Exodus 19:4: “You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.”

God is giving a summary of the deliverance that He worked in the lives of the children of Israel. That is a serious level demonstration of divine power. He said, “I have come down.” He told Moses, “I have come down. I have heard the cry of My people, and I have come down.” This is time for action.

I do not know if you watch action films: everything just seems like nothing is happening, nothing is happening, but then there is a trigger point and bedlam—everything is scattered from that point on, and it is unceasing action. That is what happened. For 400 years Jacob came with his children to Egypt, and they stayed there for 400 years. What was happening? They were multiplying; things were happening normally. Then this king came, and he enslaved the Israelites.

So what happened after their enslavement? They cried out to God, and then action. Action. “Look what I did. You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings.” You did not need to do anything. I did everything. That is amazing. That is a powerful picture of our salvation. They did not do anything. “I lifted you up and brought you to Myself.”

The language Paul uses in Colossians 1:13 is that “He delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His dear Son.” It was divine action. The God you cannot see acted on your behalf, knew you from before the world began, and chose you in Christ. When Christ died on the cross, you died with Him; you were buried with Him; and you rose with Him; and now you are seated at the right hand of the Father in the heavenly places, far above principalities and powers. That is awesome.

He lifted you up. He did not just lift you up—that alone would have been powerful—but He brought you to Himself. You are now His own. He purchased you with His blood. Your level has changed. That is awesome. That is all glory to God, all honor to Him. We give Him praise for His majestic work, working a salvation in Christ Jesus, and we cannot stop talking about that. We must not stop talking about that.

And to make sure, Jesus Christ said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.” He took bread, broke it, and said, “This is My body broken for you.” That is the core of the gospel message enacted again: bread broken, the wine poured out for us.

We are not told to see anything esoteric in it, to think, “This is going to do something to my body—when I drink the wine and drink this blood, it is going to do something for me.” If we think that way, we are losing the plot. It is meant to focus you on what was done. In a way, through the practices of baptism and through the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the wine, we have been “frozen” in the first century, so that we are constantly locating ourselves in what Christ did. We are not advancing from that; we are constantly focused on that. All glory to God.

Not only did He do this for the children of Israel, He did it for you too. “At just the right time, while we were still helpless, Christ died for the ungodly.”

Remember what I said about an action film: everything seems to be just going on and on, and then there is a time when everything shifts in the plot, the tempo rises, everything changes. That is what was prophesied as “the day of the Lord.” The prophets mentioned it—the day of the Lord. That was the day of the Lord when He brought salvation to the ends of the earth.

And that has reached you.

God bless you.