Let’s Not Make A Deal!!!

I guess all of us have watched this program and enjoyed it, as some of the guests of the show made good deals and some made bad deals.

While none of us have appeared on this show and played “Let’s Make A Deal,” the fact is, Satan wants to play this game with us every day.

For example, the Lord sent Moses down to a place called Egypt to speak to a king called Pharaoh, to cause him to let His people go from the bondage of slavery.

When Pharaoh refused to let the people go, God sent 10 plagues that changed his mind.

During the course of these plagues, Pharaoh offered to let God’s people go. But, he wanted to make a deal before he would allow Moses to lead God’s people to the PROMISE LAND.

Four times he offered to let them leave, but each time he wanted TO MAKE A DEAL.

He was saying to Moses, “I am tired of all these flies, lice, and frogs! I know God said to let His people go, and I will, but first, LET’S MAKE A DEAL.”

Let’s look at the four deals he proposed to God’s people.

I. WHY DON’T YOU SACRIFICE HERE?

In Exodus 8:25, we read, “And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.”

Pharaoh was saying, “Let’s make a deal Moses, you can serve your God, but you do not have to leave Egypt YOU CAN DO IT HERE.”

This is the same deal offered to many believers today.

The Devil comes by and he says, “Let’s make a deal. Go ahead and be a Christian if this is what you want to do, but do not leave, stay right here among us.”

The devil does not want us to get out of reach, because he wants to control us.

Moses refused Pharaoh’s deal.

Look at Exodus 8:26-27, we read, “And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.”

Moses told Pharaoh that if they remained in Egypt and offered up their sacrifices, their sacrifices are despised by the Egyptians and they will stone us.

For example, the Egyptians considered cattle to be sacred animals.

• The bull represented their god Apis

• The cow represented their goddess Hathor

If the Israelites had sacrificed those animals in Egypt to Jehovah, there would have been rioting and violence for doing such a thing.

Moses said we cannot stay here, water and gas does not mix.

Nothing has changed!

• Today ungodly people can ride by churches with their church steeples pointing people to heaven and it offends them.

• It offends the ungodly boss man when you tell him Sunday is God’s day and you cannot work on God’s Day.

• It offends the ungodly when you tell them you do not care to hear language that take God’s name in vain.

The lost world never has and never will understand the worship of the Spirit-filled Christian today.

The message of the FROM THE LOSS to Christians is; “Do not go out from among us, learn to TOLERATE US!”

• They want to fill the world with sin, and Christians are to TOLERATE IT!

• They want to trash the movies with four letter words and nudity, and we are to tolerate it!

• They want to take God out of the schools, and we are to tolerate it.

• They want to cram laws down our throats that permit abortion, and we are to tolerate it.

• They want to fill our streets with homosexuality, and we are to tolerate it.

• They want to take the Lord’s Day and make it like any other day, and we are to tolerate it!

• They want to strip Christmas of Christ, and we are to tolerate it.

• They want to commercialize Easter, and we are to tolerate it!

• They want to fill our young people’s ears with garbage using rap music, and we are to tolerate it.

• They want to REPLACE GODLY PARENTS AS ROLE MODLES TO THEIR CHILDREN and make the scumbags of the earth role models for our children, and we are to tolerate it!

The message of the lost world is TOLERANCE.

But listen, the message of the cross has always been; “DO NOT TOLERATE SIN, YOU GET AS FAR FROM IT AS YOU CAN!”

We cannot worship God among that crowd because to them the cross of Christ is foolishness.