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Excerpt: ...your flocks and your herds. That is, you may go into Canaan if you must, but leave your business in Egypt. And the devil to-day is perfectly willing that you and I be just as pious and prayerful as we want to be on Sunday, provided we forget all about such things on Monday. He is willing for you to be devoutly religious if you will only confine your religion to the church. But a religion that does not permeate and purify and uplift and sanctify business and business relations is not the religion of Jesus Christ. And then Pharaoh offered a third compromise. He said, I will let the people go, but they must not go far. Why was that? For the very human reason that he wanted the privilege of getting them back. He said, for instance, I will obey God, but I do not want to promise to make my obedience permanent. You have seen plenty of instances of that. Here is a man who has decided to be a Christian, but he won't join the church. He wants to see how he gets along first. Such a man is already making provision for going back. Take up thy bed, said the Master to the paralyzed man whom He had healed. He ever wants us to make a complete break with the past. But the plagues grow worse. Pharaoh is becoming more and more frightened. While the scare is on he promises again and again that he will obey the Lord unconditionally. There was a terrible storm, you remember. The hail stones fell like shrapnel and the lightning dropped from the clouds and fairly played along the earth, and terror gripped the King's heart. And he sends for Moses. When Moses comes he tells him, all atremble, I have sinned this time. I will let the people go. But when the storm ceases and the sun shines out he is quite ashamed of his weakness. He is so ashamed that he forgets altogether the promise that he made when the fear of death was upon him. This is a side of human nature that is a bit disgusting, yet we dare not shut our eyes to it. There are scores listening to me at this...

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