3.8
“I have come down to deliver them”. Men are saved when God takes action. Here we God came down to deliver them out of Egypt, in Christ God came down in the flesh to save all mankind. And this salvation had two aspects. The first was to deliver them out of oppression, out of slavery. The second was to take them to “a land flowing with milk and honey”, “a good and broad land”. In Christ we are not just forgiven, we are given new life. We are given eternal life.
3:9
So the cry of the people had come to God. People can often groan thinking that no one, least of all God, is listening to them. The Bible teaches us that God does hear, He does listen. It does seem that He is often slow to act, from our perspective. But God does here and He will act. This should also be a warning to all oppressors. They may seem to get away with it for a time, but they can be assured that it will only be for a time, then judgement will come.
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