into your
souls and the angels call for you. And as you have been clothed
in the righteousness of Christ, your robes made white in the
blood of the lamb. Take heed until the morning. That's all God is asking of us.
Our day is a tale that is told. The grass grows, the grass withers,
so are we. And God says, all I'm asking
is that you take heed until the morning. until the morning glory,
and take heed and abide in a secret place just until the morning. O my dove that art in the clefts
of the rock, in the secret place of the storm, let me see thy
countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice,
and thy countenance is comely. In the rock of ages cleft for
me. Let me hide myself in it? No. Let me hide myself in thee. In the wounds of his hands and
side and feet. Let me hide in the cleft of the
rocks. Let me hide in my Saviour who
was so sore wounded just until the morning. That's all. That's not a long time to abide
in Christ. A hundred lifetimes, twenty thousand
lifetimes is not long to take heed to yourself and hide in
Christ until the morning.
Take Heed To Yourself
| Sermon ID | 6252175166701 |
| Duration | 30:47 |
| Date | |
| Category | Prayer Meeting |
| Bible Text | Exodus 10:27 |
| Language | English |
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