Now, I'm reading in chapter 6, beginning at
verse 1.
Now, the Lord will deal with Moses.
Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt
thou see what I will do to Pharaoh.
For with a strong hand shall he let
them go, and with a strong hand shall
he drive them out of his land.
And God spake unto Moses, and said unto
him, I am the Lord.
This is Jehovah now speaking, the self-existing
one.
God doesn't have any reserves.
He doesn't fill a pantry full of foodstuff
so that he won't starve.
God doesn't have to make preparation for the
future.
He is the self-existing one.
I am the Lord.
He's not dependent upon anything in creation.
He doesn't lean on anything.
The whole business leans on Him, my beloved.
Now, will you notice what He's doing here
to this man Moses?
He's giving him the continuity now that has
come down from the days of Abraham.
Listen to him, verse 3, And I appeared
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
the name of God Almighty, but by my
name Jehovah was I not known to them.
He was the Almighty God, the Creator, the
Deliverer, but now He is the self-existing
one and the one who is able to
deliver these people.
Will you notice the number of times, by
the way, friends, that the personal pronoun, I,
is it refers to God.
I am the Lord.
I appeared unto Abraham.
I appeared unto Isaac.
I appeared unto Jacob.
And I was not known by the name
of Jehovah to them.
Now, verse 4, And I have established my
covenant with them to give them the land
of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein
they were strangers.
Now, you have here this tremendous emphasis upon
what God is going to do.
Will you listen to him?
Verse 5, And I have also heard the
groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered
my covenant.
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I
am the Lord.
Now, there begins here the seven I-wills
of God, what He's going to do.
And they are the seven I-wills of
redemption.
And for us, it is a marvelous portrait
and picture today.
But it was a great encouragement to Moses
in that day.
God says who He is, and now He
says what He's going to do.
And you and I have a Savior today.
He is who He says He is.
And He's able to save to the uttermost.