Exodus 4, 6, and 7 says, And
the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into
thy bosom. And he put his hand into his
bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous
as snow. And he said, Put thine hand into
thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his
bosom again, and plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it
was turned again as his other flesh. Have you ever just looked
at your hands and realized just how amazing these things are?
Man has spent billions of dollars over decades trying to make something
like the human hand to use in warehouses for packing and mailing
or on assembly lines and so forth. There are even hand-like robotics
being used for precision in things like surgery. And don't take
me wrong, that stuff is impressive. I certainly couldn't duplicate
what man has done on my own. But make no mistake, man will
never duplicate what God has done. Nothing compares to the
human hand that Jesus made. And here in our text, Jesus is
demonstrating his power over the human hand specifically,
and the human body in general. He tells Moses to put his hand
in his shirt and pull it out, and when he does, it's diseased
with deadly leprosy, for which there is, in that day, there
was no cure. But when Jesus tells Moses to
put his hand back in and pull it back out, this time when he
does, it's clean and without any sign of leprosy. Jesus is
demonstrating to Moses and will eventually demonstrate to all
Egypt that he is the God of all flesh. And if Pharaoh is at all
reasonable, he'll see that, which is why the Lord then says in
Exodus 4.8, and it shall come to pass, if they will not believe
thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that
they will believe the voice of the latter sign. But did they? Was the Lord mistaken here when
he said they will believe the voice of the latter sign? No,
the Lord knew that the Pharaoh would know the truth, but reject
it, and he would proceed in unbelief and rebellion. And you know what
we're all going to find out, I believe, at the Great White
Throne Judgment? All Christ-rejecting unbelievers
are just like Pharaoh. They believe intellectually.
They know in their minds that God's word is true. But they
choose to reject what they know to be true. And that explains
why King David wrote these inspired words that we quote quite often
in Psalm 14, 1. The fool hath said in his heart,
there is no God. They are corrupt. They have done
abominable works. There is none that doeth good.
The fool knows the truth intellectually, but gives his heart over to the
lie. Pharaoh did it, but so do all
unbelievers who reject the Bible and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Sadly, those fools reject Jesus as their creator. And as our
text in Exodus shows us, Jesus is the God of all flesh. He made
us, and he will raise us bodily, physically, in our flesh in the
last days. As Job said in Job 19, verses
25 to 27, For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for
myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins
be consumed within me." But that skin that flesh will be glorified. It will no longer be subject
to the curse, no more skin cancer, no more death and decay, no more
sickness and suffering in our flesh. As we read in Philippians
3, 20 and 21, for our conversation is in heaven. From whence also
we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change
our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious
body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue
all things unto Himself. Jesus is the Lord. He is the
God of all flesh. And one day, all of those saved
by faith in His shed blood and death on the cross, and in the
power of His bodily resurrection from the dead, from walking out
of that empty tomb alive in victory over sin and death, we will all
be in His presence. and in a glorified body, just
like His, a body of glorified flesh, and all for His praise
and glory, because He is the God of all flesh.