One More Night With the Frogs

"And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? And he said, To morrow." --Exodus 8:9-10

Can you imagine?.....The frogs were everywhere! There were frogs in the bedroom, frogs in the kitchen, frogs in the parlor, frogs in the oven, frogs in the kneading-troughs! God had said, "If thou refuse to let them [the children of Israel' go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs"! (Exodus 8:2). God keeps His word! Imagine an Egyptian woman opening her oven; she screams! --out jump frogs! There's a fellow pulling down the sheets to get into a comfortable bed, and --frogs are his bedfellows! Imagine another is putting on his clothes: what's that in his pockets? Frog! See those Egyptian boys kicking along the roads to school, squashing frogs (instead of mud) between their toes! Frogs in the palace, and frogs in the hut of squalor. Little frogs, big frogs! The din must have been deafening! Frogs in the house, frogs in the yard--thousands of dead frogs heaped up in smelly mountains as millions more come from the rivers to take their places! Finally Pharaoh could stand it no longer. He called for Moses, the servant of God. "Intreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord"!

Moses must have been overjoyed. At last Pharaoh had made up his mind. At last Pharaoh was to be converted! So Moses said, "Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?"

And Pharaoh said, "To morrow"! I have never been able to figure that one out! Frogs in his food, frogs in his bed, frogs in his clothes, frogs all over the house--and God was ready to remove the frogs instantly: the decision was up to Pharaoh. And he said, "To morrow"!---"Give me one more night with the frogs!" Why could he have possibly chosen one more night with those frogs?

Pharaoh was a sinner and a type of sinners. Rebellious, proud, fleshly, godless, he was a good picture of the sinner today, the lost man outside of Christ. God had warned him. But like sinners today he stubbornly refused to obey God. So the frogs came. The frogs came because of his sin. Even so, for sin we are plagued today! Troubles, doubts, burdens, sufferings. Sickness, sorrows, fears, perplexities. Disappointments, heartaches--frogs, all of them! Frogs of difficulty and grief on every hand, directly or indirectly because of our sins! But God loves us and is ready to remove the frogs that plague us because of our sins. But like Pharaoh, most of us say, "Tomorrow! Give me one more night with the frogs!"

Pharaoh said, "To morrow." But " the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts!" (Hebrews 3:7-8). Think of it: Pharaoh said, "To morrow"! The Holy Ghost saith, "To day"!

A Christian will ask for one more night with the frogs, one more night with his defeated, wasted Christian life!...before he wants to fully surrender to God."

The black-slider will ask for one more night with the frogs, one more night of his compromising and carousing before coming back to God. 1 John 1:9says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. "

The lost sinner begs for one more night with the frogs! He knows he ought to be saved, and he's going to be---TOMORROW!

We are famous for what we are going to do TOMORROW!

What we don't seem to think about is.....the frogs may not leave tomorrow! Or....Something worse may come in the place of the frogs! Or....Tomorrow may never come! "Behold, now is the accepted time...." "The Holy Ghost saith, TO DAY"! Won't you right this minute decide that you will not spend even one more night with the frogs of sin?

[Except taken from sermon of Evn. Hugh Pyle -- August 17,1956]