Appreciate all that good singing today, worshiping the Lord. What a blessing it is to give praise to Him. Turn in your Bibles to Psalm 78. Psalm 78, continuing the series on the works of God. We want to see the works of God in this psalm. I believe it is the THEME of this psalm, Psalm 78. We want to read verses 1-22, we'll then be looking at a few others later on in the message, but if you have your Bibles open and hearts and minds yielded to the Lord, Preaching is always a two-way thing. It's not just something that is done to you. You must have the responsibility of hearing and applying and receiving the Word of God, praying for the man of God as he preaches. Psalm 78, beginning at verse 1. Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done. for he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children, they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments, and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law, and forgot His works. and his wonders that he had showed them. Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt and the field of Zon. He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, and he made the waters to stand as a heap. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He claimed the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run. They said, can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Can he provide flesh for his people? Therefore the Lord heard this and was wroth. So a fire was kindled against Jacob and anger came up against Israel because they believed not in God and trusted not in his salvation. This is a Psalm about the wonderful works of God. You think of the beginning of the Bible. In chapter one, it records the works of creation that God did in the six days. And we find then in chapter two of resting the seventh. And I want you to listen to these three verses of chapter two of Genesis as I read them. I'm going to read them once, then I'm going to read them again, bringing your attention to something. Genesis chapter two, one through three, Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it He had rested from all the work which God created and made. God is introduced to us working and doing mighty works, the mighty work of creation. If you look at this, I notice—let me just use my fingers to count this—it says, Thus the heavens and earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work, which he had made and rested on the seventh day from all his work, which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that he had rested from all his work, which he created and made." Seven times it emphasizes the creative work of God. If we include the beginning statement that It was finished. It was completed. And so we see that God is introduced to us by His great and mighty works. Now, let's look in this Psalm, verses 4 through 7. We're going to be reading a lot of Scripture. Follow with me. And I'm reading the Scripture for emphasis and for the power of God's Word. Look at verses 4 through 7, and we'll want to pick out the theme. Verse 4, he says, We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done. For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He had commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. We are not to forget the works of God. The Bible is a record of the works of God. And so we need to remember the word of God, as we'll see through here, the evidence that you are remembering the works of God is that you obey his commandments. As we look at this, we see that Israel then in the day of Israel, and we today in Christ have the responsibility to declare God's wonderful works to the generations to come. That is the responsibility of you fathers, you mothers, to communicate them to your children. I've used the example when the children of Israel came out of Egypt and after the 40 years and Joshua is leading them over the Jordan, Most people see the memorial that they made in Gilgal and put the stones there, but God told them to put 12 stones in the midst of the river. Now, how long do you think those stones in the middle of that river lasted? Probably not very long. And I think God was showing them that you know where the river Jordan goes to? To the Dead Sea. And I think he was showing them, as we saw with Joshua, a generation arose up that knew not the mighty works of God. We are always one generation from passing this on and having a continuing line of succession and passing the truth of God. Now God's word's gonna be here, but as far as this church, your family, you see, and I think that's what those stones in the river represented. They were going to eventually disappear. And if Joshua and those that went over did not persuade their children of the reality and of the presence and power of God, that witness would be lost. That's the responsibility of each of you fathers, each of you mothers, in a very persuasive way through prayer to pass these things on to your children. Now, what we see here, And it's difficult in verses three through six, some see five generations. Now I've preached this and it's possibly just for, it depends on if one is in a positive or if it is introducing a new thought. Let me show you these five generations. If you look at verse three, In verse 3 he says, We have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. So you have the fathers are one generation, then the people, the writer of this psalm, the father spoke to him, of course it was written by the Spirit of God, that's two. And then if you go down in verse 6, you find this, that the generation to come might know them, that's the third generation, and then it says, even the children which shall be born. Now if you look at that, there's three italicized words, that means it's difficult to translate. It possibly is an appositive describing the generation to come, or it is also saying the children of that generation. If we take it as the children of that generation to come, that is the fourth generation. And then it says, and should arise and declare them to their children. That's five generations. It's very unique to have a family where there are five generations, but sometimes that is known. Some of you may have relatives and know of five generations. And so here we have this communication of God's word. The apostle Paul, said the same thing. He spoke of four generations. Listen as I quote II Timothy 2.2, who shall be able to teach others also." We have four generations. And these things that thou, meaning Paul speaking to Timothy, so Timothy's actually the second generation. He said, you've heard of me, so Paul is the first generation. And he says, you've heard this among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men, that's three generations, who shall be able to teach others, that's four generations. And so if a church is not communicating the truth to those in the church, those in their families, and those that we have influence over, we are not going to have following generations that are going to stand and believe the truth. And we need to do this with a holy passion. You know, many times you'll have a first-generation church, like I was a 17-year-old punk. That's what I was when the Lord saved me. I was just a 17-year-old punk. You see, I was an ungodly teenager. I knew how to turn on the language, turn it off, and how to act one way and another way, and God saved me. And I'll tell you, it was radical. I mean, people knew that I was saved. I mean, you know, there was something different. But then you marry and you raise children. They grow up in the church. Well, that's a second generation. Now, it takes the grace of God for anyone to be saved, but you have the communication of a first-generation Christian to be able to persuade it with holy passion that this is real because they can become so familiar with these things. And so you need to share with them, answer prayer and faith and pray so that they can see and know and God working in their lives, you see. And so that can be communicated. I've used the illustration before of a baton. If I say that right, I have a difficulty. I mix up the letter B and the letter P. So sometimes I'll say patah, but a baton, passing it on to the next generation. and it has to be done right. You want to pass the truth along. If you've ever watched a relay race, you only have that short space there to pass the baton on and it has to be done right. Now even if the other one runs ahead of everyone, comes in first if they don't have the baton. They're not a winner. And so we have to run the race and we need to pass that on by the grace of God and realizing it takes God's grace. Now, the first work that I see specifically here in this text is the work of God giving us his word. And man, that is a great work. Do you love the Word of God? I love the Word of God. I love to memorize it. I love to meditate upon it. Every now and then when I'm praying, I'll pick my Bible up and just put it right here while I'm praying because I love the Word of God. I love to teach it and believe it and preach it. And we need to love that. We need to teach our children the Word of God. You know, I was talking to someone, and I was telling them about the little kindergartner students, and they'll come through kindergarten, and A, all live sin, and come shore of the glory of God. What is that, Romans 3, 23, you see? And then you just go right through those verses. We need to teach our children the word of God. Now, if you look at verse five, this is the first work this passage brings out. It says, for ye established a testimony in Jacob, And he appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children. Now you see Hebrew parallelism here. Please always be aware of this. It'll help you understand a text. If you'll notice the word established and the word appointed are parallel. A testimony is parallel with a law. A testimony in Jacob is parallel with a law in Israel. So he's saying the same things in two different ways. The testimony, the law, is the law of God. We need to teach the law of God. Now, the Bible uses the law of God in a general sense, meaning the whole Bible. The whole Bible is a revelation of God. And it also uses it restrictively of the Ten Commandments. But this is the testimony of God. Now you understand Allah cannot give a testimony. You have to be a trinity to give a testimony, because there has to be two to bear witness. And so God gives a testimony. His word is a testimony. In 1 John, it says, and the Spirit is truth. How do we know the Spirit is truth? Because there's three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. Just like Jesus said, he said, if I speak this of my own, you don't have to receive it as the truth. In other words, I'm trying to think the exact wording, because that sounds poor the way I quoted it. So let me just jump over here. You stay where you're at. And I want to show you what Jesus said here. He said in John chapter five, he said, if I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. Now, obviously his witness would be true. Matter of fact, he says over in chapter eight, that very thing. He says the very opposite. He's not contradicting. He says in chapter eight, he says, if I get, I am one that bear witness of myself and the father that sent me, beareth witness of me. He says up here, Jesus answered and said, though I bear record or witness of myself, yet my record is true. Those are two, they're opposites. But what are you saying legally? You did not have to receive the testimony of one. You have to have witnesses. And so Jesus gives the witnesses. He said that down here, the witness of myself and my father bears witness. Then he gave the witness of his works. Well, how do we know the spirit is true? Because the father the Son and the Holy Spirit bear witness. And so we have the Word of God, and we need to know it, we need to memorize it, we need to teach it to our children. You see, the Word of God. Listen to what Romans 3 says. What advantage then hath the Jew, or what profit is there in circumcision? Much every way, chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. It is a divine grace and favor to have the Word of God. Now it doesn't guarantee the salvation of our children, but it is the way of the salvation of our children. And so we need to pray. We need to give them the word of God. An oracle is a divine communication of revelation. In this context, it's God's word. They were given the word of God. Listen to 2 Peter 1, verses 20 and 21. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation, Now what do we see here? He's talking about how the revelation came. He's not talking about how we personally interpret it. The word is, the verb is, is the Greek word ginomai. It means to become, to come into existence. So let me put in that meaning and read it again. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture came into existence or became of any private interpretation. In other words, no individual just came up with it. It was the holy man and we know that's the proper meaning because he said the prophecy came not. He's got the positive, now the negative. It came not in old time by the will of man. So the Bible is not, its origin is not the will of man. It became through holy men of God being moved by the Holy Spirit, receiving the Word of God and recording it. Now, the words of God coming to the holy prophets. Becoming their words is a miraculous work, much like the incarnation of Jesus Christ. The Son of God became man, two natures, one person. God's Word became man's Word, two natures, one Bible, the Word of God. And so it is the, some have coined the word, the inscripturation. That's a theological word. You look it up in some dictionaries, they won't have it, but the theological, it's used in theological discussions. You have the incarnation, the son of God becoming man, and you have inscripturation, the word of God becoming man's word in the sense that they recorded it. And so the giving of the word of God is this work of God that we should not forget. And now look at verses eight through 10. Psalm 78 and verses eight through 10. And might not be as their fathers. A stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. The children of Ephraim, armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in His law and forget His works. In other words, what he's showing is that if you communicate the Word of God, the wonders of God, the works of God, you receive them in faith, you believe them, you're saved by believing in the grand work of redemption. And the way you manifest that you have not forgotten is that you honor God. You keep his commandments. That is a statement and an evidence that you are proclaiming in your belief, in your life, and communicating the works of God. And so he's warning, don't be like the generation that forgets the works of God. They forget the commands of God. So the first work of God is giving us the Bible, giving us his law. Now look at the second thing, verses 12 through 16, and there's many works listed here. So we call this the work of God, including the miraculous works God did in Egypt to free them from bondage, 12 through 16. Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zion. He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, and he made the waters to stand as a heap. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He claimed the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers. Here we see some of the marvelous works that God did in Egypt. What a marvelous thing. You see the miracle in verse 13 of dividing the Red Sea. Could you imagine being there? I tell you, I think that's one thing, that just that one scene, I think Hollywood did pretty good. I think that's about what it looked like. Boy, just to see parting in one of the Ten Commandments. Now, don't get all the love story between Moses and all the other foolishness of Hollywood, but just that dramatic scene, that parting, I think is a pretty good picture of probably what that was like. And so what we see here, the parting of the Red Sea, we also see the cloud that God gave them by day, the pillar of fire that he gave them by night. Let's go and read about that. Go with me to Exodus chapter 13, keep your place. We're coming back to Psalm 78, but go to Exodus chapter 13, and it says, Verses 21 and 22, the last two verses of chapter 13 will tell us about the cloud and then we'll read about the dividing of the sea. Exodus 13 verses 21 and 22. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them Let's go on to chapter 14 and continue reading. We will jump down to verse 8. Verse 8 of chapter 14, And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel. And the children of Israel went out with a high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in camping by the sea, besides by Hiharoth, and before Belzephon. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes. And behold, the Egyptians marched after them, and they were sore afraid. And the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord. And they said unto Moses, Because there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou dealt with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. And Moses said unto the people, fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he shall show to you today. For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever. The Lord shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, wherefore cryest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And behold, and I behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians. And they shall follow thee, and I will give me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten the honor upon Pharaoh, and upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the angel of God which went before the camp of the LORD removed and went behind them. And the pillar of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and it was a cloud and darkness to them. But it gave light by night to these, so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, And the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea, and the dry ground and the waters were a wall unto them, on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them in the midst of the sea, even all the Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to pass that in the morning watch, the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire, and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, and upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength, when the morning appeared, and the Egyptians fled against it. And the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, and the waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There remained not so much as one of them, Now look at verse 31, Now look at verse 31, which the Lord did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his servant Moses." What a mighty work. This is a work that is communicated to future generations. And he spoke to the future generations as though they had been there, that this is something. In other words, this is our history. You see, this is, we, by faith of the children of Abraham, this is our history. Though we weren't there, this is something we believe and we pass on to our children. This is our spiritual heritage, you see. This is the great work of God. and a miraculous work. Now, going back to Psalm 78, let's continue quickly. Our time getting away from us here, I can see I'm not gonna be able to get through all of this, but look with me at Psalm 78, verses 15 and 16. He claimed the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of great depths. out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock and caused the waters to run down like rivers. Note that he claved the rocks. I like reading different accounts. And it gives me the idea reading this that the rock would have broken or some way broke and the water's coming out of it is the way it's described here. And how he provided for them water streams and even rivers coming the water, coming out of the rock. What a glorious thing. Now I want you to see something here that I think is very important. And that is their response. What do you think should be their response to all of this? Thankfulness, praise, humility, and faith. But what we see is unthankfulness, covetousness, and unbelief. Let me show you this. Look at verse 17 of Psalm 78. And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Yea, they spake against God. They said, can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Can he provide flesh for the people? Now, what do we see here? Think of this, God delivered him through the mighty plagues. And if we get time, we'll read it. If not, you can read about the plagues at the end of the chapter. Through the mighty plagues and through a powerful hand, through the separation of the sea. And we know if we get time, he provided the bread, he provided the water. He did all of these things for them, but were they thankful? No, they wanted more. They were covetous. They wanted meat. He had given them bread. They wanted flesh. Now, it's not just that they were unthankful. Hear me now. It's not just that they were covetous, but I want you to catch something. If you read verses 19 and 20, look at the word can, which deals with ability. I'm gonna read it again. You tell me how many times it's mentioned in 19 and 20. Yet they spake against God and said, can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Can he provide flesh for his people? Now what's at the root of this? At the root of this is saying, you're not giving us everything we want. It's because you can't do it. You can't give us everything that we want. In other words, and I won't have time to turn there, so I may just develop the thought. If you go to John chapter six, what you'll find there, remember Jesus did the great miracle of the bread. And they came to make him a king. Why? Well, man, here, he can make bread, make our food. This is better than the welfare system, all right? We want you as king. And he's not that kind of king, so he left. He went away. So then he comes back, he's talking to them. He says, don't labor for the meat that perishes, but labor for that which gives eternal life. And he tells them about believing. And they say, well, what work will you work? Now look at this. He had done numbers of miracles. You couldn't count them. He had just fed probably some 14,000. There was 5,000 men. He had wives and children. So many more thousand than 5,000 he fed. And so they're then saying this, now we will turn, I want you to see the verse, go to John 6. I want you to see this, because I never noticed it before. I'd listened to many times to other men and read, and sometimes God uses these to open you up to something. And note this very parallel to what we just found there. And if you'll go to John chapter six and looking in John chapter six, I want you to see something here and go down to about verse 26 of John chapter six. He says here, Jesus answered them and said, verily, verily, I say unto you, you seek me not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat the loaves and were filled, which they did see the miracles, but they didn't see them. You understand the miracles are signs. They had a purpose. They were showing He's the Christ, He's the Messiah. They weren't just to fill them up with bread. So they didn't really see the miracles, though they did see them. Verse 27, For him hath God the Father sealed. Then said they unto him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. They said therefore unto him, we believe you. Know what they say. What sign showest thou then that we may see and believe thee? What doest thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. In other words, what they are saying is, they are saying, can you do any more? In other words, if you're really the Messiah, then you can do more. Now doing the more is giving them their fleshly desire. So basically they're doing the same thing the unbelieving Israelites did. Can he provide for us a table in the wilderness? In other words, you do more miracles and you just continually provide this bread. This'll be your sign. Can you really do that? Now verse 32, Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that, and the that is important, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. And he's making the point that Moses did not give them bread that would satisfy. Moses gave them bread that would sustain their physical life. But he didn't give you the true bread. The true bread is me. If you partake of me, as he preached, Brother Schultz, the water, the same thing for the bread. If you partake of Christ, you believe in him and receive, you'll have everlasting life. But they're doing the same spirit of unbelief. They're implying that you can't do these miracles, you know, to make, to show us these other signs. So they're trying to provoke him to do miracles to satisfy their lust and to satisfy their unbelieving heart. That's the same thing that children of Israel are doing. Now, if you'll go back to Psalm 78, if you kept your place, I want you to see something that's really neat. what they ask. Look at verse 19 of Psalm 78. Yea, they spake against God. They said, can God furnish a table in the wilderness? That's their question. Well, David answered it. David acknowledged that God had prepared for him a table in the presence of his enemies. And where do you think his enemies were present? They were present in the wilderness. God has prepared a table for us, and that table is the Lord Jesus Christ. In the wilderness of this world, God has done a marvelous work, a great work, a work of wisdom, not just a work of power, but a work of love, a work of grace, and that he provided redemption for us. As I often said, look at the wisdom of God's judgments. He judged Adam and Eve with death. It is through death that he redeemed us. He put a curse upon the woman in childbirth. It was a woman as a virgin that brought forth Christ. You see the thorn of crowns He wore on His head. The very judgments that God gave, He used them to bring our redemption. The wisdom of God's judgments and of His might, His wonderful works. Now look down here, what else He gave them? Verse 24, and he rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven. He made them to eat angel food bread. No, that's not what it said. He made them, I'm just being silly. Man did eat angels food. Now angels are spirit, they don't eat bread. It's just talking that God used these angels, no doubt in this miracle. And the bread coming from heaven, it came from God, but it came down, you know, they gathered it every morning. And so here it is something miraculous. And God gave it to them. And we see this. And yet they still wanted flesh, and God was angry with them, and God judged them. We don't have time to develop. I'll have to finish this message, but the other works, I'll just mention them and finish them at another time. We had the work of God's Word, the many miracles involved in freeing Israel out of Egypt. We have the work of God's judgment. Because we find here, if you'll look in verse 32, Look at verses 38 and 39. in this passage. But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh not again. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert. So the work of God's mercy, when they provoked him to wrath about wanting the quail, wanting the flesh, you can go back and read in Numbers, he poured out a spirit of judgment upon them and they died. And that's a work of God's judgment, you see, that's God's work. And then they short-lived had a repentance. He tells us here in verse 35. And they remembered that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer. Nevertheless, they did flatter him with their mouth and they lied unto him with their tongues for their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant. So there was this superficial short repentance. But then the verses we just read, after all of this, think what God did. First of all, He provided the food and the water the whole 40 years. Even their clothes did not wear out. God was faithful. And then even after the rebellion, as we read in verses 38 and 39, he showed compassion. He was long-suffering. He forgave them. God was faithful. One of his mighty works. And then we'll close. You can read, I don't have time. You can read verses 42 through 52 at your leisure. which tells the various plagues, which is part of the miracles and the works upon Egypt, but we'll close with verse 55, So God gave them his word, his law, his mighty works. The many works of God involved in freeing them out from the Egyptian bondage. God did a work of judgment. And we see that through this judgment, there was a superficial repentance, but God did a great work of compassion and forgiveness. And then we see God's work here of casting out the heathen. That's when he brought them into Palestine. a great work. And if we had time to read it, verses 42 through 52 tell of the great work of the plagues. These are some of the works of God. And I, you know, I believe that's for real. That's just for real is that I'm looking at you right now. You know, a lot of people, I've been listening to a book on Egyptian history and the guy had to acknowledge that everything that is said is consistent with the history. In other words, when he talked about being made mummies and embalming and all the different things, everything's consistent with history. Matter of fact, and he was an unbeliever, he downplayed things, but he acknowledged some historical fulfillment. But the thing of it is, he acknowledged if you were an enemy, they struck you from the record. He told that to other things. If they only recorded their victories, they didn't record defeats. And they would strike every name, every record of anything out of history. And so that's consistent with not finding these things in Egypt. We find archaeological evidence in all the other countries, but you don't find the things. But he had to acknowledge that these stories, or the accounts, were consistent. with what you find in history. In other words, whoever wrote, according to him, the book of Genesis knew what he was talking about. And I would say amen to that, much more than that man had thought. And so these are the works of God, real works in history. Let's all stand, brother Buddy. Come and we'll close with