This week, pastor Don looks at some more of the plagues and reminds us that they are in groups of 3. Last time, we saw how the magicians of the Pharaoh were able to duplicate the first few plagues, but this time they seem powerless to do so. Not only that, but as the plagues progress, not only are the magicians unable to replicate the plagues, but they are powerless to prevent them affecting themselves. God is revealing His sovereignty and the impotence of all others who would try to set themselves up as gods, who are in fact no gods.
Pastor Don reminds us of the trap that many of us today can fall into. That of thinking the modern day equivalent of the gods of Egypt (money, possessions, beauty, the stock market, a good career etc.) are any more powerful to save us when it really matters.
We are also reminded that the salvation that Jesus Christ purchased for us on the cross was not only a deliverance from the penalty of sin, but deliverance from the bondage to that sin in our daily lives.
