These be the heads of their fathers’ houses…these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. -Exodus 6:14-25

I greatly admire this chapter. I cannot help admiring the next thing that God did when He told His servant what to do. The Lord began to count the heads of those whom He would redeem out of bondage…God seemed to say, “Pharaoh, let My people go!” “I will not,” said the despot. Straightway the Lord goes right down into the brick-town where the poor slaves are at work, and He makes out a list of all of them, to show that He means to set free. So many there of Simeon. So many here of Reuben. So many here of Levi. The Lord is counting them…for He knows what will be done, because He determines to do it and He is almighty. He knows what is to come of the gospel, and He knows whom He means to bless. And so let Satan rage, and let adversaries do what they will, “The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His”; and to prove this, He goes on writing down their names, and taking an account of them. “They shall be Mine, saith the Lord, in that day when I make up My jewels”…Out of the mass of mankind a company shall come to Him, and shall glorify His name, as it is written, “This people have I formed for Myself; they shall show forth My praise.” Oh, that you had such a mind in you that you would accept His gospel! Will you do so even now? Trust Christ, and you are saved. Look unto Him, and be ye saved The Lord bless you, for His name’s sake. Amen.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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