Editorial January 1, 1927 Issue

Deliverance Through the Power of God

Duncan Sinclair

Many an instance occurs in the Bible of the power of God to deliver from trouble those who put their trust in Him. Perhaps the deliverance of the children of Israel from the hand of Pharaoh stands out more prominently than some of those instances, because of the frequency of the intervention of divine power on their behalf. Led forth from Egypt by the understanding of Moses, God's faithful servant, the Israelites had reached the Red Sea only to find the hosts of Pharaoh behind them in close pursuit, almost on the point of driving them back into captivity again. The ordeal was a trying one; but Moses' inspired words reassured the terrified people: "The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." Their courage revived; and soon they passed on dry land safely through the midst of the sea, delivered by the power of God.

No wonder after such an experience and many another of like nature on the part of the children of Israel, that the Psalms ring with grateful praise to God, the Deliverer of His people. "The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles;" "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings," are typical of the words of thanksgiving which reverberate throughout these wonderful poems which constitute so large a portion of the Old Testament. Isaiah, too, dwells often and emphatically on the hand of God, mighty to deliver. For example, these words are to be found in the fifty-ninth chapter of the book of the prophet: "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him."

As in the Old Testament, so in the New, God is shown by Christ Jesus and the apostles to be the great Deliverer of mankind. Every one of the miracles wrought by Jesus and his followers of the early Christian church proved that the power of God delivers from sin, disease, and death. And the humble Nazarene declared, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise," thereby making it clear that it was his understanding of God—the Father—which enabled him to set at naught the false beliefs of men which held them in bondage.

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