One More Night With The Frogs

God’s people had been in bondage and oppression for many years. God’s desire was to deliver them just as it is God’s desire to see everyone delivered who are in the bondage of sin and oppression. Therefore, God sent Moses and Aaron to pharaoh with the message to let his people go. Exodus 4:22-23. Pharaoh’s attitude was: who is God that I should obey his voice? Exit 5:2. God began to deal with Pharoah by way of judgements for the deliverance of his people, Exodus 6:5-8. The first judgment was when the waters of Egypt were turned to blood. Second, was the plague of frogs. Third, what's the plague of lice. 4th, the plague of flies. 5th was the death of the Egyptians livestock. The judgment of boils, hell and fire, locusts, darkness, and 10th, the judgment of death!

Ten terrible judgments. I want to zero in on just one today, the plague of frogs. This is an interesting story, Exodus 8:1-6. I want us to see three things. The frogs are a type of sin. Second, only God could help get rid of the frogs and lastly, I want you to see the foolishness of Pharaoh.

I. The Frogs are a Type of Sin

1. Sin is disobedience to God, missing the mark, going against God’s plan for your life. 1 John 3:4, Romans 3:23

a. Adam and Eve

b. Cain

c. Samson

d. Rich farmer

2. Now frogs are ugly!

a. Sin looks pretty, but it is ugly.

b. Satan tries to dress it up, cover it with darkness, but it is ugly!

3. Frogs are dirty, born in dirty water, love mud.

a. Sin is the dirtiest, ugliest thing in the world.

b. Look at the immorality about you.

c. Drugs that turn young people into selling themselves.

d. Drink that ruins a man’s life.

e. Sin that takes another man’s life.

f. Lust that takes another man’s wife.

g. Sin that causes a man to forget God, to rob God.

h. Sin is dirty and ugly.

4. Frogs have a bad sound, so does sin.

a. Listen to the sound of war caused by sin.

b. A crying baby with a drunk father.

c. Try to explain to a teenager about divorce.

d. Listen to a girl say, “I’m pregnant.”

e. Listen to a girl say, “I’ve been raped.”

f. Listen to the filthy talk and dirty stories.

g. Sin sounds bad.

5. Frogs smell bad, so does sin. Drink, smoke, etc.

6. Frogs feel bad, can you imagine frogs in your bed, stepping on them, trying to eat with them?

7. Frogs everywhere a type of sin. Sin is everywhere, a problem in our lives.

8. John 3:3, unless a man takes care of the sin problem he cannot go to heaven.

II. Only God Could Get Rid of the Frogs

1. These Egyptians could no more get rid of the frogs than you can get rid of the sin in your life, Jeremiah 17:9; Ecclesiastes 8:11

2. Many people think if they reform their life, they will get rid of the sin. Did you ever try to reform a frog?

3. I’ve seen many a man who thought he had the sin problem whipped, only to have it overtake him again.

a. Like a frog, they hibernate but always show up again.

b. So also, our sin.

4. Strange how people try to overcome this sin problem without God. Seem to think they don’t need God.

5. Only God can take care of the sin problem.

a. Ephesians 1:7

b. Colossians 1:12-14

c. John 14:1-6

III. The Foolishness of Pharaoh

1. One more night with the frogs, that is stupid. Why would anyone want to spend another night with those dirty, ugly, stinking frogs?

2. Why aren’t you saved? You want one more night with your sins!

3. You who are saved, why don’t you tithe, witness, be faithful, pray, read your Bible, act right, dress right?

a. You want one more night in the sin you have slipped into.

b. One more night even though you know it is going to cost you.

4. Why do people reject Christ? why do Christians refuse to live for Him?

5. It is the same with those who reject Christ. Romans 6:23, your sins are not worth what you will have to pay for them one day.

6. You can say no to God, and you will die one day, hopeless, without the treasure of God, lost.

7. Why not come to Him today and settle the sin problem? Romans 10:9-10, 1 John 1:9